Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 17, 2014

All you old software development types will recognize the analogy to the traditional two year “waterfall model” of software development, which has been totally replaced with the Agile iterative methodology. Agile assumes and plans for iterative development, where requirements and solutions evolve as more is known and markets change.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 11, 2020

In fact, there are a host of reasons why a non-focused startup business is more likely to struggle for survival, lose market and investor attention, and miss out on the opportunity to capitalize on their scope: Time to market is tied to the size of your offering. It’s tough for an elephant to be agile. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 14, 2022

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. Every business and brand has unique requirements to fit into their market environment. Strategic proficiency. Leadership brand development.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 15, 2020

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. Every business and brand has unique requirements to fit into their market environment. Strategic proficiency. Leadership brand development.

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Valuation Technical Review Due Diligence Leadership 311

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 6, 2020

Even the smartest entrepreneurs have found that a well-designed market experiment will test a number of different hypothesis and variables at once, without a major investment, proving bad assumptions as well as validated ones as the experiment goes on. Focus on agility as the key skill your organization needs.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

We end up using WordPress a lot as the marketing front-end of our web sites. 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. And the back-end is something that a non-technical founder can manage.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

While our teams have mentors, socialize a lot and give great demos, the goal of our class final presentations is “ Lessons Learned ” – about product/market fit, pricing, acquisition/activation costs, pricing, partners, etc. And what the market needed would, of course, be exactly what we had envisioned. Wireframes.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 15, 2022

That’s a tall order, especially when your business culture has to fit into the myriad of international and local cultures that are part of every market these days. This is where the culture of the startup has to adapt to the cultures of the markets served. The challenge during this phase is to stay innovative and agile.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 29, 2017

Agile Methodology.”. The trend today is for teams and projects to be flexible, adaptable, continuously reassessed and developed to ensure that products and/or companies fit market demand. This stems from both market always craving for the new stuff and businesses wanting to be ahead of competitors. The Lean Startup.”.

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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? ,

Technical Review 332

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Steve Blank

APRIL 3, 2018

Until we start giving grades for resiliency, curiosity, agility, resourcefulness, pattern recognition, tenacity and having a passion for products and customers, great grades and successful entrepreneurs have at best a zero correlation (and anecdotal evidence suggests that the correlation may actually be negative.).

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The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 22, 2024

The Impact of Delays on Startups Delays go beyond being inconvenient; they create tangible harm to startups trying to establish themselves in competitive markets. These missed opportunities can stall progress and put startups at a disadvantage compared to more agile competitors. Moreover, delays increase operational costs.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 1, 2018

by Brian Sutter, Director of Marketing, Wasp Barcode Technologies. As you look through the list below for some big ideas to apply to your marketing this year, some will sound familiar. 2018 isn’t a year to completely throw out everything you’ve learned about marketing before. Yes, Facebook will be harder to do marketing on.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 19, 2024

Transform Your Leadership: The Power of Thoughtfully Fit written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing The Duct Tape Marketing Podcast with John Jantsch In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast, I interviewed Darcy Luoma, an expert on leadership and personal development. It's the best investment I ever made.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

While most of the early attention in a startup is paid to finding product market fit ( the match between value proposition and customer segment on the right-side of the canvas) it’s the left side of the canvas that will tell you what your founding team should look like. . ” Lessons Learned.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

by Leonard Callejo, Director of Online Marketing at Cisco Webex. Marketing automation software. In today’s market, businesses need to employ a combination of inbound and outbound marketing techniques to attract qualified buyers across all channels. Customer relationship management software.

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Small Business Agile Software Software Developers 173

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. It was so compelling, everyone worked extremely long hours, for little pay and some stock. Postscript.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 15, 2017

I was having a second coffee with an ex student, now the head of a marketing inside a rapidly growing startup. His company had marched through customer discovery, learning about the customer problem, validated solutions and was now scaling sales and marketing. All good news. Why Do You Work Here? Titles Are Not Your Job.

