A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

APRIL 5, 2010

In the quest for optimization, A/B tests, metrics, and funnels, we're in danger of losing the fun and value of creative work. When we demand overwhelming customer outcry before committing to the slightest product change, we're in danger of losing the value of creating a cool feature that takes too much effort but people just love.

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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. Newell ran the U.S.

Community 244

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 29, 2019

Institute deep metrics measuring all aspects of the customer experience. Amazon is famous for their Two-Pizza.Teams (no bigger than two pizzas will feed), allowing an entrepreneurial mindset more autonomy, agility, and accountability. Customer and competitive demands are rising across all sectors and experiences.

Artificial Inteligence 222

Artificial Inteligence Agile Technical Review Demand 222

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Master of 500 Hats: Startup Metrics for Pirates (SeedCamp 2008, London) This presentation should be required reading for anyone creating a startup with an online service component. He also has a discussion of how your choice of business model determines which of these metric areas you want to focus on. Choose one. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 25, 2011

It may be hard to remember that there was a time when people in the agile software development community thought Lean Startup was incompatible with agile practices. No BS, no vanity metrics, no launches, no PR. As always, our rule is by entrepreneurs, for entrepreneurs. Wealthfront CTO Pascal-Louis Perez will show you how.

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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. Our assignment for the teams for next week: What are the key financials metrics for your business model? So they sent out mass emails to create demand. Week 6 of the class. Two weeks to go.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 3, 2009

In a lot of cases, this requires a lot of energy invested in talking to customers or metrics and analytics. Refreshing to finally see lean and agile thinking emerge in product/business-floors and not only in technology. Iterate quickly to uncover true market demands. Thank you. I know it's going to help me immensely!

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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. 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.

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Agile Metrics Demand Internet 371

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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David Teten

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Instead of budget approvals, monitor key metrics and give managers more flexibility. 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. This agile approach is not restricted to small startups.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

Because five whys kept turning up a few key metrics that were hard to set static thresholds for, we even had a dynamic prediction algorithm that would make forecasts based on past data, and fire alerts if the metric ever went out of its normal bounds. Wed never heard of five whys, and we had plenty of "agile skeptics" on the team.

Software Review 167

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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 ?

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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 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.

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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. Using AdWords to assess demand for your new online. Expo SF (May. Conference streaming, sponsors, discounted tickets.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Meeting growth metrics, achieving profitability, and ensuring a substantial return on investment are now integral parts of the startup journey. The Founder’s Journey To truly succeed, a founder needs resilience , a consistent capacity to innovate, and the agility to adapt to an ever-changing market.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Pivoting only works if a business is small and agile and can shift its operations quickly and flawlessly in a different direction. In contrast, others had to retool their business protocols to deal with the new demands of a remote office. What we should have learned is that businesses need to be more agile in their construction.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

Lean manufacturing , agile software development , and Theory of Constraints are all examples of this idea in action. Or what if the features they demand we build are different from the ones we were planning to build? No vanity metrics should be looked at. No vanity metrics should be looked at. No press should be allowed.

San Francisco 167

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment Software Review 167

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? By delegating and training, we create a corps of leaders who could step in to provide CTO-like services on demand. But along the way, something strange happened. And what about if deployment takes forever?

CTO 168

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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." Agile software development. Agile allows companies to build higher quality software faster. This speeds up the Ideas-Code-Data feedback loop.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 10, 2009

It’s important to note that system I’m about to explain evolved organically in response to new demands on the system and in response to post-mortems of failures. Heck, thats what it says right there in the agile manifesto. Nobody gets here overnight, but every step along the way has made us better developers. But it worked.

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Continuous Deployment San Francisco Software Review Lean 123

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.

Technical Review 168

Technical Review Software Review San Francisco Lean 168

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 5, 2009

In other words, a principled way to combine agility with stability. In other words, you can always invest in process, batch size reduction, and agility as an alternative to preventing a specific problem. In other words, a principled way to combine agility with stability. Many problems are catastrophic only if allowed to fester.

