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Massacre at IBM

Steve Blank

Though development was already underway, I kicked-off SyncDev in early November. The core team — a cross-functional team who could make all the business and technical decisions within a set envelop ? consisted of product manager, hardware-engineering manager, software-engineering manager, applications analyst, and software designer.

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How to Get Picked as a Speaker for The Lean Startup Conference

Startup Lessons Learned

Most commonly, that’s uncertainty about whether you can build the product at all (what MBAs call “technical risk”) or whether anybody will use or buy it (“market risk”). Although every organization faces some uncertainty in developing new stuff, the conditions are not always extreme.

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CXL Live 2018 Recap: Top 5 Lessons from Each Speaker

ConversionXL

Example: wechat in China. Understand growth accounting – new, resurrected vs churned = net growth (can also look at this at feature level, not only product). Work hard to define meaningful product metrics – enabler of team success. There’s no single metric to track, there are many: Leads.

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8 Strategies To Capitalize On Untapped Global Markets

Startup Professionals Musings

Yet many of you are telling me that we are all missing big opportunities by not recognizing the unique challenges faced by startups in developing countries , where infrastructure is lacking, and talent is not so concentrated. Even here, Elon Musk faced this issue with Tesla, needing a support ecosystem as well as new technology.

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8 Keys To Real Innovation Outside of Silicon Valley

Startup Professionals Musings

Yet many of you are telling me that we are all missing big opportunities by not recognizing the unique challenges faced by startups in developing countries , where infrastructure is lacking, and talent is not so concentrated. Even here, Elon Musk faced this issue with Tesla, needing a support ecosystem as well as new technology.

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Innovation Outposts and The Evolution of Corporate R&D

Steve Blank

The last 40 years have seen an explosive adoption of new technologies (social media, telecom, life sciences, etc.) Not only are the number of new technologies and entrants growing, but also increasing is the rate at which technology is disrupting existing companies. Figure 1 : Five technology revolutions source: Carlota Perez.

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automatic links to generated images Rietveld - asynchronous code reviews on changesets Tech*if*er0*urs – blog on roadmap for learning rails Best free programming books Project Management Basecamp - web-based project management and collaboration tool. WebSequenceDiagrams - sketch sequence diagrams.