Steve Blank

APRIL 21, 2011

All the teams were showing us what agile looked like, but this week several would remind us what focused and relentless really meant. Veritas , the team building a low cost residential wind turbine. Our assignment for the teams for next week: What are the key financials metrics for your business model? Next was D.C.

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David Teten

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Instead of budget approvals, monitor key metrics and give managers more flexibility. Inevitably, things cost more and take longer than expected. So here’s the solution I have recommended to some of my portfolio companies: “ agile budgeting ”, i.e., monitoring a few key variables while giving managers significant flexibility.

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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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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

This approach is a the heart of breaking down the "time/quality/cost pick two" paradox , because these small investments cause the team to go faster over time. Wed never heard of five whys, and we had plenty of "agile skeptics" on the team. Id like to point out something else about the example above. Five whys helps us keep our cool.

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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?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 26, 2023

Most business metrics I see compare current performance to your own previous experience, rather than your performance compared to industry standards and competitors. Amend this culture to highlight and reward new initiatives on a regular basis, with metrics to assess value and progress. The return was far greater than the cost.

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TechEmpower

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

Focusing on the metrics that ultimately drive the business, often the bottom line, has provided a reality check, a counter-weight to the desire to consume all new technologies. Besides, more development time means the client can be more agile with functionality and has a greater potential for success.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

If youre trying to design an architecture to maximize agility, how can that work if some people are working in TDD and others not? In my mind, theyre racking up costs (one month for that part, two months for that other part, uh oh). But along the way, something strange happened. And what about if deployment takes forever?

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 29, 2009

Although it costs to pay down the principal, we gain by reduced interest payments in the future. 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. The human tendency to moralize about debt affects engineers, too.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

We wanted an agile approach that would allow us to build our software architecture as we needed it, without downtime, but also without large amounts of up-front cost. You can also download our presentation, " Just-In-Time Scalability: Agile Methods to Support Massive Growth." Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 9, 2009

Thats the essence of so many of the lean startup techniques Ive evangelized: customer development , the Ideas/Code/Data feedback loop , and the adaptation of agile development to the startup experience. Creating a company-wide feedback loop that incorporates both customer development and agile development is a challenge.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 8, 2008

This theory has become so influential that I have called it one of the three pillars of the lean startup - every bit as important as the changes in technology or the advent of agile development. Stevey's Blog Rants: Good Agile, Bad Agile Learning from Obama: maneuver warfare on the campa. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 28, 2009

This builds on a lot of great thinking that has come before, like the agile movements insistence that only the creation of working code counts as progress for a software development team. I used to think that investments in metrics were a form of waste. I used to think that investments in metrics were a form of waste.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 4, 2008

Boyd emphasized the importance of agility in combat: "the key to victory is to be able to create situations wherein one can make appropriate decisions more quickly than ones opponent." Lean startups have the ability to use this commodity stack to lower costs and, more importantly, reduce time to market. Agile software development.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

Sounds very similar to agile development which is the way. If you can start getting ROI on a feature in month one of a twelve month project versus waiting until the end, youve comparatively reduced the cost of development by the revenue generated by that feature over 11 months. February 21, 2009 7:39 AM Rocky1138 said. Expo SF (May.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2017

While 20th century metrics were revenue and profit, today it’s common for companies to get acquired for their user base. Incubators and accelerators like Y-Combinator have institutionalized experiential training in best practices (product/market fit, pivots, agile development, etc.); The founders.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

I know plenty of people who prefer more advanced source control system, but my belief is that many agile practices diminish the importance of advanced features like branching. Its not that the idea behind them is wrong, but I think agile team-building practices make scheduling per se much less important. Youd better. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

Every board meeting, the metrics of success change. They know how much it costs to bring in a customer and they know how much money they can expect to make on each one. Our cost to acquire a customer on AdWords was only a few cents. Go on an agile diet quickly. And yet, their investors are frustrated. Great post!

