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See More than 120 Speakers and Mentors at The Lean Startup Conference

Startup Lessons Learned

Guest post by Lisa Regan, writer for The Lean Startup Conference The Lean Startup Conference is next week--and now that we can step back and see all the speakers and mentors, we have to say: Wow. Bill Gross founded Idealab in 1996, making it the longest-running technology incubator alive today.

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Customer Development Manifesto: Market Type (part 4) « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

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. In 1996 no potential customer had even heard of a Personal Digital Assistant.

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Why Internal Ventures are Different from External Startups

Steve Blank

In this post, I want to share some new thoughts that build on Steve’s post, and connect them to Lean Startup methods. But Xerox instead chose to shut XTV down in 1996, despite its external success. This suggests a further modification to Lean Startup: Get Upstairs in the Building.

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Revenue Development

K9 Ventures

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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The Ultimate Guide to Starting a Software Company

Up and Running

Since the term “cloud computing” was coined in 1996—at least as we have come to understand its meaning—the software as a service industry has exploded. Step 1: Start with a lean plan. Introducing Lean Planning: How to Plan Less and Grow Faster. In step one, you created a lean plan, or a one-page pitch.

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Lessons Learned: About the author

Startup Lessons Learned

Maybe youd like to start with The lean startup , How to listen to customers , or What does a startup CTO actually do? ) He is the co-author of several books including The Black Art of Java Game Programming (Waite Group Press, 1996). Eventually, I came to summarize these themes with the phrase " the lean startup."

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Lessons Learned: Sharding for startups

Startup Lessons Learned

I just dont comment. :) Steve, The term was in active use in 1996 in the MMO world, which predates Googles founding. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. January 7, 2009 9:28 PM Raph said. Eric, I stop by regularly!