YoungUpstarts

MAY 29, 2017

The Lean Startup.”. Agile Methodology.”. Combine this with the fact that third-party code or library integration is almost unavoidable these days. It should be noted that writing good code is an art unto itself and we will not delving deeply into that for this article. Fail Fast, Pivot.”. Testing and Verification.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

In my book, “ The Four Steps to the Epiphany ” I use enterprise software as the business model example. His two key slides are at the end of this post but the details on his blog are worth reviewing. Agile Development is the way startups quickly iterate their product as they learn. I think his process models are pretty good.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 20, 2009

Most of the ability to create a radio industry in the 1920s was due to the accident of ionospheric radio propagation. Intercontinental radio was CW only (morse code) and all used spark gaps, alternators and arc converters through out the 1920s. The HP and Agilent credit union is called “Addison Avenue&#. to do that.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 6, 2012

Today, I want to introduce you to a new concept for starting and growing successful companies: Lean Planning™. Before I dive too deeply into the Lean Planning methodology, it makes sense to talk about its history and where it comes from. Lean Planning is born. Flesh out the specifics with more detailed planning (as necessary).

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

I know that this all seems obvious now with the movements started by Steven Blank ( Four Steps of Epiphany ) with the whole Customer Development processes / Lean Startup movements also popularized by people like Eric Ries. I know that their are independent software companies now focused on this like UserVoice and Get Satisfaction.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 15, 2019

This article previously appeared in the Harvard Business Review. These processes reduce risk to an overall organization, but each layer of process reduces the ability to be agile and lean and – most importantly – responsive to new opportunities and threats. Process Versus Product.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

APRIL 5, 2010

We're "lean" but we're not stirring hearts. I'm as excited as everyone else about Lean principles gaining traction, and sure most companies are erring on the side of too little objective feedback rather than too much. Code Historian was my first product. It was always a high point in product reviews. Here's its story.

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The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 26, 2021

Customer experience (CX) approaches in particular have had to develop and evolve rapidly over the last year – something which has benefitted startups and small enterprises who are able to move with agility to shift and flex to changing customer attitudes and expectations.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

The United States is now a debtor nation to China and that the bill is about to come due. Five Reasons You Haven’t Launched - Software By Rob , November 10, 2010 Photo by stevendepolo. These are probably the two sites where I've posted the most reviews. This Thanksgiving it might seem that there’s a lot less to be thankful for.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 8, 2023

In contrast, it left several e-trends: augmented reality, zero coding, the marketplace boom, and product subscriptions are just a few of them. So let’s reveal the e-commerce trends of 2022 and predict the trends for 2023, or, as we may say, crack the Da Vinci code. People love reviews, and everyone reads them before making a purchase.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 30, 2019

But, there’s plenty that you can do… if you embrace lean marketing principles. Lean marketing is a philosophy that emphasizes executing campaigns quickly, getting feedback from your audience, analyzing the results, and optimizing the campaign – all in rapid succession. National television campaigns are definitely out.

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

Since the term “cloud computing” was coined in 1996—at least as we have come to understand its meaning—the software as a service industry has exploded. Step 1: Start with a lean plan. I started UpKeep after seeing and using traditional enterprise software. Use your knowledge of an industry to solve a problem. “I

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Up and Running

AUGUST 8, 2018

But, here at Palo Alto Software, we’ve found one meeting that is simply indispensable. It only takes an hour each month, keeps the management team up to speed on everything that’s going on in the company, and helps us plan and manage in a lean and effective way. This meeting is our monthly plan review meeting. Are we there yet?

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 5, 2021

Next, map out how each app and tool assist with each step of this journey : Here, each step is color-coded by the tool. monthly email newsletter to entire subscriber list on X day each month) Dynamic workflows are more agile and flexible. Even startups with a lean marketing strategy invest in at least two or three channels.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 7, 2021

And we charge money for it.” – Eric Ries, The Lean Startup. Where possible, use endorsements from industry influencers or positive reviews from customers who’ve tested your MVP. It’s a strategy used by software providers like SAP and IBM i2 , whose systems are vital to companies’ operations. . Image source.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 2, 2018

A startup by nature is a small, agile company which is innovating to solve a problem. Start-ups are lean and designed to grow or scale up quickly. Including testimonials and positive customer reviews can also boost your credibility. However, a low budget doesn’t mean you have to sacrifice professionalism.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 11, 2012

Lean Marketing: Delivering Customer Service via Social Media – [link]. Better Agile Than Smart – [link]. Better Agile Than Smart – [link]. Lean Marketing: Delivering Customer Service via Social Media – [link]. Lean Marketing: Delivering Customer Service via Social Media – [link].

