Feld Thoughts

MARCH 11, 2010

I’ve become a big advocate of true Agile development (partly because of my experience with Rally Software – the leader in Agile software development environments) and – more recently – the notion of trying to get to continuous deployment which has been popularized by Eric Ries. Tags: Entrepreneurship hackathon.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 31, 2009

After 20 years of working in startups, I decided to take a step back and look at the product development model I had been following and see why it usually failed to provide useful guidance in activities outside the building – sales, marketing and business development. So what’s wrong the product development model?

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Steve Blank

APRIL 10, 2009

Customer Development ) to help you quickly recognize and reverse any incorrect decisions. That’s why startups are agile. Startups that are agile have mastered one other trick – and that’s Tempo – the ability to make quick decisions consistently over extended periods of time. Good Enough Decision Making [.]

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Steve Blank

APRIL 12, 2010

Whether they’re using a formal process to search for a business model like Customer Development or just trial and error, startup founders are intuitively goal-seeking to optimize their business model. The Customer Development model that I write and teach about is the entrepreneur’s version of Boyds’ OODA loop.).

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Steve Blank

MAY 17, 2010

Business models allow agile and opportunistic founders to keep score of the Pivots in their search for a repeatable business model. Filed under: Customer Development Manifesto , Durant versus Sloan: Startups Verus Companies , Teaching. Instead of business plans I have suggested that startups use business models.

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OnlyOnce

JULY 30, 2010

Agile Marketing, Part II. I wrote about this years ago when I was temporarily running Marketing and was noting a lot of the similarities between running contemporary Product Development and Marketing efforts. Tags: Business Marketing Technology agile marketing marketing product development.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MAY 31, 2010

What if a huge company with a hundred software developers and a million dollars in marketing budget decides to copy my idea? At Smart Bear we make a peer review tool for software programmers; you don't have to be a geek to know that any software development tool company shares the following fear: "What if Microsoft copies us?"

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Steve Blank

JUNE 11, 2009

Agile – you may find the real opportunities for your company was somewhere else. However, you will be dealing with almost daily change, (new customer feedback/insights from a Customer Development process and technical roadblocks ,) as the company searches for a repeatable and scalable business model. How quickly will you recover?

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

In fact, many startups fail to launch a product because they get bogged down with software development and either run out of money, or are left behind by their competitors. real feedback from users is critical to software development. shorter software development cycles are more fun and create more energy.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 23, 2010

At times I’ll do what I consider an extension of teaching; a two-day Customer Discovery/Validation intensive session with a large corporation serious about Customer Development at my ranch on the California Coast. Customer Development Without Agile Engineering Is A Plan For Failure. Solution : Get engineering buy-in by.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

Finally, I’ll write about how Eric Ries and the Lean Startup concept provided the equivalent model for product development activities inside the building and neatly integrates customer and agile development. Part 4 of the Customer Development Manifesto to follow.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

APRIL 5, 2010

Now by all of the usual arguments for Lean, Agile, and minimimalism, I should have used boogers too: Boogers were already semi-standardized. Some developers wrote in asking how I was able to render it so efficiently. Tags: Essays design fun metrics persona philosophy productivity. And yet, everyone loved the mini-viewer.

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bijoor.me

MARCH 26, 2014

Agile Development. 3: PaaS Users : Professional Developers. Business Process Management PaaS (bpmPaaS), Model-Driven aPaaS : higher level domain-specific languages (DSLs) runtimes as a service enabling Model-Driven Development (MDD) Examples : Effekit , Mendix App Platform. 5: App Services Users : Citizen Developers.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 4, 2008

Boyd emphasized the importance of agility in combat: "the key to victory is to be able to create situations wherein one can make appropriate decisions more quickly than ones opponent." Agile software development. Agile allows companies to build higher quality software faster. Customer development.

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TechEmpower

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Enhancing Front-End Product Search We also developed a front-end search tool that revolutionized the way users search for products. Assuming you do decide to improve the Proof of Concept, then typically you iterate using an agile process. Through this iterative process, you'll be able to address quality issues and optimize results.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 3, 2010

And, if you are a software developer using Lean or Agile methodologies, take a look at Rally and AgileZen. As a software developer, Nate had experience using other project management tools, but none of them seemed to work well for the small teams that he worked on. Why did you start AgileZen ?

