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MAY 14, 2019

These challenges put founders in a precarious position because they all contribute to a serious loss of agility. And I’d argue that agility is one of the most important attributes that one should be optimizing for at the earliest stages.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2014

You always want to be careful with how tightly you schedule things to make sure you stay agile and responsive to evolving business needs, but you also need to make sure your overall journey makes sense and that you’re building things in the right order, as well as taking on risks in a measured way.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2016

Most startups’ founding mythologies are full of the same phrases : “hard work,” “agile strategy,” “smart scaling.” But one of the most undervalued and elusive factors is timing. As they say, timing is everything. Arrive to the market too soon and there’s no demand for the product.

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APRIL 8, 2020

Which is they’re flexible and agile. If you can build a value prop to that new world they’re living in, then this is your chance to turn it around. Be flexible. Demonstrate the things that big companies love about buying from startups. Change the positioning, the pricing, the onboarding, but, don’t just guess.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2019

In general, when a startup is young with relatively simple operations, Finance is an easier function to outsource as the work requires less company-specific knowledge, agility, and database access (you’re closing the books monthly, not monitoring marketing campaigns or product experiments weekly). When to make your first analytics hire.

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JUNE 17, 2015

Editor’s note: This post originally appeared on Lee’s personal blog, Agile VC. I commit myself to help however I can to foster and support the true commitment of entrepreneurship in my small corner of the startup world. But let’s start the dialogue of what we do from here.

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JUNE 13, 2016

First, be wary of waterfall and agile. Despite the popularity of waterfall and agile, David has tried to distance his company from them. One of David’s biggest gripes with waterfall and agile is that the development sprints inherent in these models become a point-driven “game.” Yes, really.).

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