An entrepreneur named Nick Jones recently reached out to me after reading The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development. Nick is the founder of Lavish Longboards. “Skateboards?”, you might be asking yourself? Yes, I might answer you, “skateboards”. You might… Read more »
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Apple Maps Debacle and Minimum Viable Products
I am taking a quick creative break from editing The Lean Entrepreneur, and as I poke my head into my Twitter stream, I invariably come across tweets drawing an equivalency between the Apple Maps debacle and the concept of Minimum Viable… Read more »
A Bit About The Lean Entrepreneur
TL;DR: Brant Cooper & I have a new book coming soon. Go buy The Lean Entrepreneur AppSumo Bundle while you can. It is 96% off, has a bunch of apps + pre-order of The Lean Entrepreneur. It has… Read more »
#CustDev Office Hours on Namesake.com
Come join me, right about now, for a chat about Customer Development on Namesake at noon on July 6th 2011.
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,… Read more »
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… Read more »
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… Read more »
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… Read more »

