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Build Predictable Startup Models by Forming an Agency

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For example, Lean Startup offers many benefits to emerging organizations, especially considering its focus on crafting a minimum viable product (MVP). If necessary, it also helps determine the validity of a potential target market before too much money gets spent on promoting a substandard product.

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Out of the Ashes - Something Isn't Quite Right

Steve Blank

I’m a software engineer by trade, so I’m always interested in some better way to do things, whether they are in software or in business processes or organizations. Your blog post has provided a lot of useful insights for me which I’ve been implementing. Would you mind sharing them?

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SuperMac War Story 10: The Video Spigot « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

But here was a $499 product that could let everyone use video.) Our engineers connected a VCR, pushed a button and poured in the video of the Apple 1984 commercial. Even though we won’t make a ton of money, it will be an ambassador for the rest of our product family. And they were right. We knew something our CEO didn’t.

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Customer Development is Not a Focus Group

Steve Blank

As the engineers were busy rearchitecting the original Stanford MIPS chip into a commercial product, one of my jobs was to find out what features customers wanted. The reaction from our software guys was a little less kind. “Are Are you out of your !? *x! No, not really. I was just in marketing.

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Preparing Websites For The Unexpected | Smashing Mobile

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When computers first gained graphical user interfaces, software engineers helped people make the transition from physical offices to digital files with the metaphor of a desktop. A mobile-optimized structure, however, leans towards a “taller” arrangement in addition to hierarchies. But each page stands alone.

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Ardent 2: Get Out of My Building

Steve Blank

Lessons to Learn By the time I joined Ardent I thought I was an experienced marketer, but I’ll never forget my first real lesson in what it meant to understand customers and product/market fit. For this startup we had assembled some of the best and brightest hardware and software engineers in the computer industry.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

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In fact, the open source community can learn a lot from Microsoft in terms of backward compatibility and tools for productivity. These development platforms have contributed significantly to the popularity of the products from Apple and Microsoft. It’s like arguing against vertical software.

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