1998 Agile Customer Development Design 
Steve Blank
MARCH 18, 2011
Over time, open source software the rise of the next wave of web startups and the embrace of Agile Engineering meant that startups no longer needed millions of dollars to buy specialized computers and license expensive software – they could start a company on their credit cards. Rules For the New Bubble: 2011 -2014. The New Exits.
Steve Blank
NOVEMBER 1, 2010
But nine months after the first call was made in 1998, Iridium was in Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Second, since it knew the solution, it went into a 8 -year Waterfall engineering development process. Waterfall development is a sequential way to develop a product (requirements, design, implementation, verification – ship.)
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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. Therefore, we needed a new management toolkit designed explicitly for iteration, scientific learning, and rapid experimentation.
Startup Lessons Learned
JUNE 8, 2009
For example, a recent event I held started with a customer validation exercise (actually, this example is fictionalized for clarity). It was pretty ugly, the marketing and design sucked, and I was embarrassed by it. In May of 1998, India detonated several nuclear weapons at a test site near New Delhi. Expo SF (May.
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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