Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Do they have better sales, marketing, or product development groups? What the winners start with is the realization that in a world of continuous disruption, they have only a few years to develop new capabilities or be pushed over the brink. Is it that some CEOs are better than others? Are their people smarter?

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Not so long ago, business leaders operated behind the scenes, and even long-time employees rarely heard from them or saw them in the news. Today, with the Internet and social media, if you aren’t visible in a positive way to everyone, including customers, your leadership efforts will be lost. Always willing and able to communicate.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 23, 2018

They’re people who like to build things, or they’re people who like to connect with others, but they’re rarely people who like to fill in spreadsheets and review reports and come up with predictive data models that tell them how long they can keep operating on their current revenue. Often, founders have an entrepreneurial mindset.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 6, 2013

Guest post by Lisa Regan On August 20, Eric will sit down with developer and Hut8Labs co-founder Dan Milstein for a webcast you can join to discuss “Getting Engineers Into the Lean Startup Cycle.” Dan and Eric will also talk about how engineers can contribute to containing uncertainty—including in the way they interact with leadership.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 30, 2022

In addition to fresh products, you need people smarter than you for real help, with the right combination of skills, experience, and passion to foster and manage new growth. Switch your attention from product development to sales. Separate management from leadership, and provide both.

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Version One Ventures

APRIL 11, 2019

Six weeks ago, we kicked off a new series where we profile an awesome operator in our network to learn about his/her work and contributions to his/her organization and community at large. Besides unit testing, engineers also perform manual developer end-to-end testing. An independent tester will test cases that are unexpected.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 15, 2018

Smarter operations: big data analytics, robotic processes and smart contracting to optimise business operations. New products: creative solutions to enhance the products and services portfolio which can improve the customer journey. Product development input. World class mentors. Accelerator Timeline.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 13, 2022

He has been instrumental in the development of artificial intelligence and machine learning, which are key areas of focus for Google. Under his leadership, Google has become a leading player in both these strategic areas. Unpakt has experienced enormous development, with over one million move books currently available on its site.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 18, 2014

That’s why the human learning machine prefers to operate in a low gear — on autopilot — as much as possible: It’s a conservation thing. Well, the big problem is that business has taken the “laziness model” — aka operational excellence — as far as it can go. Although the brain comprises only about 2.5

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

You take that money and invest a good portion of it in traditional sales and marketing efforts — including product developers, creative people, and salespeople, all of whom are paid to figure out what buyers want and to say good things about your company — in a quest to get even more customers. Believably promote your product.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

They live their purposes inside out, and everything else falls into place, always returning to the purpose that made them visionaries to guide the brand and its product development when things get difficult, markets change, or downfalls occur. These further fuels a cycle of bad energy and underperforming leadership.

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The Startup Magazine

APRIL 21, 2023

Enhancing your tech leadership approach means taking a more holistic view of the business, thinking strategically about long-term growth, and making decisions that impact the entire organization. Develop a strategic vision As a tech leader, it’s important to have a clear vision for where you want your company to go.

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David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

In addition, I’ve noted a few multi-product lending firms, e.g., Kapitus and United Capital Source , which provide RBI as one of many structural options to companies seeking capital. . We have a special program if you are pre-seed and need product development. The average monthly operating expenses is $70,335.

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Small Business Force

SEPTEMBER 10, 2017

” But, more important, the company began operating better as a team with a new cohesiveness and understanding within the organization, to say nothing of the loyalty and appreciation of the “rank and file.” Lego’s announcement reminded me of these six leadership lessons. You don’t do that without a plan.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 4, 2015

However, this relatively simple principle is game changing for early-stage operations that often focus exclusively on the Big Hairy Audacious Goals of a decade ago. As Dan Dodge, developer advocate at Google once said, “At Google, a year is like a decade. Annual goals aren’t good enough.”

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ConversionXL

APRIL 13, 2017

Jonathan Price wrote on the same Quora thread that he believes growth marketing to differ from regular marketing because it “is technology-centric and it blurs the boundary between marketing and product development.” In addition, there are different ways to build a growth team no matter the reporting and leadership structure.

