Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

Oops - there went several precious weeks of development effort down the drain. And if you dont know who your customer is, perhaps some customer development is in order? Labels: customer development , search engine marketing 13comments: Jim Lindstrom said. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Expo SF (May.

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MAY 30, 2016

But a decade earlier as undersecretary of defense for research and engineering, he was the father of the second offset strategy using software and semiconductors to build smart weapons, smart sensors, and stealth aircraft that helped end the Cold War. In Slide 2 the team made progress on developing their MVP. It’s a ton of work.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 11, 2012

Lean Marketing: Delivering Customer Service via Social Media – [link]. Six Myths of Product Development – [link]. Six Myths of Product Development – [link]. Sequoia Confirms Existence of “Stealth” Scout Program. Lean Marketing: Delivering Customer Service via Social Media – [link].

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Steve Blank

APRIL 6, 2009

If you are a practitioner of Customer Development, ESL was doing it before most us were born. In 1962 Wheelon left for a new job as the first director of the CIA’s Directorate of Science and Technology where he was responsible for development of OXCART , the A-12 Spyplane, and three major satellite reconnaissance systems.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 13, 2022

One of the most important lessons entrepreneurs can learn from Dropbox is to adopt the lean start-up methodology and start. He has been instrumental in the development of artificial intelligence and machine learning, which are key areas of focus for Google. Thanks to Fletcher Wimbush, The Hire Talent ! #2- 2- Dropbox. 17- Improbable.

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cdixon.org

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

Hopefully by that time you’ve developed the idea much further and in much greater detail – by talking to as many people as possible. Great tips, fully inline with “Four Steps to the Epiphany” Also reminds me of Dharmesh’s “Stealth Mode, Schmealth Mode” — [link]. Share: [link] Jerry Ji.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

The problem with a Lean Startup: the Minimum Viable Product | Paul Kortman – [link]. The Difference Between Stealth Mode and Quiet Mode – [link]. 20 Useful Tools For Designer and Developers – [link]. 10 Fresh Tools For Web Designers And Developers – [link].

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 1, 2015

It’s striking that algorithm developments for machine intelligence have been overwhelmingly open source. Graphcore (in stealth, see this video at 28:58) calls them Intelligent Processor Units. But what if you can use data to reduce the risk, by finding better targets for development? Of course there are exceptions?—?last

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 2, 2022

This cycle of solutions delivered and value received has been a staple for us since our inception and we expect to lean on this approach for the foreseeable future. . So, I solved the problem when I decided to take the initiative and develop a new HR document management software for the team. Thanks to Teo Vanyo, Stealth Agents ! #20-

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

JANUARY 6, 2011

Lisa Marino of RockYou , a leading developer of social games and advertising solutions for social media, is focused on building a great team with more gaming DNA to improve the quality of the games it publishes: Make RockYou the place talent wants to be. Improve the product. Internalize culture and values. Stay hungry, stay foolish.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 10, 2014

The University of Maryland is now integrating the Lean LaunchPad ® into standard innovation and entrepreneurship courses across all 12 colleges within the University. It was Steve who first brought Will Harvey to visit Immersion, which led to a strategic investment in There.com, Will’s stealth-mode but sure-fire, can’t-miss startup.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 29, 2012

SS: You have to be strategic because there’s no stealth mode. Brian Fargo, who created Wasteland 2 and [crowdfunded] nearly $3 million, said, “Our software development company all but stopped for three weeks so we could get our ducks in a row.” That’s what you’re competing with.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2015

BMNT , a new Silicon Valley company, is combining the Lean Methods it learned in combat with the technology expertise and speed of startups. OSRD was tasked to develop military weapons systems and solve military problems but had wide autonomy to determine how to accomplish its tasks and organize its labs. In peacetime the U.S.

