Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 11, 2016

Mark Raheja, founding partner at August , a consultancy focused on organizational development, will be speaking as part of the enterprise learning track at Lean Startup Week about agility at scale. In thinking about the future of corporate agility and management, what modern practices are most vital to today’s leaders?

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Steve Blank

JUNE 11, 2009

Agile – you may find the real opportunities for your company was somewhere else. This means you still need to have a resilient personality, and be agile. And you’ll still need to have a resilient and agile personality, as new customer and product opportunities will appear and change your work. How quickly will you recover?

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The Equity Kicker

JANUARY 27, 2015

Steve Denning, one of the leading business thinkers pushing the business world to abandon the outdated idea of maximising shareholder value has published an interesting article on Forbes titled Why do managers hate agile? The good news for agile fans is that this battle is only going one way.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 30, 2022

Sometime in your future, an investor will offer you money in return for equity. In this article, you’ll learn how bootstrapping makes you a better business – a leaner, smarter, more agile company that can roll with the punches. Then you need to retain the lion’s share of equity. Will you be ready? You might even ask for it.

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Steve Blank

MAY 17, 2022

History tells us that late adopters fall by the wayside as more agile and opportunistic governments master new technologies. The opportunity is so large that there are hundreds of AI accelerator startups designing their own chips, funded by 10’s of billions of venture capital and private equity. Carpe Diem. Want more Detail?

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Gust

OCTOBER 29, 2014

For the City, including the de Blasio administration and NYCEDC, the partnership has yielded an enterprise level online platform, a private sector team dedicated to accountability and agile, ongoing improvements, and most importantly an invaluable resource for accelerating the economic development of the region.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 19, 2012

In a career that has moved from GE to NBC Universal and back to GE, she has brought technological innovation and agile business techniques to two of the US’s biggest legacy corporations. Beth is Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer at GE, but her work defies the standard understanding of big corporate business.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 12, 2020

All the teams used the Mission Model Canvas , (videos here ) Customer Development and Agile Engineering to build Minimal Viable Products, but all of their journeys were unique. Recognizing the ability of these teams to produce real results, 38 members of the venture and private equity community dialed in to these presentations.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Strategy expert, Gary Fox , defines growth marketing as: “An agile and adaptive marketing methodology that focuses on how to get, grow and keep customers.”. Brand equity is the reason people choose Coca-Cola over Pepsi and Google over Bing. If not, brand equity is your strongest asset. Establishing strong brand identity.

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Agile VC

DECEMBER 4, 2014

As a result, one of the trickier things co-founders tackle is determining the equity split amongst the founding group of individuals. Across both the startups I’ve personally been involved in (PayPal and LinkedIn) and the startups in which I’ve been an investor, I’ve seen a broad range of co-founder equity splits.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 19, 2014

An angel investor is an affluent individual who provides capital for a business start-up, usually in exchange for convertible debt or ownership equity. Wikipedia defines an angel investor as “an affluent individual who provides capital for a business start-up, usually in exchange for convertible debt or ownership equity.”.

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Agile VC

OCTOBER 23, 2012

And even if they wanted the index return, there is essentially no way to buy (or sell) a broad-based basket of VC funds in the way you can trade the S&P 500 or Russell 2000 or other public equity index. What about fund of funds (FoF), you ask? Aren’t they a form of bundled investment into the VC asset class?

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The Next Web

MARCH 2, 2014

This was reported as being untrue by British Private Equity & Venture Capital Association (BVCA) about a year ago. So you learn to be agile, to take it in your stride, to pivot based on the shortcomings of your competitors. Many entrepreneurs claim that there’s just not enough money, and that investors in Europe fear failure.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Use agility to your advantage and make speed a team priority. While they can outspend you, a startup offers real ownership (equity/options), more impact per employee, and the chance to change the world/industry. There aren’t many structural advantages for a startup compared to a large company, and speed is a rare exception.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

There’s been a lot of hand-wringing about gender equity in the high-tech and entrepreneurship worlds lately. There’s been a lot of hand-wringing about gender equity in the high-tech and entrepreneurship worlds lately. This is a good thing. (I I want to especially recognize Vivek Wadhwa and Brad Feld for their leadership.)

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 3, 2018

And to achieve that, you must be bold, agile, innovative, asset-light, and incredibly in sync with your customers. Set up flexible, focused teams to tackle those strategic priorities for which speed and agility are crucial, and empower these teams to take fast action. Admittedly, this is no small task. and Malaysia.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 14, 2015

It may seem counterintuitive but the best way to measure their commitment to your mission is to ask them to invest within the company for equity. Chances are, you’re excited because a few short months ago, you couldn’t get anyone to collaborate, much less join the team, but now that you’ve got buzz, how do you gauge their commitment?

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Board Effect

MARCH 22, 2022

The pandemic revealed just how innovative and agile community banks could be as they moved swiftly to adapt their operating strategies and continue serving the new needs of their customers. Technology will help your bank to be adaptable, innovative, and agile no matter what the future brings.

