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Agile Opportunism – Entrepreneurial DNA « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

Since there was very little documentation my time was split between the design engineers who built the system and the test and deployment team getting the system ready to go overseas. Reply 7thpixel , on June 29, 2009 at 10:23 am Said: My first start up in 1999 I was employee #10 or so and signed up for a Graphic Designer position.

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Autonomous Vehicles: Can You Get There From Here? (Part 2)

Agile VC

Many of the sensors and systems for vehicle perception are made by large Tier 1 suppliers like Bosch and Delphi, but new players like Mobileye (founded in 1999 and now a $10 billion market cap public company) have also emerged. and interpret context or meaning (the red octagon with lettering 50 feet away is probably a stop sign).

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5 Tips to Becoming a More Customer Centric Organization

Both Sides of the Table

The world has changed much since I started my first company in 1999. We spent time out in the marketplace talking with customers, looking at their solutions, comparing ourselves with our competition and then squirreling ourselves away in our offices designing our next set of features. Turn Your Organization Inside Out.

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How to build a culture code that sticks

Austin Startup

They design it and defend it.” The act of trying to define your culture is one way to be deliberate about it and I’d love to tell you how we defined, designed and defended ours so that you can take a few pointers of what worked and what didn’t when we went through the process of creating our culture code.

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Customer Data Platforms: The Next Big Shift in SaaS Marketing Stacks?

ConversionXL

That was designed to allow information storage and manage customer contact information. His name was Mark Benioff (another former Oracle Executive) and in 1999 he had the pleasure to introduce the business world the first CRM in Cloud. As very often happens, to understand the present, you have to know the past. All manual operations.

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No Business Plan Survives First Contact With A Customer – The 5.2 billion dollar mistake.

Steve Blank

iridium-9500 satellite phone ~1999. Waterfall development is a sequential way to develop a product (requirements, design, implementation, verification – ship.) Customer Development, Business Model Design and Agile Development could have changed the outcome. Lessons Learned.

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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. 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.

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