Both Sides of the Table

MAY 1, 2010

Running the “Agile&# Board. Doing nothing between board meetings to me is like running the “ waterfall software development process. &# We all know that modern software companies run on the “ agile &# development process by having short release cycles and frequent communications. They will be asked by their partners.

Software Review 301

Software Review Early Stage Agile Partner 301

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

The answer to that question is what goes in the “Resources” box on the canvas (and if third parties outside your company are going to provide it, in the Partners box.). Or can we outsource these activities to Partners?” Can these skills be outsourced to partners or are they integral to the DNA of the company?

Cofounder 335

Cofounder Founder Intellectual Property Business Model 335

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2013

Understanding where your VC partner sits in their respective fund and where their fund is in the cycle of its investment lifecycle will help you understand your VCs behavior. That role as sparring partner can be useful if for nothing else than to test your resolve. What Rob wrote in his post is right. Sometimes we fight.

Advisory Board 365

Advisory Board CTO Hire Fractional CTO Los Angeles 365

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. For startups, the entrepreneur and founder is almost always the face of the company.

Valuation 311

Valuation Technical Review Due Diligence Leadership 311

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. Finally we move to the left side of the canvas to teach the supporting elements of Resources, Partners, Activities and Costs. Your potential exit partners are also a customer.

Intellectual Property 290

Intellectual Property Lean IP Open Source 290

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

While he correctly understood how to frame his hypotheses with a business model canvas, and he was doing a good job in customer development – the third component of Lean is using Agile Development to rapidly and iteratively build incrementally better versions of the product – in the form of minimal viable products (MVP’s).

Cofounder 336

Cofounder Founder Technical Cofounder Coder 336

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

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 30, 2012

The class teaches founders how to dramatically reduce their failure rate through the combination of business model design, customer development and agile development using the Startup Owners Manual. I’m partnered with four great organizations to deliver the program. If you can’t see the video above click here.).

Startup 335

Startup Lean Incubator Business Model 335

The Next Web

JANUARY 15, 2014

James Kenigsberg is the Chief Technology Officer and a founding team member at 2U , an educational technology company that partners with universities to offer online degree programs. By doing so, we demystify the online education experience and use our technology to empower the students enrolled in our partner programs. .

Agile 131

Agile Vertical Open Source Framework 131

Gust

NOVEMBER 9, 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.

Agile 163

Agile Startup Lean Social Network 163

Steve Blank

JANUARY 27, 2011

This startup search process is the business model / customer development / agile development solution stack. A business model competition would emulate the “out of the building” experience of real entrepreneurs executing the customer development / business model / agile stack. The 47th (-46) Annual Business Model Competition.

Business Model 285

Business Model Utah Intellectual Property Agile 285

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. Here’s the story of one such team; Jonathan Wylie, Lakshmi Shivalingaiah and the Evoke team.

Lean 322

Lean Customer Development Sales Cycle Business Model 322

Steve Blank

APRIL 10, 2009

That’s why startups are agile. Startups that are agile have mastered one other trick – and that’s Tempo – the ability to make quick decisions consistently over extended periods of time. Reply Why Startups are Agile and Opportunistic -- Pivoting the Business Model , on April 14, 2010 at 6:32 am Said: [.]

Silicon Valley 309

Silicon Valley RSS Startup Agile 309

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 20, 2011

We taught them the business model / customer development / agile development solution stack. We recruited two veteran Venture Capital partners to be part of the 10-week teaching team: Jon Feiber , at Mohr Davidow and John Burke of True Ventures. And they were hard at work at some real science. The I-Corps Incubator Program.

Incubator 310

Incubator Government Silicon Valley Lean 310

YoungUpstarts

MAY 30, 2014

We test our products with our partners in their retail spaces. Sam Bahreini, a seasoned operations officer and agile entrepreneur, is co-founder and COO of VoloForce , a company that helps enterprise retail brands understand organization implementation through automation and simplification.

Customer 231

Customer Development Team Review Cofounder Agile 231

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Since NewTV won’t be making the content, they will be licensing from and partnering with traditional entertainment producers. NewTV will depend on partners like telcos to distribute the content. Will consumers want to watch short-form mobile entertainment? Will these third parties produce something people will watch?

Lean 335

Lean Burn Rate Startup IPO 335

Steve Blank

MARCH 8, 2011

It was designed to bring together many of the new approaches to building a successful startup – customer development, agile development, business model generation and pivots. Over the quarter, teams of students would put the theory to work, using these tools to get out of the building and talk to customer/partners, etc.

Lean 307

Lean Business Model Customer Development Guinea 307

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 5, 2012

We’re wired for agility. We’ve learned to bend technology to fit our needs and increase our agility for handling more complex situations at increasingly higher and faster levels. Instead, it’s to partner with others—to give everyone a piece of the pie and build up the people around you — so that everyone has an incentive to win.

Technical Review 279

Technical Review Agile Harvest Wiki 279

Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 6, 2013

Once again, along with my partners at 500 Startups, we are proud to present the most substantive track at SXSW: [link] There was a running joke last year that "the Lean Startup track was the only place at SXSW you couldn't get out of the building." STAY #500STRONG ON THE INTERWEBS OUR STARTUP LOVIN' PARTNERS. We're back!

