"Using the Product Development Waterfall diagram for Customer Development activities is like using a clock to tell the temperature. They both measure something, but not the thing you wanted."

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Source : Steve Blank (2013). “The Four Steps to the Epiphany: Successful Strategies for Products that Win”, p.29, BookBaby

Steve Blank

#Trust Quotes #Development Quotes #Waterfalls Quotes

“And call me a pig, but isn't it brilliantly refreshing how early the Dutch eat dinner? When they're still laying out the cutlery in achingly hip Barcelona, they're hanging the Closed sign on the restaurant doors of old Amsterdam.”
“A little mordida, here. A little mordida, there.”
“We are all capable of change and growth; we just need to know where to begin.”
“Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.”
“I'm fine the way I am. There's nothing wrong with me.”
“My husband is a Democrat, and I am a Republican, so our political ambitions are on opposite ends.”

Source : "Susan Ford Bales: Ford's Daughter Enjoys Tulsa Time". Interview with Robby Trammell, newsok.com. November 13, 1989.
“Gorgeous flowerets in the sunlight shining, Blossoms flaunting in the eye of day, Tremulous leaves, with soft and silver lining, Buds that open only to decay.”
“I wish I could write librettos for the rest of my life. It is the purest of human pleasures, a heavenly hermaphroditism of being both writer and musician. No wonder that selfish beast Wagner kept it all to himself.”

Source : Sylvia Townsend Warner, William Maxwell (1982). “Letters”

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