SoCal CTO

APRIL 2, 2013

What's Going to Go Wrong A lot of founders don't really understand Lean Startup principles. Don't be fooled by a Common Misunderstanding in Agile Software Development. They look at the following high level definition of Lean: and they interpret that as write up an executive summary with your ideas and hand it to developers to build.

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Agile VC

DECEMBER 4, 2014

I like to say that “there are only co-founders” — it’s extraordinarily rare for a successful business to have just a sole founder. But not all co-founders are equal in terms of title, ownership, responsibilities, and so forth. Sometimes co-founders put off the equity split question for some time.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Jeff Katzenberg has a great track record – head of the studio at Paramount, chairman of Disney Studios, co-founder of DreamWorks and now chairman of NewTV. Lean was designed to inform the founders’ vision while they operated frugally at speed. ” Fire, Ready, Aim. He just hired Meg Whitman. The result?

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 30, 2014

by Sam Bahreini, co-founder and COO of VoloForce. Sam Bahreini, a seasoned operations officer and agile entrepreneur, is co-founder and COO of VoloForce , a company that helps enterprise retail brands understand organization implementation through automation and simplification.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 16, 2009

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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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 4, 2010

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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Steve Blank

JULY 7, 2015

Jon Sebastiani , founder and CEO of KRAVE Jerky , a company that got its start in my class at Berkeley back in 2011 and was recently acquired by Hershey. Eric Ries co-founded Catalyst Recruiting while attending Yale, and continued his entrepreneurial career as a Senior Software Engineer at There.com. Taking My Class.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 6, 2013

. + 1,000 startup founders, investors, and press! Vinod Khosla Founder Dave McClure Founding Partner Eric Ries Author Steve Blank Serial Entrepreneur & Professor Todd Park CTO Travis Kalanick CEO & Co-Founder Joe Zadeh Director of Product Sam Shank Co-Founder & CEO NEW!

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 6, 2008

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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View from Seed

MAY 14, 2019

A number of blog posts recently have mentioned this, but we seem to be experiencing a rise in repeat founders starting new businesses and raising seed capital. We’re also seeing a wave of folks who were not founders, but were star players among the first 25 folks at a unicorn company also starting new companies.

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Cracking the Code

MARCH 29, 2022

Yotam Segev (left) and Tamar Bar-Ilan (right), cofounders of Cyera The complex equation of data reality With AWS, Azure and GCP growing 40-50% YoY at massive scale (AWS’ run rate is more than $70B!), it’s fair to say that migration to the cloud is in full swing.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 28, 2015

I can’t remember if Ryan used the word Agile at that time, but I remember scribbles on a white board that listed out all the different software that Ryan had used at BEA to manage his dev team and how maddening it was to try to integrate information in Word, Excel, Project, a dev workbench, a set of testing tools, and the support / QA system.

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Software Technology Agile SCRUM 70

VC Cafe

AUGUST 2, 2022

Tim Sweeney, the founder and CEO of Epic is a long term visionary of our online future and the Metaverse. Tim Sweeney, Epic Games’ founder and CEO. Yuga Labs Pitch Deck: BAYC founders raised $450M from Andreesen Horowitz from Pitch Decks. Here we go! Epic Games. Dapper Labs.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

Successful founders have a laser-like focus and commitment; a keen understanding of customers’ needs; and a tenacious spirit, said the latest guests on Entrepreneurs are Everywhere , my radio show on Sirius XM Channel 111. Steve : … Team captain is a lot like the founder and CEO of a startup. Reetu Gupta. Mandela Schumacher-Hodge.

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The Startup Magazine

APRIL 14, 2022

Startups that are named after their founders sometimes do not succeed. As a startup founder, you should be concerned about whether your product or service will be a success or not. You need to keep your startup lean and agile and not become big with too much money and too many people. Choose a unique brand name. Conclusion.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 20, 2019

by Everett Harper, CEO and cofounder of Truss. Startups tend to put a premium on being “agile,” but that doesn’t always work – and certainly won’t replace the effective collaboration a business needs to grow. Founder Labs in 2011, Everett pitched an idea to make calendars more useful for executive assistants. At Women 2.0

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 18, 2019

He’s also a co-founder of Techstars with me, David Cohen, and David Brown. So, it shouldn’t be a surprise that one of Jared Polis’ relatively early new initiatives as Governor is the Colorado Digitial Service.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

I was agile enough to keep up with innumerable changes and I was changing lots of things myself. Some (like your peers or even the founders) don’t understand it, and others (the VCs) realize it’s not in their interest to let you know. Declare them cultural co-founders. Your original hires embody the company culture.

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The Next Web

MARCH 6, 2014

Here’s a problem I bet every non-technical founder has experienced: the communication gap between what the biz dev team wants and what the tech team thinks they want, and vice versa. It’s disruptive, and for founders, very frustrating to watch. Practice Agile Development. Kelsey Meyer , Influence & Co.

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Technical Review Development Team Review Developer Agile 129

Hearpreneur

AUGUST 20, 2023

4- Find the right relationships Photo Credit: Mike Pio Roda “Never leave money on the table” might seem tempting, but it's not always the wisest path for founders and business owners. Contrary to the initial advice, I learned that it's essential to embrace agility and be willing to pivot when necessary.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 27, 2011

We had a wide-ranging discussion which included discussions of Eric’s early career (including his failures), how he came to focus on the Lean Startup movement (at the encouragement of Steve Blank who was an investor in the company he co-founded) and what he wants to do next. 42:20 Did agile development influence you?

