Gust

NOVEMBER 9, 2014

All you old software development types will recognize the analogy to the traditional two year “waterfall model” of software development, which has been totally replaced with the Agile iterative methodology. Agile assumes and plans for iterative development, where requirements and solutions evolve as more is known and markets change.

Agile 163

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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. Educate our sales channel(s).

Startup 329

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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.). Lessons Learned.

Technical Review 335

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Activities define the unique expertise your company needs to deliver the value proposition, customers, channels, customer relationships and/or revenue. (If “Activities” is where you define the most important things your company must do to make the rest of your business model work. If you’re a startup it’s easy to get confused on this step.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 4, 2017

How you decide to invest in marketing channels can make or break your business. Okay, so it’s important to capitalize on effective channels that are conducive to growth at scale. An Overview of Common Digital Marketing Channels. That sounds like an obvious statement, but not a lot of people think about it critically.

Channel 118

Channel Marketing Viral SEO 118

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 30, 2012

The class teaches founders how to dramatically reduce their failure rate through the combination of business model design, customer development and agile development using the Startup Owners Manual. You’ll refine your business model by iterating or pivoting your product, your target customers, pricing, channels, partners, etc.

Startup 335

Startup Lean Incubator Business Model 335

Steve Blank

JULY 7, 2015

My guests on Bay Area Ventures on Wharton Business Radio on Sirius XM Channel 111 were: Eric Ries , entrepreneur and author of the New York Times bestseller, The Lean Startup. Eric was the very first practitioner of my Customer Development methodology which became the core of the the Lean methodology. If you can’t hear the clip, click here.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

In today’s market, businesses need to employ a combination of inbound and outbound marketing techniques to attract qualified buyers across all channels. Attracting new customers and nurturing them along through the sales pipeline is what every business tries to do effectively and efficiently.

Small Business 173

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

However, channels of seamless communication, between both customers and colleagues, can be easily set up by an IT support team. If done sensibly and securely, remote working can be incredibly advantageous for any flexible and agile business. Setting this up can be deceptively difficult.

Technical Review 246

Technical Review Software Review Security Agile 246

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 6, 2023

It’s tough for an elephant to be agile. Perhaps the focus should be on a single distribution channel, better customer service, or a simplified pricing structure. Every aspect of every product requires development, testing, manufacturing, marketing, and distribution. In some environments product focus is not the most important element.

Startup 287

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

All you old software development types will recognize the analogy to the traditional two year “waterfall model” of software development, which has been totally replaced with the Agile iterative methodology. Agile assumes and plans for iterative development, where requirements and solutions evolve as more is known and markets change.

Agile 120

Agile Startup Social Network Software Developers 120

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

We might have medium-term goals like “adopting agile methodologies” or “getting everyone on the same page with a project kick-off” as the outcomes for the reader. For example, the Jira Software team created a microsite dedicated to product-agnostic education about becoming an agile team. Distribution framework.

Agile 139

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 17, 2014

It’s tough for an elephant to be agile. Perhaps the focus should be on a single distribution channel, better customer service, or a simplified pricing structure. Every aspect of every product requires development, testing, manufacturing, marketing, and distribution. In some environments product focus is not the most important element.

Bandwidth 262

Bandwidth Distribution Agile Social Media 262

The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

As part of our growth plan, we’ve realized a need to create new business channels and expand existing ones,” Gurfinkel said in a statement. 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.

Hiring 172

Hiring Software Review Customer Israel 172

Steve Blank

MARCH 8, 2011

It was designed to bring together many of the new approaches to building a successful startup – customer development, agile development, business model generation and pivots. Startups, are not about executing a plan where the product, customers, channel are known. This post is part one.

Lean 307

Lean Business Model Customer Development Guinea 307

Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

When the product and channel are bits, adoption by 10’s and 100’s of millions and even billions of users can happen in years versus decades. Continuous innovation requires the imagination and courage to challenge the initial hypotheses of your current business model (channel, cost, customers, products, supply chain, etc.) The founders.

Restful 249

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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. To do that we will create end-user demand and drive it into the sales channel, educate the channel and customers about why our products are superior, and help Engineering understand customer needs and desires.

Silicon Valley 271

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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

Amongst other things, it describes a start-upper’s most valuable core attributes: fire, ability, agility, adaptability, and clear, concise communication skills. Was I somehow channeling the King of Awesome? Last year I put together a slide deck for what the FAAAC was all about.

Agile 154

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 7, 2008

In addition to presenting the IMVU case, we tried for the first time to do an overview of a software engineering methodology that integrates practices from agile software development with Steves method of Customer Development. Ive attempted to embed the relevant slides below. What about a hardware business with some long-lead-time components?

Customer Development 131

Customer Development Engineer San Francisco Developer 131

ReadWriteStart

MAY 26, 2022

Although you might be content with your organization’s current communication methods, you can probably find ways to streamline communication between leaders and employees or facilitate more open discussions between different channels. You’ll need Site Reliability Management (SRE).

