Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 15, 2020

Investors, partners, team members, and customers implicitly value or devalue a startup based on the leader’s physical presence, emotional identity, social skills, intellectual agility, moral values, and past performance in the domain. Strategic proficiency. Performance accountability processes.

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Valuation Technical Review Due Diligence Leadership 311

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 29, 2020

With masses of employees huddled at home, safe from the ravages of the novel coronavirus threat looming on our horizon, remote work is no longer an option for millions of companies across the globe. This is a question every employer in 2020 must ask themselves to maintain and boost productivity levels in such a scenario. 2: Office 365.

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Software Review Software Employee Cloud 194

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2013

He has grown our US operations from 1 employee (him) to a global organization of 75 employees that will finish the year with 8-digit revenues (90+% recurring) and more than 350% year-over-year growth. The Agile Board. Rob is one of the most driven and successful CEOs I work with. In his spare time he raised nearly $30 million.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 15, 2022

By definition, most startups begin as a result of some innovation in product, process, or service. The problem is that innovations in most business areas are coming so fast these days that yours can be overrun while still being scaled up across geographies and other products. Product-line expansion. Geographic expansion.

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Dilution Startup Merger Flash 355

Steve Blank

APRIL 3, 2018

Until we start giving grades for resiliency, curiosity, agility, resourcefulness, pattern recognition, tenacity and having a passion for products and customers, great grades and successful entrepreneurs have at best a zero correlation (and anecdotal evidence suggests that the correlation may actually be negative.).

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

While our teams have mentors, socialize a lot and give great demos, the goal of our class final presentations is “ Lessons Learned ” – about product/market fit, pricing, acquisition/activation costs, pricing, partners, etc. In the first 4 weeks, our team got out of the building and spoke with employees at 42 different companies.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 13, 2024

Key Takeaways Efficient workflows can significantly boost productivity and reduce stress. Whether you’re a startup or a multinational corporation, the need for agile and streamlined workflows is universal. Embracing these tools is pivotal to unlocking new levels of productivity.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 30, 2014

Google is notorious for this, releasing many of its products in beta form — and sometimes even leaving them in that phase for years. But this relatively new trend of testing products publicly has led to some misunderstandings of what it actually means to launch a “beta” product. What You Gain From Beta Testing. Expanded uses.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

With a nation-wide reliance on remote working schemes calling for countless employees to carry out the business’ essential processes from their own homes – proficient IT support and management has never been so important. Every company should have a firewall in place on their network, in order to control what’s accessible for employees.

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Technical Review Software Review Security Agile 246

Steve Blank

MARCH 15, 2017

But he was getting uneasy that as his headcount was growing the productivity of his marketing department seemed to be rapidly declining. The other departments gave the same type of logistical answers; the product-marketing department, for example, said their job was to get the product specs from engineering and write data sheets.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

These range from budgets being significantly smaller, profit margins being squeezed, and employees juggling various roles to meet the needs of the company. There are a lot of different small business tools out there that can help SMBs maximize productivity, increase efficiency, and run as smoothly as possible.

Small Business 173

Small Business Agile Software Software Developers 173

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. Value Propositions and Customer Segments are covered in weeks 1 and 2, emphasizing the search for problem/solution and then product/market fit.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

If you’re an early employee at a startup, one day you will wake up to find that what you worked on 24/7 for the last year is no longer the most important thing – you’re no longer the most important employee, and process, meetings, paperwork and managers and bosses have shown up. I know a change is going to come.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 13, 2020

It may take a significant amount of time and money to develop a right-sized office space that can accommodate the production and growth a business hopes to experience. However, that investment is well worth it when teams are more collaborative and productive. . for your team to be productive. .

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Product Software Review Due Diligence Agile 147

ReadWriteStart

MAY 26, 2022

Creating a well-designed product that’s a hit with users takes a lot of hard work, not to mention a little strategy and luck. Achieving longevity, it seems, is not as simple as creating one successful software product. The creation of a hit software is an impressive feat — especially because 21.5% Figuring Out Your Next Big Move.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Due to a small work environment, there is very little paperwork involved in startups, especially in agile development. Startup cultures are often centered on the employees, the long-term vision as well as office relations. Adopt an Agile Work Environment. Less Bureaucracy. Build a Brand around Your Startup’s Culture.

Technical Review 137

Technical Review Agile Startup Software Review 137

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Reading the NY Times article “ Jeffrey Katzenberg Raises $1 Billion for Short-Form Video Venture, ” I realized it was time for a new startup heuristic: the amount of customer discovery and product-market fit you need to find is inversely proportional to the amount and availability of risk capital. ” Fire, Ready, Aim. And it may work.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 19, 2010

No wait, I forgot, actually the question is: What happens when employee #2 makes off with your code and roadmap and marketing data and customer list, moves to Bolivia, and starts selling your stuff world-wide at one-tenth the price? The good news: There are good answers to these questions! At best, they could copy. Our advantage was speed.

Software Review 325

Software Review Technical Review Development Team Review Bolivia 325

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Twenty-five years ago, to go public you had to sell stuff – not just acquire users or have freemium products. People had to actually pay you for your product. This required a repeatable and scalable sales process, which required a professional sales staff and a product stable enough that customers wouldn’t return it.