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JANUARY 9, 2014

I recently developed a more human framework for early-stage startups to define their startup DNA and lay some foundations for a sustainable business. Equally there are others that launch a poor early version of their product in true lean startup style. By focusing on the ‘why?’ However if it’s not ‘minimum lovable’, don’t release it.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 14, 2015

Instead of taking one big swing with the launch of a new product—devoting months to the design of one technical feature or spending years in stealth mode developing a product without evidence that customers want it—it is an iterative approach to learn who the customer actually is, and what’s honestly required to delight them.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 6, 2015

Mari is now building a new venture in human-machine interaction within the Samsung accelerator, currently in stealth mode. Access to the corporate investor’s ecosystem can open up great opportunities from technology validation to customer and partner development. Mari has been a serial intrapreneur for a large part of her career.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 2, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, July 2, 2009 How to conduct a Five Whys root cause analysis In the lean startup workshops , we’ve spent a lot of time discussing the technique of Five Whys. My intention is to describe a full working process, similar to what I’ve seen at IMVU and other lean startups.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 22, 2012

Passing equity around before you’ve done anything is like budgeting your lottery winnings before you’ve even bought the ticket – at this point it’s nothing more than unicorns and rainbows as my developer would say. of an idea is 100% of nothing. But like so many of us, I too was a busy and very important entrepreneur.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 17, 2023

Generative AI is already being used in developer workflows. At GDC, the Games Developer Conference, in San Francisco next week, generative AI is sure to be one of the hot topics. In the meanwhile, AI is here not to replace game developers, but to be a helper, writer, tutor, debugger, sketch artist, etc. Will it work?

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

A Lean Startup methodology offers entrepreneurs a framework to focus on what’s important: Business Model Discovery. Teams use the Lean Startup toolkit: the Business Model Canvas + Customer Development process + Agile Engineering. Filed under: Customer Development , Customer Development Manifesto , Lean LaunchPad , Teaching.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 28, 2009

Just to rank how difficult it was to protect a B-52 in a dense defensive radar environment, our current B-2 stealth bomber has a radar signature of about an aluminum marble, while the B-52 designed in 1950 has the radar signature of a 170-foot sphere. It was like trying to fly a whale through a fish tank and not get noticed. Reply Ben C. ,

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 3, 2009

Stanford’s research on the earth’s ionosphere would lead to meteor-burst communication systems and Over the Horizon Radar used by the NSA and CIA to detect Soviet and Chinese missile tests and ultimately to the research that made Stealth technologies possible. military had to develop new ways to collect intelligence.

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onstartups.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

23 Tweetable Insights From "The Lean Startup" (5 days ago). Stealth Mode, Schmealth Mode: The Real Reasons Why Startups Dont Talk. But, this is rarely because they are in so-called “stealth” mode, and have some big secret to global domination that they can’t tell you. Follow @dharmesh. Subscribe to Updates.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 21, 2010

Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. Are there benefits for a startup to work in “stealth&# mode? 3 Rules for Building Features in a Lean Startup – [link]. Essential Guidelines for Featured Content in Web Design – [link].

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Steve Blank

JULY 23, 2009

Hundreds of thousands of people worked on developing strategic weapons, bombers, our ICBM and SLBM missile programs, and the Apollo moon program. to build sensors, stealth and smart weapons previously thought impossible or impractical, would give us a major military advantage. During the cold war, the U.S. government kept up the pace.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 30, 2009

Build the product in stealth mode to build buzz for the eventual launch. Stealth is a customer-free zone. Without conscious process design, product development teams turn lines of code written into momentum in a certain direction. This is why agility is such a prized quality in product development. We can skip the chasm.

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Seeing Both Sides

JANUARY 12, 2016

When we started Flybridge over thirteen years ago, we developed a firm mission statement that we would treat early stage founders as our valued customers and have lived by this mission throughout our history. As a former entrepreneur, I have always viewed venture capital as a service business.

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Up and Running

JULY 14, 2015

See if you can start developing at that kind of thing. Peter: You’re going to develop, develop, develop and if you don’t get kicked out of the the accelerator, you will get funding of some sort. Peter: Or all the business but not the development knowledge let’s say. Take your idea there.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

10 Things I, As A Developer, Wished More Entrepreneurs Knew – [link]. Stealth mode” and other f’ing brilliant strategies – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. lean Democrat – [link]. Literally – [link].

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mashable.com

JUNE 11, 2013

How many entrepreneurs opening words are about how stealth their project is, followed by a 10-page NDA to hear word one? In Running Lean , Ash Maurya says that you know when you have spoken to enough customers when you can start to predict what they will say. Guarding The "Big Idea". I was totally guilty of this back in the day.

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