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Lessons From Leaders

SVPG

Think in leaps, but iterate in steps" - I attribute this to Google, and I like it because it helps to highlight the need for both product vision and for Agile methods, and to help teams understand why these goals are not in conflict. "Be I have literally hundreds that I've aggregated and curated. Very hard for me to pick just ten.

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MANAGING DIRECTOR OF TECHSTARS AUSTIN

Austin Startup

MANAGING DIRECTOR OF TECHSTARS AUSTIN AMOS SCHWARTZFARB REVEALS DETAILS ON SEPT. 4 LAUNCH EVENT FOR NEW BOOK ‘SELL MORE FASTER’ (AUSTIN, TEXAS ? —?Aug. New York City, NY Sept. 10: Techstars New York?—?New New York City, NY?—? 30, 2019; source: Juice Consulting) ? —? Austin, TX?—? Denver, CO?—?

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It's a startup, not a spreadsheet

Startup Lessons Learned

Imagine a general manager that has read The Innovator’s Dilemma and related books, and is therefore trying hard to help her organization make a transition to a new product category via disruptive innovation. Still, this manager is going to spend the company’s money, and needs to be held accountable. So far, so good.

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Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases non-events

Startup Lessons Learned

My transition to Continuous Deployment Prior to adopting continuous deployment, I used to release software on a weekly schedule (come rain or shine) which I viewed as pretty agile, disciplined, and aggressive. Managing weekly releases got a lot harder once I started doing customer development. Things started to slip.

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Lessons Learned: Validated learning about customers

Startup Lessons Learned

These founders have not managed, to borrow a phrase from Steve Blank , to create a scalable and repeatable sales process. First of all, it means that most aggregate measures of success, like total revenue, are not very useful. Go on an agile diet quickly. Labels: agile , customer development 15comments: Scott Shapiro said.

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Marching through quicksand

Startup Lessons Learned

Or follow all of the New York Times columnists equally? This is good news for everyone except those who have huge legacy investments in large-batch distribution. Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? But the traditional media brands simply aren’t good enough. Expo SF (May.

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Crisis versus Opportunity: 6 Ways to Bootstrap a Startup in a Post-COVID-19 World While Navigating the New Normal

ReadWriteStart

Governor Cuomo, governor of New York State, USA, highlighted the quintessential issue with the coronavirus pandemic in his conversation with Howard Stern on 13 April 2020. Thus, you must manage your available finances wisely. It’s vital to be aware of the fact that agile iterations are not random and haphazard.