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. A Secure AI App Store : YC is looking for a new kind of AI app store and operating system (OS) layer that prioritises user data protection. DocuSign 2.0:

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

But by taking advantage of open source, agile software, and iterative development, lean startups can operate with much less waste. So far, I have found "lean startup" works better with the entrepreneurs Ive talked to than "agile startup" or even "extreme startup.") The lean startup is an application of Lean Thinking.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 18, 2022

was fighting Al-Qaeda and ISIS, China built new weapons and developed new operational concepts to negate U.S. What if our assumptions about the survivability of these naval platforms and the ability of our marines to operate, were based on incorrect assumption about our investments in material, operational concepts and mental models?

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David Teten

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

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. Entrepreneur Jeff Magnusson provides a sample agile budgeting workbook. Regardless of whether you take a traditional or agile budgeting approach, Robert A.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 29, 2023

By gaining insight into their customer’s behavior and preferences, businesses can identify which technologies will have the most impact on their current operations and help them to stay ahead of their competitors. billion monthly users, and it quickly became a go-to platform for brands looking to increase their distribution and reach.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 27, 2015

Startups which insist on operating in stealth mode in fear of competitor response miss the more important customer response. 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.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 23, 2018

Some startups are sceptical using cloud based solutions for their operations in the financial sector because they are concerned about security. With the cloud, students can access the information they need all in one place and teachers can distribute assignments with greater ease. Financial sector. Hospitality industry. Real Estate.

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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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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Case in point, below are recent examples of European emerging managers who are standing out (from an upcoming report by Dealroom ) For newish VC funds, being in “emerging manager mode” means operating differently from established venture capital firms. They often provide hands-on operational assistance beyond just capital.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 9, 2020

By incorporating solutions for video conferencing and online meetings, HR teams can still conduct a rigorous hiring and training operation during the summer months. He has managed award winning, distributed, remote marketing teams spanning the globe for over 20 years. Making summer hiring more practical via remote collaboration.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 16, 2018

They of course need to be agile and adaptable, but home businesses should still have some formalized planning and structure. A plan also helps to organize the data and ingrains accountability and transparency into the business, which is important even for solo operations. by David Zimmerman, CEO of LC Technology International .

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 5, 2021

monthly email newsletter to entire subscriber list on X day each month) Dynamic workflows are more agile and flexible. How to leverage app automation to accelerate the customer journey and achieve operational excellence. Optimizing your operational workflows. Marketing requires a multi-channel approach.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 9, 2010

In management jobs related to operations – that is, the people tasked with actually making and distributing physical products – this kind of thinking is now considered ludicrous, thanks to a century of progress. Probably not; it’s much easier to blame the particular person who made the mistakes. Expo SF (May.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 11, 2015

In addition to cash flow, operational and organizational challenges often have a bigger impact on small businesses than larger companies as they typically have fewer resources at their disposal. These days, it’s not uncommon for companies large and small to be completely distributed, i.e., have a wholly remote workforce.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 26, 2015

To move innovation faster, we now have 21 st century tools — Business Model Canvas , Customer Development , Agile Engineering – all adding up to a Lean Startup. Here the company executes a known business model (known customers, product features, competitors, pricing, distribution channel, supply chain, etc.)

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 5, 2021

Many of these businesses have had plans to retain this operational model permanently – but a great deal of these changes were intended to be temporary measures to accommodate the pandemic. . Instead, its better to design your workflows and operational model from the ground up with remote work in mind. . Population segments. Days/hours.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

Compared to the million-dollar startup, they are operating at micro-scale. Because they have no presence in the market, they have to find distribution channels to bring in customers. Go on an agile diet quickly. With a product development team that is not shipping, any agile methodology will surface major problems quickly.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Even the most radical Bell Curve -style thinkers have to concede that even if there are differences between men and women in the distribution of these traits on average, these curve have substantial overlap, and there should still be a lot more of them represented in high-tech startups. This is especially important across functional lines.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 13, 2021

Throughout the different phases of the pandemic, we have spent even more time with our existing customers and actively sought out their advice on how we can make our platform and services better as this distributed work environment continues. 8-Stay agile. Thanks to Ablorde Ashigbi, 4Degrees ! Photo Credit: Jimmy Chebat.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

