Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 11, 2020

YouTube did it with videos, Instagram did it with photos, and Amazon did it with books. Of course, once you have a brand and more resources, it can pay to expand your book selling to a full e-commerce site. It’s tough for an elephant to be agile. Ongoing market leadership requires continuous innovation.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 15, 2022

In the classic book, “ Fish Can’t See Water ,” Kai Hammerich and Richard D. Incidentally, I love that book title, which seems to me applicable to most aspects of business (and even people), as well as business culture. A particularly critical moment is when the founders hand over the leadership to a more managerial regime.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 20, 2009

These were inspiring stories, but I realized that, no surprise, the popular press were writing books that had mass appeal. Where were the books explaining why were all these chip and computer companies started here? Where were the books explaining why were all these chip and computer companies started here?

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

The key elements of leadership in a company, both individual and organizational, are less tangible, but very critical in setting a market value for investment, acquisition, or going public. In the investment community, these leadership elements are often called “goodwill.” Execution leadership. Leadership brand development.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 10, 2009

That’s why startups are agile. Startups that are agile have mastered one other trick – and that’s Tempo – the ability to make quick decisions consistently over extended periods of time. Reply Why Startups are Agile and Opportunistic -- Pivoting the Business Model , on April 14, 2010 at 6:32 am Said: [.]

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 6, 2023

YouTube did it with videos, Instagram did it with photos, and Amazon did it with books. Of course, once you have a brand and more resources, it can pay to expand your book selling to a full e-commerce site. It’s tough for an elephant to be agile. Ongoing market leadership requires continuous innovation.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 19, 2024

Transform Your Leadership: The Power of Thoughtfully Fit written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing The Duct Tape Marketing Podcast with John Jantsch In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast, I interviewed Darcy Luoma, an expert on leadership and personal development. Book your call today, DTM world/ scale. (01:05):

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 19, 2022

I was pleased to see some specific guidance on how team members can better communicate their value at work, without self-aggrandizing, in a new book, “ Influence and Impact ,” by Bill Berman and George Bradt, who speak from experience as a psychologist, and years of coaching in companies across multiple industries.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 17, 2014

YouTube did it with videos, Instagram did it with photos, and Amazon did it with books. Of course, once you have a brand and more resources, it can pay to expand your book selling to a full e-commerce site. It’s tough for an elephant to be agile. Ongoing market leadership requires continuous innovation.

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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. The result will be agency leadership creating new organizational structures that make innovation a continual process rather than an ad hoc series of heroic efforts. Newell ran the U.S.

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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. What do you consider your most important reforms initiated under your leadership today? One is the fact that we have made acquisition much simpler to understand and use.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 21, 2019

In the classic book, “ Fish Can’t See Water ,” Kai Hammerich and Richard D. Incidentally, I love that book title, which seems to me applicable to most aspects of business (and even people), as well as business culture. A particularly critical moment is when the founders hand over the leadership to a more managerial regime.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 11, 2009

Agile – you may find the real opportunities for your company was somewhere else. This means you still need to have a resilient personality, and be agile. And you’ll still need to have a resilient and agile personality, as new customer and product opportunities will appear and change your work. How quickly will you recover?

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 12, 2012

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

For those of you who have been following the discussion, a Lean Startup is Eric Ries ’s description of the intersection of Customer Development , Agile Development and if available, open platforms and open source.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Get out of the building, get some more customer feedback, spin your product and go back and read the book. They will realize that you have built a startup that’s agile, resilient and customer-centric. Good to see someone with authority advocating an approach to building startups that we at Agile Entrepreneurs focus on, week after week.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 14, 2013

In a new book, “ Fish Can’t See Water ,” Kai Hammerich and Richard D. Incidentally, I love that book title, which seems to me applicable to most aspects of business (and even people), as well as business culture. A particularly critical moment is when the founders hand over the leadership to a more managerial regime.

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Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

Enter Dr. Mik Kersten’s new book, Project to Product: How to Survive and Thrive in the Age of Digital Disruption with the Flow Framework [IT Revolution Press, November 2018], based on two decades of research, spanning almost every domain of software delivery. Tell us about your products and services. How do you help clients?

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 23, 2013

Jubenville, co-authors of “ Zebras and Cheetahs: Look Different and Stay Agile to Survive the Business Jungle “. The concrete jungle simply doesn’t yield to the roar of the lion (in other words, a command-and-control leadership model) anymore. Fortunately, all things in the jungle gravitate toward leadership. by Micheal J.

