Steve Blank

MAY 6, 2015

Waterfall Development. While it sounds simple , the Build Measure Learn approach to product development is a radical improvement over the traditional Waterfall model used throughout the 20 th century to build and ship products. Waterfall Development was all about execution of the requirements document. Microsoft Windows 3.0).

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 29, 2023

In case you lack the skill of resilience, try to undergo professional training for developing said skill, and further expand the training to your employees as well. billion monthly users, and it quickly became a go-to platform for brands looking to increase their distribution and reach. Thanks to Adit Jain, Leena AI !

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View from Seed

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

Below, he answers questions about developing products from scratch, as well as the difficult technology choices and tradeoffs CTOs must make. NextView Ventures: You just experienced something that most developers don’t ever see: zero code base at a company. For example, we picked Clojure for our development work.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 7, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, September 7, 2008 Customer Development Engineering Yesterday, I had the opportunity to guest lecture again in Steve Blank s entrepreneurship class at the Berkeley-Columbia executive MBA program. Ive attempted to embed the relevant slides below. Talk about waste.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 26, 2014

We’re changing the order in which we teach the business model canvas and customer development to better-fit therapeutics, diagnostics and medical devices. “Customer Development” to test the hypotheses outside the building and. We’ve pivoted our Lean LaunchPad / I-Corps curriculum.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 13, 2020

It may take a significant amount of time and money to develop a right-sized office space that can accommodate the production and growth a business hopes to experience. Research shows that a right-sized office boosts productivity, increases employee satisfaction, and helps companies attract and continue to develop high-level talent.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

For the business leaders I know, these priorities almost always include the following: Business agility. Implicit in agility is increased productivity on change initiatives. In today’s world of distributed data, global reach, and powerful incursion technologies, how do I protect my data and my customers’ data? Data security.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 28, 2011

For the business leaders I know, these priorities almost always include the following: Business agility. Implicit in agility is increased productivity on change initiatives. In today’s world of distributed data, global reach, and powerful incursion technologies, how do I protect my data and my customers’ data? Data security.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 27, 2015

Maximum agility for required pivots. Startups need the agility to test various business models and positioning messages. Startups need the agility to test various business models and positioning messages. Partners and distribution channels will take you seriously. Build your audience and the product at the same time.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 21, 2019

While large corporations are struggling with the digital transformation, small agile firms emerge every day and challenge traditional retailers. However, the two founders urge to have all media, distribution channels and marketing materials (website, webstore, Instagram etc.) finalized before the crowdfunding campaign.

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Gust

SEPTEMBER 16, 2012

For the business leaders I know, these priorities almost always include the following: Business agility. Implicit in agility is increased productivity on change initiatives. In today’s world of distributed data, global reach, and powerful incursion technologies, how do I protect my data and my customers’ data? Data security.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 26, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, April 26, 2009 Product development leverage Leverage has once again become a dirty word in the world of finance, and rightly so. But I want to talk about a different kind of leverage, the kind that you can get in product development. Leveraged distribution channels.

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Where to Play

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

The idea to develop a caged drone was born after the Fukushima nuclear disaster. The drone that Flyability develops has unique accessibility due to the decoupled and light protection cage that surrounds it. Step 3: Designing the Agile Focus Strategy. Worksheet 3 – Designing your Agile Focus Strategy. The Challenge.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 15, 2017

Recent developments in applications have rendered the firewall outdated and incapable of deciphering the good and trusted from the bad traffic. Agile businesses have moved to the cloud because of its scalability, efficiency and reliability, amongst other benefits. Without a doubt, the firewall era has come to an end.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 27, 2022

It’s up to you to provide clarity around priorities, visualizing the required results, and developing a shared sense of being “in it together.” This requires embracing a team’s diversity of perspectives, and developing new agreements to support each other, be accountable, and coachable. Keep focus on the journey to a common goal.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 27, 2023

Everyone in the company must adopt the principles of customer-first focus, agility in responding to change, and constant innovation to improve your processes as well as the solution. Develop a mindset of improvement versus defense. Assure team members are always fully engaged.