I've volunteered and worked for non-profits in a variety of countries on projects ranging from an organic olive oil operation to a permaculture demonstration site to a forestry project in western Guatemala's mountains. 7- The service operations industry. In my opinion, a new sector centered on carbon farming is just around the corner.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Still, COVID-19 helped tip the balance towards a globally distributed model. What’s more, outsourcing projects and ongoing operations to offshore teams on a contract basis is a more flexible model that’s easy to scale. A globally distributed business model allows you to hire the best talent wherever in the world it is.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

There was no repeatable methodology, startups and their VC’s still operated like startups were simply a smaller version of a large company. Customer Development , Agile Engineering and the Lean methodology enforced a process of incremental and iterative development. The world of building profitable startups ended in 1995. Visibility.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 20, 2022

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. Remember that startup competitors will always be limited by available funding, people, and operational systems. Capitalize on existing strengths to roll-out new initiatives.

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Where to Play

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

It can fly or roll on any surface, and will actually be able to operate in a wide range of temperatures and pressures. Plants that convert heat energy into electric power, include huge boilers and super-heaters operating under extreme temperatures. Step 3: Designing the Agile Focus Strategy.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 25, 2022

How to they use the new distribution channels competitors have adopted? How do they make these transitions without alienating and losing their existing customers, distribution channels and partners? And how do they motivate their most important asset – their people – to operate with speed, urgency, and passion?

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 27, 2022

You may have a brilliant product strategy, but your operational teams seem to fight change, as well as each other, resulting in turf battles and confusion, leading to the internal drama and problems that occupy too much of your time. Specifying roles is seen by the team as distributing power.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Retool how your company works and operates today. Practice your agility. For example, Daymond John , owner of FUBU and known for his appearances on Shark Tank, found that good manufacturing and distribution partnerships were required to scale his clothing lines, despite the fact that many of these early-on were his competitors.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 4, 2009

Im talking about the actual data-fetching operation. This information is normally maintained by your operations team. This is great for something like a huge DHT or a distributed work queue. Im not talking about high-level abstractions (like an object-oriented view of a customers data). The second is the mapping itself.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 14, 2021

For example, you could deploy CSAT surveys at various parts of the buyer’s journey (distributed across leads so as not to bombard a single customer with multiple questions). Advanced brand tracking studies can include inputs from digital advertising efforts, social listening tools, and other operational data. Take Tesla.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

JULY 18, 2024

Increased Profit Margins By eliminating intermediaries, businesses adopting a Direct-to-Consumer model can significantly reduce the costs associated with distribution. Savings achieved from reduced distribution costs can be reinvested into the business or passed on to customers through lower prices.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2022

From distribution chain standstills to labor scarcity, the need to package and deliver at customers’ doorstep has tremendously increased. If you want to enhance your agility and flexibility and own a custom packaging solution, this article will guide you through the process. Durability.

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SVPG

MAY 2, 2016

Just as I described the ten biggest problems in the context of the Waterfall model, I described the ten attributes of successful teams in the context of the Continuous Discovery and Delivery model (also known as Dual Track Agile, or Discovery Sprints and Delivery Sprints). You can watch that talk here , or read the narrative article here.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 8, 2020

However, there are a variety of powerful systems available to bridge that gap and ensure you remain connected to the heart of your company’s operations. He has managed award winning, distributed, remote marketing teams spanning the globe for over 20 years.

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Steve Blank

MAY 3, 2022

The government buys and distributes commercial images from startups to supplement their own and shares them with Ukraine as part of a broader intelligence-sharing arrangement that the head of Defense Intelligence Agency described as “ revolutionary.” Today, commercial companies have their own satellites providing unclassified imagery.

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

If you’re working closely with partners who are helping you distribute your product, it’s especially important to make sure they understand who you are, how you speak, and who you serve. You get to call all the shots, including how you want to operate the business and who you want to be involved. On the other hand, it’s a slow process.

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Steve Blank

MAY 29, 2019

With the nature of work changing, the core skills entrepreneurs need to know to become practitioners are actually core skills that everybody will need to know to get a job: creativity, agility, resilience, tenacity, curiosity. Distribution channels, brand loyalty, etc. In hindsight the 20th century was the golden age for corporations.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 14, 2019

Imagine if this sector continued to operate with mom-and-pop stores, where each store served a specific need and sold a specific product? Today, retail is dominated by international giants with powerful supply chains and increasingly digitized distribution systems. Consider the retail industry for comparison.

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