Steve Blank on Customer Development, with additional comments by Eric Ries.

This is from 2009, but it is still very relevant today.

Steve Blank, founder of E.piphany, author of Four Steps to the Epiphany, and creator of Customer Development methodology (slides). Steve will speak about Speed & Tempo for Startups, a discussion about decision-making.

Steven Gary Blank is a retired serial entrepreneur with over thirty years of experience in high technology companies and management. He teaches entrepreneurship at both Stanford and UC Berkeley, and his Google Tech talk The Secret History of Silicon Valley (video) is one of the definitive views on early Silicon Valley innovation (updated clip from Computer History Museum).

You can find more on Customer Development by visiting http://SteveBlank.com

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Google hosts Eric Ries author of, "The Lean Startup"

We're going to be discussing Eric Ries's book during our Venture Launch educational series. I found this high quality video filmed at Google and thought you might enjoy it.

The Lean Startup movement is taking hold in companies both new and established to help entrepreneurs and managers do one important thing: make better, faster business decisions. Vastly better, faster business decisions. Bringing principles from lean manufacturing and agile development to the process of innovation, the Lean Startup helps companies succeed in a business landscape riddled with risk. This book shows you how.

Eric is the author of the popular blog Startup Lessons Learned and the creator of the Lean Startup methodology. He co-founded and served as CTO of IMVU, his third startup, which has today has over 40 million users and 2009 revenue over $22 million. An entrepreneur in residence at Harvard Business School and a frequent speaker at business events, he advises startups on business and product strategy using the Lean Startup approach.