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| Page 1 of 1 | Previous | Next | FELD THOUGHTS JULY 14, 2010 Rally Software Acquires Agile iPhone Product I love when companies I’m an investor in use acquisitions to build out their product line. Rally has re-released the product (previous a $15 download) as a free product called Rally for the iPhone that tightly integrates with the Rally SaaS-based Agile software lifecycle environment. | | | | | | |
| FELD THOUGHTS APRIL 14, 2010 Rally Acquires AgileZen If you are an Agile software development shop, or follow ALM, Rally just added Kanban to the mix. This is the second acquisition Rally has made – the other was 6th Sense Analytics which they acquired at the beginning of 2009. Tags: My Investments acquisition agile agilezen kanban rally and We’ve joined Rally Software. | | HIGH CONTRAST SEPTEMBER 3, 2010 Finding the best startup customers Further, let’s say that you’re doing agile development with two week iterations. at higher acquisition cost vs. anyone who wants to be a customer? Create and validate an acquisition plan for that type of customer. Towards the end of the program we listened to several startup pitches. There are [.] is not easy. | | | | | | | | |
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MARKET BY NUMBERS | MONDAY, JUNE 14, 2010  Customer Development Funnel Image v.4
By brantcooper , June 14, 2010 12:22 pm Last December, I created the first version of this image, depicting how you might think through your customer acquisition and conversion funnel. Market By Numbers on Twitter | Entries RSS | Comments RSS Market By Numbers High-Tech Marketing and Customer Development Home What is Customer Development? MORE >> -
THE PRODUCT GUY | WEDNESDAY, MAY 12, 2010  Product Process, HomeField Advantage & More Joy in June!
Over the 2+ hours we discussed… Featured Product: HomeField exploring the product, its challenges and successes, from user acquisition and marketing to user testing and social strategy (very special thanks to the HomeField team: Reece Pacheco, Dan Spinosa, Joe Yevoli). BTW, we are working towards securing a new venue for June. Enjoy! MORE >> -
SOFTWARE BY ROB | WEDNESDAY, APRIL 7, 2010  From 160 Hours to 10: A Tale of Agile Business Practices
Agile Development, meet Agile Business. But the number one question you need to think about when going after this Agile Business approach: At what point is it worth spending the time to truly automate this? Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. So we tossed it. Check out my book Like this post? MORE >> -
STEVE BLANK | FRIDAY, MARCH 18, 2011  New Rules for the New Internet Bubble
Tech IPOs were a receding memory, and mergers and acquisitions became the only path to liquidity for startups. Customer Development , Agile Engineering and the Lean methodology enforced a process of incremental and iterative development. Startup exits in the next three years will include IPO’s as well as acquisitions. MORE >> -
STEVE BLANK | THURSDAY, JULY 15, 2010  Welcome to the Lost Decade (for Entrepreneurs, IPO’s and VC’s)
The size of the red bars (IPO’s) versus blue (mergers and acquisitions) illustrates that while venture-backed startups did get acquired, the IPO market was booming. But unlike an IPO where you sold stock to the public and got to run your company, in an acquisition your company is gone, and the odds are in a year or so you will be too. MORE >>
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