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. Value Propositions and Customer Segments are covered in weeks 1 and 2, emphasizing the search for problem/solution and then product/market fit.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 20, 2011

We taught them the business model / customer development / agile development solution stack. This methodology forces rapid hypothesis testing and Customer Development by getting out of the building while building the product. After returning to their schools, they got out of their labs while they built their products.

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 3, 2024

Remember, every ‘yes’ to a work task is potentially a ‘no’ to your family, hobbies, rest, or health. Just as compounding interest grows wealth, compounding rest grows resilience and innovation. ” To leverage technology for balance, use productivity software to manage your time and tasks efficiently.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 7, 2021

The classic lifespan of successful products is a story in four parts: Introduction Growth Maturity Decline. How this story plays out has a lot to do with the type of product and how it’s improved over time, if at all. In this article, we’ll look at the different stages of the product lifecycle through the lens of marketing.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

They communicated this to product management who looked at all of the internal requirements we had generated (e.g. and product management worked with me to decide what to build & when. I spent time with the folks (Klaus Schauser and Brian Danahoo) at AppFolio before they ever launched their products. They recorded it.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

APRIL 5, 2010

When we demand overwhelming customer outcry before committing to the slightest product change, we're in danger of losing the value of creating a cool feature that takes too much effort but people just love. Still, every article I read turns the creative process of business and product design into Vulcanian objectivity.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 19, 2011

Jeff has been promoting the use of Lean UX as an effective method to spur greater innovation, quality and productivity in startups as well as within teams in larger organizations. Originally a waterfall shop, we transitioned to Agile development about two years ago. A dedicated User Experience (UX) designer is assigned to this team.

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SoCal CTO

APRIL 9, 2013

Most of the rest of the post is going to focus more on finding development rather than design firms. And you will want to make sure you see what the particular designers have done, samples of their work product, their process, etc. Do not fall into the trap of Startups and a Common Misunderstanding in Agile Software Development.

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SVPG

JUNE 13, 2014

I was also a reviewer of the book and it is definitely a must-read for any product person and fills a very big gap in the current library of Agile titles. I’ve had the extremely good fortune to be able to work with many of the very best technology product teams in the world. Engineers exasperated with their product owners.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 25, 2011

SLLCONF featured incredible entrepreneurs on stage to put those ideas to rest (watch, for example: Aardvark , Grockit , Dropbox , PBworks ). It may be hard to remember that there was a time when people in the agile software development community thought Lean Startup was incompatible with agile practices.

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

Modern businesses rely heavily on this positive cyclical and iterative disruption to be competitive in the marketplace and innovate, delivering new services and products to their customers faster than ever. Hyperconverged Infrastructure.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

This post describes how following the traditional product development can lead to a “startup death spiral.&# In the next posts that follow, I’ll describe how this model’s failures led to the Customer Development Model – offering a new way to approach startup sales and marketing activities. The board raises a collective eyebrow.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 11, 2009

Agile – you may find the real opportunities for your company was somewhere else. Passionate – is the company/product/customers the most important thing in your life? This means you still need to have a resilient personality, and be agile. The rest is worth reading as well. How quickly will you recover?

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Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

The organizations that do manage to keep up are further driving change by redefining the technology landscape around their platforms, causing the rest to fall even further behind. I wanted to bring the same benefits we were seeing in the small in these highly productive open source projects, to software delivery organizations as a whole.

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Venture Chronicles

AUGUST 2, 2013

3) It all starts with the product: Companies can overcome a great many challenges with band-aids, duct tape, and bailing wire. but one aspect of a startup and/or growth stage company that cannot be glossed over is the product. It all starts with the product.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 4, 2017

But, an illness takes the velocity of the product or quality of support from heroic to zero. So, no project can have fewer than, say, three people dedicated to it, plus people management and possibly some form of Product or Project Management. If Google launches a new product that generates $10,000,000/year in revenue, is that good?

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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 rest is just fluff. We are currently in the process of validating our hypotheses about our product, customers, and markets. This is my new favorite post on your blog.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 8, 2013

I also want to explain that it is possible to have a truly agile work environment based on small, autonomous teams. The rest are providing central services like marketing, customer care and localization (20%) or others like HR, PR, Finance, Business Analytics and teams that maintain simple services for persistence of games.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 8, 2021

And from there, you can achieve a modest rate of growth as long as you keep providing quality products and services. . You may have a great product and a happy customer base, but what does that matter if nobody knows you exist? . You start with a great product or service and make sure your customers are getting what they need.

