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Ardent War Story 5: The Best Marketers Are Engineers

Steve Blank

Some of these advisors from the academic community would work with our of VP of Engineering and help us solve specific technical problems. I set up an advisory board as a vehicle to get these industry experts engaged with the company and product.

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The Innovation Stack: How to make innovation programs deliver more than coffee cups

Steve Blank

federal science agencies and in the Department of Defense and Intelligence Community. Some examples of innovation tools are Customer Development, Design Thinking, User-Centric Design, Business Model Canvas, Storytelling, etc. Lean, Design Thinking, User-centric Design, Business Model Canvas, etc. Lessons Learned.

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Lessons Learned: Product development leverage

Startup Lessons Learned

But I want to talk about a different kind of leverage, the kind that you can get in product development. Its a key lean startup concept. The idea of leverage is simple: for every ounce of effort your product development team puts into your product, find ways to magnify that effort by getting many other people to invest along with you.

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The Mission Model Canvas – An Adapted Business Model Canvas for Mission-Driven Organizations

Steve Blank

The Lean Startup is the way most innovators build startups and innovate inside of existing companies. What if you’re a government or a military organization or part of the intelligence community? In a mission-driven organization such as the defense and intelligence community, there is no revenue to measure.

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What would you want to tell Washington DC about startups?

Startup Lessons Learned

Beyond just those who will be hearing about the lean startup for the first time, Im expecting to shake a lot of hands and have a lot of interesting side conversations. So heres my simple question: What do folks in Washington need to know about the global community of entrepreneurs? September 9, 2009 12:36 AM Richard Tibbetts said.

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supermac War Story 7: Rabbits Out of the Hat - Product Line Extensions

Steve Blank

The plug-in co-processor architecture was too complex and couldn’t be made to work reliably. Nothing else was in the development pipeline for the next 12 months. This requires deep customer and competitive knowledge. Instead of the family of eight products we were expecting, only one could be delivered.

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Product design debt versus Technical debt

andrewchenblog.com

Coupled with A/B testing, customer development, and thinking through business problems in a scientific, hypothesis-driven way, you end up with a powerful cocktail of techniques to build a modern startup in the most iterative way possible. Portals that want to unify news, communication, tools, etc. what a coincidence. See [link].