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Agile Opportunism – Entrepreneurial DNA « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

Martin , on June 29, 2009 at 8:26 am Said: “Eighty percent of success is showing up.&# – Woody Allen A version of your story about showing up for a job that didn’t exist happened to me when I reported for work at a lab in eastern Washington state years ago. Agile Opportunism – Entrepreneurial DNA. Reply Create.

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Lessons Learned: Combining agile development with customer development

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, March 16, 2009 Combining agile development with customer development Today I read an excellent blog post that I just had to share. Jim Murphy is a long-time agile practitioner in startups. But startups sometimes have trouble applying agile successfully.

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Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond"

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, April 4, 2010 Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Kent Beck will give the opening keynote at the Startup Lessons Learned conference on April 23. Labels: sllconf Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Kent Beck will give the opening keynote at the Startup Lessons Learned conference on April 23.

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Lessons Learned: Stevey's Blog Rants: Good Agile, Bad Agile

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, November 6, 2008 Steveys Blog Rants: Good Agile, Bad Agile I thought Id share an interesting post from someone with a decidedly anti-agile point of view. Steveys Blog Rants: Good Agile, Bad Agile : "Google is an exceptionally disciplined company, from a software-engineering perspective.

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What would you want to tell Washington DC about startups?

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, September 8, 2009 What would you want to tell Washington DC about startups? Im writing this post from an airplane headed to Washington DC, where Ill be presenting at the Government 2.0 So heres my simple question: What do folks in Washington need to know about the global community of entrepreneurs?

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20 Entrepreneurs Share Their Takeaways from 2020

Hearpreneur

Photo Credit: J Haleem Washington. Thanks to J Haleem Washington, J Haleem, LLC ! #5- 8-Stay agile. 2020 was a year of many lessons, but if I had to pick one takeaway, it would be the importance of agility. Thanks to Bonnie Kuhl, Archer and Olive ! #4- 4- Remain productive and invest in yourself or your business.

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It’s Time To Take The ‘Sitting Is The New Smoking’ Claims Seriously

YoungUpstarts

His description of the daily meeting at Agile Software Development is simple: ‘The whole team meets every day for a quick status update. Moreover, a study at Washington University in St. Watch Merchant’s TED talk on the topic here. Jason Yip suggests that a brief stand-up meeting every day is a great way to check how progress is going.

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