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. Browser & Computer Automation : YC is interested in startups that can leverage AI agents to browse the web and use desktop applications, turning every website and app into a potential API.

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Software Review Technical Review Startup Software Engineering 78

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. Why This Matters. in Science or Nature.

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Lean Technical Review Government Washington 120

Transformify

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Most young people can’t afford to study abroad without government subsidies or scholarships. Scrum, Agile, Product Management. MySQL, PHP, Software Architecture, Software Development, Software Testing, SQL, Web Hosting, AngularJS. Scrum, Agile, Problem Analysis, Business Catalyst, Business Analytics.

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Africa Benin Seychelles Nigeria 75

The Next Web

JANUARY 24, 2014

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. Today we have lots of promising tech companies, several accelerator programs (e.g. Rockstart, Startupbootcamp) larger and smaller VCs (e.g.

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Netherlands Technical Review Stock Silicon Valley 143

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

At Inorbital we’ve been immersed in web-based project management tools for a several years while all our staff were onsite. 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. It was a short-lived but necessary experiment. Photo Credit: Jimmy Chebat.

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Offshore Entrepreneur Jordan Agile 139

Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Thanks to Shiv Gupta, Incrementors Web Solutions ! #9- This process helps me to think differently, giving me the agility to think fast on my feet. Great entrepreneurs keep your eyes open for other businesses in a related space that can complement theirs which also motivates the business owners. Photo Credit: Shaun Taylor.

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Entrepreneur Technical Review Africa Revenue 154

Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 8, 2009

"Spy satellites produced far more raw information than the government's battalion of overworked analysts could handle. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0, The CIA relied so heavily on [these]. Expo SF (May. for Harvard Business Revie.

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San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment DC 84

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 26, 2013

It’s a model for a government program that’s gotten the balance between public/private partnerships just right. While a few of the I-Corps teams are in web/mobile/cloud, most are working on advanced technology projects that don’t make TechCrunch. government has built an accelerator for scientists and engineers.

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Lean Washington Incubator Agile 270

Steve Blank

AUGUST 5, 2013

What if you could think like an expert on any topic in a matter of minutes, instead of after hours of inefficient web browsing? Staying Agile. Lean Start-up Connection: Agile Development. Granted, the idea was a little crazy. On the flip side, we’ve had many major successes that have helped inform our product’s direction.

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Lean Agile Customer Development SEO 302

Steve Blank

JUNE 1, 2011

As customer and agile development reinvent the Startup, it’s time to ask why startup board governance has not kept up with the pace of innovation. Rather than invent a new form of corporate governance, venture investors adopted the traditional board meeting structure from large corporations. Jonathan Swift. Here’s how.

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Silicon Valley Business Model Venture Capital Balance Sheet 300

Steve Blank

JUNE 1, 2011

As customer and agile development reinvent the Startup, it’s time to ask why startup board governance has not kept up with the pace of innovation. Rather than invent a new form of corporate governance, venture investors adopted the traditional board meeting structure from large corporations. Jonathan Swift. Here’s how.

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Silicon Valley Business Model Venture Capital Balance Sheet 273

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. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0, Expo SF (May. for Harvard Business Revie.

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Lean San Francisco Continuous Deployment Cofounder 60

Steve Blank

JULY 28, 2011

government agency that supports research in all the non-medical fields of science and engineering - is changing the startup landscape for scientists and engineers. And they’ll do this using the business model / customer development / agile development solution stack. See the NSF web page here. Until today. billion U.S.

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Engineer Silicon Valley United States Intellectual Property 287

ConversionXL

JUNE 26, 2017

Web analytics analysis: Most popular pages – optimize these! Implement Agile ! Remote moderated testing – basically a web meeting, record their desktop & webcam. Hybrid Product analytics organization: Central teams for tools, methods, governance. Data governance – hated but necessary: Rules of play.

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Analytics Sweden Metrics Estonia 85

Hearpreneur

JANUARY 31, 2016

We decided to start something we felt would have the greatest positive impact on fellow business owners, an Agile Methodology consulting company. We quit our jobs, pooled our money, and set out to help companies implement Agile – a highly efficient, organized, and empowering way to run your business. 11 – Seeing a Need.

Entrepreneur 48

Entrepreneur India Cofounder Technical Review 48

Steve Blank

MAY 29, 2019

With the nature of work changing, the core skills entrepreneurs need to know to become practitioners are actually core skills that everybody will need to know to get a job: creativity, agility, resilience, tenacity, curiosity. PB: Everyone looks for a turnkey solution. “I want a low overhead, self-guided solution.”

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Incubator Lean Programming Government 333

Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

My personal background was as an engineer and my companies had been Web-based startups, so that is what I wrote about. Struggling to explain the successes and failures of those companies, I discussed principles like continuous deployment, customer development, and a hyper-accelerated form of agile. It's a big tent.

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Lean Entrepreneur San Francisco Agile 167

Steve Blank

APRIL 29, 2013

And how the engineering process could be turned Agile. The class consisted of basic networking and administration, network mapping, remote exploits, denial of service, web vulnerabilities, social engineering, password vulnerabilities, wireless network exploitation, persistence, digital media analysis, and cyber mission operations.

