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. Strategic proficiency. Performance accountability processes. Stable and friendly work environment.

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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. Strategic proficiency. Performance accountability processes. Stable and friendly work environment.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 26, 2015

With social media and smart phone conversations, real product information spreads at astounding speeds. Business agility is defined as the ability to adapt rapidly and cost efficiently. Every entrepreneur must be alert enough to spot the change early, and agile enough to adapt quickly. It all starts with agile leadership.

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Steve Blank

JULY 11, 2017

Before the rapid rise of Unicorns, (startups with a valuation over a billion dollars), when boards were still in control, they “encouraged” the hiring of “adult supervision” of the founders after they found product/market fit. These new CEOs would also act as a brake to temper the founder’s excesses. And they were right.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 30, 2012

The class teaches founders how to dramatically reduce their failure rate through the combination of business model design, customer development and agile development using the Startup Owners Manual. And Udacity has put their awesome production resources behind the class and hosts the Lean LaunchPad online lectures.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2021

– while simultaneously building a series of minimal viable products. Unlike traditional demo days or Shark Tanks which are, “Here’s how smart I am, and isn’t this a great product, please give me money,” a Lessons Learned presentation tells the story of a team’s 10-week journey and hard-won learning and discovery.

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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. Understanding how an AI works is essential to fostering trust and confidence in AI production models.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 15, 2017

But he was getting uneasy that as his headcount was growing the productivity of his marketing department seemed to be rapidly declining. The other departments gave the same type of logistical answers; the product-marketing department, for example, said their job was to get the product specs from engineering and write data sheets.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 30, 2017

If companies are to thrive in a data-driven economy, they can’t afford to be handcuffed to ‘old’ technologies; they need the flexibility and agility to move at a moment’s notice to the latest market innovations. 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

MAY 9, 2017

And to today, when its major product is simply innovation. Government and the enterprise are now followers rather than leaders. When the product and channel are bits, adoption by 10’s and 100’s of millions and even billions of users can happen in years versus decades.

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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

MARCH 6, 2013

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! Seth Sternberg Co-Founder & CEO Scott Chacon CIO Kevin Hale Senior Product Manager NEW!

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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. Here are the scrum components: Roles: Team, Product owner, Scrum Master and Team. When Scrum can be followed.

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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 webcast is free with registration and will include a live Q&A with attendees. So what was going on?

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

Modern businesses rely heavily on this positive cyclical and iterative disruption to be competitive in the marketplace and innovate, delivering new services and products to their customers faster than ever.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 6, 2023

For example, a while back a passionate entrepreneur approached me with an innovative solution for reducing world hunger, but hadn’t focused on the fact that hungry people often don’t have any money, and governments are not easy customers. Choose a business model that will win in the market.

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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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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Stablecoin Yield Optimisation: Create innovative products or services within the stablecoin ecosystem that aim to transfer risk-free rates to users. Decentralised Exchange (DEX) Platform : Build a DEX that can compete with centralised exchanges by leveraging the efficiency of small, agile teams.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 12, 2020

32 students were scattered across the globe and given a seemingly impossible assignment- they had 10 weeks to understand and then solve a real Dept of Defense problem – by interviewing 100 beneficiaries, stakeholders, requirements writers, et al while simultaneously building a series of minimal viable products – all while never leaving their room.

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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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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. Performance accountability processes. Stable and friendly work environment.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Agile is widely using in software development and is especially suitable for projects where requirements are uncertain at the start. It is used to reduce defects during manufacturing, thereby improving efficiency and product quality. Governance themes. Read 3 chapters from Managing Successful Projects using PRINCE2 (2017).

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Before product-market fit… just care about speed of iteration according to your customer feedback. 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.” Team, product, market. subtract $250,000.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 1, 2018

However – agile small businesses who figure this out early could have a major advantage. Any comments they make about your content or your products or services. If they take any photos or videos of themselves and mention or include your products or services. And it’s not just directed at the government, either.

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Transformify

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Those countries relying on agriculture or oil production tend to have high unemployment rates and wide skills gaps. Most young people can’t afford to study abroad without government subsidies or scholarships. 20 % of the project managers are familiar with Scrum, but there are very few product managers – less than 1% of all.

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Steve Blank

MAY 23, 2016

Yet everyone – investors, entrepreneurs, academics — expected new startups to follow the same practices that worked for large companies – write a business plan, forecast 5-year sales projections and build the product without ever talking to customers.

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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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YoungUpstarts

MAY 1, 2018

Talking about the Brazilian market, they can even get a fine from the government because of some missing transactions on that day. But the main thing here is the overhead that will be created inside those companies to put everything back into the systems. What does all that means? Waste of time. Why not the cloud?

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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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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 13, 2021

4- Remain productive and invest in yourself or your business. Remaining productive in business can mean that you understand being able to double down on your investments. 8-Stay agile. 2020 was a year of many lessons, but if I had to pick one takeaway, it would be the importance of agility. Photo Credit: Jimmy Chebat.

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ConversionXL

JULY 3, 2020

Example OKRs: Company objective: Customers love our product. Product team objective: Build features our customer want. Key result: 65% of customers use new product features at least once a week by the end of Q3. Product manager objective: Evaluate new feature ideas. Step 3: Build a data roadmap to deliver on the strategy.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 24, 2014

Luckily, the Dutch over compensate their working hours with a great deal of productivity and efficiency (top in EU). The Next Web and the Next Women) and several government backed initiatives. Our socially progressive attitude has helped shape the most creative and agile playing of the global game. hrs (2011).

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 23, 2020

We’re in a business niche that has gained a lot of interest and competition in recent years, and with that comes cheap and low-quality versions of the product. It makes me want to stand even stronger for our values in offering customers the highest quality product and experience so they have better options.

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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. In the last five years “ Lean Startup ” methodologies have enabled entrepreneurs to efficiently build a startup by searching for product/market fit rather than blindly trying to execute. A 50x speedup kind of fast.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 8, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, June 8, 2009 Datablindness Most of us are swimming in a sea of data about our products, companies, and teams. I had it all set up to a jury-rigged SurveyMonkey - PayPal minimum viable product. So the product development team was busy creating lots of split-tests for lots of hypotheses.

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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. In fact, some probably still do.

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