Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

For medical devices it might be mechanical engineering, clinical trials, regulatory approval, freedom to operate (intellectual property) and figuring out a reimbursement strategy. Therefore the ideal medical device team might be a physician; engineer; operator; business development/financial analyst. Are We Missing A Founder? .

Cofounder 335

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

There are a few cases where you somewhat need to see the system operating to have a sense of the value. And the back-end is something that a non-technical founder can manage. Examples might be a recommendation engine, search engine, matching engine or something with a complex interface. WordPress is pretty easy to hack.

Technical Cofounder 338

Technical Cofounder Technical Review CTO Hire Fractional CTO 338

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

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

At times this means startups operate at speeds so fast they appear to be a blur to government agencies. It’s not that these companies are smarter than Defense Department employees, but they operate with different philosophies, different product development methodologies, and with different constraints. So, the question is: What’s next?

Government 316

Government Artificial Inteligence Silicon Valley North Korea 316

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

The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 13, 2024

Understanding the Need for Workflow Efficiency In the dynamic landscape of modern businesses, the pressure to enhance operational efficiency and effectiveness is unrelenting. Whether you’re a startup or a multinational corporation, the need for agile and streamlined workflows is universal.

Technical Review 167

Technical Review Software Review Agile Operations 167

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2013

He wrote a post this long weekend on how he manages the board of DataSift. He has grown our US operations from 1 employee (him) to a global organization of 75 employees that will finish the year with 8-digit revenues (90+% recurring) and more than 350% year-over-year growth. Rob Bailey is the CEO of DataSift. You should read it.

Advisory Board 365

Advisory Board CTO Hire Fractional CTO Los Angeles 365

YoungUpstarts

MAY 29, 2017

by Quan Heng Lim, Cyber-Operations Consultant at Horangi. Agile Methodology.”. Let’s take the typical conditions, looking at cybersecurity both within the product and the environment it is operating in. Is agile & secure development a mismatch? Quan Heng Lim is a Cyber Operations Consultant for Horangi.

Security 206

Security Software Review Technical Review Agile 206

ConversionXL

JULY 15, 2020

Each spring, the annual State of Agile Marketing Report sheds light on how Agile ways of working are being adopted within marketing. This year, for the first time in the report’s three-year history, Agile techniques overtook those maintaining traditional processes. But Agile is about more than just speed.

Agile 87

Agile SCRUM Software Review Marketing 87

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 163

Management Technical Review Agile Hiring 163

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.

Technical Review 246

Technical Review Software Review Security Agile 246

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 Development 173

Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2021

Although the class was run completely online, and even though they were suffering from Zoom fatigue, the 10 teams of 42 students collectively interviewed 1,142 beneficiaries, stakeholders, requirements writers, program managers, industry partners, etc. Team Fleetwise – Vehicle Fleet Management. All the presentations are worth a watch.

Lean 417

Lean Security Asia SBIR 417

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

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. John Raymond , Chief of Space Operations, United States Space Force. He or she has to conduct operations today.

Technology 333

Technology United States Iraq Operations 333

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 9, 2020

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. Risk Management Tools. The department launched a pilot program with commercial risk management tools.

Acquisition 333

Acquisition Technical Review Technology Government 333

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.

Social Media 97

Social Media Agile Media Campaign 97

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Joe Felter , Raj Shah and I designed the 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. And this idea of user-defined operating picture is with us today. Warfighters Need to Be Demanding Customers.

Artificial Inteligence 291

Artificial Inteligence Technology Agile Architecture 291

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.

Technical Review 151

Technical Review Software Review Technology Architecture 151

ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Industry-specific domain experience becomes critical when identifying operational pain points ripe for transformation. This outside work provides a valuable source of revenue able to be used to fund operations. This provides both valuable experience and an understanding of the operational issues within each sector.

Incubator 188

Incubator Startup Software Developers Software Development 188

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.

Technical Review 164

Technical Review Startup Agile Software Review 164

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.

Startup 329

Startup PR Public Relations Channel 329

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).

