Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

By learning to be rapidly responsive and agile. Wednesday, September 21 - Boston A big event at Harvard Business School, where I'm returning this year as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence. So how is it best to deal with uncertainty? How does an organization like this thrive? Ries wants to show you how.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 19, 2019

Management consulting firms, such as McKinsey, Boston Consulting Group, and Bain, exist to solve business problems. For over 20 years, he’s conducted award-winning research on corporate growth and traveled the world as a keynote speaker, corporate trainer, and consultant, helping organizations become more innovative and strategically agile.

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Agile VC

JANUARY 4, 2012

Founders Hardi Meybaum and Indrek Narusk originally started building the company in their native Estonia before moving to Boston to join the hub of SaaS / CAD software companies located here. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. Wholesale silver jewelry. Pingback: My Homepage. Read More ».

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. Author howerl. Filed under Uncategorized. Im a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned East Coast VC. Read More ».

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

He was wrapping up GrabCAD’s participation in the Seedcamp accelerator program, and the Seedcamp startups were in the US to visit potential advisors and investors in Boston, New York, and SF. I first met Hardi at the beginning of 2011 here in Cambridge. Fast forward to today and there are over 1.5

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Steve Blank

JUNE 21, 2017

I was in Boston and was interviewed by The Growth Show about my current thinking about innovation in companies and government agencies.The interviewer was great and managed to get me to summarize several years of learning in one podcast. 7:11 Agile Engineering – Eric Ries. It’s worth a listen. 10:01 Lean in Corporations.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 4, 2014

These groups are adapting or adopting the practices of startups and accelerators – disruption and innovation rather than direct competition, customer development versus more product features, agility and speed versus lowest cost. KPI’s and processes are the root cause of corporations’ inability to be agile and responsive innovators.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 20, 2023

It'll be in Boston from September 5th through the 8th. 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? That's right.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 25, 2022

An edited version of this article previously appeared in the Boston Consulting Group’s strategy think tank website. I spent last week at a global Fortune 50 company offsite watching them grapple with disruption. This 100+-year-old company has seven major product divisions, each with hundreds of products.

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Agile VC

OCTOBER 27, 2011

I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. Pingback: swtor swtor sith warrior abilities. Im a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned East Coast VC. Read More ».

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Steve Blank

JULY 25, 2011

Each region already had the beginnings of a high-tech culture , Boston with Raytheon, Silicon Valley with Hewlett Packard. The Stanford class introduced the first management tools for entrepreneurs built around the business model / customer development / agile development solution stack. You can read about the class here.).

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Agile VC

APRIL 13, 2012

Here in Boston the same dynamic as Silicon Valley has been afoot… at least in the software/internet sphere, the majority of startups have migrated from the suburban loop of Rt 128 back into the urban core of Boston & Cambridge. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. Read More ».

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Agile VC

MAY 10, 2012

I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. Thanks Andy, we’re excited to partner with and help the company. Im a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned East Coast VC. Read More ».

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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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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

He believed that he could use the “go-to-market” strategies of other food/beverage disrupters– companies like Pete’s Brewing Company, Boston Beer and Kettle Chips. Jon’s big vision was to build a company that disrupted the meat snacks business. What Do You Mean You Only Spoke to 1 Customer?

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Agile VC

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Greylock’s first fund was also raised from a small handful of wealthy families primarily in the Boston area.

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Agile VC

MAY 21, 2012

I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. I think the expanded universe of buyers will at worst help increase deal values for those that happen, and more likely will increase at least some the total # of acquisitions in this range. Pingback: this. Pingback: [link]. Read More ».

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Agile VC

MAY 23, 2012

I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. . “We capitalize “Internet” a lot less these days” wonderful phrase, thank you. link] leehower. Your welcome. . Im a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned East Coast VC. Read More ».

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Agile VC

JUNE 17, 2015

And to be clear I split my time between Boston, New York, and SF and I’ve seen this across a broad swath of startups and individuals… both outside NextView’s portfolio and occasionally within it. And a lot of big, meaningful companies have been created just in the last couple years which is nearly unprecedented.

