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Pragmatism with Flavor

TechEmpower

A site with a million users is much easier to manage today than it was in 2000. Besides, more development time means the client can be more agile with functionality and has a greater potential for success. Those requests had better be worth it! Development time is how we earn money. So it's not an entirely selfish position.

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ESADE Business School Commencement Speech

Steve Blank

I’m honored to be at a university noted for knowledge, and in a city with 2000 years of history – home of Gaudí one of the 20 th century’s greatest innovators. These Key Performance Indicators and processes are what make a company efficient —but they are also the root cause of its inability to be agile and innovative.

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New Rules for the New Internet Bubble

Steve Blank

Dot.com Bubble ( 1995-2000): “ Anything goes” as public markets clamor for ideas, vague promises of future growth, and IPOs happen absent regard for history or profitability. August 1995 – March 2000: The Dot.Com Bubble. That requires building a company using Agile and Customer Development. Rules For the New Bubble: 2011 -2014.

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Lessons Learned: A new version of the Joel Test (draft)

Startup Lessons Learned

He wrote it in 2000, and as far as I know has never updated it. There was a time when "web content" was considered "not code" and therefore not routinely source controlled. Its not that the idea behind them is wrong, but I think agile team-building practices make scheduling per se much less important. Youd better. Expo SF (May.

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What would you want to tell Washington DC about startups?

Startup Lessons Learned

In Computer Science research, it is often better to open source an innovation than to go through the process of protecting it and then licensing it to a new startup. Since 2000 we have passed a number of laws and regulations that are killing innovation in the US. All three of the pillars have been under attack since 2000.

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