6. Steve Blank’s “Customer
Development” 2006
• Problem:
Startups fail from lack of customers
– Not lack of product
• Solution:
Develop Customers and Products
together
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7. Customer Development is as
important as Product Development
Product Development
Concept/
Bus. Plan
Product
Dev.
Alpha/Beta
Test
Launch/
1st Ship
Customer Development
Customer
Discovery
Customer
Validation
Customer
Creation
Company
Building
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8. Lean Startup – Eric Ries
• What’s A Startup
– “A human institution designed to create a new
product or service under conditions of
extreme uncertainty” pg 27
• Quality
– “If we do not know who the customer is, we
do not know what quality is.” pg 107
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9. Steve Blank “2012”
“A Startup is a temporary
organization in search of
a scaleable, repeatable,
and profitable business
model”
Page xvii, Startup Owners Manual
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12. Objectives
• Learn how to organize & execute sales,
marketing, and business development
when bringing a new product to market
(while searching)
• Learn relevant “People Skills”
– Listening, Presenting, Mindset and Burnout
– Entrepreneurship is all about people
• & have fun on the way
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13. What are we really gonna do?
1. Learn some “search” process & theory
2. Experience it directly by
“Getting Out of The Building”
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14. :aside:
Why Customer Dev?
• It’s what I know.
– The “book/story “4 Steps to Epiphany” by
Steve Blank is one of the few that is very
close to my personal experience.
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15. The Course in a Nutshell
You
Customers
Process
Scorecard
Purpose
18. Aside
To Create a Customer
Drucker says …
“There is only one valid definition
of business purpose: …”
Page 20 “The Essential Drucker”
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19. What is Marketing?
• Drucker says -• There will always, one can assume, be the
need for some selling. But the aim of
marketing is to make selling superflous.
The aim of marketing is to know and
understand the customer so well that the
product or service fits him and sells itself.
• Reference: pages 20 & 21 in “Essential Drucker”.
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22. The Biz Plan
People
The Team
Capabilities
Attitude
Reputation
Deal
Reward, Risks
Incentives
Ownership
Harvest
The
Business
Resources
Financial
Physical
Intellectual
Plan
Opportunity
Customers
Strategy
Business
Model
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Chapter 7: Figure 7.3
Technology Ventures: From Idea to Opportunity
28. :More:
Biz Model Canvas Links
• http://www.businessmodelgeneration.com/
• http://www.alexosterwalder.com/
• http://www.businessmodelalchemist.com/tools
• Customer Development & Biz Model Canvas Combined
• http://steveblank.com/2010/10/25/entrepreneurship-as-ascience-–-the-business-modelcustomer-development-stack/
• http://www.businessmodelalchemist.com/2010/08/combiningbusiness-model-prototyping-customer-development-and-socialentrepreneurship.html
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33. ? Instant
Success ?
In 4th year after launch.
( ie 6 years )
This is as fast as
it gets.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ipod_sales_per_quarter.svg
NB. Apple's fiscal year ends in September. This means that Q1 includes the holiday season, which accounts for jumps in the data.
Fiscal Q1 is Oct - Dec of previous year. So Q1 of 2008 is Oct - Dec of 2007, Q2 of 2008 is Jan - Mar of 2008 and so on.
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36. It’s The Scientific Process!
•
•
•
•
Hypothesis
Develop Test
Observe
Analyze Results
• Re-jig Hypothesis
• Do it again
( many times …
Quickly )
• Apply to Customers
•
•
Product / Market Fit is what you are
looking for.
Is not obvious
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37. Six steps to Acting as an entrepreneur
Chapter 2: Figure 2.1
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45. Model –
Knowledge Funnel
“What Do You Know”
Vous
Etes
ici
Roger Martin’s Knowledge Funnel
Mystery
Heuristic
Algorithm
! Very Useful for our class !
You start in the Mystery Zone
( the guesses )
Success is getting it to “Heuristic
zone”
(what are the “rules-of-thumb”
Grand Slam is getting it to the
“Algorithm” zone
Source: Design of Business, Roger Martin
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50. How the
Class Works
What Are We Gonna Do?
• In Class
– 8 * “Iain” Presentations
• Process, Theory, Personal Skills
– 4 * “You” Project Update Presentations
• TAM/SAM, Canvas, Experiments, #Calls
• In Between Classes
– “You” Get Out of the Building
– “You” Blog Your Progress
– “Us” monitor & comment on blogs
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