ReadWriteStart
MAY 28, 2013
The lean startup – as envisioned and explained by Steve Blank, serial entrepreneur, associate professor at Stanford University and ReadWrite contributor – is no longer just for startups. As Blank writes in HBR , “It’s already becoming clear that lean start-up practices are not just for young tech ventures.”
Feld Thoughts
OCTOBER 30, 2013
Though the notion of a “lean startup” that uses both Agile and Customer Development approaches is ostensibly strongly customer focused, the purpose of these methodologies is for the company to find an maximize its market, not specifically to optimize the user experience. I think he totally nails it. What do you think?
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Steve Blank
APRIL 29, 2010
Berkeley’s Haas Business School since the fall of 2004 and in a joint MBA with Columbia since 2005. Eric observed that an Agile Development model was the right match for engineering to build a product when the initial feature set was unknown. We needed to teach both Customer Development and Agile methodologies. Four Steps.
Duct Tape Marketing
JUNE 15, 2011
While the word lean might conjure up notions of cheap, it’s really about taking a scientific approach to innovating, measuring and responding in ways that stop companies from wasting time and money. The basis of the concept, as applied to startups, comes from the Lean manufacturing world popularized by Toyota.
Steve Blank
JUNE 29, 2009
Steve Job’s 2005 Stanford commencement speech still says it best - Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish. Agile Opportunism – Entrepreneurial DNA « Steve Blank (tags: startup) [.] Agile Opportunism – Entrepreneurial DNA. You’re Hired, You’re Fired. Reply What did I learn today? Reply Create.
Altgate
SEPTEMBER 16, 2010
.]… Tom Eisenmann Furqan: Does outsourcing engineering work well when following a lean approach with lots of iterative learning? The key is to get the outsourced team locked in for the long term and to build your own lean/agile culture. link] fnazeeri I’ve seen it work (and not).
ReadWriteStart
APRIL 26, 2012
"What's happened in the last decade, the cost of launching an Internet product - forget other technologies, we'll focus on Internet - has dropped from $5 million to $500,000 in 2005, to $50,000 today," he continues. Once you put a lot of money in, you're no longer lean and flexible and kinkin' and jivin' and trying to figure it out," he says.
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