Steve Blank

AUGUST 31, 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. The Focus on Execution Versus Agility The product development diagram has a linear flow from left to right.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 14, 2019

However, there continues to be trepidation to such change in the majority of the industry, and the reality differs across verticals and regions. Yet, they felt their readiness with respect to creating an agile organization was not in line with the likely impact of these disruptions.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 29, 2009

But over the years I realized his comment was actually an astute observation about the mental mindset of an entrepreneur, and therein lies the purpose of this post. In fact using uncertainty as your path is an advantage entrepreneurs share. You’re Hired, You’re Fired. I wore it as a badge of honor.

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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.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

They can make smart investments even if the entrepreneurs are not well credentialed or have a product/idea that is outside the mainstream of what investors are expecting As this change has rippled up the venture industry, it has meant a lot more worthy companies are getting funded than just a few years ago. 12comments: Dougvs said.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 25, 2009

were the first computer entrepreneurs here. So, here is my assignment. Find out Memorex’s position in Silicon Valley. Some say we were the first PCM in the valley. Others say Larry Spitters & Co. Were we anything first? Any answers or pointers will be appreciated.

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Steve Blank

MAY 22, 2009

Everyone should be articulate and agile in describing and demoing the products.) For bigger booths a good rule of thumb is to have two to four staffers for every 100 square feet of exhibit space. Even for the smallest trade show, no one shows up without booth training. Messages, themes, demo’s. Go to trade shows like it matters.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 27, 2009

And in hindsight, we seemed a bit more agile and innovative in WWII.) Yet decades later the military lacked the agility to write a spec in two years, let alone get 10′s of thousands of new systems deployed on aircraft as Terman had done. How was this possible?

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Steve Blank

APRIL 9, 2009

But what I wanted was an agile marketing team capable of operating independently without day-to-day direction. The first reaction from my CEO was, “that’s why you’re running the department.” And yes, we could have built a top-down, command-and-control hierarchy. on April 10, 2009 at 6:58 am Said: Amazing blog.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 26, 2013

The amount of competitors present in any vertical today can be overwhelming, which is why it is as important as ever to stand out and differentiate your company from others. Entrepreneur Analysis and Opinion' Stand out amongst competitors. Develop deeper customer relationships. Increase in conversions and average order values.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 30, 2009

Hopefully you and your co-founders are experts in one or two parts (agile development, SEO/SEM, etc.) Initially your job is to understand each of the parts of your business model before you hire someone to do it. so at least some parts are being run by people who know what they are doing.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 6, 2009

If you’re an entrepreneur, ESL is the most important company you’ve never heard of. Forty years before Agile Development methodologies became popular, ESL had analysts from its &# customer&# sitting side-by-side with ESL engineers designing new equipment together. If you think the Cold War turned out the right side up (i.e.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

In future posts I’ll describe how Eric Ries and the Lean Startup concept provide the equivalent model for product development activities inside the building and neatly integrates customer and agile development. A few successful ones do all these things. It’s just that until now, no one has ever explicitly mapped their journey to success.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 3, 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. Doesn’t it depend on vertical market.? Thanks for sharing.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 24, 2018

John Jantsch: You know, leadership might be the hardest job for an entrepreneur. John Jantsch: Well, and I think that’s a real challenge because I work with a lot of entrepreneurs and people that get started because they have an idea, or an ability to do something. It’s not for the meek. So it really gets down to that.

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Steve Blank

JULY 1, 2009

Filed under: Secret History of Silicon Valley « Agile Opportunism – Entrepreneurial DNA Rocket Science 2: Drinking the Kool-Aid » 2 Responses Ben , on July 1, 2009 at 2:31 pm Said: Great post Steve. It’s interesting that the NY Times obituary makes no mention of Ted Hall.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 17, 2018

Curved lines are visibly flexible and can communicate agility and reactivity. Horizontal vs Vertical vs Diagonal Lines. Unlike vertical or diagonal lines, they look as though gravity has already acted upon them and there is nowhere for them to fall. Vertical lines run perpendicular to the horizon.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

In the meantime we are narrowing our focus to three verticals (bioinformatics, connected devices, security/fraud) and are choosing our clients very carefully to tell the best success stories we can. While we can effectively sell our core value proposition today, it will take us the remainder of the year to fully automate our offering.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 22, 2009

The original Hewlett Packard which made test and measurement products was spun-out and renamed Agilent. Agilent is a $5.8 Technology changes, culture changes, customer needs change, more agile competitors emerge, etc. The remaining company kept the Hewlett Packard name and focussed on computers.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Product Development – Getting Funded as The Goal In a traditional product development model, entrepreneurs come up with an idea or concept, write a business plan and try to get funding to bring that idea to fruition. They will realize that you have built a startup that’s agile, resilient and customer-centric. How many are there?

