…Steve Blank — startup guru and author of The Four Steps to the Epiphany and The Startup Owner's Manual — explaining what startups are and how they work to the National Governors' Association 2012 meeting. If you're new to startups, Steve's the guy to explain it to you. If startups are old hat to you, you'll find it entertaining listening while you work.
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…it not been for a little moment that I internally refer to as "The Abercrombie Epiphany". And oddly enough, it happened at RailsConf 2007, a conference devoted to DHH's creation Ruby on Rails, where I played an ode to DHH onstage with Chad Fowler at the start of the evening keynote (that's what's pictured above, and there's even a video of the song ).
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Side note: the book "Four Steps to the Epiphany" is the Customer Development bible, but it's ironically a slow read. Very dense. I'd recommend Ash Maruya's " Customer Development Checklist for My Web Startup", Part 1 and Part 2 .
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