Steve Blank
NOVEMBER 12, 2019
Urgency and risk-taking in a startup are integral parts of the culture, felt by 100 percent of early-stage employees. With Agile development, used by all startups, updates can occur in weeks or sometimes days, or even hours. The very definition of a contractor implies a contract. So, the question is: What’s next?
Steve Blank
MARCH 31, 2011
Over the last decade we assumed that once we found repeatable methodologies (Agile and Customer Development , Business Model Design) to build early stage ventures, entrepreneurship would become a “science,” and anyone could do it. Founders fit the definition of a creator: they see something no one else does.
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SoCal CTO
MAY 21, 2012
What parts Agile addresses and the big problems with Agile for early-stage startups? The key for most early-stage startups is to understand the core metrics for your business, ensure you have visibility into those metrics, and then optimize the business around those metrics.
Where to Play
FEBRUARY 5, 2019
The answer is definitely dazzling, because there are numerous options. Step 3: Designing the Agile Focus Strategy. Once they felt confident with the evaluation results, Flyability’s team could then use Worksheet 3 to design their Agile Focus Strategy. Worksheet 3 – Designing your Agile Focus Strategy.
VC Cafe
AUGUST 2, 2022
think about the entrepreneurs that started in the early days of the Internet, mobile, crypto, VR and yes… now Metaverse. Given the ‘fuzzy’ period we’re in, where we still struggle with a definition of the Metaverse, it’s easy to dismiss it all as a fad.
Startup Lessons Learned
APRIL 14, 2009
In an early-stage startup especially, revenue is not an important goal in and of itself. Let’s start with a simple question: why do early-stage startups want revenue? Their product definition fluctuates wildly – one month, it’s a dessert topping, the next it’s a floor wax.
Steve Blank
JUNE 26, 2015
The first time a few brave corporate innovators tried to overlay the Lean tools and techniques that work in early-stage startups in an existing corporation, the result was chaos, confusion, frustration and ultimately, failure. The Lean Definition of the Three Horizons of Innovation. Fast forward to today.
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