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Silicon Valley Colorado Lean Connecticut 265

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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San Francisco Founder DC Washington 150

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.

San Francisco 168

San Francisco Startup Lean Continuous Deployment 168

Steve Blank

JANUARY 26, 2016

Today these potential adversaries are able to harness the power of social networks, encryption, GPS, low-cost drones, 3D printers, simpler design and manufacturing processes, agile and lean methodologies, ubiquitous Internet and smartphones. They are experts in leveraging Web 2.0 We’re Our Own Worst Enemy.

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Silicon Valley North Korea Lean Agile 120

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 5, 2011

With fast and affordable broadband connections throughout Singapore and a growing number of attractive Web-based services, cloud computing is set to become one of the most powerful tools in the arsenal of a Singaporean small business. This allows them to be agile in meeting changes in the business environment or in internal changes.

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Cloud Singapore Small Business Security 162

www.scottporad.com

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

with 3 comments Tweet I regularly receive questions from readers about my experience working on the web, at Cheezburger, and so forth. Scott Porad About Scott Contact Schedule Setting Up Shop: The Book Subscribe Mailbag: How do I find a developer to help me with my idea? Please wait a few minutes and refresh this page.

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Fractional CTO Developer Philadelphia Seattle 40

The Next Web

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

This can then be protected by using the provider’s private network to access the data between the web server and the database. Agility: The ability to adapt to new workloads, regardless of platform. A quality provider will advise their clients to take the database and move it to its own server, away from direct public access.

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Hosting Database Matching Cloud 122

ReadWriteStart

JUNE 13, 2011

As customer and agile development reinvent the startup, it's time to ask why startup board governance has not kept up with the pace of innovation. Rather than invent a new form of corporate governance, venture investors adopted the traditional board meeting structure from large corporations.

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Silicon Valley Balance Sheet Metrics Early Stage 117

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. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0, Expo SF (May. Conference streaming, sponsors, discounted tickets.

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San Francisco DC Washington Startup 113

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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San Francisco DC Washington Lean 92

Steve Blank

APRIL 29, 2013

And how the engineering process could be turned Agile. The class consisted of basic networking and administration, network mapping, remote exploits, denial of service, web vulnerabilities, social engineering, password vulnerabilities, wireless network exploitation, persistence, digital media analysis, and cyber mission operations.

Silicon Valley 157

Silicon Valley Colorado Lean Connecticut 157

Agile VC

MAY 7, 2014

But there’s a ton of interesting bits on everything from growth rates to corporate governance, so I will still do a deep analysis though will serialize this into a couple posts. I’ll first start with a brief background on the genesis of Alibaba and a top level sizing of the company and its underlying businesses. ==.

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China B2B Flash IPO 187

ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 1, 2011

government agency that supports research in all the non-medical fields of science and engineering, is changing the startup landscape for scientists and engineers. And they'll do this using the business model-customer development-agile development solution stack. See the NSF I-Corps web page for details. billion U.S.

Silicon Valley 118

Silicon Valley Intellectual Property Balance Sheet Lean 118

Occam's Razor

JANUARY 7, 2014

Most companies hire a Web Analyst, Sr. Digital Analyst, Web Analysis Guru, Digital Marketing Analyst, so on and so forth. Bonus : Kill Useless Web Metrics: Apply The "Three Layers Of So What" Test. They force the Reporting Squirrels to move beyond their obsession with Site Catalyst and web analytics data.

Analytics 142

Analytics Web Metrics DC 142

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

the failure rate of new ventures (startups had no formal rules and were a hit or miss proposition), the slow adoption rate of new technologies by the government and large companies. For products that are simply “bits” delivered over the web, a first product can be shipped in weeks rather than years.

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Silicon Valley United States Venture Capital Software Review 335

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 11, 2008

To an early observer, it would have seemed obvious that Route 128 had all the advantages: a head start, more government and military funding, and far more established companies. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0, Expo SF (May.

Silicon Valley 68

Silicon Valley San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment 68

Growthink Blog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2016

In his words, he focuses on the intersection of “Mobile + Digital + Apps + IoT + Wearables + UX + Cloud + Enterprise + Monetization + Government + Agile.” Limited Attendance To preserve the intimacy of the presentation, we are limiting the web conference to the first 35 registrants. Mr. Isy Goldwasser , CEO of thync.

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Silicon Valley Forecast Cofounder Agile 48

Steve Blank

JANUARY 4, 2011

I did a keynote on innovation hubs at the newly created DoFuture program , spoke at Santiago’s Startup Weekend on Customer and Agile Development, and at a Conference in Patagonia supported by the Ministry of Economy’s Innovation Division. The good news: Entrepreneurship and innovation is being talked about continually in Chile.

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Silicon Valley Chile South America Venture Capital 335

SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

I’d been around the web long enough to remember the dozens of companies before YouTube that tried to create crowdsourced video sites and failed. Storm Clouds - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , November 12, 2010 We have enjoyed an amazing run in the web startup and investing space over the past five or six years.

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Technical Review Technology Product CTO Hire 175