1999 Customer Development Hiring Management 
Steve Blank
APRIL 11, 2013
In the last decade Torch managed to break free of China’s state central planning bureaucracies. They provide consulting, promotion, product testing, hiring, training and incubation services to startups. Set up in 1999, Innofund offers grants ($150 – $250K), loan interest subsidies and equity investment.
Steve Blank
APRIL 11, 2013
In the last decade Torch managed to break free of China’s state central planning bureaucracies. They provide consulting, promotion, product testing, hiring, training and incubation services to startups. Set up in 1999, Innofund offers grants ($150 – $250K), loan interest subsidies and equity investment.
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Steve Blank
JUNE 29, 2009
You’re Hired, You’re Fired. My first job in Silicon Valley: I was hired as a lab technician at ESL to support the training department. I was met by a very apologetic manager who said, “We’ve been trying to get a hold of you for the last week. Could I work here if he wanted to hire me?&#
Steve Blank
SEPTEMBER 10, 2009
In future posts I’ll describe 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. Other companies in the 1999 PDA market were Palm, the original innovator, as well Microsoft and Hewlett Packard.
Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 7, 2010
My first company launched in 1999 and we were offering a SaaS document management in the cloud (we were called ASPs back then). I didn’t have first-hand experience in document management systems other than as a user and nobody had SaaS experience – the market was too new. I’ll always point out when I am.).
Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 8, 2008
I was building a new startup in 1999, and wanted to do it right. So one of the first things we did was to hire an Oracle expert and get to work. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science?
Startup Lessons Learned
FEBRUARY 7, 2013
A few of the detailed case studies include: Tech legend Bill Gross building an MVP in 1999 to test demand for online car sales, which grew into CarsDirect.com. Struggling to explain the successes and failures of those companies, I discussed principles like continuous deployment, customer development, and a hyper-accelerated form of agile.
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