Austin Customer Development Operations Software Engineering 
Steve Blank
AUGUST 3, 2012
Long before there was the Lean Startup, Business Model Canvas or Customer Development there was a guy in Santa Barbara California who had already figured it out. I want to tell you a story about how a team pivoted and succeeded by synchronizing product and customer development. The same thing happened on Friday in Austin.
Startup Lessons Learned
NOVEMBER 6, 2008
Steveys Blog Rants: Good Agile, Bad Agile : "Google is an exceptionally disciplined company, from a software-engineering perspective. They work hard to keep their house in order at all times, and there are strict rules and guidelines in place that prevent engineers and teams from doing things their own way.
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Startup Lessons Learned
AUGUST 8, 2009
I thought a good place to start was with the origins of the idea that "software design" should be considered a discipline in its own right, on par with computer science, software engineering, and computer programming. Customer Development is itself an example of SBCE. But what about Commodity?
Startup Lessons Learned
NOVEMBER 29, 2008
For software engineers, I think this absolutely has to be a programming problem solved on a whiteboard. Some questions have a natural escalation path (like working through the standard operations on a linked-list) and others require some more creativity. What is customer development?
Startup Lessons Learned
DECEMBER 8, 2008
Maybe two different developers made changes to the same underlying subsystem, but in incompatible ways. Maybe operations has changed the OS configuration in production in a way that is incompatible with some developers change. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?
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