VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Use agility to your advantage and make speed a team priority. Put your users first: pretend that your customers have a seat at the table when you design your product roadmap. Then there’s the war in the Ukraine, rising energy prices, inflation, climate change, pandemic and who knows what other curve balls will be thrown our way.

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Founder Startup Valuation Pre-Money Valuation 187

Steve Blank

JULY 25, 2023

In contrast, designing AI-driven enterprise software or building dating apps are comparatively simple problems.) (Understanding and solving homelessness, disinformation, climate change mitigation or an insurgency are examples of wicked problems. Co mpanies also face Wicked problems.

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Steve Blank

JULY 30, 2024

Fear of Failure/Risk Aversion – Large organizations are built around repeatable and scalable processes that are designed to be “fail safe.” When will disruption happen that will make our core business or operating concepts/force design obsolete? In the military it’s demos but no funding for deployments at scale.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 7, 2007

From Strategy to Development Whether you are out-sourcing or developing in-house there are two ways to build a system: Give your developers a rough idea of what to build and keep iterating the design as they build it; Give your developers detailed documentation of what to build.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

For example, the best R&D teams for your needs might be based in the Ukraine, whereas the best designers may be in Germany. Support agile working practices. The fast-paced business world favors small, nimble teams that support agile decision-making.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 26, 2016

Their R&D groups and contractors had the smartest domain experts who could design and manufacture the best systems. They can crowd-source designs, find components through eBay, fund through PayPal, train using virtual worlds and refine tactics, techniques and procedures using massive on-line gaming. North Korea. Lessons Learned.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Any chance seeing you in Kiev, Ukraine? Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Six streaming locations Interviews ► March (7) New conference website, speakers, agenda Two new scholarship programs for lean startups Speed up or slow down? I think there are more enterpreneurs per capita here than anywhere else!

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