Lean 165

Lean Cofounder Startup Software Engineering 165

Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 7, 2013

Part of that vision became the agile software development products that Rally makes. With a handful of others, including my partner Seth Levine and Cooley’s Mike Platt, Ryan helped created the Entrepreneurs Foundation of Colorado. But Ryan’s vision was always bigger than that.

Community 182

Community Colorado Common Stock Equity 182

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Did the partner have a good or bad day, etc. They will realize that you have built a startup that’s agile, resilient and customer-centric. Good to see someone with authority advocating an approach to building startups that we at Agile Entrepreneurs focus on, week after week. Did the VC’s like your team ? Thanks, Steve.

Customer Development 270

Customer Development Developer Customer Silicon Valley 270

ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Businesses may benefit from India’s talent pool and technical advances by partnering with them. Their approach is driven by the Agile methodology. Softxaa’s dedication to quality and customer-centric approach make it a trusted partner for enterprises seeking reliable and effective software outsourcing services.

India 130

India Software Review Software Technical Review 130

The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Yanai Oron, General Partner at Vertex, has said that his firm invested in DataRails because of the profile and strength of the platform’s positive reviews. DataRails allows companies to manage their data in Excel, operating as a front end to a cloud database , which makes it far more agile and easier to create accurate models.

Hiring 171

Hiring Software Review Customer Israel 171

Steve Blank

MARCH 29, 2010

Having a teaching partner makes life a lot easier and the class improves. But it wasn’t until Ann Miura-Ko joined me as a teaching partner that this “teach the model not the plan” idea jelled. After Stanford, Ann joined Mike Maples’ Venture Capital firm Floodgate as a partner. Teaching Team. ——– Coming Soon.

Business Model 236

Business Model Silicon Valley California Engineer 236

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. Distribution framework.

Agile 139

Agile Social Media Audience Software Review 139

The Startup Magazine

JUNE 29, 2023

This transformation encompasses leveraging technologies such as artificial intelligence , cloud computing, data analytics, and mobile applications to enhance efficiency, agility, and innovation.

Artificial Inteligence 158

Artificial Inteligence Framework Application Development Software Development 158

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 11, 2016

Mark Raheja, founding partner at August , a consultancy focused on organizational development, will be speaking as part of the enterprise learning track at Lean Startup Week about agility at scale. In thinking about the future of corporate agility and management, what modern practices are most vital to today’s leaders?

Agile 60

Agile Lean San Francisco Technical Review 60

TechEmpower

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

As the technical partner, we want to be real partners in the business-making sure the technology helps achieve the business objectives. Besides, more development time means the client can be more agile with functionality and has a greater potential for success. Development time is how we earn money.

Guinea 200

Guinea Application Development Ruby Web Development 200

Agile VC

JULY 11, 2012

Some disgruntled younger partners left to go start a new firm in 1965 called Greylock. Some disgruntled younger partners left in the 90s to form what is now Redpoint Ventures (IT team) and Versant Ventures (healthcare team). Big success was Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), in which ARD invested about $2.1M

Silicon Valley 240

Silicon Valley Carried Interest Cofounder Boston 240

Steve Blank

APRIL 21, 2011

All the teams were showing us what agile looked like, but this week several would remind us what focused and relentless really meant. This team spoke with 10 more customers and potential channel partners. Let’s see how tenacity, sleepless nights, customer feedback and agile iteration change the final outcome.

Channel 234

Channel Artificial Inteligence San Francisco Business Model 234

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 2, 2022

They assure us that your fears and qualms are normal, but the next step in your journey is more than possible if you focus on this key set of practices with full intention, awareness, and agility-in-action: Capitalize on your best talents and strengths. Counter groupthink by overtly hearing from a variety of diverse voices.

Leadership 227

Leadership Entrepreneur Agile Demand 227

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

AUGUST 30, 2010

More than two years ago, my business partner and I discussed launching a hosted version of our ASP.NET invoicing software, DotNetInvoice. Agile Development, meet Agile Business. It's a similar process when finding a designer, developer, or any outsourcing partner. Finding a VA is about trial and error.

Software Review 284

Software Review Startup Technical Review Hosting 284

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 20, 2017

Do we develop new capabilities internally or partner? To be able to respond quickly and intelligently to the fast pace of change, all levels and functions in your businesses must be creative, responsive, and agile. Rule #3: Partner, borrow, and share. Do we craft a careful plan or simply plunge right in? Not anymore.

Technical Review 147

Technical Review Malaysia Agile Employee 147

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. – while simultaneously building a series of minimal viable products.

Lean 417

Lean Security Asia SBIR 417

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 7, 2016

series that also includes the Future of Work , the Future of Corporate Agility, Skill-Sharing, and more in the weeks leading up to Lean Startup Week. It also adds the customer empathy piece that was missing for me from agile or Lean methods. It’s similar with private sector or non-profit partners.

Government 165

Government Lean Startup San Francisco 165

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

The new paradigm, driven by disruptive technologies, cloud-served supercomputing, and the new generation of young adults with global empathy, is partnering and giving something now for a competitive advantage in the future. Find partners who can do what you cannot do alone. Maintain the agility to quickly pivot or quit.

Partner 328

Partner Intellectual Property Silicon Valley Cloud 328

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 6, 2023

Even adding money won’t do it – you need to create a committed and engaged team and partners for marketing and sales, as well as production and distribution. Successful entrepreneurs are always analyzing market feedback, remain agile, and are quick to make corrections or change course if things aren’t working.

Technical Review 201

Technical Review Government Agile Differentiation 201