ConversionXL

JULY 15, 2020

Each spring, the annual State of Agile Marketing Report sheds light on how Agile ways of working are being adopted within marketing. This year, for the first time in the report’s three-year history, Agile techniques overtook those maintaining traditional processes. But Agile is about more than just speed.

Agile 87

Agile SCRUM Software Review Marketing 87

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 27, 2011

42:20 Did agile development influence you? 57: 00 How do you rectify company mission and customer demand. 57: 00 How do you rectify company mission and customer demand. 36:30 Eric: Social media is great for people with social capital. 38:00 Should you use avatars? 40:05 What happened after Imvu. 46:18 iOS Vs. Android.

Silicon Valley 301

Silicon Valley Lean Social Media PR 301

SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 10, 2012

Why Investors Should Demand This. They need to be able to know the key Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder , figure out where/when/how to bring on development talent ( Hiring Developers Before Product/Market Fit? , Just make sure its clear what the expectations are going into any engagement.

Technical Review 332

Technical Review CTO Hire Fractional CTO Software Review 332

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

Startup PR Public Relations Channel 329

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 26, 2023

It seems that today’s worker generation is more demanding, and less willing to accept guidance and direction from anyone with a leadership title. Today’s world demands that you lead up, down, and across, to get your constituents to follow. Cultivate mental agility and a learning mindset.

Leadership 281

Leadership Agile Demand Developer 281

YoungUpstarts

MAY 29, 2017

Agile Methodology.”. The trend today is for teams and projects to be flexible, adaptable, continuously reassessed and developed to ensure that products and/or companies fit market demand. Is agile & secure development a mismatch? by Quan Heng Lim, Cyber-Operations Consultant at Horangi. The Lean Startup.”.

Security 206

Security Software Review Technical Review Agile 206

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 21, 2020

That demands the right combination of tactical urgency and strategic patience, but there’s no question we have to move with alacrity on this right now. It was whatever you can do to get away from the classic DOD stovepipe way of doing business to a much more agile software approach. Warfighters Need to Be Demanding Customers.

Artificial Inteligence 291

Artificial Inteligence Technology Agile Architecture 291

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

On November 14 (that’s this Thursday) at 1p PT, Eric Ries will speak with Kent Beck, a creator of Agile software development, about facilitating the work of engineers and product teams. I can''t tell you how to move from demanding validation to sharing, but I can tell you what I did. First, I learned to recognize the difference.

Product Development 167

Product Development Software Review Technical Review Developer 167

YoungUpstarts

JULY 30, 2017

If companies are to thrive in a data-driven economy, they can’t afford to be handcuffed to ‘old’ technologies; they need the flexibility and agility to move at a moment’s notice to the latest market innovations. How can your company meet the agility imperative? Integration Approaches for Data Agility. Agile Data Fabric.

Agile 100

Agile Metadata Architecture Cloud 100

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. Customer Relationships answers the question, “How will we create demand and drive it to our channel?” “Customer Development” to test the hypotheses outside the building and.

Intellectual Property 290

Intellectual Property Lean IP Open Source 290

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. More importantly, it makes no demands of you to stand and deliver your weekly customer development progress in front of your peers.

Startup 335

Startup Lean Incubator Business Model 335

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.

Small Business 173

Small Business Agile Software Software Developers 173

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 28, 2011

For the business leaders I know, these priorities almost always include the following: Business agility. Implicit in agility is increased productivity on change initiatives. These business leaders get demands from all organizations for more, more, more, with little ability to quantify payback. Return on investment. Integration.

Startup 230

Startup Agile Architecture Distribution 230

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 27, 2019

At Amazon, Jeff Bezos leads a relentless drive to invent dramatic new ways to delight customers, not waiting for customer demands or competitors to show the way. In my view, every startup in today’s world would do well to adopt a management system with the same key objectives: Start with a customer-obsessed business model.

Global 308

Global Marketing Technical Review Algorithm 308

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 6, 2011

It delivers on-demand, self-servicing capacity so as to allow users to run applications through a simple administrative console. This migration to the cloud helps to meet their operational needs, as well as to reduce costs and increase agility and efficiency. The Rise of the Mobile Cloud.

Cloud 223

Cloud Asia Government Mobile 223

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. Marketing demand creation programs (Search Engine Marketing, Public Relations, Advertising, Lead Generation, Trade Shows, etc.)

Lean 263

Lean Silicon Valley Startup RSS 263

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 13, 2023

I believe that a fully engaged team is the key to both productivity and agility in the face of change. Start by getting people comfortable with what they don’t know, showing them you are open to new ideas, and don’t demand perfection in all deliverables. Show humility by being honest about mistakes.

Leadership 280

Leadership Agile Demand Search 280

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. If you find yourself being surprised by new competitor offerings and customer demands, then perhaps you are not paying attention. New blood and new ideas are keys to agility.

Agile 371

Agile Metrics Demand Internet 371

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 problem is they don’t know how to be innovative in peacetime when innovation succumbs to the daily demands of execution. In peacetime innovation succumbs to the demands of execution.

