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Innovation Outposts and The Evolution of Corporate R&D

Steve Blank

In the Installation Period , a great surge of technology development (Perez calls this Irruption) is followed by an explosion of investment (called the Frenzy.) For example, US Steel had integrated vertically and was involved in the mining of the iron ore all the way to the production of various steel products, e.g., nails.

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Twitter Link Roundup #57 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

Native Indians of Brazil use urucum seeds to make red pigment. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template tco use today) – [link]. 30+ Fresh Icon Sets for Web Designers and Developers – [link]. Amazon’s Approach to Product Development – [link].

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Gust Startup Trend Map

Gust

At first glance we can see the US contains the majority of new startups, with a significant 60%, but Canada, India, France, and Brazil are closely following and worth to keep an eye on for future startup growth. 28% of California startups have a product fully ready and 25% are in revenue stage.

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The Steve Jobs method

Startup Lessons Learned

These two principles combine to free up tremendous resources for raw R&D and innovation, because so few people are stuck working on "death march" internal projects or maintaining low-success released products. For one, capacity development. There are some good anecdotes about Chief Engineers in the Toyota Product Development Book.

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Lessons Learned: Built to learn

Startup Lessons Learned

Thats the essence of so many of the lean startup techniques Ive evangelized: customer development , the Ideas/Code/Data feedback loop , and the adaptation of agile development to the startup experience. Creating a company-wide feedback loop that incorporates both customer development and agile development is a challenge.

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The truth about digital offshoring

Start Up Blog

BRIC nations (Brazil, Russia, India and China) are the buzz word in business for good reason. When we inject money into developing economies we are increasing the living standards not just for our employees, but for their economy in general. In the good news for us small entrepreneurs is that access is no longer limited big players.

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London Calling

Startup Lessons Learned

His method advocates the creation of rapid prototypes designed to test market assumptions, and uses customer feedback to evolve them much faster than via more traditional product development practices. Wednesday, January 11- Dublin, Ireland I’ll be facilitating in the Internet Growth Acceleration Programme (iGAP) program.

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