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Customer Development, GeekStack Style : GeekStack Blog

I’m a member of the Chicago Lean Startups group. Lean Startups and Customer Development is a new approach to reducing market risk for startups. Steve Blank, a many-times entrepreneur and current Stanford/Berkeley professor is the author and main proponent of this method. There was a recent discussion on the Chicago Lean Startups group where the gist was that Customer Development makes... moreI’m a member of the Chicago Lean Startups group. Lean Startups and Customer Development is a new approach to reducing market risk for startups. Steve Blank, a many-times entrepreneur and current Stanford/Berkeley professor is the author and main proponent of this method. There was a recent discussion on the Chicago Lean Startups group where the gist was that Customer Development makes sense, but has anyone besides Steve Blank used it and succeeded? I ended up writing a longish email to the group where the main point wasn’t to follow a specific method but to reduce risk and lower the cost of faulty assumptions. I ended up talking about the specifics of how this applies to GeekStack so I thought I’d post it here for anyone interested in the business side of GeekStack: view page