Startup Lessons Learned
DECEMBER 1, 2014
He’ll talk about making a profit and making a difference in a conversation with New Media Ventures’ Christie George. Ben Horowitz ’s book The Hard Thing About Hard Things is driving the conversation around startup management this year. Bill Gross founded Idealab in 1996, making it the longest-running technology incubator alive today.
Steve Blank
SEPTEMBER 10, 2009
In future posts I’ll describe how Eric Ries and the Lean Startup concept provided the equivalent model for product development activities inside the building and neatly integrates customer and agile development. Palm in a New Market What makes this example really interesting is this: rewind the story 4 years earlier to 1996.
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Steve Blank
MARCH 26, 2014
But Xerox instead chose to shut XTV down in 1996, despite its external success. The success of Documentum and Document Sciences, they felt, came largely from Xerox technology and customers, yet the startup companies XTV funded got all the credit. Filed under: Big Companies versus Startups: Durant versus Sloan , Customer Development.
YoungUpstarts
OCTOBER 24, 2012
JoAnn and I entered real estate in 1996 when interest rates were almost 9 percent. Ask yourself, What will my life really look like when I put customers first? Have conversations that veer away from business and into “personal” territory? The conversation will likely develop in a surprising direction.
Up and Running
MAY 23, 2016
Since the term “cloud computing” was coined in 1996—at least as we have come to understand its meaning—the software as a service industry has exploded. Noah Parsons says, “Start collecting contact information for interested, prospective customers. If you want a slice of the pie, there isn’t a better time to get involved.
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