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“Speed and Tempo” – Fearless Decision Making for Startups « Steve.

Steve Blank

APRIL 10, 2009

That’s why startups are agile. Startups that are agile have mastered one other trick – and that’s Tempo – the ability to make quick decisions consistently over extended periods of time. Martin , on April 10, 2009 at 9:27 am Said: A post that would delight F.A. Hayek and Frank Knight.

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Am I a Founder? The Adventure of a Lifetime. « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

JUNE 11, 2009

Posted on June 11, 2009 by steveblank When my students ask me about whether they should be a founder or cofounder of a startup I ask them to take a walk around the block and ask themselves: Are you comfortable with: Chaos – startups are disorganized Uncertainty – startups never go per plan Are you: Resilient – at times you will fail – badly.

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The Customer Development Manifesto: Reasons for the Revolution.

Steve Blank

AUGUST 31, 2009

Finally, I’ll write about how Eric Ries and the Lean Startup concept provided the equivalent model for product development activities inside the building and neatly integrates customer and agile development. The Focus on Execution Versus Agility The product development diagram has a linear flow from left to right.

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The Customer Development Manifesto: The Startup Death Spiral (part.

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

Finally, I’ll write about how Eric Ries and the Lean Startup concept provided the equivalent model for product development activities inside the building and neatly integrates customer and agile development.

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Convergent Technologies: War Story 1 – Selling with Sports Scores.

Steve Blank

JUNE 25, 2009

Reply steveblank , on June 25, 2009 at 9:04 am Said: Prakash, This is at the dawn of time, but I seem to remember when we first started selling the IWS, our first product, there weren’t any. rick , on June 25, 2009 at 8:57 am Said: Great post. rick , on June 25, 2009 at 8:57 am Said: Great post.

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SuperMac War Story 6: Building The Killer Team – Mission, Intent.

Steve Blank

APRIL 9, 2009

But what I wanted was an agile marketing team capable of operating independently without day-to-day direction. on April 10, 2009 at 6:58 am Said: Amazing blog. Greetings from Crete, Greece Reply Jerry Ji , on April 10, 2009 at 11:09 am Said: Simply _THE BEST_ war story I’ve read in months.

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Story Behind “The Secret History” Part III: The Most Important.

Steve Blank

APRIL 6, 2009

Forty years before Agile Development methodologies became popular, ESL had analysts from its &# customer&# sitting side-by-side with ESL engineers designing new equipment together. The “Good” Student » 14 Responses Shane Rogers , on April 6, 2009 at 1:37 pm Said: The names of ‘secret’ customers is funny.

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The Secret History of Silicon Valley Part VI: Every World War II.

Steve Blank

APRIL 27, 2009

And in hindsight, we seemed a bit more agile and innovative in WWII.) Yet decades later the military lacked the agility to write a spec in two years, let alone get 10′s of thousands of new systems deployed on aircraft as Terman had done. How was this possible? invention of electronic warfare, part I and [.]

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SuperMac War Story 9: Sales, Not Awards « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

APRIL 30, 2009

Reply Bill Allred , on May 1, 2009 at 10:46 am Said: This is a really common pitfall. Reply Niall Smart , on May 2, 2009 at 12:20 am Said: Great story – your point about snazzy design vs. actual impact is still relevant in the context of spending money on outsourced web graphic design.

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Going to Trade Shows Like it Matters – Part 2

Steve Blank

MAY 22, 2009

Everyone should be articulate and agile in describing and demoing the products.) Reply steveblank , on May 22, 2009 at 2:39 pm Said: Morteza, The comments about “ignore this post&# were meant that if your sales channel is the web you rarely go to trade shows. Messages, themes, demo’s. These two posts were amazing.

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Lessons Learned: What does a startup CTO actually do?

