Advisory Board, Agile and Founder

A real Customer Advisory Board

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, October 26, 2009 A real Customer Advisory Board A reader recently asked on a previous post about the technique of having customers periodically produce a “state of the company&# progress report. One example is having a real Customer Advisory Board.

Advisory Board

Advisory Board Customer San Francisco Lean

8 Tips To Get the Most Out of Your Investors and Board

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2013

But the thing I am most proud of about Rob is that he has taken a company with a uniquely talented founder & CTO – Nick Halstead – and managed to build a very tight working relationship with Nick where we drive world-class product development without having the usual founder / CEO conflicts. Between Board Meetings.

Advisory Board

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5 Preconditions for Success in Spawning a New Venture

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Even with advantages that independent startups can never hope to match, including brand recognition, customers, financial capital, and distribution, I don’t often see the entrepreneurial passion for innovation, agility, and team perseverance exhibited by new startups. Assemble an engaged new venture advisory board.

Advisory Board

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8 Business Execution Strategies That Lead To Success

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2020

In my experience as an advisor to startups, the difference is almost always related to the founder and their execution strategy , more so than to the solution quality or the market. Every startup should have at least quarterly meetings with an Advisory Board or key investors to bring a new perspective to what is working and what is not.

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8 Business Accountability Lapses And How To Recover

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 10, 2020

As a business investor, I look for investments where I see founders really holding their people accountable for their actions. Accountable leaders and teams realize that pivots are often required, and the agility to make changes to the product, business model, and even the customer set, must be part of every accountable culture.

Advisory Board

Advisory Board Due Diligence Retention Agile

Vision versus Hallucination – Founders and Pivots

Steve Blank

AUGUST 27, 2012

What I saw reminded me of some of the best and worst things I did as a founder. Tossing their agile development process and at times their entire business model in the air, the company would go into fire-drill mode and engineering would start working on whatever his latest insight was. A Pivot a Week. We’re building the wrong product!”

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The lean startup @ Web 2.0 Expo (and a call for help)

Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

It uses principles of agile software development, open source and web 2.0, If youre interested in being part of my "customer advisory board" for this presentation, please get in touch. Eric, if youre looking for any help as a "customer advisory board", Id love to do anything I can to help. Expo SF (May.

Lean

Lean San Francisco Web Advisory Board

Lessons Learned: About the author

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2008

He serves on the advisory board of a number of technology startups, and has worked as a consultant to a number of startups, companies, and venture capital firms. Wondering how do I get in touch with you - I am founder of a company here in San jose, CA and would like to invite you to be part of our advisor team. Expo SF (May.

San Francisco

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How to listen to customers, and not just the loud people

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 14, 2008

Today, when I talk to startup founders, the most common answer I get to the question "do you talk to your customers?" Establish a customer advisory board. Most of the people building our product werent themselves target customers. So there was simply no substitute for seeing actual customers with the product, live. Expo SF (May.

San Francisco

San Francisco Customer Lean Continuous Deployment

Embrace technical debt

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 29, 2009

I hope to show why lean and agile techniques actually reduce the negative impacts of technical debt and increase our ability to take advantage of its positive effects. Yet other agile principles suggest the opposite, as in YAGNI and DoTheSimplestThingThatCouldPossiblyWork. Reconciling these principles requires a little humility.

Technical Review

Technical Review Software Review San Francisco Lean

A large batch of videos, slides, and audio

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 6, 2009

pbWorks (formerly pbWiki) was one of the first companies that ever invited me to join their advisory board. pbWorks (formerly pbWiki) was one of the first companies that ever invited me to join their advisory board. With accompanying slides: Continuous Deployment View more presentations from TimothyFitz. Expo SF (May.

Audio

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Elephants Can Dance – Reinventing HP « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

JUNE 22, 2009

Army Signal Corps advisory board, and the Army was going to acquire their first computer for research. The original Hewlett Packard which made test and measurement products was spun-out and renamed Agilent. Agilent is a $5.8 Technology changes, culture changes, customer needs change, more agile competitors emerge, etc.

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Silicon Valley RSS California Agile

Pivot, don't jump to a new vision

Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 22, 2009

Each has its own iterative process: customer development and agile development respectively. Some startups fail because the founders cant have this conversation - they either blow up when they try, or they fail to change because they are afraid of conflict. Each cycle was punctuated by a meeting of our Business Advisory Board (BAB).

San Francisco

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment Agile

Building Great Founding Teams

Steve Blank

JULY 29, 2013

There’s been a lot written about the individual characteristics of what makes a great founder , but a lot less about what makes a great founding team and how that’s different from a great founding CEO. In doing so we’ve failed to help founders understand what it takes to build a great founding team. Founders – the idea.

