Steve Blank

OCTOBER 21, 2020

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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Artificial Inteligence Technology Agile Architecture 246

Steve Blank

MAY 17, 2022

Today, 100s of billions of dollars in private capital have been invested in 1,000s of AI startups. These programs run on the same type of classic computer architectures they were programmed in. The CPUs (Central Processing Units) that write and run these Classic Computer applications all have the same basic design (architecture).

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Artificial Inteligence Software Review Algorithm Technical Review 417

Steve Blank

JANUARY 25, 2011

The benefits of customer and agile development and minimum features set are continuous customer feedback, rapid iteration and little wasted code. Ironically it becomes the antithesis of agile. And the magnitude of the problem increases exponentially with the success of the company.

Part-Time VPE 318

Part-Time VPE Agile Engineer Startup 318

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 4, 2017

“Founder trouble” is a leading cause of startup death (though data also show that companies with only one founder are more likely to fail , so the conclusion is just that startups are just always likely to fail!). Employee #2 will join a startup for the experience. Or it’s fatal because that was a co-founder.

Government 223

Government Startup Cofounder Technical Support 223

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

Presenting your startup vision as a founder to a potential investor, or presenting an idea as an employee to an executive, requires that you effectively communicate, or “translate”, the value proposition into terms that the receiver can fully understand and appreciate. Implicit in agility is increased productivity on change initiatives.

Technology 206

Technology Agile Architecture Distribution 206

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, September 30, 2008 What does a startup CTO actually do? But I dont think most startups really have a need for someone to do that on a full time basis. If youre trying to design an architecture to maximize agility, how can that work if some people are working in TDD and others not?

CTO 168

CTO Fractional CTO CTO Hire Technical Review 168

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2010

I recently did a post for startups on understanding sales people. A few people have asked me to try and define the perfect startup organization chart. But I do have more insight into understanding your startup team. Often I’m asked by startup CEO’s about how to best build an engineering team.

Fractional CTO 400

Fractional CTO CTO Hire Fractional VPE Part-Time VPE 400

BeyondVC

APRIL 4, 2018

However as a first check investor in enterprise startups, the companies that truly get my attention are more of the infrastructure layer companies like Mulesoft and Pivotal. We are at the beginning stages of one of the biggest IT shifts in history as legacy workloads in the enterprise continue to move to a cloud-native architecture.

Cloud 60

Cloud Agile Architecture Azure 60

Venture Chronicles

AUGUST 2, 2013

Today I want to go into territory less obvious because let’s face it, hiring the best people and creating conditions where they can succeed is the kind of startup advice that is squarely in the “stating the obvious” category. Entrepreneurship engineering Get Satisfaction product management Startups User Experience'

Product 62

Product CTO Hire Architecture Startup 62

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 7, 2016

Every startup begins with an idea, but from that point forward, it’s all about execution. A great business must be agile. In this era of rapid technology advancement, an open mind must be the norm in leveraging the latest tools and process architectures. Optimize team efforts with the latest technology and tools.

Technical Review 120

Technical Review Architecture Agile Business Model 120

Gust

SEPTEMBER 16, 2012

Presenting your startup vision as a founder to a potential investor, or presenting an idea as an employee to an executive, requires that you effectively communicate, or “translate”, the value proposition into terms that the receiver can fully understand and appreciate. Implicit in agility is increased productivity on change initiatives.

Technology 162

Technology Agile Architecture Distribution 162

Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 4, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, January 4, 2009 Sharding for startups The most important aspect of a scalable web architecture is data partitioning. So far, this is just a summary of what all of us who have attempted to build web-scale architectures considers obvious. But startups rarely have either luxury.

San Francisco 151

San Francisco Architecture Startup Database 151

YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 31, 2018

It also showcases how getting it right can transform startups into players: Pokemon Go caused software startup Niantic’s revenues to skyrocket by $600 million within just three months of its mid-2016 launch. In many respects, it’s the leanness, flexibility and agility of startups that help them become successful,” he says.