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Steve Blank

JULY 13, 2021

Business plans presume that building a startup is a series of predictable steps requiring execution of a plan which assumes a series of known facts: known customers, known features, known pricing, known distribution channel. Lean-driven (hypothesis testing/business model/customer development/agile engineering). experiential.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 13, 2024

In a progressively saturated market, these startups need to reevaluate their strategies and wisely distribute resources to remain competitive and sustainable amidst the demands of investors and well-established competitors.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 16, 2018

They of course need to be agile and adaptable, but home businesses should still have some formalized planning and structure. Here are six steps to develop a strong plan that’s suitable for home-based businesses: 1. by David Zimmerman, CEO of LC Technology International . Set the responsibilities.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 21, 2011

All the teams were showing us what agile looked like, but this week several would remind us what focused and relentless really meant. Virtual channels include Dedicated e-commerce, Two-step e-distribution and Aggregators. Parts one through five are here , Syllabus is here. Week 6 of the class. The Nine Teams Present.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 1, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 1, 2008 Test-Driven Development as andon cord You cannot control what you cannot see, and the hardest part of managing software projects is that the final product is so intangible. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Expo SF (May.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

Fifty years later another Harvard professor, Clayton Christensen, developed his theory of disruptive innovation, which actually described how creative destruction worked. For example, Coke added snack foods, which could be distributed through its existing distribution channels. We legalized robbing the corporate treasury.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 13, 2021

Throughout the different phases of the pandemic, we have spent even more time with our existing customers and actively sought out their advice on how we can make our platform and services better as this distributed work environment continues. 8-Stay agile. Thanks to Ablorde Ashigbi, 4Degrees ! Photo Credit: Jimmy Chebat.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 26, 2015

Gore , I’ve found two corporate strategy tools developed by other smart people helpful in bridging Lean Startups with Corporate Innovation. To move innovation faster, we now have 21 st century tools — Business Model Canvas , Customer Development , Agile Engineering – all adding up to a Lean Startup.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 28, 2020

This represents a tectonic shift — in the services provided, the way they’re provided and business development efforts. They’ve been forced to consider alternate business development strategies. Develop Meaningful Value Propositions. New Rules for Remote Business Development. What’s important now?

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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. I am heavily indebted to earlier theorists, and highly recommend the books Lean Thinking and Lean Software Development. Labels: customer development , lean startup 8comments: Amy said.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 7, 2020

The classes are built on the Lean Startup methodology: Customer Discovery, Agile Engineering and the Business/Mission Model Canvas. The key principles of customer development are: There are no facts inside the building so get the heck outside. How can you test distribution/deployment? Are they the same now? Which are permanent?

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 11, 2020

For a distributed team to be successful, you must streamline communications. To cut costs, Buffer closed its offices and moved to a distributed workforce. Build an Agile Culture. Many companies today—both small and large—are realizing the benefits of organizational agility. And the trend continues to grow.

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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. After all, the worst kind of waste in software development is code to support a use case that never materializes. Expo SF (May.

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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. Customer development. Excellent ideas!

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

One is explaining the world as it used to work: the importance of gatekeepers, the scarcity implied by limited distribution, and the resulting quality bar that the industry is so proud of. Mostly it is the time and expense required to create the means of distribution for that industry. It’s just taking some longer than others.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 26, 2022

COVID-19 saw several changes, particularly in the area of telephonic development. Video marketing will also allow small businesses to distribute the same video content across many platforms, allowing them to serve a wide spectrum of clients at the same time. Think of the agility that comes with CAI, etc.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 25, 2010

A business model diagram also shows how the product gets distributed to your customers and how money flows back into your company. What’s the distribution channel. How Does Customer Development, Agile Development and Lean Startups Fit? (Or depending on your metrics for success, get users, grow traffic, etc.).

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Board Effect

MARCH 17, 2021

Developing Strategies for Efficient Board Collaboration. Create board books online quickly and easily and distribute them electronically. If your board is struggling with time management and digital noise, it’s time to have a full board discussion about how to make strides toward efficient board collaboration.

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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 Professionals Musings

JUNE 8, 2019

The keys to sustainable success require you to retain that sense of urgency, focus, and vigilance after the launch that you felt during the development and early funding stages. That requires trust and respect from all, as well as constant coaching and development to keep them committed to following you.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

Startups built every possible feature the founding team envisioned (using “Waterfall development,”) into a monolithic “release” of the product taking months or years to build a first product release. Customer Development , Agile Engineering and the Lean methodology enforced a process of incremental and iterative development.

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