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OnlyOnce

MAY 12, 2016

Book Short: Scrum ptious . This reading was in anticipation of an Agile Facilitation training my executive team and I are going through next week, as part of Return Path’s Agile Everywhere initiative. But it’s a book I should’ve read along time ago, and a book that I enjoyed.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

Finally, I’ll write about how Eric Ries and the Lean Startup concept provided the equivalent model for product development activities inside the building and neatly integrates customer and agile development.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 12, 2009

After these slides, these VC’s recognized that this company had dramatically reduced risk and built a startup that was agile, resilient and customer-centric. The presentation didn’t have a single word about Lean Startups or Customer Development. There was no proselytizing about any particular methodology, yet the results are compelling.

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Steve Blank

MAY 15, 2009

The Curse of a New Building At some point in my career as I began to ponder how/why startups morph from agile, “can do&# companies to [.] [.] I think there’s a size and scale where regardless of your intentions lean and agile won’t work (looking like a grandmother in a miniskirt.)

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2008

In 2007, BusinessWeek named Ries one of the Best Young Entrepreneurs of Tech and in 2009 he was honored with a TechFellow award in the category of Engineering Leadership. He is the co-author of several books including The Black Art of Java Game Programming (Waite Group Press, 1996). hope to hear from you. Expo SF (May.

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Occam's Razor

APRIL 15, 2019

Four Negative Data Leadership Archetypes. It flows down from the clear measurable goals, an empowered data organization, and a close and direct partnership with different leadership levels (VPs, Directors, Sr. I had an opportunity to spend time with him and his leadership team. Eleven principles actually (buy the book!).

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2017

I found some key ones in a new book, “ The Future-Proof Workplace ,” by Linda Sharkey, PhD, and Morag Barrett. I believe these factors are key to the future success of every new startup, as well as every mature company: Leadership must be values-based and people focused.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 9, 2009

But what I wanted was an agile marketing team capable of operating independently without day-to-day direction. his next article on SuperMac, “Building the Killer Team – Mission, Intent, and Values&# , Steve further pounds the table on some principles of leadership that I think are [.] Order Here. Now In Print!

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

It takes a team, with effective leadership, to build a business. Many aspiring entrepreneurs default to team leadership by domination and control. The principles of connected leadership are outlined well in a classic book, “ The Vitality Imperative ,” by Mickey Connolly, Jim Motroni, and Richard McDonald.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

It takes a team, with effective leadership, to build a business. Many aspiring entrepreneurs default to team leadership by domination and control. The principles of connected leadership are outlined well in a classic book, “ The Vitality Imperative ,” by Mickey Connolly, Jim Motroni, and Richard McDonald.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 6, 2014

That’s because often, leaders who want to blame their employees for not executing are actually using a leadership style that is keeping people from getting things done. But the most innovative, agile companies embrace mistakes. But you should take a look in the mirror before doling out blame. Never waste a perfectly good mistake.

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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. Culture of purposefulness and decisiveness.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 2, 2017

In the classic book, “ Fish Can’t See Water ,” Kai Hammerich and Richard D. Incidentally, I love that book title, which seems to me applicable to most aspects of business (and even people), as well as business culture. A particularly critical moment is when the founders hand over the leadership to a more managerial regime.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 27, 2009

This lack of information meant that every World War II movie or book that had airplanes on bombing missions in it was wrong. And in hindsight, we seemed a bit more agile and innovative in WWII.) Every one of them. (To To someone who had grown up with reruns of WWII war movies on TV, this was a shock.) How was this possible?

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 15, 2017

I just finished a new book that highlights this approach, “ One Minute Mentoring ,” by the legendary business consultant Ken Blanchard, in concert with Claire Diaz-Ortiz. True business leadership is more about relationships and knowing who knows, rather than personally knowing all the answers. Shared social media is the new networking.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 14, 2015

In a recent book, “ Fish Can’t See Water ,” Kai Hammerich and Richard D. Incidentally, I love that book title, which seems to me applicable to most aspects of business (and even people), as well as business culture. A particularly critical moment is when the founders hand over the leadership to a more managerial regime.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 29, 2021

It's important to keep business agile. Thanks to Sean Kelly, Book Retreats.com ! #9- Reaching and inspiring more people and kids through engagements, coaching, and bulk book sales. This model needs to focus on creating a positive company culture and healthy executive leadership for the long haul.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 24, 2018

Transcript of Building Accountable Leadership to Transform Your Business written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. John Jantsch: You know, leadership might be the hardest job for an entrepreneur. ” What exactly is a leadership contract? Back to Podcast. Transcript. It’s not for the meek.

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