Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

A partnership was announced with the City of New York, to connect and grow NYC's startup ecosystem. These initiatives are what Bob Johansen and Karl Ronn call “ The Reciprocity Advantage ” in their classic book on how partnerships must work in the future for innovation and growth. Maintain the agility to quickly pivot or quit.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

But by taking advantage of open source, agile software, and iterative development, lean startups can operate with much less waste. I am heavily indebted to earlier theorists, and highly recommend the books Lean Thinking and Lean Software Development. Of course, many startups are capital efficient and generally frugal. No more, no less.

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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. Ive been talking to the folks at [a very good VC firm] about helping them with a new venture. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 8, 2008

This theory has become so influential that I have called it one of the three pillars of the lean startup - every bit as important as the changes in technology or the advent of agile development. You can learn about customer development, and quite a bit more, in Steves book The Four Steps to the Epiphany. Heres the catch. Best of luck!"

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 5, 2010

I have personally sold many copies of his book, and continue to recommend it as one of the most important books a startup founder can read. I just assumed that everybody would love the book as much as I did, and would instantly change their behavior based on what they read in a book. You can imagine how well that worked.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 4, 2008

Boyd emphasized the importance of agility in combat: "the key to victory is to be able to create situations wherein one can make appropriate decisions more quickly than ones opponent." Agile software development. Agile allows companies to build higher quality software faster. This speeds up the Ideas-Code-Data feedback loop.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 18, 2013

I wrote a book about this called the Four Steps to the Epiphany. Eric’s insight was that traditional product management and Waterfall development should be replaced by Agile Development. Business model design + customer development + agile development is the process that startups use to search for a business model. In 2003 U.C.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 31, 2010

In the meantime his two books, The Monk and the Riddle and Getting to Plan B are both a must-read. In the meantime his two books, The Monk and the Riddle and Getting to Plan B are both a must-read. There are so many more people to thank: Sarah Milstein and the Web 2.0 Expo SF (May. Conference streaming, sponsors, discounted tickets.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

Its my understanding that at one point (if not currently) Time-Life books did essentially this for their book series. They would make commercials about a new book series, and then run the commercials at times when the TV rates were low (late night, UHF channels, etc) If they got enough orders, they then decided to print the series. .

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 12, 2010

Some of the most active: SF , New York , DC , Chicago - but there are many more listed here. Last, Ive tried to keep this blog updated with events , slides , audio , video and books that are helpful as well. Some of the most active: SF , New York , DC , Chicago - but there are many more listed here. Expo SF (May.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 18, 2013

I wrote a book about this called the Four Steps to the Epiphany. Eric’s insight was that traditional product management and Waterfall development should be replaced by Agile Development. Business model design + customer development + agile development is the process that startups use to search for a business model. In 2003 U.C.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

I place them roughly in this order: Movies > Television > Books > Music > Magazines > Radio > Newspapers Each industry is watching the one in front of it sink into the quicksand. Or follow all of the New York Times columnists equally? They can’t even consider 99% of published books already. Is that a lot?

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

In previous posts I’ve talked about what the combination of Business Model Design, Customer Development and Agile Methodologies mean to startups and intrapreneurs in large companies; it’s the beginning of entrepreneurship as a science with its own rules and methodologies. Teaching In the Big Apple.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

I owe it originally to lean manufacturing books like Lean Thinking and Toyota Production System. Luckily, I now have the benefit of a forthcoming book, The Principles of Product Development Flow. Sounds very similar to agile development which is the way. For software, the easiest batch to see is code. (I Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2008

He is the co-author of several books including The Black Art of Java Game Programming (Waite Group Press, 1996). Although Catalyst folded with the dot-com crash, Ries continued his entrepreneurial career as a Senior Software Engineer at There.com, leading efforts in agile software development and user-generated content. .