Software 171

Software Japan Agile Employee 171

Steve Blank

MAY 6, 2015

Best practices in software development started to move to agile development in the early 2000’s. With Agile you could end up satisfying every feature a customer asked for and still go out of business. Learning could be about product features, customer needs, the right pricing and distribution channel, etc.) Lessons Learned.

Lean 120

Lean Agile Business Model Customer Development 120

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 6, 2011

This flexibility helps them to free up unnecessary costs associated with running their IT structure and channel it to other purposes. This migration to the cloud helps to meet their operational needs, as well as to reduce costs and increase agility and efficiency. Governments adopting the use of the Cloud.

Cloud 223

Cloud Asia Government Mobile 223

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2008

Although Catalyst folded with the dot-com crash, Ries continued his entrepreneurial career as a Senior Software Engineer at There.com, leading efforts in agile software development and user-generated content. While an undergraduate at Yale Unviersity, he co-founded Catalyst Recruiting. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

They would make commercials about a new book series, and then run the commercials at times when the TV rates were low (late night, UHF channels, etc) If they got enough orders, they then decided to print the series. Stevey's Blog Rants: Good Agile, Bad Agile Learning from Obama: maneuver warfare on the campa. Expo SF (May.

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Demand San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment 167

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 27, 2017

Great tech support is about going above a customers’ needs, meaning you need to be agile and adapt to changes in your area of expertise. It starts with taking the time to publish, post, or blog every question or comment you get from your support channels. You can do this by honing in the following areas: 1. Be available.

Startup 182

Startup Agile Differentiation Software 182

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. have product/market fit,) then you invest the dollars to create end user demand and drive those customers into your sales channel.

Lean 263

Lean Silicon Valley Startup RSS 263

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 26, 2023

He believes that if you double the number of experiments you do per year, you’re going to double your agility, and thus grow and compete more effectively, as well as learn more from failures. Real change and big new opportunities, driven by political change and climate concerns, often can be seen first outside of customer and market channels.

Metrics 178

Metrics Technical Review Agile Hiring 178

Steve Blank

MAY 17, 2022

AI applications are already appearing in virtual customer assistants with speech recognition, sentiment analysis, automated/augmented quality assurance and other technologies providing customers with 24/7 self- and assisted-service options across channels. AI in National Security. AI/ML and Ubiquitous Technical Surveillance. Carpe Diem.

Artificial Inteligence 425

Artificial Inteligence Software Review Algorithm Technical Review 425

YoungUpstarts

MARCH 1, 2018

This is a channel most small businesses could use, too. Online reviews are a marketing channel. However – agile small businesses who figure this out early could have a major advantage. In short, many of your customers are already using this channel. It’s time to get serious about your business’s online reviews.

Small Business 187

Small Business Marketing Technical Review Social Media 187

The Startup Magazine

JUNE 4, 2024

These channels offer cost-effective ways to engage with customers. Agility: Foster a culture of agility where your team is encouraged to adapt quickly to changes. It’s not just about attracting new customers but also about retaining them. Brand Identity: Develop a strong brand identity that resonates with your audience.

Technical Review 146

Technical Review Agile Audience Employee 146

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Incubators and accelerators like Y-Combinator have institutionalized experiential training in best practices (product/market fit, pivots, agile development, etc.); Today, every founder can read all there is to know about running a startup online. provide experienced and hands-on mentorship; and offer a growing network of founding CEOs.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 7, 2021

You’ll need to maximize your presence on multiple channels with educational content and influencer marketing to ramp up the excitement. Strategy expert, Gary Fox , defines growth marketing as: “An agile and adaptive marketing methodology that focuses on how to get, grow and keep customers.”. Slow skimming.

Product 142

Product Marketing Software Review Social Media 142

Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Second, focus on digital marketing channels that align with your target audience—SEO, social media, and email marketing have been invaluable for us. Stay adaptable, embrace change, and diversify your marketing efforts across various channels while exercising patience and persistence. Thanks to James Emery, The Neighbours Cellar ! #15-

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eCommerce Omaha Entrepreneur SEO 143

ReadWriteStart

APRIL 8, 2023

Omnichannel: Diversity and Inclusion Every successful organization uses multiple channels to communicate with potential customers and advertise its products. Search engine optimization, paid search, social media channels, online stores, and even pop-up spots are examples of practical omnichannel usage.

eCommerce 185

eCommerce Technical Review Software Review Analytics 185

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 27, 2015

Maximum agility for required pivots. Startups need the agility to test various business models and positioning messages. Startups need the agility to test various business models and positioning messages. Partners and distribution channels will take you seriously. Build your audience and the product at the same time.

Hockey Stick 120

Hockey Stick Startup Stealth Agile 120

ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 25, 2021

Accordingly, HR will need to find new channels for communication, teambuilding, and collecting employee feedback. In line with this, HR leaders will have to remain agile, forging culture-based connections when they can while still preserving the structure of the business.

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Artificial Inteligence Algorithm Retention Software Review 150

ReadWriteStart

JULY 2, 2022

Brands looking to take one step closer to their customers can also develop a mobile app/chatbot and use other promotion channels. To implement such a transformation, you need to carry out serious work, which can be based on Big data analysis, cloud and mobile services, and agile development.

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