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ConversionXL

MAY 1, 2017

Such lapses in strategic vision and product innovation often lead to a company experiencing what is called a growth stall, a phrase coined by Matthew Olson, Derek van Bever, and Seth Verry of CEB , a leadership advisory network. Past Product: Lackluster Marketing Causes Growth Stalls, Too. billion, a 35 percent drop.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

In addition to fresh products, you need people smarter than you for real help, with the right combination of skills, experience, and passion to foster and manage new growth. Switch your attention from product development to sales. Separate management from leadership, and provide both.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 2, 2020

He set up his first company when at 17 years old, and since then he has started multiple companies and also set up the European operations for many U.S. corporations. The post What Not To Do When Marketing During A Pandemic appeared first on Young Upstarts.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

AUGUST 1, 2024

This article explores the multifaceted role and importance of education in business, highlighting its impact on personal development, organizational growth, and the broader economic environment. These skills are vital for leading organizations, motivating employees, and driving productivity.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 25, 2009

Twenty eight years ago I was the bright, young, eager product marketing manager called out to the field to support sales by explaining the technical details of Convergent Technologies products to potential customers. They couldn’t keep up with the fast product development times that were enabled by using standard microprocessors.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

I began to gain an appreciation of how world-class venture capitalists develop pattern recognition for these common types of problems. “Oh No one was actually quite that good, but some VCs had “golden guts” for these kinds of operating issues. Oh yes, company X, they’re having problem 343.

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

AUGUST 12, 2021

Instead, it’s up to the skeleton C-Suite team, already maxed out, to not only formalize operations, but also, continue to invent. In general “insight development” (finding opportunities to grow) is something that should not be purely intuitive. That never works. Those functions are polar opposites.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 29, 2016

The good news for the country is that the leadership of the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency has decided to turn the ship now. The innovation process uses the Value Proposition canvas , customer development and the Mission Model Canvas to validate hypotheses and deliver minimum viable products.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 29, 2016

The good news for the country is that the leadership of the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency has decided to turn the ship now. The innovation process uses the Value Proposition canvas , customer development and the Mission Model Canvas to validate hypotheses and deliver minimum viable products.

Lean 186

Lean Silicon Valley Government Acquisition 186

YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 22, 2018

Everything flows from it, including strategy, operations, staffing, team building, product development, branding and PR. It’s the first question a potential investor will ask you about and the first thing a consumer will want to know before buying your product. A USP is the True North of any successful venture.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 6, 2022

18:05] How does the Founder Space operate? [20:21] And that's because you're just operating on different scales and you need to focus on different things. You won't give up, tell us a little bit about the founder's space, how it operates. 17:14] Are there any traits that you think make somebody more likely to succeed? [18:05]

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 17, 2019

He set up his first company when at 17 years old, and since then he has started multiple companies and also set up the European operations for many U.S. corporations.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

In addition to fresh products, you need people smarter than you for real help, with the right combination of skills, experience, and passion to foster and manage new growth. Switch your attention from product development to sales. Separate management from leadership, and provide both.

Mezzanine 141

Mezzanine Private Equity Startup Bandwidth 141

Seeing Both Sides

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

By viewing product development and marketing as integrated functions, not silos, leading tech companies like Facebook and Pinterest are rethinking their approach to driving growth and achieving breakthrough results. The Growth Manager also needs creativity, strategic thinking, and of course leadership.

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Seeing Both Sides

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

By viewing product development and marketing as integrated functions, not silos, leading tech companies like Facebook and Pinterest are rethinking their approach to driving growth and achieving breakthrough results. The Growth Manager also needs creativity, strategic thinking, and of course leadership.

Management 20

Management Analytics Technical Review Framework 20

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 3, 2013

In addition to fresh products, you need people smarter than you for real help, with the right combination of skills, experience, and passion to foster and manage new growth. Switch your attention from product development to sales. Separate management from leadership, and provide both.

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Mezzanine Private Equity Bandwidth Metrics 240

Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

MAY 22, 2019

The Benefits of Innovation Training for Operational Employees. Why is it that organizations don’t invest in training operational employees? Nearly all that training is for dedicated innovation teams , or employees who are focused on new product development. And management of operations is all about control.

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Operations Employee Technical Review Agile 54

Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 14, 2015

They fear they’re being asked to create a low-quality product that will put their reputation—or even people’s lives—at risk. Minimally viable” does not mean operating in a sloppy or undisciplined way, building bad code that’s going to result in a lot of technical debt, or ignoring safety or health concerns. This is a misconception.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 27, 2009

This series of posts is a brief explanation of how we’ve evolved from Product Development to Customer Development to the Lean Startup. The Product Development Diagram Emerging early in the twentieth century, this product-centric model described a process that evolved in manufacturing industries.

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Silicon Valley Product Startup RSS 272

ctotodevelopers.blogspot.com

JULY 11, 2012

I cover several topics including agile software development, software startups, web 2.0, Left on its own, product owners and development teams just may make debatable and sometimes questionable decisions on priorities or implementation strategy. There is still technical debt that must be worked into the development backlog.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2014

A few weeks back I wrote about 5 traits of leadership and some of the characteristics that great leaders share. Leadership is all well and good (not to mention completely necessary), but there is more to a business than simply the person or people who lead it. Great talent can be bought, but great talent can also be developed in-house.

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