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Lessons Learned: Stevey's Blog Rants: Good Agile, Bad Agile

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, November 6, 2008 Steveys Blog Rants: Good Agile, Bad Agile I thought Id share an interesting post from someone with a decidedly anti-agile point of view. Steveys Blog Rants: Good Agile, Bad Agile : "Google is an exceptionally disciplined company, from a software-engineering perspective.

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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 7 – Jack Shanahan

Steve Blank

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. Josh Marcuse and the Defense Innovation Board were instrumental in helping us see what those agile principles were and how we could get moving and go fast. That is the future for the Department of Defense.

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Create a “Content Playground” that’s Fun for Buyers (and Lucrative for You)

ConversionXL

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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30 Entrepreneurs Reveal the Pivots They’re Making in Their Business in 2022

Hearpreneur

Our research has shown that customers engage with a business that utilizes narrative marketing at a 50% higher rate than short advertisements, such as banners and pop-ads, and is shared at nearly 20% of the time by viewers. 11- Move business data to the cloud. Next year, I plan to move my business's data to the cloud.

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First Mover Fallacy

Agile VC

Dropbox (cloud storage). Google didn’t have to convince people that Internet search was needed… they just had to make it work better (via PageRank and subsequent innovations) and monetize it better (by copying GoTo/Overture with paid search advertising). Netflix (video streaming).

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A New Way to Teach Entrepreneurship – The Lean LaunchPad at Stanford: Class 1

Steve Blank

It was designed to bring together many of the new approaches to building a successful startup – customer development, agile development, business model generation and pivots. Agora isan affordable “one-stop shop” for cloud computing needs. This post is part one. Get Out of the Building and test the Business Model.

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How to Build Robust User Personas in Under a Month

ConversionXL

The first, according to Dr. David Travis at UserFocus , was agile development : Dr. David Travis: “‘Development’ teams morphed into ‘design’ teams. To use the agile terminology, design teams wanted to get a ‘shared understanding’ of their users and they were suspicious of any attempt to set requirements in concrete.”.