Steve Blank

APRIL 11, 2018

In this case the entrepreneurs know something potential employers don’t – that nowhere on their resume does it show resiliency, curiosity, agility, resourcefulness, pattern recognition, tenacity and having a passion for products. (Asymmetric Information is when one party has more or better information than the other.) Or is it calling ?

Entrepreneur 336

Entrepreneur Business Model Capital Gains Aggregator 336

Austin Startup

AUGUST 30, 2019

They get down their product path quickly, don’t always come equipped with a grand plan, and are putting the pieces together as they go to stay agile and innovative. The issues primarily addressed AI automated systems, data aggregation, communication and streamlining pilot training.

SBIR 48

SBIR Government Venture Capital Startup 48

Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Two others – that each team member give their input independently and that the results be objectively aggregated – are also key parts of building a meritocracy. Diversity is not the only requirement for making good group decisions. So why is demographic diversity important? So why is demographic diversity important? Expo SF (May.

San Francisco 167

San Francisco Lean Sweden Continuous Deployment 167

YoungUpstarts

MAY 3, 2013

In addition to giving our customers the power to generate and aggregate audience response data in real time, Turning Technologies has been able to collect and use customer feedback to hone our product development efforts. Finding the right employees and creating an agile, focused team is essential to business success. They are correct.

Cofounder 230

Cofounder Entrepreneur Ohio Aggregator 230

Agile VC

OCTOBER 23, 2012

In the very long term (5-15+ years), sustained increases in average VC industry returns may attract more capital in aggregate into the system just as bad returns may decrease the total capital committed to the asset class.

LP 176

LP Accredited Investor Carried Interest Portfolio 176

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Teams use the Lean Startup toolkit: the Business Model Canvas + Customer Development process + Agile Engineering. Metrics visible at a glance are number of customer interviews in the current week as well as aggregate interviews, hypotheses to test, invalidated hypotheses, mentor and instructor engagements.

Oakland 329

Oakland Incubator Lean Metrics 329

Lightspeed Venture Partners

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

PernixData introduces a software-defined “Flash Virtualization Platform” that aggregates and virtualizes flash storage distributed across servers into a scale-out data tier for enterprise data centers to provide low cost, deterministic high performance to any out-of-box application.

Software 104

Software Flash Architecture Aggregator 104

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

First of all, it means that most aggregate measures of success, like total revenue, are not very useful. Go on an agile diet quickly. With a product development team that is not shipping, any agile methodology will surface major problems quickly. Labels: agile , customer development 15comments: Scott Shapiro said.

Customer 167

Customer San Francisco Lean Hockey Stick 167

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

We rely on “corporate security,” (call it “resume building”) and spend a few years in which everyday seems incredibly important, yet over time aggregates into a bland resume block that garners respect, but also accounts for time lost. You are the job, you are the recipe. Creating a completely new venture is not easy. I started TalkSession.

Artificial Inteligence 272

Artificial Inteligence Startup Salary Algorithm 272

Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 18, 2010

My transition to Continuous Deployment Prior to adopting continuous deployment, I used to release software on a weekly schedule (come rain or shine) which I viewed as pretty agile, disciplined, and aggressive. Examples of things I monitor are the numbers of user activations, active users, and aggregate page hits to user galleries.

Continuous Deployment 151

Continuous Deployment San Francisco Lean Wiki 151

Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 5, 2009

It’s entirely possible for the startup to be a massive success without having large aggregate numbers, because the startup has succeeded in finding a passionate, but small, early adopter base that has tremendous per-customer behavior. Expo SF (May. Conference streaming, sponsors, discounted tickets.

San Francisco 102

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment Startup 102

Agile VC

MARCH 5, 2019

So it’s not really the case that Lyft’s riders (in aggregate) are using the service more often, but rather Lyft is getting much better at netting more revenue per active rider. Again as I highlighted above, in aggregate Lyft’s users aren’t taking dramatically more rides today then they were 3+ years ago. So what about those cohorts?

Aggregator 100

Aggregator .Net Revenue IPO 100

Up and Running

JUNE 23, 2015

90 percent of our clients are ordering more than one product at a time, so we’re an aggregator. Also a favorite around Palo Alto Software, this is a book that highlights a path for startup success, focusing on agility, tracking the right metrics and KPIs, and adapting to a changing business environment before problems become overwhelming.

