YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

Agile, as the name suggests, is modeled with adaptability in mind. Agile project management and team leadership are best showcased by leading a team of developers in completing software development projects. Agile can also be applied across numerous other industries as an effective project management approach.

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Development Team Review Agile Technical Review Software Review 113

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.

Technical Review 323

Technical Review Due Diligence Valuation Leadership 323

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

He was using 3 rd parties to build his app but he had no expertise on how to manage external developers. And that he could identify the resources needed, (outsourced contract developers who could build it for him) and he would hire a partner to do so. There were three problems with Dave’s startup. All great in theory but simply wrong.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

DataRails , the financial analysis and reporting software startup, has announced the hiring of David Rosenberg as the company’s new VP of customer success. Rosenberg comes fresh from managing the growth of Keyrus, a data consulting company, from 35 to 120 employees. billion for businesses in the United States this year.

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Hiring Software Review Customer Israel 141

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.

Valuation 311

Valuation Technical Review Due Diligence Leadership 311

SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 10, 2012

They need to be able to know the key Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder , figure out where/when/how to bring on development talent ( Hiring Developers Before Product/Market Fit? , They will have the title Lead or Manager. They should only be a year or two removed from full-time hands on.

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Technical Review CTO Hire Fractional CTO Software Review 332

The Next Web

NOVEMBER 17, 2013

In order to find out, I asked a panel of 12 successful founders from the Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC) the following question: What are the pros/cons of hiring an agency to do development work, vs. having all your technical talent in house? Hiring an agency is usually less expensive, and you can utilize them only when there’s a problem.

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Hiring Developer Startup LLC 145

Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2011

Over the last decade we assumed that once we found repeatable methodologies (Agile and Customer Development , Business Model Design) to build early stage ventures, entrepreneurship would become a “science,” and anyone could do it. It is a very different skill than science, engineering, or management. Where Did We Go Wrong?

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Agile Customer Development Early Stage Business Model 334

SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

And the back-end is something that a non-technical founder can manage. someone asked specifically about this) Hiring a CTO for Your Startup Founder / Developer Gap I've spent a lot of time on the Startup Founder Developer Gap and knowing what you need in terms of a Startup CTO or Developer. WordPress is pretty easy to hack.

Technical Cofounder 338

Technical Cofounder Technical Review CTO Hire Fractional CTO 338

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. In contrast, professional managers attempt to bring order to chaos and often kill the startup culture in the process.

Part-Time VPE 329

Part-Time VPE Liquidity Event Stock Engineer 329

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 15, 2019

What had previously been a strength – their great management processes – now holds back their ability to respond to new challenges. HR processes, legal processes, financial processes, acquisition and contracting processes, security processes, product development and management processes, and types of organizational forms etc.

Government 322

Government Technical Review Acquisition Metrics 322

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 26, 2015

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. Here are some key principles of agility that are required for you to survive and prosper: Stamp out organizational inflexibility.

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Agile Technical Review Leadership Social Media 120

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Who can I hire later? In medical device startups these resources are expertise in the basic science, industrial design, human factors, managing Contract Research Organizations, reimbursement, Intellectual Property, and someone to lead the team and raise capital and establish strategic partnerships. And what can I outsource?”

Cofounder 335

Cofounder Founder Intellectual Property Business Model 335

Steve Blank

JANUARY 25, 2011

The benefits of customer and agile development and minimum features set are continuous customer feedback, rapid iteration and little wasted code. Ironically it becomes the antithesis of agile. He hired an operating exec as the CEO a few years ago. The Siren Song to CEO’s Who Aren’t Technical.

Part-Time VPE 325

Part-Time VPE Agile Engineer Startup 325

TechEmpower

AUGUST 14, 2023

Specifically, they should know about, and help with: Asking and answering the 53 Questions Developers Should Ask Innovators Knowing when and how to bring on development talent ( Hiring Developers Before Product/Market Fit? ,

Technical Review 260

Technical Review CTO Hire Fractional CTO Software Review 260

YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Marketing automation software will help to create logical buyer journeys, provide data insights that drive targeting the most valuable customers and prospects, and enable agile development and optimization of marketing campaigns that ensure that you are maximizing your marketing investment to drive revenue. Project management tools.

Small Business 173

Small Business Agile Software Software Developers 173

YoungUpstarts

MARCH 9, 2020

Recruiting and hiring employees is challenging, if only because the stakes for making the right choice are so high. Say you had to replace a worker who had been hired only recently, since they turned out to be a poor cultural fit. On top of the normal difficulties of the hiring process, HR also has to deal with its high seasonality.

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Hiring Employee Software Review Due Diligence 165

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 27, 2019

Thus I was pleased to see the evidence confirming that perspective in a new book, “ The Amazon Management System ,” by Ram Charan and Julia Yang. In my view, every startup in today’s world would do well to adopt a management system with the same key objectives: Start with a customer-obsessed business model.

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Global Marketing Technical Review Algorithm 308

Steve Blank

MARCH 2, 2011

The Energy Storage division is acting like a startup, and Prescott Logan its General Manager, has lived up to the charter. GE’s performance in implementing Customer Development gives lie to the tale that only web startups can be agile. You couldn’t be more wrong. He’s as good as any startup CEO in Silicon Valley.

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Silicon Valley Agile Customer Development Early Stage 239

The Next Web

FEBRUARY 22, 2014

Mary Gay Townsend is the Senior Managing Director of Managed Services for OneWire. What can you do to manage this challenge and create the best team in the business? Here are a few ways hiring based on titles alone fails to serve the needs of a growing business. Banking juggernaut Goldman Sachs recently hired former U.S.

