Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

Finally, I’ll write about 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. on Cafepress, but is now literally priceless since the copyright owner put it on his blog.) Absolutely priceless.

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AUGUST 24, 2009

My blog has over 14000 subscribers, for example. And how could they possibly review a blog? It’s time for us to start thinking of every piece of content – books, blogs, albums, TV shows, movies, everything – as a new little startup. Is that a lot? They can’t even consider 99% of published books already.

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Where to Play

MARCH 14, 2018

In the following blog, Co-founder and CEO Saar Yoskovitz describes how they chose their first market opportunity, with the help of a newly designed business tool. As we looked closer at the market, many verticals were underserved by the existing solutions that were expensive and complicated to use.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 29, 2009

Agile Opportunism – Entrepreneurial DNA « Steve Blank (tags: startup) [.] Reply SVJ , on June 30, 2009 at 3:21 am Said: Hi Steve: I have become a recent regular reader of your blog. Agile Opportunism – Entrepreneurial DNA. You’re Hired, You’re Fired. Thoroughly enjoy each one of your posts. Reply Create.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 27, 2009

And in hindsight, we seemed a bit more agile and innovative in WWII.) Yet decades later the military lacked the agility to write a spec in two years, let alone get 10′s of thousands of new systems deployed on aircraft as Terman had done. Blog at WordPress.com. How was this possible? Reply Benjamin A.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 9, 2009

But what I wanted was an agile marketing team capable of operating independently without day-to-day direction. on April 10, 2009 at 6:58 am Said: Amazing blog. Reply Process for the Enterprise » Blog Archive » People, Staffing, and Steve Blank’s SuperMac Series , on April 17, 2009 at 11:40 am Said: [.]

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Steve Blank

MAY 22, 2009

Everyone should be articulate and agile in describing and demoing the products.) Blog at WordPress.com. For bigger booths a good rule of thumb is to have two to four staffers for every 100 square feet of exhibit space. Even for the smallest trade show, no one shows up without booth training. Messages, themes, demo’s.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 30, 2009

Hopefully you and your co-founders are experts in one or two parts (agile development, SEO/SEM, etc.) Blog at WordPress.com. Initially your job is to understand each of the parts of your business model before you hire someone to do it. so at least some parts are being run by people who know what they are doing.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 25, 2009

Blog at WordPress.com. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

Finally, I’ll write about 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. Doesn’t it depend on vertical market.? Blog at WordPress.com. Freemium models have their own scorekeeping.)

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Steve Blank

APRIL 6, 2009

Forty years before Agile Development methodologies became popular, ESL had analysts from its &# customer&# sitting side-by-side with ESL engineers designing new equipment together. Blog at WordPress.com. These would be the heart of ESL’s business. A-12 OXCART CIA Spyplane ESL found other ways to stay very close to its customers.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 17, 2018

Curved lines are visibly flexible and can communicate agility and reactivity. Horizontal vs Vertical vs Diagonal Lines. Unlike vertical or diagonal lines, they look as though gravity has already acted upon them and there is nowhere for them to fall. Vertical lines run perpendicular to the horizon.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

In future posts I’ll describe how Eric Ries and the Lean Startup concept provide the equivalent model for product development activities inside the building and neatly integrates customer and agile development. Blog at WordPress.com. A few successful ones do all these things. Thank you, Steve. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer.

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Steve Blank

JULY 1, 2009

Filed under: Secret History of Silicon Valley « Agile Opportunism – Entrepreneurial DNA Rocket Science 2: Drinking the Kool-Aid » 2 Responses Ben , on July 1, 2009 at 2:31 pm Said: Great post Steve. Blog at WordPress.com. It’s interesting that the NY Times obituary makes no mention of Ted Hall.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 17, 2018

Curved lines are visibly flexible and can communicate agility and reactivity. Horizontal vs Vertical vs Diagonal Lines. Unlike vertical or diagonal lines, they look as though gravity has already acted upon them and there is nowhere for them to fall. Vertical lines run perpendicular to the horizon.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 22, 2009

The original Hewlett Packard which made test and measurement products was spun-out and renamed Agilent. Agilent is a $5.8 Technology changes, culture changes, customer needs change, more agile competitors emerge, etc. Blog at WordPress.com. The remaining company kept the Hewlett Packard name and focussed on computers.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

They will realize that you have built a startup that’s agile, resilient and customer-centric. Your blog is on my must read list in Google Reader, and it’s always a great read. Good to see someone with authority advocating an approach to building startups that we at Agile Entrepreneurs focus on, week after week.

