Tag Start-Up

Quote From Getting to Plan B

Here is a quote from Getting to Plan B, “The research on new product success and failure indicates that it takes fifty-eight new product ideas to deliver a single successful new product.” I’m reading this book from by John Mullins and Randy Komisar and find it interesting so far. The fundamental premise of the book [...]

Inc Magazine article on ‘Lean Product Development’

Inc Magazine has an article on ‘Lean Product Development’, an emerging business philosophy that has recently gained a lot of momentum. Applying lean concepts to product management is the latest in the application of lean manufacturing to software development over the last few years.
While a Lean Product Development, evangelized by Eric Ries and Steve Blank, [...]

Steve Blank’s Customer Development Manifesto

If you haven’t been reading Steve Blank’s Blog you are missing out on some of the best entrepreneurial gold around and his recent series of posts on the Customer Development Manifesto are a great place to start

Great Quote from Steve Blank

Great quote from Steve Blank “Startups were not just smaller versions of a large company, they were about invention, innovation and iteration – of business model, product, customers and on and on. Startups were doing discovery of the problem and solution in real-time.”
Make it the present tense and that’s what we do daily.

Good business reality check

Great post: When Talking About Business Models, Remember That Profits Equal Revenues Minus Costs