Cofounder 60

Cofounder Sweat Equity Social Media Business Model 60

Cracking the Code

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

12 cloud IPOs in the past 2 years: One from Europe SaaS companies are thriving in the public markets, with their aggregated market cap grew 350% since 2011, and 12 cloud companies going public in the past 24 months. These 12 have performed well, with an aggregate $2.6 and Intacct for $0.85B.

Europe 83

Europe Cloud API 83

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 12, 2016

These solutions, called Minimal Viable Products (MVP’s), are what allow the teams to become extremely agile and responsive. This ability to gather data, build and test MVPs, and then change course is what gives Lean it’s tremendous speed and agility to deliver rapid solutions that are needed and wanted.

Silicon Valley 212

Silicon Valley Lean San Diego Agile 212

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 1, 2014

This could be achieved by adopting the five qualities of being, namely: Acceptance, Aliveness, Articulateness, Aggregation, and Adaptability. Learning to speak the language of CFOs and Sales VPs, both of which are more concerned with financial numbers like revenue, costs, and profitability per customer.

Marketing 178

Marketing Advisory Board Aggregator Agile 178

YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

Bootstrap mentality keeps the organization focused on being frugal, innovative and agile. Amit Damani, cofounder of Vista Rooms, when not having quintessential talks on anything entrepreneurial, runs one of the fastest growing online aggregator for budget hotels in India.

Bootstrapping 100

Bootstrapping Cofounder Startup Sales Cycle 100

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

I believe in the new world you describe, but I think you forget the role that the distributors play in aggregating content for a self-selecting consumer "type" The easiest place to see this in newspapers, where consumers normally buy a newspaper that shares their political viewpoint. [link] August 24, 2009 2:50 PM Quentin said.

San Francisco 113

San Francisco Lean Technical Review Distribution 113

ReadWriteStart

JUNE 29, 2020

Consequently, you’ve decided to utilize this passion and expertise to collect and aggregate social media data from some of the popular social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, CrunchBase, and LinkedIn. It’s vital to be aware of the fact that agile iterations are not random and haphazard.

Bootstrapping 85

Bootstrapping Global Startup Hungary 85

Agile VC

APRIL 17, 2011

How They Do It: Aggregate data from travel data warehouses like ITA as well as indexing travel providers websites, provide this information to consumers in a highly customizable search engine. Filing Date: initial S-1 filed Nov 17, 2010 , updated March 9, 2011. Founding Date: 2004. Headquarters: Norwalk, CT & Concord, MA.

Pre-Money Valuation 113

Pre-Money Valuation Liquidation Preference Dividend Common Stock 113

Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 30, 2008

In order to get optimal results from a group-based effort, you need three things: diversity, Independence , and an objective method for aggregating results. Aggregate results carefully. Let me briefly summarize the part of the book I find most helpful (leaving a few out, which arent germane to todays topic). Not all crowds are wise.

San Francisco 83

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment DC 83

Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2009

In an ecosystem, each participant acts according to its own imperatives, but these selfish actions have an aggregate effect. In an ecosystem, each participant acts according to its own imperatives, but these selfish actions have an aggregate effect. Some ecosystems are stable, others malign, and others grow and prosper. Expo SF (May.

Customer 156

Customer San Francisco Viral Lean 156

Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 4, 2009

Using memcacheds multiget, which allows the fetching of many keys in parallel, I have written code to aggregate all the shard lookups for a given page and prefetch them, reducing the overhead even further. The mappings never change (unless you build a data migration tool, in which case they change rarely) and so are easy to cache.

San Francisco 151

San Francisco Architecture Startup Database 151

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Agile project management tool that enables real time collaboration. Agile project management. agile product management. agile product management and Scrum tool. Agile project management tool collaborative product life-cycle. Automates Agile / Scrum development. Agile eLearning. aggregation.

Software Review 53

Software Review Technical Review Startup 53

Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2009

But aggregated across many schools, there are thousands or tens of thousands of them. Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Six streaming locations Interviews ► March (7) New conference website, speakers, agenda Two new scholarship programs for lean startups Speed up or slow down? (a Expo SF (May.

