Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 14, 2022

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. Good performance management is more about rewarding desirable behavior than penalizing bad performance.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 15, 2020

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. Good performance management is more about rewarding desirable behavior than penalizing bad performance.

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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

JULY 11, 2017

The belief then was that most founders couldn’t acquire the HR, finance, sales, and board governance skills rapidly enough to steer the company to a liquidity event, so they hired professional managers. In contrast, professional managers attempt to bring order to chaos and often kill the startup culture in the process.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 15, 2017

It’s a model for a government program that’s gotten the balance between public/private partnerships just right. The bill directs the expansion of I-Corps to additional federal agencies and academic institutions, as well as through state and local governments.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

To an entrepreneur or small business owner, achieving a project management certification may seem unnecessary. Project management is actually not that simple. Here we look at 5 of the most popular project management certifications, covering the reasons as to why they might be relevant and a thumbnail of the content.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2021

Although the class was run completely online, and even though they were suffering from Zoom fatigue, the 10 teams of 42 students collectively interviewed 1,142 beneficiaries, stakeholders, requirements writers, program managers, industry partners, etc. Team Fleetwise – Vehicle Fleet Management. All the presentations are worth a watch.

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Steve Blank

MAY 17, 2022

You succeed in convincing one company and a government to adopt computers and learn to code much faster than their competitors /adversaries. These technologies will transform businesses and government agencies. Supply chain management. Automated Battle management – air and missile defense, army/navy tactical….

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 30, 2017

This challenge has put immense pressure on CIOs to not only manage ever-growing data volumes, sources, and types, but to also support more and more data users as well as new and increasingly complex use cases. How can your company meet the agility imperative? Integration Approaches for Data Agility. Agile Data Fabric.

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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

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’d managed to secure another infusion of cash, but it wasn’t going to last long.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Decentralised Exchange (DEX) Platform : Build a DEX that can compete with centralised exchanges by leveraging the efficiency of small, agile teams. YC wants to fund startups that can innovate in areas such as power infrastructure, cooling, material procurement, or project management.

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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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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

Businesses also demand flexibility, choice, agility, and cost-effectiveness from these enabling technologies to ensure that business capabilities can change with demand, market, trade mission, and more. The creation of Unix operating systems prompted a standardization of hardware and software into more focused and manageable systems.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 6, 2013

Seth Sternberg Co-Founder & CEO Scott Chacon CIO Kevin Hale Senior Product Manager NEW! Vinod Khosla Founder Dave McClure Founding Partner Eric Ries Author Steve Blank Serial Entrepreneur & Professor Todd Park CTO Travis Kalanick CEO & Co-Founder Joe Zadeh Director of Product Sam Shank Co-Founder & CEO NEW!

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 16, 2013

One good example is the way in which we''ve adjusted the length of different phases of our agile sprints. We don''t follow a set agile methodology, but rather follow a more home-grown, minimal version of various approaches. The new process let us manage the velocity of change in the codebase low, keeping the resistance manageable.

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The Startup Magazine

APRIL 11, 2019

All of us know in software companies that scrum is the most significant agile methodology for handling software projects. Scrum is a lightweight agile process framework used primarily for managing software development. Big projects are divided into small manageable sprints. Effective use of time and money. CONCLUSION.

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Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

Government and the enterprise are now followers rather than leaders. We now have specific management tools to grow startups. Incubators and accelerators like Y-Combinator have institutionalized experiential training in best practices (product/market fit, pivots, agile development, etc.);

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 18, 2022

The Hedge Strategy – Create “the small, the agile, and the many”. In a world where the large and the complex are either too expensive to generate en masse or potentially too vulnerable to put at risk, “the small, the agile, and the many” has the potential to define the future of Navy formations. ONR’s plan is to move boldly.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 26, 2015

government to help them innovate faster– not just kind of fast, but 10x the number of initiatives in 1/5 the time. —– Lean Innovation Management. Each horizon requires different focus, different management, different tools and different goals. I’ve been working with large companies and the U.S. Here’s how.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 11, 2016

A big part of adopting Lean Startup in an established company involves fundamentally shifting the way organizations manage people and ideas. 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.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 12, 2020

The eight teams spoke to over 945 beneficiaries, stakeholders, requirements writers, program managers, warfighters, legal, security, customers, etc. 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.

