Steve Blank

JULY 13, 2021

That is until 1947 when Myles Mace taught the first entrepreneurship course “Management of New Enterprises” at Harvard Business School. In 1953 Peter Drucker offered an Entrepreneurship and Innovation class at New York University, and in 1954 Stanford’s business school offered “Small Business Management” its first small business course.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 13, 2010

These posts and videos are about design, startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! 5 Photoshop & CSS Tricks for Killer Web Designs – [link]. The Dying Art Of Design – [link]. 30+ Excellent Photoshop Web layout Design Tutorials – [link]. – [link].

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

the failure rate of new ventures (startups had no formal rules and were a hit or miss proposition), the slow adoption rate of new technologies by the government and large companies. Venture capital used to be a tight club clustered around formal firms located in Silicon Valley, Boston, and New York.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 20, 2023

I not only burdened my new business with a three-year business loan, but I didn't realize the time required for the actual production of the printed work. Thanks to Rocco Del Greco, The New York Group ! #7- Contrary to the initial advice, I learned that it's essential to embrace agility and be willing to pivot when necessary.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 13, 2010

These posts and videos are about design, startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! 5 Photoshop & CSS Tricks for Killer Web Designs – [link]. The Dying Art Of Design – [link]. 30+ Excellent Photoshop Web layout Design Tutorials – [link]. – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 1, 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! A Designer’s Introduction to “Agile” Methodology – Tuts+ Web Design Article bit.ly/1JT4QEb. Hate Needles? Medium bit.ly/1bloONj.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 8, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, August 8, 2009 Revisiting the Software Design Manifesto (and whats changed since then) My recent article on technical debt and its positive uses generated a fair bit of controversy. The argument itself got me thinking a lot about design and its role in building products.

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Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

Venture Capital used to be a tight club clustered around formal firms located in Silicon Valley, Boston, and New York. While those firms are still there (and getting larger), the pool of money that invests risk capital in startups has expanded, and a new class of investors has emerged. or Euro-centric phenomenon.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Thanks to Wes Marlan, Lighthouse Web Design, Inc ! #2- It's important to keep business agile. Luckily, now we are in our new normal, apart from the knowledge I gained, I've learned to never be neglected. Learning new skills or developing existing ones to reach higher skill levels is one of the best ways to advance your career.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 23, 2020

While there’s agreement that companies need to adapt to changing markets, rapidly find new markets, new customers and new revenue models, the question is how ? New York-based startup Katena Oncology discovered that a cancer detection tool under development could be adapted to test for coronavirus. Here’s how.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 19, 2011

This article is a guest post by Jeff Gothelf, Director of User Experience at TheLadders in New York City. Jeff will also be joining us on stage at Startup Lessons Learned 2011 , where he will be presenting a case study on his experience blending design, Lean Startup, and large company culture.

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APRIL 25, 2011

It may be hard to remember that there was a time when people in the agile software development community thought Lean Startup was incompatible with agile practices. The number of Lean Startup meetup groups has crossed 100, spreading out from traditional startup hubs like San Francisco and New York to a wide variety of places.

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OCTOBER 7, 2016

series that also includes the Future of Work , the Future of Corporate Agility, Skill-Sharing, and more in the weeks leading up to Lean Startup Week. I’ve always been intrigued by the concepts of design thinking and customer empathy and how those concepts might intersect with local government. This interview is part of a “Future of….”

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AUGUST 30, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, August 30, 2008 Refactoring for TDD and interaction design In TDD , we follow a rhythm of “test-code-refactor.&# The same process works in Interaction Design. This basic pattern is useful in all aspects of product development. Expo SF (May. Conference streaming, sponsors, discounted tickets.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

In previous posts I’ve talked about what the combination of Business Model Design, Customer Development and Agile Methodologies mean to startups and intrapreneurs in large companies; it’s the beginning of entrepreneurship as a science with its own rules and methodologies. Teaching In the Big Apple.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 20, 2023

He is co-leader of the McKinsey Digital Practice, a senior partner based in New York, and a member of McKinsey’s Shareholders Council, the firm’s board of directors. He's a co-leader of the McKinsey Digital Practice, a senior partner based in New York, and a member of McKinsey's Shareholders Council.

