Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

It’s not that these companies are smarter than Defense Department employees, but they operate with different philosophies, different product development methodologies, and with different constraints. Urgency and risk-taking in a startup are integral parts of the culture, felt by 100 percent of early-stage employees.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

In an early-stage startup especially, revenue is not an important goal in and of itself. This may sound crazy, coming as it does from an advocate of c harging customers for your product from day one. Let’s start with a simple question: why do early-stage startups want revenue? Go on an agile diet quickly.

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Austin Startup

JULY 27, 2010

I think it’s safe to say that early stage funding is going strong in Austin in 2010. Austin technology veterans Hank Weghorst and Suaad Sait have shown through their 10 week beta that they’re agile, responsive to user feedback, and rapid in rolling out new features.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 21, 2010

Yet at their early stages, they are not small versions of larger established companies. When Startups reach the Transition stage, it’s time to look inward and decide whether the current CEO and executive staff are capable of scaling to a large company. The Scalable Startup stage called for opportunistic and agile leadership.

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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. Where is the budget for purchasing the type of product you’re selling? What’s the customer acquisition cost?

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

VC Cafe covers early stage Israeli and European tech & mobile startups. great web customer acquisition tutorials. Agile project management tool that enables real time collaboration. Great for visualizing work of product development. Agile project management. agile product management.

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