Startup Lessons Learned
NOVEMBER 13, 2008
His book Toyota Production System: Beyond Large-Scale Production is a fascinating read, even though its decidedly non-practical. 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. Expo SF (May.
Startup Professionals Musings
NOVEMBER 24, 2017
Measure your agility by putting metrics on change. Create a non-online memorable customer experience. Find your niche, and it’s probably not competing on price and volume alone. People must be measured in performance reviews against industry best practices, rather than previous results in your business.
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The Startup Magazine
OCTOBER 23, 2023
Compliance Management: Ensuring Regulatory Adherence The financial industry is heavily regulated, and adherence to compliance requirements is non-negotiable. Advancements in today’s platform can give you a strategic advantage in competing for customers’ mortgages, auto loans, and other personal loans.
Startup Lessons Learned
OCTOBER 28, 2008
Its different from selling a product, because it is not part of our regular business practice, is not something that relates to our core competence, and tends not to happen in a repeatable and scalable way. Ill exclude those non- lean startups who basically exist for the purpose of raising bigger and bigger sums of money. Expo SF (May.
Startup Lessons Learned
APRIL 14, 2009
This approach is fundamentally non-scalable. This is why companies often get out-competed by former employees (Palm vs Handspring to name just one), even though the upstart lacks all of the familiar resources, tools, processes, and support they used to have. Go on an agile diet quickly. They are closing orders. Great post!
YoungUpstarts
APRIL 19, 2019
Leadership consultancy Zenger Folkman recently surveyed over 300,000 managers and found that problem solving was the second most important competency, regardless of function or level. The core values of top consultancies, for instance, include a “non-hierarchical atmosphere” and the “obligation to dissent.” Work in teams.
YoungUpstarts
JANUARY 3, 2018
And to achieve that, you must be bold, agile, innovative, asset-light, and incredibly in sync with your customers. If what made you successful isn’t working anymore, don’t wait for an activist investor to force the shift to a new way of competing. Admittedly, this is no small task. Lesson 2: Make bureaucracy your enemy.
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