Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 7, 2009

As the product matured, they were able to ratchet up the quality to prevent regression on features that had been truly embraced by their customers. Starting instead from a position where feedback cycle time is the priority and allowing quality to ratchet up as the product matures provides a more natural lead in to continuous deployment.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 7, 2008

It also helps ratchet down the pressure, since so many of the interruptions that plague the typical hacker are actually the same bugs recurring over and over. In school I was being pounded day and night with anything that has to do with agile software development. I am basically a one-man shop. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

And the urgency stems not from an agile competitor, a first-mover market, or a power-law distribution of reward, but rather from the need to achieve enough velocity to overcome the tremendous gravitational pull of business-as-usual. In my case, the scarce resources, rather than time and money, are time and political capital.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 18, 2020

If negotiations fail, China may respond and escalate, via one of many agile strategic responses short of war, perhaps succeeding in coercing the foundry to stop making chips for American companies – turning the tables on the United States. Short of war, there would be no obvious way to get those foundries back.

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