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Ardent 3: Supercomputer Porn

Steve Blank

Intelligence As I leafed through the Cray sales material, a glossy magazine with the headline Cray Channels jumped out of the pile. Did Cray ever publish any more of these magazines?” I looked at the cover of the magazine again and almost fell off my chair. These magazines had been published for the last seven years.

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The Customer Development Manifesto: Reasons for the Revolution.

Steve Blank

This post describes how the traditional product development model distorts startup sales, marketing and business development. Finally, I’ll write about 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.

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The Curse of a New Building « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

The Curse of a New Building At some point in my career as I began to ponder how/why startups morph from agile, “can do&# companies to [.] [.] I think there’s a size and scale where regardless of your intentions lean and agile won’t work (looking like a grandmother in a miniskirt.) A VERY nice office.

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Startup Tools

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Github - Free public repositories, collaborator management, issue tracking, wikis, downloads, code review, graphs Pivotal Tracker – Agile project management tool that enables real time collaboration. WebSequenceDiagrams - sketch sequence diagrams. Bontq – hosted bug tracking and project management needs.

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The curse of prevention

Startup Lessons Learned

In other words, a principled way to combine agility with stability. Imagine you hear from an engineer that they are worried that a certain payment subsystem is unreliable, and will therefore double-charge some customers. In other words, a principled way to combine agility with stability.

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SuperMac War Story 9: Sales, Not Awards « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

People would go, “Oh, this one won the “best of MacUser Magazine benchmark&# award,&# and it would confirm that this was a safe purchasing choice. Hopefully you and your co-founders are experts in one or two parts (agile development, SEO/SEM, etc.)

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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. Founding a company is a sheer act of will and tenacity in the face of immense skepticism from everyone – investors, customers, friends, etc.

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