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Lead and Disrupt

Steve Blank

Do they have better sales, marketing, or product development groups? What the winners start with is the realization that in a world of continuous disruption, they have only a few years to develop new capabilities or be pushed over the brink. Is it that some CEOs are better than others? Are their people smarter?

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Lessons Learned: The lean startup

Startup Lessons Learned

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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Why Companies are Not Startups

Steve Blank

These groups are adapting or adopting the practices of startups and accelerators – disruption and innovation rather than direct competition, customer development versus more product features, agility and speed versus lowest cost. StageGate Process. This is a big idea.

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How to Hack Growth When Growth Stalls

ConversionXL

Past Product: Lackluster Marketing Causes Growth Stalls, Too. These pitfalls are not limited to product development. At Science , a start-up incubator where Morgan worked, information about winning experiments that one start-up had tried were shared so others could also consider them. Swimming with Sharks.

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Lean Startup fbFund wrap-up

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, July 3, 2009 Lean Startup fbFund wrap-up Last week I had a real blast meeting with the companies at the fbFund incubator at Palo Alto. Use some customer development to find out. The power of A/B testing is so under-exploited in product development, that Im trying new ways to explain its benefits.

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Building a new startup hub

Startup Lessons Learned

Every summer, they bring approximately 10 companies to Boulder for an intense "accelerator" experience (dont call it an incubator, or youll get dirty looks). Thank you @ericries for drastically altering my perception of agile startup Thank you all so much for your kind words. I was really overwhelmed this time. Expo SF (May.

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The National Geospatial Intelligence Agency Goes Lean

Steve Blank

As part of the Department of Defense, the NGA acquires technology and information systems through the traditional DOD’s acquisition system – which has been described as the antitheses of rapid customer discovery and agile practices. However, this is a learning opportunity and a great beginning for the Department of Defense. Lessons Learned.

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