Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 25, 2011

It may be hard to remember that there was a time when people in the agile software development community thought Lean Startup was incompatible with agile practices. No BS, no vanity metrics, no launches, no PR. There’s a number of cool events going on the weekend before, too. And those are just our keynotes!

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Metrics for this depth are rare and only long-term. We might have medium-term goals like “adopting agile methodologies” or “getting everyone on the same page with a project kick-off” as the outcomes for the reader. The metrics for this level are more concrete and objective.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 26, 2023

Most business metrics I see compare current performance to your own previous experience, rather than your performance compared to industry standards and competitors. Amend this culture to highlight and reward new initiatives on a regular basis, with metrics to assess value and progress.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 6, 2012

The business plan should no longer be just a single event. Here at Palo Alto Software in 2007 and 2008, we embraced these planning concepts and moved towards a more agile planning process. These metrics should be reviewed at least monthly in a regular planning meeting with key business partners and employees.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 29, 2023

Additionally, the shift towards performance-driven metrics for remote teams allowed professionals to take their productivity to new heights Thanks to David Brickley, STN Digital ! #7- 9- L&D enables teams to be agile Photo Credit: Chris Gadek Investing in L&D is essential for companies to build agility into their cultures.

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 4, 2022

The digital transformation strategy must be agile, flexible, and customer-centric to stay ahead of the competition. Regularly monitoring and reviewing data and metrics is critical since it will guide decision-making for future digital endeavours. Digital transformation is not a one-time event or project. Conclusion.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

Measure your agility by putting metrics on change. Smart retail stores sponsor live events, peer-help sessions, and customer demonstrations to create great experiences and opportunities for people to feel community with others that they could never find online. They may be improving every period, but losing the race.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 3, 2018

The event had returning attendees… Again wow’d by #CXLLive — plenty of knowledge to bring back to the team. … as well as first-timers: First time at #CXLlive , very impressed with the event. Never experienced an event where everybody seems to know each other. Corporate Agility. We will be back!

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 25, 2023

There are many ways to do this, including going onto other people’s podcasts, talking at events, attending local Chamber of Commerce functions, talking about what you do at parties, and writing articles for other people’s publications like this one. But if you are an introvert, all this public speaking and networking may terrify you.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 8, 2023

Some people also attend various conferences and lectures about the trends, yet such events cover relatively outdated developments already implemented by large corporations. Conferences are significant events for networking and getting to know people in your industry when you are a newbie to the business.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 29, 2021

It's important to keep business agile. One of the key metrics of success in Real Estate is having a large market share. My number one goal for 2022 is to be at the forefront of innovation and take a proactive approach to how the events space should move forward. #8- Being prepared for the unexpected. Photo Credit: Sean Kelly.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

We’ve posted the full program for The Lean Startup Conference , and it includes more than three days of events for Gold pass holders and six days of events for VIP pass holders. This event is open to everyone, but the venue is small, and VIP pass holders get guaranteed seating.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2018

There are three parts to a good competitive analysis: (1) defining the metrics and identifying the competitors you’re comparing, (2) gathering the data, and (3) the analysis. You’re going to need some brand health metrics to track. Start by defining what metrics are important. 3) Develop personas for your target customers.

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Steve Blank

MAY 29, 2014

First, college graduations fall in the category of “life cycle” events. At some major events– your birth and death for example, while you may be the center of attention, the events are managed by others and are more important to the people around you. . ——-. We were there to celebrate with and for them.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

You might update your marketing strategy in response to campaign performance, customer needs, external trends and events, budgets, and even competitors’ tactics. Take one of the biggest events that many brands have faced yet, the COVID-19 pandemic. Marketers must adjust their expectations and metrics with expanded brand tracking.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 12, 2022

The solution is to establish and maintain a culture and processes that don’t view change as a discrete event to be spotted and managed, but as an ongoing opportunity to improve competitiveness. Increase change agility. Too many find that out too late, and are left chasing a rabbit that is long gone. In summary, change will happen.

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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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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Prescriptive analytics The digital analytics metrics you need to know How to use analytics to improve marketing campaigns Define your mission, goals, and KPIs Set key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure marketing performance What to look for in a digital analytics product 9 tools for your digital analytics stack 1. Conversion rate.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 26, 2017

Elite Camp is a traffic and (mainly) conversion event held in Estonia every summer. It’s among the very best CRO events in the world, and of course in Europe. Here are top insights from every speaker of this year’s event. Know your North Star Metric. Hint: it’s not usually a company-valued metric like revenue.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 11, 2014

The solution is to establish and maintain a culture and processes that don’t view change as a discrete event to be spotted and managed, but as an ongoing opportunity to improve competitiveness. Increase change agility. Too many find that out too late, and are left chasing a rabbit that is long gone. In summary, change will happen.