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

If youre trying to design an architecture to maximize agility, how can that work if some people are working in TDD and others not? Great article youre now in my rss feeds :) October 2, 2008 4:37 AM kamilski81 said. January 18, 2009 8:22 AM Dan Khan said. Hi Eric, Great article - Ive added you to my regular RSS reads.

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Agile Opportunism – Entrepreneurial DNA « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

JUNE 29, 2009

Reply Shankar Saikia , on June 29, 2009 at 9:02 am Said: THANKS – MAKES ME FEEL BETTER 21 months ago I left an awesome job at Oracle in Silicon Valley and relocated to India to be an entrepreneur. Reply GaryF , on June 29, 2009 at 9:18 am Said: Wow – talk about “thinking on your feet&# !!!

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Customer Development Manifesto: The Path of Warriors and Winners.

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

In future posts I’ll describe how Eric Ries and the Lean Startup concept provide the equivalent model for product development activities inside the building and neatly integrates customer and agile development. Midas Oracle.ORG , on September 17, 2009 at 7:05 am Said: [.] A few successful ones do all these things. .

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Recruiting Startup Engineers | Femgineer

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JULY 18, 2010

We engineers know that need to be agile in a startup and be able to scrap code and rebuild, but want we don’t want is to have a founder who manic or aimless. If you’re a founder who is still trying to grasp the product roadmap and create a company vision its probably not a good time to hire an engineer. Sweat equity or salary?

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How do I find a developer to help me with my idea?

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NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Subscribe to comments with RSS or TrackBack to Mailbag: How do I find a developer to help me with my idea? Written by scottporad November 15th, 2010 at 8:00 am Posted in Mailbag « What It Really Means To Be a CTO Mailbag: What information do I need to recruit a developer? and Failblog.org. Marin — Built for WordPress.

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The Customer Development Manifesto: Reasons for the Revolution.

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

Finally, I’ll write about how Eric Ries and the Lean Startup concept provided the equivalent model for product development activities inside the building and neatly integrates customer and agile development. Reply links for 2009-09-03 « Blarney Fellow , on September 3, 2009 at 6:09 pm Said: [.]

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Elephants Can Dance – Reinventing HP « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

JUNE 22, 2009

It was priced at $22,000 – equivalent to about $140,000 in 2009 dollars. The original Hewlett Packard which made test and measurement products was spun-out and renamed Agilent. Agilent is a $5.8 Technology changes, culture changes, customer needs change, more agile competitors emerge, etc.

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A Wilderness of Mirrors

Steve Blank

JULY 1, 2009

Filed under: Secret History of Silicon Valley « Agile Opportunism – Entrepreneurial DNA Rocket Science 2: Drinking the Kool-Aid » 2 Responses Ben , on July 1, 2009 at 2:31 pm Said: Great post Steve. I can’t get this one out of my head. during World War II. To Order Outside of the U.S. Now In Print!

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The Story Behind the Secret History Part II. Getting B-52s through.

Steve Blank

MARCH 28, 2009

Getting B-52s through the Soviet Air Defense System Posted on March 29, 2009 by steveblank This is post II of how I came to write “ The Secret History of Silicon Valley “ 1974. Reply Calvin Chin , on April 3, 2009 at 4:21 pm Said: Great war stories, Steve. In the Air Force? Reply Ben C. , Congratulations.

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Gravity Will be Turned Off « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

MAY 13, 2009

Reply chris , on May 13, 2009 at 6:38 am Said: That was magnificent. Reply TJIC from SmartFlix , on May 13, 2009 at 6:49 am Said: Gravity turned off – outstanding! Reply Steve Blank Suspends Gravity: Context And Authority , on May 13, 2009 at 9:23 am Said: [.] Thanks for sharing it. guy is smart.

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Customer Development Manifesto: Market Type (part 4) « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

In future posts I’ll describe how Eric Ries and the Lean Startup concept provided the equivalent model for product development activities inside the building and neatly integrates customer and agile development. KC Reply steveblank , on September 10, 2009 at 11:20 am Said: Ken, 1. A couple of quick questions: 1.)

