TY - BOOK AU - Cooper,Brant AU - Patrick Vlaskovits AU - Steven G Blank AU - Blank,Steven G. TI - The entrepreneur's guide to customer development: a "cheat sheet" to The four steps to the epiphany SN - 9780982743607 AV - HF5415.5 COO PY - 2010/// CY - [Place of publication not identified] : PB - B. Cooper and P. Vlaskovitz, KW - Customer relations. KW - Relationship marketing N1 - Foreword / Steven Gary Blank -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Customer development. What customer development is ; What customer development is not ; Three levels of learning ; Getting started -- 3. Case study : naive thinking -- 4. Concept definitions. Early adopters/early evangelists ; Segmentation ; Market type ; "Non-traditional" business model ; Positioning ; Product-market fit ; Minimum viable product (MVP) ; Lean startup ; Pivot ; Getting out of the building -- 5. Case study : multiple pivots -- 6. Know thy business. To the whiteboard ; An example ; Know thyself -- 7. Case study : on customer-centric culture -- 8. 8 steps to customer discovery. Overview ; Step 1, document C-P-S hypotheses ; Step 2, Brainstorm business model hypothesis ; Step 3, Find prospects to talk to ; Step 4, Reach out to prospects ; Step 5, Engaging prospects ; Step 6, Phase gate I, compile, measure, test ; Step 7, Problem solving fit, MVP ; Step 8, Phase gate II, compile, measure, test -- 9. Case study : testing towards a scalable business model -- 10. Conclusion. Summary ; Resources ; About the authors ER -