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When It’s Darkest Men See the Stars

Steve Blank

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. For consumer hardware, no startup has to build their own factory as the costs are absorbed by offshore manufacturers.

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Innovation, Change and the Rest of Your Life

Steve Blank

And for consumer hardware, no startup has to build their own factory as the costs are absorbed by offshore manufacturers. Venture Capital used to be a tight club clustered around formal firms located in Silicon Valley, Boston, and New York. and there were no books, blogs or YouTube videos about entrepreneurship.

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Lessons Learned: Customer Development Engineering

Startup Lessons Learned

In addition to presenting the IMVU case, we tried for the first time to do an overview of a software engineering methodology that integrates practices from agile software development with Steves method of Customer Development. There were a lot of questions about outsourcing/offshoring and startups. Talk about waste.

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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

sivers.org

Maybe this is because I run offshore software development company and have seen a LOT of people coming asking for help after dealing with freelancers. FuePi (2010-06-21) # Youre very good at describing Agile Development without all the technical terms (Extreme Programming, Early Prototyping, Story Cards, Test Driven, et.