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

In the event that you’re seriously thinking about pitching for VC funding (scary statistics aside), it’s useful to know a bit more about what venture capitalists are looking for. Noah says, “Agile is what most software companies use. You can learn more about the agile development methodology on Version One’s site.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 20, 2022

Changes in your organization’s core performance metrics. If one metric changes, it may not be significant, but someone needs to monitor whole categories for fluctuations that may be a weak signal. Broad disruptive events. Re-evaluating relentlessly for the agility to survive.

Metrics 277

Metrics Agile Community Government 277

crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 30, 2019

The right metrics will let you know what’s working and what isn’t. This data (among other metrics) is what allows us to intelligently optimize our efforts. Hold an event (track attendance) and provide discount promo codes for all attendees to track resulting sales. Poor email open rates indicate weak subject lines.

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Steve Blank

JULY 13, 2021

With Lean LaunchPad, we were going to toss teaching the business plan aside and try to teach students a completely new, hands-on approach to starting companies – one which combines customer development, agile development, business models and pivots. Lean-driven (hypothesis testing/business model/customer development/agile engineering).

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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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Software Review Design Agile Analytics 102

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

The solution is to establish and maintain a culture and processes that don’t view change as a discrete event to be spotted and managed, but as an ongoing opportunity to improve competitiveness. Increase change agility. Too many find that out too late, and are left chasing a rabbit that is long gone. In summary, change will happen.

Marketing 235

Marketing Startup Agile Metrics 235

Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

But each keyword gets "credit" for other metrics. there are so many variables that drive demand (not just online but also offline and events etc.), Parleo_ Q : what is most superficially tempting metric that is almost never worth worrying about? the web is so insanely fluid, 2. and finally 3.

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Analytics Web Non-Compete Metrics 94

mashable.com

MAY 24, 2011

May 23, 2011 17:45:54 Reply 0 Flag this comment HD1080i Follow +1 DITTO ON THAT … counting app downloads vs use-case metrics shows that the native app gets lost in its own sea of icons. Discovery by social and webapp html5 is more agile and less icon-find-item-search.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 12, 2019

The solution is to establish and maintain a culture and processes that don’t view change as a discrete event to be spotted and managed, but as an ongoing opportunity to improve competitiveness. Increase change agility. Too many find that out too late, and are left chasing a rabbit that is long gone. In summary, change will happen.

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Agile Metrics Leadership Demand 235

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 15, 2013

Changes in your organization’s core performance metrics. If one metric changes, it may not be significant, but someone needs to monitor whole categories for fluctuations that may be a weak signal. Broad disruptive events. Re-evaluating relentlessly for the agility to survive.

Metrics 239

Metrics Agile Community Government 239

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

The solution is to establish and maintain a culture and processes that don’t view change as a discrete event to be spotted and managed, but as an ongoing opportunity to improve competitiveness. Increase change agility. Too many find that out too late, and are left chasing a rabbit that is long gone. In summary, change will happen.

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Matching Startup Agile Metrics 233

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2010

There are few courses which teach aspiring entrepreneurs the skills (business models, customer and agile development, design thinking, etc.) We’ll build the class around the business model / customer development / agile development solution stack. Dave McClure, “Startup Metrics for Pirates”, [link]. to optimize this search.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Changes in your organization’s core performance metrics. If one metric changes, it may not be significant, but someone needs to monitor whole categories for fluctuations that may be a weak signal. Broad disruptive events. Re-evaluating relentlessly for the agility to survive.

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Entrepreneur Metrics Agile Community 234

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 6, 2010

The solution is to establish and maintain a culture and processes that don’t view change as a discrete event to be spotted and managed, but as an ongoing opportunity to improve competitiveness. Increase change agility. Too many find that out too late, and are left chasing a rabbit that is long gone. In summary, change will happen.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 5, 2023

Thus my challenge to you is to start today in documenting specific goals , putting some metrics in place to measure progress, and start celebrating every bit of progress, no matter how small, along the way as follows: Convert dreams into specific written objectives. Identify and complete skill upgrades and education.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 10, 2011

They ignored the reality that most startups are a chaotic set of events from which founders are trying to extract a repeatable and profitable pattern. The resulting conversations made us smarter, agile and relentless. A few times I had not so great investors who believed that a startup should unfold like a Harvard case study.

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www.women2.org

MARCH 8, 2012

WHATS HOT: EVENTS NEWS LEARN CAREER VIDEOS ESPAÑOL. I attended engineering-focused Meetups and networking events. I received an invitation to attend the event. At the FounderDating event, emphasis was put on pitching yourself and NOT the idea. The next Bay Area event is on August 23rd. Partner Events.

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