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Steve Blank

MARCH 29, 2010

At first we thought of adopting his template for the class, but found that an even more simplified version of a canonical business model that Ann developed worked better. For example, when we taught the value of getting out of the building and agile development, we had Eric Ries talk about the Lean Startup. Teaching Assistants.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

For most of us, though, sales skills need to be developed. Agile Selling by Jill Konrath. Allow them to listen in on their mentor’s sales calls and to tag along for in-person meetings and pitches. Learning from a pro in the field is one of the fastest ways to help develop a rookie’s technique.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 25, 2010

How Does Customer Development, Agile Development and Lean Startups Fit? The Customer Development process is the way startups quickly iterate and test each element of their business model. Agile Development is the way startups quickly iterate their product as they learn. Tags: Durant versus Sloan.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

I know that this all seems obvious now with the movements started by Steven Blank ( Four Steps of Epiphany ) with the whole Customer Development processes / Lean Startup movements also popularized by people like Eric Ries. I used to always tell my development team, “you need to design a product that my dad could use.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

This startup search process is the business model / customer development / agile development solution stack. Business Model Design meets Customer Development. the Lean Launchpad, the first hands-on class utilizing the entire business model/customer development / agile development stack. See you there.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 12, 2010

A long time ago was a developer and we did everything as per the waterfall method. Over time at my first startup our developers encouraged us to move to Agile development. So when I read my post it sounded to me more like a new philosophy for “The Agile Board,&# so I put that as my subtitle. I liked that.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

In previous posts I’ve talked about what the combination of Business Model Design, Customer Development and Agile Methodologies mean to startups and intrapreneurs in large companies; it’s the beginning of entrepreneurship as a science with its own rules and methodologies. Teaching In the Big Apple.

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Steve Blank

MAY 6, 2010

When I wrote the Four Steps to the Epiphany and invented the Customer Development process, my goal was to simply explain to myself what was broken in building a startup and propose an alternative path. This business model iteration loop – the Pivot is what makes startups agile and opportunistic. Filed under: Customer Development.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 25, 2009

They couldn’t keep up with the fast product development times that were enabled by using standard microprocessors. The answer depends on your answer to two questions: which step in the Customer Development process are you on? Customer Development and Selling Strategy If you’ve just started your company you are in customer discovery.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 5, 2010

I think you can blame Customer and Agile Development for a small part of it. Bayh-Dole allowed for private ownership of government funded intellectual property developed in universities while the Orphan Drug Act created incentives for developing drugs for disorders afflicting fewer than 200,000 Americans. Here’s why.

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www.readwriteweb.com

MARCH 7, 2011

Past failures of enterprise technology to live up to its promises and ITs lack of agility caused by legacy technology have decreased the influence of the CIO, explained R "Ray" Wang in a piece for Forbes last year. The global recession, the consumerization of IT, the great cloud migration and other factors are changing the role of the CIO.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 29, 2010

I’ve been teaching Customer Development at U.C. Berkeley was brave enough to let me write and teach a class on a subject that no one had ever heard of – Customer Development. Customer Development was a process to quickly search for a profitable business model when customer needs (features, pricing, channel, etc.) Four Steps.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 27, 2009

So I started to read all I could find on the development of microwaves. A Stanford professor was at Harvard in World War II because the head of the Office of Scientific Research and Development thought Terman was the best radio engineer in the country. And in hindsight, we seemed a bit more agile and innovative in WWII.)

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

We might have medium-term goals like “adopting agile methodologies” or “getting everyone on the same page with a project kick-off” as the outcomes for the reader. For example, the Jira Software team created a microsite dedicated to product-agnostic education about becoming an agile team. Distribution framework.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 6, 2010

Increase change agility. Change agility represents a startup’s ability to immediately and effectively engage everyone in pending changes and innovations. For starters, the whole team needs to be constantly trained and encouraged to develop their skills. Tags: startup business. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 27, 2010

For the business leaders I know, these priorities almost always include the following: Business agility. Implicit in agility is increased productivity on change initiatives. Tags: entrepreneur startup millennials communication business. Data security. Marty Zwilling.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 14, 2010

Rally has re-released the product (previous a $15 download) as a free product called Rally for the iPhone that tightly integrates with the Rally SaaS-based Agile software lifecycle environment. Tags: My Investments acquisition agile iphone rally.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 9, 2009

But what I wanted was an agile marketing team capable of operating independently without day-to-day direction. Reply steveblank , on October 10, 2009 at 10:59 am Said: Sales material developed by marketers who have never left the building is more often that not completely useless.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

This post describes a solution – the Customer Development Model. In future posts I’ll describe how Eric Ries and the Lean Startup concept provide the equivalent model for product development activities inside the building and neatly integrates customer and agile development. This post describes such a model.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 4, 2010

They used Customer and Agile development to search for a scalable and repeatable business model to become a large company. Customer and Agile development to find the business model. Posted in Customer Development, Durant versus Sloan, Technology, Venture Capital. It reduced risk while allowing them to aim high.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 4, 2017

There are the tangible benefits of leads, but there are the intangible benefits of developing as an industry thought leader and proving your knowledge, making it easier to build partnerships, find customers, and build out other channels (such as sales). Business Development & Partnerships. Image Source. Hacking Sales. Image Source.

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