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Agile Opportunism – Entrepreneurial DNA « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

Martin , on June 29, 2009 at 8:26 am Said: “Eighty percent of success is showing up.&# – Woody Allen A version of your story about showing up for a job that didn’t exist happened to me when I reported for work at a lab in eastern Washington state years ago. Agile Opportunism – Entrepreneurial DNA. Reply Create.

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20 Entrepreneurs Share Their Takeaways from 2020

Hearpreneur

We have taken time as a community and leadership team to reflect and set short and long-term goals and build programs to support and grow member success over time. Photo Credit: J Haleem Washington. Thanks to J Haleem Washington, J Haleem, LLC ! #5- 8-Stay agile. Photo Credit: Calista Redmond. Photo Credit: Danh Tran.

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The Coming Chip Wars

Steve Blank

If negotiations fail, China may respond and escalate, via one of many agile strategic responses short of war, perhaps succeeding in coercing the foundry to stop making chips for American companies – turning the tables on the United States. Instead, Washington blinked and did nothing but send a nasty note.

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Lessons Learned: About the author

Startup Lessons Learned

In 2007, BusinessWeek named Ries one of the Best Young Entrepreneurs of Tech and in 2009 he was honored with a TechFellow award in the category of Engineering Leadership. I help lead the Engineering Leadership SIG at SDForum and wonder if you would be interested in speaking to our group about lean starups. hope to hear from you.

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Lessons Learned: What does a startup CTO actually do?

Startup Lessons Learned

If youre trying to design an architecture to maximize agility, how can that work if some people are working in TDD and others not? My answer to that was to be part of the team whose whole is better that its individual parts as its mentioned in the article, a team leadership rather that a point leadership. Expo SF (May.

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Why The Movie Industry Can’t Innovate and the Result is SOPA

Steve Blank

But why does the movie business think their solution is in Washington and legislation? Ironically, it was Valenti’s skill in hobbling competitive innovation that negated any need for studios to develop agility, vision and technology leadership. Regulation/Legislation. History and success. Management of Innovation.

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Lessons Learned on Mashable today

Startup Lessons Learned

Here in Tampa, our biggest challenge is convincing the regions technology "leadership" that grassroots economic development is a good thing. I just emailed your article to him and recommended that he take your advice to heart. January 2, 2009 11:54 AM Daniel Davie said. Thanks for the article. Expo SF (May.