Steve Blank
JUNE 29, 2009
You’re Hired, You’re Fired. My first job in Silicon Valley: I was hired as a lab technician at ESL to support the training department. The manager of the training department who hired you wasn’t authorized to do so – and he’s been fired. Could I work here if he wanted to hire me?&#
Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 8, 2008
I was building a new startup in 1999, and wanted to do it right. So one of the first things we did was to hire an Oracle expert and get to work. Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 8, 2008 Waves of technology platforms I still remember the first time I switched to LAMP. Expo SF (May.
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Startup Lessons Learned
MAY 14, 2009
I joined a financial services tech startup in 1999. We changed our model to B2B and adopted Agile around 2002. Having lived through this, I wholeheartedly agree that if we had not had enough runway, adopted an agile/lean approach or had patience from our investors it would have failed miserably. May 14, 2009 5:23 AM David said.
Startup Lessons Learned
FEBRUARY 7, 2013
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.
Steve Blank
SEPTEMBER 10, 2009
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.
Startup Lessons Learned
JULY 9, 2009
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.
Austin Startup
AUGUST 11, 2017
I founded Volusion in 1999 out of my childhood bedroom, and stayed on as CEO until 2011, when I left for a few years to focus on my family. We wrote things like what five traits a new hire should have, or values everyone in the company should act on. Here’s what we did and I hope that you find inspiration in our process.
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