Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

I started with some basic theory: that a startup is an institution designed to thrive in the soil of extreme uncertainty; that traditional management techniques rooted in forecasting and planning would not work well in the face of that uncertainty. There's even a classic Wizard of Oz minimum viable product that dates back to 1998!

Lean 167

Lean Entrepreneur Agile San Francisco 167

Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 3, 2012

Incorporated in 1998 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the company’s network of over 100,000 globally distributed servers provides an infrastructure layer that accelerates the distribution and delivery of content, media and applications. In 2012, analysts forecast the company will achieve nearly $1.5 The first one I’ll focus on is Akamai.

Distribution 49

Distribution Lean Massachusetts Cofounder 49

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

But nine months after the first call was made in 1998, Iridium was in Chapter 11 bankruptcy. And they rolled all of this up into a set of financial forecasts with a “size of market” forecast from brand name management consulting firms that said they’d have 42 million customers by 2002. iridium satellite network.

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Business Plan Customer Business Model Customer Development 335