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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. Blog at WordPress.com. shoes in order to deduce possible competitors’ moves and anticipate customer needs.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 5, 2009

In other words, a principled way to combine agility with stability. In other words, you can always invest in process, batch size reduction, and agility as an alternative to preventing a specific problem. Regular readers of this blog will know the specific methodology I recommend, called Five Whys.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 2, 2009

I teach teams various Agile techniques, and occasionally get told some particular trick is cheating. Blog at WordPress.com. One might omit, for example, “less important&# tests where one hadn’t performed as well, without crossing an ethical boundary. Reply William Pietri , on April 2, 2009 at 3:56 pm Said: Well put.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Sans-serif fonts evoke an informality that works well for blogs, personal websites, and casual business cultures. Curved lines are visibly flexible and can communicate agility and reactivity. Horizontal vs vertical vs diagonal lines. Vertical lines run perpendicular to the horizon. Vertical lines draw the eye upward.

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Steve Blank

MAY 15, 2009

When my startup starts growing, I’ll make this blog post a mandatory reading for everyone in the company. The Curse of a New Building At some point in my career as I began to ponder how/why startups morph from agile, “can do&# companies to [.] [.] Blog at WordPress.com. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 12, 2009

After these slides, these VC’s recognized that this company had dramatically reduced risk and built a startup that was agile, resilient and customer-centric. This is my new favorite post on your blog. Reply Customer Development, GeekStack Style : GeekStack Blog , on November 25, 2009 at 9:15 am Said: [.]

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

For those of you who have been following the discussion, a Lean Startup is Eric Ries ’s description of the intersection of Customer Development , Agile Development and if available, open platforms and open source. Blog at WordPress.com. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 17, 2019

At the time, I had a blog that became popular about traveling around the world and living in this orphanage out in Africa. And if you had a blog back in 2005 2006 you probably were blogging on blogger.com on Blogspot. Why don’t you start tweeting, you know about the same kind of stuff you’ve been blogging about.”

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Steve Blank

APRIL 20, 2009

Another piece of trivial: the road that is the side-entrance (during business hours) to Agilent Corporation HQ in Santa Clara is named “Terman Lane&# after Terman. Agilent, of course, was once Hewlett-Packard’s Test & Measurement, Chemical, Components and Medical organizations. Blog at WordPress.com. to do that.

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Steve Blank

MAY 13, 2009

Reply Agile Opportunism – Entrepreneurial DNA « Steve Blank , on June 29, 2009 at 7:02 am Said: [.] Reply Agile Opportunism – Entrepreneurial DNA « Steve Blank , on June 29, 2009 at 7:02 am Said: [.] Blog at WordPress.com. entire story can be found at Steve Blank.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

Here, the idea isn’t just about starting a blog, Facebook page or Twitter account nor spamming everybody in our network. A long time follower of Mitch’s podcast Six Pixels of Separation, I have blogged about his first book with the same title a couple of years ago. We now work in multiple spaces anywhere, anytime.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 28, 2009

Now his son is reading your blog about creating a startup. Reply dispatches from TJICistan » Blog Archive » a secret history , on April 27, 2009 at 7:25 am Said: [.] Reply Agile Opportunism – Entrepreneurial DNA « Steve Blank , on June 29, 2009 at 7:02 am Said: [.] Blog at WordPress.com.

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Steve Blank

MAY 18, 2009

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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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 4, 2009

For example, Friendster was famously vertically partitioned at one time in its growth curve. I normally recommend you just store this directory on your master database, but you could use a standalone vertical shard (or even a key-based partition!) This type of vertical partitioning sharding scheme wont work in most cases.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 13, 2010

Web design conferences: just expensive blog posts? Why Startups are Agile and Opportunistic – Pivoting the Business Model – [link]. Good question: Where are the ‘vertical’ social media specialists? Web design conferences: just expensive blog posts? The Ten Commandments Of User Experience – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 13, 2010

Web design conferences: just expensive blog posts? Why Startups are Agile and Opportunistic – Pivoting the Business Model – [link]. Good question: Where are the ‘vertical’ social media specialists? Web design conferences: just expensive blog posts? The Ten Commandments Of User Experience – [link].

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Steve Blank

APRIL 7, 2009

You don’t get grades for having resiliency, curiosity, agility, resourcefulness, pattern recognition and tenacity. Blogged the exact quote when it was published in Feb. Blog at WordPress.com. There’s a big difference between being an employee at a great technology company and having the guts to start one. Steve Blank [.]

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 10, 2009

Rapid Scan/High Probability of Intercept – Stanford’s contribution In the last post we described Stanford’s high power, electronically tuned microwave tubes (the Backward Wave Oscillator ) which made high power, frequency agile airborne jammers possible. Blog at WordPress.com. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 6, 2009

Air Force also needed improvements in frequency agility to protect its cold war bombers. Frequency agility can be best described by what happened over Germany in WWII. Blog at WordPress.com. B-47 - primary Strategic Air Command Bomber in the 1950's As a result, to protect its bombers flying over the Soviet Union the U.S.

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Steve Blank

MAY 4, 2009

Their own internal culture would tie them up in knots, and agile startups could run rings around them. Build a company culture where everyone supports the “sharp end of the stick.” Stay agile, stay focused. Get a blog at WordPress.com Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. Don’t let this happen to your company.

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