Programming 143

Programming San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment 143

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 12, 2016

These solutions, called Minimal Viable Products (MVP’s), are what allow the teams to become extremely agile and responsive. This ability to gather data, build and test MVPs, and then change course is what gives Lean it’s tremendous speed and agility to deliver rapid solutions that are needed and wanted.

Silicon Valley 120

Silicon Valley Lean San Diego Agile 120

Agile VC

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Well it’s not clear that media businesses, in aggregate, are inherently more valuable than e-commerce or premium services companies in aggregate [see Note 1 below regarding categorization]. Why are media businesses so valuable?

IPO 194

IPO Aggregator B2B Internet 194

Austin Startup

AUGUST 30, 2019

Schwartzfarb set out to create a guide for anyone interested in starting, growing or leading a modern startup so that they can hit the ground running with a solid plan and foundation with agile and effective sales teams, so that they can avoid and manage the hazards all startups face.

Austin 48

Austin Management Los Angeles New York City 48

Agile VC

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Aggregate VC investment in 2009 hits a low of roughly $20B, a figure last seen in 2003 in the wake of the bursting of the dotcom and telecom bubble and 2001 recession. We’re only a few months past Sequoia’s famous “R.I.P. Good Times” presentation (Oct 2008). Image from Sequoia Capital presentation.

IPO 100

IPO Early Stage Cofounder B2C 100

Transformify

AUGUST 5, 2019

Research shows that hiring diverse and inclusive talent leads to a high-performance culture that respects the customer, suppliers, community partners and employees while emphasizing results, innovation, service and agility.

Hiring 40

Hiring Portland Non-Compete Seattle 40

Agile VC

JUNE 5, 2011

Keep in mind Yipit is an indirect competitor in the daily deals space (essentially a meta aggregator of deals sites), but the analysis is sound IMO. The folks at Yipit did a detailed analyis of the Boston data and concluded Groupon’s model is deteriorating there.

North America 100

North America Chicago Boston Silicon Valley 100

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 22, 2020

She has been an advocate for a more responsive, a more resilient, more agile government. But a lot of it is also just getting the data, aggregating it, being able to take action on it. If that sounds like an oxymoron, well listen up. That's been the second wave of needs. A lot of it is similar. Some of it's communication.

New Jersey 60

New Jersey Government CTO America 60

Steve Blank

APRIL 7, 2009

You don’t get grades for having resiliency, curiosity, agility, resourcefulness, pattern recognition and tenacity. If one looks at the total pool of college vs non-college people, and what each group’s career trajectories look like in the aggregate, I think Google’s position is more justifiable. Steve Blank [.]

Silicon Valley 332

Silicon Valley RSS California Customer Development 332

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

2gov.org automatically routes your tweet (aggregating it with everyone else whos expressed a similar point of view) to the right legislator or agency. 2gov.org automatically routes your tweet (aggregating it with everyone else whos expressed a similar point of view) to the right legislator or agency. Expo SF (May.

San Francisco 150

San Francisco Founder DC Washington 150

Agile VC

OCTOBER 29, 2014

There are different flavors of family investment offices today, some are “single family” offices which invest on behalf of one uber wealthy family and their descendants whereas others are “multi-family” that might aggregate the wealth of a number of rather wealthy but not uber wealthy families. Insurance Companies.

Venture Capital 279

Venture Capital LP Private Equity Institutional Investors 279

Agile VC

JUNE 24, 2013

The average American’s daily commute is just under an hour (round trip), so in aggregate that’s potentially a lot of incremental time when they might be doing email, web surfing, playing games, or communicating with friends. Also if driving wasn’t time-consuming or stressful (e.g.

Internet 153

Internet Caching Aggregator Audio 153

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 16, 2010

Designed for large businesses, the channels let a company share several types of documents, brand the channel with their own design elements, and then include display advertising, contest promotions, blog aggregation, social media integration and metrics reporting. The idea seemed to SlideShare to be a natural direction. Expo SF (May.

San Francisco 167

San Francisco Lean Analytics Continuous Deployment 167