Steve Blank
NOVEMBER 12, 2019
As there was no venture capital, these early startups were funded by early sales to weapon systems prime contractors and subcontractors. Russia, Iran, and North Korea have also fused those activities. With Agile development, used by all startups, updates can occur in weeks or sometimes days, or even hours.
Steve Blank
DECEMBER 9, 2020
Capturing market space versus Russia, for instance. Reforms in each of these areas will strengthen the foreign military sales process. Given that software is central to every major DOD mission and system, we need to acquire and deliver software with much greater speed, agility, and cyber security.
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Steve Blank
MARCH 3, 2015
The disadvantage is that its methodology was based on the old waterfall model of product development and not the agile and lean methods that startups use today. It taught lean theory ( business model design , customer development and agile engineering) and practice. Seeing Is Believing. The Business Plan is Dead.
Cracking the Code
OCTOBER 9, 2015
To prepare the discussion, I worked with my colleague Pia d'Iribarne on a short memo summarizing a few elements that could be addresses in the labor law to reduce complexity and increase the agility of start-ups. While France is very strong on the engineering side, attracting foreign sales, marketing and product talents is often necessary.
Steve Blank
NOVEMBER 1, 2010
First, the company bought a fleet of 15 rockets from Russia, the U.S. They made other assumptions about the type of sales channel, partnerships and revenue model they would need. Customer Development, Business Model Design and Agile Development could have changed the outcome. With an out-of-this-world business plan.
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