Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

A company developing software would have to buy computers and license software from other companies and hire the staff to run and maintain it. Today open source software has slashed the cost of software development from millions of dollars to thousands. Consumer Internet Driving Innovation.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 16, 2013

One good example is the way in which we''ve adjusted the length of different phases of our agile sprints. We don''t follow a set agile methodology, but rather follow a more home-grown, minimal version of various approaches. It wasn’t always this way. So what was going on? But that doesn’t mean that we don’t take these ideas seriously.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

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. What are the characteristics of a lean startup?

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 30, 2013

Though the notion of a “lean startup” that uses both Agile and Customer Development approaches is ostensibly strongly customer focused, the purpose of these methodologies is for the company to find an maximize its market, not specifically to optimize the user experience. Continuous integration, continuous learning.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

These posts and videos are about design, startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. Interesting stats in a recently released social media marketing survey - [link].

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Maybe that means going to a conference or two, or working on an open-source project, or instituting “10% time&# at work (like Google’s 20% time but more reasonable for those of us who don’t have billions in profit from a cash-cow). It’s no one’s job to market or sell the product.

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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 process (and the Lean Startup) is one way to do that.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

We wanted an agile approach that would allow us to build our software architecture as we needed it, without downtime, but also without large amounts of up-front cost. After all, the worst kind of waste in software development is code to support a use case that never materializes. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 30, 2009

I thought Id share a little bit of that, too: I’ve been interested in different approaches to software development going back to 1987 when – in my first company Feld Technologies – my partner Dave Jilk and I started talking about “semi-custom software development&# (way ahead of its time).

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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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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 4, 2008

Boyd emphasized the importance of agility in combat: "the key to victory is to be able to create situations wherein one can make appropriate decisions more quickly than ones opponent." Lean startups have the ability to use this commodity stack to lower costs and, more importantly, reduce time to market. Agile software development.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

It uses principles of agile software development, open source and web 2.0, Hey Someone else who is extending the agile/lean approach beyond just developing software. President Work in small batches Continuous deployment with downloads What is a market? (a Check out what I am doing at.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, September 2, 2008 On deployment My favorite question to ask a software development team is "how do you do a release." Waves of technology platforms The lean startup Customer Development Engineering Greasemonkey compiler Great open source scalability tools from Danga Ideas.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 27, 2009

It uses principles of agile software development, open source and web 2.0, This event is being organized by Manuel Rosso, an EIR at Austin Ventures, and my former collaborator back when he was VP of Marketing at IMVU. Expo SF (May. Conference streaming, sponsors, discounted tickets.

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www.theenterprisearchitect.eu

MARCH 26, 2014

The Enterprise Architect building an Agile Enterprise Home MDD PaaS Startup Presentations About The cloud landscape described, categorized, and compared October 12, 2013 Johan Den Haan 10 comments “I work for a PaaS company” I answered him. “Ah, okay, great”, and he moved to another subject. the cloudâ??.

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Altgate

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Another tip (whether outsourcing or developing in-house, make sure you follow the “2-man&# rule, which means that you should have at least 2 people familiar with your code which gives you insurance in case one goes away or moves on. PR/Marketing. Depending upon your inventory (online, mobile, etc.) Bookmark the permalink.

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mashable.com

MAY 24, 2011

Marketing firm Performics reported that 49% of “heavy mobile web users&# have made a purchase using a mobile device. Choosing Between Mobile and Native Apps One of the resounding themes for mobile software developers in 2011 is the debate between building a native app or building a mobile web app. Have an account?

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

You need to hear this from someone who has used.Net extensively, and then happily walked away from it to go open source: You are a wanker. And before you say.net is only for windows, checkout https://github.com/mono , it’s not an open source application. It’s an *freaking open source*.net

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

Weve built Sandcastle specifically for an entrepreneur with an idea, who is not a developer. Sandcastle is a software development service for entrepreneurs. I would rather go for an established development company which can easily scale development team as project grows. And dont forget: youre no programmer.

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