SoCal CTO

APRIL 28, 2014

What happens when you have a really good developer is that a gap exists where you may not ask the right questions to specify the right system, consider appropriate 3rd party technologies, etc. Provide the metrics you are trying to achieve. Many are not interested in 3rd party technologies that can streamline development.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

But by taking advantage of open source, agile software, and iterative development, lean startups can operate with much less waste. So far, I have found "lean startup" works better with the entrepreneurs Ive talked to than "agile startup" or even "extreme startup.") Of course, many startups are capital efficient and generally frugal.

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TechEmpower

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

To our delight, technology has evolved and improved in many ways over that time. Technology evolution can be cyclical, with some branches looping back to the past with surprising vigor and without much self-awareness. Through our fifteen years, we've been charged with helping clients get business done with technology.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Technology cycles have become a treadmill, and for startups to survive they need to be on a continuous innovation cycle. Technology Cycles Measured in Years. But in the 20th century, dominated by hardware and software, technology swings inside an existing market happened slowly — taking years, not months.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 3, 2009

In a lot of cases, this requires a lot of energy invested in talking to customers or metrics and analytics. Refreshing to finally see lean and agile thinking emerge in product/business-floors and not only in technology. In fact, MVP is quite annoying, because it imposes extra overhead. Thank you. Thanks Eric. Expo SF (May.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 21, 2013

Through rapid experimentation, short product development cycles, and rigorous measurements of the right metrics, they can ascertain what customers really want. Customer development (the understanding of customer needs) must be married to agile development (a process which drives waste out of product development).

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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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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 29, 2019

Institute deep metrics measuring all aspects of the customer experience. Amazon is famous for their Two-Pizza.Teams (no bigger than two pizzas will feed), allowing an entrepreneurial mindset more autonomy, agility, and accountability. Amazon targets the new machine learning technology to leverage his focus on customers.

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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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David Teten

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Instead of budget approvals, monitor key metrics and give managers more flexibility. So here’s the solution I have recommended to some of my portfolio companies: “ agile budgeting ”, i.e., monitoring a few key variables while giving managers significant flexibility. This agile approach is not restricted to small startups.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 7, 2008

In addition to presenting the IMVU case, we tried for the first time to do an overview of a software engineering methodology that integrates practices from agile software development with Steves method of Customer Development. Ive attempted to embed the relevant slides below. What about a hardware business with some long-lead-time components?

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 8, 2008

This theory has become so influential that I have called it one of the three pillars of the lean startup - every bit as important as the changes in technology or the advent of agile development. Very few startups fail for lack of technology. They almost always fail for lack of customers. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 26, 2023

Most business metrics I see compare current performance to your own previous experience, rather than your performance compared to industry standards and competitors. Technology advancements and user interests evolve over time to change the market. Look for other unsolved problems for a new legacy.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 16, 2013

One good example is the way in which we''ve adjusted the length of different phases of our agile sprints. We don''t follow a set agile methodology, but rather follow a more home-grown, minimal version of various approaches. We''ve had to design and implement training programs to help on-board people to our culture and technology.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2008

He previously co-founded and served as Chief Technology Officer of IMVU. He serves on the advisory board of a number of technology startups, and has worked as a consultant to a number of startups, companies, and venture capital firms. While an undergraduate at Yale Unviersity, he co-founded Catalyst Recruiting. Expo SF (May.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Rise of Global Tech Hubs An exciting shift in recent years is the emergence of new technological hubs across the globe. Meeting growth metrics, achieving profitability, and ensuring a substantial return on investment are now integral parts of the startup journey. Embrace them, and you’re already on the path to success.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

We wanted an agile approach that would allow us to build our software architecture as we needed it, without downtime, but also without large amounts of up-front cost. You can also download our presentation, " Just-In-Time Scalability: Agile Methods to Support Massive Growth." Expo SF (May. Seth Godin: How often should you publish?

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

Focus on the output metrics of that part of the product, and you make the problem a lot more clear. To promote this metrics discipline, we would present the full funnel to our board (and advisers) at the end of every development cycle. Max Levchin of Slide and Paypal has noted that 10% of Slides headcount is devoted to metrics only.

