Design Lean Portfolio Product Development 
Steve Blank
SEPTEMBER 5, 2018
It’s the antithesis of the Lean Startup. Massive liquidity awaited the first movers to the IPO’s, and that’s how they managed their portfolios. The Rise of the Lean Startup. The idea of the Lean Startup was built on top of the rubble of the 2000 Dot-Com crash. And it may work. Dot Com Boom to Bust.
Steve Blank
AUGUST 31, 2009
After 20 years of working in startups, I decided to take a step back and look at the product development model I had been following and see why it usually failed to provide useful guidance in activities outside the building – sales, marketing and business development. So what’s wrong the product development model?
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Startup Lessons Learned
JULY 28, 2010
kaChing has been very active in the Lean Startup movement. With case studies like this, we aim to illustrate specific Lean Startup techniques through the stories of current practitioners. kaChing launched a virtual portfolio management game on Facebook in January 2008 and a similar version shortly thereafter on kaChing.com.
Startup Lessons Learned
NOVEMBER 17, 2008
Managers in this area have to take a portfolio approach, promoting ideas that work and might make good candidates for further investment. Strategy - startups first encounter this when they have the beginnings of a product, and theyve achieved some amount of product/market fit. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0.
Steve Blank
FEBRUARY 23, 2009
Both venture firms sought my advice for their portfolio companies. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. It was a long way from Ellis Island.) Surprisingly, I enjoyed seeing other startups from an outsider’s perspective. To everyone’s delight (and my surprise,) I usually could quickly see what needed to be fixed. Blog at WordPress.com.
Steve Blank
MAY 28, 2009
Our firm has a portfolio of companies across a broad range of markets and the way we look at it is pretty simple – the deals fall into two types: those with customer/market risk and those with invention risk.” (The line is just a first approximation, nothing hard and fast about it.) Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer.
Hunter Walker
OCTOBER 25, 2020
Although to be fair, (i) Second Life is still around and profitable and (ii) many of the design choices we made were quite influential on later products. For example, Lenny Rachitsky writes a newsletter devoted to technology and product development. Highlighted Homebrew Portfolio Jobs. Notes and More.
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