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.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

The video link is here and quick time-coded show notes at the end of the post in case you want to jump ahead to just one section. agile sales process? We covered much ground. But the ground we covered was awesome for anybody wanting to know more about sales. getting past the assistant. when to call. how to handle intros.

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Software Review Sales Due Diligence Startup 300

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. If you can’t see the video above click here.). You may have read my previous posts about the Lean LaunchPad entrepreneurship class.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Reading the NY Times article “ Jeffrey Katzenberg Raises $1 Billion for Short-Form Video Venture, ” I realized it was time for a new startup heuristic: the amount of customer discovery and product-market fit you need to find is inversely proportional to the amount and availability of risk capital.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 12, 2020

If you can’t see the four videos of General Mattis click here for the entire talk. How on earth would customer interviews work via video? Second, doing customer discovery via video actually increased the number of interviews the students were able to do each week. If you can’t see the Omniscient 2-minute video click here.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

This could involve anything from simply configuring your company’s email servers to the setup of an office-wide video conferencing system. If done sensibly and securely, remote working can be incredibly advantageous for any flexible and agile business. But don’t let surprising technical issues put a dent in your team’s productivity!

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 6, 2023

YouTube did it with videos, Instagram did it with photos, and Amazon did it with books. It’s tough for an elephant to be agile. In reality, more features will more likely make the product confusing and less usable to all. Focus is the art of limiting your scope to the key function that really matters for the majority of customers.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Have you checked out this blog post, this video, and this infographic? 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. The Agile Coach includes a mix of long-form articles, vidoes, and tutorials.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 6, 2011

This migration to the cloud helps to meet their operational needs, as well as to reduce costs and increase agility and efficiency. With more users requesting content such as HTML, images, software downloads and audio and video, it is vital that web content can be delivered to them via a local server to accelerate website performance.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 17, 2014

YouTube did it with videos, Instagram did it with photos, and Amazon did it with books. It’s tough for an elephant to be agile. In reality, more features will more likely make the product confusing and less usable to all. Focus is the art of limiting your scope to the key function that really matters for the majority of customers.

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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. In January, we introduced a new graduate course at Stanford called the " target="_blank">Lean LaunchPad. This post is part one.

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SoCal CTO

APRIL 28, 2014

Just to the facts. Time Wasters - Don''t talk too much. Stay on point. Other Topics Covered I also covered topics that are covered more thoroughly in the following posts: Document Your MVP for a Developer.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

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. Your presentation doesn’t have a single word about Lean Startups or Customer Development.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 11, 2009

Agile – you may find the real opportunities for your company was somewhere else. This means you still need to have a resilient personality, and be agile. And you’ll still need to have a resilient and agile personality, as new customer and product opportunities will appear and change your work. How quickly will you recover?

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VC Cafe

JULY 26, 2020

Agile Development: launch an MVP early and iterate quickly. Ditch the business plan and when assumptions are proven wrong, pivot Customer Development: Build a product your customers want (vs. what you think they might need) by talking to customers and testing every aspect of the product features, pricing, etc.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 6, 2013

If you want to see what all the fuss was about, you can watch complete video of last year's track courtesy of my friends at Udemy.) Luckily, in a room full of entrepreneurs, plenty of new businesses popped up to bring people food and water. (If

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 16, 2018

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. Videos, music, games; they were all now available at the tip of their fingers.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 25, 2011

If you somehow missed SLLCONF 2010 , you can get caught up with a complete video recording here.) It may be hard to remember that there was a time when people in the agile software development community thought Lean Startup was incompatible with agile practices.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 15, 2011

Use Solid Agile Process for Estimating Development Timeline. At my last startup we eventually started using a process called "scrum," which is basically a framework for managing agile engineering projects. Almost every software engineer I've ever worked with is irrational in how fast they believe they can build software.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

For those of you who have been following the discussion, a Lean Startup is Eric Ries ’s description of the intersection of Customer Development , Agile Development and if available, open platforms and open source. Blog at WordPress.com. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer.

