Agile Burn Rate Engineer Lean 
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. Over its lifetime a Lean Startup may spend less money than a traditional startup.
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. This post describes a solution – the Customer Development Model. Thank you, Steve.
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Up and Running
OCTOBER 1, 2014
Nelson has some tips: Know your burn rate. If not, be agile enough to change direction and re-focus,” Nelson advises. Nelson says, “If you have an interest in fields that are traditionally less female saturated like engineering, don’t be afraid to pursue them. How do you balance it all? Look inward.
Steve Blank
MAY 15, 2009
Signs of Success One of the things you do right in a startup, is you move from one cheap and cramped building to another as you grow, with desks, cubicles and engineers piled cheek to jowl. Engineers were packed in cubicles or desks right on top of each other? Now every engineer can have their own office.
Startup Lessons Learned
MARCH 27, 2009
In lean times, it’s most important to focus on cutting costs in ways that speed you up, not slow you down. To increase the number of iterations you have left, you can either increase cash on hand (by raising money or increasing revenues), reduce burn rate, or increase the speed of each iteration. Work in small batches.
Steve Blank
APRIL 20, 2009
By the late 1930′s when HP started, a small group (measured in hundreds) of engineers who made radio tubes were building the valleys’ ecosystem for electronics manufacturing, product engineering and technology management. And these microwave engineers were working at startups – not large companies.
Startup Lessons Learned
MARCH 13, 2009
And even worse, wed cranked up the burn rate in order to be ready to handle all those millions of mainstream customers we anticipated. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? When they failed to materialize, the company was in big trouble.
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