Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

They seem to know the right mix of skills on their founding team is a hacker, hustler and designer. For example, if you’re building a mobile app, then the key activities are: app software development, user interface design and demand creation skills. But what about for us, a consumer hardware hardware company?

Cofounder 335

Cofounder Founder Intellectual Property Business Model 335

Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2011

Over the last decade we assumed that once we found repeatable methodologies (Agile and Customer Development , Business Model Design) to build early stage ventures, entrepreneurship would become a “science,” and anyone could do it. Now everyone can do design,” was the mantra. Others dream things that never were and ask why not.

Agile 334

Agile Customer Development Early Stage Business Model 334

Steve Blank

APRIL 16, 2013

” It defined a startup as a “temporary organization designed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model.” The article describes Lean as the search for a repeatable and scalable business model – and business model design, customer development and agile engineering – as the way you implement it.

Technical Review 331

Technical Review Lean Venture Capital Customer Development 331

ConversionXL

JULY 15, 2020

Each spring, the annual State of Agile Marketing Report sheds light on how Agile ways of working are being adopted within marketing. This year, for the first time in the report’s three-year history, Agile techniques overtook those maintaining traditional processes. But Agile is about more than just speed.

Agile 87

Agile SCRUM Software Review Marketing 87

YoungUpstarts

MAY 29, 2017

Agile Methodology.”. Security is often not given the consideration it should get early in the design or development process and it tends to be costlier to implement later on. In this phase, we will be designing the architecture and depending on the development framework you are using, high level designs of the data models and methods.

Security 206

Security Software Review Technical Review Agile 206

Steve Blank

JANUARY 25, 2011

The benefits of customer and agile development and minimum features set are continuous customer feedback, rapid iteration and little wasted code. Ironically it becomes the antithesis of agile. And the magnitude of the problem increases exponentially with the success of the company.

Part-Time VPE 325

Part-Time VPE Agile Engineer Startup 325

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 6, 2020

Even the smartest entrepreneurs have found that a well-designed market experiment will test a number of different hypothesis and variables at once, without a major investment, proving bad assumptions as well as validated ones as the experiment goes on. Focus on agility as the key skill your organization needs.

Agile 310

Agile Social Media Reputation Restful 310

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Today, every government agency, service branch, and combatant command is adopting innovation activities (hackathons, design thinking classes, innovation workshops, et al.) With Agile development, used by all startups, updates can occur in weeks or sometimes days, or even hours. So, the question is: What’s next?

Government 316

Government Artificial Inteligence Silicon Valley North Korea 316

View from Seed

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

You always want to be careful with how tightly you schedule things to make sure you stay agile and responsive to evolving business needs, but you also need to make sure your overall journey makes sense and that you’re building things in the right order, as well as taking on risks in a measured way. ” decision.

Technology 334

Technology Ruby Startup Engineer 334

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

We think teaching teams a formal methodology around the Lean Framework (Business Model design, Customer Development and Agile Engineering) is a natural evolution of how successful incubators/accelerators will build startups. Here’s the story of one such team; Jonathan Wylie, Lakshmi Shivalingaiah and the Evoke team.

Lean 322

Lean Customer Development Sales Cycle Business Model 322

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Joe Felter , Raj Shah and I designed a class to examine the new military systems, operational concepts and doctrines that will emerge from 21st century technologies – Space, Cyber, AI & Machine Learning and Autonomy. Designing in exploitability early in programs. Today’s topic was Acquisition and Sustainment and Modern War.

Acquisition 333

Acquisition Technical Review Technology Government 333

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 20, 2011

We taught them the business model / customer development / agile development solution stack. First, we brought all 21 teams to Stanford for 3-days of 10 hour-a-day classes in business model design and customer development. I thought about the common wisdom that only 20-year olds doing Internet startups could be agile.

Incubator 310

Incubator Government Silicon Valley Lean 310

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Joe Felter , Raj Shah and I designed the class to examine the new military systems, operational concepts and doctrines that will emerge from 21st century technologies – Space, Cyber, AI & Machine Learning and Autonomy. We just held our seventh session of our new national security class Technology, Innovation and Modern War.