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Silicon Valley Lean Social Media PR 301

Agile VC

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

We’re excited and feel incredibly lucky to have them back on board: Niraj Shah & Steve Conine – Co-founders of Wayfair. Mike Baker – Co-Founder/CEO of DataXu. Brian Shin – Founder/CEO of Visible Measures.

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Software Review Technical Review Entrepreneur Cofounder 113

Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 25, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, March 25, 2009 The Lean Startup at Agile Vancouver April 21st A surprising number of respondents in the latest Lessons Learned survey hail from one of the flourishing startup hubs in Canada. Combining agile development with customer developm. And when did there get to be 3000 of you?

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The Startup Magazine

APRIL 23, 2020

Here’s more from The Startup Magazine Founder Interview series. We interviewed Michel Ruiz, CEO and co-founder of KaviAR Tech , an augmented reality software startup headquartered in Paris. TSM: What is your favorite part of being the founder of KaviAR Tech? Michel Ruiz, CEO and co-founder of KaviAR Tech.

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South Africa Las Vegas Founder South Carolina 147

Agile VC

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

We’re excited and feel incredibly lucky to have them back on board: Niraj Shah & Steve Conine – Co-founders of Wayfair. Mike Baker – Co-Founder/CEO of DataXu. Brian Shin – Founder/CEO of Visible Measures. advice and mentorship to founders in the NextView portfolio.

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Software Review Technical Review Entrepreneur Cofounder 100

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 16, 2016

By Bryan Miles, CEO and co-founder, Miles Advisory Group, Inc. This top-of-mind awareness and intentionality with our cash keep us agile and enable us to take on new opportunities. Bryan Miles is CEO & co-founder of Miles Advisory Group, Inc. When businesses begin booming, that’s typically a good thing.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 27, 2012

What I saw reminded me of some of the best and worst things I did as a founder. Tossing their agile development process and at times their entire business model in the air, the company would go into fire-drill mode and engineering would start working on whatever his latest insight was. A Pivot a Week. We’re building the wrong product!”

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Founder Cofounder Advisory Board Burn Rate 321

YoungUpstarts

MARCH 4, 2015

In order to grow, startups need a much more focused, realistic and agile approach to goal setting that builds momentum and establishes a pattern of success. For startups, agility is a must. The problem is, by setting outrageously lofty, long-term and immeasurable goals, the satisfaction of that carrot often never materializes.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 9, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, July 9, 2010 Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# theory of management At any given time, something like four percent of the US population is engaged in some form of new-company-creation. Are we solving the right problem? We can do better by focusing on process instead of personality.

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View from Seed

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

Isaac Cambron is co-founder and CTO of Zensight.co , whose pre-launch product enables sales reps to find and use their best content to close more deals. Below, he answers questions about developing products from scratch, as well as the difficult technology choices and tradeoffs CTOs must make.

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 4, 2016

Most startups’ founding mythologies are full of the same phrases : “hard work,” “agile strategy,” “smart scaling.” Take this article my co-founder Shane Snow wrote for Mashable a few months after we founded Contently. Like a lot of startup founders, I’m a huge nerd. Make talent a top priority.

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Startup Cofounder Software Review Sales Cycle 120

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 3, 2017

by Bill Lewis, co-founder at Temasys Communications. Newcomers have agility, speed to market, and – often – innovation on their side. At the same time, small agile micro global entrepreneurs bite away at the other end as digital platforms provide rapid low-cost access into completely new. And the digital wrapper.

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Global Technical Review Agile Internet 113

Austin Startup

AUGUST 23, 2017

Upgrade From This Old Unnecessary Process David Hawks , CEO, Agile Velocity Main take-away — focus on discovery, not as much delivery. Most of the Agile world is in the perspective of delivery focus. After listening, below are lessons learned from four sessions of the 25 offered. User Stories Suck!

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Austin Technical Review Agile SQL 48

The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Nikhil Arora and Alejandro Velez’s journey as co-founders of Back to the Roots also stands as proof of the transformative impact of MBA education on sustainable business practices.

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Global Programming Non-Compete Agile 145

Steve Blank

JULY 25, 2023

I just spent a month and a half at Imperial College London co-teaching a “Wicked” Entrepreneurship class. Co mpanies also face Wicked problems. In this case Wicked doesn’t mean morally evil, but refers to really complex problems, ones with multiple moving parts, where the solution isn’t obvious.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 26, 2020

by Hema Crockett and Jamie Jacobs, co-founders of Gig Talent and authors of “ Designing Exceptional Organizational Cultures: How to Develop Companies where Employees Thrive “ We’re seeing it happen day by day. So, what should we learn from all of this pivoting and how do we build on new opportunities moving forward?

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Cofounder Hiring Agile Employee 246

Agile VC

DECEMBER 13, 2011

I looked at this founder’s prior startup, which ultimately had a successful exit, and then was happy to connect with him again as he launches a new project. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. Author howerl. Filed under Uncategorized. Read More ».

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