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Marching through quicksand

Startup Lessons Learned

I place them roughly in this order: Movies > Television > Books > Music > Magazines > Radio > Newspapers Each industry is watching the one in front of it sink into the quicksand. As I talk to established media companies, their responses are surprisingly uniform. August 24, 2009 2:17 PM Norbert Mocsnik said. Expo SF (May.

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DataRails Hires David Rosenberg as New VP of Customer Success

The Startup Magazine

He has a wealth of experience in the data vertical, having served in previous roles at companies such as Intel, AllScripts, and Vision.bi. DataRails allows companies to manage their data in Excel, operating as a front end to a cloud database , which makes it far more agile and easier to create accurate models.

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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.) so at least some parts are being run by people who know what they are doing.

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The Customer Development Manifesto: Reasons for the Revolution.

Steve Blank

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. Doesn’t it depend on vertical market.? Thanks for sharing.

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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.) Are his costs in control?

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Gravity Will be Turned Off « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

One day I opened up a Scientific American magazine and read an article on a prank that had been pulled at CalTech the year before. Reply Agile Opportunism – Entrepreneurial DNA « Steve Blank , on June 29, 2009 at 7:02 am Said: [.] And something about the story clicked for me. entire story can be found at Steve Blank.

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The curse of prevention

Startup Lessons Learned

In other words, a principled way to combine agility with stability. In other words, you can always invest in process, batch size reduction, and agility as an alternative to preventing a specific problem. In other words, a principled way to combine agility with stability. Many problems are catastrophic only if allowed to fester.