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The #CustDev T-shirts are here.
FYI your life is now complete: The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development t-shirts have arrived. Steven of CargoHawk has put together a suite of startup-themed t-shirts that I suggest you check out. For example: One of my favorite analytics tools, Crazy Egg, has it’s own shirt. Notable investor and great blogger, Bred Feld, has Feld [...]
10 Reasons to NOT be a Lean Startup
Top 10 Reasons to Not be a Lean Startup for Momentum Michigan
I see dead startups
My buddy, Dave Binetti of Votizen came down this last Monday to present on False Prophets at LeanLA.com’s last meetup (a meetup I co-organize). In his talk, about the subject of False Negatives and False Positives came up. In the context of startups, a False Negative means that while your startup is not getting any [...]
Slides from my talk at Lean Startup NYC
Hacking Customer Development View more presentations from Patrick Vlaskovits.
The “Shu, Ha, Ri” of Lean Startups
I wanted to clarify Slide 18 “There are no rules” from Top 10 Reasons to NOT be a Lean Startup – which apparently has caused some confusion. I also referenced “there are no rules” in an earlier post, which Andrew Skotzko picked up and riffed upon. What I am attempting to get across to people [...]
Evidence Snobbery and Data
After reading the The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development, David Beyer of Y-Combinator backed Chart.io has done a quick interview with me wherein we get a bit into the epistemology of startups. I think the interview raises a few interesting points that I will explore further in a forthcoming blog post. David: So, just to [...]
Which one are you building?
Is your startup a vitamin or a painkiller? Better yet, how do you know?
The “Fallacy” of a Literal Interpretation
Ash Maurya recently published a post entitled a bit controversially, The Fallacy of Customer Development. As the title indicates, he attempts to describe what he feels is a fallacy implicit in Customer Development. There may be a fallacy (or many fallacies, for that matter) in Customer Development (and if there is, let’s find it and [...]
Accidental Minimum Viable Products
A fantastic and very interesting blog post by Denny Miu. I have excerpted one portion wherein he describes how he accidentally (and ironically) stumbled onto what is a de facto a Minimum Viable Product. … So we spend the next six months architecting a product that would allow IDS to become IPS by letting an [...]
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