Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 31, 2018

He was most recently VP of product at Axial, a fintech startup that connected medium-sized businesses with capital providers and buyers, where he oversaw product management, engineering and design. This small investment pays dividends with speed and better decisions. before it was acquired by Pivotal.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 25, 2010

Hence, cutting corners often paid huge dividends. You can view previous essays in this series here: Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? Hence, cutting corners often paid huge dividends. You can view previous essays in this series here: Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? Expo SF (May.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 12, 2020

Marty Hayes, Online Business Manager for UK Consumers at Dell Technologies, uses data to show people why customer centricity is important and to get people to start questioning opinions: I once worked for an online womenswear retailer, where our target market was fast-fashion-craving teenage girls and young women. So how can data help you?

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

As an advisor to entrepreneurs and new business owners, I’ve long observed that one of the toughest challenges is people change management in the team. I have found that my years in a big company have paid huge dividends in this area. Managing the product and the processes is only half your job as an entrepreneur, or less.

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ConversionXL

MAY 1, 2017

With the pace of innovation increasing, and powerful new tools—such as cloud storage of big data sets and machine learning algorithms for mining that data—now affordable and accessible to even fledgling start-ups, even the most powerful incumbents, such as Walmart and Microsoft, must learn to be more agile in both product development and marketing.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2020

And I think how you think about that, whether you're a restaurant owner that didn't invest in curbside pickup, what can you do to, I'll call it, hack it or in an agile mindset, how do you think about bringing a way to be able to do curbside and do that well, and not just rely on the delivery folks to be able to support you? Let's go."

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

Similar results apply in product management, design, testing, and even operations. These changes pay increasing dividends, because each improvement now direclty frees up somebody in QA at the same time as reducing the total time of the certification step. Sounds very similar to agile development which is the way. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 2, 2009

The person running the meeting does not have to be a manager or executive. You can almost hear a manager now: “sure, if you want me to spend the next six weeks setting this up, just let me know. Even in that case, we can ask the manager involved to simply spend the first hour of the six-week ideal solution.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

Thats when this approach can pay huge dividends. 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? Reports Lets start with the reporting side of the equation.

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NZ Entrepreneur

JUNE 11, 2019

While intrapreneurship and agile development is on the up, large businesses often prefer to innovate by acquiring the smaller, nimbler businesses in question, sitting back, watching the fireworks, and swooping in when the smoke has cleared. NZ Sales Manager. And who can blame us “rational consumers”? rather than risk taking.

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Agile VC

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Microsoft doesn’t need the cash… despite limited growth and paying a substantial dividend, MSFT still generates good cashflow and has >$70B on it’s balance sheet. Xbox could probably be a pretty good standalone business but MSFT will never be a leader in phones, tablets, or search. Want names?

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Small Business Force

MAY 17, 2016

From the way we were raised to those who have been in authority over us in our lives, be they teachers in school or managers we’ve had in business. ” Being a good leader is harder to execute, but it pays dividends in so many ways for the company, its employees, and its leader. "The They have to lead.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 19, 2009

This is the ultimate startup discipline, the hardest to master, and the one that pays biggest dividends. This is the ultimate startup discipline, the hardest to master, and the one that pays biggest dividends. Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? Why didn’t we learn more? Expo SF (May.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 23, 2017

Bryan: So I’ll never forget, we had a friend of ours after they [00:06:30] and you know that was the number one Wall Street Journal best-seller and they came to us and said to us you know, it’s amazing, you managed to put nine books into one. Basic customer management. How do I record those things?

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 5, 2010

The CEO weighs in with his perspectives, the head of product management disputes his conclusions and the marketing VP has a different take. He gossips with the office manager who tells 3 software developers. Even if they feel it gives them some less productive time it will pay huge dividends down the line in human connectedness.

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Transformify

AUGUST 23, 2018

Today, however, companies need their departments to work more closely so that information can be transmitted into the right hands as quickly as possible to allow businesses to operate with the agility necessary to remain competitive. The CFO, for their part, should familiarise themselves with the importance of managing human capital.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 28, 2009

If thats not a team-wide phenomenon, then its still a form of waste, because everyone has to learn every lesson before it starts paying dividends. Labels: agile , product development , Test-driven development 11comments: William Pietri said. Share what you learn. As you refactor, you get smarter. Great post, Eric. Expo SF (May.

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