Startup Professionals Musings
DECEMBER 27, 2019
Every new business dreams of growing from a startup to a global market leader in a few years, like Amazon.com, but that goal is elusive. It has proven to be a huge customer growth engine, and now has over 100 million members globally. My simple answer is that they keep their focus on customers, rather than technology.
The Startup Magazine
MARCH 21, 2025
Through these efforts, a mutually beneficial relationship is cultivated, enabling eager employees to grow and develop and organizations striving for agility and competitive advantage to thrive. Those who successfully embrace these modern approaches stand to gain enhanced employee satisfaction and heightened productivity and innovation.
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Startup Professionals Musings
MAY 15, 2022
This phase is characterized by rapid expansion either regionally or globally for growth (scaling up). The challenge during this phase is to stay innovative and agile. The emphasis is on global processes and tight execution. You need the global outlook, even though digitalization and Web 2.0 Geographic expansion.
YoungUpstarts
JUNE 27, 2020
While traditional offshoring to Asia or Eastern Europe has always been lauded for its cheap labor, for companies that practice agile, or require better collaboration, communication, and a higher level of engagement, the advantages of nearshore software development are clear. Follow Paul Herdsman on ThriveGlobal and Medium.
YoungUpstarts
DECEMBER 3, 2017
Our traditional view of globalization, common for decades, was massive container ships conveying goods from distant manufacturing locations; and watching services, capital, and expertise flow from one from major established commercial and financial city or region to another. Global trade dipped in 2008.
Steve Blank
APRIL 16, 2013
In the last decade it’s become clear that companies are facing continuous disruption from globalization, technology shifts, rapidly changing consumer tastes, etc. Eric Ries, who took my first Customer Development class at Berkeley, had the insight that Customer Development should be paired with Agile Development.
Steve Blank
JANUARY 27, 2011
This startup search process is the business model / customer development / agile development solution stack. A business model competition would emulate the “out of the building” experience of real entrepreneurs executing the customer development / business model / agile stack. The 47th (-46) Annual Business Model Competition.
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