Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 11, 2020

It’s tough for an elephant to be agile. Every aspect of every product requires development, testing, manufacturing, marketing, and distribution. The probability of failure goes up exponentially as the number of product features increase. Did you know that both YouTube and Facebook started out to be dating sites?

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

With Agile development, used by all startups, updates can occur in weeks or sometimes days, or even hours. The answer is that, yes, government agencies need to be more agile. Some of the speed is simply due to development methodologies. So, the question is: What’s next?

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 6, 2020

Focus on agility as the key skill your organization needs. As a first step toward faster decisions and agility, practice applying the 80/20 Principle to your thinking. This starts with strong leadership and communication on your part, but it has to extend into the training, decision making, and reward systems that you foster.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Investors, partners, team members, and customers implicitly value or devalue a startup based on the leader’s physical presence, emotional identity, social skills, intellectual agility, moral values, and past performance in the domain. Strategic proficiency.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 15, 2020

Investors, partners, team members, and customers implicitly value or devalue a startup based on the leader’s physical presence, emotional identity, social skills, intellectual agility, moral values, and past performance in the domain. Strategic proficiency.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 3, 2018

Until we start giving grades for resiliency, curiosity, agility, resourcefulness, pattern recognition, tenacity and having a passion for products and customers, great grades and successful entrepreneurs have at best a zero correlation (and anecdotal evidence suggests that the correlation may actually be negative.).

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 26, 2023

Cultivate mental agility and a learning mindset. Experts have found that your willingness to “let go of what you know” is the overarching component of learning agility. Always do this in the context of the big picture and values, and be willing to reframe your thinking as needed, based on input from others.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 4, 2022

I’m sorry to predict it will never happen, so the agility you may have learned over the past couple of years will continue to be critical to your survival. Bezos believes that if you double the number of experiments you do per year, you’re going to double your agility, and thus outpace your competitors.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 18, 2022

The Hedge Strategy – Create “the small, the agile, and the many”. In a world where the large and the complex are either too expensive to generate en masse or potentially too vulnerable to put at risk, “the small, the agile, and the many” has the potential to define the future of Navy formations. ONR’s plan is to move boldly.

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TechEmpower

AUGUST 14, 2023

Specifically, they should know about, and help with: Asking and answering the 53 Questions Developers Should Ask Innovators Knowing when and how to bring on development talent ( Hiring Developers Before Product/Market Fit? ,

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 15, 2022

The challenge during this phase is to stay innovative and agile. For additional growth, most companies expand the product portfolio to cater to more customers, and sell more to existing customers. This usually marks the end of organic growth, as partnerships and alliances aid growth, but again dilute the focus on culture.

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Steve Blank

JULY 11, 2017

Reprogramming founders who grew their business by being agile, relentless, tenacious, and often aggressive, and irrational and at times, into CEOs that can drive organizational growth, is tough. And given that in the past, founders as a group were rarely in charge as startups became large companies, it’s no surprise.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 21, 2020

It was whatever you can do to get away from the classic DOD stovepipe way of doing business to a much more agile software approach. Josh Marcuse and the Defense Innovation Board were instrumental in helping us see what those agile principles were and how we could get moving and go fast. That is the future for the Department of Defense.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 15, 2019

These processes reduce risk to an overall organization, but each layer of process reduces the ability to be agile and lean and – most importantly – responsive to new opportunities and threats. Process helps ensure that you can deliver solutions that scale without breaking other parts of the organization. Process Versus Product.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 13, 2024

Whether you’re a startup or a multinational corporation, the need for agile and streamlined workflows is universal. This provides a competitive edge and ensures the business remains agile and responsive to internal and external changes. The journey toward operational efficiency takes time to happen.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Army’s Rapid Equipping Force on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan finding and deploying technology solutions against agile insurgents. In most industries, manufacturing is no longer a core competence of the U.S. Pete Newell and I have spent a lot of time bringing continuous innovation to government organizations. Newell ran the U.S.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

This allowed startups to build Minimal Viable Products (MVPs) – incremental and iterative prototypes – and put them in front of a large number of customers to get immediate feedback.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 15, 2017

It dawned on me that we had a department full of people with titles describing process-centric execution while we were in environment that required relentless agility and speed with urgency. But what I wanted was an agile marketing team capable of operating independently without day-to-day direction.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

If done sensibly and securely, remote working can be incredibly advantageous for any flexible and agile business. Thankfully, an IT support team is perfectly placed to offer highly-skilled solutions to all but every technical issue that may arise. But don’t let surprising technical issues put a dent in your team’s productivity!

