SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

I did a presentation this week at Coloft that looked at how Non-Technical Founders can go about getting their MVP built. It had a passionate group of 50 people attending. I promised to do this post as a follow-up to the session to provide additional links and information.

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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. Strategic proficiency. Execution leadership. Everyone wants leaders who get things done and meet commitments.

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SoCal CTO

APRIL 2, 2013

I'm presenting Making Sure You Are Ready to Begin Building Your MVP next week at Coloft ( Details/Registration ). Don't be fooled by a Common Misunderstanding in Agile Software Development. Have you looked through Things You May Have Forgot in Your MVP and provided answers to these? Correct your course quickly.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 20, 2011

We taught them the business model / customer development / agile development solution stack. Once a week, via Webex ,they presented their Customer Development progress on line to the teaching team and the other teams. After 7 weeks they returned to Silicon Valley for their final presentations. The I-Corps Incubator Program.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

This post describes how companies using the Customer Development model can increase their credibility, valuation and probability of getting a first round of funding by presenting their results in a “Lesson Learned&# venture pitch. Tons of advice is available on how to pitch , present and market your company. How many are there?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 28, 2011

Presenting your startup vision as a founder to a potential investor, or presenting an idea as an employee to an executive, requires that you effectively communicate, or “translate”, the value proposition into terms that the receiver can fully understand and appreciate. If you fail, it’s your loss, not theirs, no matter what the reason.

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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. You present your hypotheses and what you learned in front of your peers and coaches. Lessons Learned. Starts Nov 28 th.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 26, 2023

There are no easy answers to leadership challenges, but I was moved by the insights presented in a new book, “ Don’t Wait for Someone Else to Fix It ,” by Doug Lennick and Chuck Wachendorfer. Cultivate mental agility and a learning mindset.

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Steve Blank

MAY 17, 2010

Business models allow agile and opportunistic founders to keep score of the Pivots in their search for a repeatable business model. Each team would be judged by their business model presentation on these five steps. There are now examples of business model presentations on the web. initial business model hypotheses).

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Protective features, such as anti-virus software, are sure to be present on all work-based systems – and it’s essential these features are replicated on the systems used at home. An array of essential data will be present in any business, regardless of size. Data Storage and Management.

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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. Given Stanford’s 10 week quarters, we planned for eight weeks of lecture and the last two weeks for team final presentations. This post is part one.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

Presenting your startup vision as a founder to a potential investor, or presenting an idea as an employee to an executive, requires that you effectively communicate, or “translate”, the value proposition into terms that the receiver can fully understand and appreciate. If you fail, it’s your loss, not theirs, no matter what the reason.

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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.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 20, 2009

Reply Jeff , on June 6, 2009 at 12:25 pm Said: Also should mention that Terman’s classic EE textbook “Radio Engineering&# was the first university level textbook for EE to systematically present much of what is standard fare for EE students today. The HP and Agilent credit union is called “Addison Avenue&#.

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SoCal CTO

MAY 21, 2012

Over the past several years, I've done lots of presentations around a wide variety of topics. What parts Agile addresses and the big problems with Agile for early-stage startups? This presentation may make the difference between success and failure in your startup. What is the root cause of all of these problems?

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 27, 2019

They present a convincing story that every entrepreneur has the same potential, but most get sidetracked and bogged down by their technology, competitors, and internal organization. My simple answer is that they keep their focus on customers, rather than technology. Jeff Bezos has kept his focus on customers.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2013

The Agile Board. Presenting at Meetings without Going Down a Rathole (this was written for VC pitches but many lessons apply). . * Between Board Meetings. Communicating Between Board Meetings. Board Observers & Advisory Boards -. The Problem with Board Observers. Rethinking the Role of Board Observers. Meeting Dynamics.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 13, 2023

I believe that a fully engaged team is the key to both productivity and agility in the face of change. If you're asking someone else and wish to build that connection, be actively present during the interaction. Really seek to understand the other person. Accumulate wisdom by listening and questioning.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

On November 14 (that’s this Thursday) at 1p PT, Eric Ries will speak with Kent Beck, a creator of Agile software development, about facilitating the work of engineers and product teams. Third, I needed to take small steps—one conversation where I really shared, one part of a presentation.

