Steve Blank

JANUARY 25, 2011

The benefits of customer and agile development and minimum features set are continuous customer feedback, rapid iteration and little wasted code. Ironically it becomes the antithesis of agile. And the magnitude of the problem increases exponentially with the success of the company.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2010

This post is designed mostly for non-technical founders. Your deepest thinkers on technology architecture are seldom good team leaders. They know how to estimate work units, how to manage the agile development process and how to get the most out of their teams. Most often they are not. Sometimes they are introverts.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 15, 2017

Agile businesses have moved to the cloud because of its scalability, efficiency and reliability, amongst other benefits. It doesn’t, however, change the fact that firewalls are still only perimeter protection devices and are limited to applying security policies against visible packets that travel through them.

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Steve Blank

JULY 25, 2023

In contrast, designing AI-driven enterprise software or building dating apps are comparatively simple problems.) (Understanding and solving homelessness, disinformation, climate change mitigation or an insurgency are examples of wicked problems. Co mpanies also face Wicked problems.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 8, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, August 8, 2009 Revisiting the Software Design Manifesto (and whats changed since then) My recent article on technical debt and its positive uses generated a fair bit of controversy. The argument itself got me thinking a lot about design and its role in building products.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 29, 2009

Like a financial debt, the technical debt incurs interest payments, which come in the form of the extra effort that we have to do in future development because of the quick and dirty design choice. We can choose to continue paying the interest, or we can pay down the principal by refactoring the quick and dirty design into the better design.

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The Startup Magazine

APRIL 29, 2018

The IT process automation should be the primary step in IT operations management, organizational designs, investments and supports. Non-standardization of IT architectures hinders the achievement of cost-effective. Effective understanding of how to design, develop, test, deploy and administer a workflow should be provided.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

If youre trying to design an architecture to maximize agility, how can that work if some people are working in TDD and others not? That means knowing whats written and whats not, what the architecture can and cant support, and how long it would take to build something new. But along the way, something strange happened.

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andrewchenblog.com

MARCH 10, 2010

However, there’s the other side of the coin, which is the product design. After you’ve added a ton of new features and stuck them all on the homepage, you create Product Design debt. Arguably, MySpace is a company that never paid down their product design debt, and their traffic has been impacted as a result.

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

Seeing the tangible results of our efforts, like a client's business flourishing because of a website we designed or a marketing strategy we developed, is incredibly rewarding. Thanks to David Reyes, Reyes Financial Architecture ! #6- Instead, I relied on agility and adaptability.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

We wanted an agile approach that would allow us to build our software architecture as we needed it, without downtime, but also without large amounts of up-front cost. You can also download our presentation, " Just-In-Time Scalability: Agile Methods to Support Massive Growth." Expo SF (May.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 23, 2016

ARM, a competitor, not only had a better, much lower power processor, but a better business model – they licensed their architecture to other companies that designed their own products. Today that’s built on the premise that an x86 architecture is the one best suited for big data. But it’s not over for Intel.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 20, 2008

When I first encountered agile software techniques, in the form of extreme programming , I thought I had found the answer. I explained it to people this way: agile lets you make the trade-offs visible to whole company, so that they can make informed choices. Even worse, agile wasnt really helping me ship higher quality software.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Operating across varied industries, Fractional CMOs offer a fresh, tailored approach, helping businesses to be more agile, adaptive, and strategic in their planning Questions I ask Nicole Bernard [00:46] What exactly is a fractional CMO? A few are architectural design companies.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

The site visits include stops at Square (the payments startup founded by Twitter co-creator Jack Dorsey), WeWork Soma (an amazing co-working space) and Pivotal Labs (leaders in Lean and Agile consulting), along with one more super-interesting location we’ll announce shortly. Needless to say, this is a slow and complex process.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 7, 2008

In addition to presenting the IMVU case, we tried for the first time to do an overview of a software engineering methodology that integrates practices from agile software development with Steves method of Customer Development. Ive attempted to embed the relevant slides below. What about a hardware business with some long-lead-time components?

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Steve Blank

JUNE 25, 2009

Their engineering teams didn’t have the expertise using off-the-shelf microprocessors (back then “real” computer companies designed their own instruction sets and operating systems.) He had spent 12 years at DEC , first as a hardware engineer designing part of the PDP-16 , then as the marketing manager for the LSI-11 and then into sales.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

To achieve this mission, we established a framework that leveraged Marine Corps tenacity, agility, and adaptability to create a persistent culture of innovation. Our yearly technical design meeting (TDM) brings together Marines to identify and address challenges and issues across the MCISRE.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

To achieve this mission, we established a framework that leveraged Marine Corps tenacity, agility, and adaptability to create a persistent culture of innovation. Our yearly technical design meeting (TDM) brings together Marines to identify and address challenges and issues across the MCISRE.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

DECEMBER 10, 2014

We had seen Lightspeed portfolio company Nicira disrupt networking layers 2-3 with an architecture that consisted of highly distributed scale out software elements coupled with centralized control, culminating in an acquisition by VMWare for $1.25B in the summer of 2012.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 29, 2017

Agile Methodology.”. Security is often not given the consideration it should get early in the design or development process and it tends to be costlier to implement later on. In this phase, we will be designing the architecture and depending on the development framework you are using, high level designs of the data models and methods.

