ReadWriteStart

MAY 26, 2022

of startups across industries fail within their first year of business, while 30% don’t make it past their second. After all, 50% of startups fail in their fifth year. If you’re not already, adopt an agile methodology not only for software development, but also for communication improvements. Figuring Out Your Next Big Move.

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Software Japan Agile Employee 171

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Once upon a time every great organization was a scrappy startup willing to take risks – new ideas, new methods, new customers, targets, and mission. HR processes, legal processes, financial processes, acquisition and contracting processes, security processes, product development and management processes, and types of organizational forms etc.

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Government Technical Review Acquisition Metrics 315

Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 6, 2013

Once again, along with my partners at 500 Startups, we are proud to present the most substantive track at SXSW: [link] There was a running joke last year that "the Lean Startup track was the only place at SXSW you couldn't get out of the building." 1,000 startup founders, investors, and press! We're back! See you there!

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 20, 2019

It’s not uncommon for startups that are laser-focused on fundraising to deprioritize certain challenges. 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. by Everett Harper, CEO and cofounder of Truss.

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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.

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The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Here are the steps you can follow to take your cannabis startup on the growth route. . Likewise, your cannabis startup cannot just rely on the dispensary model to succeed during pandemic times. Startup owners often think they need not go high-tech in the early stages of the business. Referral programs can boost acquisitions.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Practically 90 percent of that time was spent starting and closing one startup or another. This actually aligns closely with the Lean Planning approach, which allows your business to be more agile and make adjustments as you test your idea in the market. Business must be calculable—and it’s same with customer acquisition.

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Steve Blank

MAY 6, 2015

It’s time to update Build, Measure, Learn to what we now know is the best way to build Lean startups. Only after shipping and attempting to sell the product would a startup hear any substantive feedback from customers. Best practices in software development started to move to agile development in the early 2000’s.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 2, 2022

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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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. For startups, the entrepreneur and founder is almost always the face of the company.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 19, 2012

Guest post by Sarah Milstein, co-host of The Lean Startup Conference. At a party in NYC recently, I was challenged by a VC to name the biggest company currently using Lean Startup practices. I think he expected me to describe a medium-sized startup or maybe some small, old-school media organization.

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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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Intellectual Property Acquisition Non-Compete Merger 322

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. 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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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

Over the last three years our Lean LaunchPad / NSF Innovation Corps classes have been teaching hundreds of entrepreneurial teams a year how to build their startups by getting out of the building and testing their hypotheses behind their business model. The next customer segment we tried was startup founders.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 30, 2019

 —  @blueforcedev The Symbiosis of Startups, Government & Venture Capital After Jeff’s keynote address, registrants had several breakout sessions to choose from including “ The DoD Innovation Ecosystem and AFWERX ” and “ SBIR 101 for Companies: Phase I Roadmap for New SBIR Awardees ”.

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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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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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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 16, 2012

The acquisition closed about six weeks ago and the Followerwonk product has been fully integrated into SEOmoz. It’s instructive for anyone in a startup – either one that is acquiring someone else or being acquired. If you know me, or have worked with me, you’ll recognize this as a common part of my startup playbook.

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Acquisition Agile Software Startup 130

Steve Blank

MARCH 4, 2014

In the last few years we’ve recognized that a startup is not a smaller version of a large company. We’re now learning that companies are not larger versions of startups. But paradoxically, in spite of all their seemingly endless resources, innovation inside of an existing company is much harder than inside a startup.

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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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Founder Acquisition Software Developers Software Development 122

ConversionXL

APRIL 4, 2017

Paid Acquisition. You’re undoubtedly familiar with paid acquisition, as it’s the digital equivalent of traditional advertising. Here are some resources to learn more about paid acquisition: Customer Acquisition Master Course (includes SEO). When Does Paid Acquisition Work for SaaS Startups?

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 15, 2022

Successful startups seem to follow similar paths to greatness, and unfortunately all too often that path leads them back down the hill much faster than they went up. By definition, most startups begin as a result of some innovation in product, process, or service. The challenge during this phase is to stay innovative and agile.

