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Steve Blank
JUNE 26, 2015
To move innovation faster, we now have 21 st century tools — Business Model Canvas , Customer Development , Agile Engineering – all adding up to a Lean Startup. Here the company executes a known business model (known customers, product features, competitors, pricing, distribution channel, supply chain, etc.)
Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 15, 2008
But by taking advantage of open source, agile software, and iterative development, lean startups can operate with much less waste. I am heavily indebted to earlier theorists, and highly recommend the books Lean Thinking and Lean Software Development. (So Labels: customer development , lean startup 8comments: Amy said.
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Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 30, 2008
We lack a consistent and clear definition of the job. When Ive asked mentors of mine who have worked in big companies about the role of the CTO, they usually talk about the importance of being the external face of the companys technology platform; an evangelist to developers, customers, and employees. They might do anything !
Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 22, 2008
Daves done a great job of articulating the key metrics you want to look at in each of these five areas, and I wont bother repeating them here (go read the presentation already). I break the answer to that question down into three engines: Viral - this is the business model identified in the presentation as "Get Users."
Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 10, 2008
Daily builds are giving way to true continuous integration, in which every checkin to the source control system is automatically run against the full battery of automated tests. At IMVU , our engineering team accumulated thousands upon thousands of tests, and we had a build cluster (using BuildBot ) that ran them. Do you have testers?
Steve Blank
MARCH 15, 2011
By now the nine teams in our Stanford Lean LaunchPad Class were formed, In the four days between team formation and this class session we tasked them to: Write down their initial hypotheses for the 9 components of their company’s business model (who are the customers? what distribution channel? what’s the product? Xu Cui (Ph.D,
Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 15, 2008
In my previous job, this led us to confront the disappointing reality that sometimes customers actually prefer an uglier design to a pretty one. I had the opportunity to pioneer this approach to funnel analysis at IMVU, where it became a core part of our customer development process. Thanks for writing this article.
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