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Agile Opportunism – Entrepreneurial DNA « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

I packed up my life in Michigan and spent five days driving to California to start work. &# (please don’t fire me, I just moved out of my house for the first time, signed a lease, and have no idea what I’m doing) Reply links for 2009-06-29 « Blarney Fellow , on June 29, 2009 at 6:06 pm Said: [.] Reply Create.

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Reinventing the Board Meeting – Part 2 of 2 – Virtual Valley Ventures

Steve Blank

A revolution has taken hold as customer development and agile engineering reinvent the Startup process. We propose that early stage startups communicate in a way that didn’t exist in the 20 th century – online – collaboratively through blogs. They would: Blog their Customer Development progress as a narrative.

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The Story Behind the Secret History Part II. Getting B-52s through.

Steve Blank

After been stationed at three fighter bases in Thailand ( Ubon , Udorn and Korat ) and working on Electronic Warfare suites on F-4’s, A-7’s, F-105’s and AC-130’s, I got orders to report to a Strategic Air Command (SAC) B-52 bomber base in Alpena Michigan. Now his son is reading your blog about creating a startup. Blog at WordPress.com.

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Founders and dysfunctional families « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

We agreed that all her founding CEOs seemed to have the same set of personality traits – tenacious, passionate, relentless, resilient, agile, and comfortable operating in chaos. I coach agile teams for a living, and I do most of my work with start-ups. Blog at WordPress.com. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer.

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The Lean LaunchPad Online

Steve Blank

Eric’s insight was that traditional product management and Waterfall development should be replaced by Agile Development. So business model design + customer and agile development is the process that startups use to search for a business model. Having Eric in the class was the best investment I ever made.

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Innovation, Change and the Rest of Your Life

Steve Blank

I lived through the time when working in my first job in Ann Arbor Michigan we had to get out a map to find out that San Jose was not only in Puerto Rico but there was a city with that same name in California. and there were no books, blogs or YouTube videos about entrepreneurship. 39 years ago I got on that plane and never went back.

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