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Customer Development Manifesto: Market Type (part 4) « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

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. Other companies in the 1999 PDA market were Palm, the original innovator, as well Microsoft and Hewlett Packard.

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Waves of technology platforms

Startup Lessons Learned

I was building a new startup in 1999, and wanted to do it right. You can turn your entire application infrastructure investment into a pay-as-you-go variable cost, and bring new products to market at speeds an order of magnitude faster than just 10 years ago. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0,

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Retirement and Redemption « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

Reply steveblank , on March 8, 2010 at 4:29 pm Said: Thanks! Alone in a ski cabin with the snow coming down outside, and my wife and daughters out on the slopes all day, I started collecting my thoughts by writing a series of “lessons learned” stories that I had hoped would become my memoirs. Order Here. To Order Outside of the U.S.

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The Lean Startup Workshop - now an O'Reilly Master Class

Startup Lessons Learned

I joined a financial services tech startup in 1999. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0, April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Facebook Fans Recent & Upcoming Events 2010 I am experimenting with using Plancast to track my 2010 event schedule. May 14, 2009 5:23 AM David said.

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The unimportance of product names

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Established 1999 in Chicago. Follow us on Twitter for more information on our products. The unimportance of product names. Apr 27 2010. Don’t waste too much time on picking a perfect name for your product. Sjoerd, you said, “We usually decide upon a product name by seeing what the product does.”

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The Lean Entrepreneur is here

Startup Lessons Learned

A few of the detailed case studies include: Tech legend Bill Gross building an MVP in 1999 to test demand for online car sales, which grew into CarsDirect.com. There's even a classic Wizard of Oz minimum viable product that dates back to 1998! LitMotors approach to using Lean Startup to create a new vehicle category.

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10 years of entrepreneurship

Startup Lessons Learned

In the summer of 1999, I started working on a startup from my college dorm. Id been on the internet since I was playing MUDs as a kid, but by 1999 I felt Id already missed the boat. You can even see the humiliating evidence of my smug incompetence in this absurd article from 1999.) I pretty much missed all the trends.