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 29, 2021

This will help those who lost work due to the pandemic. 7- Providing employee engagement software. My #1 goal for 2022 is to help my company become the number one provider of employee engagement software. It's important to keep business agile. I also look forward to working with bloggers to spread the word.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Due to this, I’ve opted to take four-day workweeks and/or during flexible hours. Recent studies have shown that due to the ongoing pandemic, online presence has risen exponentially in all sectors. 9- Focusing on lean operations. The first event has already started – Agile and Management 3.0

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css-tricks.com

JANUARY 2, 2013

Code clean. Everyone is happier when the code we interact with is clean and consistant. Beyond the obvious advantages of keeping code in sync and tracking changes, it gives the whole team the ability to see what everyone else is working on by looking at commits. Do not forget the database and software design. Try SMACSS.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2020

And I think how you think about that, whether you're a restaurant owner that didn't invest in curbside pickup, what can you do to, I'll call it, hack it or in an agile mindset, how do you think about bringing a way to be able to do curbside and do that well, and not just rely on the delivery folks to be able to support you? Let's go."

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Patrick Lencioni’s model of team performance is reviewed and tools are presented on how to breakthrough conflict, establish trust, and move into high performance. It can augment, Lean, Design Thinking or Agile approaches. He’s lead entrepreneurial teams to success, in software, research, and consulting.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 25, 2019

Some of my projects that I burnt the midnight candle never saw daylight either due to a sudden shift in the organization structure or my projected was de-funded due to another competing project. You collect customers’ reviews and testimonials and show them on your website – it’s that easy. 13- Be around for my kids.

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andrewchenblog.com

MARCH 10, 2010

You often end up with lots of half-done experiments lying around, an infrastructure that isn’t built to scale, and a mishmash of code that needs to be refactored. For example, a design approach just turns out to be error-prone or a junior programmer just writes bad code. Of course, we are mostly interested in the second type.

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www.women2.org

MARCH 8, 2012

My delusions of coding grandeur quickly subsided and realized that I was not going to hack it. We did due diligence on one another through resumes, reference checks, technical interviews, and spending time together (basically reviewing the items offered in the FounderDating application). White Day Hackathon. 9am – 6pm. ?San

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2018

You may also want to consider measuring social media engagement and keeping an eye on your online reviews. UserTesting.com is one of the better-known services that help companies run usability tests, and there are also many companies that specialize in testing how usable software or a site is. Understanding your customers. Typography.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 20, 2008

If engineers want more time to spend making their old code more pretty, they are invited to do so on the weekends. The idea is that once we move to the new system (or coding standard, or API, or.) The current code is spaghetti, but the new code will be elegant. Its become "legacy code" and part of the problem.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Here are some of their approaches… Keep it Lean. What I’ve found works best is reviewing the roadmap on a weekly basis, tracking progress and making tweaks where necessary. But by keeping your process lean and reviewing your roadmap regularly, you at least open up the possibility of seeing these wins faster.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

For those that do venture into accounting software such as Quickbooks or Freshbooks without understanding the concepts of accounting, the results can be confusing and inaccurate books. New startups need to be agile and flexible. When interviewing a bookkeeper, ask them to review—and criticize—your current books. Be compliant.

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usersknow.blogspot.com

APRIL 30, 2010

My code base can be changed or refactored to support major changes to the feature. Use the code “LAURAK&# for 20% off your ticket price! Please follow me on Twitter at [link] View my complete profile Blog Archive ▼ 2010 (29) ► October (3) A Review of UserTesting.com Pie-Jacking and Other Tips for Making Engineers To.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

A new bit of code contained an infinite loop! why did that code get written? Hes a new employee, and he was not properly trained in TDD So far, this isnt much different from the kind of analysis any competent operations team would conduct for a site outage. Most engineers would ship code to production on their first day.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 29, 2009

I hope to show why lean and agile techniques actually reduce the negative impacts of technical debt and increase our ability to take advantage of its positive effects. But there is more to technical debt than just the interest payments that come due. The failure of the feature had nothing to do with the quality of the code.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

I am convinced one of Joel Spolskys lasting contributions to the field of managing software teams will turn out to be the Joel Test , a checklist of 12 essential practices that you could use to rate the effectiveness of a software product development team. Do you fix bugs before writing code? Please leave feedback!)

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 15, 2009

Of all the tactics I have advocated as part of the lean startup , none has provoked as many extreme reactions as continuous deployment , a process that allows companies to release software in minutes instead of days, weeks, or months. When a developer wants to check-in code, this is a very scary moment.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

It became harder and harder to separate how the software is built from how the software is structured. If youre trying to design an architecture to maximize agility, how can that work if some people are working in TDD and others not? If not, whos going to insist we switch to free and open source software?

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, February 20, 2009 Work in small batches Software should be designed, written, and deployed in small batches. I owe it originally to lean manufacturing books like Lean Thinking and Toyota Production System. For software, the easiest batch to see is code.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 2, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, July 2, 2009 How to conduct a Five Whys root cause analysis In the lean startup workshops , we’ve spent a lot of time discussing the technique of Five Whys. My intention is to describe a full working process, similar to what I’ve seen at IMVU and other lean startups.

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