2010, Agile and Silicon Valley

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

Steve Blank

APRIL 20, 2009

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance I always had been curious about how Silicon Valley, a place I had lived and worked in, came to be. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance I always had been curious about how Silicon Valley, a place I had lived and worked in, came to be. How did Silicon Valley start?

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Agile Opportunism – Entrepreneurial DNA « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

JUNE 29, 2009

My first job in Silicon Valley: I was hired as a lab technician at ESL to support the training department. It makes you appreciate that the Silicon Valley technology-centric culture-bubble has little to do with the majority of Americans.) You’re Hired, You’re Fired. Driving across the U.S. I was stunned.

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Use agile budgeting to manage your cash

David Teten

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

So here’s the solution I have recommended to some of my portfolio companies: “ agile budgeting ”, i.e., monitoring a few key variables while giving managers significant flexibility. Entrepreneur Jeff Magnusson provides a sample agile budgeting workbook. Regardless of whether you take a traditional or agile budgeting approach, Robert A.

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

Steve Blank

APRIL 27, 2009

—————- The next piece of the Secret History of Silicon Valley puzzle came together when Tom Byers , Tina Selig and Mark Leslie invited me to teach entrepreneurship in the Stanford Technology Ventures Program ( STVP ) in Stanford’s School of Engineering. What Does WWII Have to Do with Silicon Valley?

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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. Reply Why Startups are Agile and Opportunistic -- Pivoting the Business Model , on April 14, 2010 at 6:32 am Said: [.]

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Lessons Learned: Stevey's Blog Rants: Good Agile, Bad Agile

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 6, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, November 6, 2008 Steveys Blog Rants: Good Agile, Bad Agile I thought Id share an interesting post from someone with a decidedly anti-agile point of view. Steveys Blog Rants: Good Agile, Bad Agile : "Google is an exceptionally disciplined company, from a software-engineering perspective.

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Hear how the Lean Startup began — and helped one company find success: Episode 2 on Sirius XM Channel 111: Eric Ries and Jon Sebastiani

Steve Blank

JULY 7, 2015

He was named entrepreneur-in-residence at Harvard Business School in 2010 and is currently an IDEO Fellow. I was flabbergasted – almost stunned — to discover that in Silicon Valley all kinds of people looked at that resume and said, ‘Hey you’ve learned a lot of important lessons on someone else’s dime.’ Taking My Class.

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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 Amit , on January 22, 2010 at 11:34 am Said: Great article! Reply Leave a Reply Click here to cancel reply.

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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. Good to see someone with authority advocating an approach to building startups that we at Agile Entrepreneurs focus on, week after week. Reply Charlie Crystle , on April 8, 2010 at 12:31 pm Said: brilliant post.

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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. Reply Customer Development – Not Just for Web Startups » Biotech by the Bay , on May 1, 2010 at 11:34 am Said: [.]

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Teaching Entrepreneurship in “Chilecon Valley”

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 13, 2010

The idea of this course started on a trip to Stanford University during March 2010, where we realized that many of the great innovations in Silicon Valley are born from Computer Science students, so we said “We should give our computer science students an opportunity to develop a company”.

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

Steve Blank

JUNE 11, 2009

Agile – you may find the real opportunities for your company was somewhere else. This means you still need to have a resilient personality, and be agile. And you’ll still need to have a resilient and agile personality, as new customer and product opportunities will appear and change your work. How quickly will you recover?

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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 Don’t forget to keep it simple – Recomended reading from Steve Blank « Spreading FINANCIAL INTELLIGENCE , on May 10, 2010 at 9:28 am Said: [.]

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Blowing up the Business Plan at U.C. Berkeley Haas Business School

Steve Blank

MARCH 3, 2015

Starting in the 1950’s, Stanford’s engineering department became “outward facing” and developed a culture of spinouts and active faculty support and participation in the first wave of Silicon Valley startups. Given its inward focus, Berkeley has always been the neglected sibling in Silicon Valley entrepreneurship.

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

Steve Blank

APRIL 6, 2009

Two years out of the Air Force, serendipity (which would be my lifelong form of career planning) found me in Silicon Valley working for my first company: ESL. But part of his life that that doesn’t even merit a Wikipedia entry is that Bill Perry used Silicon Valley to help end the cold war.

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Ardent 3: Supercomputer Porn

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 12, 2009

Therefore, you must leverage your strengths by exploiting their weaknesses due to size, brand, culture, or established historical norms which make them much less agile than a flexible yet less-capitalized opponent. Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. Gracias for another great read Steve! Order Here.

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

Steve Blank

JUNE 25, 2009

I’ve tried to read a lot of your History of Silicon Valley posts. Find out Memorex’s position in Silicon Valley. Some say we were the first PCM in the valley. Thank you, Jerry Sheridan Reply Amazing Posts « Shashank ND , on February 11, 2010 at 5:48 am Said: [.] Were we anything first?

