Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 11, 2018

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

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

We just held our twelfth session of our new national security class Technology, Innovation and Modern War. Joe Felter , Raj Shah and I designed a class to examine the new military systems, operational concepts and doctrines that will emerge from 21st century technologies – Space, Cyber, AI & Machine Learning and Autonomy.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

Consumer demands are evolving, technology is growing bolder, and industry leaders are adapting. 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 At A Glance.

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Developing successful agile innovation methods can drive companies to great new heights. Then implementing agile innovation methods should be top on your list of to-dos. Taking an agile approach to project management means taking large tasks and splitting them into smaller tasks, as well as finding ways to be more innovative.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 15, 2022

It’s a volatile period for every company, where most struggle with getting commercial and technological traction, usually based on a single product or service. A particularly critical moment is when the founders hand over the leadership to a more managerial regime. The challenge during this phase is to stay innovative and agile.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

The key elements of leadership in a company, both individual and organizational, are less tangible, but very critical in setting a market value for investment, acquisition, or going public. In the investment community, these leadership elements are often called “goodwill.” Execution leadership. Leadership brand development.

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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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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 6, 2020

Focus on agility as the key skill your organization needs. This starts with strong leadership and communication on your part, but it has to extend into the training, decision making, and reward systems that you foster. As a first step toward faster decisions and agility, practice applying the 80/20 Principle to your thinking.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 2, 2011

In it Shackleton defined courage and leadership. corporation – starting a new technology division bringing disruptive technology to market at General Electric. One of GE’s new divisions – GE’s Energy Storage – has been given the charter to bring an entirely new battery technology to market.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 10, 2009

That’s why startups are agile. Startups that are agile have mastered one other trick – and that’s Tempo – the ability to make quick decisions consistently over extended periods of time. Reply Why Startups are Agile and Opportunistic -- Pivoting the Business Model , on April 14, 2010 at 6:32 am Said: [.]

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Steve Blank

JUNE 25, 2009

Twenty eight years ago I was the bright, young, eager product marketing manager called out to the field to support sales by explaining the technical details of Convergent Technologies products to potential customers. Convergent Technologies was one of those OEM suppliers. Their engineers hated us.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 19, 2022

Every year, new things happen, like the current COVID pandemic, which raise the challenge of how to deal with new situations, new technology, and changing business trends. Building agility and timeliness are critical components of modern leadership, due to the pace and complexity of change today.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Build a Talented Team of Technology and Business Professionals. Having both startup and third-party project work available keeps any technology staff busy on both client and startup work throughout the year. This approach exposes IT pros to the latest technologies while providing experience in many different business sectors.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 11, 2009

Agile – you may find the real opportunities for your company was somewhere else. This means you still need to have a resilient personality, and be agile. And you’ll still need to have a resilient and agile personality, as new customer and product opportunities will appear and change your work. How quickly will you recover?

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 21, 2019

It’s a volatile period for every company, where most struggle with getting commercial and technological traction, usually based on a single product or service. A particularly critical moment is when the founders hand over the leadership to a more managerial regime. The challenge during this phase is to stay innovative and agile.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

In his 17-year career, Rosenberg has developed key insights into the minds of CFOs and FP&A teams, with strengths in both customer-facing leadership and data analytics itself. He has a wealth of experience in the data vertical, having served in previous roles at companies such as Intel, AllScripts, and Vision.bi. Prior Leader Moves On.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

What does your Chief Technology Officer do all day? When Ive asked mentors of mine who have worked in big companies about the role of the CTO, they usually talk about the importance of being the external face of the companys technology platform; an evangelist to developers, customers, and employees. Just what is the CTO supposed to do?

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

For those of you who have been following the discussion, a Lean Startup is Eric Ries ’s description of the intersection of Customer Development , Agile Development and if available, open platforms and open source.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 18, 2022

ONR is the Navy’s science and technology systems command. The Hedge Strategy – Create “the small, the agile, and the many”. One that is no longer tied to large 20th-century industrial systems, but to a 21st-century software-centric agile world. How To Get “The Small, The Agile, and The Many” Tested and In The Water?

