Steve Blank

AUGUST 29, 2016

We tend to associate the government with words like bureaucracy rather than lean innovation. But smart people within government agencies are working to change the culture and embrace new ways of doing things. government’s open innovation and crowdsourcing competition. The NGA, an organization within the U.S.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 29, 2016

We tend to associate the government with words like bureaucracy rather than lean innovation. But smart people within government agencies are working to change the culture and embrace new ways of doing things. government’s open innovation and crowdsourcing competition. The NGA, an organization within the U.S.

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Lean Silicon Valley Government Acquisition 178

ConversionXL

MAY 1, 2017

Past Product: Lackluster Marketing Causes Growth Stalls, Too. These pitfalls are not limited to product development. Often, erosion of customer loyalty has been going on for years but the company has failed to perceive it—until it’s too late. Image Source. Swimming with Sharks. Growth teams are like those sharks.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Anyone who has worked in a real-world product development team can tell you how utopian that sounds. And, as you can see in my previous post on “ The cardinal sin of community management &# the feedback could be all over the map. What we call “community management&# is actually governance.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 29, 2020

One of the many challenges facing the world’s governments is the fact that no one really knows how this virus behaves. Thus, the world’s scientists, medical experts, and governments are in new territory, determining what works and what doesn’t work as each country moves through the peaks and troughs of this pandemic. Draw up a budget.

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OnlyOnce

AUGUST 12, 2013

A few years ago, people started talking a lot more about User Experience (UX) as a new crossover discipline between design and engineering, and our experience at Return Path has been that UX is an incredibly powerful tool in our arsenal to build great technical products via lean/agile methods.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

Struggling to explain the successes and failures of those companies, I discussed principles like continuous deployment, customer development, and a hyper-accelerated form of agile. Therefore, we needed a new management toolkit designed explicitly for iteration, scientific learning, and rapid experimentation. It's a big tent.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 10, 2011

There’s something about the combination of human nature (rationalization and self deception) and large hierarchical organizations (corporations, military, government, etc.) The VP of an operating division had run into trouble in product development; the product was late and getting later. Don’t tell this board bad news.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 3, 2009

If your practice is not designed to cope with uncertainty, it has no place in a startup - even if your startup is located in government or enterprise. Use some customer development to find out. The power of A/B testing is so under-exploited in product development, that Im trying new ways to explain its benefits.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 8, 2009

So the product development team was busy creating lots of split-tests for lots of hypotheses. That’s causing the Product Owner and team to spend more time with each other reviewing the results of experiments, which is allowing them to learn and iterate much faster. They’ve learned to see this waste. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 21, 2010

It also causes them to miss the numerous other kinds of startups that appear in less-glamorous settings: inside enterprises, non-profits, and even governments. I prefer to take the most expansive possible definition of product, one that encompasses any source of value for a set of people who voluntarily choose to become customers.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

We met a number of policy makers from the White House and State Department, and had a solid Startup2Startup all about government policy and entrepreneurship. In a previous post , I asked readers for suggested topics that the US government needs to know about startups and entrepreneurs, and got some really interesting responses.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 16, 2013

One good example is the way in which we''ve adjusted the length of different phases of our agile sprints. We don''t follow a set agile methodology, but rather follow a more home-grown, minimal version of various approaches. The new process let us manage the velocity of change in the codebase low, keeping the resistance manageable.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 6, 2011

And others are from unusual folks we don't normally think of as entrepreneurs, from corporate managers to government agencies. I believe entrepreneurship is the management discipline that deals with the domain of extreme uncertainty. I once received a phone call from a fund manager for one of the large university endowments.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

#g2s The very abbreviated version of Customer Development (channeling Steve Blank ). Every bit as true for government as for enterprise - and even the two guys in a garage. A lot of conversation was about what "the federal government" should do. Federal government should do nothing. dhinchcliffe : Lean startups go faster.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 6, 2010

Our trip was bipartisan, bicameral, and bi-branches-of-government. Our trip was bipartisan, bicameral, and bi-branches-of-government. Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? Expo SF (May. Conference streaming, sponsors, discounted tickets. Learning is better than optimization (the local ma.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 11, 2008

To an early observer, it would have seemed obvious that Route 128 had all the advantages: a head start, more government and military funding, and far more established companies. Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? Expo SF (May. Conference streaming, sponsors, discounted tickets.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

Im writing this post from an airplane headed to Washington DC, where Ill be presenting at the Government 2.0 Im especially curious to gauge the reaction of the civilian and military representatives of our government. Ive been in a few government-themed meetings recently, so I know some of the standard answers.

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bhargreaves.com

MARCH 7, 2010

The reasons why I am not a big fan of development shops are too numerous to go into here. In brief, startups succeed because there is strong alignment of interests among all parties, especially with the people who are actually building the product. You probably aren’t the best person to hire and manage a developer.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

So let’s be very specific: let’s assume your dream job is product manager at Google, working on the Analytics product. Today, brands are hiring social media specialists for customer support, crowdsourced product development, promotions and even leads generation. As if managing were a waste of time.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 11, 2008

Your challenge will be incentivizing your developers to create, and managing the volume of their output. Instead, they charge a flat-rate subscription, and then manage goods using a combination of gameplay, an internal currency and various trading systems. Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science?

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

the failure rate of new ventures (startups had no formal rules and were a hit or miss proposition), the slow adoption rate of new technologies by the government and large companies. Compressing the Product Development Cycle. Entrepreneurship as It’s Own Management Science. The Democratization of Entrepreneurship.

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Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

Defense and Intelligence organizations drove the pace of innovation in Silicon Valley by providing research and development dollars to universities, and defense companies built weapons systems that used the Valley’s first microwave devices and semiconductor components. Government and the enterprise are now followers rather than leaders.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, September 11, 2009 The cardinal sin of community management Once you have a product launched, you will the face the joys – and the despair – of a community that grows up around it. This probably sounds illogical. We were totally unprepared for the magnitude of what happened.

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