Product Culture

JULY 19, 2023

We think we know what will drive outcomes, but we're wrong often enough that Steve Blank and Eric Reis popularized the whole Lean Startup movement. We think we know what will drive outcomes, but we're wrong often enough that Steve Blank and Eric Reis popularized the whole Lean Startup movement.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 4, 2021

It’s inspired by thinking and practices from Steve Blank, Lean Startup, Teresa Torres, Marty Cagan and the Double Diamond. Books Continuous Discovery by Teresa Torres Inspired by Marty Cagan The Four Steps to Epiphany by Steve Blank User Story Mapping by Jeff Patton Originally published at [link] on July 27, 2021.

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bpma ProductHub

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Steve Blank said about Bruce’s new book, Product Roadmapping Relaunched: How to Set Direction While Embracing Uncertain ty , “It’s about time someone brought product roadmapping out of the dark ages of waterfall development and made it into the strategic communications tool it should be.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

The Four Steps to the Epiphany: Successful Strategies for Startups That Win by Steve Blank?—?This The stories Steve interweaves with the framework along with the reasoning behind the steps means you can’t just look at a diagram and understand it. Venture Building 1. This book provides steps to build a new venture.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 15, 2020

Steve Blank, best known as the father of the lean startup movement says “Get outside the building”. Granted, experimentation could be seen as another form of direct customer feedback but it’s still third with strategy/roadmap a standout first. What does this mean? Nothing interesting happens inside the office.

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Product Innovation Educators

JUNE 8, 2020

He is also working with Steve Blank on a book to capture and share the innovation process. 4:35] Can you walk us through your 5-stage innovation process outlined in the Harvard Business Review article you wrote with Steve Blank (see link below)? Now he is improving innovation effectiveness in companies. 5:40] Sourcing.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 5, 2020

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Product Management Unpacked

OCTOBER 25, 2018

A key to success in a startup: focus on getting out of the building (thanks, Steve Blank!) Some are big problems. And usually big problems need ideas of all sizes in order to find the right solution. and strive to identify the ‘real’ problem. Customers have problems and they look for solutions in the products they evaluate or purchase.

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NextBigWhat

DECEMBER 28, 2020

“Get out of the building” – this quote by Steve Blank has inspired many founders and product leaders to go out and test their product in the real world. But then, Covid happened and everything we knew or believed in about building great businesses went through its own transformation.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 15, 2020

I wrote recently on the corporate forces that affect new products and new ventures , and there is plenty of information available from others, like Steve Blank , on this topic. There is also a rising awareness of the benefits of unconscious bias training.

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Street Smart Product Manager

DECEMBER 15, 2015

Read this post by Steve Blank, who coined the term.) So you’ve probably heard of “earlyvangelists” (No? In Lean Startup circles, we hear a lot about finding these special breed of customers.

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Roman Pichler

AUGUST 11, 2020

Therefore, choose a specific market segment and develop a product for the few, not the many, as Steve Blank suggested , particularly when you manage a new or young product. Solution : Successful products are not built by agreeing on the smallest common denominator or trying to please powerful stakeholders.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 23, 2023

And what you do simply proves what you believe.” — Steve Jobs My career was forever changed. I sat there dumbfounded — a blank look on my face. “People don’t buy what you do; they buy why you do it. Such a simple question. Yet so hard to answer. Why are we building this product? What’s the product’s purpose?” How should I respond?

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Nulab

MAY 28, 2019

Steve Teo, Director of Cloud Security Engineering ( Horangi Cyber Security ). Working with Horangi, Steve has encountered cases of cloud breaches and he shared some of them to highlight the security risks faced by businesses and developers. They are: Vincent De Smet, DevOps Engineer ( SWAT ). Talk 2: AWS Security Best Practices.

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Amplitude

DECEMBER 10, 2019

It is a technique originated by Steve Blank that is common in lean startup practice. Resources: “Running Lean” by Ash Maurya , “The Four Steps to the Epiphany” by Steve Blank. Resources: Why Designers Need to Care about Data , Analytics for Everyone. Customer Development. Competitive Research.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 14, 2021

Steve Blank, the father of Lean Startup, was my professor at Berkley and he got me into, “You need to get out of the building and test and iterate.” When Steve Jobs went back to Apple, back in the day, the first thing he did was cutting down the product portfolio and saying, “We’re just going to focus on a few.”

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

Steve Blank. I read this after reading a number of other product development books and was like “oh s**t, this guy Steve Blank pretty much invented this entire Lean Startup method.” Not as much actionable advice unless you’re the CEO of a startup, but the fundamental analysis of a market make this book required reading.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 7, 2018

For Product Management here is a starter list of people to follow: Rich Mironov Ken Norton Sachin Rekhi Hiten Shah Roman Pichler Steve Blank Steve Johnson Andrew Chen Scott Belsky and @MartyCagan. If used judiciously, Twitter is a really good source of advise and insights in your area of interest.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 15, 2019

But in the meantime, check out this video by Steve Blank on Customer Development ) Once the product ideas are validated, work with the leadership again to prioritise products based on how likely you’ll achieve the goals defined in your initiative roadmap. This is probably a blog post on its own. I’ll link to it once its written it up.

