Steve Blank
NOVEMBER 1, 2017
In response to reading Eric Ries’s The Lean Startup , GE adopted Lean and built their Fastworks program around it. Instead of lean innovation programs, there is a mandate to cut $2 billion in expenses by the end of next year, lift profits and raise the dividend. Things will not stay the same at GE.”. So what happened?
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, My philosophy emanated from my days of programming and later designing corporate software in the early 1990′s.
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Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 5, 2010
He came to the United States in 2001 to study Software Engineering at Auburn University. Not least of which because my father immigrated to the US in the 1960’s for his residency program of medical school. When he had finished the program the US wanted more doctors due to the Vietnam War. Felipe grew up in Brazil.
YoungUpstarts
MARCH 5, 2015
Many project management frameworks are rooted in agile, such as scrum, kanban, lean, and extreme programming (XP). With that in mind, the key tenets of agile development from the 2001 Agile Manifesto include: Satisfying customers through continuous, early delivery. That’s because “development” isn’t just about software.
YoungUpstarts
SEPTEMBER 25, 2012
Is the entire sector destined to a sudden and quick demise, similar to the dot-com bust of 2001, with widespread stock market collapses and mass layoffs? The variable costs – the cost of the physical CD-ROM on which the Windows program is engraved and the cost of the cardboard box in which it is shipped – are trivial.
Steve Blank
SEPTEMBER 5, 2018
Their idea is that consumers will want a subscription service for short form entertainment (10-minute programs) for mobile rather than full length movies. It helped that in the nuclear winter that followed the crash, 2001 – 2004, startups and VCs were extremely risk averse and amenable to new ideas that reduced risk.
Both Sides of the Table
NOVEMBER 29, 2010
We went “nuclear&# and slimmed down to 33 people (yes, I know, still large by today’s standards but this was 2001), raised $10 million and we built a real company. I learned everything I know about startups in these lean years: 2001-2004. Be Efficiently Scrappy, But Maintain your Startup Cultur e.
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