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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. video games and film? materials science? food science? cellulose outputs?

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 27, 2019

The speed and agility you want? In these servers, you can run any applications, store and manage data, deliver services such as streaming videos, office productivity software, webmail or access social media. With automated orchestration, you would experience speed and agility in various levels of approval.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 27, 2020

While traditional offshoring to Asia or Eastern Europe has always been lauded for its cheap labor, for companies that practice agile, or require better collaboration, communication, and a higher level of engagement, the advantages of nearshore software development are clear.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 27, 2009

This post makes a lot more sense if you look at the earlier posts as well as the video and slides. And in hindsight, we seemed a bit more agile and innovative in WWII.) In 21 st century terminology we’d say that Terman built the Radio Research lab into a customer-centric organization doing agile development.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 8, 2023

TikTok and Influencers One viral video on TikTok can reach 1.5 The video content will remain effective for another couple of years: from DIY to answering the most common questions to reviewing the products. We noticed the short video format works well. We focused on short videos, which worked for us.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 9, 2020

By incorporating solutions for video conferencing and online meetings, HR teams can still conduct a rigorous hiring and training operation during the summer months. Video interviews. For starters, leveraging video conferencing platforms for the hiring process can have huge efficiencies for an under-resourced staff.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 12, 2009

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. The presentation didn’t have a single word about Lean Startups or Customer Development. There was no proselytizing about any particular methodology, yet the results are compelling.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

Finally, I’ll write about how Eric Ries and the Lean Startup concept provided the equivalent model for product development activities inside the building and neatly integrates customer and agile development. Blog at WordPress.com. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 23, 2016

Thirteen years later, Kinsman is a veteran of the industry and a thought leader advocating in Forbes for an agile approach. The agile strategy is all about brand flexibility. This can include crafting videos that tell your story and show what you do. This type of rigorous, critical quality-control allows your brand to be agile.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

They recorded many of their sessions on video. The whole point of Agile Development is to produce shorter, sharper pieces of code completed more quickly where you can get feedback from customers. But they went one step further. They taped people using existing products. I rarely see the tech team do this.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 5, 2014

Is Twice As Fast, Agile, And Awesome. For a kid like me who grew up with video games on an Apple ][, this was pretty awesome. They shipped Sphero 1.0 just before the end of 2011 so their first real year in the market was in 2012. shipped in the fall of 2013 and was praised in reviews like the one in TechCrunch which gushed Sphero 2.0

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 26, 2023

For example, we all remember when Blockbuster realized too late that Netflix was stealing customers by offering videos online rather than via DVDs, but even then they were unable to adapt their processes and their thinking. Thus they are blindsided and try to react quickly when a new competitor starts stealing customers.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 30, 2016

Eventually, I found the answer while watching some videos of Paul Reed Smith – one of the most famous luthiers in the world. The agile approach recommends that you determine the biggest problem and solve it. The development camp and the project owner both contribute to the right result. Conclusion. Or probably in your experience?

Technical Review 133

Technical Review Software Development Software Developers Software Review 133

Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

Industries that we all grew up with, industries that enjoyed decades of market dominance – like newspapers, bookstores, video rentals, personal computers — are being swept away. These Key Performance Indicators and processes are what make a company efficient —but they are also the root cause of its inability to be agile and innovative.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2018

The communication industry gives us the chance to message each other, send meeting notifications, and even engage in live video chats through their app development. For example, an agile software development lifecycle model encourages self-organization and motivation rather than the delegation of authority and a seniority hierarchy.

Developer 101

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Incubators and accelerators like Y-Combinator have institutionalized experiential training in best practices (product/market fit, pivots, agile development, etc.); In today’s connected social world, instant messages and shared videos have broken down the doors. The Revenge of the Founders – Founding CEOs Acting Badly.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 11, 2013

We invite you to check out the entire video , including a fascinating conversation about why revenue is not a good growth metric. So would you rather be an early adopter of that, or have someone else take that lead? -- Interested in more in-depth discussion of Lean Startup in the enterprise?

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