Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 28, 2011

For the business leaders I know, these priorities almost always include the following: Business agility. Implicit in agility is increased productivity on change initiatives. Too many applications out there today are “silos,” built outside the existing organization without an overall architecture, or even a maintenance plan.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

For the business leaders I know, these priorities almost always include the following: Business agility. Implicit in agility is increased productivity on change initiatives. Too many applications out there today are “silos,” built outside the existing organization without an overall architecture, or even a maintenance plan.

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Gust

SEPTEMBER 16, 2012

For the business leaders I know, these priorities almost always include the following: Business agility. Implicit in agility is increased productivity on change initiatives. Too many applications out there today are “silos,” built outside the existing organization without an overall architecture, or even a maintenance plan.

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ctotodevelopers.blogspot.com

JULY 11, 2012

Social, Agile, and Transformation. I cover several topics including agile software development, software startups, web 2.0, Strategic Agile Thinking: Balancing Value, Innovation and Research. 2) The agile "happy place". Agile teams sprint when value is known, implementation is low risk. and business transformation.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

Through mobile web apps, organizations can seamlessly integrate business processes at the web service layer to create a solution that is in line with a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). Unlike a native app, a mobile web app solution does not silo data but instead creates an agile and sustainable enterprise-level solution.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 21, 2013

Customer development (the understanding of customer needs) must be married to agile development (a process which drives waste out of product development). Pivots can take the form of changes to singular product features, customer segments, platforms, business architecture, growth engines, technology and more.

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Version One Ventures

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

To quote a Forbes article , “That single, simple declaration created an IT (and cultural) architecture that catalyzed and stoked the stunning growth of Amazon Web Services, which is thought to be a billion-dollar business unit after only a few short years of growth.”. Bezos mandated that all IT assets be exposed as APIs.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

OCTOBER 3, 2013

We have seen the rise of the cloud, the shift away from PCs to new mobile computing platforms, and the emergence of Big Data and Analytics as a core enabler of business agility. With these trends as a backdrop, we are in the early innings of a massive redirection of enterprise IT budgets towards new technologies and architectures.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 14, 2014

As companies strive to stay agile and innovative, they’ve discovered that units of 8 to 12 people work best as the natural size of high-performance teams. For these reasons, two-pizza teams are usually more agile and responsive than their bloated peers. And during the conversation, there are also fewer arguments and misunderstandings.

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BeyondVC

APRIL 4, 2018

We are at the beginning stages of one of the biggest IT shifts in history as legacy workloads in the enterprise continue to move to a cloud-native architecture. What Pivotal understood early is that there is no digital transformation and agile application development without infrastructure spend.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 15, 2017

Agile businesses have moved to the cloud because of its scalability, efficiency and reliability, amongst other benefits. It doesn’t, however, change the fact that firewalls are still only perimeter protection devices and are limited to applying security policies against visible packets that travel through them.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 25, 2009

He complemented their elegantly designed minicomputers and made some astute comment about their architecture (now I’m rolling my eyes, their computers were dinosaurs) and asked who were the brilliant designers. I was surprised to see that they were in the room.

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Andrew Payne

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Each was the size of one or two small Agile user stories requiring two or more hours to implement. The most productive developers are solving big problems, and are bringing judgment and experience to bear on essential design, architecture, and “build vs use existing library” decisions.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 4, 2017

“The future is inherently unpredictable,” insists the small company, spurred on by Lean and Agile mindsets. Even something simple like converting HTTP links to HTTPS or updating “number of likes” in real-time, becomes a monumental architectural challenge.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 7, 2016

A great business must be agile. In this era of rapid technology advancement, an open mind must be the norm in leveraging the latest tools and process architectures. A passionate commitment to an idea alone will not carry the business over downturns in the economy, market evolution or customer trend changes.

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BeyondVC

APRIL 4, 2018

We are at the beginning stages of one of the biggest IT shifts in history as legacy workloads in the enterprise continue to move to a cloud-native architecture. New architectures = new attack vectors and security needs to be reimagined. Every large enterprise is a software company which means developer productivity is paramount.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

APRIL 3, 2013

The move to “client server” architectures and the adoption of comprehensive business management systems like ERP, CRM, and SCM that, for the first-time, computerized business processes within an enterprise. We think that this is a big idea. This is a big competitive advantage with today’s rapidly changing market conditions.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

The site visits include stops at Square (the payments startup founded by Twitter co-creator Jack Dorsey), WeWork Soma (an amazing co-working space) and Pivotal Labs (leaders in Lean and Agile consulting), along with one more super-interesting location we’ll announce shortly. Needless to say, this is a slow and complex process.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

One of the great benefits of a startup is their ability to be agile and adapt quickly to a changing environment. Business architecture pivot. There are two types of business architectures: High Volume, Low Margin which is a volume-based business and High Margin, Low Volume which is a complex business model.

