The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

Advanced technologies continually alter our world’s landscape, and each step is an incremental evolution that propels you forward. Businesses also demand flexibility, choice, agility, and cost-effectiveness from these enabling technologies to ensure that business capabilities can change with demand, market, trade mission, and more.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers Technology Roles in Startups Want to Know the Difference Between a CTO and a VP Engineering? If you are on the lower complexity end, the key is defining small chunks of work that can be done quickly by a developer.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 14, 2022

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. Stable and friendly work environment.

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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).

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The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 22, 2024

The good news is that technology, specifically ERP solutions , offers tools to eliminate unnecessary delays and keep your customers happy. 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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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. Stable and friendly work environment.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 10, 2012

Ideally they have experience with your full technology stack, but in some cases, having them learn about best practices will be necessary. Bottom line - if you are an early-stage startup with online or mobile technology as part of your solution, you ABSOLUTELY NEED a technical advisor. They will have the title Lead or Manager.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 3, 2018

Being a domain expert in a technology field rarely makes you competent in commerce. Most great technology startups – Oracle, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, Tesla – were built by a team led by an entrepreneur. Others join startups to strike out on their own.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 16, 2013

In the last decade it’s become clear that companies are facing continuous disruption from globalization, technology shifts, rapidly changing consumer tastes, etc. Eric Ries, who took my first Customer Development class at Berkeley, had the insight that Customer Development should be paired with Agile Development.

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TechEmpower

AUGUST 14, 2023

The Strategic Technical Advisor looks at the business and determines what makes sense from a technology perspective in the short-term and longer-terms. Conclusion Bottom line – if you are an early-stage startup with online or mobile technology as part of your solution, you ABSOLUTELY NEED a technical advisor.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Disruption today is more than just changes in technology, or channel, or competitors – it’s all of them, all at once. These processes reduce risk to an overall organization, but each layer of process reduces the ability to be agile and lean and – most importantly – responsive to new opportunities and threats.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 29, 2017

Agile Methodology.”. It is important from the onset to set simple rules to help ensure coding best practices are followed while dealing with the sheer number of technologies and languages that can be involved in a single project. Is agile & secure development a mismatch? The Lean Startup.”. Fail Fast, Pivot.”.

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Steve Blank

JULY 11, 2017

In the last decade, technology investors realized that these professional CEOs were effective at maximizing, but not finding, product cycles. Yet technology cycles have become a treadmill, and to survive startups need to be on a continuous innovation cycle. These new CEOs would also act as a brake to temper the founder’s excesses.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 6, 2020

Focus on agility as the key skill your organization needs. As a first step toward faster decisions and agility, practice applying the 80/20 Principle to your thinking. Of course, this vision must be continually tuned by new customer trends and technology arrivals.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

We think teaching teams a formal methodology around the Lean Framework (Business Model design, Customer Development and Agile Engineering) is a natural evolution of how successful incubators/accelerators will build startups. Technology in search of a market. The next customer segment we tried was startup founders.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 13, 2024

Adopting innovative tools and technologies is crucial for modern businesses. Whether you’re a startup or a multinational corporation, the need for agile and streamlined workflows is universal. Businesses must keep pace with the ever-changing technological landscape, ensuring their processes remain relevant and competitive.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 15, 2022

It’s a volatile period for every company, where most struggle with getting commercial and technological traction, usually based on a single product or service. The challenge during this phase is to stay innovative and agile. This business phase is where every entrepreneur starts. Geographic expansion. Efficiency and scale.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Our defense department and intelligence community owned proprietary advanced tools and technology. We and our contractors had the best technology domain experts. Army’s Rapid Equipping Force on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan finding and deploying technology solutions against agile insurgents. Newell ran the U.S.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 27, 2019

My simple answer is that they keep their focus on customers, rather than technology. 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. They help hiring managers raise the bar for every interview.

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 25, 2024

Using Agile Methodology a Flexible Framework for Challenges The Agile technique is a guiding light for entrepreneurs looking for flexibility in project management. By dividing projects into smaller, more manageable chunks, agile becomes the compass that teams need to navigate uncertainty.

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 3, 2024

Committing to practices like regular family meals, weekends without technology, or turning off emails after a set hour is vital for enduring success in the startup world. Leverage Technology Wisely Technology is a double-edged sword in the work-life balance conundrum. Be willing to pivot and adopt new techniques as necessary.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 29, 2023

The integration of technology into various aspects of business operations has become essential for organizations to remain competitive, deliver exceptional customer experiences, and drive innovation. JayDevs is a leading technology consulting firm that specializes in assisting businesses throughout their digital transformation journey.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Marketing automation software will help to create logical buyer journeys, provide data insights that drive targeting the most valuable customers and prospects, and enable agile development and optimization of marketing campaigns that ensure that you are maximizing your marketing investment to drive revenue.

Small Business 173

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2021

While all the teams used the Mission Model Canvas , (videos here ), Customer Development and Agile Engineering to build Minimal Viable Products, each of their journeys was unique. Several will join the new Stanford Gordian Knot Center which is focused on the intersection of policy, operational concepts, and technology. Stay tuned.

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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. Many are not interested in 3rd party technologies that can streamline development. Provide the metrics you are trying to achieve.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

But as Carlota Perez has so aptly described, all new technology industries go through an eruption and frenzy phase, followed by a crash, then a golden age and maturity. Then the cycle repeats with a new set of technologies. Some have labeled this period as irrational exuberance.

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The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 26, 2021

Customer experience (CX) approaches in particular have had to develop and evolve rapidly over the last year – something which has benefitted startups and small enterprises who are able to move with agility to shift and flex to changing customer attitudes and expectations.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Here’s why: because they take technology that used to be available to engineers only, and make it available to everyone. The no-code movement is founded on the principle of making formerly code-based technology available to everyone. No-code technology is the way forward. by Artem Ptashnik , CEO at Chatfuel. Accessibility.

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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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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

If done sensibly and securely, remote working can be incredibly advantageous for any flexible and agile business. Aaron Adlem, Managing Director at Mercury IT Solutions UK , is an experienced senior executive with a demonstrated history of working in the information technology and services industry.

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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

JANUARY 19, 2022

Every year, new things happen, like the current COVID pandemic, which raise the challenge of how to deal with new situations, new technology, and changing business trends. Building agility and timeliness are critical components of modern leadership, due to the pace and complexity of change today.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

They provide access to India’s trained employees and technology. Their team blends technological knowledge with innovative ideas. Their approach is driven by the Agile methodology. They possess expertise in diverse technologies and platforms. eSparkBiz eSparkBiz is a prominent software outsourcing company.

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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. With remote workers, you need to learn how to effectively use the new software technologies, such as Zoom and Slack , to get the engagement and commitment you need. There is no one-size-fits-all approach.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

They were trying to keep up with providing the core services necessary to run the current business and at the same time deal with a flood of well-meaning but uncoordinated ideas about new features, technologies and innovations coming at them from all directions. Ironically, by standing still, they were falling behind.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Build a Talented Team of Technology and Business Professionals. Having both startup and third-party project work available keeps any technology staff busy on both client and startup work throughout the year. This approach exposes IT pros to the latest technologies while providing experience in many different business sectors.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Metaverses are emerging concepts that combine technologies such as virtual reality, augmented reality, blockchain, etc. Metaverse Growth As the metaverse grows, an array of powerful technologies come to the forefront: Virtual Reality (VR): A fully immersive environment allows users to explore and engage with digital worlds.

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