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Is the Lean Startup Dead?

Steve Blank

He just hired Meg Whitman. It’s the antithesis of the Lean Startup. Startups wrote business plans, generated expansive 5-year forecasts and executed (hired, spent and built) to the plan. The Rise of the Lean Startup. The idea of the Lean Startup was built on top of the rubble of the 2000 Dot-Com crash.

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Lessons Learned: Combining agile development with customer development

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, March 16, 2009 Combining agile development with customer development Today I read an excellent blog post that I just had to share. Jim Murphy is a long-time agile practitioner in startups. But startups sometimes have trouble applying agile successfully. Enter Jims post.

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Does your startup really need to hire in-house developers?

The Next Web

When it comes to scaling your startup’s Web development resources (or lack thereof), it seems like you can never have enough assistance. Here’s what they had to say about whether or not to outsource technology development: 1. Developers get bored with one project after a while. And at what price? Agencies thrive on innovation.

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Build Predictable Startup Models by Forming an Agency

ReadWriteStart

This allows the studio to develop processes, well-organized development teams, and growth plans. Being able to hire talented professionals remains a difficult proposition in the current job market, especially when sourcing experienced developers, designers, and project managers.

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Why Founders Should Know How to Code

Steve Blank

My contract developers building the app aren’t very responsive. He was using 3 rd parties to build his app but he had no expertise on how to manage external developers. As the miles sped by I explained to Dave that he had understood only two of the three parts of what makes a Lean Startup successful. I said, “Help me understand.

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The Customer Development Manifesto: Reasons for the Revolution.

Steve Blank

After 20 years of working in startups, I decided to take a step back and look at the product development model I had been following and see why it usually failed to provide useful guidance in activities outside the building – sales, marketing and business development. So what’s wrong the product development model?

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Lessons Learned: Lean hiring tips

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, January 19, 2009 Lean hiring tips In preparing for the strategy series panel this week, I have been doing some thinking about costs. Fundamentally, lean startups do more with less, because they systematically find and eliminate waste that slows down value creation.

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