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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. Companies that have managed to do this have a distinct advantage over those dependent on financing from external sources. Some have resorted to aiming to be self-sufficient.

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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. Good performance management is more about rewarding desirable behavior than penalizing bad performance.

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 9, 2024

Corporate governance expert Nygina Mills discusses the critical role of compliance in building resilient businesses that can withstand regulatory and market changes. Central to fostering this resilience is the role of compliance in risk management. The concept of compliance extends beyond mere adherence to legal standards.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 18, 2011

Smart entrepreneurs are making changes now, to be more agile in defining strategy, making organizational changes, and analyzing markets for change. Look for new volatility, caused by inflation or deflation, new government regulations, and of course new technology and even more determined competitors. Proactive pursuit of new markets.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Use agility to your advantage and make speed a team priority. For other mistakes to avoid as a product manager, check out my recent Linkedin post on the top 10 mistakes product managers make and read everything you can by Marty Cagan. 2021 gave us plenty of examples for bad governance in both startups and venture capital.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 19, 2012

Smart entrepreneurs are making changes now, to be more agile in defining strategy, making organizational changes, and analyzing markets for change. Look for new volatility, caused by inflation or deflation, new government regulations, and of course new technology and even more determined competitors. Proactive pursuit of new markets.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

As a business and entrepreneur advisor, I have no trouble getting owners and managers to agree that change is happening faster and faster in the consumer and technology world, requiring them to keep their business more agile , just to keep up. Crisis-driven agility is not enough today.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 15, 2017

It’s a model for a government program that’s gotten the balance between public/private partnerships just right. The bill directs the expansion of I-Corps to additional federal agencies and academic institutions, as well as through state and local governments.

Lean 120

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Transformify

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Most young people can’t afford to study abroad without government subsidies or scholarships. The ‘’must have ingredients’’ of a strong start-up team are tech, product/project management, marketing, sales, and business/finance competences. Project/ Product Management. Sales & Marketing/ Writing.

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Steve Blank

MAY 23, 2016

And there are more to come: your first job, getting married, buying a house, having a child, becoming a manager, starting a company, retirement – and eventually commencement speaker. government is still operating like a 20 th century organization while our adversaries are operating at 21 st century speed.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 1, 2018

And while Facebook offers online reviews (which you should manage as part of your customer service work on that platform), there’s also Google My Business, Yelp, and a dozen other review services. However – agile small businesses who figure this out early could have a major advantage. Don’t ignore what’s happening with these reviews.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 6, 2009

In 1964, Bill Perry, the head of the lab, frustrated with GTE’s management, quit (GTE, a phone company had bought Sylvania in 1959.) And in the tradition of great startups, on the way out Perry took 6 of his best managers with him. I can say that the management and staff at ESL was the absolute best.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 17, 2011

Not only is the private sector suffering, but huge budget deficits mean the government sector is feeling the pain as well. Yes, budget battles in state and local governments have led to extreme, never-before-seen cuts in education budgets — thousands of teacher layoffs and the slashing of music, athletic, gifted, and other programs.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 13, 2021

Balance is fundamental to building a healthy community and managing the challenges that come our way. We dabbled with it and found it more work for management and quality control than the actual potential cost saving. 8-Stay agile. We asked entrepreneurs and business owners about the tough lessons they have learned in 2020. #1-

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The Next Web

JANUARY 24, 2014

To put it into management speak, our digital infrastructure is world-class. the manager of one semiconductor firm would not hesitate to call a competitor for assistance on technical matters. - Regional advantage: culture and competition in Silicon Valley and Route 128. A top-notch infrastructure.

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