Steve Blank

AUGUST 4, 2016

They’ll learn how to apply “lean startup” principles, (“mission model canvas,” “customer development,” and “agile engineering”) to discover and validate agency and user needs and to continually build iterative prototypes to test whether they understood the problem and solution. National Service.

Lean 160

Lean Government Agile Africa 160

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 29, 2009

Like a financial debt, the technical debt incurs interest payments, which come in the form of the extra effort that we have to do in future development because of the quick and dirty design choice. Although it costs to pay down the principal, we gain by reduced interest payments in the future.

Technical Review 168

Technical Review Software Review San Francisco Lean 168

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

That is just currently a full personal money sucking process, as you're taxed on income and have no business breaks yet, besides supplies, the majority of costs to start up a business have no tax advantages to creating a start up. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

DC 90

DC Washington San Francisco SBIR 90

Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

Startups built every possible feature the founding team envisioned (using “Waterfall development,”) into a monolithic “release” of the product taking months or years to build a first product release. There was no repeatable methodology, startups and their VC’s still operated like startups were simply a smaller version of a large company.

Internet 334

Internet IPO Silicon Valley Agile 334

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

VC Cafe highlights everything you need to know from hosting your code in hackathons to open source legal docs. Lean Methodology Sources. Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. High Quality, and open sourced! Mantis (Open source). Nagios (open source). Seed Startups.

Software Review 53

Software Review Technical Review Startup 53

Steve Blank

AUGUST 4, 2016

They’ll learn how to apply “lean startup” principles, (“mission model canvas,” “customer development,” and “agile engineering”) to discover and validate agency and user needs and to continually build iterative prototypes to test whether they understood the problem and solution. National Service.

Lean 120

Lean Government Agile Africa 120

Steve Blank

JANUARY 26, 2016

Today these potential adversaries are able to harness the power of social networks, encryption, GPS, low-cost drones, 3D printers, simpler design and manufacturing processes, agile and lean methodologies, ubiquitous Internet and smartphones. Filed under: Customer Development , Science and Industrial Policy , Teaching.

Silicon Valley 120

Silicon Valley North Korea Agile Lean 120

Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 12, 2009

When we started IMVU in 2004, we could rely on a staggering amount of open source software that jumpstarted our initial product offering. At the cost of a little extra indirection, you can organize your code around a series of long-lived objects, each of whom communicates with the other objects in simple, easy-to-understand ways.

PHP 166

PHP Software Review Ruby San Francisco 166

Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 4, 2009

This has two major drawbacks: the central directory can become a single point of failure, and there is a performance cost for having to consult the directory ever time you want to access data anywhere in the cluster. Im not talking about high-level abstractions (like an object-oriented view of a customers data).

San Francisco 151

San Francisco Architecture Startup Database 151

www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

I have come to believe during my time as an operator, entrepreneur and investor that the balance of these skills is so important to the long-term health of a business that if balance is not achieved early then the impact later can be profound - sometimes terminal. They are many more examples. The former focussed on biz.

Technical Review 51

Technical Review Startup CTO Hire Cofounder 51

techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

This is the first post in what’s going to be a series of blogs on how to go from nothing – no connections, no team, no money and no knowledge of how the startup industry really works – to operating a growing business. I’m taking a 52 week course in how to start up, run, operate, and achieve self employment.

Technical Review 84

Technical Review Cofounder Technical Cofounder Software Review 84

news.ycombinator.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

For three years I worked at Bug Labs (open source hardware company). We not only told everyone what we did, we posted the source code and the blueprints online. Our value is built on the non-technical stuff, which relies on a network of people and resources that have taken years to develop. Nobody ever stole our ideas.

Stealth 41

Stealth Technical Review Startup Software Review 41

grasshopperherder.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Which country’s laws does the corporate entity operate under? But maybe not in all countries and the cost of litigating will probably be more than your tiny share is worth. Blame Culture: “Who Gets Shot” National Endowment for Open Source. Top 3 Ways to Fail at Customer Development.

Sweat Equity 41

Sweat Equity Equity Cofounder Non-Compete 41