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Vertical Markets 4: Putting it All Together « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

Execution by Vertical Market As the class progressed, students asked how the activities/functions of a startup; (Sales, Marketing, Business Development, Product Development, etc.) How does product development differ in communications hardware versus enterprise software, etc. Waterfall, Agile, Lean?

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Lessons Learned: Where did Silicon Valley come from?

Startup Lessons Learned

Silicon Valley’s development is intimately entwined with the long history of industrialization and innovation in the larger San Francisco Bay Area. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? The visionary’s lament The Superbowl ad test Lo, my 57692 subscribers, who are you?

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What would you want to tell Washington DC about startups?

Startup Lessons Learned

I'll add two ideas: The modern structure of university patent licensing and technology transfer works really well in the life sciences and other fields with expensive product development processes. Truth be told, we've got defense contractors here just like California does too. There are and we do. Expo SF (May.

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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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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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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

Agile project management tool that enables real time collaboration. Great for visualizing work of product development. Agile project management. agile product management. agile product management and Scrum tool. agile product management and Scrum tool. Agile eLearning.