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SuperMac War Story 6: Building The Killer Team – Mission, Intent.

Steve Blank

But what I wanted was an agile marketing team capable of operating independently without day-to-day direction. We will accomplish this through demand-creation activities (advertising, PR, tradeshows, seminars, web sites, etc.), The first reaction from my CEO was, “that’s why you’re running the department.”

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SuperMac War Story 9: Sales, Not Awards « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

He had teamed up with a former product manager at P&G to deliver seminars on just this subject. Hopefully you and your co-founders are experts in one or two parts (agile development, SEO/SEM, etc.) Initially your job is to understand each of the parts of your business model before you hire someone to do it.

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The Future of America’s Innovation Economy- Progress and Challenges at the USPTO

David Teten

We’ve revectored to an agile development methodology. Our process to process appeals is particularly bad; # appeals not yet heard forms a vertical line if we graph it. 9 is annual litigation seminar. ” K When I started at USPTO, the first thing I did was Stop, Look, and Listen. Dickinson: Why is that important?