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Why Everyone Wants To Be Agile

YoungUpstarts

Many project management frameworks are rooted in agile, such as scrum, kanban, lean, and extreme programming (XP). Agile was created as a way to enable greater productivity and responsiveness in the software industry to changing customer demands. The “customer” in some cases can also be a collective market environment.

Agile 100
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This Weekend

Startup Lessons Learned

The next couple of days are going to be amazing, as the Lean Startup community converges on San Francisco. As a reminder, the first 200 people to show up will get one of the very first copies of the Lean Startup Book , a pre-publication printed galley. Product management and customer development, KISSmetrics.

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Episode 14: Be Your Own Boss, Restaurant Owners, and Friendliest Cities for Businesses | The Bcast

Up and Running

Jonathan: Yeah, so your customers are you boss, your clients are your boss. We’ve talked a little bit about planning, and lean management, and even some of the Kanban principles that we talked about a few episodes ago. Number six was Nashville Tennessee, great job, but you were edged out by Knoxville.

Texas 60
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Business Model Demands Patience

The Entrepreneurial Mind

In the first, entrepreneurs learn about their customers and what they want. This can be thought of as a series of experiments with real customers. Once we learn what our business model needs to be, we can begin the second phase, which includes attracting more and more customers and building a company. Be patient.

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Finding Money in the 2010's

The Entrepreneurial Mind

I received a very timely e-mail this morning from a Belmont alum, who is trying to start a business here in Nashville. Revenues are the best source of financing we can ever hope for during lean times. Let satisfied customers fund your growth and life is much easier than when you rely on bankers and investors. How did they do it?

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Startup Reality Distortion #3: The Fallacy Of the Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA)

onstartups.com

23 Tweetable Insights From "The Lean Startup" (5 days ago). From Nashville to Boston: How A Startup Accelerator Changed Our Lives (1 month ago). Some of these could be competitors – but some could also be partners, customers, acquirers, etc. Why Venture Capitalists Invest In Pigs, Not Chickens (1 week ago).

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Lessons from the Front Line of a Microfund

The Entrepreneurial Mind

One year ago today I blogged about a new microfund here in Nashville called Jumpstart Foundry. Program Content : "Lean Startup / Customer Development in practice. We will build Nashville one small group at a time over the next 5-10 years. You do not have to be from Nashville or intend to keep the business in Nashville.