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Lean Startups aren't Cheap Startups

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

For those of you who have been following the discussion, a Lean Startup is Eric Ries ’s description of the intersection of Customer Development , Agile Development and if available, open platforms and open source. Over its lifetime a Lean Startup may spend less money than a traditional startup.

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“Speed and Tempo” – Fearless Decision Making for Startups « Steve.

Steve Blank

APRIL 10, 2009

That’s why startups are agile. Startups that are agile have mastered one other trick – and that’s Tempo – the ability to make quick decisions consistently over extended periods of time. Reply Why Startups are Agile and Opportunistic -- Pivoting the Business Model , on April 14, 2010 at 6:32 am Said: [.]

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Am I a Founder? The Adventure of a Lifetime. « Steve Blank

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JUNE 11, 2009

Agile – you may find the real opportunities for your company was somewhere else. This means you still need to have a resilient personality, and be agile. And you’ll still need to have a resilient and agile personality, as new customer and product opportunities will appear and change your work. The Adventure of a Lifetime.

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Lessons Learned: What does a startup CTO actually do?

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

If youre trying to design an architecture to maximize agility, how can that work if some people are working in TDD and others not? Platform selection and technical design - if your business strategy is to create a low-burn, highly iterative lean startup, youd better be using foundational tools that make that easy rather than hard.

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SuperMac War Story 6: Building The Killer Team – Mission, Intent.

Steve Blank

APRIL 9, 2009

But what I wanted was an agile marketing team capable of operating independently without day-to-day direction. The first reaction from my CEO was, “that’s why you’re running the department.” And yes, we could have built a top-down, command-and-control hierarchy. Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice.

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The Secret History of Silicon Valley Part VI: Every World War II.

Steve Blank

APRIL 27, 2009

And in hindsight, we seemed a bit more agile and innovative in WWII.) Yet decades later the military lacked the agility to write a spec in two years, let alone get 10′s of thousands of new systems deployed on aircraft as Terman had done. How was this possible? Thanks for connecting the historical dots!

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Convergent Technologies: War Story 1 – Selling with Sports Scores.

Steve Blank

JUNE 25, 2009

Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice.

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Story Behind “The Secret History” Part III: The Most Important.

Steve Blank

APRIL 6, 2009

Forty years before Agile Development methodologies became popular, ESL had analysts from its &# customer&# sitting side-by-side with ESL engineers designing new equipment together. These would be the heart of ESL’s business. A-12 OXCART CIA Spyplane ESL found other ways to stay very close to its customers.

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The “Good” Student « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

APRIL 7, 2009

You don’t get grades for having resiliency, curiosity, agility, resourcefulness, pattern recognition and tenacity. There’s a big difference between being an employee at a great technology company and having the guts to start one. You just get successful. Steve Blank [.] Midas Oracle.NET , on August 30, 2009 at 11:53 pm Said: [.]

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Customer Development Manifesto: The Path of Warriors and Winners.

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

In future posts I’ll describe how Eric Ries and the Lean Startup concept provide the equivalent model for product development activities inside the building and neatly integrates customer and agile development. This post describes a solution – the Customer Development Model. Thank you, Steve.

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The Secret History of Silicon Valley Part VIII: The Rise of.

Steve Blank

AUGUST 6, 2009

Air Force also needed improvements in frequency agility to protect its cold war bombers. Frequency agility can be best described by what happened over Germany in WWII. B-47 - primary Strategic Air Command Bomber in the 1950's As a result, to protect its bombers flying over the Soviet Union the U.S.

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A Wilderness of Mirrors

Steve Blank

JULY 1, 2009

Filed under: Secret History of Silicon Valley « Agile Opportunism – Entrepreneurial DNA Rocket Science 2: Drinking the Kool-Aid » 2 Responses Ben , on July 1, 2009 at 2:31 pm Said: Great post Steve. I can’t get this one out of my head. during World War II.

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The Secret History of Silicon Valley Part IX: Entrepreneurship in.

