Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 1, 2014

Bill Gross founded Idealab in 1996, making it the longest-running technology incubator alive today. Bob Sutton is a Stanford professor and the author of several best-selling books on standout management, including Scaling Up Excellence , an investigation of high-growth companies.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

In future posts I’ll describe 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. Palm in a New Market What makes this example really interesting is this: rewind the story 4 years earlier to 1996.

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K9 Ventures

AUGUST 13, 2010

In 1996, when I started my first company, SneakerLabs, Inc., I tell these stories to lay the groundwork for what I am going to call Revenue Development. We’re all familiar with Product Development, and thanks to the amazing Steve Blank and Eric Ries , Customer Development has become the mantra for so many startups.

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Steve Blank

JULY 15, 2013

Starting in 1996 with the Intel P6 (Pentium Pro) to today’s P7 chips (Core i7) these processors contain instructions that are reprogrammable in what is called microcode. Filed under: Customer Development , Secret History of Silicon Valley. Customer Development Secret History of Silicon Valley'

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Steve Blank

MARCH 26, 2014

But Xerox instead chose to shut XTV down in 1996, despite its external success. The success of Documentum and Document Sciences, they felt, came largely from Xerox technology and customers, yet the startup companies XTV funded got all the credit. Filed under: Big Companies versus Startups: Durant versus Sloan , Customer Development.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

In 1996 RIM was still in the hardware business selling packet-switched wireless radio modems to OEMs. In today’s language of Customer Development , RIM positioned the Blackberry as a segment of an existing market – pager users who needed two-way communication. Filed under: Customer Development , Market Types.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 24, 2012

JoAnn and I entered real estate in 1996 when interest rates were almost 9 percent. I should know. My wife and I built our thriving business — Those Callaways — in a tough industry that’s had more than its share of challenges.

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