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Gust

SEPTEMBER 16, 2012

Presenting your startup vision as a founder to a potential investor, or presenting an idea as an employee to an executive, requires that you effectively communicate, or “translate”, the value proposition into terms that the receiver can fully understand and appreciate. Steve Forbes image via Wikipedia.

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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. The Nine Teams Present. Take a look at their presentations and you decide – what should they do? Parts one through five are here , Syllabus is here. Week 6 of the class. Two weeks to go.

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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.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MAY 31, 2010

It was the little precambrian warm-blooded agile (oh sorry, now we're saying "lean") rodents who adapted by getting "outside the nest" to discover how to eat cockroaches, because we all know that cockroaches are the one form of life that can survive anything. Don't fear the dinosaur, fear the quivering warm-blooded tree-shrew.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 27, 2017

Great tech support is about going above a customers’ needs, meaning you need to be agile and adapt to changes in your area of expertise. James Ontra is CEO of presentation management company Shufflrr. So what does great tech support mean and how can you use it to acquire customers and generate new opportunities? Be available.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Army’s Rapid Equipping Force on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan finding and deploying technology solutions against agile insurgents. It also requires that they think through compatibility, scalability and deployment long before this gets presented to engineering. Newell ran the U.S.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Due to a small work environment, there is very little paperwork involved in startups, especially in agile development. Your internal culture should be reflected in every piece of presentation, website design and product that comes out of your shop. Adopt an Agile Work Environment. Less Bureaucracy. Network Early and Constantly.

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SoCal CTO

APRIL 28, 2014

There was a lot of passion in the room last week when I presented Working with Developers at the Stubbs Precellerator. I guess it should not be a surprise that Founders have lots of challenges working with developers. So I promised that I would provide a follow-up after the session.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Given that software is central to every major DOD mission and system, we need to acquire and deliver software with much greater speed, agility, and cyber security. So it’s very different in terms of a lot of real time presentations. The software acquisition pathway is the newest pathway in the adaptive acquisition framework.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 29, 2010

Most importantly, while Ann I reviewed all the grades, the TA’s managed the logistics of grading: grading the homework (in this class the case study summaries) and the business model written summary, keeping track of class participation and rolling up all the grades from the formal presentation. Guest Speakers.

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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." We're back!

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 12, 2009

The heart of the Cafepress presentation is the “ Lessons Learned from our Customers ” section. After these slides, these VC’s recognized that this company had dramatically reduced risk and built a startup that was agile, resilient and customer-centric. I use it as a frame of reference for measuring progress in my startup.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 12, 2010

Over time at my first startup our developers encouraged us to move to Agile development. So when I read my post it sounded to me more like a new philosophy for “The Agile Board,&# so I put that as my subtitle. Nivi (from VentureHacks ) said it best: “Agile is about short feedback loops. I liked that.

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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?

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

The new innovation process had lots of paperwork – committees, application forms and presentations, and pitches. It also requires that they think through compatibility, scalability and deployment long before this gets presented to engineering. People with ideas, technology or problems pitched in front of the evaluation committee.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 4, 2011

I did a keynote on innovation hubs at the newly created DoFuture program , spoke at Santiago’s Startup Weekend on Customer and Agile Development, and at a Conference in Patagonia supported by the Ministry of Economy’s Innovation Division. Lessons From the Valley.

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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. You need to strike a balance between process and problem-solving.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 16, 2018

Fast-forward to the present day. Companies are embarking on digital transformation journeys to experiment new digital ways of doing business — this means leveraging data smarter to enable unprecedented levels of efficiency, agility, and productivity. A century ago, we had the industrial revolution.

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