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Massacre at IBM

Steve Blank

Long before there was the Lean Startup, Business Model Canvas or Customer Development there was a guy in Santa Barbara California who had already figured it out. consisted of product manager, hardware-engineering manager, software-engineering manager, applications analyst, and software designer.

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Customer Development is Not a Focus Group

Steve Blank

The reaction from our software guys was a little less kind. “Are Do you understand you are doubling the amount of work you are going to make for generations of software engineers? Reply My take on Customer Development and the Lean Startup | Recess Mobile Blog , on January 9, 2010 at 5:29 am Said: [.] Then WHAT it IS?

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Out of the Ashes - Something Isn't Quite Right

Steve Blank

I’m a software engineer by trade, so I’m always interested in some better way to do things, whether they are in software or in business processes or organizations. Your blog post has provided a lot of useful insights for me which I’ve been implementing. Would you mind sharing them?

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Out of the Crisis #20: the founders of Bitwise on the role of technology in empowering people, spreading benefits to underserved communities, and the creation of OnwardUS

Startup Lessons Learned

They created a program called Onward California in partnership with the State of California and with the support of governor Newsom. Their model in California was so successful they eventually created a new organization, Onward US, dedicated to putting American workers displaced by COVID-19 back to work.

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SuperMac War Story 10: The Video Spigot « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

Unintended Consequences – Video Editing As these boards are flying out the door, one of the software engineers at SuperMac got to thinking about what did you do with video once you did get it into a computer – so he wrote the first Quicktime-based video editor which we called ReelTime. Adobe renamed ReelTime to Adobe Premiere.

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So you say you want to be a Product Manager …?

Austin Startup

I might have pursued a humanities education at a “ kumbaya college ” in California, but it’s only human to be at least a little bit selfish! I learned that software engineers?—?or It is important to obtain critical customer feedback in the ‘discovery’ phase before the ‘delivery’ stage where Engineers build the product.

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Out of the Crisis #13: Alpha Lee on remembering the 2003 SARS epidemic and his opensource COVID-19 Moonshot

Startup Lessons Learned

We are in Santa Clara, California, still holding up well. I think once we lean on the community, the community really has uplifted us to an even more promising stage. We are staying in the same Airbnb that we stayed in the past five months since arriving in California for YC. Alpha Lee : Yeah, it's been good so far.