Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 17, 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.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 11, 2020

With the current low cost of entry, nimble competitors appear quickly and seize the high ground of your existing customers and potential. It’s tough for an elephant to be agile. The initial larger cost in time and dollars is only the beginning. In many business domains today, the market seems to change about every ninety days.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 2, 2022

The cost of starting a business decreases every year, which is especially important for an online business; to start, it is enough to have a computer with an Internet connection. 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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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 26, 2015

Business agility is defined as the ability to adapt rapidly and cost efficiently. Every entrepreneur must be alert enough to spot the change early, and agile enough to adapt quickly. Here are some key principles of agility that are required for you to survive and prosper: Stamp out organizational inflexibility.

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The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 22, 2024

Whether its a missed order update, slow response times, or errors in manual processes, the cost of these inefficiencies can be significant. These missed opportunities can stall progress and put startups at a disadvantage compared to more agile competitors. Moreover, delays increase operational costs.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

To get a sense for how much it costs to build what you want, get itemized quotes from multiple dev shops. Dev shops may also have different processes for managing projects One of the most common is called agile development - and has rave reviews due to its emphasis on quick iteration. Get multiple quotes. Contact references.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

Investors my tell you that, but what they can look at your product on paper and tell what it does and they will understand if it can be built.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 6, 2020

For example, Lyft and Uber were able to capitalize on the current ride-sharing trend worldwide by tracking statistics that indicated reduced interest in car ownership by millennials, lack of parking spaces, and auto ownership costs moving up rapidly. Focus on agility as the key skill your organization needs.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Or if you’re building consumer electronics the key activities might be: low cost hardware design, high volume manufacturing, user interface design, consumer branding and retail distribution. For example, if you’re building a mobile app, then the key activities are: app software development, user interface design and demand creation skills.

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View from Seed

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

You always want to be careful with how tightly you schedule things to make sure you stay agile and responsive to evolving business needs, but you also need to make sure your overall journey makes sense and that you’re building things in the right order, as well as taking on risks in a measured way.

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SoCal CTO

APRIL 28, 2014

Here are some of the issues that were mentioned: I just want the cost, timeline and impact. Estimating Cost – it takes a lot of work to do a reasonable estimate of cost. Re-estimating – if estimating is something they don’t like, then having to re-estimate costs based on a constantly changing target is brutal.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 26, 2014

Agile Engineering” to have teams prototype, test, and iterate their idea while discovering if they have a profitable business model. Finally we move to the left side of the canvas to teach the supporting elements of Resources, Partners, Activities and Costs. I-Corps @ NIH Lecture Order Details.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Marketing automation software will help to create logical buyer journeys, provide data insights that drive targeting the most valuable customers and prospects, and enable agile development and optimization of marketing campaigns that ensure that you are maximizing your marketing investment to drive revenue.

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Steve Blank

MAY 17, 2022

Engineers can input design goals into AI-driven generative design software , along with parameters such as performance or spatial requirements, materials, manufacturing methods, and cost constraints. GPT-3 uses 175 billion parameters and was trained on a cluster with 1,024 Nvidia A100 GPUs that cost ~$25 million! Example here.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 6, 2023

With the current low cost of entry, nimble competitors appear quickly and seize the high ground of your existing customers and potential. It’s tough for an elephant to be agile. The initial larger cost in time and dollars is only the beginning. In many business domains today, the market seems to change about every ninety days.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

While our teams have mentors, socialize a lot and give great demos, the goal of our class final presentations is “ Lessons Learned ” – about product/market fit, pricing, acquisition/activation costs, pricing, partners, etc.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 30, 2014

The feedback gathered during beta testing can provide a direction for future updates or versions of your product, which can cut costs down the line and improve the turnaround time for your development team. Instead, they can solve real problems based on user feedback and cut down on development time. Ideas for updates.

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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. The cost of attending a Startup Weekend Next is ridiculously inexpensive. 28 in more than 25 cities worldwide.

