This interview is one of many collected during the Lean Startup Conference in Grand Rapids, MI.
Dan is the co-founder of www.flowtown.com, a venture backed startup building social marketing applications for businesses. An award-winning Canadian entrepreneur, at 25, Dan formed his first start-up, Spheric Technologies Inc., and watched it grow by an average of 152% per year before he sold the company 4 years later in mid-2008. As an informal angel investor, he is active in advising entrepreneurs using lean startup methodology and metrics based marketing to gain market adoption.
Books on Lean Startups and Customer Development:
The Four Steps to the Epiphany by Steve Blank
The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development: A cheat sheet to The Four Steps to the Epiphany
Start Small, Stay Small: A Developer’s Guide to Launching a Startup by Rob Walling
The Lean Startup by Eric Ries (Forthcoming)
Great stuff, Dan. Keen insights. Keep it up!
Short and sweet, very cool story. Customer development is definitely something we all need a bit of help on.
Thanks for sharing!