Steve Blank

AUGUST 10, 2009

Rapid Scan/High Probability of Intercept – Stanford’s contribution In the last post we described Stanford’s high power, electronically tuned microwave tubes (the Backward Wave Oscillator ) which made high power, frequency agile airborne jammers possible. Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice.

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

Steve Blank

MARCH 28, 2009

Reply Agile Opportunism – Entrepreneurial DNA « Steve Blank , on June 29, 2009 at 7:02 am Said: [.] Getting B-52s through the Soviet Air Defense System Posted on March 29, 2009 by steveblank This is post II of how I came to write “ The Secret History of Silicon Valley “ 1974.

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How do I find a developer to help me with my idea?

www.scottporad.com

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Subscribe to comments with RSS or TrackBack to Mailbag: How do I find a developer to help me with my idea? Written by scottporad November 15th, 2010 at 8:00 am Posted in Mailbag « What It Really Means To Be a CTO Mailbag: What information do I need to recruit a developer? and Failblog.org.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2010

This is also why I get so outraged when people treat Lean Startup like a religion. You can test theories like Lean Startup in your own practice, and discover if they deliver the outcomes they predict – and you can do it in small batches. You are the “hits&# that websites crave, the followers and the RSS subscribers.

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Vertical Markets 4: Putting it All Together « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2009

Waterfall, Agile, Lean? Intellectual Property/Patents – Strategic or Tactical, timing? Regulatory Issues – What are they? Time to Market – How long? Product Development – How do you engineer it? Manufacturing – How do you build it? Seed and Follow-on Financing – How do your finance it? Liquidity – How? M&A, IPO?

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Agile Opportunism – Entrepreneurial DNA « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

JUNE 29, 2009

Agile Opportunism – Entrepreneurial DNA « Steve Blank (tags: startup) [.] Agile Opportunism – Entrepreneurial DNA. Steve Blank, Agile Opportunism – Entrepreneurial DNA: … entrepreneurs instinctualy realize that the best advocate for their careers is themselves [.] Reply What did I learn today? Reply Create.

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The Trend Towards Lean Startups :: Small Business Marketing Blog.

Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 15, 2011

SIMPLE, EFFECTIVE AND AFFORDABLE SMALL BUSINESS MARKETING Home About Consulting Products Programs Workshops Blog Resources Contact Subscribe by RSS Subscribe to Duct Tape Marketing by Email Small Business Week 2011 Our winners! The basis of the concept, as applied to startups, comes from the Lean manufacturing world popularized by Toyota.

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Startup Ethics: Albatross or Essential? « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

APRIL 2, 2009

I teach teams various Agile techniques, and occasionally get told some particular trick is cheating. Posted on April 2, 2009 by steveblank A comment left on the previous post made me realize that it was time to discuss a subject I was going to save for latter – ethics. Reply William Pietri , on April 2, 2009 at 3:56 pm Said: Well put.

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The Promise of the Lean Startup

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 20, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, August 20, 2009 The Promise of the Lean Startup Im honored to have a guest post on GigaOm to introduce the concept of the lean startup to their audience. The ultimate goal of a lean startup is to identify where its vision intersects with what reality can accommodate.

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Women 2.0 » FounderDating: How I Found My Co-Founder

www.women2.org

MARCH 8, 2012

Subscribe via RSS. During this talk, well discuss the most effective techniques from Customer Discovery, Product Discovery, Lean Startups, Lean UX, Agile Development and Design Thinking to create real value for our customers. Learn more about Women 2.0. Guest blog post? Email editor@women2.org. Community Follow @women2.

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The Secret History of Silicon Valley Part V: Happy 100th Birthday.

Steve Blank

APRIL 20, 2009

Another piece of trivial: the road that is the side-entrance (during business hours) to Agilent Corporation HQ in Santa Clara is named “Terman Lane&# after Terman. Agilent, of course, was once Hewlett-Packard’s Test & Measurement, Chemical, Components and Medical organizations. to do that.

