Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 1, 2021

The evidence is clear that companies that help people in need, and the environment, are paid back in revenue by the rest of us. Practice your agility. I will paraphrase his guidance here, combined with my own experience: Elevate health and wellness of people and planet first. Customers are looking for a differentiator today.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 7, 2020

The classes are built on the Lean Startup methodology: Customer Discovery, Agile Engineering and the Business/Mission Model Canvas. You build MVP’s to validate the need/problem, then to validate product/market or mission/solution fit and finally the rest of the business/mission model canvas. How can you test distribution/deployment?

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Steve Blank

JULY 13, 2021

By 1923, 2/3rds of the courses at Harvard were taught with the case method, and the pattern was set for business education for the rest of the 20th century. Lean-driven (hypothesis testing/business model/customer development/agile engineering). Entrepreneurship Becomes a Subject in Business Schools. experiential.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

One is explaining the world as it used to work: the importance of gatekeepers, the scarcity implied by limited distribution, and the resulting quality bar that the industry is so proud of. But, as any startup can tell you, this opens up a tremendous set of opportunities for the rest of us. What accounts for the difference?

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

I remind my students that I’m teaching them a methodology they can use the rest of their careers, not running an incubator. Their sales had given them some real data on three potential distribution channels: direct to consumer, brick and mortar retail, retailers.

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ConversionXL

MAY 12, 2020

We know that, in smaller sample sizes, observed effects (the difference between the control and the test) are much more widely distributed. The rest all perished as victims of a Type 2 error, or false negative results. When you peek makes a huge difference in error rates. Next-level sequential testing.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 5, 2010

I think you can blame Customer and Agile Development for a small part of it. But these VC’s aren’t Lean because they fund startups with web-based distribution models. The test is, ask them how they differ in their investing philosophy from the rest of their firm.). Here’s why. Electron-based Venture Capital.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

PernixData introduces a software-defined “Flash Virtualization Platform” that aggregates and virtualizes flash storage distributed across servers into a scale-out data tier for enterprise data centers to provide low cost, deterministic high performance to any out-of-box application.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 11, 2015

More agile competitors are starting to eat into our business. They’ve learned the best distribution channel to get the product from their company to the customer. The strategy and structure for 21st corporate innovation will come from emulating the speed, urgency, agility and low-cost, rapid experimentation of startups.

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Venture Chronicles

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

Planning a Customer Self-Service Community Using Distributed Leadership. Service Agility thru Adaptive Case Management « Social CRM ideas by Mark Tamis. The rest of my favorite links are here. 25 Useful Q&A and Tutorial Sites for Computer Programmers » Masters in Computer Science. tags: Blog. tags: Blog Customer community.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 18, 2011

He was a lead for distributed teams in India, Europe and the U.S., First of all the cases where the integration of the new small agile and innovative company into a large corporate worked are few and far between. Most of the time buying a startup has bad consequences for the parent company.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 1, 2017

The rest of the world had much, much less. When each of the other six waves initially arrived, the early adopters were the more agile outliers. You’ve been in a university where information distribution in your classroom was not a democracy. And that was in New York City. So, What Does This Mean For You?

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Agile VC

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

All of us at NextView extend our congratulations to founder Hardi Meybaum and the rest of the GrabCAD team. He had a clear vision of what he hoped to achieve with GrabCAD… to make collaborative CAD design easier in our connected world, where CAD engineers and product designers are more distributed.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

As a formal method, the Lean Startup consists of three parts: The Business Model Canvas – to frame hypotheses, Customer Development – to test those hypotheses in front of customers, and Agile Engineering – to build Minimum Viable Products to maximize learning. The rest of this blog post explains the how and why of these changes to the canvas.

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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. The reason for that is two-fold. Painting can be a career?

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

Heres my favorite part: If youve got a team, part of the team should obsess about the backlist, honing it, editing it and promoting it, while the rest work to generate (as opposed to promote) the frontlist. His post is ostensibly about how often to release new work (whether youre a blog writer, movie star, software team.) Expo SF (May.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

No matter what rule is offered, such advice seems to rest on the assumption that there is a one-size-fits-all solution that works in most situations. We at Analytics-Toolkit.com have developed the “AGILE” statistical method to sequential testing, and it allows one to plan tests for longer and to detect true winners near the break-even point.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 30, 2009

SuperMac sold our graphic boards for the Macintosh through multiple distribution channels: direct sales to major accounts, national chains, independent rep firms, etc. Hopefully you and your co-founders are experts in one or two parts (agile development, SEO/SEM, etc.) But the computer retail channel was a large part of our sales.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Customizable task management : With MeisterTask , teams can track tasks from creation to completion via agile and intuitive Kanban-style project boards. We already have our online collaborative mind mapping solution, MindMeister, and agile task management solution, MeisterTask. And now the highly anticipated MeisterTask 2.0

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andrewchenblog.com

MARCH 10, 2010

If all of those buildings were to power down, it may be that the relative distribution of business would remain the same, but we’ll never know since that will never happen Important navigational areas like homepages, inboxes, notifications, etc are all the same way. I could care less about the rest.

