Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 16, 2009

XP and Scrum don’t have much to say - they punt. What’s worse is that as you grow you’ve probably developed some pretty bad habits as far as setting priorities and strategy: like thinking you’re a genius - just because you got funded - and that genius is what allows you to *know* what the market wants.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 13, 2016

Scrum methodology. Scrum was developed for the software world since it is all about adapting to altering parameters and productivity. Lewis Robinson is a business consultant specializing in social media marketing, CRM, and sales. Transparent communication and creative leadership are indispensable to every project.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 5, 2015

You may have also noticed that agile methodology — which was once thought to be only for software developers — is now being used just about everywhere, from construction to marketing, human resources, manufacturing, and even wedding planning. The “customer” in some cases can also be a collective market environment.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 7, 2018

The traditional advantages of small businesses over corporations are personalized service and an inventory of niche products tailored to their local market. If SMBs don’t also embrace and maximize data, these large companies could steal their client base and market share. This also creates a place for hosting all of your data.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2016

The biggest trend in marketing in 2016 has been the idea of “agile marketing.” In a survey conducted by Workfront and Marketing Profs, roughly 30% of marketers are already using an agile methodology in their departments. Although undeniably useful, Scrum was originally created for software development.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 9, 2013

Social media marketing is probably the most heavily written management topic on the planet. Providing a methodical framework covering strategy, organisation, execution and measurement, the book provides a step by step process to managing the social media marketing function. An example is seen below: Courtesy of DragonSearch Marketing.

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The Next Web

MARCH 6, 2014

At Red Branch, we stress that employees’ skills have distinct market values. As an agency, that market value increases when we pool those skills to create an implementable strategy for our clients. Systems such as Scrum can help separate departments communicate effectively, and that is an absolute necessity. Adjust the Workflow.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

My belief is that these lean startups will achieve dramatically lower development costs, faster time to market, and higher quality products in the years to come. I would add -- think of your development and running your business like a PM/Developer uses Agile or Scrum in software development. No more, no less.

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Transformify

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Reaching out to new markets and opportunities requires skills, experience, and networks that are usually developed by those who have studied abroad. According to the fund chairman, Ronnie Osumba, the start-up market is yet to be explored. Scrum, Agile, Product Management. Sales & Marketing/ Writing.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 4, 2013

Solution #1: At least once a week have a scrum meeting that absolutely everyone prioritizes. After the scrum, if time allows, hang out and catch up. The marketing and sales strategies to come would also be highly impacted on what direction the culture took. Attainable. we need more people to sign up to our website.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 8, 2013

Marketing , a multi-channel lifestyle agency specializing in experiential and promotional services. Talking scrum to creative won’t work as well as to developers. Christian Jurinka is Chief Engagement Officer and Co-founder of Attack! Ideation may not resonate the same way with those tech members as with the creatives.

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Gust

AUGUST 22, 2012

One commonly used approach is to identify widely felt “pain points” in the target market; build a workable solution to address them using particularly effective or efficient means; and if the business model pencils out, work like crazy to execute, execute, execute. Silicon Arabia has engineers in Russia as well as Egypt.)

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 5, 2008

But I have a special sympathy for the "product manager" in a startup that is bringing a new product to a new market, and doing their work in large batches. Eventually, I hope to get them on a full agile diet, with TDD, scrums, sprints, pair programming, and more.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

There are several ways to make progress evident - the Scrum team model is my current favorite. If you have a true cross-functional team, empowered (a la Scrum) to do whatever it takes to succeed its likely they will converge on the result quickly. When its receding, we rescope. Do you have a spec?

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2017

The result is a combination of design thinking, Lean Startup, and Agile Scrum, and Ignacio’s innovation team includes 25 coaches who train employees in PACE best practices. . … Let's see what works well, what doesn't work well for us, for our organization, for our culture.’ We tried to define the best for us, and then we started practicing.”

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 6, 2008

When youve mastered that, consider adding operations, customer service, marketing, product management, business development - the idea is that when the team needs to get approval or support from another department, they already have an "insider" who can make it happen. At IMVU, we found 60 days was just about right.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

In our market today, successful teams are those that adapt, grow, and thrive in the rapidly changing tech scape. Scrum is the most popular Agile methodology, with Jira, Microsoft Excel, and Microsoft Project, being the most popular tool to be used in Agile project management. Agile is here to stay.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 17, 2014

Marketing tools. With drag-and-drop features, dozens of free templates, and the ability to send drip email campaigns, this tool with revolutionize your marketing. mailchimp.com. Ever wanted to send professional email newsletters to an entire list? It’s the easiest email tool out there. linkedin.com.

