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Customer development

Customer development is a formal methodology for building startups and new corporate ventures. It is one of the three parts that make up a lean startup (business model design, customer development, agile engineering).

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History

EntrepreneurSilicon ValleyThe Lean Startup
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Business model canvas

Alexander OsterwalderYves Pigneur
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Business model

Minimum Viable Product
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Teachings

Stanford UniversityUC BerkeleyThe Lean LaunchpadNational Science Foundation
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The four-step process

Customer Development Manifesto

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Business model

Business model canvas

Pivot

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Customer development

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Customer development

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related to Customer Development Manifesto · 33
Customer development → Agile DevelopmentFailure, Begins With Buy-In, Blank, Bob Dorf, Business Model CanvasDesign Experiments, Communicate, Customers So Use, Cycle Time, Development, Differ, Different, Existing CompaniesFast Decision-Making, First Contact, Inside Your Building, Integral Part, It Changes EverythingStartup Metrics, Job Titles Are Very, Large Company'sPreserve All Cash, Market Type, PivotsNo Business Plan Survives
related to history · 13
Customer development → Blank, Customer, Epiphany, Lean Startup, Products, Recognizing, Silicon Valley, Steve Blank, Successful Strategies, The, The Four Steps, While, Win
related to Teachings · 9
Customer development → Blank, Blank's, His, In, Innovation Corps, Lean Launchpad, National Science Foundation, Stanford University, UC Berkeley
related to Business model canvas · 6
Customer development → Alexander Osterwalder, Business Model Canvas, It, The, The Canvas, Yves Pigneur
related to The four-step process · 6
Customer development → Company, Customer, If, It, The, Then
related to Business model · 5
Customer development → From, However, It, No, The
related to Pivot · 4
Customer development → It, Pivoting, The, This
is a · 2
Customer development → formal methodology for building startups and new corporate ventures, opposite of the

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Customer developmentrelated to Business model canvasYves Pigneur0.60section
Customer developmentrelated to Business model canvasBusiness Model Canvas0.60section
Customer developmentrelated to Business model canvasThe Canvas0.60section
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