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

Steve Blank

Poulsen Wireless was later bought by Federal Telegraph of San Francisco. 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. The HP and Agilent credit union is called “Addison Avenue&#. to do that.

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Beyond the garage

Startup Lessons Learned

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. The number of Lean Startup meetup groups has crossed 100, spreading out from traditional startup hubs like San Francisco and New York to a wide variety of places.

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Eric Ries and Kent Beck Discuss Product Development

Startup Lessons Learned

On November 14 (that’s this Thursday) at 1p PT, Eric Ries will speak with Kent Beck, a creator of Agile software development, about facilitating the work of engineers and product teams. For even deeper learning, register for The Lean Startup Conference , December 9 – 11 in San Francisco, where Kent will be a speaker.'

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The LeanLaunch Pad at Stanford – Class 6: Channel Hypotheses

Steve Blank

All the teams were showing us what agile looked like, but this week several would remind us what focused and relentless really meant. The team interviewed another 9 customers and industry experts and attended the Amazon Web Services meetup in San Francisco. Parts one through five are here , Syllabus is here.

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6 Customer Success Secrets

Guy Nirpaz

In the 2nd annual customer success summit last month in San Francisco, I’ve introduced the Customer Success Manifesto. If you are familiar with the agile software development manifesto will see a similar presentation style (visuals are updated to 2014 though).

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The Future of Government: Hayward & the Lean Startup

Startup Lessons Learned

series that also includes the Future of Work , the Future of Corporate Agility, Skill-Sharing, and more in the weeks leading up to Lean Startup Week. It also adds the customer empathy piece that was missing for me from agile or Lean methods. 6 in San Francisco. This interview is part of a “Future of….”

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Lean Startup at Scale

Startup Lessons Learned

One good example is the way in which we''ve adjusted the length of different phases of our agile sprints. We don''t follow a set agile methodology, but rather follow a more home-grown, minimal version of various approaches. But that doesn’t mean that we don’t take these ideas seriously.

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