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Beyond the garage

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 25, 2011

If you somehow missed SLLCONF 2010 , you can get caught up with a complete video recording here.) It may be hard to remember that there was a time when people in the agile software development community thought Lean Startup was incompatible with agile practices. Brad doesn’t meet your typical image of a scrappy entrepreneur.

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The Curse of a New Building « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

MAY 15, 2009

However, I’ve seen this story repeated time and again, and not just in Silicon Valley. The Curse of a New Building At some point in my career as I began to ponder how/why startups morph from agile, “can do&# companies to [.] [.] Reply Top Posts « WordPress.com , on May 15, 2009 at 6:02 pm Said: [.]

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The Rise & Fall of Great Venture Firms [Part 1] ? AGILEVC

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JULY 11, 2012

Brentwood Associates [Silicon Valley] –> Founded in the early 70s and focused primarily on VC, Brentwood had big wins in both IT like Wellfleet Communications (big chunk of what eventually became Nortel) and WebTV (part of Microsoft) and healthcare (various businesses that make up a big chunk of what is now Medtronic and Baxter).

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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. steve Joshua , on January 5, 2010 at 3:19 pm Said: Fantastic entry, thanks very much Steve. Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. Reply Leave a Reply Click here to cancel reply. Order Here.

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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. I said, “well for me you’d have to add coming from a dysfunctional family.”

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

Steve Blank

AUGUST 6, 2009

Funded by military contracts these 1950′s startups would help build Silicon Valley’s entrepreneurial culture and environment. 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.

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

Steve Blank

AUGUST 10, 2009

Funded by military contracts, these 1950′s microwave tube startups would help build Silicon Valley’s entrepreneurial culture and environment. Stanford’s Dean of Engineering, Fred Terman, encouraged scientists and engineers to set up companies to build these microwave tubes for the military.

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5 reasons you should stop hiring based on titles

The Next Web

FEBRUARY 22, 2014

These professions all share certain key characteristics: They are high pressure environments that encourage agility, creativity, and teamwork. Professional agility in a candidate can be more profitable than a job history directly matching your job description. The time it takes to fill an open position has doubled since 2010.

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Building a new startup hub

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2009

Its easy to take Silicon Valley for granted. Ive written a little bit about the origins of Silicon Valley because I think its important for us to understand how we got here in order to make sure we preserve what is best about our community. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0,

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Lean Meets Wicked Problems

Steve Blank

JULY 25, 2023

I’ve known Professor Cristobal Garcia since 2010 when he hosted my first visit to Catholic University in Santiago of Chile and to southern Patagonia. Co mpanies also face Wicked problems. In contrast, designing AI-driven enterprise software or building dating apps are comparatively simple problems.)

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

Github - Free public repositories, collaborator management, issue tracking, wikis, downloads, code review, graphs Pivotal Tracker – Agile project management tool that enables real time collaboration. WebSequenceDiagrams - sketch sequence diagrams. Bontq – hosted bug tracking and project management needs. Thanks a million.

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LinkedIn: The Series A Fundraising Story ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

Silicon Valley is still emerging from the tech bubble and massive downturn of late 2000-2002. To give you a sense, for 2002 the entire US online ad market was $6B and had shrunk year over year (it was $25B+ for 2010). Im a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned East Coast VC. Wow, what an inspiring story.

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

Steve Blank

APRIL 30, 2009

Luckily (or maybe because we were in Silicon Valley where there was a domain expert for everything) there was a very smart consultant in the retail computer space, Seymour Merrin, who preached about the importance of packaging. Hopefully you and your co-founders are experts in one or two parts (agile development, SEO/SEM, etc.)

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Introducing Lean Planning: How to plan less and grow faster

Up and Running

DECEMBER 6, 2012

Here at Palo Alto Software in 2007 and 2008, we embraced these planning concepts and moved towards a more agile planning process. In 2010, Alex Osterwalder published his book, Business Model Generation , where he created a framework for what Tim called “business identity.” At the time, we used Business Plan Pro and Basecamp for this.

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Cliff Notes S-1: Kayak ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

APRIL 17, 2011

In 2010 I deconstructed the filings for GameFly and Quinstreet. GameFly filed in 2010 and remains in registration, though 2011 has seen a positive start for VC-backed IPOs with 14 in Q1 2011. Filing Date: initial S-1 filed Nov 17, 2010 , updated March 9, 2011. Financial Snapshot: 2010 Revenue: $170 million.

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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.) Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. For bigger booths a good rule of thumb is to have two to four staffers for every 100 square feet of exhibit space. Even for the smallest trade show, no one shows up without booth training.

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Paul Graham on fundraising

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 2, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, August 2, 2008 Paul Graham on fundraising I have found no better primer on the current realities of starting a new technology company in a startup hub like Silicon Valley than Paul Grahams essays. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0, Expo SF (May.

