Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

In 1998 RIM quickly followed this up with a next generation product with an 8-line display, ran on AA batteries and would last 500 hours. In today’s language of Customer Development , RIM positioned the Blackberry as a segment of an existing market – pager users who needed two-way communication. RIM Interactive Pager 900.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

Lean Startups/Back to Basics (2000-2010): No IPO’s, limited VC cash, lack of confidence and funding fuels “lean startup” era with limited M&A and even less IPO activity. 2001 – 2010: Back to Basics: The Lean Startup. Startups could now get a first version of a product out to customers in weeks/months rather than months/years.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 19, 2009

One, which is described in great detail in the Mythical Man-Month (in finding that link, I discovered that today is coincidentally the exact 11th anniversary of my first purchasing that book: Jan 19, 1998), is that as you add people to a team or project, there is an increase in communications overhead that makes everyone slightly less productive.

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K9 Ventures

AUGUST 13, 2010

We really were doing the i-thing before Apple came out with its first iMac in 1998. Heck, it had to work, since we built it in close consultation with the customer. I tell these stories to lay the groundwork for what I am going to call Revenue Development. In a nutshell, Product Development is about building something.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 8, 2009

In May of 1998, India detonated several nuclear weapons at a test site near New Delhi. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0, April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Great post and great ideas.

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rob.by

MARCH 8, 2012

Tuesday, August 17, 2010. 14 comments: Tuesday, August 17, 2010 dpickett says: Great post, man! I think there tends to be this improper mindset that development resources are a commodity, and that they can’t be found easily…and subsequently, cheaply (or even free). Tuesday, August 17, 2010 e.p.c.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

Struggling to explain the successes and failures of those companies, I discussed principles like continuous deployment, customer development, and a hyper-accelerated form of agile. Brant Cooper and Patrick Vlaskovits are among the earliest adopters of new ideas such as Lean Startup and customer development.

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