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The Startup Magazine

APRIL 14, 2022

It is what separates successful entrepreneurs from the rest. You could have the best product on the market, but if no one knows about it, then no one will buy it. If your startup’s name is too technical or complicated, people might not understand it, which may make them less likely to use your service or buy your product.

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SVPG

JUNE 5, 2015

NOTE: This article is a narrative version of a talk I’ve given for developers at the Craft Conference and for product managers and designers at Mind The Product. In this article I’d like to discuss the root causes of so many product failures. This is usually where Agile finally enters the picture.

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The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Adaptability and Flexibility is Pivotal Embracing change as an opportunity rather than a threat, pivoting strategies during downturns, and staying agile in a dynamic market are essential traits for surviving in a constantly evolving business landscape.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 6, 2014

If you’re not providing this kind of training, rest assured, they will move to a company that provides it. When you have a compensation plan based on an hourly rate, you’re paying for attendance, not production. But the most innovative, agile companies embrace mistakes. Use performance-based compensation.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Before product-market fit… just care about speed of iteration according to your customer feedback. So in terms of hiring, get people that can help you build the product faster… anything that minimizes the time between observing a need or a problem, and the execution or the fix for it.” Team, product, market. subtract $250,000.

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Software By Rob

APRIL 7, 2010

And ideally, by the time I code it up, we’ll have many customers using the platform which means I’ll be working on a product I know is viable, and that’s paying for the time I’m spending to automate it. Agile Development, meet Agile Business. Follow me Startups for the Rest of Us.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 30, 2022

In this article, you’ll learn how bootstrapping makes you a better business – a leaner, smarter, more agile company that can roll with the punches. You’re lean, agile, and responsive to external changes, ready to test a new idea or head in a new direction. Secondly, just how badly do you need that funding? Don’t answer just yet.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 23, 2018

These fears have been gradually laid to rest over the years with breakthroughs in cloud based systems as well as an increasing number of businesses in the healthcare sector who are satisfied with the quality of current cloud services. Production industry. Hospitality industry.

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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. Next, you have to deal with the daily crisis of product development and acquiring early customers. And that’s just to get started. steve Michael F.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 18, 2011

Guest author Chris Heilmann has been a professional Web developer since 1997 and has worked in various agencies and corporations on large, international products. communicating and working together in a sensible way means you can build your products 24/7. Companies keep buying startups with cool products, good ideas and talent.

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andrewchenblog.com

MARCH 10, 2010

The interesting part is when you get a couple months into your product cycle. However, there’s the other side of the coin, which is the product design. After you’ve added a ton of new features and stuck them all on the homepage, you create Product Design debt.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 23, 2020

From the feedback that I have received, I have gathered that my employees are happier and more productive while working from home. Despite being how basic it is, it’s still amazing how great health can boost one’s productivity. To be as productive as possible, we know that keeping things simple can go a long way.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 3, 2015

The disadvantage is that its methodology was based on the old waterfall model of product development and not the agile and lean methods that startups use today. It taught lean theory ( business model design , customer development and agile engineering) and practice. It’s just that they are validated instead of made up.).

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Business Plan Silicon Valley Saudi Arabia Lean 120

Steve Blank

MARCH 11, 2016

To be honest I built the class out of frustration watching schools teach aspiring entrepreneurs that all they need to know is how to write a business plan or how to sit in an incubator building a product. by having the students get out of the classroom and talk to 10-15 customers a week and build a new Minimum Viable Product weekly.

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www.readwriteweb.com

MAY 10, 2012

It was tough work convincing them, but you can’t rest on your laurels now. An agile approach with responsive design considers these issues from the start, but will require more upfront wireframing, design and testing that are omitted in the waterfall process. In our agile and responsive process, the design must live on a flexible grid.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Customer personas are often talked about in marketing and product design, but they’re almost never done well. You use them to make better marketing, product, and business decisions and to keep your customer top-of-mind when doing so. This post contains video, click to play]. They all mean the same thing, though.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 17, 2011

Entrepreneurs create success by being agile and by making effective but quick decisions based on what they have in front of them. It’s also about understanding when rebranding a school program can add a new spark to a program that reached the end of its useful life just as consumer product companies do every day.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 3, 2018

Shoutout to @PeepLaja and the rest of the CXL team for making this happen year after year. Corporate Agility. Transparency correlates to agility (Does your CEO know how many tests you ran last month?). Work hard to define meaningful product metrics – enabler of team success. Consider a new product category?

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