I attended VRM day yesterday down at The Computer History Museum. More of that to come. But one of my new friends mentioned an ‘alternative’ guide to Silicon Valley.
It really is rather good and I particularly liked the line;
Silicon Valley is more of a state of mind than a physical location.
Of course, I knew of Mr. Blank - and so, spent a little time wandering around his site and re-discovered;
The Customer Development Manifesto
- There Are No Facts Inside Your Building, So Get Outside
- Pair Customer Development with Agile Development
- Failure is an Integral Part of the Search for the Business Model
- If You’re Afraid to Fail, Your’e Destined to Do So
- Iterations and Pivots are Driven by Insight
- Validate Your Hypotheses with Experiments
- Success Begins with Buy-In from Investors and Co-Founders
- No Business Plan Survives First Contact with Customers
- Not All Startups Are Alike
- Startup Metrics are Different from Existing Companies
- Agree on Market Type. It Changes Everything
- Fast, Fearless Decision-Making, Cycle Time, Speed and Tempo
- If it’s not About Passion, You’re Dead the Day You Opened your Doors
- Startup Titles and Functions Are Very Different from a Company’s
- Preserve Cash While Searching. After It’s Found, Spend
- Communicate and Share Learning Startups Demand Comfort with Chaos and Uncertainty
Who am I to find fault with the summary. Why would I ? So, capturing for posterity.
Footnote:
I clicked on that link on 25th October, 2018 …and sadly, gone, as of October 7th 2018. Time to investigate.