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The Customer Development Manifesto: The Startup Death Spiral (part.

Steve Blank

Finally, I’ll write about how Eric Ries and the Lean Startup concept provided the equivalent model for product development activities inside the building and neatly integrates customer and agile development. Without the revenue to match its expenses, the company is in now danger of running out of money.

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The Product Development Model « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

This product development diagram had become part of the DNA of Silicon Valley. And even more importantly, was there any way to reduce risk in early stage ventures? Reply Best books for the lean product managers — Justin Gibbs , on April 28, 2009 at 2:44 pm Said: [.]

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Out of the Ashes - Something Isn't Quite Right

Steve Blank

We’ve managed startups like this forever; there is no other way to manage them.” To Order Outside of the U.S. Now In Print! Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice.

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Vertical Markets 2: Customer/Market Risk versus Invention Risk.

Steve Blank

Market Risk vs. Invention Risk - Click to Enlarge For companies building web-based products, product development may be difficult, but with enough time and iteration engineering will eventually converge on a solution and ship a functional product - i t’s engineering, not invention. To Order Outside of the U.S.

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Convergent Technologies: War Story 1 – Selling with Sports Scores.

Steve Blank

They couldn’t keep up with the fast product development times that were enabled by using standard microprocessors. So their management teams were insisting that they OEM (buy from someone else) these products. Convergent Technologies was one of those OEM suppliers. To Order Outside of the U.S. Now In Print!

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6 Things a Non-Engineer Should Know Before Founding a Web Startup

blog.wepay.com

At some point, I’ll write another post about what a non-engineer does, or should do, during the early stages of product development. As the only non-developer at WePay, it’s pretty tempting to become technically helpless. In the meantime, I just discovered this post , which is pretty damn good].

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6 Things a Non-Engineer Should Know Before Founding a Web Startup « WePay.com

blog.wepay.com

At some point, I’ll write another post about what a non-engineer does, or should do, during the early stages of product development. As the only non-developer at WePay, it’s pretty tempting to become technically helpless. In the meantime, I just discovered this post , which is pretty damn good].