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The Lean LaunchPad Educators Class

Steve Blank

In 2003 U.C. Eric’s insight was that traditional product management and Waterfall development should be replaced by Agile Development. Business model design + customer development + agile development is the process that startups use to search for a business model. I wrote a book about this called the Four Steps to the Epiphany.

Lean 286
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The Lean LaunchPad Educators Class

Steve Blank

In 2003 U.C. Eric’s insight was that traditional product management and Waterfall development should be replaced by Agile Development. Business model design + customer development + agile development is the process that startups use to search for a business model. I wrote a book about this called the Four Steps to the Epiphany.

Lean 178
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The Evolution of Entrepreneurial Education and Corporate Innovation

Steve Blank

Philip Bouchard : You’ve started teaching at Berkeley since 2002, Columbia in 2003 and at Stanford since 2011. With the nature of work changing, the core skills entrepreneurs need to know to become practitioners are actually core skills that everybody will need to know to get a job: creativity, agility, resilience, tenacity, curiosity.

Incubator 331
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Lean Startup at Scale

Startup Lessons Learned

One good example is the way in which we''ve adjusted the length of different phases of our agile sprints. We don''t follow a set agile methodology, but rather follow a more home-grown, minimal version of various approaches. We pride ourselves on the speed of testing hypotheses and reading those tests.

Lean 167
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Lessons Learned: Sharding for startups

Startup Lessons Learned

We can take advantage of the many open source libraries out there that dont scale especially well, and write as much non-scalable code as we want. Even though I had done it before, I had never heard the term sharding before joining Google (early 2003) so I always thought the term originated there. Eric, I stop by regularly!