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The Principles of Product Development Flow
If you've ever wondered why agile or lean development techniques work, The Principles of Product Development Flow: Second Generation Lean ...
Putting What Little We Actually Know About Chrome OS Into Context
The future of computing probably is in the direction of thin clients connecting to network services for storage and software, but my hunch is that Chrome OS is too thin.
Strategy Letter IV: Bloatware and the 80/20 Myth
Version 5.0 of Microsoft’s flagship spreadsheet program Excel came out in 1993. It was positively huge: it required a whole 15 megabytes of hard drive space. In those days we could still reme…
Introducing the Google Chrome OS
Insights from Googlers into our products, technology, and the Google culture
Gmail is out of beta
Insights from Googlers into our products, technology, and the Google culture
Rules for Bootstrapped Web App Startups
Allan lists 10 things that every startup should value.
Introducing our new venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz
Marc Andreessen is a cofounder and general partner at the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. He is an innovator and creator, one of the few to
Dev stays without pay to finish Mac Graphing Calculator as skunkworks project
Pacific Tech's Graphing Calculator has a long history. I began the work in 1985 while in school. That became Milo , and later became part of FrameMaker . Over the last twenty years, many people have contributed to it. Graphing Calculator 1.0, which Apple bundled with the original PowerPC computers, originated under…
The natural evolution from side project to full-time business
Some have doubted our advice that you should hold on to your day job and start something on the side. They argue building a business requires such persistent effort that you need to devote all your time to it to do it right. And it’s true that building a business requires plenty of time an…
Steve Blank: Selling with Sports Scores
When I was a young marketer I learned how to listen to customers by making a fool of myself. Twenty eight years ago I was the bright, young, eager product marketing manager called out to the field …