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Marching through quicksand

Startup Lessons Learned

We faced this same problem in entrepreneurship and venture capital, but we are getting past it. The biggest lost opportunity of all, though, is this one: we no longer need to rely on scarcity or status-oriented measures to filter which projects should get the green light. 12comments: Dougvs said. In that I see opportunity.

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The Story Behind the Secret History Part II. Getting B-52s through.

Steve Blank

Then I would return back north to the much drabber green palette of bombers and uniforms and continue to defend democracy. Reply Agile Opportunism – Entrepreneurial DNA « Steve Blank , on June 29, 2009 at 7:02 am Said: [.] The invention of electronic warfare, part I and II. [.]

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How I Spent My Summer Vacation

Steve Blank

Granite mountains and alpine green meadows during the day, unblinking stars in the frigid August nights. When we were looking for funding for IMVU (the company where Eric Ries first implemented Customer and Agile Development and where the Lean Startup was born,) I thought of Shawn. They are agile, resourceful and aggressive.

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Startup Resources

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Venture Capital Cafe > Startup Resources (Updated Mar 2013). Lean Methodology Sources. Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. Part 3- Lean Cust. Steve Blank’s Lean Startup Resources. Lean Startup Circle â?? Agile project management tool that enables real time collaboration.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

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Just as.NET is both a lock-in and very restricting, and Java violates both “lean cuisine class hierarchy” and “objects if necessary, but not necessarily objects”, the “we’ll just use XML” mantra deserves to die. This is about the mental agility, inquisitiveness and determination of a coder.

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