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Tesla and Adobe: Why Continuous Deployment May Mean Continuous Customer Disappointment

Steve Blank

In the last few years Agile and “Continuous Deployment” has replaced Waterfall and transformed how companies big and small build products. Agile is a tremendous advance in reducing time, money and wasted product development effort – and in having products better match customer needs.

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A new field guide for entrepreneurs of all stripes

Startup Lessons Learned

TLDR: Brant Cooper and Patrick Vlaskovits , authors of The Entrepreneur's Guide to Customer Development are back with a new book called The Lean Entrepreneur. It took the idea of Customer Development and made it accessible to a whole new audience. Copyright © 2012 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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The Lean Entrepreneur is here

Startup Lessons Learned

After the 2012 conference I viewed it as an opportunity to reflect on the growth and evolution of the movement as a whole. 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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