ReadWriteStart

MARCH 8, 2021

They want to snowball their customer acquisition, attracting thousands of new people to the brand, and reach diverse new audiences in new locations. Growth is all about customer acquisition – the process of attracting new people to the brand. . Adaptability/Agility . Every startup entrepreneur wants to see their company grow.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 15, 2019

HR processes, legal processes, financial processes, acquisition and contracting processes, security processes, product development and management processes, and types of organizational forms etc. Over time as these organizations got large, they built process. Process Versus Product.

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Government Technical Review Acquisition Metrics 315

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

With Agile development, used by all startups, updates can occur in weeks or sometimes days, or even hours. Existing contractors have learned how to master the arcane defense acquisition system and live with the slow decision-making and payment processes. The answer is that, yes, government agencies need to be more agile.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

The benefits of using DataRails can clearly be seen in the rapid customer acquisition the company is experiencing and the overall excitement for the product among users.” ” Product Focus.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 26, 2022

If you’re not already, adopt an agile methodology not only for software development, but also for communication improvements. There’s a reason 70% of all acquisitions fail : When leaders feel pressure to grow for growth’s sake, their focus on results (no matter the cost) isn’t sustainable in the long run.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

We might have medium-term goals like “adopting agile methodologies” or “getting everyone on the same page with a project kick-off” as the outcomes for the reader. For example, the Jira Software team created a microsite dedicated to product-agnostic education about becoming an agile team. Distribution framework.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 21, 2019

The challenge during this phase is to stay innovative and agile. This is the end game for an industry, and many companies, characterized by mergers and acquisitions to a few dominant players. For additional growth, most companies expand the product portfolio to cater to more customers, and sell more to existing customers.

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Dilution Merger Flash Global 224

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 21, 2020

In commercial tech you call that an integrated product team, It’s acquisition with software engineering with UI/UX. It was whatever you can do to get away from the classic DOD stovepipe way of doing business to a much more agile software approach. Lean, MVPs and the DOD. Project Maven became the basis for what we did in the JAIC.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 14, 2010

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.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 30, 2022

In this article, you’ll learn how bootstrapping makes you a better business – a leaner, smarter, more agile company that can roll with the punches. You’re lean, agile, and responsive to external changes, ready to test a new idea or head in a new direction. Plan for investment early as you would plan for acquisition.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Acquisition, technology, and logistics. In some of our class sessions you’ve heard about how acquisition in the Department of Defense hasn’t kept up with new threats, adversaries, and new technologies. But Will Roper who runs Air Force acquisition, technology and logistics, gives lie to that assertion. The future is predictable.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 28, 2022

Business agility can also be improved by proactively looking ahead – for new trends and technologies that will likely attract competitors and customers. Use acquisitions to complement organic growth. Smart companies use acquisitions to enhance momentum and accelerate revenue growth. Optimize your ability to react.

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 12, 2024

Armed with a deep understanding of the industry’s pain points and inefficiencies, Alejandro set out to create a solution that would address actual and future airplane owners and aviation organizations to navigate the complexities of asset acquisition, evaluation and forecast, with precision and agility.

Entrepreneur 118

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

There are several lines of effort that we’re focusing on: We’re working to build the Space Force as a very Lean and Agile service. Everybody that comes into the space force will learn coding and adopt digital engineering standards as our as our standard for acquisition. We’re also focusing on partnerships.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 2, 2022

billion acquisition of Weta Digital, Peter Jackson’s VFX company, gives Unity capabilities in creating hyper realistic virtual environments using RT3D (real-time 3D) technology. Microsoft has recently spent $70 billion in cash to acquire Activision Blizzard, the most expensive gaming acquisition of all time. Also, their $1.6

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Even these have had their ups and downs, but credit their team culture with a mindset of being innovative and agile, compared to the more prevalent corporate culture of focus on profits, repeatable processes, minimal risk, and business as usual. Have each develop a personal transformation plan with your support.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

Investors my tell you that, but what they can look at your product on paper and tell what it does and they will understand if it can be built.

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Steve Blank

MAY 6, 2015

Best practices in software development started to move to agile development in the early 2000’s. With Agile you could end up satisfying every feature a customer asked for and still go out of business. A major improvement over Waterfall development, Build Measure Learn lets startups be fast, agile and efficient. Lessons Learned.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

And we need to do all of this with a finite defense budget, most of which is being spent on legacy systems in 88 major defense acquisition programs. Our current requirements and acquisition system ( Planning-Programming-Budgeting System ) is built on assuming certainty. Slides 10-13). Institutional inertia is a social problem.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 2, 2017

The challenge during this phase is to stay innovative and agile. This is the end game for an industry, and many companies, characterized by mergers and acquisitions to a few dominant players. For additional growth, most companies expand the product portfolio to cater to more customers, and sell more to existing customers.

