Steve Blank

JANUARY 28, 2020

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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Steve Blank

JANUARY 21, 2013

Jim has founded six companies, including Preview Travel, one of the first online travel agencies, which went public in 1997 and subsequently merged to create Travelocity.com as an independent company. Align and train mentors to embrace customer development. Today he is the co-founder and Chairman of Triporati, LaunchPad Central.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 29, 2016

She came to the GSA as a Presidential Innovation Fellow in 2013, where she worked on the development of MyUSA.gov. Hillary has been working to make government more accessible and available online for nearly two decades, starting as a web designer for Arkansas.gov in 1997. Filed under: Customer Development , SiriusXM Radio Show.

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