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Seeing Both Sides

DECEMBER 12, 2012

I had never tried a spontaneous scrum like this before and it was great fun.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 24, 2021

The competitive, oversaturated market pushes companies to seek better ways to manage workload and optimize the working process to strive for continuous improvement and client satisfaction. It is executed through practices of Kanban , Scrum, XP. At the same time, leaders are also looking towards acquiring that entrepreneur Agility.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 29, 2019

Today’s businesses require a faster go-to-market strategy, high-quality products, and high customer satisfaction. The scrum and agile practices help in achieving the organization’s objectives. A scrum master plays a unique role in an organization. A few Scrum Master characteristics are: For the Product owner.

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Mucker Lab

AUGUST 27, 2014

We see a lot of great entrepreneurs with incredible market vision, loyal customers, and flawless execution who simply do not yet speak the same language as the typical Valley entrepreneur and executive. Oftentimes they see a market need and simply want to serve those customers. That number in the Valley might be closer to 10%.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 9, 2009

blader : @ericries my #1 takeaway from #leanstartup : "No marketing team. So instead of having sales, marketing, and business development, we have a problem team implementing customer development. But how do I actually organize my team so that we actually do it day-in day-out?" No engineering team. This is my take on that idea.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Content marketers need a new model that reflects how humans actually work. It’s still a marketer forcing someone to go on a journey that ends in a purchase. Instead of focusing on content for each phase of the traditional funnel, marketers need to create content at three depths: conceptual, strategic, and tactical.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 8, 2013

The rest are providing central services like marketing, customer care and localization (20%) or others like HR, PR, Finance, Business Analytics and teams that maintain simple services for persistence of games. Teams decide on their own how to do things, although they usually blend in elements of Scrum and/or Kanban.

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Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 8, 2020

Being a digital marketing company, our world is being constantly changed by the changes happening in the world of the internet. I started a global branding and digital marketing firm 19 years ago. Thanks to Paul Lewis, Scrum Explainer ! #10- Thanks to Adam Rowles, Inbound Marketing Agency ! #16- 7- Three ways.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 16, 2020

We have over 1,000+ different productivity tools that can optimize every task from HR to the marketing department. To do lists, Scrum tools, power bi and many more tools , which can optimize processes and ultimately create the most productive and efficient company that will generate growth for your company. Data is the oil of our age.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Heres something I can relate to: We used assembla for subversion, scrums, milestones, wikis, and for general organizational purposes. Scrum reports would come in once a month, nobody was actually responsible for anything. We had all the tools in place but we didn’t actually practice agile development.

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SVPG

NOVEMBER 5, 2010

Scrum teams can actually be forced into Big Bang releases too. Sometimes marketing wants to do a big launch event so they think nobody can see it until they’re ready. This is when a team works for several months on a project with the intention of pushing it live in one big product creation event. Why is this a problem?

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SVPG

FEBRUARY 3, 2013

from Scrum to Kanban), or a "pivot" of a dedicated product team to work on something else (I guess this is supposed to make the team feel better about the new assignment, because pivots are something cool teams do). In other words, there is no real market. It is often used as a synonym for "change." Discovery Pivots.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 29, 2009

Just as a business incurs some debt to take advantage of a market opportunity developers may incur technical debt to hit an important deadline. This was a huge win (and we were delighted to give credit where it was due), because it allowed our initial products to get to market much faster. July 30, 2009 1:29 PM jkorotney said.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 22, 2020

by Andrea Fryrear, author of “ Mastering Marketing Agility “ The profound transformations in the world over the past 3 months have led to a radical and rapid fire transformation of consumers’ preferences and needs. That means in order to maintain a connection, marketers have to get to know their customers all over again.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Putting the product/service on the market early. Most startups are tiny which makes them perfectly suitable for the agile approach, even if we’re talking Scrum which (recommends) limits the number of team members to 9. Improved adaptability. Adding to product/service in small, frequent iterations. Constant evolution and improvement.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 18, 2008

At IMVU , we called this person a Producer (revealing our games background); in Scrum , they are called the Product Owner. I believe its important that product teams be cross-functional, no matter what other job function the product champion does.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 21, 2024

For instance, predictive analytics powered by AI can help businesses anticipate market trends and make data-driven decisions. Companies must be able to quickly adapt to changing market conditions, economic fluctuations, and disruptive events.

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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 2, 2011

You can pay at or above market rate, which is already pretty high right now. You have development practices in place (Agile, Scrum, test driven, etc). You have clear product goals in relationship to who you want to be in your market. You're working on a technically interesting problem. See the Joel Test.

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VC Adventure

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

As an illustration, let me share with you the list below, which came to me yesterday in an email solicitation from a company that collects this kind of technical information from big companies and markets it to companies like ours, hoping we will buy their marketing/intelligence lists. Citrix Presentation Server 4.0,

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