Agile Definition Early Stage Product Development 
Steve Blank
NOVEMBER 12, 2019
It’s not that these companies are smarter than Defense Department employees, but they operate with different philosophies, different product development methodologies, and with different constraints. Urgency and risk-taking in a startup are integral parts of the culture, felt by 100 percent of early-stage employees.
Steve Blank
NOVEMBER 5, 2009
Unfortunately in early stage startups the drive for financing hijacks the corporate DNA and becomes the raison d’etre of the company. What are Early Stage VC’s Really Asking? The Traditional VC Pitch Entrepreneurs who pursue the traditional product development model don’t have customer data to answer these questions.
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Startup Lessons Learned
APRIL 14, 2009
In an early-stage startup especially, revenue is not an important goal in and of itself. This may sound crazy, coming as it does from an advocate of c harging customers for your product from day one. Let’s start with a simple question: why do early-stage startups want revenue? But all things are never equal.
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. I see a lot of early-stage entrepreneurs waste too much time chasing money rather than figuring this out first.
ConversionXL
SEPTEMBER 5, 2019
The first, according to Dr. David Travis at UserFocus , was agile development : Dr. David Travis: “‘Development’ teams morphed into ‘design’ teams. Teams were savvy enough to know that fully formed, completed descriptions of users are an impossibility at the early stages of design. A quick primer on user personas.
Steve Blank
FEBRUARY 18, 2010
After I retired, I began teaching Customer Development , a theory of how to reduce early stage risk in entrepreneurial ventures. You most definitely read the book for the content. Agile Opportunism – Entrepreneurial DNA……………… 5. Customer Development Manifesto.
Startup Lessons Learned
NOVEMBER 17, 2008
Another advantage of the early stages is that most dont have to juggle too many competing priorities. If you dont have customers, a product, investors, or a board of directors, you can pretty much stay focused on just one thing at a time. And why do those problems seem to get worse as the company grows? Expo SF (May.
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