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The Curse of a New Building « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

MAY 15, 2009

Stay hungry, stay lean. I don’t want to be hungry and lean (nor do I want to be full and fat). It was an odd feeling at that time, we thought we have made it and fail to stay lean and hungry. Is it a given that the “lean, hungry&# culture can actually be maintained forever? Don’t let it happen to you.

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Lo, my 1032 subscribers, who are you?

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 19, 2008

Lessons Learned is the best RSS source in my overflowing Newsgator Online account. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Startup Visa update ► February (5) Kiwi lean startup + Australia next Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business) Beware of Vanity Metrics (for Harvard Business Rev. Expo SF (May.

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Lessons Learned: The App Store after the gold rush

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 7, 2008

On the iPhone, it seems that two are driving most of the installs: the "newest apps" RSS feed (which may be combined with PR) and a primitive form of SEO, when people search the App Store for a specific kind of app. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Acqusition competition is how new apps get new customers.

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Raising Money Using Customer Development

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

They will realize that you have built a startup that’s agile, resilient and customer-centric. Your presentation doesn’t have a single word about Lean Startups or Customer Development. Good to see someone with authority advocating an approach to building startups that we at Agile Entrepreneurs focus on, week after week.

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The Customer Development Manifesto: Reasons for the Revolution.

Steve Blank

AUGUST 31, 2009

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. The Focus on Execution Versus Agility The product development diagram has a linear flow from left to right.

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“Lessons Learned” – A New Type of Venture Capital Pitch

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 12, 2009

After these slides, these VC’s recognized that this company had dramatically reduced risk and built a startup that was agile, resilient and customer-centric. The presentation didn’t have a single word about Lean Startups or Customer Development. We’ve been inspired by Steve Blank and the Customer Development / lean startup model.

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Founders and dysfunctional families « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

MAY 18, 2009

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. I coach agile teams for a living, and I do most of my work with start-ups. I said, “well for me you’d have to add coming from a dysfunctional family.”

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Your Business “Driving Force”

market-by-numbers.com

DECEMBER 7, 2009

Market By Numbers on Twitter | Entries RSS | Comments RSS Market By Numbers High-Tech Marketing and Customer Development Home What is Customer Development? Follow my posts with RSS Follow me on Twitter. link] about 1 hour ago from Quora RT @marksbertrand : like lean? Feel free to Contact me.

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The Customer Development Manifesto: The Startup Death Spiral (part.

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

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. Possibly related posts: (automatically generated)Sunset BoulevardBOOTY SHAKE CONTEST GONE [.]

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Going to Trade Shows Like it Matters – Part 2

Steve Blank

MAY 22, 2009

Everyone should be articulate and agile in describing and demoing the products.) For bigger booths a good rule of thumb is to have two to four staffers for every 100 square feet of exhibit space. Even for the smallest trade show, no one shows up without booth training. Messages, themes, demo’s.

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

Steve Blank

APRIL 30, 2009

Hopefully you and your co-founders are experts in one or two parts (agile development, SEO/SEM, etc.) Initially your job is to understand each of the parts of your business model before you hire someone to do it. so at least some parts are being run by people who know what they are doing.

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So You're Going To Start A Huge New Web Project

css-tricks.com

JANUARY 2, 2013

And all too often in an agile approach, tweaks are made for business and dev requirements. There are proven development methodologies out there like Lean, Agile, Waterfall. If you let the UX team drive the ship, nothing will ever be shipped the way it’s designed. UX isn’t going to make the tweaks. View Results.

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MARCH 11, 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. Agile project management. Lean project management. Agile eLearning.

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Product design debt versus Technical debt

andrewchenblog.com

MARCH 10, 2010

What we have learned is that you have to be agile and test like crazy but every 3 or so releases we have a product expert review the information architecture and experience to specifically unify, clean-up and refactor the sections that need the most help.

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Gravity Will be Turned Off « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

MAY 13, 2009

Reply Agile Opportunism – Entrepreneurial DNA « Steve Blank , on June 29, 2009 at 7:02 am Said: [.] Reply Gravity Will Be Turned Off « Avid Editor’s Insights , on May 17, 2009 at 1:31 am Said: [.] entire story can be found at Steve Blank. It’s worth a few minutes time off from reaming [.]

