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The Customer Development Manifesto: The Startup Death Spiral (part.

Steve Blank

Now the company is in crisis mode. Reply Manual da Startup » Blog Archive » O que há de errado com o modelo de Product Development - Conceitos e práticas sobre Lean Startups e empreendedorismo em geral , on December 6, 2009 at 7:47 am Said: [.] And that is how we are going to avoid the startup death spiral.

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Am I a Founder? The Adventure of a Lifetime. « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

Will there be a lecture on getting seed money in a post crisis world? Reply Michael Durwin , on June 12, 2009 at 10:11 am Said: As I embark on my first start-up I’m continuously bolstered by posts like these. Thanks Steve! Reply YA , on June 14, 2009 at 10:48 am Said: Interesting.

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Social, Agile, and Transformation: Strategic Agile Thinking: Balancing Value, Innovation and Research

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If there are many enhancements in this category, the business and technical team must still prioritize. Once something is hard and out of scope for prototyping, it falls into one of two categories. crisis management. (3). Blog Archive. There is still technical debt that must be worked into the development backlog.

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Can You Trust Any vc's Under 40?

Steve Blank

In the Fall of 2008, the credit crisis wiped out mergers and acquisitions as a path to liquidity as M&A collapsed with the rest of the market. VCs worked with entrepreneurs to build their company with an eye out for a chance to flip it to an acquirer. So what’s left?

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Lies Entrepreneurs Tell Themselves « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

Flow » Blog Archive » Daily Digest for June 16th - The zeitgeist daily , on June 15, 2009 at 8:11 pm Said: [.] Perhaps now as crisis calls for greater efforts to make both ends meet, longer hours will be better tolerated. And, any decision you make(since you are the CEO), you better make sure it succeeds 100%.

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It's a startup, not a spreadsheet

Startup Lessons Learned

Imagine a general manager that has read The Innovator’s Dilemma and related books, and is therefore trying hard to help her organization make a transition to a new product category via disruptive innovation. The trick is to avoid the crisis. She knows the internal politics are tricky, but she’s navigated them well.

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Customer Analytics - From Those Who Should Know

Steve Blank

In the first part, they talk about the problem of bias that comes with doing analysis from any static mindset and they give plenty of examples of how a mindset acts as a filter that EXCLUDES ALL INFORMATION that doesn’t fit (Pearl Harbor, Cuban missile crisis, India’s nuclear testing, etc.).

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