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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? ,

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Steve Blank

JUNE 26, 2014

Agile Engineering” to have teams prototype, test, and iterate their idea while discovering if they have a profitable business model. Value Propositions and Customer Segments are covered in weeks 1 and 2, emphasizing the search for problem/solution and then product/market fit. That works for almost all markets.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 6, 2023

In fact, there are a host of reasons why a non-focused startup business is more likely to struggle for survival, lose market and investor attention, and miss out on the opportunity to capitalize on their scope: Time to market is tied to the size of your offering. It’s tough for an elephant to be agile. Marty Zwilling.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2013

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. You may have an opinion on your market-entry strategy for Europe. The Agile Board. In his spare time he raised nearly $30 million. Always seek input.

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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. If you aren’t yet adapting to the market and your customers, you are falling behind. Be proactive rather than reactive to market change.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 7, 2021

However, the shape of the curve—the length of the arc and the speed of the decline—is also determined by how you market that product at each stage of its life. In this article, we’ll look at the different stages of the product lifecycle through the lens of marketing. It also gives you a product to market. Image source.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 17, 2014

In fact, there are a host of reasons why a non-focused startup business is more likely to struggle for survival, lose market and investor attention, and miss out on the opportunity to capitalize on their scope: Time to market is tied to the size of your offering. It’s tough for an elephant to be agile. Marty Zwilling.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Content marketers need a new model that reflects how humans actually work. It’s still a marketer forcing someone to go on a journey that ends in a purchase. Instead of focusing on content for each phase of the traditional funnel, marketers need to create content at three depths: conceptual, strategic, and tactical.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 9, 2020

Today, it has become the marketing world reality. Digital marketing is what you are looking for. Digital marketing involves the usage of online as well as offline electronic gadgets to promote your products. However, the internet has emerged as the most profitable tool for digital marketers.

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SoCal CTO

APRIL 28, 2014

I’m challenged getting developers to work with me when I can’t pay them market wages. I’m challenged getting developers to work with me when I can’t pay them market wages. The market is great for developers. You need to inspire them with the product and market, and the learning opportunity. That’s correct.

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Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

I’ve seen the Valley grow from Sunnyvale to Santa Clara to today where it stretches from San Jose to South of Market in San Francisco. But in the 20 th century, dominated by hardware, software, and life sciences, technology swings inside an existing market happened slowly — taking years, not months.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

Building that connection with customers requires a clear brand strategy to define why you exist and a solid marketing strategy to communicate that purpose with your customers. Understanding brand strategy vs. marketing strategy. Your marketing strategy is what amplifies that brand. Your brand is how the world sees your business.

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Steve Blank

MAY 17, 2022

An AI leverages deep natural language processing, text analysis, and computational linguistics to gain insight into customer opinion, understanding of consumer sentiment , and measuring the impact of marketing strategies. This technique is helpful for market segmentation, image compression, etc. Examples: Brand24 , MonkeyLearn.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 14, 2021

You work tirelessly to understand your customer, market, and competition so you can differentiate. Voice-of-customer (VoC) research, user research, competitor research, and insights on jobs-to-be-done (JTBD) can inform your marketing strategy. . Market share. Brand tracking is how you measure if those efforts are paying off.

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Metrics Marketing Campaign Audience 157

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 2, 2020

As a result, entrepreneurs, founders, CEOs, marketers, and anyone in between can take advantage. They make it feasible to launch an idea, see how the market responds, and tweak or completely overhaul as needed — without wasting limited resources along the way. The point of no-code tools is to empower non-engineers to create.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 21, 2019

That’s a tall order, especially when your business culture has to fit into the myriad of international and local cultures that are part of every market these days. This is where the culture of the startup has to adapt to the cultures of the markets served. The challenge during this phase is to stay innovative and agile.

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Dilution Merger Flash Global 224

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Uber , Zenefits , Tanium , Lending Club CEOs of companies with billion dollar market caps have been in the news – and not in a good way. This era was a “buyer’s market” – there were more good companies looking to get funded than there were VCs. And while new markets were created (i.e. Board Control.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 2, 2024

positions them competitively in the global IT outsourcing market. The annual growth rate of the IT outsourcing market in this region reflects its increasing popularity. This alignment is beneficial for agile development and quick project turnarounds. Their familiarity with advanced technologies and frameworks like Node.js

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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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