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Founder Technical Review CTO Hire IPO 281

Steve Blank

JANUARY 30, 2013

Employees had a different concern – they simply wanted more clarity on how to continue to be involved, since formal rules of engagement ended with the bootcamp. So when we asked them to embrace these new product ideas, we ran into a wall of (justified) skepticism. Venture Fest was not integral to their success.

Programming 273

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Rosenberg comes fresh from managing the growth of Keyrus, a data consulting company, from 35 to 120 employees. Others in that cohort included Zviki Shimon (CFO), Yair Areli (senior VP of global sales), Nir Mandel (VP of product management), and Aviv Canaani (VP of marketing). ” Product Focus.

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Hiring Software Review Customer Israel 172

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 28, 2011

Presenting your startup vision as a founder to a potential investor, or presenting an idea as an employee to an executive, requires that you effectively communicate, or “translate”, the value proposition into terms that the receiver can fully understand and appreciate. Implicit in agility is increased productivity on change initiatives.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 2, 2020

They’re still built that way by the product’s engineers. They hire a team, spend months planning, their engineers build it, and… the final product isn’t quite right. How no-code tools work. It’s not that no-code tools don’t involve code at all. A user can build a chatbot in an afternoon.

CTO Hire 264

CTO Hire eCommerce Engineer Software 264

SoCal CTO

APRIL 9, 2013

And you will want to make sure you see what the particular designers have done, samples of their work product, their process, etc. Do not fall into the trap of Startups and a Common Misunderstanding in Agile Software Development. How many full-time W2 employees do you have? What are the skills of employees vs. contractors?

Web Development 204

Web Development Web Developer Los Angeles 204

Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 7, 2013

Part of that vision became the agile software development products that Rally makes. He was inspired by Salesforce.com and the Salesforce Foundation so he wanted to do something similar in Boulder – contributing 1% of the equity and 1% of the employees’ time to local philanthropic efforts.

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Community Colorado Common Stock Equity 182

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 16, 2013

One good example is the way in which we''ve adjusted the length of different phases of our agile sprints. We don''t follow a set agile methodology, but rather follow a more home-grown, minimal version of various approaches. The webcast is free with registration and will include a live Q&A with attendees. So what was going on?

Lean 167

Lean Startup Software Engineering Agile 167

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 4, 2017

By which they mean: Without stupid rules that assume employees are dumb or evil, without everything taking ten times longer than it should, without wall-to-wall meetings, without resorting to hiring anything less than the top 1% of the talent pool, and so on. Why is this impossible when you have 500 employees? From Brittle to Robust.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

Presenting your startup vision as a founder to a potential investor, or presenting an idea as an employee to an executive, requires that you effectively communicate, or “translate”, the value proposition into terms that the receiver can fully understand and appreciate. Implicit in agility is increased productivity on change initiatives.

Technology 206

Technology Agile Architecture Distribution 206

The Startup Magazine

JUNE 4, 2024

Examples of Goals Increase Market Share: By expanding your product line, aim to capture 10% more of the market within two years. Customer Satisfaction: Improve customer satisfaction scores by 15% in the next year through enhanced support and product improvements. Recognize and reward your employees’ contributions.

Technical Review 146

Technical Review Agile Audience Employee 146

Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

In spite of this, private equity funds have used the rallying cry of efficiency to hijack corporate strategy and loot the profits that historically would have been reinvested into research and development and new products. Some companies use a suggestion box, others like Google give employees 20% of their time to work on their own projects.

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SoCal CTO

APRIL 28, 2014

As a founder, you do need to be telling the developers what the business and product goals are. You need to inspire them with the product and market, and the learning opportunity. Other Topics Covered I also covered topics that are covered more thoroughly in the following posts: Document Your MVP for a Developer. That’s correct.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 21, 2019

By definition, most startups begin as a result of some innovation in product, process, or service. The problem is that innovations in most business areas are coming so fast these days that yours can be overrun while still being scaled across geographies and other products. Product-line expansion. Geographic expansion.

Dilution 224

Dilution Merger Flash Global 224

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 20, 2017

To be able to respond quickly and intelligently to the fast pace of change, all levels and functions in your businesses must be creative, responsive, and agile. Your customers are a powerful yet often underutilized source of ideas for new products and services, improved current offerings, and new ways to do business.

Technical Review 147

Technical Review Malaysia Agile Employee 147

ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 25, 2021

How will you ensure that humans and machines can collaborate and maximize productivity together? Employees were getting a feel for the benefits of the arrangement, such as cutting down on commute time, improving flexibility, and even increasing productivity. And how can you tell what an optimal balance is? Remote Work.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

They provide access to India’s trained employees and technology. Their approach is driven by the Agile methodology. They are good at building websites and mobile apps, as well as product engineering. Softxaa provides exceptional software products and services with a strong emphasis on quality and customer satisfaction.

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India Software Review Software Technical Review 130

Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 29, 2021

It could be more revenue, hiring clients, or launching a new product or service, but every new year is an exciting time because it’s ripe with opportunity. Our employees are the most valuable parts of our business, and investing in them helps to get their best selves working. 7- Providing employee engagement software.

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Version One Ventures

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

I recently spoke with a founder and CEO of a start-up that had just crossed the 200-employee milestone. An ineffective employee is bad for the company, but the impact of an ineffective manager reaches across the organization, multiplied by the number of people he/she manages. I myself experienced this as COO at AbeBooks.

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