Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 26, 2015

Business agility is defined as the ability to adapt rapidly and cost efficiently. Moving forward, you should expect the market volatility to increase, driven not only by customers, but by new technology, changing government regulations, and a surge in new competitors. It all starts with agile leadership.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 15, 2017

When organizations are small (startups, small teams in companies and government agencies) early employees share a mission (why they come to work, what they need to do while they are at work, and how they will know they have succeeded). We hired union laborers to do that. I wasn’t surprised.

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Board Effect

JANUARY 15, 2020

Best practices for digital governance are just beginning to evolve and boards that lack the necessary IT expertise may fail to recognize and abide by digital governance best practices. It’s important for organizations to develop best practices for digital governance, especially in industries that are highly regulated.

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Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

Government and the enterprise are now followers rather than leaders. In this business environment, hiring a new CEO who had experience growing a company around a single technical innovation was a rational decision for venture investors. Continuous innovation was here to stay and only founders – not hired execs – could play and win.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

But by taking advantage of open source, agile software, and iterative development, lean startups can operate with much less waste. So far, I have found "lean startup" works better with the entrepreneurs Ive talked to than "agile startup" or even "extreme startup.") Of course, many startups are capital efficient and generally frugal.

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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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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Most startups have been competent in managing their cash burn by determining how they spend and utilizing government subsidies to meet their goals. Pivoting only works if a business is small and agile and can shift its operations quickly and flawlessly in a different direction. Adaptability goes hand in hand with speed.

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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

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

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. Focus on talent and people growth. Stable and friendly work environment.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 1, 2018

However – agile small businesses who figure this out early could have a major advantage. Do you not have (or want to hire) a team of creatives to make your content and your marketing stand out? And it’s not just directed at the government, either. So maybe 2018 would be a good year to hire some help. Trust is precious.

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Transformify

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Most young people can’t afford to study abroad without government subsidies or scholarships. Of course, the hiring needs vary a lot and are dependent on the business model, but a skills gap analysis reveals that more product managers, programmers, and sales and marketing experts will be needed in the near future.

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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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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

Im writing this post from an airplane headed to Washington DC, where Ill be presenting at the Government 2.0 Im especially curious to gauge the reaction of the civilian and military representatives of our government. Ive been in a few government-themed meetings recently, so I know some of the standard answers.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 31, 2018

We’re super lean and agile,” says Ortiz Shields, who works with two researchers in the city’s Office of Design & Delivery. They also make recommendations regarding service updates and improvements to existing business processes , like hiring multilingual staff and extending or shifting operating hours. That’s okay.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Growing my business and then getting a training facility of my own will enable me to hire more trainers and other staff so I can primarily focus on marketing, sales, and coaching. This process helps me to think differently, giving me the agility to think fast on my feet. Right now I do all services myself at the client’s home.

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ConversionXL

JULY 3, 2020

Here are six factors to rate by importance: Data security and governance activities should occur throughout the roadmap. Specific activities to comply with security or governance should be the highest priority. Now that you understand your starting point, you’ll need to prioritize the rest of the requirements. Dependencies.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 5, 2013

We figured our key partners would include consumers (to contribute data much like Wikipedia’s users), manufacturers (to keep their product information updated) and the US government (to supply datasets to power our content). Staying Agile. Lean Start-up Connection: Agile Development.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 28, 2020

Customer Development became one of the three parts of the Lean Startup as Eric Ries and Alexander Osterwalder provided the other two components (Agile Engineering and the business model canvas.) Innovation Theater) in companies and government organizations, rather than creating actual innovation. Teaching a different kind of innovator.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 7, 2009

And it hires very smart people from the best schools. BTW, by the standards mentioned in the Times article, the following people would never have been interviewed or hired at Google. You don’t get grades for having resiliency, curiosity, agility, resourcefulness, pattern recognition and tenacity. I love Google.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

We assume it will be a 2-3 day discussion, but may be much longer, because of the CR (Continuing Resolution) to fund the government overall. Dickinson: If government shuts down, only political appointees can work. We’ve revectored to an agile development methodology. This is 1st chance to update patent law since 1952.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 8, 2009

"Spy satellites produced far more raw information than the government's battalion of overworked analysts could handle. When a Deputy Secretary of State official called the CIA to find out more, he was shocked to realize they had little to no information about the event. The CIA relied so heavily on [these]. Expo SF (May.

