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

Steve Blank

One of the unintended consequences was that many of the academics went off to found a wave of startups selling their technology to the military. Yet the development of these advanced technologies is now being driven by commercial interests, not the Defense Department. America’s adversaries understand this.

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Blowing up the Business Plan at U.C. Berkeley Haas Business School

Steve Blank

The disadvantage is that its methodology was based on the old waterfall model of product development and not the agile and lean methods that startups use today. The advantage of following New Venture Creation is that it had a deep pedagogical infrastructure that students took away after they left school. Clearly, lean works globally.

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5 Steps For Your Most Productive Day Of The Week

YoungUpstarts

I was raised in Post-Soviet Russia, and at that time scarcity was simply a fact of life. I also developed an appreciation for the value of the resources we did have, and an aversion to waste of any kind: food, money, and especially as I grew older, time. I became very passionate about productivity. He founded Wrike in 2006.

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Founders and dysfunctional families « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

Next, you have to deal with the daily crisis of product development and acquiring early customers. And here’s where life gets really interesting, as the reality of product development and customer input collide, the facts change so rapidly that the original well-thought-out business plan becomes irrelevant.

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No Business Plan Survives First Contact With A Customer – The 5.2 billion dollar mistake.

Steve Blank

First, the company bought a fleet of 15 rockets from Russia, the U.S. A Customer Discovery and Validation process that was ongoing with product development could have provided early warning that its market was not developing in Iridium’s favor. And Iridium would do this without building a single cell tower.

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Five lethal mistakes in offshore software development

murkygrey.com

They emerge a few years later in hoards of brilliant and eager software developers. The big guys have been doing it for years and recently, smaller and smaller startups are incorporating offshore development into their plans. As a development manager I have, over the years, utilized development teams in India, China and Russia.

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35 Leading Women Entrepreneurs Paving The Way For Success

Designmantic Blog

Tamara’s name is synonymous with technology and marketing. Gina Romero is a heralded visionary who has an abundant expertise in entrepreneurship, community and technology. She is recognized as a design and innovation leader in high-impact and philanthropy product development. Tamara McCleary. Gina Romero.