United Kingdom 113

United Kingdom Technical Review Design Operations 113

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 5, 2009

It’s important to invest in good architecture so that your website will scale once customers arrive. If you make that investment, and then customers arrive, and the site stays up, most companies will reward the people who built the architecture and, thus, prevented the scaling problems. Why do they harbor that paranoia?

San Francisco 133

San Francisco Architecture Lean Continuous Deployment 133

Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 30, 2009

Bring in an expert CEO with outstanding business credentials and startup experience to focus on relentless execution. I had the privilege, and the misfortune, to be involved with a startup that executed this plan flawlessly. Even a great architecture becomes inflexible. Build a truly mainstream product. Focus on quality.

San Francisco 150

San Francisco Lean Agile Continuous Deployment 150

Lightspeed Venture Partners

OCTOBER 3, 2013

We have seen the rise of the cloud, the shift away from PCs to new mobile computing platforms, and the emergence of Big Data and Analytics as a core enabler of business agility. With these trends as a backdrop, we are in the early innings of a massive redirection of enterprise IT budgets towards new technologies and architectures.

Cloud 155

Cloud Security Analytics Mobile 155

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. 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 2, 2008

We wanted an agile approach that would allow us to build our software architecture as we needed it, without downtime, but also without large amounts of up-front cost. You can also download our presentation, " Just-In-Time Scalability: Agile Methods to Support Massive Growth." The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0.

San Francisco 94

San Francisco Continuous Deployment Agile Lean 94

Transformify

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

What would a startup team look like based on this data only? Scrum, Agile, Product Management. Lagos, a Nigerian port city, is the home of more than 60 startups focused on solving social problems. What would a startup team look like based on this data only? More than 40 % have writing, editing, and copywriting skills.

Africa 75

Africa Benin Seychelles Nigeria 75

YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

and also being involved in other startups I have seen a number of pivots, some of them worked well and others in hindsight probably needed some more thought, but all have been a learning experience! One of the great benefits of a startup is their ability to be agile and adapt quickly to a changing environment. Technology pivot.

Technical Review 157

Technical Review Architecture Revenue Channel 157

The Startup Magazine

APRIL 29, 2018

Non-standardization of IT architectures hinders the achievement of cost-effective. Organizations that lack standard configurations incur greater costs and less agile processes than organizations with standard configurations. The post Implementing IT Automation Best Practices appeared first on The Startup Magazine.

Operations 66

Operations Architecture Cost Technical Review 66

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 20, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, October 20, 2008 The engineering managers lament I was inspired to write The product managers lament while meeting with a startup struggling to figure out what had gone wrong with their product development process. After all, our startup is on a fixed budget.

Software Review 164

Software Review Engineer Management Technical Review 164

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 7, 2008

In addition to presenting the IMVU case, we tried for the first time to do an overview of a software engineering methodology that integrates practices from agile software development with Steves method of Customer Development. Can this methodology be used for startups that are not exclusively about software? Talk about waste.

Customer Development 131

Customer Development Engineer San Francisco Developer 131

Steve Blank

JULY 25, 2023

This meant the class was team-based, Lean-driven (hypothesis testing/business model/customer development/agile engineering) and experiential – where the students, rather than being presented with all of the essential information, must discover that information rapidly for themselves. Rewards, CEO, team, complexity, end point, etc.

Lean 294

Lean Chile Ukraine Spain 294

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 13, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, July 13, 2009 The Principles of Product Development Flow If youve ever wondered why agile or lean development techniques work, The Principles of Product Development Flow: Second Generation Lean Product Development by Donald G. Reinertsen is the book for you. There is an important caveat, however.

Product Development 153

Product Development Developer San Francisco Product 153

Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

Thanks to David Reyes, Reyes Financial Architecture ! #6- Instead, I relied on agility and adaptability. As the CEO of a tech startup, complex problems are a daily occurrence. Instead of being discouraged, analyze what went wrong, identify areas for improvement, and use this experience to refine your approach.

