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Ardent War Story 5: The Best Marketers Are Engineers

Steve Blank

Building an Advisory Board In my travels outside the building I kept my eyes out for articulate and visionary scientists and engineers who had expertise we lacked, and were willing to help in an advisory capacity. I set up an advisory board as a vehicle to get these industry experts engaged with the company and product.

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Ardent 1: Supercomputers Get Personal

Steve Blank

The VP of Sales and I flew to Providence to convince Andy van Dam at Brown to join our company, or at a minimum lead our advisory board. Reply Karma in the Lean Startup Era , on January 28, 2010 at 5:26 pm Said: [.] On a rainy day in Providence we tracked Andy down just as he was leaving for a trip to Europe.

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Times Square Strategy Session – Web Startups and Customer Development

Steve Blank

However the Customer Development Model and the Lean Startup work equally well for startups on the web. The first question to ask is: “Does your startup have market risk or is it dominated by technical risk?” Lean Startup /Customer Development is used to find answers to the unknowns about customers and markets. As for #3.

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The Secret History of Silicon Valley Part X: Stanford Crosses the.

Steve Blank

He was on the Army Signal Corps R&D Advisory Council, the Air Force Electronic Countermeasures Scientific Advisory board, a Trustee of the Institute of Defense Analysis, the Naval Research Advisory Committee, the Defense Science Board, and a consultant to the President’s Science Advisory Committee.

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Elephants Can Dance – Reinventing HP « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

Army Signal Corps advisory board, and the Army was going to acquire their first computer for research. HP 150a Oscilloscope 1956 In March of 1956, Fred Terman , the Stanford professor who encouraged Bill Hewlett and David Packard to start HP, wrote Bill Hewlett asking for help.

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The curse of prevention

Startup Lessons Learned

It could be fixed by refactoring the code itself, or by partitioning the data horizontally or vertically, or by adding additional capacity at the point of the bottleneck, or by shaping end-user demand, or even by removing the feature itself. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Take your typical scalability bottleneck.

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Startup Tools

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AgileZen – project management visually see and interact with your work Kanbanery – Simple online team or personal kanban board LeanKit Kanban – Great for visualizing work of product development Kanban Pad – “Nice and lean” and free online Kanban tool Banana Scrum – A tool simple as Scrum itself.