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Founders and dysfunctional families « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

Next, you have to deal with the daily crisis of product development and acquiring early customers. And here’s where life gets really interesting, as the reality of product development and customer input collide, the facts change so rapidly that the original well-thought-out business plan becomes irrelevant.

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Innovation Outposts and The Evolution of Corporate R&D

Steve Blank

By the 1920’s, in the Age of the Automobile and Oil, large companies sought to control the new product development process. Our hyperconnected world is amplifying the effects of these companies and enabling them to have global impact, as seen with companies from Israel, India, China, and Brazil.

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Startup Lessons Learned

So the product development team was busy creating lots of split-tests for lots of hypotheses. That’s causing the Product Owner and team to spend more time with each other reviewing the results of experiments, which is allowing them to learn and iterate much faster. They’ve learned to see this waste.

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Unintended Lessons

Steve Blank

And I remember staying in everything from little motels to big hotels and resorts, from National parks in Alaska to trips in India. She said, “Dad what I meant was that growing up we loved when we traveled. And as kids we never had any idea which was cheap and which was expensive. Now that I’m older, I’m starting to know what things cost.

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Five lethal mistakes in offshore software development

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The big guys have been doing it for years and recently, smaller and smaller startups are incorporating offshore development into their plans. As a development manager I have, over the years, utilized development teams in India, China and Russia.

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Where is the best place to find a rockstar developer to bring it to life?

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Finding Co-Founders: What are some good ways to find technical co-founders in India? 24 Comments • Nov 8, 2010 I love this answer. Yishan Wong • Nov 8, 2010 lol.if Tristan Kromer • Nov 8, 2010 It'd be a tough A/B test to analyze because everyone knows ninjas can play the guitar: [link] com/pic.

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Lessons Learned: Sharding for startups

Startup Lessons Learned

nice post April 2, 2009 11:00 PM web design India said. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0, April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Facebook Fans Recent & Upcoming Events 2010 I am experimenting with using Plancast to track my 2010 event schedule. Bring your questions.