Steve Blank
NOVEMBER 12, 2019
In the middle of the Vietnam War, student riots protesting military research forced the end of classified work on most college campuses. Within a decade, the rise of venture capital in Silicon Valley enabled startups to find commercial customers rather than military ones. Some of the speed is simply due to development methodologies.
YoungUpstarts
JUNE 27, 2020
Everything from customer service, technical support, to back office operations are able to be outsourced as a way to reduce costs, keep up with the evolving consumer expectations, and drive a faster return on investment.
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YoungUpstarts
NOVEMBER 27, 2014
Unleashing creative thinking helps drive businesses forward, improve customer value propositions and identify new opportunities that deliver on the needs of our ever changing customers. Be agile and adapt to changing market needs – your customer’s needs are not static and they will continue to evolve.
Steve Blank
MAY 23, 2016
Yet everyone – investors, entrepreneurs, academics — expected new startups to follow the same practices that worked for large companies – write a business plan, forecast 5-year sales projections and build the product without ever talking to customers. When I was 18 I served in the Air Force during the Vietnam War.
Steve Blank
JUNE 18, 2020
If negotiations fail, China may respond and escalate, via one of many agile strategic responses short of war, perhaps succeeding in coercing the foundry to stop making chips for American companies – turning the tables on the United States. As the cost of Chinese labor increased, other countries like Vietnam could fill that role.
Steve Blank
APRIL 27, 2009
I began to realize a few things: First, everything we had done in electronic warfare in the Vietnam War was just a slightly more modern version of what we had done over occupied Europe in World War II. (And And in hindsight, we seemed a bit more agile and innovative in WWII.) Play spooky music here. How was this possible?
Steve Blank
AUGUST 1, 2016
college campuses circa the Vietnam War (and the riots and student protests at Stanford ). Fourth , would the same Lean Startup methodology (business model design, customer development and agile engineering) used in the Lean LaunchPad and NSF I-Corps class work here? Result: Hell yes. 15 more schools are in the pipeline.
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