Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 11, 2014

Thus I was happy to see a new book, “ The Tech Entrepreneur’s Survival Guide ,” by Bernd Schoner, PhD, and cofounder of ThingMagic, which leans heavily on the people side of the equation. It’s time to think about licensing what you have to an existing company already in business, and give up developing and marketing it yourself.

Technical Cofounder 245

Technical Cofounder Cofounder Advisory Board Startup 245

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Building an Advisory Board In my travels outside the building I kept my eyes out for articulate and visionary scientists and engineers who had expertise we lacked, and were willing to help in an advisory capacity. I set up an advisory board as a vehicle to get these industry experts engaged with the company and product.

Engineer 198

Engineer Silicon Valley Part-Time VPE Advisory Board 198

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2015

Thus I was happy to see a recent book, “ The Tech Entrepreneur’s Survival Guide ,” by Bernd Schoner, PhD, and cofounder of ThingMagic, which leans heavily on the people side of the equation. It’s time to think about licensing what you have to an existing company already in business, and give up developing and marketing it yourself.

Technical Cofounder 120

Technical Cofounder Cofounder Advisory Board Stock Options 120

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2008

Maybe youd like to start with The lean startup , How to listen to customers , or What does a startup CTO actually do? ) 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. Looking forward for your future posts.

San Francisco 155

San Francisco Technical Cofounder Fractional CTO CTO 155

Steve Blank

JUNE 6, 2016

A thought leader in the area of big data analytics, social media, optimization, machine learning, and data mining, he also served as a Venture Advisor focusing on big-data analytics at Trident Capital , and was on the advisory board of several startups. . Filed under: Customer Development. ” We certainly did.

Silicon Valley 120

Silicon Valley Entrepreneur Fractional CTO Analytics 120

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 29, 2009

Like a financial debt, the technical debt incurs interest payments, which come in the form of the extra effort that we have to do in future development because of the quick and dirty design choice. Startups especially can benefit by using technical debt to experiment, invest in process, and increase their product development leverage.

Technical Review 168

Technical Review Software Review San Francisco Lean 168

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 14, 2008

Establish a customer advisory board. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? Let them connect with each other, but also with you.

San Francisco 131

San Francisco Customer Lean Continuous Deployment 131

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 5, 2009

The VP of Sales and I flew to Providence to convince Andy van Dam at Brown to join our company, or at a minimum lead our advisory board. Reply Karma in the Lean Startup Era , on January 28, 2010 at 5:26 pm Said: [.] On a rainy day in Providence we tracked Andy down just as he was leaving for a trip to Europe.

North Carolina 125

North Carolina Silicon Valley Fractional VPE Part-Time VPE 125

ConversionXL

AUGUST 11, 2021

Zendesk maintains a Ruby on Rails API client, making it relevant to the conference as a company and potential employer for Ruby on Rails developers. Lean on your professional networks too. Next, look at any companies or suppliers you already partner with. Are they a potential sponsor?

Audience 139

Audience Social Media Email Ruby 139

OnlyOnce

JULY 9, 2013

The book has been described by a few CEOs who read it and commented early for me along the lines of “The Lean Startup movement is great, but this book starts where most of those books end and takes you through the ‘so you have a product that works in-market – now what?’ questions”.

Startup 95

Startup Advisory Board Elevator Pitch Forecast 95

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 18, 2013

If your personality already leans toward narcissism, being the boss will likely bring out the worst in you, leading to intimidation, deception, and the use of coercive power. Even if your startup is a one-man show, you can find an intelligent outside mentor or advisory board member to bounce ideas off. Balance home and family.

Advisory Board 241

Advisory Board Entrepreneur Leadership Lean 241

Up and Running

JUNE 16, 2014

According to business development consultant, Wyn Lydecker , both investors and venture capitalists are looking to invest in businesses and industries that they can understand. If you have good experience then the VC will be leaning forward for the rest of the presentation.”. The Right Industry. We don’t have a monopoly.

Exit Strategy 91

Exit Strategy Advisory Board Business Plan Portfolio 91

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 25, 2012

If your personality already leans toward narcissism, being the boss will likely bring out the worst in you, leading to intimidation, deception, and the use of coercive power. Even if your startup is a one-man show, you can find an intelligent outside mentor or advisory board member to bounce ideas off. Balance home and family.

Advisory Board 244

Advisory Board Leadership Lean Restful 244

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

If your personality already leans toward narcissism, being the boss will likely bring out the worst in you, leading to intimidation, deception, and the use of coercive power. Even if your startup is a one-man show, you can find an intelligent outside mentor or advisory board member to bounce ideas off. Balance home and family.

Advisory Board 210

Advisory Board Leadership Early Stage Lean 210

Steve Blank

AUGUST 17, 2009

Although this reseearch would lead to the development of the Backward Wave Oscillator and Traveling Wave Tube for military applications, Stanford was building tubes and circuits not entire systems. Stanford had a Customer Development loop going on inside their own lab. The labs basic research was done by graduate students or Ph.Ds

Silicon Valley 142

Silicon Valley RSS California Government 142

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 6, 2009

In addition to some of my recent talks, you can learn more about the Startup Visa movement and enjoy two really interesting lean startup case studies. pbWorks (formerly pbWiki) was one of the first companies that ever invited me to join their advisory board. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0.

Audio 118

Audio San Francisco Video Continuous Deployment 118

Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2010

Do they “get&# Customer Development ? Do They Get Customer Development? For a founder there’s nothing worse than searching for a business model day after day and then sitting in a board meeting with a VC who asks about some detail of year 5 of your revenue plan. Have they heard about Customer Development ?

