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Vision versus Hallucination – Founders and Pivots

Steve Blank

Tossing their agile development process and at times their entire business model in the air, the company would go into fire-drill mode and engineering would start working on whatever his latest insight was. Some of the engineers figuring if the founder was declaring they were toast in 90 days were updating their resumes.

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Lessons Learned: Achieving a failure

Startup Lessons Learned

Even though some aspects of the product were eventually vindicated as good ones, the underlying architecture suffered from hard-to-change assumptions. After years of engineering effort, changing these assumptions was incredibly hard. Even a great architecture becomes inflexible. We can capitalize on new customers. Great post!