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 29, 2023

Companies should invest in the necessary resources and technologies to ensure employees have a comfortable and secure work environment. Businesses must invest in the right technology. Adaptability is essential for success, and I'm constantly learning to make use of technology and tools to work more efficiently.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 14, 2013

It’s a volatile period for every company, where most struggle with getting commercial and technological traction, usually based on a single product or service. A particularly critical moment is when the founders hand over the leadership to a more managerial regime. The challenge during this phase is to stay innovative and agile.

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Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

Technology platforms, development paradigms, and the vendor landscape have been shifting at a rate that very few organizations have been able to keep up with. The organizations that do manage to keep up are further driving change by redefining the technology landscape around their platforms, causing the rest to fall even further behind.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2008

He previously co-founded and served as Chief Technology Officer of IMVU. In 2007, BusinessWeek named Ries one of the Best Young Entrepreneurs of Tech and in 2009 he was honored with a TechFellow award in the category of Engineering Leadership. While an undergraduate at Yale Unviersity, he co-founded Catalyst Recruiting. Expo SF (May.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

We just held our second session of our new national security class Technology, Innovation and Modern War. The Technology-to-Weapons-Cycle. Our second lecture was a discussion of how new technology turns into new weapons and new doctrine. If you can’t see the slides click here. The text below refers to the slides. Slides 3-9.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 14, 2014

As companies strive to stay agile and innovative, they’ve discovered that units of 8 to 12 people work best as the natural size of high-performance teams. This is the magic number for leadership teams, product teams, research teams, design teams, and more. People in small teams trust each other.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2017

Of course, nobody really knows all of what tomorrow will bring, in terms of globalization, digital technology, or demographic shifts, but most experts agree that certain elements are already obvious, and things must be done today to get your business ready in time. Data technology facilitates more fact-based decisions.

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 4, 2022

It conjures up visions of gleaming new technology and equipment that may propel them to the top of their respective sectors. Even some of the greatest technology leaders have shown over time that they have managed to maintain business success through digital transformation. Instead of focusing on new technologies, focus on goals.

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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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Steve Blank

APRIL 9, 2009

But what I wanted was an agile marketing team capable of operating independently without day-to-day direction. his next article on SuperMac, “Building the Killer Team – Mission, Intent, and Values&# , Steve further pounds the table on some principles of leadership that I think are [.] The Sharp End of the Stick?

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 21, 2010

To get to this Transition stage, the company needed passionate visionaries who can articulate a compelling vision, agile enough to learn and discover in real time, resilient enough to deal with countless failures, and responsive enough to capitalize on what they learned in order to secure early customers. Planning is another key distinction.

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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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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 22, 2020

As they prepare to roll out their AI solutions, corporate leadership teams must be sure to conduct careful cost-benefit analyses. For example, one of Amazon’s top cultural beliefs — what the e-commerce giant refers to as Leadership Principles — is “Customer Obsession.” Conduct Cost-Benefit Analyses.

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The Startup Magazine

APRIL 17, 2024

Leadership models have evolved to adapt to the digital and global landscape. Cultivating talent, leveraging technology, and being open to change is pivotal for future leadership success. Agile leadership, therefore, becomes the linchpin for organizations aiming to maintain competitive advantage and innovative edge.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 1, 2019

Scrum is the most popular subset of the Agile methodology and is used by seventy percent of software teams around the world for project management. It differs from other agile methodologies because of its specific concepts and practices. Some skills that a scrum master ought to have are as follows: Excellent Scrum and agile skills.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 15, 2017

Yet in this age of technology, many seem to favor tools and data to get the edge, or can’t find the time to talk to real people. Each time I mentor an entrepreneur, I learn new things about their technology, customers, and business domain. These days, flexibility and agility to meet new customer requirements is a key to success.

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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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The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Adaptability and Flexibility is Pivotal Embracing change as an opportunity rather than a threat, pivoting strategies during downturns, and staying agile in a dynamic market are essential traits for surviving in a constantly evolving business landscape.

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