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San Francisco Architecture Lean Continuous Deployment 133

ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 25, 2021

This is increasingly difficult in a world dominated by remote work, but it’s increasingly demanded by the workforce. 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. The Gig Economy: Here to Stay?

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Artificial Inteligence Algorithm Retention Software Review 150

ReadWriteStart

APRIL 8, 2023

In 2023, mobile commerce will remain in demand and grow even further. Last Mile & Next-Day Delivery Last-mile delivery, the last leg of the parcel movement from the transportation hub to the final destination, will also be in high demand in 2023. Only in 2021, 72.9% Amazon has been at it for years.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

The other revels in the world as we all know it will be someday: limitless distribution enabled by new technologies, the importance of collaborative filters, and on-demand availability of all content for end-users. Gatekeepers are overloaded. My blog has over 14000 subscribers, for example. Is that a lot?

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San Francisco Lean Technical Review Distribution 113

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

Growth - when you have existing customers, the pressure is on to grow your key metrics day-in day-out. 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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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 25, 2023

From crafting a compelling brand identity to mastering digital marketing, it's a multifaceted journey that demands careful planning and execution. 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.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 4, 2020

You do CX a disservice if you focus only on metrics like NPS. Achieving a great customer experience that delights demanding customers (and delivers for demanding stakeholders) isn’t easy—even in the most forward-thinking organizations. waterfall, agile , etc.)? waterfall, agile, etc.)? Customer-facing teams.

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 4, 2022

Apart from missing out on the chance to be first, individual company demands or goals may differ from those of even immediate competitors. The digital transformation strategy must be agile, flexible, and customer-centric to stay ahead of the competition. Because their rivals are doing it, they feel they should follow suit.

Technical Review 127

Technical Review Startup Agile Technology 127

Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 15, 2009

As a consumer internet company with millions of customers, it may seem to have little relevancy for an enterprise software company with only a handful of potential customers, or a computer security company whose customers demand a rigorous audit before accepting a new release. Expo SF (May. Conference streaming, sponsors, discounted tickets.

Continuous Deployment 167

Continuous Deployment Software Review San Francisco Lean 167

Occam's Razor

MARCH 23, 2010

Because every tool uses its own sweet metrics definitions, cookie rules, session start and end rules and so much more. If you don't kill 25% of your metrics each year, you are doing something wrong. Allow me to point out that only 50% of the metrics I love exist in clickstream tools - like webtrends or xiti or unica.

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Analytics Web Metrics Channel 119

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 22, 2018

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.” If you are really looking for an option to save money, use a Time and Material model in combination with agile methodology and ask your project manager for weekly progress reports.

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Mobile Developer Open Source Software Engineering 147

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Customers kept demanding that we add this or that IM feature, and we were routinely refusing. We were afraid that this was just the tip of the iceberg, and that once we “gave in&# to these five demands there would be five more, ad infinitum. You can read how well that went in another post here.) Expo SF (May.

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Advisory Board Customer San Francisco Lean 151

Steve Blank

MARCH 29, 2012

Pair Customer Development with Agile Development. Startup Metrics are Different from Existing Companies. Startups Demand Comfort with Chaos and Uncertainty. So by popular demand, here’s a poster of the Customer Development Manifesto. for A Repeatable and Scalable Business Model. Not All Startups Are Alike.

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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. This means that by 2023, if these demands are not dialed back significantly, then it will be virtually impossible to maintain the balance between work and fun that has been instrumental in making me who I am today.

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Entrepreneur Social Media Employee Los Angeles 138

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 2, 2009

oh, and on the book front, you'll be able to get all of my essays so far in ebook, print-on-demand, and kindle editions - coming soon. Startup Visa update ► February (5) Kiwi lean startup + Australia next Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business) Beware of Vanity Metrics (for Harvard Business Rev. Expo SF (May.

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