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The Equity Kicker

MAY 7, 2013

When our companies started switching from ‘waterfall’ to ‘agile’ development methodologies we went from having detailed pictures of how products were going to evolve (albeit with delivery risk) to little visibility of what new features would emerge and when.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

Once you decide your brand strategy, you should stay the course to build brand equity. Every touchpoint is an opportunity to build or subtract brand equity from your brand. The brand strategy has some roots. However, don’t be afraid to pivot when change is needed.). The marketing strategy is continuously in flux. Image source.

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Agile VC

DECEMBER 4, 2014

As a result, one of the trickier things co-founders tackle is determining the equity split amongst the founding group of individuals. Across both the startups I’ve personally been involved in (PayPal and LinkedIn) and the startups in which I’ve been an investor, I’ve seen a broad range of co-founder equity splits.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Many have disappeared, and others have forgotten how to be agile and innovative. It’s the right way to get money without giving up too much equity or control of your business. The large investment amounts preferred by VCs are no longer needed to launch winners. Some VC firms are bogged down by their own weight.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 25, 2019

Logos that use a wolf in their design demonstrate a ferocity, agility, and clever edge that work especially well for sports-related logos. For companies eager to join memorable concepts with their businesses, symbols can create brand equity. The wolf is often used to show independence, freedom, the wild, strength, and guardianship.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Maybe you are more comfortable going slow, with limited resources, or aiming high and giving up equity. Commitment, tenacity, and agility are key in this stage. Landing investments and backing requires a new level of confidence, communication, and risk. The test – iterate and pivot, based on market feedback.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 1, 2010

Content companies, for example, should be able to amass traffic and sell advertising on a bootstrapped budget before they come close to seeking equity financing—because you can, and because that’s the market expectation and that’s what your competitors are already doing. Do you have a Bose radio at home? How about doing what Gilt Groupe did?

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 14, 2009

Unlike other incubator-led programs, this workshop is open to anyone who wants to learn, and it does not require companies take investment or give out equity. We changed our model to B2B and adopted Agile around 2002. This shift allowed us to crank out working software quickly as a service. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 19, 2020

Many have disappeared, and others have forgotten how to be agile and innovative. It’s the right way to get money without giving up too much equity or control of your business. The large investment amounts preferred by VCs are no longer needed to launch winners. Some VC firms are bogged down by their own weight.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Make sure your hiring practices include diversity, inclusion, and equity. Practice your agility. I recently saw that many companies were slow in adopting pandemic required virtual workplaces, plexiglass barriers, and restaurant tables outside. Some of these companies no longer exist.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 26, 2013

The program pays scientists $50,000 to attend the program and takes no equity. It’s curriculum is built on a framework of business model design, customer development and agile engineering – and its emphasis on evidence, Lessons Learned versus demos, makes it the worlds most advanced accelerator. in Science or Nature.

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Altgate

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

For example, you can barter for a service or you can negotiate payment terms or even equity for service. The key is to get the outsourced team locked in for the long term and to build your own lean/agile culture. To that I say baloney. Even without cash you have many ways to outsource. You can often pursue a hybrid solution.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 20, 2023

And there's a bit of a sense that digital was a bit sort of the wild west in terms of, oh, it's all about agile and people improvise the method and you can't measure things as well. Were showing positive return on equity, were showing positive growth per, in value per customer through their digital initiatives.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

agile engineering. They don’t ask for equity and charge just enough to cover the costs of pizza and the room rental. I teach potential founders a hands-on, experiential class called the Lean LaunchPad at Berkeley, Stanford, Columbia and Caltech. customer development. Sign up here. The Lean LaunchPad Educators Course.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 27, 2014

Many have disappeared, and others have forgotten how to be agile and innovative. It’s the right way to get money without giving up too much equity or control of your business. The large investment amounts preferred by VCs are no longer needed to launch winners. Some VC firms are bogged down by their own weight.

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Steve Blank

MAY 3, 2022

The Pentagon’s relationship with startups and commercial companies, already an arms-length one, is hindered by a profound lack of understanding about how the commercial innovation ecosystem works and its failure of imagination about what venture and private equity funded innovation could offer. ” Acquire at Speed.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 8, 2019

You may start with prototype products, but you need rock-solid processes for successful growth and agility. Build your brand equity and relationships with customers. These days, brand equity means relationships with more customers, and a more memorable overall experience. Hire the best people and continually upgrade your team.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 2, 2011

A revolution has taken hold as customer development and agile engineering reinvent the Startup process. The result – an instant technology cluster – with equity at a fraction of Silicon Valley prices. There is nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come. Victor Hugo. When The Boardroom is Bits. Now they can.

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femgineer.com

JULY 18, 2010

We engineers know that need to be agile in a startup and be able to scrap code and rebuild, but want we don’t want is to have a founder who manic or aimless. Sweat equity or salary? There are a lot of engineers out there who have been burned by founders who pull and push them in a variety of directions.

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