Artificial Inteligence 291

Artificial Inteligence Technology Agile Architecture 291

The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 13, 2024

Whether you’re a startup or a multinational corporation, the need for agile and streamlined workflows is universal. This focus on digital workspace design is central to strengthening workplace functionality and efficiency. A well-orchestrated workflow conserves time and maximizes resources by minimizing errors and redundancies.

Technical Review 167

Technical Review Software Review Agile Operations 167

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 27, 2019

In their recruiting process, they actually have a key insider designated as a “bar raiser” involved in ever interview, to make sure that the bar is never lowered due to any bias or pressing business urgency. Amazon extends this concept to continuously and proactively seek better talent as they learn more from results.

Global 308

Global Marketing Technical Review Algorithm 308

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 15, 2019

These processes reduce risk to an overall organization, but each layer of process reduces the ability to be agile and lean and – most importantly – responsive to new opportunities and threats. Process helps ensure that you can deliver solutions that scale without breaking other parts of the organization. Process Versus Product.

Government 322

Government Technical Review Acquisition Metrics 322

Steve Blank

JUNE 26, 2014

Agile Engineering” to have teams prototype, test, and iterate their idea while discovering if they have a profitable business model. Activities cover clinical trials, FDA approvals, Freedom to Operate (IP, Licenses) software development, drug or device design, etc.

Intellectual Property 290

Intellectual Property Lean IP Open Source 290

YoungUpstarts

MAY 30, 2014

Automated testing assesses the designed boundaries of your product. Sam Bahreini, a seasoned operations officer and agile entrepreneur, is co-founder and COO of VoloForce , a company that helps enterprise retail brands understand organization implementation through automation and simplification. What You Gain From Beta Testing.

Customer 231

Customer Development Team Review Cofounder Agile 231

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 30, 2012

The class teaches founders how to dramatically reduce their failure rate through the combination of business model design, customer development and agile development using the Startup Owners Manual. You may have read my previous posts about the Lean LaunchPad entrepreneurship class.

Startup 335

Startup Lean Incubator Business Model 335

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 17, 2017

We could design warfighting tactics based on knowing the tactics of our opponent. We could design and manufacture the best systems. Army’s Rapid Equipping Force on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan finding and deploying technology solutions against agile insurgents. Newell ran the U.S.

Community 244

Community Silicon Valley Technical Review Incubator 244

Steve Blank

APRIL 16, 2013

” It defined a startup as a “temporary organization designed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model.” The article describes Lean as the search for a repeatable and scalable business model – and business model design, customer development and agile engineering – as the way you implement it.

Technical Review 223

Technical Review Lean Venture Capital Customer Development 223

Steve Blank

MAY 17, 2010

Business models allow agile and opportunistic founders to keep score of the Pivots in their search for a repeatable business model. Business plan competitions perpetuate everything that is wrong about trying to make plans that were designed to be used in large companies fit startups.

Business Plan 320

Business Plan Business Model Customer Development Deal Flow 320

Steve Blank

MARCH 8, 2011

It was designed to bring together many of the new approaches to building a successful startup – customer development, agile development, business model generation and pivots. The first class was an introduction to the concepts of business model design and customer development. Would we signs of success early?

Lean 307

Lean Business Model Customer Development Guinea 307

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

If done sensibly and securely, remote working can be incredibly advantageous for any flexible and agile business. He is a strong business development professional with a keen eye for detail, and skilled in graphic design, computer hardware and troubleshooting.

Technical Review 246

Technical Review Software Review Security Agile 246

Steve Blank

JANUARY 18, 2022

The Hedge Strategy – Create “the small, the agile, and the many”. In a world where the large and the complex are either too expensive to generate en masse or potentially too vulnerable to put at risk, “the small, the agile, and the many” has the potential to define the future of Navy formations. ONR’s plan is to move boldly.