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Steve Blank

MAY 12, 2016

Pivots are what allows startups to be agile, and to move with speed and urgency. In an actual startup, trying to complete the rest of the mission model canvas if you don’t have product/market fit is just going through the motions. This week we are seeing the typical class distribution.

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Steve Blank

MAY 12, 2016

Pivots are what allows startups to be agile, and to move with speed and urgency. In an actual startup, trying to complete the rest of the mission model canvas if you don’t have product/market fit is just going through the motions. This week we are seeing the typical class distribution.

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Up and Running

JULY 28, 2015

Then my wife does business during the day and at night as well, between all the rest of her activities in life. Someone to do bottling and labeling and perhaps some selling and distribution, basically. Agile CRM: Agile CRM is Divinity Olives’ preferred customer relationship management software.

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NZ Entrepreneur

JUNE 11, 2019

Following the GFC, worldwide protests brought the world’s increasingly skewed distribution of wealth into focus for a new generation and the disparity is only speeding up. rather than risk taking. 5) Small businesses are the genesis of big business.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 5, 2022

I used to believe that the more hours I put in, the more work I'd get done but now I realize that the most effective way to get the best results is to make sure you're not too stressed or overworked, and how much a rested mind and body contribute to a more positive mindset. It's important to keep business agile.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

And the rest is history: Google Maps was a huge success. After all, how would Craig Newmark’s life (and the rest of ours, too) be different today if he had waited to build something with a high-quality design before starting his famous list? And the rest is history: Google Maps was a huge success. Ship it.&# Ship it.&#

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

The first, according to Dr. David Travis at UserFocus , was agile development : Dr. David Travis: “‘Development’ teams morphed into ‘design’ teams. To use the agile terminology, design teams wanted to get a ‘shared understanding’ of their users and they were suspicious of any attempt to set requirements in concrete.”.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 4, 2017

“The future is inherently unpredictable,” insists the small company, spurred on by Lean and Agile mindsets. Usually it’s starvation — can’t get enough customers (distribution) to pay enough money for long enough (product/market fit). Indeed, blue-sky invention and execution are hard to predict.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 3, 2018

Shoutout to @PeepLaja and the rest of the CXL team for making this happen year after year. Corporate Agility. Transparency correlates to agility (Does your CEO know how many tests you ran last month?). In an A/A test the distribution of p-values is random. Julian Gaviria (@juliangav) March 30, 2018. Culture of Innovation.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 7, 2017

The first, according to Dr. David Travis at UserFocus , was agile development : Dr. David Travis: “‘Development’ teams morphed into ‘design’ teams. To use the agile terminology, design teams wanted to get a ‘shared understanding’ of their users and they were suspicious of any attempt to set requirements in concrete.”.

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Occam's Razor

MAY 2, 2017

The challenge I want to take on is to be specific in the recommendations make, and to share how we can be very nimble and agile. Continuing the obsession with deeper relationships… TBT is a newspaper that’s updated 80k times a day, how does the Recency distribution look like?

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 1, 2009

Even if SJ has some unique "process" that enables him to come up with killer products (I suspect he is just wired differently from most people and probably has no real idea of how he does it to a point where it is teachable), that doesn't mean that the Lean Startup/Steve Blank's ideas etc have less of a value for the rest of us.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 26, 2019

The class was unique in that it was 1) team-based, 2) experiential, 3) lean-driven (hypothesis testing/business model/customer development/agile engineering). When we started this class, the concept of Lean (business models, customer development, agile, pivots, mvp’s) was new to everyone. Class Velocity/Depth.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 19, 2013

But what about the rest of us? For example, traditional command and control in production and distribution are just as important as flux-inspired exploration and innovation in product design and customer service. Planning processes must be agile enough to fit both. Our friends in Agile IT management have addressed this nicely.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 29, 2014

To go from testing pro to CRO-driven growth you need a system and you need the corporate agility to move through the system as fast as possible. If you’re at a company where CRO is restricted to marketing campaigns its up to you to be the champion for expanding CRO beyond advertising to the rest of the organization.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 22, 2010

Luckily for the rest of us, he was able to find his path to a green card, and now employs 24 Americans in West Lafayette, Indiana. 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. He started Passageways Inc.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 2, 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. This is just like a startup to me, complete with distribution and product development challenges, ecosystem design and many, many customers. Lets get 2010 underway.

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