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

Steve Blank

Yet the development of these advanced technologies is now being driven by commercial interests, not the Defense Department. China is tightly integrating its defense establishment with startups, companies, and academia in “military-civilian fusion.” Some of the speed is simply due to development methodologies.

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Innovation, Change and the Rest of Your Life

Steve Blank

The second thing that’s changed is that we’re now Compressing the Product Development Cycle. In the 20 th century startups I was part of, the time to build a first product release was measured in years as we turned out the founder’s vision of what customers wanted. China has simply become the factory.

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How to Solve Problems in Your Business: Kanban, Kaizen and Scrum

Up and Running

The word kaizen literally means “improvement,” and it’s another word that we’ve borrowed from our Eastern counterparts in China and Japan. Scrum: a flexible way to manage product development. Development of any kind needs to be able to react to changes in real-time, and to pressure from other teams. Then Lead Them.

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When It’s Darkest Men See the Stars

Steve Blank

The United States is now a debtor nation to China and that the bill is about to come due. Compressing the Product Development Cycle. In the past, the time to build a first product release was measured in months or even years as startups executed the founder’s vision of what customers wanted. Starting now.

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Founders and dysfunctional families « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

We agreed that all her founding CEOs seemed to have the same set of personality traits – tenacious, passionate, relentless, resilient, agile, and comfortable operating in chaos. Next, you have to deal with the daily crisis of product development and acquiring early customers. of the founders surveyed were born in China, 3.8%

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Top 57 Online Startups Meets Technology Meets Product Posts for November 2010

SoCal CTO

The United States is now a debtor nation to China and that the bill is about to come due. Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers - SoCal CTO , November 1, 2010 I had a recent email dialog with the founder of a company looking for a CTO for their startup. Ralph Waldo Emerson. One out of ten of Americans are out of work.

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CXL Live 2018 Recap: Top 5 Lessons from Each Speaker

ConversionXL

Corporate Agility. Transparency correlates to agility (Does your CEO know how many tests you ran last month?). Example: wechat in China. Be agile, move at the speed of business, don’t hold up product development. Culture of Innovation. Two pizza approach – organized for execution. instant delivery.

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