Steve Blank

APRIL 30, 2009

The design was actually a negative drag on selling anything off a retail shelf. From grumbling skeptics, they all became packaging design converts. And for sure they were never going to win any design awards. So we not only sent everyone through packaging school, we also brought the packaging design in-house.

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Steve Blank

MAY 22, 2009

Someone from your company has to be designated the official competitive intelligence officer for this show. Someone from your company has to be designated the opportunity monitor, responsible for coordinating potential partner information and disseminating it in writing after the show. One of them is a loser.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 27, 2009

So they systematically designed electronic devices called “jammers&# to shut down each part of the German air defense system. And in hindsight, we seemed a bit more agile and innovative in WWII.) Chaff used 3/4′s of all the aluminum foil in the U.S. How was this possible?

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Steve Blank

APRIL 6, 2009

Not surprising with a CEO with a PhD in Math, at ESL the engineers ran the company, pursuing bleeding-edge designs in antennas, receivers and microwaves – at times hand in hand with Stanford’s engineering department. could design and produce, and a good part of it was coming from Silicon Valley. Ah, ‘thems’ were the days.

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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. Reply 7thpixel , on June 29, 2009 at 10:23 am Said: My first start up in 1999 I was employee #10 or so and signed up for a Graphic Designer position.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 9, 2009

But what I wanted was an agile marketing team capable of operating independently without day-to-day direction. his next article on SuperMac, “Building the Killer Team – Mission, Intent, and Values&# , Steve further pounds the table on some principles of leadership that I think are [.] Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer.

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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. A few successful ones do all these things. A few successful ones do all these things. This post describes such a model.

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Steve Blank

JULY 1, 2009

Filed under: Secret History of Silicon Valley « Agile Opportunism – Entrepreneurial DNA Rocket Science 2: Drinking the Kool-Aid » 2 Responses Ben , on July 1, 2009 at 2:31 pm Said: Great post Steve. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. Blog at WordPress.com.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 22, 2009

The original Hewlett Packard which made test and measurement products was spun-out and renamed Agilent. Agilent is a $5.8 Technology changes, culture changes, customer needs change, more agile competitors emerge, etc. AKPC_IDS += "376,"; (No Ratings Yet) Loading … Posted in Leadership | Tagged Amp, [.]

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

Finally, I’ll write about 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. Doesn’t it depend on vertical market.? Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. Thanks for sharing.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 2, 2009

While the story about the Potereo benchmarks was about relentless execution, its glib description of designing the benchmarks could be read as we cheated. These were applications we had never seen or ran before when the boards were designed. Given we consciously worked hard not to, here’s what we were thinking.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 13, 2010

These posts and videos are about design, startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! 5 Photoshop & CSS Tricks for Killer Web Designs – [link]. The Dying Art Of Design – [link]. 30+ Excellent Photoshop Web layout Design Tutorials – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 13, 2010

These posts and videos are about design, startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! 5 Photoshop & CSS Tricks for Killer Web Designs – [link]. The Dying Art Of Design – [link]. 30+ Excellent Photoshop Web layout Design Tutorials – [link].

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Steve Blank

MAY 15, 2009

Designing the Perfect Building Once the commitment to fix everything wrong was in place, we were off and running on the design phase. We hired an interior designer and a great facilities person to manage the process. The exec staff started meeting about the design of the new building. I was great at “office wars.”)

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Steve Blank

APRIL 20, 2009

An interesting phenomena of the 1920s that illustrates the fragility and cost of vacuum tubes is the “Reflex Receiver&# design methodology. This is an innovative but slightly bizarre design technique common to the 1920s and 1930s that conserved the number of vacuum tubes required for a radio receiver.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 28, 2009

Soviet Air Defense – PVO Strany The B-52s had to get through a massive Soviet air defense system that had been built and evolved over two decades and was designed to shoot down manned bombers. All of this designed to make the plane if not invisible to Soviet radar, at least really difficult to lock onto and shoot down.

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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. The Customer Development Model is designed to minimize the risk of launching a product for a market that does not exist.

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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. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. Unless the CEO of spring is a unique genius. Blog at WordPress.com.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

They will realize that you have built a startup that’s agile, resilient and customer-centric. Good to see someone with authority advocating an approach to building startups that we at Agile Entrepreneurs focus on, week after week. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. Blog at WordPress.com.

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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

NOVEMBER 12, 2009

After these slides, these VC’s recognized that this company had dramatically reduced risk and built a startup that was agile, resilient and customer-centric. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. The presentation didn’t have a single word about Lean Startups or Customer Development. Blog at WordPress.com.

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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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Steve Blank

APRIL 7, 2009

You don’t get grades for having resiliency, curiosity, agility, resourcefulness, pattern recognition and tenacity. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. There’s a big difference between being an employee at a great technology company and having the guts to start one. You just get successful. Steve Blank [.] Blog at WordPress.com.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 5, 2014

Masterful execution makes up one of the triangle’s two vertical sides. (I A strong soft edge makes a company resilient and agile — even in the face of the occasional C-suite disagreement. Professionalisms leadership management Rich Karlgaard teamwork workplace culture' First, what is the “soft edge”?

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 10, 2009

The ultimate dream of ELINT equipment designers was a “high-probability of intercept” receiver, one that would pick up a signal that came up on any frequency and capture even a single pulse, however brief. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. Keep in mind that 32 of these planes were shot down in the Cold War.) Blog at WordPress.com.

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Steve Blank

MAY 4, 2009

I’ve encountered finance organizations with budget processes designed to simplify their lives, but not the rest of the company’s. Their own internal culture would tie them up in knots, and agile startups could run rings around them. Or expense reporting requirements that took hours of a sales teams time to fill out every week.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 6, 2009

So what exactly was the Electronics Research Lab designing? These 1940′s jammers (built by the wartime lab headed up by Terman and his team now at Stanford) had been built around tubes originally designed for radio applications, put out 5 watts of power. Air Force and its Strategic Air Command. What were these microwave tubes?

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 12, 2009

Because of the vagaries of how floating point units in computers were designed, your average IBM mainframe of the day would take forever to run a simulation application. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. A supercomputer could be a 100x faster. What Markets? Gracias for another great read Steve! this article provided the answers.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 15, 2015

We just love sharing articles about fonts, logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, economics and other interesting stuff! Why there won’t be an Uber in every vertical – buff.ly/1KNtdUj. How To Avoid Agility. Paging Buff Design Snobs!

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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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Steve Blank

APRIL 15, 2009

The reality is that independent electric vehicle startups will win over time (closer to the customer, more agile, etc.) Also, people successful with their designs could be able to earn some royalties, if they decide to do so! was somewhat incomprehensible at first to the Energy and EPA team. But they’re smart, let’s see what happens.)

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

Github - Free public repositories, collaborator management, issue tracking, wikis, downloads, code review, graphs Pivotal Tracker – Agile project management tool that enables real time collaboration. WebSequenceDiagrams - sketch sequence diagrams.

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