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Melissa Perri

MAY 5, 2016

The Minimum Viable Product was first coined by Steve Blank and then made popular by Eric Ries in The Lean Startup. “MVPs are the smallest feature set you can build and sell! Not just an experiment.” So what is the truth? Is an MVP a product, a subset of a product, or just an experiment?

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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 6, 2020

Finding this book also made me aware of Steve Blank, its author. It made sense to me later when I read Steve Blank saying that Eric Ries is his best student. Consequently, I think of Eric Ries as the create of Lean Startup and Steve Blank as its father. Useful links: Steve’s webiste, SteveBlank.com.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

This is a famous quote from Steve Blank, the founder of the customer development approach. Blank defines customer development as a process of obtaining customer insights that can be used to create, review and optimize the ideas in product development. If the implementation is successful, the promised land is not far away.

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First Round Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

Steve Blank explains how entrepreneurs can use a tool called the Business Model Canvas to find the ideal co-founder for their startup.

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Amplitude

MARCH 30, 2017

As Steve Jobs said in a legendary interview with Bob Cringely, “The product genius [that] brought them to that monopolistic position gets rotted out by people running these companies who have no conception of a good product versus a bad product… they have no conception of craftsmanship that’s required.”.

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Roman Pichler

JANUARY 9, 2018

Therefore, get out of the building (as Steve Blank says) and meet target users face-to-face as part of the discovery work. There is no point in coming up with a smart business model and sophisticated user interactions, if you don’t know who the users are, what they may be struggling with, and what works well for them, and what doesn’t.

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Product Innovation Educators

OCTOBER 28, 2016

An innovation shift – why Tim Cook is the Steve Ballmer of Apple. This analysis is by Steve Blank and it is spot on. Many recognize an innovation shift at Apple with the death of Steve Jobs, seeing the company evolve from being led by a designer-at-heart to being led by an engineer.

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DISQO

JULY 10, 2019

From Chris Rock to Steve Jobs, world-renowned innovators use a similar creative approach that relies on iterative development to build up to major breakthroughs. By Steve Krug . Steve Krug presents user experiences and product managers with the rules of the road for building modern and intuitive products. . By Peter Sims.

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DISQO

JULY 10, 2019

From Chris Rock to Steve Jobs, world-renowned innovators use a similar creative approach that relies on iterative development to build up to major breakthroughs. By Steve Krug . Steve Krug presents user experiences and product managers with the rules of the road for building modern and intuitive products. . By Peter Sims.

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Sachin Rekhi

DECEMBER 17, 2015

A decade ago Steve Blank authored the book The Four Steps to the Epiphany: Successful Strategies for Products that Win to share with the world his philosophy for building winning products: customer development.

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DISQO

JANUARY 5, 2015

From Chris Rock to Steve Jobs, world-renowned innovators utilize a similar creative approach that relies on iterative development to build up to major breakthroughs. by Steve Krug. Steve Krug presents user experiences and product managers with the rules of the road for building modern and intuitive products. By Peter Sims.

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Product Club

MAY 21, 2016

Initially you’re looking for early adopters only, or ‘Earlyvangelists’ as Steve Blank calls them. You’re selling the vision to the visionaries and early adopters. But wait, “Early adopters only?” I hear you bellow. “We We want the mass market!” Plus, they’re going to stick with you if you engage them.

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Amplitude

AUGUST 15, 2019

Steve Blank famously defined a startup as “an organization formed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model”. They had a perfectly useful model that represented the uncertainty inherent in any startup, but they couldn’t agree because the model was serving dual purposes: learning and control/management.

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ProductPlan

APRIL 3, 2021

You know Steve Jobs wore identical outfits to work every day: the black turtleneck, the blue jeans, the sneakers. Thousands of entrepreneurs and executives followed that Steve Jobs framework. When they open it for the first time, even the best roadmap software on the market will present your team with a blank screen.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Eric, when he was raising money for his own startup, ran into investor Steve Blank who made Eric take his course on rapid-cycle product development as a pre-condition for Steve investing. Thus, if Eric is the father of the Lean Startup approach, I like to think of Steve as its godfather.

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Product Innovation Educators

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

Steve Blank explains how this has happened in organizations and how to create a self-regulating innovation pipeline instead. When organizations create programs to “be more innovative” they may actually be creating bureaucratic process that does just the opposite and stifles what little innovation they have. Details at [link].

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

OCTOBER 10, 2018

I enjoyed going from a complete blank sheet of paper to developing a minimum viable product with messaging and pricing validation for it. Steve Blank's books and website are terrific. That product turned out to be GoToMyPC which was one of the very first software-as-a-service (SaaS) products in the market.

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Product Innovation Educators

MARCH 26, 2018

The book has received high praise, including from Steve Blank, the grandfather of Lean Startup, who said, “It’s about time someone brought product roadmapping out of the dark ages of waterfall development and made it into the strategic communications tool it should be.

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