Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 12, 2009

After these slides, these VC’s recognized that this company had dramatically reduced risk and built a startup that was agile, resilient and customer-centric. This is my new favorite post on your blog. Reply Customer Development, GeekStack Style : GeekStack Blog , on November 25, 2009 at 9:15 am Said: [.]

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

They will realize that you have built a startup that’s agile, resilient and customer-centric. Your blog is on my must read list in Google Reader, and it’s always a great read. Good to see someone with authority advocating an approach to building startups that we at Agile Entrepreneurs focus on, week after week.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2009

In the last three posts, we drew the relationship of market risk and invention risk with vertical markets and pointed out verticals where customer development would be useful. would look in each of the verticals. Waterfall, Agile, Lean? For example, How does sales differ from one market to another? Liquidity – How?

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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. Blog at WordPress.com. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

Finally, I’ll write about how Eric Ries and the Lean Startup concept provided the equivalent model for product development activities inside the building and neatly integrates customer and agile development. on Cafepress, but is now literally priceless since the copyright owner put it on his blog.) Absolutely priceless.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

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Steve Blank

MAY 15, 2009

When my startup starts growing, I’ll make this blog post a mandatory reading for everyone in the company. The Curse of a New Building At some point in my career as I began to ponder how/why startups morph from agile, “can do&# companies to [.] [.] Blog at WordPress.com. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 12, 2009

Therefore, you must leverage your strengths by exploiting their weaknesses due to size, brand, culture, or established historical norms which make them much less agile than a flexible yet less-capitalized opponent. Blog at WordPress.com. The reality is that market leaders are well-capitalized and formidable opponents.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 9, 2009

But what I wanted was an agile marketing team capable of operating independently without day-to-day direction. on April 10, 2009 at 6:58 am Said: Amazing blog. Reply Process for the Enterprise » Blog Archive » People, Staffing, and Steve Blank’s SuperMac Series , on April 17, 2009 at 11:40 am Said: [.]

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Steve Blank

APRIL 27, 2009

And in hindsight, we seemed a bit more agile and innovative in WWII.) Yet decades later the military lacked the agility to write a spec in two years, let alone get 10′s of thousands of new systems deployed on aircraft as Terman had done. Blog at WordPress.com. How was this possible? Reply Benjamin A.

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Steve Blank

MAY 22, 2009

Everyone should be articulate and agile in describing and demoing the products.) Blog at WordPress.com. For bigger booths a good rule of thumb is to have two to four staffers for every 100 square feet of exhibit space. Even for the smallest trade show, no one shows up without booth training. Messages, themes, demo’s.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 6, 2009

Forty years before Agile Development methodologies became popular, ESL had analysts from its &# customer&# sitting side-by-side with ESL engineers designing new equipment together. Blog at WordPress.com. These would be the heart of ESL’s business. A-12 OXCART CIA Spyplane ESL found other ways to stay very close to its customers.

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Steve Blank

MAY 18, 2009

We agreed that all her founding CEOs seemed to have the same set of personality traits – tenacious, passionate, relentless, resilient, agile, and comfortable operating in chaos. I coach agile teams for a living, and I do most of my work with start-ups. Blog at WordPress.com. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 30, 2009

Hopefully you and your co-founders are experts in one or two parts (agile development, SEO/SEM, etc.) Blog at WordPress.com. Initially your job is to understand each of the parts of your business model before you hire someone to do it. so at least some parts are being run by people who know what they are doing.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 25, 2009

Blog at WordPress.com. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

In future posts I’ll describe how Eric Ries and the Lean Startup concept provide the equivalent model for product development activities inside the building and neatly integrates customer and agile development. AKPC_IDS += "1115,"; (No Ratings Yet) Loading … Posted in Leadership | Tagged [.] Blog at WordPress.com.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

Finally, I’ll write about how Eric Ries and the Lean Startup concept provided the equivalent model for product development activities inside the building and neatly integrates customer and agile development. Doesn’t it depend on vertical market.? Blog at WordPress.com. Freemium models have their own scorekeeping.)

