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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2020 Lesson Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

All the teams used the Mission Model Canvas , (videos here ) Customer Development and Agile Engineering to build Minimal Viable Products, but all of their journeys were unique. I observed that teaching case studies and/or how to write a business plan as a capstone entrepreneurship class didn’t match the hands-on chaos of a startup.

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5 Keys To Starting New Trends Rather Than Following

Startup Professionals Musings

I’m sure all of you are convinced that your new business will create the next trend and ride the wave to success, but the reality is that most startups fail , so anticipating future trends is clearly harder than it seems. Focus on agility as the key skill your organization needs.

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5 Forces That Kill Momentum For Business First-Movers

Startup Professionals Musings

They outline and give some positive recommendations to counter the key organizational impediments to fast transformation that I see all too often, even in businesses with top management committed to first-mover speed and agility: Passive resistance to change from within the organization. Transformation fatigue from continual challenges.

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5 Ways To Focus Your Strategy On Delighting Customers

Startup Professionals Musings

This approach may not have worked in the startup days of traditional grocery stores, but it fits today’s urban reality. This requires continuous communication up front, agility in adapting to change, and continuous innovation improving satisfaction and experience. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 09/10/2020.

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The Enterprise Strikes Back

BeyondVC

However as a first check investor in enterprise startups, the companies that truly get my attention are more of the infrastructure layer companies like Mulesoft and Pivotal. What Pivotal understood early is that there is no digital transformation and agile application development without infrastructure spend.

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The top 10 companies investing billions in the Metaverse

VC Cafe

As an early stage investor in the world of gaming and metaverse technology at Remagine Ventures, I find these companies have the potential to set the agenda, become the potential platforms for developers building in this space and future acquirers/consolidators of startups building the next generation of the Internet. Here we go! Epic Games.

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8 Business Execution Strategies That Lead To Success

Startup Professionals Musings

I’m sure you have all seen entrepreneurs and startups with great ideas that never seem to live up to their potential, while others with more mundane solutions seem to take off quickly and never slow down. If you tell me that you have been working on your startup for two years, but can’t quite quantify the progress, I’m not impressed.