Community Product Development Programming Silicon Valley 
Steve Blank
NOVEMBER 12, 2019
academia was engaged in weapon systems research for the Defense Department and intelligence community. Some of the best and brightest wanted to work for defense contractors or corporate research and development labs. In a startup cluster (Silicon Valley, Beijing, Tel Aviv) a failed entrepreneur is known as “experienced.”
Startup Lessons Learned
APRIL 25, 2011
It may be hard to remember that there was a time when people in the agile software development community thought Lean Startup was incompatible with agile practices. And, most importantly, the Lean Startup idea is starting to take root in industries and contexts very different from it’s Silicon Valley roots.
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Steve Blank
NOVEMBER 13, 2012
A few of the many quotations that struck me: “Most startups fail due not to the failure of product development but due to the lack of customers”. Learning and discovering who a company’s initial customers will be and what market they are in, requires a process separate and distinct from product development”.
Startup Lessons Learned
FEBRUARY 22, 2009
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, February 22, 2009 Please teach kids programming, Mr. President Of course, what I really mean is: let them teach themselves. See Paul Grahams Why Nerds are Unpopular to learn more) Take a look at this article on a programming Q&A site: How old are you, and how old were you when you started coding?
Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 11, 2009
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, September 11, 2009 The cardinal sin of community management Once you have a product launched, you will the face the joys – and the despair – of a community that grows up around it. This probably sounds illogical. Then the reality of our problem hit us.
YoungUpstarts
OCTOBER 10, 2012
Brilliant ad agencies and clever marketing communications experts. Talented product developers. When 3M brought “lead users” into its innovation process, they improved revenues by a factor of eight times over innovations from internal product developers. Highly trained salespeople. Even PhD analytics eggheads.
Steve Blank
APRIL 23, 2018
Sloan Foundation , the Sloan School of Management at MIT , the Sloan program at Stanford , and the Sloan/Kettering Memorial Cancer Center in New York. But the spirit of Billy Durant would rise again in what would become Silicon Valley. automotive industry grew to become one of the drivers of the U.S. There’s the Alfred P.
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