2001 Employee Lean Technology 
Steve Blank
SEPTEMBER 5, 2018
With fewer than 10 employees but almost $2-billion dollars in the bank, they plan on jumping right in. It’s the antithesis of the Lean Startup. But as Carlota Perez has so aptly described, all new technology industries go through an eruption and frenzy phase, followed by a crash, then a golden age and maturity. And it may work.
Steve Blank
NOVEMBER 1, 2017
In his Harvard Business Review article summing up his tenure, Immelt recalls that the two things that influenced him most were Marc Andreessen’s 2011 Wall Street Journal article “ Why Software Is Eating the World, ” and Eric Ries’s book The Lean Startup. Are lean innovation and the Startup Way a failure in large companies?
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Both Sides of the Table
NOVEMBER 22, 2010
I’ve had a long-standing rule of thumb in product design, which I call “design for the novice, configure for the pro.&# I started saying this back in 2001/02, long before the era of Web 2.0, lean startups or even the advent of AJAX.
YoungUpstarts
MAY 5, 2014
Lean and hungry. In 1989, FedEx knew that it needed to update its old, slow technology. Sinyard hires only employees who love biking and watches to see who does lunchtime group rides to separate the “talkers” from the “riders.” For instance, all employees want a chance to be respected, to be challenged, and to grow.
Startup Lessons Learned
JULY 11, 2019
Ann will be speaking at this year’s Lean Startup Conference in October about all of this and more. The first time was just for a couple years, from 2001-2003, before I went to grad school. We talked with her about her teaching position at Stanford, how she thinks about the future, and how she makes investment decisions.
ConversionXL
MARCH 19, 2020
It can also keep your employees employed or help you retain your job—a modicum of security in uncertain times. Greater discipline during boom times offered more flexibility during lean years. And getting it right during the lean years, Bain reports , has a massive impact on companies’ growth rate after things improve: ( Image source ).
Mucker Lab
OCTOBER 12, 2016
Combined with the usual summer slowdown, some are already raising the spectre of 2001 or 2008. It didn’t matter as much previously because venture funds used to specialize in taking different risks at different stages of a startup’s life cycle — technology risk, market acceptance risk, scaling risk, profitability risk, etc.
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