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Customer Discovery, Customer Validation, Customer Creation, and Company Building. These steps mesh seamlessly and support a startup's ongoing Product Development activities. Each results in specific deliverables to be described in subsequent chapters.
Steve Blank • The Four Steps to the Epiphany: Successful Strategies for Products that Win
You can’t understand personal computing and the techno-economic transition it brought about if you don’t keep in mind that it was all about radical entrepreneurs sealing an alliance with returns-hungry venture capitalists.
Nicolas Colin • Hedge: A Greater Safety Net for the Entrepreneurial Age
Startups
Belén Cusi • 2 cards
Steve Blank: “No business plan survives first contact with customers.”
Derek Sivers • Anything You Want
Steve Blank has an excellent article titled “The Innovation Stack: How to make innovation programs deliver more than coffee cups” - find the link in the Appendix / Sources.
Attila Szigeti • Startup Studio Playbook: For entrepreneurs, pioneers and creators who want to build ventures faster and with higher chance of success. Master the studio framework and start building.
Startups
Mudit Gupta • 1 card
- Build-Measure-Learn. The fundamental activity of a startup is to turn ideas into products, measure how customers respond, and then learn whether to pivot or persevere. All successful startup processes should be geared to accelerate that feedback loop.
Eric Ries • The Lean Startup: The Million Copy Bestseller Driving Entrepreneurs to Success
THE LEAN STARTUP METHOD This is a book for entrepreneurs and the people who hold them accountable. The five principles of the Lean Startup, which inform all three parts of this book, are as follows: 1. Entrepreneurs are everywhere. You don’t have to work in a garage to be in a startup. The concept of entrepreneurship includes anyone who works withi
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