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Steve Blank

JULY 1, 2009

Filed under: Secret History of Silicon Valley « Agile Opportunism – Entrepreneurial DNA Rocket Science 2: Drinking the Kool-Aid » 2 Responses Ben , on July 1, 2009 at 2:31 pm Said: Great post Steve. Blog at WordPress.com. It’s interesting that the NY Times obituary makes no mention of Ted Hall.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 15, 2015

We just love sharing articles about fonts, logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, economics and other interesting stuff! Small Business and Startups: 8 Steps To a Successful Redesign | @crowdSPRING Blog – crowdspring.co/1KuCfWj. How To Avoid Agility.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 22, 2009

The original Hewlett Packard which made test and measurement products was spun-out and renamed Agilent. Agilent is a $5.8 Technology changes, culture changes, customer needs change, more agile competitors emerge, etc. AKPC_IDS += "376,"; (No Ratings Yet) Loading … Posted in Leadership | Tagged Amp, [.]

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Steve Blank

APRIL 7, 2009

You don’t get grades for having resiliency, curiosity, agility, resourcefulness, pattern recognition and tenacity. Blogged the exact quote when it was published in Feb. Blog at WordPress.com. There’s a big difference between being an employee at a great technology company and having the guts to start one. Steve Blank [.]

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 6, 2009

Air Force also needed improvements in frequency agility to protect its cold war bombers. Frequency agility can be best described by what happened over Germany in WWII. Blog at WordPress.com. B-47 - primary Strategic Air Command Bomber in the 1950's As a result, to protect its bombers flying over the Soviet Union the U.S.

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Steve Blank

MAY 4, 2009

Having each department develop a mission statement depends on leadership and direction from the CEO. “Going Out of Business” Strategy I’m now convinced “all our departments are equal” is a “going out of business” strategy. Their own internal culture would tie them up in knots, and agile startups could run rings around them.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 10, 2009

Rapid Scan/High Probability of Intercept – Stanford’s contribution In the last post we described Stanford’s high power, electronically tuned microwave tubes (the Backward Wave Oscillator ) which made high power, frequency agile airborne jammers possible. Blog at WordPress.com. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

In future posts I’ll describe how Eric Ries and the Lean Startup concept provided the equivalent model for product development activities inside the building and neatly integrates customer and agile development. Blog at WordPress.com. shoes in order to deduce possible competitors’ moves and anticipate customer needs.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 2, 2009

I teach teams various Agile techniques, and occasionally get told some particular trick is cheating. Blog at WordPress.com. One might omit, for example, “less important&# tests where one hadn’t performed as well, without crossing an ethical boundary. Reply William Pietri , on April 2, 2009 at 3:56 pm Said: Well put.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 15, 2009

The reality is that independent electric vehicle startups will win over time (closer to the customer, more agile, etc.) Reply Jeff Barr’s Blog » Links for Wednesday, April 15, 2009 , on April 15, 2009 at 10:26 am Said: [.] If that blog post was written two years ago we would have had a different discussion.

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Steve Blank

MAY 13, 2009

Reply Agile Opportunism – Entrepreneurial DNA « Steve Blank , on June 29, 2009 at 7:02 am Said: [.] Reply Agile Opportunism – Entrepreneurial DNA « Steve Blank , on June 29, 2009 at 7:02 am Said: [.] Blog at WordPress.com. entire story can be found at Steve Blank.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 28, 2009

Now his son is reading your blog about creating a startup. Reply dispatches from TJICistan » Blog Archive » a secret history , on April 27, 2009 at 7:25 am Said: [.] Reply Agile Opportunism – Entrepreneurial DNA « Steve Blank , on June 29, 2009 at 7:02 am Said: [.] Blog at WordPress.com.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Expensify Blog. Blog posts like this might be part of why you’re finding it hard to hire good people. Think of it like Ruby on Rails, you can do the “Blog in 15 minutes” trick by scaffolding everything in RoR, but it won’t be a production app. « chawisa's blog. Sunday edit : Still going!

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