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Is the Lean Startup Dead?

Steve Blank

It’s the antithesis of the Lean Startup. The Rise of the Lean Startup. After the crash, venture capital was scarce to non-existent. The idea of the Lean Startup was built on top of the rubble of the 2000 Dot-Com crash. Lean started from the observation that you cannot ask a question that you have no words for.

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Lessons Learned: Validated learning about customers

Startup Lessons Learned

Their product definition fluctuates wildly – one month, it’s a dessert topping, the next it’s a floor wax. Their product development team is hard at work on a next-generation product platform, which is designed to offer a new suite of products – but this effort is months behind schedule.

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The Principles of Product Development Flow

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, July 13, 2009 The Principles of Product Development Flow If youve ever wondered why agile or lean development techniques work, The Principles of Product Development Flow: Second Generation Lean Product Development by Donald G.

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Lessons Learned: A hierarchy of pitches

Startup Lessons Learned

Its different from selling a product, because it is not part of our regular business practice, is not something that relates to our core competence, and tends not to happen in a repeatable and scalable way. Ill exclude those non- lean startups who basically exist for the purpose of raising bigger and bigger sums of money.

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Revisiting the Software Design Manifesto (and what's changed since.

Startup Lessons Learned

Worse of all, the plaintext codes we were used to sending were considered non-authoritative, since they could be pulled off a third-party network. Lean methods present a third option: to invest in our process so that our design gets more feedback sooner and is more adaptable to changes in purpose. it is very helpful for me.

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Top 57 Online Startups Meets Technology Meets Product Posts for November 2010

SoCal CTO

love to find great products and services made by entrepreneurs who are trying to change the world. Put likable, competent and passionate people on the front line. Competing To Win Deals - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , November 7, 2010 The venture capital business is highly competitive. This doesn’t make sense.

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Lessons Learned: Five Whys

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, November 13, 2008 Five Whys Taiichi Ohno was one of the inventors of the Toyota Production System. His book Toyota Production System: Beyond Large-Scale Production is a fascinating read, even though its decidedly non-practical. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0.