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Steve Blank

JULY 7, 2015

My guests on Bay Area Ventures on Wharton Business Radio on Sirius XM Channel 111 were: Eric Ries , entrepreneur and author of the New York Times bestseller, The Lean Startup. At the same time, the jerky manufacturer they had designed their first flavors with decided to make their own jerky. It put us on the map.”.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 13, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, July 13, 2009 The Principles of Product Development Flow If youve ever wondered why agile or lean development techniques work, The Principles of Product Development Flow: Second Generation Lean Product Development by Donald G. Product development deals in designs, which are fundamentally intangible.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 5, 2008

These specs are handed to a designer, who builds layouts and mockups of all the salient points. Then the designs are handed to a team of programmers with various specialties. The programmers keep asking for more say in the designs and direction that they work on. First, he writes it nice and clear.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

But by taking advantage of open source, agile software, and iterative development, lean startups can operate with much less waste. So far, I have found "lean startup" works better with the entrepreneurs Ive talked to than "agile startup" or even "extreme startup.") Of course, many startups are capital efficient and generally frugal.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

We wanted an agile approach that would allow us to build our software architecture as we needed it, without downtime, but also without large amounts of up-front cost. You can also download our presentation, " Just-In-Time Scalability: Agile Methods to Support Massive Growth." Expo SF (May. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 3, 2009

Refreshing to finally see lean and agile thinking emerge in product/business-floors and not only in technology. Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Six streaming locations Interviews ► March (7) New conference website, speakers, agenda Two new scholarship programs for lean startups Speed up or slow down?

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 16, 2009

For those whove heard it, it contains a length discourse on the subject of agile software development and extreme programming, including its weaknesses when applied to startups. As Im pontificating about agile, I see the name Kent Beck in my peripheral vision. A/B testing is set-based design. A/B testing is set-based design.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 29, 2009

Like a financial debt, the technical debt incurs interest payments, which come in the form of the extra effort that we have to do in future development because of the quick and dirty design choice. We can choose to continue paying the interest, or we can pay down the principal by refactoring the quick and dirty design into the better design.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 30, 2009

Insist on high levels of usability, UI design, and polish. Without conscious process design, product development teams turn lines of code written into momentum in a certain direction. This is why agility is such a prized quality in product development. Labels: agile , customer development 5comments: William Pietri said.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 7, 2008

In addition to presenting the IMVU case, we tried for the first time to do an overview of a software engineering methodology that integrates practices from agile software development with Steves method of Customer Development. Ive attempted to embed the relevant slides below. What about a hardware business with some long-lead-time components?

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Steve Blank

JUNE 18, 2013

Eric’s insight was that traditional product management and Waterfall development should be replaced by Agile Development. Business model design + customer development + agile development is the process that startups use to search for a business model. It’s part of a broader new entrepreneurial curriculum.

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MARCH 25, 2010

for Harvard Business Review) Over at Harvard Business Review, Ive been building up a series designed to introduce the Lean Startup methodology to a business-focused audience. Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, March 25, 2010 Speed up or slow down? Labels: product development Speed up or slow down? Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 2, 2010

And yet the key to startup speed is to maintain a disciplined approach to testing and evaluating new products, features, and ideas. As start-ups scale, this agility will be lost unless the founders maintain a consistent investment in that discipline. Start-ups supposedly dont have time for detailed processes and procedures.

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Technical Review San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment 132

Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, February 20, 2009 Work in small batches Software should be designed, written, and deployed in small batches. Similar results apply in product management, design, testing, and even operations. Take the example of a design team prepping mock-ups for their development team. I dont think so.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 4, 2008

Boyd emphasized the importance of agility in combat: "the key to victory is to be able to create situations wherein one can make appropriate decisions more quickly than ones opponent." Agile software development. Agile allows companies to build higher quality software faster. This speeds up the Ideas-Code-Data feedback loop.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 31, 2010

Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Six streaming locations Interviews ► March (7) New conference website, speakers, agenda Two new scholarship programs for lean startups Speed up or slow down? There are so many more people to thank: Sarah Milstein and the Web 2.0 Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, September 10, 2008 Smarticus — 10 things you could be doing to your code right now Smarticus — 10 things you could be doing to your code right now A great checklist of techniques and tools for making your development more agile, written from a Rail perspective. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 9, 2009

Thats the essence of so many of the lean startup techniques Ive evangelized: customer development , the Ideas/Code/Data feedback loop , and the adaptation of agile development to the startup experience. Creating a company-wide feedback loop that incorporates both customer development and agile development is a challenge.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

This is precisely the dilemma that the doctrine of minimum viable product is designed to solve. When people start using quality, reliability, or design as an excuse to delay, it used to make me nervous, even when these suggestions were well intentioned. Rules of thumb can be infuriatingly unhelpful. And it’s really hard.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 10, 2010

As immigrants their biggest dream was opening a small grocery store on the Lower East Side of New York City, which they did in 1939. Scalable startups in technology centers (Silicon Valley, Shanghai, New York, Bangalore, Israel, etc.) They didn’t aspire to open a chain of grocery stores, just to feed their family.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 12, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, November 12, 2009 New York: three straight days of Lean Startup (two of which are free) Greetings from Europe, where Im just wrapping up an incredible (and exhausting) speaking tour. Expo in New York, theres good news. For those who want to come see me at Web 2.0

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