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View from Seed

JUNE 17, 2015

And to be clear I split my time between Boston, New York, and SF and I’ve seen this across a broad swath of startups and individuals… both outside NextView’s portfolio and occasionally within it. Editor’s note: This post originally appeared on Lee’s personal blog, Agile VC. So why should I or we collectively care?

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 17, 2016

With the right customer service app, you can consolidate all your customer conversations and interactions—across website, phone, email and social media channels—into one centralised place enabling fast, efficient and agile responses.

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Agile VC

JUNE 24, 2014

I’ve been a devoted fan of Arsenal for nearly two decades, former MLS season ticket holder (both San Jose Earthquakes when I lived in the SF Bay Area and New England Revolution here in Boston), attended World Cup 2002 in South Korea, and was fortunate to see both gold medal soccer matches in Bejing 2008 Olympics (US women’s victory, Argentina (..)

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Agile VC

MAY 27, 2016

I was talking with another professional recently who lives and works in the urban Boston/Cambridge area. The opportunity cost of driving a few hours on the weekend to visit friends or go hiking or “get away” however you like changes radically.

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Agile VC

OCTOBER 17, 2011

I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. Author howerl. Filed under Uncategorized. Im a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned East Coast VC. Read More ».

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Agile VC

AUGUST 2, 2011

I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. It is fight of will and determination and not of appeasing. Im a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned East Coast VC. Read More ».

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 20, 2008

When I first encountered agile software techniques, in the form of extreme programming , I thought I had found the answer. I explained it to people this way: agile lets you make the trade-offs visible to whole company, so that they can make informed choices. Even worse, agile wasnt really helping me ship higher quality software.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 29, 2009

I hope to show why lean and agile techniques actually reduce the negative impacts of technical debt and increase our ability to take advantage of its positive effects. Yet other agile principles suggest the opposite, as in YAGNI and DoTheSimplestThingThatCouldPossiblyWork. Reconciling these principles requires a little humility.

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Agile VC

APRIL 27, 2012

I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. Author howerl. Filed under Uncategorized. Im a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned East Coast VC. Read More ».

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Agile VC

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

It’s great to have an innovative and thoughtful group of investors here in Boston. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. Best of luck. PMarchetti. Congratulations! Im a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned East Coast VC. Read More ».

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Agile VC

AUGUST 22, 2011

I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. Author howerl. Filed under Uncategorized. Im a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned East Coast VC. Read More ».

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Agile VC

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. Proof in point is my license plate: So it always had to be golazo… Author howerl. Filed under Uncategorized. Im a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned East Coast VC. Read More ».

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Agile VC

JUNE 25, 2012

I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. Thanks Ahmed, appreciate the feedback and hope you have an oppty to check out Cloze’s beta. Im a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned East Coast VC. Read More ».

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 13, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, July 13, 2009 The Principles of Product Development Flow If youve ever wondered why agile or lean development techniques work, The Principles of Product Development Flow: Second Generation Lean Product Development by Donald G. Reinertsen is the book for you. Expo SF (May. Amazon PostRank

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 29, 2008

The six key attributes spell ABCDEF: Agility. When talking about their past experience, candidates with agility will know why they did what they did in a given situation. To probe for agility, you have to ask the candidate questions involving something that they know little about. Expo SF (May. Amazon PostRank

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Agile VC

DECEMBER 5, 2011

I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. Author howerl. Filed under Uncategorized. Im a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned East Coast VC. Read More ».

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FEBRUARY 16, 2012

I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. Author howerl. Filed under Uncategorized. Im a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned East Coast VC. Read More ».

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

Wed never heard of five whys, and we had plenty of "agile skeptics" on the team. Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Six streaming locations Interviews ► March (7) New conference website, speakers, agenda Two new scholarship programs for lean startups Speed up or slow down? Expo SF (May. Amazon PostRank

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