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Clayton Christensen

Steve Blank

I remember the first time I read the Innovator’s Dilemma in 1997. Customer Development became one of the three parts of the Lean Startup as Eric Ries and Alexander Osterwalder provided the other two components (Agile Engineering and the business model canvas.) I never got to say thank you. Eye Opening.

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The Valley Lacks Flexibility, Not Talent

ReadWriteStart

Guest author Chris Heilmann has been a professional Web developer since 1997 and has worked in various agencies and corporations on large, international products. First of all the cases where the integration of the new small agile and innovative company into a large corporate worked are few and far between.

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A Conversation With John Bradberry, Author Of 6 Secrets To Startup Success (Part III)

YoungUpstarts

Since 1997, he has led an independent consulting practice focused on helping businesses of all sizes elevate performance and achieve healthy growth. In the startup phase, there is this healthy tension between the need to make things happen and the need for agility.

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Tacking Towards Founder

Agile VC

Joining Microsoft in 1987 or Yahoo in 1997 or Google in 2005 or Facebook today still gives someone new to the professional world a lot of the exposure to the “startup” world. It’s also far and away the most fertile ground for meeting future co-founders. The next best thing would be to join a recently public (e.g.

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What is Wrong With Today's CMS

www.readwriteweb.com

I started using my first content management system around 1997, when things were crude and clumsy. Part of the challenge for today's CMS is that it sits squarely across several different markets, all of which are clamoring more for our attention: blogging, social media, Web services and rapid/agile development.