Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

Joe Felter , Raj Shah and I designed a class to examine the new military systems, operational concepts and doctrines that will emerge from 21st century technologies – Space, Cyber, AI & Machine Learning and Autonomy. So that’s something we need help with, to provide us greater agility.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 29, 2009

Since there was very little documentation my time was split between the design engineers who built the system and the test and deployment team getting the system ready to go overseas. I’ve tried different things in India – sales training, software sales, advising entrepreneurs. Agile Opportunism – Entrepreneurial DNA.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 9, 2020

We are perceived as a health organization, helping those who make less thank $4/day in India, Bangladesh and several countries in Africa, but in fact, we are contributing to livelihoods, unlocking $1.4B With our pivot, we will have created a new set of disciplines around design, iteration, safety, and service in low-income communities.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 9, 2020

We are perceived as a health organization, helping those who make less thank $4/day in India, Bangladesh and several countries in Africa, but in fact, we are contributing to livelihoods, unlocking $1.4B With our pivot, we will have created a new set of disciplines around design, iteration, safety, and service in low-income communities.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2017

The result is a combination of design thinking, Lean Startup, and Agile Scrum, and Ignacio’s innovation team includes 25 coaches who train employees in PACE best practices. . … Let's see what works well, what doesn't work well for us, for our organization, for our culture.’ Not, ‘what's the technology?’

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 8, 2009

It was pretty ugly, the marketing and design sucked, and I was embarrassed by it. In May of 1998, India detonated several nuclear weapons at a test site near New Delhi. For example, a recent event I held started with a customer validation exercise (actually, this example is fictionalized for clarity). Yet it had one huge advantage.

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SVPG

DECEMBER 29, 2013

They are typically using stakeholder-driven roadmaps, project-based funding and staffing, heavy use of contractors and outsourcing, waterfall processes (even when they claim they’re Agile), no effective product role, and minimal if any UX design. I could go on, but you get the idea.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 5, 2011

This allows them to be agile in meeting changes in the business environment or in internal changes. He currently manages teams in India, Canada, Singapore and the UK. Security and Data Safety. Data is hosted on remote data centres and most solution providers have multiple back-ups and redundancy systems in place.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 23, 2020

When I left my full-time in-house role to start my own consultancy, I wanted more work-life balance and I wanted to be able to design my own day however I saw fit. Running an eCom business in India, a developing nation is a bumpy ride. This process helps me to think differently, giving me the agility to think fast on my feet.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 7, 2021

It’s a strategy often used by smartphone brands like Samsung and Huawei in emerging markets such as India. Strategy expert, Gary Fox , defines growth marketing as: “An agile and adaptive marketing methodology that focuses on how to get, grow and keep customers.”. Devices are priced lower, but media visibility is high.

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Steve Blank

MAY 13, 2009

As it was a vocational school, I think the most math we had to do was to figure out whether we got a passing grade, and no one was in any danger of actually designing new equipment, but I left with an excellent education in troubleshooting, and solving complex problems in real-time. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer.

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Steve Blank

MAY 18, 2009

We agreed that all her founding CEOs seemed to have the same set of personality traits – tenacious, passionate, relentless, resilient, agile, and comfortable operating in chaos. These damn models weren’t designed right so we’re fixing them on the line.” I coach agile teams for a living, and I do most of my work with start-ups.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

AUGUST 30, 2010

Not automating this process creates the ongoing repetitive work that computers are designed to handle. Agile Development, meet Agile Business. It's a similar process when finding a designer, developer, or any outsourcing partner. Iteration vs. Automation. Manual workÖthis is what computers are supposed to save us from!

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Steve Blank

JUNE 10, 2010

They were smart enough to realize that IBM’s existing processes and procedures wouldn’t be agile enough to innovate in this new market. This small group consisted of 12 engineers and designers under the direction of Don Estridge. Regardless of type, entrepreneurs have common characteristics: resilient, agile, tenacious and passionate.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 4, 2009

Sharding for startups To support a single partitioning scheme is easy, especially if you design for it from the start. It also doesnt make sense to design your app for scalability from the start, since you may have to create many iterations before you find a version that requires any scalability at all. 21comments: Imran said.

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

A couple of platforms that have really helped us in the bootstrapping process for smaller projects are: coroflot.com for web design/layout (non-coding) odesk.com for all types of language capabilities, although beware there is a learning curve here. Might be cost effective if you outsource your project to India Inc. @$10-15/hour.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Because.NET is designed to extend, not disrupt. NET is designed to tightly integrate with and seamlessly extend the Microsoft stack in extremely powerful but ultimately incremental ways. Some us have evolved past the visual designers. Did you confused the Visual Studio WinForms designer with C#, then accidentally call it.NET?

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

2010-06-19) # What about design mockups using eg. for anyone needing user interface, design and branding for their project visit my portfolio: [link] we love to build bold identities for fresh ideas. What I do like is the coming up with the idea and mapping out the development part. I love your posts Derek, you really GIVE. Insightful.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Risk capital has emerged in China, India and other countries where risk taking, innovation and liquidity is encouraged, on a scale previously only seen in the U.S. Or more accurately, startups are a temporary organization designed to search for a scalable and repeatable business model.). or Euro-centric phenomenon.

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Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

Risk capital has emerged in China, India and other countries where risk taking, innovation and liquidity are encouraged, on a scale previously only seen in the U.S. We now understand that startups are just temporary organizations designed to search for a scalable and repeatable business models. or Euro-centric phenomenon.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 5, 2010

The conversations bleed into the sales messages the next time, they wend their way into software designs and form the plan of attach against competition. In the world of agile development I believe that rapid output of code and the ability to constantly make changes trumps having a few extra bodies at a cheaper rate.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

(a guide for hackers) (This post was inspired by a conversation with Nivi from Venture Hacks , but is otherwise not his fault) There has been a proliferation of frameworks and metaphors lately that are designed to help startups avoid the all-too-common fatal mistake of failing to find a market. Expo SF (May. Expo (and a call for he.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Design/Front End: Twitter Bootstrap : Include this in your website, and you are half finished. LiveRoad : A Great IDE for design is very helpful. Color Scheme Designer. online/offline, extensible wireframing tool w/design library. 99 Designs - marketplace for crowdsourced graphic design. Customer service.

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