Community 244

Community Silicon Valley Technical Review Incubator 244

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

For the business leaders I know, these priorities almost always include the following: Business agility. Implicit in agility is increased productivity on change initiatives. These business leaders get demands from all organizations for more, more, more, with little ability to quantify payback. Return on investment. Integration.

Technology 206

Technology Agile Architecture Distribution 206

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 29, 2019

Amazon is famous for their Two-Pizza.Teams (no bigger than two pizzas will feed), allowing an entrepreneurial mindset more autonomy, agility, and accountability. Jeff Bezos always instills a sense of urgency by demanding business plans from business leaders on how they would disrupt their own lines of business.

Artificial Inteligence 222

Artificial Inteligence Agile Technical Review Demand 222

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. When testing demand creation in their multi-sided business model, they couldn’t get enough sellers to their site. So they sent out mass emails to create demand. Week 6 of the class.

Channel 234

Channel Artificial Inteligence San Francisco Business Model 234

ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Adapting to emerging trends and staying agile will be crucial for startups as the metaverse grows. Innovations such as edge computing, decentralized cloud storage, and privacy-enhancing tools will be in high demand due to the growing demand for efficient, secure, and scalable data storage solutions.

Technical Review 133

Technical Review Generative AI Startup Agile 133

The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 13, 2024

Whether you’re a startup or a multinational corporation, the need for agile and streamlined workflows is universal. An efficient digital workspace also demands integrating collaborative tools that simplify communication and break down barriers to information sharing. The journey toward operational efficiency takes time to happen.

Technical Review 154

Technical Review Software Review Agile Operations 154

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MAY 31, 2010

It was the little precambrian warm-blooded agile (oh sorry, now we're saying "lean") rodents who adapted by getting "outside the nest" to discover how to eat cockroaches, because we all know that cockroaches are the one form of life that can survive anything. Don't fear the dinosaur, fear the quivering warm-blooded tree-shrew.

Software Review 243

Software Review Development Team Review Technical Review Software Development 243

The Startup Magazine

MAY 3, 2024

It’s recognizing that there will be seasons of imbalance, as startup life is inherently unpredictable and demanding, and understanding the critical need to recharge and reconnect with what truly matters. What tasks demand your immediate attention, and which ones can wait? Be willing to pivot and adopt new techniques as necessary.

Technical Review 139

Technical Review Startup Agile Software Review 139

The Startup Magazine

JUNE 29, 2023

This transformation encompasses leveraging technologies such as artificial intelligence , cloud computing, data analytics, and mobile applications to enhance efficiency, agility, and innovation. This is where JayDevs comes into play. However, the journey of digital transformation requires more than just the selection of a framework.

Artificial Inteligence 141

Artificial Inteligence Framework Application Development Software Development 141

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 16, 2018

Companies are embarking on digital transformation journeys to experiment new digital ways of doing business — this means leveraging data smarter to enable unprecedented levels of efficiency, agility, and productivity. Satisfying the Demand for Safer Experiences. How did all this happen?

SMS 164

SMS Japan Asia China 164

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. But we are very confident that this is one more step to increasingly efficient, flexible, and on-demand computing environments.

Technical Review 121

Technical Review Software Review Technology Architecture 121

The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 26, 2021

Customer experience (CX) approaches in particular have had to develop and evolve rapidly over the last year – something which has benefitted startups and small enterprises who are able to move with agility to shift and flex to changing customer attitudes and expectations.

Startup 148

Startup Analytics Agile Software Review 148

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 2, 2022

They assure us that your fears and qualms are normal, but the next step in your journey is more than possible if you focus on this key set of practices with full intention, awareness, and agility-in-action: Capitalize on your best talents and strengths.

Leadership 227

Leadership Entrepreneur Agile Demand 227

Gust

SEPTEMBER 16, 2012

For the business leaders I know, these priorities almost always include the following: Business agility. Implicit in agility is increased productivity on change initiatives. These business leaders get demands from all organizations for more, more, more, with little ability to quantify payback. Return on investment. Integration.

Technology 162

Technology Agile Architecture Distribution 162

ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

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. Opcito stands out in software outsourcing for its agility and continual development.

India 130

India Software Review Software Technical Review 130

YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 24, 2018

However, the real staggering growth numbers of IoT are elsewhere: in how it’s transforming industries, powering start-ups, changing how we solve societal challenges and boosting demand for IoT-related jobs. It’s the kind of flexibility the IoT needs: an appetite for change and agility. IoT profiles, skills and job trends.

Internet 150

Internet Demand Software Engineering Agile 150

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. A major improvement over Waterfall development, Build Measure Learn lets startups be fast, agile and efficient. Lessons Learned.

Lean 120

Lean Agile Business Model Customer Development 120

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

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. Did the VC’s like your team ? Do they believe you have a big enough vision and market.

Customer Development 270

Customer Development Developer Customer Silicon Valley 270

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Since that takes four months, we have to be able to predict the demand for technical support at least four months in advance, because we have to be hiring for that future demand right now. “The future is inherently unpredictable,” insists the small company, spurred on by Lean and Agile mindsets.

Government 223

Government Startup Cofounder Technical Support 223