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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. Frank Robinson of SyncDev has been helping companies figure out their minimum viable product and pivots since 1984, long before I even knew what it meant.
Steve Blank
MARCH 4, 2014
Facing continuous disruption from globalization, China, the Internet, the diminished power of brands, changing workforce, etc., These tools brought clarity to corporate strategy, product line extension strategies, and made product management a repeatable process. existing enterprises are establishing corporate innovation groups.
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Steve Blank
MAY 18, 2009
Next, you have to deal with the daily crisis of product development and acquiring early customers. And here’s where life gets really interesting, as the reality of product development and customer input collide, the facts change so rapidly that the original well-thought-out business plan becomes irrelevant.
SoCal CTO
DECEMBER 1, 2010
The United States is now a debtor nation to China and that the bill is about to come due. Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers - SoCal CTO , November 1, 2010 I had a recent email dialog with the founder of a company looking for a CTO for their startup. " 34; To which I say "we don't think we can time markets."
Steve Blank
NOVEMBER 1, 2010
And they rolled all of this up into a set of financial forecasts with a “size of market” forecast from brand name management consulting firms that said they’d have 42 million customers by 2002. In the eleven years since they had been at work, Iridium’s potential market had shrunk nearly every day.
Steve Blank
NOVEMBER 24, 2010
The United States is now a debtor nation to China and that the bill is about to come due. Compressing the Product Development Cycle. In the past, the time to build a first product release was measured in months or even years as startups executed the founder’s vision of what customers wanted. Starting now.
Steve Blank
MAY 9, 2017
I’ve seen the Valley grow from Sunnyvale to Santa Clara to today where it stretches from San Jose to South of Market in San Francisco. And to today, when its major product is simply innovation. The second thing that’s changed is that we’re now Compressing the Product Development Cycle. or Euro-centric phenomenon.
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