Hiring 133

Hiring Silicon Valley Technical Review Agile 133

Steve Blank

MARCH 15, 2017

We’d managed to secure another infusion of cash, but it wasn’t going to last long. When I asked our trade show manager, she looked surprised and said, “Steve, don’t you know that my job is to take our booth to trade shows and set it up?” What I was hearing was a failure of management. We hired union laborers to do that.

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Startup PR Public Relations Channel 329

The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

When you face a crisis while managing a business, you really can’t do anything. But, at some point in time, you may have to recruit interim managers. Such professionals can help to manage the transition or the change. As you employ the manager for a short period, he would come up with solutions.

Management 137

Management Technical Review Agile Hiring 137

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

If you’re an early employee at a startup, one day you will wake up to find that what you worked on 24/7 for the last year is no longer the most important thing – you’re no longer the most important employee, and process, meetings, paperwork and managers and bosses have shown up. The company was going to hire a VP of Marketing.

Part-Time VPE 334

Part-Time VPE Employee Cofounder Hiring 334

Steve Blank

APRIL 20, 2009

. * By the late 1930′s when HP started, a small group (measured in hundreds) of engineers who made radio tubes were building the valleys’ ecosystem for electronics manufacturing, product engineering and technology management. The HP and Agilent credit union is called “Addison Avenue&#. Who would have known?

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Silicon Valley RSS San Francisco Technical Review 302

The Startup Magazine

MARCH 8, 2020

Chief amongst these mistakes is the belief that your company can maintain a sluggish, sordid presence on popular platforms instead of needing an agile, fresh-faced approach. Do you have an agile social media policy? How to improve social media agility. Here’s how to determine if you’re making the best of social media.

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Social Media Agile Media Campaign 91

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 9, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, July 9, 2010 Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# theory of management At any given time, something like four percent of the US population is engaged in some form of new-company-creation. But I’m not convinced those labels are right at all. Thank you.

San Francisco 161

San Francisco Management Founder Lean 161

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Hire a CEO to Go Public. A founder’s lack of credibility/experience in growing and managing a large company hindered a company that wanted 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.

Founder 281

Founder Technical Review CTO Hire IPO 281

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

He just hired Meg Whitman. Startups wrote business plans, generated expansive 5-year forecasts and executed (hired, spent and built) to the plan. Massive liquidity awaited the first movers to the IPO’s, and that’s how they managed their portfolios. the ex-CEO of HP and eBay, as CEO of NewTV.

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Lean Burn Rate Startup IPO 335

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 29, 2019

Amazon is famous for their Two-Pizza.Teams (no bigger than two pizzas will feed), allowing an entrepreneurial mindset more autonomy, agility, and accountability. Raise the bar to avoid the biggest hiring mistakes. Stay hungry even when you are successful.

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Artificial Inteligence Agile Technical Review Demand 222

SoCal CTO

APRIL 9, 2013

You are looking for someone who cares about the look, but you are hiring the development firm for it''s development skills not its graphic design skills. Do not fall into the trap of Startups and a Common Misunderstanding in Agile Software Development. Is there a project manager? Are they asking good questions?

Web Development 204

Web Development Web Developer Los Angeles 204

Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

But the world you lead will be much different from the one your professors knew or your predecessors managed. Yet in the face of all this change, traditional firms continue to embrace a management ethos that values efficiency over innovation. To manage these employees companies create metrics to control, measure and reward execution.

Private Equity 330

Private Equity Metrics China Intellectual Property 330

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Given that software is central to every major DOD mission and system, we need to acquire and deliver software with much greater speed, agility, and cyber security. Risk Management Tools. The department launched a pilot program with commercial risk management tools. We have rather Byzantine hiring processes.

Acquisition 333

Acquisition Technical Review Technology Government 333

ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Being able to hire talented professionals remains a difficult proposition in the current job market, especially when sourcing experienced developers, designers, and project managers. It fine-tunes the processes needed to properly manage these teams and execute projects. Manage Agency Growth to Expand at a Proper Rate.

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Incubator Startup Software Developers Software Development 188

YoungUpstarts

JULY 30, 2019

This solution is a philosophy, and this philosophy is AGILE. Agile is a manifesto that has been put forth by a bunch of people and to implement it. Moreover, scrum and agile aren’t the same thing. Now that all of this is set, who is going to manage the scrum team? We use SCRUM. Startups and SCRUM.

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SCRUM Software Review Hiring Agile 113

YoungUpstarts

MARCH 12, 2020

Different ways of working are better suited to different industries and business sizes, so it’s crucial to consider these sorts of things before you begin hiring or go to market. Best of all, Scrum helps teams remain agile by encouraging flexibility in your workflow. Use Product differentiation If You’re Small.

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SCRUM Software Review Technical Review Differentiation 147

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 27, 2020

While traditional offshoring to Asia or Eastern Europe has always been lauded for its cheap labor, for companies that practice agile, or require better collaboration, communication, and a higher level of engagement, the advantages of nearshore software development are clear. What is the difference between offshoring and nearshoring?

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Dominican Republic Offshore Costa Rica Jamaica 165

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 3, 2009

We have to manage to learn something from our first product iteration. I do this as a core part of the Product Management process I use at all startups. Refreshing to finally see lean and agile thinking emerge in product/business-floors and not only in technology. August 13, 2009 3:43 AM Robert said. Thanks Eric. Expo SF (May.

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San Francisco Product Lean Continuous Deployment 168