Agile Customer Development Silicon Valley Web 
Steve Blank
APRIL 20, 2009
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance I always had been curious about how Silicon Valley, a place I had lived and worked in, came to be. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance I always had been curious about how Silicon Valley, a place I had lived and worked in, came to be. How did Silicon Valley start?
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. Part 4 of the Customer Development Manifesto to follow. The board raises a collective eyebrow.
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Steve Blank
JUNE 29, 2009
My first job in Silicon Valley: I was hired as a lab technician at ESL to support the training department. It makes you appreciate that the Silicon Valley technology-centric culture-bubble has little to do with the majority of Americans.) You’re Hired, You’re Fired. Driving across the U.S. I was stunned.
Steve Blank
DECEMBER 20, 2011
These weren’t 22-year olds who wanted to build a social shopping web site. We taught them the business model / customer development / agile development solution stack. This methodology forces rapid hypothesis testing and Customer Development by getting out of the building while building the product.
Steve Blank
NOVEMBER 24, 2010
Over the last half a century, Silicon Valley has grown into the leading technology and innovation cluster for the United States and the world. This lets them deliver a first version of the product to customers in a fraction on the time. There’s Something Happening Here, What It Is Ain’t Exactly Clear.
Steve Blank
MAY 9, 2017
I’ve seen the Valley grow from Sunnyvale to Santa Clara to today where it stretches from San Jose to South of Market in San Francisco. I’ve watched the Valley go from Microwave Valley – to Defense Valley – to Silicon Valley to Internet Valley. So how did this happen? Where is it going?
Startup Lessons Learned
NOVEMBER 8, 2008
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, November 8, 2008 What is customer development? But too often when its time to think about customers, marketing, positioning, or PR, we delegate it to "marketroids" or "suits." Many of us are not accustomed to thinking about markets or customers in a disciplined way.
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