Hiring 169

Hiring Software Review Customer Israel 169

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Some are strategic peers, some are near peers in specific areas, some are threats as non-state disrupters operating with no rules. Army’s Rapid Equipping Force on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan finding and deploying technology solutions against agile insurgents. Newell ran the U.S.

Community 244

Community Silicon Valley Technical Review Incubator 244

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 27, 2019

The speed and agility you want? When it comes to building private cloud, the professional vendors, analysts, and practitioners focus on four basic tenets that should be in operation so that the IT department should take full advantage of the private cloud setup: Converged Infrastructure. What is the Cloud?

Cloud 162

Cloud Software Review Agile Technical Review 162

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

For the business leaders I know, these priorities almost always include the following: Business agility. Implicit in agility is increased productivity on change initiatives. Especially in this world of constant litigation and hackers, how can I as an executive manage the risk to my personal future, as well as the future of my company?

Technology 206

Technology Agile Architecture Distribution 206

The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 5, 2021

Short for customer relationship management, CRM system is a software that businesses and organizations use to manage all their interactions and relationships with past, existing and potential customers. Increased Agility. Customer relationship management software helps startups to increase business agility.

Campaign 158

Campaign Startup Agile Technical Support 158

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.

Management 103

Management Technical Review Venture Capital Generative AI 103

Steve Blank

JANUARY 18, 2022

was fighting Al-Qaeda and ISIS, China built new weapons and developed new operational concepts to negate U.S. What if our assumptions about the survivability of these naval platforms and the ability of our marines to operate, were based on incorrect assumption about our investments in material, operational concepts and mental models?

Agile 409

Agile China Artificial Inteligence Taiwan 409

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

— I just watched a very smart company try to manage innovation by hiring a global consulting firm to offload engineering from “distractions.” Instead of having a committee vet ideas, they needed a process that operated with speed and urgency, and innovators and stakeholders who curated and prioritized their own problems/idea/technology.

Incubator 319

Incubator Curation Engineer Government 319

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Massive liquidity awaited the first movers to the IPO’s, and that’s how they managed their portfolios. Lean was designed to inform the founders’ vision while they operated frugally at speed. And to be honest, VC’s in this bubble really didn’t care. The result?

Lean 335

Lean Burn Rate Startup IPO 335

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2017

A founder’s lack of credibility/experience in growing and managing a large company hindered a company that wanted to go public. Replacing the founder when the company needed to scale was almost standard operating procedure. Sandberg had been the vice president of global online sales and operations. The founders. The founders.

Founder 281

Founder Technical Review CTO Hire IPO 281

The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Due to a small work environment, there is very little paperwork involved in startups, especially in agile development. Adopt an Agile Work Environment. We’ve touched on the notion of operating in an agile work environment previously – but what does that mean? Less Bureaucracy. Streamline Your Project Pipeline.

Technical Review 124

Technical Review Agile Startup Software Review 124

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.

Lean 120

Lean Management Business Model Incubator 120

Steve Blank

JANUARY 30, 2013

They could have helped us anticipate and solve organizational challenges and agree on how we planned to manage the risks. We should have asked for a broader innovation time off and incentive policy for employees, managers, and executives. 3) We unknowingly set up an organizational conflict on day one. Lessons Learned.

Programming 273

Programming Technical Review Incubator Intellectual Property 273

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. And herein lies the tale…. Loss of Certainty?

Part-Time VPE 334

Part-Time VPE Employee Cofounder Hiring 334

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 19, 2010

Turns out that for big-business project management it's more valuable to be a sensible thinker and counselor than to be an expert in debugging legacy C++ code.). Traditional practice-management software for psychiatrists totally sucks; she knows both the pain points and the existing software first-hand. Now Adriana has an epiphany?:

Software Review 325

Software Review Technical Review Development Team Review Bolivia 325

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 27, 2014

With fewer layers of management, SMEs only have a limited number of reviews and discussions that need to be held before progressing through to execution. Be agile and adapt to changing market needs – your customer’s needs are not static and they will continue to evolve. Take risks – but do so only in a calculated and managed way.

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