Steve Blank

JULY 11, 2017

So, this was a meeting of last resort, as the engineering director was making one last appeal to the CFO to keep his team in town. While a significant part of the headcount of this tech company was in manufacturing, the director’s group was made up of experienced software engineers. They’re lucky they work here.

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Part-Time VPE Liquidity Event Stock Engineer 327

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. Can this methodology be used for startups that are not exclusively about software?

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Customer Development Engineer San Francisco Developer 131

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2008

He previously co-founded and served as Chief Technology Officer of IMVU. In 2007, BusinessWeek named Ries one of the Best Young Entrepreneurs of Tech and in 2009 he was honored with a TechFellow award in the category of Engineering Leadership. While an undergraduate at Yale Unviersity, he co-founded Catalyst Recruiting. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 29, 2008

The six key attributes spell ABCDEF: Agility. When talking about their past experience, candidates with agility will know why they did what they did in a given situation. To probe for agility, you have to ask the candidate questions involving something that they know little about. Any advice? Excellent post.

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