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Vertical Markets 4: Putting it All Together « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2009

Waterfall, Agile, Lean? » 2 Responses Knowtu » links for 2009-06-09 , on June 9, 2009 at 6:04 pm Said: [.] In the last three posts, we drew the relationship of market risk and invention risk with vertical markets and pointed out verticals where customer development would be useful. Time to Market – How long?

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Raising Money Using Customer Development

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

They will realize that you have built a startup that’s agile, resilient and customer-centric. Reply Richard Jordan , on November 5, 2009 at 3:36 pm Said: Steve, best article yet. Unfortunately in early stage startups the drive for financing hijacks the corporate DNA and becomes the raison d’etre of the company.

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Startup Ethics: Albatross or Essential? « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

APRIL 2, 2009

Posted on April 2, 2009 by steveblank A comment left on the previous post made me realize that it was time to discuss a subject I was going to save for latter – ethics. Reply brantcooper , on April 2, 2009 at 3:20 pm Said: Thanks for that. Reply William Pietri , on April 2, 2009 at 3:56 pm Said: Well put.

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Lean Startups aren't Cheap Startups

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

For those of you who have been following the discussion, a Lean Startup is Eric Ries ’s description of the intersection of Customer Development , Agile Development and if available, open platforms and open source. Reply links for 2009-11-02 « Blarney Fellow , on November 2, 2009 at 5:10 pm Said: [.]

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Founders and dysfunctional families « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

MAY 18, 2009

We agreed that all her founding CEOs seemed to have the same set of personality traits – tenacious, passionate, relentless, resilient, agile, and comfortable operating in chaos. I coach agile teams for a living, and I do most of my work with start-ups. Reply Jonathan Payne , on May 20, 2009 at 8:43 pm Said: fascinating.

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The Curse of a New Building « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

MAY 15, 2009

Reply Andrew Warner , on May 15, 2009 at 9:53 am Said: I had a similar thing happen to me. Reply Michael Pryor , on May 15, 2009 at 10:33 am Said: I won’t dispute your anecdote, but I would like to add that life should be lived not in hopes of a better future. Sorry about the long comment Steve.

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The Secret History of Silicon Valley Part V: Happy 100th Birthday.

Steve Blank

APRIL 20, 2009

scott Reply Daily Links #54 | CloudKnow , on April 20, 2009 at 11:42 pm Said: [.] Reply Jamie Varon - techVenture , on April 23, 2009 at 3:05 pm Said: Great post! Reply The Secret History of Silicon Valley Part VI: Every World War II Movie was Wrong « Steve Blank , on April 27, 2009 at 5:02 am Said: [.]

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“Lessons Learned” – A New Type of Venture Capital Pitch

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 12, 2009

After these slides, these VC’s recognized that this company had dramatically reduced risk and built a startup that was agile, resilient and customer-centric. Reply jordancooper , on November 12, 2009 at 8:08 am Said: Steve, sorry to do this in your comment forum, but I don’t see an email or contact. The rest is just fluff.

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Cracking The Code: Betting on the right guy

Cracking the Code

DECEMBER 16, 2006

Venture Capital is about investing in the small, fast and agile company hoping that it will beat the large and slow incumbent. Add RSS feed. ► 2009. (9). Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Saturday, December 16, 2006. Betting on the right guy.

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The Trend Towards Lean Startups :: Small Business Marketing Blog.

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JUNE 15, 2011

SIMPLE, EFFECTIVE AND AFFORDABLE SMALL BUSINESS MARKETING Home About Consulting Products Programs Workshops Blog Resources Contact Subscribe by RSS Subscribe to Duct Tape Marketing by Email Small Business Week 2011 Our winners!

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Product design debt versus Technical debt

andrewchenblog.com

MARCH 10, 2010

What we have learned is that you have to be agile and test like crazy but every 3 or so releases we have a product expert review the information architecture and experience to specifically unify, clean-up and refactor the sections that need the most help. You can also find more essays here.