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 17, 2018

Curved lines are visibly flexible and can communicate agility and reactivity. Horizontal vs Vertical vs Diagonal Lines. Unlike vertical or diagonal lines, they look as though gravity has already acted upon them and there is nowhere for them to fall. Vertical lines run perpendicular to the horizon.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 2, 2009

I avoid these entrepreneurs like the plague.) I teach teams various Agile techniques, and occasionally get told some particular trick is cheating. And in a big company most of it is illegal and can have enormous consequences. If you are a founder of a startup ethics begin with you. Think through if you want to win at any cost. (I

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

For those of you who have been following the discussion, a Lean Startup is Eric Ries ’s description of the intersection of Customer Development , Agile Development and if available, open platforms and open source. The Customer Development Venture Pitch At this point I often hear entrepreneurs say, “We don’t have the money to scale.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 20, 2009

And throughout my career as an entrepreneur I kept asking questions of my VC investors and friends; Where did entrepreneurship come from? They were all fun reads about plucky entrepreneurs who start from nothing and against all odds, build a successful company. Was it because entrepreneurs keep moving forward and rarely look back?

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

In future posts I’ll describe 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. While that’s not true, it is a fact that entrepreneurs only have one word for “startup.”

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Lean Methodology consists of three tools designed for entrepreneurs building new ventures: The Business Model Canvas – to write down all the hypotheses about a new business; Customer Development – a process for testing those hypotheses outside the building; Agile Engineering – to rapidly build minimal viable products to test product/market fit.

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Steve Blank

MAY 18, 2009

We agreed that all her founding CEOs seemed to have the same set of personality traits – tenacious, passionate, relentless, resilient, agile, and comfortable operating in chaos. The problem, I believe, is that repeatability represents the extreme discomfort zone of this class of entrepreneur. I’ve been surprised at the data.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Ramon Ray , a successful entrepreneur, speaker, best selling author, and one of the country’s top small business experts, meets with thousands of small business owners every year. Entrepreneur outlined this in their look at USP : Pinpointing your USP requires some hard soul-searching and creativity.

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Steve Blank

MAY 15, 2009

The Curse of a New Building At some point in my career as I began to ponder how/why startups morph from agile, “can do&# companies to [.] [.] I think there’s a size and scale where regardless of your intentions lean and agile won’t work (looking like a grandmother in a miniskirt.)

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 5, 2009

In other words, a principled way to combine agility with stability. In other words, you can always invest in process, batch size reduction, and agility as an alternative to preventing a specific problem. In other words, a principled way to combine agility with stability. Many problems are catastrophic only if allowed to fester.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 12, 2009

After these slides, these VC’s recognized that this company had dramatically reduced risk and built a startup that was agile, resilient and customer-centric. I am a young entrepreneur here, absolutely dying to hear the talk. The presentation didn’t have a single word about Lean Startups or Customer Development.

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Steve Blank

MAY 13, 2009

Reply Agile Opportunism – Entrepreneurial DNA « Steve Blank , on June 29, 2009 at 7:02 am Said: [.] Reply Gravity Will Be Turned Off « Avid Editor’s Insights , on May 17, 2009 at 1:31 am Said: [.] entire story can be found at Steve Blank. It’s worth a few minutes time off from reaming [.]

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

We need to work like perpetual entrepreneurs and create collisions where work, play and everything else in between blends in a beautifully harmonious manner. We need to market ourselves through powerful and consistent content. We now work in multiple spaces anywhere, anytime.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 28, 2009

Reply Agile Opportunism – Entrepreneurial DNA « Steve Blank , on June 29, 2009 at 7:02 am Said: [.] Reply dispatches from TJICistan » Blog Archive » a secret history , on April 27, 2009 at 7:25 am Said: [.] The invention of electronic warfare, part I and II. [.]

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 13, 2010

Infographic on entrepreneurs’ state of mind in 2010 – [link]. Why Startups are Agile and Opportunistic – Pivoting the Business Model – [link]. If you need to lie as an entrepreneur, you’re heading down the wrong path – Should Entrepreneurs Lie? – [link]. – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 13, 2010

Infographic on entrepreneurs’ state of mind in 2010 – [link]. Why Startups are Agile and Opportunistic – Pivoting the Business Model – [link]. If you need to lie as an entrepreneur, you’re heading down the wrong path – Should Entrepreneurs Lie? – [link]. – [link].

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 4, 2009

For example, Friendster was famously vertically partitioned at one time in its growth curve. I normally recommend you just store this directory on your master database, but you could use a standalone vertical shard (or even a key-based partition!) This type of vertical partitioning sharding scheme wont work in most cases.

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