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Customer Development Manifesto: Market Type (part 4) « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

In future posts I’ll describe 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. é o processo de geração de oportunidades de negócio (leads) do seu produto?

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The Customer Development Manifesto: Reasons for the Revolution.

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

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. Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice.

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Elephants Can Dance – Reinventing HP « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

JUNE 22, 2009

The original Hewlett Packard which made test and measurement products was spun-out and renamed Agilent. Agilent is a $5.8 Technology changes, culture changes, customer needs change, more agile competitors emerge, etc. The remaining company kept the Hewlett Packard name and focussed on computers.

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The Sharp End of the Stick « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

MAY 4, 2009

Their own internal culture would tie them up in knots, and agile startups could run rings around them. Build a company culture where everyone supports the “sharp end of the stick.” Stay agile, stay focused. Don’t let this happen to your company. Embrace and then c ommunicate the idea of a lead department(s).

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Change We Can Believe In - Reinventing the US Auto Industry: Open.

Steve Blank

APRIL 15, 2009

The reality is that independent electric vehicle startups will win over time (closer to the customer, more agile, etc.) with the auto bailout. with the auto bailout. (I will admit that taking a concept such as “open source” from the software business and applying it to the auto industry and Washington D.C. over a national platform.

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JULY 8, 2011

Github - Free public repositories, collaborator management, issue tracking, wikis, downloads, code review, graphs Pivotal Tracker – Agile project management tool that enables real time collaboration. Useful blogs and links for startups Click Here ————– 2. WebSequenceDiagrams - sketch sequence diagrams.

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Lean Startups aren't Cheap Startups

“Speed and Tempo” – Fearless Decision Making for Startups « Steve.

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Am I a Founder? The Adventure of a Lifetime. « Steve Blank

Lessons Learned: What does a startup CTO actually do?

SuperMac War Story 6: Building The Killer Team – Mission, Intent.

The Secret History of Silicon Valley Part VI: Every World War II.

Convergent Technologies: War Story 1 – Selling with Sports Scores.

Story Behind “The Secret History” Part III: The Most Important.

The “Good” Student « Steve Blank

Customer Development Manifesto: The Path of Warriors and Winners.

The Secret History of Silicon Valley Part VIII: The Rise of.

A Wilderness of Mirrors

The Secret History of Silicon Valley Part IX: Entrepreneurship in.

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

How do I find a developer to help me with my idea?

Stop lying on stage

Vertical Markets 4: Putting it All Together « Steve Blank

Agile Opportunism – Entrepreneurial DNA « Steve Blank

The Trend Towards Lean Startups :: Small Business Marketing Blog.

Startup Ethics: Albatross or Essential? « Steve Blank

The Promise of the Lean Startup

Women 2.0 » FounderDating: How I Found My Co-Founder

The Secret History of Silicon Valley Part V: Happy 100th Birthday.

The Curse of a New Building « Steve Blank

Lo, my 1032 subscribers, who are you?

Lessons Learned: The App Store after the gold rush

Raising Money Using Customer Development

The Customer Development Manifesto: Reasons for the Revolution.

“Lessons Learned” – A New Type of Venture Capital Pitch

Founders and dysfunctional families « Steve Blank

Your Business “Driving Force”

The Customer Development Manifesto: The Startup Death Spiral (part.

Going to Trade Shows Like it Matters – Part 2

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

So You're Going To Start A Huge New Web Project

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Product design debt versus Technical debt

Gravity Will be Turned Off « Steve Blank

Customer Development Manifesto: Market Type (part 4) « Steve Blank

The Customer Development Manifesto: Reasons for the Revolution.

Elephants Can Dance – Reinventing HP « Steve Blank

The Sharp End of the Stick « Steve Blank

Change We Can Believe In - Reinventing the US Auto Industry: Open.

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