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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. Do you really have a proper agile operating model? And it's sort of become like a standard business school textbook. They were the same mm-hmm. ,

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 21, 2024

This shift not only enhances employee satisfaction but also expands the talent pool, allowing companies to hire from a global workforce. Consumers, investors, and governments are demanding greater environmental responsibility from companies.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 3, 2009

If your practice is not designed to cope with uncertainty, it has no place in a startup - even if your startup is located in government or enterprise. I think it makes explicable why so-called "best practices" that people bring to startups from other contexts fail so miserably. Expo SF (May. Conference streaming, sponsors, discounted tickets.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

As part of their book campaign, Brant and Patrick have teamed up with General Assembly to offer 4 free online video classes, including: Lean UX Research Techniques - Rapid Prototyping - How to Hire Developers - Growth Hacking Every book pre-order get access to all of these classes - and quite a bit more. It's a big tent.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Government restrictions and fears of infection pushed companies that had previously held out to accept remote working, and many discovered that it’s more manageable than they had expected. A globally distributed business model allows you to hire the best talent wherever in the world it is. Support agile working practices.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

We met a number of policy makers from the White House and State Department, and had a solid Startup2Startup all about government policy and entrepreneurship. In a previous post , I asked readers for suggested topics that the US government needs to know about startups and entrepreneurs, and got some really interesting responses.

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 31, 2023

Requirements constantly evolve from compliance with industry standards to government regulations, making it challenging for businesses to stay on top of current expectations. HR teams constantly face new obstacles, from the war for talent to the increasing complexity of labor laws.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Encouraging and supporting a career in tech continues to be a key focus in Singapore, with the government announcing a $120m fund to prepare and develop Singapore talent for 30,000 new ICT jobs by 2020. Employers want to know that potential hires have a genuine passion for technology and a ceaseless drive to learn and improve.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 21, 2010

It also causes them to miss the numerous other kinds of startups that appear in less-glamorous settings: inside enterprises, non-profits, and even governments. This is equally true of a packaged good in a grocery store, an ecommerce website, a non-profit social service or a variety of government programs. Wrong again. Wrong again.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 15, 2019

The type of disruption most companies and government agencies are facing is a once-in-every-few-centuries event. Ultimately, companies and government agencies need to stop doing this or they will fail. By process I mean all the tools that allow companies and government to scale repeatable execution. Process Versus Product.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 5, 2011

This allows them to be agile in meeting changes in the business environment or in internal changes. Many small and medium sized companies in Singapore can even tap on certain government grants to help them on their way.

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Board Effect

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Best practices for non-profit governance suggest that you comprise an executive committee that consists of your officers, board chair, and executive director. By design, executive committees were developed to help boards be more agile and prioritize the most important issues for boards to address.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 5, 2016

By Jay DesMarteau, head of small business and government banking distribution for TD Bank. Making appreciation feel personal can be tough for larger companies who lack the agility to quickly react to customer issues or struggle to build personal relationships with customers.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 6, 2011

And others are from unusual folks we don't normally think of as entrepreneurs, from corporate managers to government agencies. It enables a company to shift directions with agility, altering plans inch by inch, minute by minute. Some are from famous companies that you've heard of, like Dropbox or Groupon.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 6, 2010

Our trip was bipartisan, bicameral, and bi-branches-of-government. Our trip was bipartisan, bicameral, and bi-branches-of-government. This follows Congressman Jared Polis, who has introduced a similar bill as part of comprehensive immigration reform in the House. Expo SF (May. Conference streaming, sponsors, discounted tickets.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

Every bit as true for government as for enterprise - and even the two guys in a garage. A lot of conversation was about what "the federal government" should do. But its all too easy to lose sight of the fact that any government, even one as large as the US, is made up entirely of people. Federal government should do nothing.

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