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The Lean LaunchPad Educators Class

Steve Blank

In 2004 I funded IMVU, a startup by Will Harvey and Eric Ries. 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.

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The Lean LaunchPad Educators Class

Steve Blank

In 2004 I funded IMVU, a startup by Will Harvey and Eric Ries. 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.

Lean 178
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How to listen to customers, and not just the loud people

Startup Lessons Learned

This was 2004, and we had never even heard of MySpace, let alone had any understanding of social networking. Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Six streaming locations Interviews ► March (7) New conference website, speakers, agenda Two new scholarship programs for lean startups Speed up or slow down?

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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. The webcast is free with registration and will include a live Q&A with attendees.

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Lessons Learned: SEM on five dollars a day

Startup Lessons Learned

You mention "we had also built a simple cohort-based analytics system" Is tihs a commercial/open source systems. BillSeitz - yes, but that was already true back in 2004. Waves of technology platforms The lean startup Customer Development Engineering Greasemonkey compiler Great open source scalability tools from Danga Ideas.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

You need to hear this from someone who has used.Net extensively, and then happily walked away from it to go open source: You are a wanker. And before you say.net is only for windows, checkout https://github.com/mono , it’s not an open source application. It’s an *freaking open source*.net

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Lessons Learned: Why PHP won

Startup Lessons Learned

When we started IMVU in 2004, we could rely on a staggering amount of open source software that jumpstarted our initial product offering. From e-commerce to blogs to photo galleries, we benefited from tens of thousands of lines of code that had already been battle-tested. . Expo SF (May.

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