I have professed my admiration for Steve Blank numerous times on this blog and continue to give a copy of The Four Steps to the Epiphany to everyone who joins my team as well as make use of many pieces of his customer development methodology.
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This is a great video of Steve's presentation at the recent Startup Lessons Learned Conference in San Francisco. It is about 40 minutes of your time but is a nicely done breakout of the differences among a startup, a venture-backed startup, and a large company including they measures of success and right people at various stages.
Lots of good nuggets in here but really liked the description of startup metrics:
- Customer acquisition cost
- Viral coefficient
- Customer lifetime value
- Average selling price/order size
- Monthly burn rate
The discussion around GM's history is also well done painting a picture between entrepreneurs and operating management. Here are the slides as well:
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