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Venture Chronicles

AUGUST 2, 2013

The early architecture conditions created what engineers called “technical debt” and that effectively became weaponized to stall significant investment in fixing the old in order to build the future. engineers paired would jump from frontend to backend erratically at each sprint iteration.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 18, 2011

and moved from delivery to architecture and developer evangelism to make sure that new hires don't have to have the same bad experiences we all had to go through until companies started appreciating the internet as a platform. He was a lead for distributed teams in India, Europe and the U.S.,

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www.bothsidesofthetable.com

MAY 13, 2012

Your deepest thinkers on technology architecture are seldom good team leaders. They know how to estimate work units, how to manage the agile development process and how to get the most out of their teams. As the CEO you can personally help manage deadlines and the Agile process. Most often they are not.

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Cracking the Code

MARCH 29, 2022

One of the benefits of the cloud is that it gives development teams more agility and flexibility, but with increased flexibility comes the downside of a loss of control and visibility. Many of these products rely on an agent-centric architecture which must be installed on each endpoint in order to monitor data.

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The Startup Magazine

APRIL 29, 2018

Non-standardization of IT architectures hinders the achievement of cost-effective. Organizations that lack standard configurations incur greater costs and less agile processes than organizations with standard configurations. Lack of organizational maturity and appropriate skills are the main inhibitors for automation process success.

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Transformify

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Scrum, Agile, Product Management. MySQL, PHP, Software Architecture, Software Development, Software Testing, SQL, Web Hosting, AngularJS. Scrum, Agile, Problem Analysis, Business Catalyst, Business Analytics. What are the most common skills in each category? Project/ Product Management. Sales & Marketing/ Writing.

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css-tricks.com

JANUARY 2, 2013

Youll need to think about JavaScript architecture. Think about CSS architecture. And all too often in an agile approach, tweaks are made for business and dev requirements. There are proven development methodologies out there like Lean, Agile, Waterfall. — Paul Lewis (@aerotwist) December 18, 2012.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 27, 2010

For the business leaders I know, these priorities almost always include the following: Business agility. Implicit in agility is increased productivity on change initiatives. Too many applications out there today are “silos,” built outside the IT organization without an overall architecture, or even a maintenance plan.

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mashable.com

MAY 9, 2011

It will be important that your CTO can execute on big projects, too, hacking away to build an amazing product that is agile. From a technical standpoint, in addition to being a skilled programmer, the CTO should have a background in architecture and database design. Danny Wong , Blank Label Group, Inc. Experience with Startups!

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Steve Blank

JUNE 23, 2016

ARM, a competitor, not only had a better, much lower power processor, but a better business model – they licensed their architecture to other companies that designed their own products. Today that’s built on the premise that an x86 architecture is the one best suited for big data. Startups are unencumbered by the status quo.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 27, 2012

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. And the rule was we weren’t changing anything about the product architecture until Ben and I agreed. he’d declare. “We

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 20, 2023

And there's a bit of a sense that digital was a bit sort of the wild west in terms of, oh, it's all about agile and people improvise the method and you can't measure things as well. Do you really have a proper agile operating model? Do you have a, a clear technology architecture with the specific set of features to it?

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

Thanks to David Reyes, Reyes Financial Architecture ! #6- Instead, I relied on agility and adaptability. Instead of being discouraged, analyze what went wrong, identify areas for improvement, and use this experience to refine your approach. 13- Staying nimble and pivoting when necessary Photo Credit: Michael E.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

To achieve this mission, we established a framework that leveraged Marine Corps tenacity, agility, and adaptability to create a persistent culture of innovation. Three years ago, Marine Corps Intelligence outlined a mission to harness the disruptions occurring in the new frontier of warfare, the Electronic battlefield.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

To achieve this mission, we established a framework that leveraged Marine Corps tenacity, agility, and adaptability to create a persistent culture of innovation. Three years ago, Marine Corps Intelligence outlined a mission to harness the disruptions occurring in the new frontier of warfare, the Electronic battlefield.

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andrewchenblog.com

MARCH 10, 2010

By the way, to mitigate this problem, there's already a discipline called “Information Architecture&#. Especially when startups are generally started by technically-inclined entrepreneurs that know all the benefits of agile, but all the costs of taking a planning/research-oriented approach? what a coincidence. See [link].

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

DECEMBER 10, 2014

We had seen Lightspeed portfolio company Nicira disrupt networking layers 2-3 with an architecture that consisted of highly distributed scale out software elements coupled with centralized control, culminating in an acquisition by VMWare for $1.25B in the summer of 2012.

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Steve Blank

JULY 25, 2023

This meant the class was team-based, Lean-driven (hypothesis testing/business model/customer development/agile engineering) and experiential – where the students, rather than being presented with all of the essential information, must discover that information rapidly for themselves.

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