Steve Blank and Eric Ries presented their lean startup approach to a very receptive crowd at last night’s Startup2Startup dinner in Palo Alto. Here’s a link to the must watch video.
Highlight’s of of the presentation include:
- Startups fail from lack of customer – not product failures
- Fail fast and often on the path to success
- Decide on a business model early
- The correct customer development approach changes by market type
Following the presentation each table discussed the topics over dinner. I was pleasantly surprised that the entrepreneurs at my table had all implimented some form of customer development and agile development.
Andrew Chen
Brant Cooper
Dave McClure
Eric Ries
Jamie Siminoff
Steve Blank
I liked the part with “Startups fail from lack of customer – not product failures” – can not agree more! Great tips, thanks for sharing!