Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Hire a CEO to Go Public. The VCs would hire a CEO with a track record who looked and acted like the type of CEO Wall Street bankers expected to see in large companies. The role of the independent member was typically to tell the founding CEO that the VCs were hiring a new CEO.). People had to actually pay you for your product.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

Your time at ESADE has trained you to become a global business leader. Just look at the disruptive challenges that businesses face today– globalization, China as a manufacturer, China as a consumer, the Internet, and a steady stream of new startups. The Perfect Storm. Act Like a Startup. Rent seekers fight to keep the status quo.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 14, 2013

This phase is characterized by rapid expansion either regionally or globally for growth (scaling up). A common practice is to hire local employees who know the geographic culture, even though this may well dilute the company culture. The challenge during this phase is to stay innovative and agile. Geographic expansion.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

— I just watched a very smart company try to manage innovation by hiring a global consulting firm to offload engineering from “distractions.” So, in response the company had hired a global consulting firm to help solve the problem. A shorter version of this post first appeared on the HBR blog. Lessons Learned.

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mashable.com

MAY 9, 2011

Hiring the wrong person for key company positions can cost a business thousands — or tens of thousands — of dollars and man hours. This is especially true when it comes to tech companies hiring the wrong chief technology officer. Hire someone well-versed in communication between developers, customers and team members.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Rise of Global Tech Hubs An exciting shift in recent years is the emergence of new technological hubs across the globe. This global expansion means startups now have a wider array of ecosystems to choose from, each with its unique advantages, resources, and challenges.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

So in terms of hiring, get people that can help you build the product faster… anything that minimizes the time between observing a need or a problem, and the execution or the fix for it.” Use agility to your advantage and make speed a team priority. Early hires are super important: check for skills, motivation and cultural fit.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 2, 2017

This phase is characterized by rapid expansion either regionally or globally for growth (scaling up). A common practice is to hire local employees who know the geographic culture, even though this may well dilute the company culture. The challenge during this phase is to stay innovative and agile. Geographic expansion.

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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. It’s a big reason why they move quickly.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

The pandemic has caused a severe downturn in global economies. Pivoting only works if a business is small and agile and can shift its operations quickly and flawlessly in a different direction. Is it worth losing an experienced hire over remote working arrangements? Adaptability goes hand in hand with speed.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 20, 2008

When I first encountered agile software techniques, in the form of extreme programming , I thought I had found the answer. I explained it to people this way: agile lets you make the trade-offs visible to whole company, so that they can make informed choices. Even worse, agile wasnt really helping me ship higher quality software.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 10, 2009

You cant make these global efficiency improvements until you get clear about the goal of your development process. Heck, thats what it says right there in the agile manifesto. Labels: agile , continuous deployment , lean startup , product development , Test-driven development 4comments: Nivi said. But it worked. We made it.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 14, 2015

This phase is characterized by rapid expansion either regionally or globally for growth (scaling up). A common practice is to hire local employees who know the geographic culture, even though this may well dilute the company culture. The challenge during this phase is to stay innovative and agile. Geographic expansion.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 29, 2009

I hope to show why lean and agile techniques actually reduce the negative impacts of technical debt and increase our ability to take advantage of its positive effects. Yet other agile principles suggest the opposite, as in YAGNI and DoTheSimplestThingThatCouldPossiblyWork. Reconciling these principles requires a little humility.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 31, 2010

Entrepreneurship is the life-blood of our global civilization. Entrepreneurship is the life-blood of our global civilization. Although many of the non-technical folks in the room didnt understand what was happening in the moment, plenty of hackers were on high alert. Together, I believe we are changing the face of entrepreneurship.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 22, 2018

Moreover, as both React and React Native are based on Javascript, you need to hire only one team of Javascript developers. Alexander Grigoryan, the senior director for software engineering, application platform and online grocery for Walmart Global eCommerce, tells that his team looked at various options for building its cross-platform apps.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 16, 2020

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. 4- Remain agile as a brand. For 2021, I want to remain agile and understand our industry’s changes to apply them to our business decisions and ensure growth this coming year.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 13, 2021

At Buttercloth for example, we pivoted early during the pandemic, hiring out-of-work salon workers to help make fashionable Face Masks which we gave to customers. Well as we ramped up to hire again with our pre-pandemic growth we’ve now expanded our hiring globally for new employees. 8-Stay agile.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 30, 2022