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 3, 2024

Just as successful startups are agile in their operations, so must you be agile in your approach to work-life balance. Regularly assess your workload, stress levels, and the time you dedicate to non-work pursuits. Be willing to pivot and adopt new techniques as necessary.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 19, 2022

Building agility and timeliness are critical components of modern leadership, due to the pace and complexity of change today. Then your work becomes a win-win result, rather than win-lose. That means double the value and credit for all efforts. Show perseverance and adaptability to the mission.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 6, 2023

It’s tough for an elephant to be agile. Every aspect of every product requires development, testing, manufacturing, marketing, and distribution. The probability of failure goes up exponentially as the number of product features increase. Did you know that both YouTube and Facebook started out to be dating sites?

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 27, 2019

In my view, Amazon illustrates that the world of business management has evolved, from command and control being dominant, to one designed for speed, agility, and scale in serving customers. Bezos sees Day-2 thinking as leading to stasis, irrelevance, decline, followed by death.

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The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 26, 2021

Customer experience (CX) approaches in particular have had to develop and evolve rapidly over the last year – something which has benefitted startups and small enterprises who are able to move with agility to shift and flex to changing customer attitudes and expectations.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Given that software is central to every major DOD mission and system, we need to acquire and deliver software with much greater speed, agility, and cyber security. The software acquisition pathway is the newest pathway in the adaptive acquisition framework.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 13, 2023

I believe that a fully engaged team is the key to both productivity and agility in the face of change. Yet I find in my mentoring practice that more and more team members prefer the human-centered approach and respond with more engagement and commitment.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 23, 2022

More and more organizations are turning to sales automation, and it’s in large part because of the way it increases the agility of RevOps. The post How Sales Automation Makes RevOps Teams More Agile appeared first on Young Upstarts.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

As a business and entrepreneur advisor, I have no trouble getting owners and managers to agree that change is happening faster and faster in the consumer and technology world, requiring them to keep their business more agile , just to keep up. Crisis-driven agility is not enough today.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Their approach is driven by the Agile methodology. Businesses seeking software outsourcing services appreciate Xyloinc’s technical knowledge, client-centric approach, and agile software development process. Opcito stands out in software outsourcing for its agility and continual development.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

DataRails allows companies to manage their data in Excel, operating as a front end to a cloud database , which makes it far more agile and easier to create accurate models.

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ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Its small, electric, agile, autonomous ground vehicles (AGVs) move freely around the rough terrain of building sites to help contractors address labor shortages and rising costs, with an initial focus on bricklaying. “At Monumental, we’re working to help the industry meet these challenges,” stated al Khafaji.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 29, 2023

This transformation encompasses leveraging technologies such as artificial intelligence , cloud computing, data analytics, and mobile applications to enhance efficiency, agility, and innovation.

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deal architect

MARCH 25, 2020

The one thing I vividly remember from my first few days as an audit rookie at PwC was a class where the instructor said "never forget - an internal control should deliver more savings than the burden it puts on.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Adapting to emerging trends and staying agile will be crucial for startups as the metaverse grows. Investing in advanced AI capabilities , metaverse technologies, and staying agile to emerging trends will help ensure a bright future in the dynamics of 2024.

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VC Cafe

JULY 26, 2020

Agile Development: launch an MVP early and iterate quickly. Ditch the business plan and when assumptions are proven wrong, pivot Customer Development: Build a product your customers want (vs. what you think they might need) by talking to customers and testing every aspect of the product features, pricing, etc.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 21, 2019

The challenge during this phase is to stay innovative and agile. For additional growth, most companies expand the product portfolio to cater to more customers, and sell more to existing customers. This usually marks the end of organic growth, as partnerships and alliances aid growth, but again dilute the focus on culture.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 29, 2019

Amazon is famous for their Two-Pizza.Teams (no bigger than two pizzas will feed), allowing an entrepreneurial mindset more autonomy, agility, and accountability. Master the magic of small autonomous teams. The business owner must be the leader of the team, written specs are required, and the team must be populated only with A+ people.

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