Agile 409

Agile China Artificial Inteligence Taiwan 409

The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Things like coding, finance; design and marketing are second-nature in startup as opposed to segmented, corporate work. Due to a small work environment, there is very little paperwork involved in startups, especially in agile development. Adopt an Agile Work Environment. Less Bureaucracy. Streamline Your Project Pipeline.

Technical Review 123

Technical Review Agile Startup Software Review 123

Steve Blank

JANUARY 30, 2013

2) We should have had buy-in about the value of disruptive new business models, design and open innovation thinking. I earnestly believe that large corporations should emulate Lean Startups (Business model design, Customer Development and Agile Engineering.) Venture Fest was not integral to their success.

Programming 273

Programming Technical Review Incubator Intellectual Property 273

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Lean was designed to inform the founders’ vision while they operated frugally at speed. This allowed startups to build Minimal Viable Products (MVPs) – incremental and iterative prototypes – and put them in front of a large number of customers to get immediate feedback. Every startup is in a race against time. The result?

Lean 335

Lean Burn Rate Startup IPO 335

Steve Blank

JANUARY 4, 2011

I did a keynote on innovation hubs at the newly created DoFuture program , spoke at Santiago’s Startup Weekend on Customer and Agile Development, and at a Conference in Patagonia supported by the Ministry of Economy’s Innovation Division. Small Business versus Scalable Startup versus Corporate Entrepreneurship.

Silicon Valley 335

Silicon Valley Chile South America Venture Capital 335

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Playground designers intend for you to slide down the slide, but, of course, children always want to climb up the slide. We might have medium-term goals like “adopting agile methodologies” or “getting everyone on the same page with a project kick-off” as the outcomes for the reader. What’s the right way to play on a playground?

Agile 139

Agile Social Media Audience Software Review 139

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Now, anyone can create apps and websites, design chatbots, automate processes, open ecommerce stores, and lots more — all without typing out a single line of code. Copywriters, designers, marketers, and employees from any other department can work alongside each other to create something together — and with a minimal learning curve.

CTO Hire 264

CTO Hire eCommerce Engineer Software 264

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Joe Felter , Raj Shah and I designed a class to examine the new military systems, operational concepts and doctrines that will emerge from 21st century technologies – Space, Cyber, AI & Machine Learning and Autonomy. And now that we have those structures built and we have the staffs designed, almost all those trades are done.

Technology 333

Technology United States Iraq Operations 333

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 19, 2010

But now she has the vision and ability to design her own software, capitalizing on modern trends (e.g. Some examples of a feature being a company's primary advantage are: Apple compromises everything in the name of design. Even "cool, agile" companies like 37signals are trapped.

Software Review 325

Software Review Technical Review Development Team Review Bolivia 325

SoCal CTO

APRIL 28, 2014

I just had a fellow CTO ask me about a particular technical design problem and several directions they could go and ask for my thoughts on the tradeoffs for those different choices. Other Topics Covered I also covered topics that are covered more thoroughly in the following posts: Document Your MVP for a Developer.

Technical Cofounder 280

Technical Cofounder Developer Fractional CTO CTO Hire 280

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

During the first year of the company’s life, I was a fireball – relentless in creating and pursuing opportunities – getting on an airplane at the drop of a hat to fly anywhere, anytime, to get a design win. Our chip was nearing completion, and I had convinced early lighthouse customers to design it into their computers.

Part-Time VPE 334

Part-Time VPE Employee Cofounder Hiring 334

ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Their approach is driven by the Agile methodology. eSparkBiz provides a range of services, including web development, mobile app development, eCommerce solutions , UI/UX design, and digital marketing. Opcito stands out in software outsourcing for its agility and continual development.

India 130

India Software Review Software Technical Review 130

VC Cafe

JULY 26, 2020

Agile Development: launch an MVP early and iterate quickly. Ditch the business plan and when assumptions are proven wrong, pivot Customer Development: Build a product your customers want (vs. what you think they might need) by talking to customers and testing every aspect of the product features, pricing, etc.

Lean 214

Lean Seed Capital Startup Burn Rate 214