Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 7, 2016

Kelly McAdoo is the City Manager & CEO of the City of Hayward in Alameda County, California. series that also includes the Future of Work , the Future of Corporate Agility, Skill-Sharing, and more in the weeks leading up to Lean Startup Week. This interview is part of a “Future of….” What were the biggest stumbling blocks?

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Steve Blank

MAY 15, 2009

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 [.] [.] I think there’s a size and scale where regardless of your intentions lean and agile won’t work (looking like a grandmother in a miniskirt.)

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 12, 2009

I grabbed one of each piece of literature, stuffed into my bag, and wandered through the exhibit hall looking at other hardware and petroleum software companies. Since their computers were way too large to bring to a trade show, the Cray booth just had literature describing their machines. Gracias for another great read Steve!

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Steve Blank

JUNE 25, 2009

Business customers were starting to ask for “office automation solutions” – word processing, spreadsheets, graphing software on a desktop. Reply Sean Murphy , on June 25, 2009 at 10:23 am Said: @Prakash: at least for software there is an implicit relationship established. I’ve been in the exact same situation.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

They attended property management association meetings in Oregon outside of the technology echo chamber of California to get a sense for people’s daily problems. I know that their are independent software companies now focused on this like UserVoice and Get Satisfaction. What changed for us was Tim Barker arrived.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

signup, upgrade, trial pricing Zuora – online subscription management FeeFighters – find the cheapest credit card processors HealPay – Collections made easy Customer Support Tender – support, knowledgebase tool for your site GetSatisfaction - conversations between companies / customers.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Five Reasons You Haven’t Launched - Software By Rob , November 10, 2010 Photo by stevendepolo. It’s Easy to Be Great…It’s Hard to Be Consistent - Software By Rob , November 4, 2010 No link from TechCrunch, write-up on Mashable, mention by Leo Laporte, or Tweet by Ashton Kucher is going to make your business. This post is an accusation.

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Agile VC

JUNE 30, 2016

All of the following systems involve software / hardware to inform drivers or physically take action on a car’s throttle, brake, or steering systems. Subsequent challenges in 2005 and 2007 had better results, and the 2007 event was the first actually staged on roads… albeit an abandoned military base in California.

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Steve Blank

MAY 22, 2009

If you’re in markets that still exhibit at them (semiconductors, communications, enterprise software, etc.,) Everyone should be articulate and agile in describing and demoing the products.) this may be a useful read. For bigger booths a good rule of thumb is to have two to four staffers for every 100 square feet of exhibit space.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2018

All the teams used the Mission Model Canvas , Customer Development and Agile Engineering to build Minimal Viable Products, but all of their journeys were unique. Each of the six teams presented a 2-minute video to provide context about their problem and then gave an 8-minute presentation of their Lessons Learned over the 10-weeks.

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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. For example, if you are selling enterprise software, getting 3-5 early customers may be enough in Customer Validation.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2017

In the 10 weeks the students have, Hacking for Defense hardware and software prototypes don’t advance beyond a Technology Readiness Level 4 and remain outside the scope of US export control regulations and restrictions on foreign national participation. Each of their slide presentation follow their customer discovery journey.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 22, 2020

She has been an advocate for a more responsive, a more resilient, more agile government. My parents and my brother live in Southern California. Raylene Yung : Yeah, a couple of weeks ago, the city of Concord, California reached out with a request of, how do we help get volunteer help to get food to senior citizens who are home-bound?

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 18, 2010

Andrew read the Four Steps to the Epiphany , tracked me down at California Coastal Commission hearing in Santa Barbara, and had me meeting with him in a stairwell during a break in my day-long meeting. Customer Development is like being Agile. One of the attributes of great entrepreneurs is that they are tenacious and relentless.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2009

How does product development differ in communications hardware versus enterprise software, etc. Waterfall, Agile, Lean? For example, How does sales differ from one market to another? Is marketing different if you’re in the cleantech business versus medical devices? Intellectual Property/Patents – Strategic or Tactical, timing?

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

Truth be told, we've got defense contractors here just like California does too. Thirdly, revamp how intellectual property rights are applied to software and code. So should copyrights and patents on software code. There are and we do. Recommended reading: [link] [link] September 9, 2009 9:21 PM Anonymoussaid. Expo SF (May.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

They also chat about recent changes at Zappos, and the CFO of Palo Alto Software Trevor Betenson talks about human resources and conflict resolution. Atlassian: How to Build a Kick-Ass Agile Team. Peter: I’m feeling agile, I’m feeling lean, nice and spry. Atlassian: A Brief Introduction to Kanban . Jonathan: Okay.

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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. For example: Excel sheet => Desktop Software (bringing process automation) => SaaS (bringing the service layer).

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Steve Blank

APRIL 15, 2009

with the auto bailout. (I will admit that taking a concept such as “open source” from the software business and applying it to the auto industry and Washington D.C. The reality is that independent electric vehicle startups will win over time (closer to the customer, more agile, etc.) But they’re smart, let’s see what happens.)

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 11, 2008

Just to pick one: will software patents, NDAs and trade secrets laws make it harder for people to share knowledge outside of big companies? Stevey's Blog Rants: Good Agile, Bad Agile Learning from Obama: maneuver warfare on the campa. Expo SF (May. Conference streaming, sponsors, discounted tickets.

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