15- Study supply chains and hiring trends. Businesses, in order to function, will have to study supply chains as well as hiring trends to determine pricing, promotions and service offerings, adjusting to current conditions. 16- Become more agile and flexible. The first and foremost will be the global economic crisis.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 1, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has become a global crisis of epic proportions—affecting businesses and economies around the world. This may mean reskilling an organization’s IT professionals in application delivery and applications or hiring ones that can fill the skill gap.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 26, 2022

Prezi hired the former director of product from Pixar to build a more cinematic video meeting experience. According to global research by Microsoft, an astonishing 96% of consumers say customer service is an important factor in their choice of loyalty to a brand. Think of the agility that comes with CAI, etc. 16- Customer focus.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2009

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? (a these devices all need human instruction to enable correct and desired operation. Expo SF (May. Expo (and a call for he.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 29, 2010

The Lean Startup movement is already global ( see the map ). Thats as it should be, as the new era of entrepreneurship that is now dawning is intrinsically global. Startups may be intellectually global but they are physically local, which explains the increasing importance of startup hubs around the world. People, not as much.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 13, 2009

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? Combining agile development with customer developm. Expo SF (May. Conference streaming, sponsors, discounted tickets.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

For example, at global employment platform Indeed , one of their values is “Job seeker first.” If you have a global brand, this might mean different things in different markets. This is largely due to the younger generation entering the market and making more global goal-oriented decisions.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2020

We have companies now who have every store, globally or in a whole country, shuttered. Practicing an agile mindset in this idea that we could all try new things today and probably none of them will work, but because of what we tried today, we will learn some things and we can apply those for something tomorrow. Let's go."

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 6, 2008

For starters, theres whole volumes that need to be written about how to actually find and hire the people your startup needs. But most startups succeed in hiring, one way or another, and are still left with the problems of organizing the people that rapid growth brings in. Expo SF (May.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 5, 2022

It's important to keep business agile. I understand that this global pandemic has created a great deal of uncertainty but one thing is certain: I can always rely on my workers to execute their jobs well and to get the company through any crisis. 20- Expand our brand globally. #12- Fine-tune my ability to pivot.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 25, 2017

Whereas when you’re running your own startup or managing the marketing for a smaller organization, the bootstrap mentality is acceptable if not entirely encourages, which means you can be much more flexible, agile, and creative in your business’s marketing solutions. Images play an important part in the experience of users on a website.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Although it’s tempting to blame it all on the coronavirus situation and its formidable ripples, the pandemic only accelerated the processes of globalization and digitization that have been underway for decades. Still, COVID-19 helped tip the balance towards a globally distributed model. The world of work is transforming.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Singapore’s Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong recently singled out disruption as his country’s defining economic issue, telling Channel NewsAsia: “Old models are not working, new models are coming thick and fast, and we’re having to adjust and to keep up, because of technology and globalization. For small businesses, this is great. In the end.

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Altgate

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

As your business grows, you will likely need more and more time from your accountant and at some point you’ll hire a full time person to handle the day-to-day, likely combined with roles as office manager or finance (not to be confused with accounting). World class In-house UX is one of the most challenging hires you’ll make.

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Occam's Razor

MARCH 23, 2010

Email campaign ideas, content improvement, behavior targeting, testing product prices , hiring a supposedly awesome consultant, using offline calls to action, measuring impact of television on the web, opening a twitter account of a B2B business, doing… Anything you can think of I can do it. Form an opinion, then hire.

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Occam's Razor

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

Nothing seems to be going your way from a product/hiring/deadlines? The web demands immense agility and flexibility within every company. If you work with your team of individuals and help figure out how to make the unit function at max awesomeness, you solve for a global maxima. Too many meetings at work? No, that not right.

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css-tricks.com

JANUARY 2, 2013

What belongs in a global JS file and what belongs in page-specific JS files? How are you going to write that JavaScript so it isnt a noodle-y mess of global variables and functions and organize it into logical chunks. chriscoyier fire incompetent devs and hire someone who can do it right from the start. Maybe Backbone.js

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Transformify

MAY 28, 2018

Though we’re a big team overall, each project is made up of small teams to remain agile and maintain good communication. Today, it is the largest virtual company in the world, employing top talent globally. About us At Scopic Software, we have over 250 employees in over 30 countries all comfortably working from home/remotely.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 27, 2021

Thus since it’s not an actual skill, businesses will start to either invest in templates for content planning or hire people to focus on that specific job. Especially in this time of a global pandemic, when people are spending so much of their time online. Being agile, nimble, and quick. Photo Credit: Jonathan Bass.

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