Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 6, 2013
My rationale is simple: everything goes wrong and only great teams can respond to competitors, markets, funding environments, staff departures, PR disasters and the like. PM’s are underrated in Silicon Valley these days. Without strong PMs you build crappy products that nobody needs or that real people can’t use.
Startup Lessons Learned
APRIL 25, 2011
And, most importantly, the Lean Startup idea is starting to take root in industries and contexts very different from it’s Silicon Valley roots. And this year, we’re going to talk not just about business and product development, but we’ll be exploring one of the Lean Starutp movements next big frontiers: the role of design.
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Steve Blank
SEPTEMBER 5, 2018
The mantra of “ first mover advantage ,” the idea that winners are the ones who are the first entrants in their market, became the conventional wisdom of investors in Silicon Valley.“ First Movers” didn’t understand customer problems or the product features that solved those problems (what we now call product-market fit).
crowdSPRING Blog
JULY 10, 2014
The surprising secret of happier, more productive organizations: conflict – crowdspring.co/1qscUpx. It’s getting harder to tell what’s a real Silicon Valley startup and what’s a parody – crowdspring.co/1k05eDQ. The secretive billionaire who built Silicon Valley – crowdspring.co/1qjKWZN.
Steve Blank
APRIL 23, 2018
But the spirit of Billy Durant would rise again in what would become Silicon Valley. Just as Durant had multiple interests, Musk is not only Tesla’s CEO and Product Architect, overseeing all product development, engineering, and design. Days of Futures Past for Tesla.
YoungUpstarts
OCTOBER 10, 2012
Talented product developers. When 3M brought “lead users” into its innovation process, they improved revenues by a factor of eight times over innovations from internal product developers. Some of the most creative technology coming out of Silicon Valley is designed to do exactly that.
Steve Blank
AUGUST 27, 2009
This series of posts is a brief explanation of how we’ve evolved from Product Development to Customer Development to the Lean Startup. The Product Development Diagram Emerging early in the twentieth century, this product-centric model described a process that evolved in manufacturing industries.
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