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Digital Transformation And The Evolution of Apps – What’s The Link?

YoungUpstarts

by Keiichiro Nozaki, Regional Marketing Architect/Evangelist of Asia Pacific, China, and Japan for F5 Networks. Fact: the world’s first mobile phone call was made on April 3, 1973, by Martin Cooper, a senior engineer at Motorola. A century ago, we had the industrial revolution. It transformed how we manufactured, well, everything.

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Lessons Learned: Customer Development Engineering

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, September 7, 2008 Customer Development Engineering Yesterday, I had the opportunity to guest lecture again in Steve Blank s entrepreneurship class at the Berkeley-Columbia executive MBA program. Its a nice complement on the product engineering side to his customer development methodology.

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Lessons Learned: The engineering manager's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, October 20, 2008 The engineering managers lament I was inspired to write The product managers lament while meeting with a startup struggling to figure out what had gone wrong with their product development process. This engineering manager is a smart guy, and very experienced.

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Why The Government is Isn’t a Bigger Version of a Startup

Steve Blank

Rather than focus the university inward on research, Terman took the radical step of encouraging Stanford professors and graduate students to start companies applying engineering to pressing military problems.

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Massacre at IBM

Steve Blank

consisted of product manager, hardware-engineering manager, software-engineering manager, applications analyst, and software designer. Leaving the parking lot, the engineering managers in the back row of the van argued. Humility had crumbled the walls between marketing and engineering. No one listened!”.

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The Secret History of Minnesota Part 1: Engineering Research Associates

Steve Blank

The story starts with a company you probably never heard of – Engineering Research Associates. code breaking would grow to 20,000 people working on breaking the codes of Germany, Japan and the Soviet Union. In January 1946, they founded Engineering Research Associates (ERA). By the end of WWII, with the U.S.

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What’s Plan B? – The Small, the Agile, and the Many

Steve Blank

This does not bode well for our treaty allies, Japan, the Philippines, and South Korea. war planners thought about a future war with Japan. Unfortunately for us Japan didn’t adhere to our war plan. As the chief engineer of the Navy, he was the master of engineering the large and the complex. War Plan Orange.

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