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www.bothsidesofthetable.com

MAY 13, 2012

This post is designed mostly for non-technical founders. Your deepest thinkers on technology architecture are seldom good team leaders. They know how to estimate work units, how to manage the agile development process and how to get the most out of their teams. Most often they are not. Sometimes they are introverts.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 17, 2010

The artists on the team had called in the big guns, and VP-level folks were there to explain the importance of certain aspects of the visual design that threatened to be cut. I was invited to a feature decision meeting, where the team was closing in on a detailed spec. The meeting was tense. The engineering team wasn’t happy either.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 21, 2017

They do a great job at building an amazing culture, and they are able to keep a small company feel in terms of speed and agility because they keep the teams small and have basically broken the company up into a whole bunch of companies. Today I own and manage a company specifically designed to help people grow their portfolios.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 11, 2012

We’re a 11+ year old business that specializes in creating marketing websites and user interface design for web apps and mobile apps. Run meetings and present / defend your strategy and design work. Create strategy documents such as personas, information architecture, user paths, and wireframes.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 28, 2009

A typical "new feature" release is, in my experience, about 80% changes to underlying APIs or architecture. You might have the interaction designer who designed it take a look to see if it really conforms to their design. Switching these customers directly to continuous deployment sounds harder than it really is.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Joe Felter , Raj Shah and I designed the class to examine the new military systems, operational concepts and doctrines that will emerge from 21st century technologies – Space, Cyber, AI & Machine Learning and Autonomy. We just held our seventh session of our new national security class Technology, Innovation and Modern War.

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mashable.com

MAY 9, 2011

It will be important that your CTO can execute on big projects, too, hacking away to build an amazing product that is agile. From a technical standpoint, in addition to being a skilled programmer, the CTO should have a background in architecture and database design. Have an account? Danny Wong , Blank Label Group, Inc.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2008

You dont need to invent a new architecture, and you dont need to even build your architecture up-front. Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Six streaming locations Interviews ► March (7) New conference website, speakers, agenda Two new scholarship programs for lean startups Speed up or slow down?

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femgineer.com

JULY 18, 2010

HOME About the Femgineer Speaking Engagements Reading List Recruiting Startup Engineers With the startup market taking off, there is always a clamor to find good engineers, developers, and designers. People constantly ask if I know people, where to find the so-called ’startup-engineers’, or even where the can find someone like me.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

Not being caught up in a corporate management structure gives me the freedom and agility to be at the top of our game. I’ve taken a major risk (both financially & mentally) and surrendered my 15 year career in architecture & design, but my heart and mind are in this project every waking moment.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 15, 2009

Both sides start to think of their point of view in moralistic terms: “those guys don’t see the economic value of fast action, they only care about their precious architecture diagrams&# or “those guys are sloppy and have no professional pride.&# Expo SF (May. Conference streaming, sponsors, discounted tickets.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 26, 2009

Making UGC work requires good tools, open standards, and proper incentive design. Open APIs and data-oriented architecture (aka "web 2.0"). Personally, the framework Ive found most helpful is MTVs "create, share, validate" feedback loop. By focusing on giving creators all three, we were able to reap the rewards of their shared efforts.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 1, 2021

How do you build a flying car that’s not just safe enough to fit into the complex architecture and busy rhythms of a city, but also so quiet and so clean it becomes a beneficial asset on multiple fronts? That’s why I will also become a Joby board member upon completion of the proposed merger with RTP. For example, Joby works with the U.S.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

You now run Pilosa, what you describe as “an open source, distributed index designed to help analyze huge datasets at UI latency.” Kafka turns these patchworks into a simple architecture where all data moves through a central bus and data is either being created (by a producer) or consumed (by a consumer).

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 5, 2009

It’s important to invest in good architecture so that your website will scale once customers arrive. If you make that investment, and then customers arrive, and the site stays up, most companies will reward the people who built the architecture and, thus, prevented the scaling problems. Why do they harbor that paranoia?

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 13, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, July 13, 2009 The Principles of Product Development Flow If youve ever wondered why agile or lean development techniques work, The Principles of Product Development Flow: Second Generation Lean Product Development by Donald G. Product development deals in designs, which are fundamentally intangible.

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