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Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

Continuous innovation requires the imagination and courage to challenge the initial hypotheses of your current business model (channel, cost, customers, products, supply chain, etc.) Today open source software has slashed the cost of software development from millions of dollars to thousands. The founders.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 2, 2024

Many firms are drawn to the region for its combination of technical expertise and cost-effectiveness. Economic Factors and Competitive Edge One of the main economic catalysts for outsourcing to Eastern Europe is the cost-effective nature of the region’s services. This offers substantial cost savings and value for money.

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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. Agora’s selling points are its ability to reduce users’ IT infrastructure cost and enhance revenue for service providers. This post is part one.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 17, 2014

With the current low cost of entry, nimble competitors appear quickly and seize the high ground of your existing customers and potential. It’s tough for an elephant to be agile. The initial larger cost in time and dollars is only the beginning. In many business domains today, the market seems to change about every ninety days.

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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 system-to-system interactions to create these complex integrations drive up cost and manufacturing lead times. The Hedge Strategy – Create “the small, the agile, and the many”. One that is no longer tied to large 20th-century industrial systems, but to a 21st-century software-centric agile world.

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

Businesses also demand flexibility, choice, agility, and cost-effectiveness from these enabling technologies to ensure that business capabilities can change with demand, market, trade mission, and more.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 27, 2020

Everything from customer service, technical support, to back office operations are able to be outsourced as a way to reduce costs, keep up with the evolving consumer expectations, and drive a faster return on investment. Here are four major reasons why nearshore is often a solution that provides the best of both worlds: Cost Effectiveness.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Decentralised Exchange (DEX) Platform : Build a DEX that can compete with centralised exchanges by leveraging the efficiency of small, agile teams. Datacenters: There’s a need for more data centers that can be built faster and at a lower cost to support AI infrastructure.

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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. The company released a report in January 2022 which showed how poor financial reporting practices may cost $7.8

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 27, 2019

The speed and agility you want? Cost Savings. This is where you can save costs and can even reduce the resources. With automated orchestration, you would experience speed and agility in various levels of approval. An SME can even take cloud services from a cost-effective service provider. Flexibility.

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 5, 2021

Increased Agility. Customer relationship management software helps startups to increase business agility. This is very essential to startup businesses as it helps reduces the marketing costs of customer relationship management. In this article, we will focus on the simple reasons to use CRM in a business startup.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 12, 2020

One of the major benefits of using a SOM approach is that product development costs are drastically decreased and technical risk is also reduced. Best of all, Scrum helps teams remain agile by encouraging flexibility in your workflow. Other advantages of production-ready SOMs include more CPU choices and a smaller footprint.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Beyond this basic premise, no-code platforms benefit SMBs and entrepreneurs in the following ways: Cost. As a result, entrepreneurs, founders, CEOs, marketers, and anyone in between can take advantage. In the past, a business that needed a custom app, website, or other digital solution would have to be prepared to make a big investment.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 6, 2023

Selling below cost doesn’t do it, nor does giving it away free, and hoping to make it up in volume. Successful entrepreneurs are always analyzing market feedback, remain agile, and are quick to make corrections or change course if things aren’t working. Pay attention to the market. Don’t be afraid to pivot as you learn from the market.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

We have to design our forces to be able to operate in a contested environment and to reduce duplication of effort, enhance our speed and reduce costs. There are several lines of effort that we’re focusing on: We’re working to build the Space Force as a very Lean and Agile service. Flatter organization, with a COO and CTO.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

The software outsourcing sector in India is flourishing, offering organizations low-cost solutions. 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.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 26, 2022

If you’re not already, adopt an agile methodology not only for software development, but also for communication improvements. There’s a reason 70% of all acquisitions fail : When leaders feel pressure to grow for growth’s sake, their focus on results (no matter the cost) isn’t sustainable in the long run.

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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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