Entrepreneur 112

Entrepreneur Jordan Networking AJAX 112

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 29, 2008

The six key attributes spell ABCDEF: Agility. By far the most important thing you want to hire for in a startup is the ability to handle the unexpected. Those people also tend to go crazy in a startup. When talking about their past experience, candidates with agility will know why they did what they did in a given situation.

San Francisco 146

San Francisco Lean Agile Java 146

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

Guest post by Lisa Regan, writer for T he Lean Startup Conference. We’ve posted the full program for The Lean Startup Conference , and it includes more than three days of events for Gold pass holders and six days of events for VIP pass holders. On the evening of December 8, Ignite Lean Startup kicks off the conference.

Continuous Deployment 162

Continuous Deployment Norway Lean Analytics 162

Steve Blank

JUNE 23, 2016

Disruptive innovations are coming from startups – Telsa for automobiles, Uber for taxis, Airbnb for hotel rentals, Netflix for video rentals and Facebook for media. Today that’s built on the premise that an x86 architecture is the one best suited for big data. Risk capital has provided financing for new ideas in the form of startups.

Architecture 227

Architecture IRR Balance Sheet Liquidity Event 227

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

Wed never heard of five whys, and we had plenty of "agile skeptics" on the team. It seems your cluster architecture is one of the key architectural constraints making continuous deployment possible. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Expo SF (May. . Expo SF (May.

Software Review 167

Software Review Technical Review San Francisco Continuous Deployment 167

Lightspeed Venture Partners

APRIL 3, 2013

The move to “client server” architectures and the adoption of comprehensive business management systems like ERP, CRM, and SCM that, for the first-time, computerized business processes within an enterprise. We think that this is a big idea. This is a big competitive advantage with today’s rapidly changing market conditions.

API 103

API Cloud Architecture Agile 103

Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 17, 2010

Startups are companies. Startups aspire to become big companies. Therefore, startups should have departments. Each of these benefits also exists in startups, which is why most startups are also organized in departments. I once worked at a startup with an exceptional functional department system.

Technical Review 164

Technical Review San Francisco Lean Software Review 164

Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 7, 2008

I know them right away - we can talk high-level architecture all the way down to the bits-and-bytes of his system. Those who have the endurance are the ones that tend to lead teams and join startups, because you just cant be successful in a startup situation without empathy. Just change it. What a waste.

Software Review 94

Software Review Technical Review Part-Time VPE San Francisco 94

femgineer.com

JULY 18, 2010

HOME About the Femgineer Speaking Engagements Reading List Recruiting Startup Engineers With the startup market taking off, there is always a clamor to find good engineers, developers, and designers. You won’t find us going out to the normal startup networking events or partying all night. Sweat equity or salary?

Engineer 41

Engineer Software Review Startup Technical Review 41

www.bothsidesofthetable.com

MAY 13, 2012

I recently did a post for startups on understanding sales people. A few people asked me to try and define the perfect startup organization chart. But I do have more insight into understanding your startup team. Often I’m asked by startup CEO’s about how to best build an engineering team.

Fractional VPE 89

Fractional VPE Part-Time VPE Fractional CTO CTO Hire 89

Steve Blank

JUNE 25, 2009

He complemented their elegantly designed minicomputers and made some astute comment about their architecture (now I’m rolling my eyes, their computers were dinosaurs) and asked who were the brilliant designers. what Market Type is your startup? Hiring a VP of Sales in customer discovery typically sets a startup back.

Technology 138

Technology Silicon Valley Fractional VPE Part-Time VPE 138

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, September 8, 2009 What would you want to tell Washington DC about startups? Beyond just those who will be hearing about the lean startup for the first time, Im expecting to shake a lot of hands and have a lot of interesting side conversations. And what hurdles could be eliminated?

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DC Washington San Francisco SBIR 90