1999 Customer Development Management Product Development 
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. They never understood Market Type. Why does Market Type matter?
Both Sides of the Table
NOVEMBER 1, 2009
The world has changed much since I started my first company in 1999. As organizations we have become more open and I believe this is great for businesses and their customers. They communicated this to product management who looked at all of the internal requirements we had generated (e.g. Back then it seemed foreign.
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Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 8, 2008
I was building a new startup in 1999, and wanted to do it right. So did I when I finally found myself building an app with real scalability, a few years later, but a combination of our just-in-time scalability technique and great open source scaling tools, made it manageable. Were in a new wave of platform evolution.
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.
Startup Lessons Learned
MAY 14, 2009
The response so far has been nothing short of overwhelming, and I want to especially thank those of you who participated in the survey and customer validation exercise that helped shape this event. I joined a financial services tech startup in 1999. Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science?
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.
Steve Blank
NOVEMBER 1, 2010
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-9500 satellite phone ~1999. Instead management was more comfortable executing to the plan. Lessons Learned.
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