Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Since NewTV won’t be making the content, they will be licensing from and partnering with traditional entertainment producers. NewTV will depend on partners like telcos to distribute the content. Will consumers want to watch short-form mobile entertainment? Will these third parties produce something people will watch? The result?

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 18, 2010

Here’s his story of when Customer Development failed. We were lucky to learn about Customer Development early on in the life of our startup. More importantly, we’d witnessed Customer Development’s massive success at another local startup. So how did Customer Development fail us? It’s your vision damn it!

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 21, 2014

And that’s fine — embrace innovation to your heart’s content in areas like product development and marketing campaigns. But if you want your employees to be partners, you’ve got to reinforce them when they act like partners. He has been a regular panelist on television’s Forbes on FOX since the show’s inception in 2001.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 19, 2014

And that’s fine — embrace innovation to your heart’s content in areas like product development and marketing campaigns. But if you want your employees to be partners, you’ve got to reinforce them when they act like partners. He has been a regular panelist on television’s Forbes on FOX since the show’s inception in 2001.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2010

Most of what I learned about operating startups I learned from the really tough years at my first company from 2001-2003. My company had raised venture capital in April 2001 but we were told that there may never be any more coming. I learned how to better run a product management process. million, then $5.9m, $7.7m

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 14, 2014

Not too long ago, German software giant SAP blew up the management framework for its 20,000-person development department and replaced it with “mini-teams” of roughly 10 people. As a result, product development time was cut nearly in half in a three-year period. Thinking Aloud managing teams teambuilding workplace culture'

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