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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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Steve Blank

APRIL 9, 2009

But what I wanted was an agile marketing team capable of operating independently without day-to-day direction. And the results weren’t the traditional PR metrics of number of articles or inches of ink. We were constantly creating metrics to see the effects of different PR messages, channels and audiences on end-user purchases.

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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. However, there is no need to worry.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 4, 2008

Boyd emphasized the importance of agility in combat: "the key to victory is to be able to create situations wherein one can make appropriate decisions more quickly than ones opponent." As Ive written previously , lean startups are built upon three main trends: Technology commoditization. Agile software development.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

Sounds very similar to agile development which is the way. However, a technological solution cant necessarily resolve all human root causes. Startup Visa update ► February (5) Kiwi lean startup + Australia next Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business) Beware of Vanity Metrics (for Harvard Business Rev.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 25, 2021

But the nature of HR is likely to evolve with new technologies, research, and trends. In line with this, HR leaders will have to remain agile, forging culture-based connections when they can while still preserving the structure of the business. Technology is responsible for introducing the “gig economy.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

In a new book, “ The Leadership Capital Index ,” Dave Ulrich, a best-selling author, business consultant, and business school professor, provides some real insights and metrics on what makes up the elements of goodwill in the minds of top valuation experts. I have paraphrased his key points here as follows: Leader personal impact.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

I know plenty of people who prefer more advanced source control system, but my belief is that many agile practices diminish the importance of advanced features like branching. Its not that the idea behind them is wrong, but I think agile team-building practices make scheduling per se much less important. Youd better. Expo SF (May.

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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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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. Yet other agile principles suggest the opposite, as in YAGNI and DoTheSimplestThingThatCouldPossiblyWork. Reconciling these principles requires a little humility.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 8, 2023

It becomes even more interesting in the world of emerging technologies and the IoT. These new technologies will become an integral part of most e-shops. Most startups are driven by high-end technology, innovations, and agile testing, with the help of which new trends are being born.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 25, 2023

14- Blend technology and marketing Photo Credit: James Emery Building an e-commerce business like The Neighbours Cellar involves a blend of technology, marketing, and customer-centricity. Next, technology is your ally. Thanks to Nikhil Jogia, Jogia Diamonds ! #14- Thanks to Ben Pu, Ship Sage ! #18-

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 6, 2012

Here at Palo Alto Software in 2007 and 2008, we embraced these planning concepts and moved towards a more agile planning process. For us, this methodology made sense for high growth technology startups seeking to define and prove a new business model. At the time, we used Business Plan Pro and Basecamp for this. .”

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

The other revels in the world as we all know it will be someday: limitless distribution enabled by new technologies, the importance of collaborative filters, and on-demand availability of all content for end-users. But the same technologies that make life difficult for traditional marketers also offer them unprecedented new opportunities.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

Labels: agile , listening to customers 3comments: hauteroute said. Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Six streaming locations Interviews ► March (7) New conference website, speakers, agenda Two new scholarship programs for lean startups Speed up or slow down? Split-test experiments that go on forever?

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

What neither group seems to fully comprehend is that retail needs to fundamentally change to succeed, far beyond the addition of an online component, to meet the experience expectations of today’s generation, an oversupplied global marketplace, and technology for instant pricing and distribution.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 8, 2008 Waves of technology platforms I still remember the first time I switched to LAMP. That startup didnt turn out so well, but not for lack of technology. I was building a new startup in 1999, and wanted to do it right. Expo SF (May. Conference streaming, sponsors, discounted tickets.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 13, 2008

Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Six streaming locations Interviews ► March (7) New conference website, speakers, agenda Two new scholarship programs for lean startups Speed up or slow down? Expo SF (May. Conference streaming, sponsors, discounted tickets. Learning is better than optimization (the local ma.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

Playing with new technologies. Growth - when you have existing customers, the pressure is on to grow your key metrics day-in day-out. Startup Visa update ► February (5) Kiwi lean startup + Australia next Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business) Beware of Vanity Metrics (for Harvard Business Rev. Expo SF (May.

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