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The Customer Development Manifesto: Reasons for the Revolution.

Steve Blank

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. Product Development Diagram 1. Where exactly did the assumptions in our startup business plan come from?”

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Lean Startups aren't Cheap Startups

Steve Blank

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. This “get out of the building” activity is the Customer Discovery step of the Customer Development Model.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

This literally the dumbest, most ignorant piece that I’ve ever read about software development and/or hiring programmers. I also know numerous other programming languages and have worked with many software development platforms over the last 25 years. It’s like arguing against vertical software.

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