Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

And to today, when its major product is simply innovation. And I’ve been lucky enough to watch innovation happen not only in hardware and software but in Life Sciences – in Therapeutics, Medical Devices, Diagnostics and now Digital Health. The second thing that’s changed is that we’re now Compressing the Product Development Cycle.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 5, 2010

The CEO weighs in with his perspectives, the head of product management disputes his conclusions and the marketing VP has a different take. The sales rep that brings back news from the front line that is shared with the office adds to our collective knowledge about customer needs, product design flaws or partnership opportunities.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Wave after wave of hardware, software, biotech and cleantech products have emerged from what has become “ground zero” of entrepreneurial and startup culture. Compressing the Product Development Cycle. This meant building every possible feature the founding team envisioned into a monolithic “release” of the product.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

A finalist in Augmented and Virtual Reality , which will pitch at 3:30 pm Saturday, March 9, Tunnelware is a product of DigitalTwin Technology, founded in Cologne, Germany, which aims to create digital twins of civil infrastructure. As is increasingly the case with technology developments?—?including

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Gust

FEBRUARY 22, 2014

When people would ask a similar question back then about the difficulty of software development, my usual response was “anyone can write a TAP program over a weekend that will work with 80% of the paging systems in the world…but getting it to work on the other 20% will take you a year.”

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 18, 2011

Moshe joined Microsoft in 1991 as a product manager after a career as a software developer. He worked on his MBA at MIT’s Sloan School of Management (leaving in the middle for a job at Microsoft in Israel) and received his computer engineering degree from the Technion in Haifa, Israel.

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Transformify

MARCH 14, 2020

At the same time, the stock markets collapsed, and most businesses already report skyrocketing losses, unmet revenue targets and insufficient stock due to production slow down in China, India and the rest of the world. It’s equal access to jobs and diversity of thought that add value to the business.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

Good overview of lean software development – [link]. What dressing up vacuum cleaners as people has to do with better engineering time estimates – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template tco use today) – [link]. India is a remarkable country.

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Software By Rob

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Product naming is hard. Hey while I have you on the phone, what do you think I should call my enterprise level encryption engine?” The Approach A while back Patrick contacted a handful of Academy members and asked for opinions on potential product names. Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed.

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bijoor.me

MARCH 26, 2014

1: Software Defined Datacenter Users : Infrastructure Engineers. Software Defined Networking (SDN) : decouples and isolates virtual networks from the underlying network hardware and provides higher utilization of the hardware, more flexibility, and easier management Examples : Nicira , OpenStack Neutron. Cloud Computing.

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Scalable Startup

JANUARY 15, 2015

Work directly with engineers, no company involved. People in the Philippines or India or eastern europe are very low cost – $7-10/hour. I have been able to successfully scale three different software development service centers offshore. Also, it is not about the engineering talent only! still have hope.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 15, 2012

Tough to see why young engineers think Microsoft is cool again – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. Will India Ever Really Be America’s Partner? Achieving The Network Effect: Solving The Chicken Or The Egg – [link].

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 31, 2006

I had dinner tonight with a portfolio company CEO who has managed to shift most of his resources to India. Today the company has almost 100 employees in India, over 30 of whom have been with the company for 5+ years. All of the main architecture and design is still done in the US, but all of the development is done offshore.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 23, 2023

There's a purpose behind it, and I think if you have a great purpose that goes beyond your product or service, you'll build an everlasting sustainable community. And then when that community creates impact or products or whatever it is, it becomes a movement. The company's growing, the product proliferating. I'm an engineer.

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

is what we call the Minimum Viable Product (MVP). Dont wait 4 weeks or more while programmers are "building features" If they cant deploy new features into production at least twice a week, dont use them. Weve built Sandcastle specifically for an entrepreneur with an idea, who is not a developer.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

He , Srikanth Narayan , Ben Werdmuller von Elgg , Jo Vi Ko , Justin Lee , Giovanni Tardini , David de Weerdt , Vineet Thanedar , Ryan Brideau , Jonathan Meiri , Rob Weedn , Krzysztof Kowalczyk , Greg Pilling , Kevin Leland , Parham Michael Ossareh , Dan Loewenherz , Mary Specht , Engin Erdo?an "I am a creative guy with a startup idea."

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

In fact, the open source community can learn a lot from Microsoft in terms of backward compatibility and tools for productivity. These development platforms have contributed significantly to the popularity of the products from Apple and Microsoft. Eclipse has been emulating Visual Studio for years now. March 25, 2011 at 3:23 pm.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

Building Product 2. Product/Metrics (70%/30% time) * Get your product activation (sign-up + meaningful action) to 60% * then, Get your product retention to 20% weekly. Would it be a good idea clubbing all the other products / services under 1 venture, because some of them are totally unrelated. Then launch.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 7, 2007

But it is fraught with risks - and the primary risk you need to guard against is software development failure. The main causes are: Client fails to precisely express their requirements to the vendor; Client continuously changes their mind during the development process; A poorly constructed development contract.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

Andreessen Horowitz is telling entrepreneurs it prefers situations where the founders have controlling stakes, reckoning that theyll be better able to resist outside distraction and focus on making great products. Sometimes it makes sense to insulate entrepreneurs from pressure to make money while they build their products, Mr. Siegel said.

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