YoungUpstarts
OCTOBER 16, 2016
We see balance sheets go from being in the red to finally creeping into the black and, if we’re fortunate enough, beyond our wildest dreams. This top-of-mind awareness and intentionality with our cash keep us agile and enable us to take on new opportunities. By Bryan Miles, CEO and co-founder, Miles Advisory Group, Inc.
Steve Blank
MARCH 31, 2014
Fifty years later another Harvard professor, Clayton Christensen, developed his theory of disruptive innovation, which actually described how creative destruction worked. The Amazon Kindle played on Amazon’s strengths as a distributor of content but required developing expertise in electronics and manufacturing.
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Steve Blank
MARCH 4, 2014
These groups are adapting or adopting the practices of startups and accelerators – disruption and innovation rather than direct competition, customer development versus more product features, agility and speed versus lowest cost. Product management tools like Stage-Gate ® emerged to systematically manage Waterfall product development.
Steve Blank
JUNE 23, 2016
It’s a lot easier to get these numbers to look great by outsourcing everything, getting assets off the balance sheet and only investing in things that pay off fast. Their size lets them adopt flatter and more agile organizational structures while providing incentives that reward risk-taking and collaboration.
www.readwriteweb.com
MARCH 7, 2011
Past failures of enterprise technology to live up to its promises and ITs lack of agility caused by legacy technology have decreased the influence of the CIO, explained R "Ray" Wang in a piece for Forbes last year. The global recession, the consumerization of IT, the great cloud migration and other factors are changing the role of the CIO.
Steve Blank
JUNE 1, 2011
As customer and agile development reinvent the Startup, it’s time to ask why startup board governance has not kept up with the pace of innovation. Traditional startup board meetings spend an insane amount of wasted time using Fortune 100 company metrics like income statements, cash flow, balance sheet, waterfall charts.
Steve Blank
JULY 28, 2011
From the point of view of scientists and engineers in a university lab, too often entrepreneurship in all its VC-driven glory – income statements, balance sheets, business plans, revenue models, 5-year forecasts, etc. And they’ll do this using the business model / customer development / agile development solution stack.
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