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 11, 2013

You cannot draw a direct line to reducing waste or improving revenues or cutting costs…whereas the cross-functional teams, you can tie it to a performance metric that has a direct result in the corporate objectives. You have “launch day” and then nothing happens, because your value proposition is so wrong that no one cares.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 25, 2010

Two Ways to Hold Entrepreneurs Accountable Beware of Vanity Metrics For Startups, How Much Process Is Too Much? Two Ways to Hold Entrepreneurs Accountable Beware of Vanity Metrics For Startups, How Much Process Is Too Much? Hence, cutting corners often paid huge dividends. And a certain amount of chaos reigned too. Expo SF (May.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 25, 2023

18- Blend strategy, innovation and agility Photo Credit: Ankit Prakash Building a thriving e-commerce business in this digital era requires a precise blend of strategy, innovation, and agility. Use data-driven insights, but don't let them overshadow the importance of human connection. Thanks to Ben Pu, Ship Sage ! #18-

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 29, 2023

It will also help you reduce costs and provide greater flexibility for your employees. Additionally, the shift towards performance-driven metrics for remote teams allowed professionals to take their productivity to new heights Thanks to David Brickley, STN Digital ! #7- Thanks to Thomas Niemczewski, Dream Chasers ! #4-

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 27, 2009

While some cost-cutting measures reduce that number, others increase it. In lean times, it’s most important to focus on cutting costs in ways that speed you up, not slow you down. Otherwise, cutting costs just leads to going out of business a little slower. Expo SF (May. Conference streaming, sponsors, discounted tickets.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 15, 2009

Who will ultimately bear the cost of their mistakes? The agile software movement has made numerous contributions: continuous integration, which helps accelerate feedback about defects; story cards and kanban that reduce batch size; a daily stand-up that increases tempo. How severely is failure punished? How important are schedules?

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

Measure your agility by putting metrics on change. Count the number of new projects, time and resources required to implement, and measure the return in revenue, customer satisfaction, or cost savings. They may be improving every period, but losing the race. Old views of change rates are no longer competitive.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 19, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, January 19, 2009 Lean hiring tips In preparing for the strategy series panel this week, I have been doing some thinking about costs. I want to talk specifics, and when you come right down to it, most technology startups dont have a very interesting cost structure. Expo SF (May.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 25, 2021

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. This is favorable as a cost-saving measure, but it also introduces more flexibility into the organization. The Gig Economy: Here to Stay?

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 22, 2018

The cost of a mobile app depends on a variety of factors such as functionality, design, supported platforms, targeted audience, integration points etc. This was validated when we re-wrote those parts in React Native or mobile app technologies and saw metrics which showcased more engagement from our customers.”

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 13, 2008

Since we were only paying per click, it didnt cost us anything to cast a wide net. 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.

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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. And the results weren’t the traditional PR metrics of number of articles or inches of ink. We were constantly creating metrics to see the effects of different PR messages, channels and audiences on end-user purchases.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

As the costs of production fall, it’s getting easier and easier to send in a proposal or even a complete work. Despite all the energy invested in talking to authors about the size of their platform, very few gatekeepers have a rigorous set of metrics for measuring it. I’ve met a lot of gatekeepers in the past few months.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 6, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, October 6, 2008 When NOT to listen to your users; when NOT to rely on split-tests There are three legs to the lean startup concept: agile product development , low-cost (fast to market) platforms , and rapid-iteration customer development. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 8, 2008

Integration risk is the term I use to describe the costs of having code sitting on some, but not all, developers machines. 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?

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 2, 2009

Yet in every situation where I have asked, nobody has been tasked with making a realistic estimate, either of the impact of this lack of training or the real costs of the solution. Remember that the cost of the solutions is proportional to the problem caused. In fact, even the investigation itself is considered too much work.

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The Startup Magazine

APRIL 29, 2018

Automation in IT helps in mitigating the IT operations risk, reducing costs, improving standards enforcement. However, due to complexities and high costing, organizations tend to avoid automation and rely on manual approaches to their IT operations. Non-standardization of IT architectures hinders the achievement of cost-effective.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 29, 2021

It's important to keep business agile. One of the key metrics of success in Real Estate is having a large market share. As a new start-up, increasing our efficiency serves two purposes; firstly in achieving our mission of being a sustainably centered company, but also in keeping costs low and keeping the business agile and lean.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 22, 2010

The cost of creating new companies is falling rapidly, and access to markets, distribution, and information is within the reach of anyone with an Internet connection. The cost will be felt in jobs -- thousands of new jobs that could have been created here, but werent. Read the rest of The New Startup Arms Race at Huffington Post.

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