Cofounder

Cofounder Advisory Board Customer Development Leadership

Lessons Learned: Inc Magazine on Minimum Viable Product (and a.

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 19, 2009

► August (2) SXSW Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium ► July (4) Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot Some IPO speculation Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# th. The visionary’s lament The Superbowl ad test Lo, my 57692 subscribers, who are you? Expo SF (May.

San Francisco

San Francisco Product Lean Continuous Deployment

The curse of prevention

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 5, 2009

In other words, a principled way to combine agility with stability. In other words, you can always invest in process, batch size reduction, and agility as an alternative to preventing a specific problem. In other words, a principled way to combine agility with stability. Many problems are catastrophic only if allowed to fester.

San Francisco

San Francisco Architecture Lean Continuous Deployment

Innovation inside the box

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 11, 2009

This team had been working for many months in a standard agile configuration: a disciplined engineering team taking direction from a product owner who would prioritize the features they should work on. Thus, these teams tend to converge on optimal solutions rapidly, even if they start out with really bad ideas. Expo SF (May.

San Francisco

San Francisco Lean Metrics Continuous Deployment

[Excerpt] Earlyvangelists: The Most Important Customers of All

ReadWriteStart

JUNE 20, 2012

Customer discovery turns founders’ initial hypotheses about their market and customers into facts. One of the mistakes that startup founders make is to give away or heavily discount early alpha/beta products to blue-chip customers. Moreover, they can be potential advisory board candidates.

Customer

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Case Study: Using an LOI to get customer feedback on a minimum.

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 23, 2009

Rich Collins , founder of the Lean Startup Circle , responded to the poster with some Q&A. Rich Collins , founder of the Lean Startup Circle , responded to the poster with some Q&A. LSC: What is your response to some of the people on Hacker News that questioned the ethics of taking this approach? Expo SF (May.

San Francisco

San Francisco Customer Wiki Lean

Myth: Entrepreneurship Will Make You Rich

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 19, 2009

► August (2) SXSW Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium ► July (4) Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot Some IPO speculation Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# th. The visionary’s lament The Superbowl ad test Lo, my 57692 subscribers, who are you? Expo SF (May.

San Francisco

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment DC

Entrepreneurs Experience – Do It and Learn It

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

The class was designed to teach educators (and the adjunct entrepreneurs that support them) the Lean LaunchPad approach (Business Model Design, Customer Development and Agile Engineering) for teaching entrepreneurship. He’s the Founder of Vision Creations & Founders Films. Take the Money First?

Delaware

Delaware Lean Entrepreneur Advisory Board

Entrepreneurs Experience – Do It and Learn It

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

The class was designed to teach educators (and the adjunct entrepreneurs that support them) the Lean LaunchPad approach (Business Model Design, Customer Development and Agile Engineering) for teaching entrepreneurship. He’s the Founder of Vision Creations & Founders Films. Take the Money First?

Delaware

Delaware Lean Entrepreneur Advisory Board

Startup Tools

steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

Github - Free public repositories, collaborator management, issue tracking, wikis, downloads, code review, graphs Pivotal Tracker – Agile project management tool that enables real time collaboration. WebSequenceDiagrams - sketch sequence diagrams. Bontq – hosted bug tracking and project management needs.

Software Review

Software Review Startup Silicon Valley Analytics

Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

.” Hackernews list of “Tools of the Trade” for startups - includes over 150 SaaS tools used by startups, and over 150 comments with interesting insights from founders. Agile project management tool that enables real time collaboration. Agile project management. agile product management. Agile eLearning.

Software Review

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A real Customer Advisory Board

8 Tips To Get the Most Out of Your Investors and Board

Trending Sources

5 Preconditions for Success in Spawning a New Venture

8 Business Execution Strategies That Lead To Success

8 Business Accountability Lapses And How To Recover

Vision versus Hallucination – Founders and Pivots

The lean startup @ Web 2.0 Expo (and a call for help)

Lessons Learned: About the author

How to listen to customers, and not just the loud people

Embrace technical debt

A large batch of videos, slides, and audio

Elephants Can Dance – Reinventing HP « Steve Blank

Pivot, don't jump to a new vision

Building Great Founding Teams

Lessons Learned: Inc Magazine on Minimum Viable Product (and a.

The curse of prevention

Innovation inside the box

[Excerpt] Earlyvangelists: The Most Important Customers of All

Case Study: Using an LOI to get customer feedback on a minimum.

Myth: Entrepreneurship Will Make You Rich

Entrepreneurs Experience – Do It and Learn It

Entrepreneurs Experience – Do It and Learn It

Startup Tools

Startup Resources

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