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Dilution Startup Merger Flash 355

crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 11, 2012

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Better Agile Than Smart – [link]. Building It Is Not Enough: 5 Practical Tips On User Acquisition – [link]. Better Agile Than Smart – [link].

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 92

Steve Blank

JUNE 12, 2020

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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Oakland Asia Lean Video 301

Steve Blank

JANUARY 15, 2024

The speed, depth and breadth of these disruptive changes happen faster than the responsiveness and agility of our current acquisition systems and defense-industrial base. In addition, defense primes should more often aggressively partner with startups. And other combatant commands should follow what INDOPACOM is doing.

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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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Steve Blank

JANUARY 30, 2013

Doing so meant they would have to take risks for IP acquisition and customer/market risks outside their experience or comfort zone. I earnestly believe that large corporations should emulate Lean Startups (Business model design, Customer Development and Agile Engineering.)

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Programming Technical Review Incubator Intellectual Property 265

Agile VC

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

GrabCAD today announced their acquisition by Stratasys (NASDAQ: SSYS). He was wrapping up GrabCAD’s participation in the Seedcamp accelerator program, and the Seedcamp startups were in the US to visit potential advisors and investors in Boston, New York, and SF. I first met Hardi at the beginning of 2011 here in Cambridge.

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Boston Acquisition Estonia Viral 154

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Commitment, tenacity, and agility are key in this stage. Scaling is the holy grail of every new venture – from local to global, from online to brick-and-mortar to partners to mergers and acquisitions, from a private company to a public company, from cash-flow-positive to the next unicorn.

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Entrepreneur Silicon Valley Incubator Merger 348

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Master of 500 Hats: Startup Metrics for Pirates (SeedCamp 2008, London) This presentation should be required reading for anyone creating a startup with an online service component. Here, the key metrics are Acquisition and Referral, combined into the now-famous viral coefficient. Choose one. One last thought.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2016

The launch of the Xbox and Kinect, and the acquisitions of Skype and Yammer happened on his shift. The best are agile and know how to pivot – make a substantive change to the business model while or before their market has shifted. If you think the job of a CEO is to increase sales, then Ballmer did a spectacular job.

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Azure Business Model Cloud Artificial Inteligence 120

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2016

The launch of the Xbox and Kinect, and the acquisitions of Skype and Yammer happened on his shift. The best are agile and know how to pivot – make a substantive change to the business model while or before their market has shifted. If you think the job of a CEO is to increase sales, then Ballmer did a spectacular job.

Azure 120

Azure Business Model Cloud Artificial Inteligence 120

Steve Blank

AUGUST 31, 2009

After 20 years of working in startups, I decided to take a step back and look at the product development model I had been following and see why it usually failed to provide useful guidance in activities outside the building – sales, marketing and business development.

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Customer Development Developer Customer Silicon Valley 238

The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Demographic Shifts and Talent Risks As demographics undergo significant shifts , the dynamics of talent acquisition and retention evolve in tandem. The post Trends That Might Be Shaping the Future of Risk and Risk Management appeared first on The Startup Magazine.

Artificial Inteligence 113

Artificial Inteligence Management Global Retention 113

Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

What are they, how do they differ and what can startup do to take advantage of them? Paths to Liquidity: a quick history of the four waves of startup investing. Lean Startups/Back to Basics (2000-2010): No IPO’s, limited VC cash, lack of confidence and funding fuels “lean startup” era with limited M&A and even less IPO activity.

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Internet IPO Silicon Valley Agile 334

The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 16, 2024

Firstly, these time-sensitive promotions can act as catalysts for customer acquisition and retention, fostering a sense of loyalty among those eager to capitalize on exclusive deals. This data-driven approach not only refines future marketing strategies but also contributes to a more agile and responsive business model.

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Agile VC

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

These individuals have all graciously agreed​ to continue their prior commitments to NextView-backed startups and entrepreneurs. Thus, we can all work in concert within the broader startup ecosystem. In some cases​,​ the advisors’ companies form business relationships with startups NextView is ​vetting​.

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