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.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 16, 2013

It was not only my secret weapon in thinking about new startup strategies, it also gave me a view of the management issues my customers were dealing with. Through HBR I discovered the work of Peter Drucker and first read about management by objective. I learned about Michael Porter s’s five forces.

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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. Good performance management is more about rewarding desirable behavior than penalizing bad performance.

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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. Not to become developers but at a minimum to appreciate how to hire and manage technical resources and if possible to deliver the next level of MVP’s themselves. There were three problems with Dave’s startup.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 10, 2012

They will have the title Lead or Manager. 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? , It's going to be a numbers game to find the right person that way, but still quite doable.

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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.

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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.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2013

He wrote a post this long weekend on how he manages the board of DataSift. In this period (less than 2 years) he has brought on incredibly talented senior execs is sales, marketing, product management, client services, finance, vp engineering and more. Manages board meeting expectations (before & after). You should read it.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

And the back-end is something that a non-technical founder can manage. WordPress - we spent quite a bit of time talking about how you could do a lot with WordPress to provide simple forms of lots of functionality. WordPress is pretty easy to hack. We end up using WordPress a lot as the marketing front-end of our web sites.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

With Agile development, used by all startups, updates can occur in weeks or sometimes days, or even hours. Often former government employees, at the level of GS-15 and below, will leave as staffers and return the next day working for large Beltway contractors, working or managing the same programs they previously worked.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

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. ” Lessons Learned.

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The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 25, 2023

But what makes a successful fund manager? In this blog post, financial expert Alfred Sollami will share top tips from successful fund managers who have mastered the game. From understanding market trends to managing risk, he’ll explore what it takes to become a top-performing fund manager.

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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.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 29, 2017

Agile Methodology.”. Is agile & secure development a mismatch? 2 At first glance, agile development and security seem to be opposed to each other, with agile being focused on functionality driven, speed and flexibility in short cycles with limited documentation. The Lean Startup.”. Fail Fast, Pivot.”. Last words.

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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

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Steve Blank

JULY 11, 2017

The belief then was that most founders couldn’t acquire the HR, finance, sales, and board governance skills rapidly enough to steer the company to a liquidity event, so they hired professional managers. In contrast, professional managers attempt to bring order to chaos and often kill the startup culture in the process. The founders.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

by Aaron Adlem, Managing Director at Mercury IT Solutions UK. With a nation-wide reliance on remote working schemes calling for countless employees to carry out the business’ essential processes from their own homes – proficient IT support and management has never been so important. Data Storage and Management.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 26, 2023

Cultivate mental agility and a learning mindset. Experts have found that your willingness to “let go of what you know” is the overarching component of learning agility. Don’t forget to help followers manage their own setbacks, and you will both emerge stronger to lead us into the next millennium.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

We think teaching teams a formal methodology around the Lean Framework (Business Model design, Customer Development and Agile Engineering) is a natural evolution of how successful incubators/accelerators will build startups. Here’s the story of one such team; Jonathan Wylie, Lakshmi Shivalingaiah and the Evoke team. Here’s how that happened.

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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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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. This is a big idea.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 13, 2024

Whether you’re a startup or a multinational corporation, the need for agile and streamlined workflows is universal. Project management tools help teams stay organized, track real-time progress, and facilitate seamless communication. The journey toward operational efficiency takes time to happen.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Rosenberg comes fresh from managing the growth of Keyrus, a data consulting company, from 35 to 120 employees. Others in that cohort included Zviki Shimon (CFO), Yair Areli (senior VP of global sales), Nir Mandel (VP of product management), and Aviv Canaani (VP of marketing).

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 4, 2022

I’m sorry to predict it will never happen, so the agility you may have learned over the past couple of years will continue to be critical to your survival. Bezos believes that if you double the number of experiments you do per year, you’re going to double your agility, and thus outpace your competitors.

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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. Now, I think of this as we think of ISO quality.

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 3, 2024

Photo by CoWomen from Pexels This guide explores practical strategies for managing time and energy effectively and emphasizes the importance of mental health, physical wellness, and building a supportive network. ” To leverage technology for balance, use productivity software to manage your time and tasks efficiently.

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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

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Paul Graham’s recent essay, Founder Mode , describes the mindset that founders need to adopt to navigate the early stages of building a startup, and how they’re different than ‘manager mode’ which is traditional management/corporate best practices.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

We might have medium-term goals like “adopting agile methodologies” or “getting everyone on the same page with a project kick-off” as the outcomes for the reader. For example, the Jira Software team created a microsite dedicated to product-agnostic education about becoming an agile team.

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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.

Startup 167

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Massive liquidity awaited the first movers to the IPO’s, and that’s how they managed their portfolios. To be fair, in the 20 th century, there really wasn’t a model for how to build startups other than write plan, raise money, and execute – the bubble was this method, on steroids.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 21, 2020

It was whatever you can do to get away from the classic DOD stovepipe way of doing business to a much more agile software approach. Josh Marcuse and the Defense Innovation Board were instrumental in helping us see what those agile principles were and how we could get moving and go fast. That is the future for the Department of Defense.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 26, 2015

—– Lean Innovation Management. Each horizon requires different focus, different management, different tools and different goals. To move innovation faster, we now have 21 st century tools — Business Model Canvas , Customer Development , Agile Engineering – all adding up to a Lean Startup. Here’s how.

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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. Manager of people and process? Loss of Autonomy?

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Army’s Rapid Equipping Force on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan finding and deploying technology solutions against agile insurgents. In most industries, manufacturing is no longer a core competence of the U.S. Pete Newell and I have spent a lot of time bringing continuous innovation to government organizations. Newell ran the U.S.

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

Businesses also demand flexibility, choice, agility, and cost-effectiveness from these enabling technologies to ensure that business capabilities can change with demand, market, trade mission, and more. The creation of Unix operating systems prompted a standardization of hardware and software into more focused and manageable systems.

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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.

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