The Fallacy of Customer Development(ashmaurya.com)
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The Fallacy of Customer Development
http://www.ashmaurya.com/2011/01/the-fallacy-of-customer-development/
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Here is the link to the book:
http://www.amazon.com/Four-Steps-Epiphany-Steven-Blank/dp/09...
http://www.amazon.com/Four-Steps-Epiphany-Steven-Blank/dp/09...
If you want an even quicker read, as 4 Steps can be quite redundant (or not relating to your business), check out The Entrepreneur's Guide to Customer Development:
http://www.custdev.com/
http://www.custdev.com/
If you're interested in customer development / lean startups as applied to web products, also checkout the book roughcut: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1977124
Very good! I've linked to both of those on swombat.com and added you to my RSS reader. Keep the good stuff coming :-)
This is especially interesting to me because I was recently pointed in the direction of this PDF: http://www.stanford.edu/group/e145/cgi-bin/winter/drupal/upl...
The PDF is a good read so far. I'm about a 1/3 of the way through it. My mentality has always been of a "build it and they will come" type, and reading about customer development has made me take pause and try to really think about my approach to developing a product and reaching customers.