Dilution 134

Dilution Merger Flash Global 134

Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2021

While all the teams used the Mission Model Canvas , (videos here ), Customer Development and Agile Engineering to build Minimal Viable Products, each of their journeys was unique. This was followed by an 8-minute slide presentation describing their customer discovery journey over the 10 weeks.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

The key elements of leadership in a company, both individual and organizational, are less tangible, but very critical in setting a market value for investment, acquisition, or going public. In the investment community, these leadership elements are often called “goodwill.” Strategic proficiency.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 16, 2012

The acquisition closed about six weeks ago and the Followerwonk product has been fully integrated into SEOmoz. I think it’s incredibly powerful to accelerate the growth of a company via targeted acquisitions. Another recent example from my world just to see what I mean is Rally Software’s acquisition of Agile Advantage.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 22, 2020

For instance, an AI system may be able to streamline the talent acquisition process by vetting applicants’ resumes and filtering out unqualified candidates. AI should be viewed not as a one-time fix for all operational problems, but as a tool to be leveraged only when it will be cost-effective, efficient, and culturally valuable to do so.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

While our teams have mentors, socialize a lot and give great demos, the goal of our class final presentations is “ Lessons Learned ” – about product/market fit, pricing, acquisition/activation costs, pricing, partners, etc.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 14, 2010

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.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 6, 2013

> Uber's " Reality Therapy 4 Startups": What U Need 2 Know NOW > Steve Blank on why NOT to be an Entrepreneur > Airbnb's Globetrotting Lessons: Building 4 a Global Market > Vinod Khosla - The VC Legend: Interview w/ Dave McClure > Eric Ries on Entrepreneurship: What He's Learned Along the Way > GitHub's Secret 2 Success: Rethinking (..)

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 28, 2015

I can’t remember if Ryan used the word Agile at that time, but I remember scribbles on a white board that listed out all the different software that Ryan had used at BEA to manage his dev team and how maddening it was to try to integrate information in Word, Excel, Project, a dev workbench, a set of testing tools, and the support / QA system.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 14, 2013

The challenge during this phase is to stay innovative and agile. This is the end game for an industry, and many companies, characterized by mergers and acquisitions to a few dominant players. For additional growth, most companies expand the product portfolio to cater to more customers, and sell more to existing customers.

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Occam's Razor

MAY 2, 2017

The challenge I want to take on is to be specific in the recommendations make, and to share how we can be very nimble and agile. tearsofpain One way of removing silos and focusing on the entire business is to leverage Acquisition, Behavior and Outcome metrics. You’ll see three consistent patterns in the thinking expressed below.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 30, 2022

16- Become more agile and flexible. In my opinion, one of the changes that companies will have to make this year is becoming more agile and flexible. In order to keep up with the ever-changing landscape, businesses will need to be more agile and flexible. Thanks to Cody Candee, Bounce ! #16- Photo Credit: Emir Bacic.

Entrepreneur 119

Entrepreneur Green Technical Review Social Media 119

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

If you read these quotes, you’d think they were from a CEO who just took over a company facing disruption from agile startups and a changing environment. Instead the focus is on global and rapid maneuver capabilities of smaller, dispersed units to “increase agility, speed, and resiliency. And you’d be right. on page 10.

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The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Referral programs can boost acquisitions. Succeeding in the cannabis industry requires agile moves. The pandemic has made it even more crucial to be agile with your operations and marketing tactics. You cannot wait to follow the regulatory changes because they can land you in deep trouble.

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Software By Rob

APRIL 7, 2010

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.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 19, 2018

Alexa Hubley: The Agile Marketing Playbook. Create your agile process: Map (start at the end). It’s not about technology, but customer centricity + agility, data drivenness. Acquisition. Templates as rules: “What to say” and “What to say” internally. Workflows as rules: “When and where to say it”. Prototype – test.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 20, 2019

Startups tend to put a premium on being “agile,” but that doesn’t always work – and certainly won’t replace the effective collaboration a business needs to grow. Everett was head of Customer Acquisition and Community for Linden Lab. . At Women 2.0 That app, called Tetherpad, was the original DNA of Truss.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 3, 2010

As I’ve written in the past, I encourage companies I’m an investor in to continually explore small acquisitions when entrepreneurs have created something that is on their roadmap. AgileZen was one such company and the acquisition has been a successful one for everyone. Why did you start AgileZen ?

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