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Innovation, Change and the Rest of Your Life

Steve Blank

I lived through the time when working in my first job in Ann Arbor Michigan we had to get out a map to find out that San Jose was not only in Puerto Rico but there was a city with that same name in California. For life sciences it was the Genentech IPO in 1980 that proved to investors that life science startups could make them a ton of money.

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Elephants Can Dance – Reinventing HP « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

It was still a year away from its IPO. 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. But first some background.) However, no markets last forever.

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Vertical Markets 4: Putting it All Together « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

Waterfall, Agile, Lean? M&A, IPO? Regulatory Issues – What are they? Time to Market – How long? Product Development – How do you engineer it? Manufacturing – How do you build it? Seed and Follow-on Financing – How do your finance it? Liquidity – How?

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Assessing fit with the Wisdom of Crowds

Startup Lessons Learned

It ended with a large layoff and a transfer of jobs from NY to California and Bangalore. ► August (2) SXSW Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium ► July (4) Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot Some IPO speculation Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# th. The moral of the story? Theyll know if you dont.

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Startup Resources

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Agile project management tool that enables real time collaboration. Agile project management. agile product management. agile product management and Scrum tool. Agile project management tool collaborative product life-cycle. Automates Agile / Scrum development. Agile eLearning. Pivotal Tracker â??

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What would you want to tell Washington DC about startups?

Startup Lessons Learned

Truth be told, we've got defense contractors here just like California does too. ► August (2) SXSW Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium ► July (4) Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot Some IPO speculation Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# th. There are and we do. Expo SF (May.

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Lessons Learned: Where did Silicon Valley come from?

Startup Lessons Learned

From California Historical Landmarks for Santa Clara note that Federal Telegraph predates HP by more than a quarter of a century and all of the early WWII era technology entrepreneurs had a common interest in radio. Stevey's Blog Rants: Good Agile, Bad Agile Learning from Obama: maneuver warfare on the campa. Expo SF (May.