Founder 231

Founder Vesting Later Stage Early Stage 231

OnlyOnce

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

to leaning in to our board (hit or miss, inefficient). Our team has a maniacal focus on helping startup teams scale and flourish and on helping leaders develop into the best version of themselves. We are here to make it easier for you to: Bolster your executive team. That’s what we’re all about.

Advisory Board 71

Advisory Board Leadership Portfolio Matching 71

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

Dave : We’re trying to take a lot of the stuff that you’ve done with the Lean LaunchPad methodology and move that out across university into the other schools. . What’s more, as the Lean Startup revolution has gone mainstream, Dave said, it has started to change the trajectory of our economy. I’m seeing it in real time.

Artificial Inteligence 120

Artificial Inteligence Entrepreneur Silicon Valley New York 120

OnlyOnce

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

to leaning in to our board (hit or miss, inefficient). Our team has a maniacal focus on helping startup teams scale and flourish and on helping leaders develop into the best version of themselves. We are here to make it easier for you to: Bolster your executive team. That’s what we’re all about.

Advisory Board 62

Advisory Board Leadership Portfolio Matching 62

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Unfortunately, after months or even years of development, many companies discover that customers arent willing to buy their new wares. Thats why some entrepreneurs are trying another approach to product launches: marketing a product online before spending much on research and development or inventory. Read the rest.

San Francisco 137

San Francisco Product Lean Continuous Deployment 137

Life Beyond Code

JULY 16, 2013

Although Steve Blank and Eric Reis have made customer development and lean startup methodology household names in the startup ecosystem, there is still a lot of reluctance from entrepreneurs to actively start talking to target customers early in the Lifecycle of a company.

Startup 151

Startup Advisory Board Audience Framework 151

Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 22, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, June 22, 2009 Pivot, dont jump to a new vision In a lean startup , instead of being organized around traditional functional departments, we use a cross-functional problem team and solution team. Each has its own iterative process: customer development and agile development respectively.

San Francisco 167

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment Agile 167

Steve Blank

JUNE 22, 2009

Army Signal Corps advisory board, and the Army was going to acquire their first computer for research. Instead of bemoaning the demise of an old company we should be celebrating new companies that develop new helpful technologies. DO NOT develop a computer!&# No one in the Army Signal Corps knew much about computers. (To

Silicon Valley 164

Silicon Valley RSS California Agile 164

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 5, 2009

blog comments powered by Disqus Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe via email Blog Archive ► 2010 (48) ► October (3) Case Study: Rapid iteration with hardware The Lean Startup Bundle Stop lying on stage ► September (4) Good enough never is (or is it?) The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Expo SF (May.

San Francisco 133

San Francisco Architecture Lean Continuous Deployment 133

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 11, 2009

Why was a team this smart, this disciplined, and this committed to waste-free product development creating so much waste? Why was a team this smart, this disciplined, and this committed to waste-free product development creating so much waste? The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

San Francisco 133

San Francisco Lean Metrics Continuous Deployment 133

andrewchenblog.com

MARCH 10, 2010

If you haven’t finished developing your product yet, that’s no excuse! In fact, in many ways talking to your customer and understanding them great detail is often much more powerful before you even go through the product development process. The survey should be bounded by time and level of completion. Lucky for you, Web 2.0

Customer 42

Customer Advisory Board RSS Software Review 42

usersknow.blogspot.com

APRIL 30, 2010

I have already released the feature to a small, select group of beta customers or my customer advisory board, and I am meeting with them to discuss their feedback. You must be prepared to kill features , and it’s always easiest to kill a feature in the earliest stages before it develops a small but vocal group of devoted users.

Software Review 40

Software Review Agile San Francisco Advisory Board 40

betashop.com

OCTOBER 8, 2012

I firmly believe that in this age where the product development life-cycle is so short and user feedback comes so quickly, you will know within a year whether you are focusing on a worthwhile one thing. Use them as a sounding board for corporate development issues. Advisory boards never amount to much.

Technical Review 108

Technical Review Technology Software Review Valuation 108

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 23, 2009

This case study illustrates one company’s attempt to do customer development by testing their vision with customers before writing a single line of code. The lean startup methodology is based on enlisting customers as allies, which requires honesty and integrity. The following was written an actual lean startup practitioner.

San Francisco 144

San Francisco Customer Wiki Lean 144

betashop.com

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Use a bug tracking system and religiously manage development action items from it. . Use them as a sounding board for corporate development issues. Advisory boards never amount to much. Find one person, make them your sherpa, and lean on them. . Stack rank your features. Force prioritization. .

Post-Money Valuation 92

Post-Money Valuation Valuation Dilution Advisory Board 92

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 19, 2009

So why become an entrepreneur instead of developing technology in an R&D lab? So why become an entrepreneur instead of developing technology in an R&D lab? The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Expo SF (May. .

San Francisco 111

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment DC 111

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

Berkeley and NCIIA , Jerry Engel and I first offered the Lean LaunchPad Educators Class. 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.

Delaware 297

Delaware Lean Entrepreneur Advisory Board 297

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

Berkeley and NCIIA , Jerry Engel and I first offered the Lean LaunchPad Educators Class. 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.

Delaware 189

Delaware Lean Entrepreneur Advisory Board 189

steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

interactions, widgets, effects Django – high-level Python framework Cappuccino – open source framework for app development Kodingen – cloud development environment, code editor, hosting service, collaboration platform.

Software Review 110

Software Review Startup Silicon Valley Analytics 110

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Lean Methodology Sources. Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. Part 3- Lean Cust. s helpful to find an developer tool that allows you to write html/css and renders the view in real time, so you donâ??t Firebase : Are all your developers front-end engineers? s easier to use/develop with.

Software Review 53

Software Review Technical Review Startup 53