Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 7, 2008

In a startup, both the problem and solution are unknown, and the key to success is building an integrated team that includes product development in the feedback loop with customers. 2008 09 06 Eric Ries Haas Columbia Customer Development Engineering View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. Talk about waste.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Will it kill these SV types to admit building HTML front-ends to open source products? There was something very right about Zed Shaw’s rant regarding open source licenses. At least Pidgin folks openly say “we are GTK+ front-end to libpurple&#. link] Jim Great article Seth.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Compressing the Product Development Cycle. In the past, the time to build a first product release was measured in months or even years as startups executed the founder’s vision of what customers wanted. A hardware startup had to spend money building prototypes and equipping a factory to manufacture the product.

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Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

The second thing that’s changed is that we’re now Compressing the Product Development Cycle. In the 20 th century startups I was part of, the time to build a first product release was measured in years as we turned out the founder’s vision of what customers wanted. China has simply become the factory.

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