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Can A Startup Do Offshore Development? Part 3

prosperati.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

If you follow the Agile methodology you will be very comfortable with this concept. Prosperati is proudly powered by WordPress 3.0.1 | Entries (RSS) | Comments (RSS). Creating a great product is very much an iterative process. You start with a simple idea and the whole team participates to evolve the idea. WHERE ARE YOU?

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The Promise of the Lean Startup

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 20, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, August 20, 2009 The Promise of the Lean Startup Im honored to have a guest post on GigaOm to introduce the concept of the lean startup to their audience. August 20, 2009 6:17 AM Jake Lumetta said. August 20, 2009 6:44 AM Prashant Sachdev said. August 20, 2009 9:39 AM Alan Peters said.

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OCTOBER 4, 2010

You are the “hits&# that websites crave, the followers and the RSS subscribers. You are the “hits&# that websites crave, the followers and the RSS subscribers. Towards a new entrepreneurship ► 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuous deployment for mission-critical applica. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 19, 2008

Lessons Learned is the best RSS source in my overflowing Newsgator Online account. 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? Hi Eric, Will Pate here.

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Innovative Techniques To Simplify Sign-Ups and Log-Ins

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MAY 5, 2011

If so, this may be your opportunity to join Pixable, voted by Time Out… Drupal Developer - NJI Media - (Alexandria, VA) - FullTime We’re a small, fast-moving, agile environment and our team of developers is growing. Created by Sven Lennartz & Vitaly Friedman | Back to top Design by Function , Team23 Webdesign. startupcto

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The “Good” Student « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

APRIL 7, 2009

You don’t get grades for having resiliency, curiosity, agility, resourcefulness, pattern recognition and tenacity. Reply Jesse Farmer , on April 7, 2009 at 8:53 am Said: Customers don’t ask for your transcript. Martin , on April 7, 2009 at 9:40 am Said: There’s a wide spectrum between A student and dropout.

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Lessons Learned: The App Store after the gold rush

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OCTOBER 7, 2008

On the iPhone, it seems that two are driving most of the installs: the "newest apps" RSS feed (which may be combined with PR) and a primitive form of SEO, when people search the App Store for a specific kind of app. Towards a new entrepreneurship ► 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuous deployment for mission-critical applica.

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The Secret History of Silicon Valley Part IX: Entrepreneurship in.

Steve Blank

AUGUST 10, 2009

Rapid Scan/High Probability of Intercept – Stanford’s contribution In the last post we described Stanford’s high power, electronically tuned microwave tubes (the Backward Wave Oscillator ) which made high power, frequency agile airborne jammers possible. To Order Outside of the U.S. Now In Print! Blog at WordPress.com.

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The Sharp End of the Stick « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

MAY 4, 2009

Their own internal culture would tie them up in knots, and agile startups could run rings around them. Build a company culture where everyone supports the “sharp end of the stick.” Stay agile, stay focused. Don’t let this happen to your company. Embrace and then c ommunicate the idea of a lead department(s).

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The Secret History of Silicon Valley Part VIII: The Rise of.

Steve Blank

AUGUST 6, 2009

Air Force also needed improvements in frequency agility to protect its cold war bombers. Frequency agility can be best described by what happened over Germany in WWII. Reply steveblank , on August 7, 2009 at 6:27 pm Said: Naveen, Learning something new about something I thought I already knew.

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Finding a Technical Partner for Your Startup

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OCTOBER 23, 2010

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Women 2.0 » FounderDating: How I Found My Co-Founder

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MARCH 8, 2012

Subscribe via RSS. During this talk, well discuss the most effective techniques from Customer Discovery, Product Discovery, Lean Startups, Lean UX, Agile Development and Design Thinking to create real value for our customers. Pitch 2009 is a unique startup competition open to early-stage ventures globally. Guest blog post?

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