1) Practice Trumps Theory
http://practicetrumpstheory.com/customer-development/
Ash Maurya teaches and shares his learnings about lean methodology and customer development in his comprehensive blog Practice Trumps Theory. He also has a very helpful free email course that you can sign-up for.
People are able to appreciate the value of learning from someone who actually has been on the trenches of applying these principles and have learned how they really work in real life and work on to refine it.
2) Startup Lessons Learned
http://www.startuplessonslearned.com/2008/11/what-is-customer-development.html
In this article Startup Lessons Learned aimed to relay how Steve Blank's Four Step to Epiphany has made an impact on the way they think about business and how it can do the same for you.
In the days and weeks ahead you will learn to appreciate more the great ingenuity of something that looks so simple and obvious but has been shrugged aside in business courses for decades.
3) Venture Hacks
http://venturehacks.com/articles/customer-development
Venture hacks curate a series of Steve Blank presentation videos into this easy to navigate article.
Your conscious mind might be thinking that I may go to other places to read about Steve Blank's great work but your unconscious mind knows the fact that you will absorb more deeply the teachings and "vibe" of customer development if you could see the mind behind the movement in a video talking on the subject.
4) Steve Blank
http://steveblank.com/category/customer-development/
The mastermind behind the movement! Steve Blank started out with his own company, a gaming one at that. That after getting tons of publicity and positive PR reviews failed miserably.
That failure lead to Steve's insight to the importance of customer development and the beginning of the fleshing out of these principles and methodologies.
The fact that this movement has grown so much, in the form of the lean startup movent among many others, mean that there is something fundamentally effective in his methodology and that for those it has helped it is trully transformational.
5) Customer Development Labs
http://customerdevlabs.com/
With power-packed articles that are truly actionable and what's really great about Customer Dev Labs is that some of the articles they give out are of the "exclusive seminar" quality.
Howgreat does it feel when you discover a resource that has some detailed, step by step and results oriented articles that you can truly see in your mind doing something about.
6) Stanford
http://ecorner.stanford.edu/authorMaterialInfo.html?mid=2058
A great foundation video course on Customer Development by the Mastermind of it all Steve Blank.
7) Quora
http://www.quora.com/Customer-Development
Quora is the place where some of the greatest minds in the entrepreneurship community seek to help out the community and build authority.
A person could browse the topic read on answers to questions from real entrepreneurs on the entrepreneurship journey. And if they have problems that have not been previously covered they can appreciate the value that posting their querry will bring to them and to the community.
8) Bufferapp
https://open.bufferapp.com/customer-development-interviews-using-twitter/
A great article on how they utilized the use of Social media to connect and interview their customers and make their growth more sustainable and more speedy.
I don't know if you've already begun to notice that when you begin to think in the Customer Development mindset you begin gain a deep insight to what value you are giving to your customers and in turn what kind of value they are looking to get from your company.
9) Team Tree House
http://blog.teamtreehouse.com/getting-started-with-customer-development-for-your-startup
A great walkthrough about Customer Development with a bit about it's history. How it is defined, how it is done, and how you can actually start to do right today!