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Making Good Decisions Still Means You're Sometimes Wrong.

Agile VC

DECEMBER 13, 2011

Im a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned East Coast VC. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. So in addition to sleeping reasonably well at night, I will continue to wish entrepreneurs we don’t invest in the best of luck in proving us wrong. Author howerl. Read More ».

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Thank you

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 31, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, May 31, 2010 Thank you The past month has been an incredible roller coaster: #sllconf was a trending topic (briefly topping Justin Bieber before the wifi in the hotel gave out), the Web 2.0 The visionary’s lament The Superbowl ad test Lo, my 57692 subscribers, who are you?

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Lessons Learned: Principles of Lean Startups, presentation for.

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 4, 2008

Boyd emphasized the importance of agility in combat: "the key to victory is to be able to create situations wherein one can make appropriate decisions more quickly than ones opponent." Agile software development. Agile allows companies to build higher quality software faster. This speeds up the Ideas-Code-Data feedback loop.

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Lessons Learned: Achieving a failure

Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 30, 2009

This is why agility is such a prized quality in product development. As with many Silicon Valley failures, a flawless PR launch turned into a flawed customer acquisition strategy. Labels: agile , customer development 5comments: William Pietri said. Even a great architecture becomes inflexible. We can skip the chasm.

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Groupon's S-1: From Zero to Like? Billions in 30 Months ? AGILEVC

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JUNE 5, 2011

It also puts another chink in the armor of the meme that monster internet companies can only be built in Silicon Valley (LivingSocial, Kayak, Gilt Groupe, CSN Stores, et al doing damage here too). Financial Snapshot: 2010 Revenue: $713M. Revenue Growth: 2241% YoY (2010 vs 2009), 1357% YOY (Q1 2011 vs Q1 2010).

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Lessons Learned: Using AdWords to assess demand for your new.

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

February 17, 2010 1:09 AM Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) Subscribe via email Blog Archive ► 2010 (48) ► October (3) Case Study: Rapid iteration with hardware The Lean Startup Bundle Stop lying on stage ► September (4) Good enough never is (or is it?) . Expo SF (May.

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Startups Lessons: Product First

Venture Chronicles

AUGUST 2, 2013

If we did anything egregiously wrong at Get Satisfaction in the 2010-1012 time period it was to under-invest in the product with the assumption that the existing product was good enough. Ultimately you need to achieve best in class but if you try to achieve that in the first iteration you will be hopelessly late.

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Lessons Learned: Where did Silicon Valley come from?

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 11, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, November 11, 2008 Where did Silicon Valley come from? I think the absolute best reading on this subject is a book called Regional Advantage: Culture and Competition in Silicon Valley and Route 128 by AnnaLee Saxenian. And what were they doing beforehand?

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Why haven’t European investors fully accepted the ‘failure is good’ mentality yet?

The Next Web

MARCH 2, 2014

An EU memo in 2010 stated the following discoveries: In the EU (but also in Japan and South Korea) the preference for being an employee is mainly motivated by considerations of stability (regular income, stable employment relation) and by the generally agreeable employment conditions (working hours, social protection). Changing the mindset.

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

Agile Opportunism – Entrepreneurial DNA « Steve Blank

Trending Sources

Use agile budgeting to manage your cash

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

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

Lessons Learned: Stevey's Blog Rants: Good Agile, Bad Agile

Hear how the Lean Startup began — and helped one company find success: Episode 2 on Sirius XM Channel 111: Eric Ries and Jon Sebastiani

Lean Startups aren't Cheap Startups

Raising Money Using Customer Development

The Customer Development Manifesto: Reasons for the Revolution.

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

Teaching Entrepreneurship in “Chilecon Valley”

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

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

Blowing up the Business Plan at U.C. Berkeley Haas Business School

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

Ardent 3: Supercomputer Porn

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

Beyond the garage

The Curse of a New Building « Steve Blank

The Rise & Fall of Great Venture Firms [Part 1] ? AGILEVC

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

Founders and dysfunctional families « Steve Blank

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

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

5 reasons you should stop hiring based on titles

Building a new startup hub

Lean Meets Wicked Problems

Startup Tools

LinkedIn: The Series A Fundraising Story ? AGILEVC

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

Introducing Lean Planning: How to plan less and grow faster

Cliff Notes S-1: Kayak ? AGILEVC

Going to Trade Shows Like it Matters – Part 2

Paul Graham on fundraising

Making Good Decisions Still Means You're Sometimes Wrong.

Thank you

Lessons Learned: Principles of Lean Startups, presentation for.

Lessons Learned: Achieving a failure

Groupon's S-1: From Zero to Like? Billions in 30 Months ? AGILEVC

Lessons Learned: Using AdWords to assess demand for your new.

Startups Lessons: Product First

Lessons Learned: Where did Silicon Valley come from?

Why haven’t European investors fully accepted the ‘failure is good’ mentality yet?

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