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

For those that do venture into accounting software such as Quickbooks or Freshbooks without understanding the concepts of accounting, the results can be confusing and inaccurate books. New startups need to be agile and flexible. An audit can wreck a new business. A bad bookkeeper can be worse than keeping no books at all.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

The Lean LaunchPad class teaches students how to build a Lean Startup using business model design, customer development and agile engineering. Frank even convinced me to come to New York and teach a five-day 10-hour-a-day Lean LaunchPad class with him and his team each August. It is a great book. Spend it Wisely.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 6, 2014

But the most innovative, agile companies embrace mistakes. Never waste a perfectly good mistake. Most leaders look at mistakes as something to be avoided, and as a result, they pass that sentiment down to their employees.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

A partnership was announced with the City of New York, to connect and grow NYC's startup ecosystem. These initiatives are what Bob Johansen and Karl Ronn call “ The Reciprocity Advantage ” in their classic book on how partnerships must work in the future for innovation and growth. Maintain the agility to quickly pivot or quit.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 3, 2014

A partnership was just announced with the City of New York, to connect and grow NYC''s startup ecosystem. These initiatives are what Bob Johansen and Karl Ronn call “ The Reciprocity Advantage ” in their new book on how partnerships must work in the future for innovation and growth. Not everything will work.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 11, 2010

Tuesday, January 12th 6:30PM Agile UX at the Economist (Waitlist only) The Economist online will share their experiences, successes and lessons learned around practicing user-centered design in an Agile development process. Electronic “books” are rapidly changing the way we read information. Is this a good idea?

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 20, 2008

When I first encountered agile software techniques, in the form of extreme programming , I thought I had found the answer. I explained it to people this way: agile lets you make the trade-offs visible to whole company, so that they can make informed choices. Even worse, agile wasnt really helping me ship higher quality software.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

I know plenty of people who prefer more advanced source control system, but my belief is that many agile practices diminish the importance of advanced features like branching. Its not that the idea behind them is wrong, but I think agile team-building practices make scheduling per se much less important. Youd better. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

Go on an agile diet quickly. With a product development team that is not shipping, any agile methodology will surface major problems quickly. Force anyone who is in customer contact to take the role of the Product Owner and insist that they deliver something new on a short regular interval. Great post! Expo SF (May.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 1, 2017

. — What, I wondered, would I have said to a group of graduates living on the edge of a revolution the day writing was invented, or the year after Gutenberg printed the first book, or when radio reached into the homes of millions. The mass production of books changed that. Readers of books now had new brains.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 14, 2015

A partnership was announced last year with the City of New York, to connect and grow NYC's startup ecosystem. These initiatives are what Bob Johansen and Karl Ronn call “ The Reciprocity Advantage ” in their recent book on how partnerships must work in the future for innovation and growth. Not everything will work.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 20, 2023

He is co-leader of the McKinsey Digital Practice, a senior partner based in New York, and a member of McKinsey’s Shareholders Council, the firm’s board of directors. This book shares the lessons McKinsey has learned helping companies deliver successful digital and AI transformations into a detailed “how to” manual.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 30, 2019

4 LAUNCH EVENT FOR NEW BOOK ‘SELL MORE FASTER’ (AUSTIN, TEXAS ? —?Aug. Austin-based author, tech investor and Managing Director of Techstars Austin Amos Schwartzfarb reveals details for the launch event for his new book “Sell More Faster: The Ultimate Sales Playbook for Start-Ups,” published by Wiley.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2009

I'd be interested to hear your opinion of a book we published earlier this year: "Hello World! " The book teaches kids programming with examples written in Python, and is illustrated with fun kid-friendly characters. Computer Programming for Kids and Other Beginners." Can I send you a review copy? Expo SF (May.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 3, 2017

The Hacker Chick Blog ended up becoming one of the top agile software development blogs on the Internet. We call it our Cash Stash collection which features our hollow book safes with a lock. It puts a fresh new twist on the growing trend to get out of debt! while, by the way, my company’s did not).

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 19, 2009

One, which is described in great detail in the Mythical Man-Month (in finding that link, I discovered that today is coincidentally the exact 11th anniversary of my first purchasing that book: Jan 19, 1998), is that as you add people to a team or project, there is an increase in communications overhead that makes everyone slightly less productive.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

We are not owned or operated by a bank, we are an agile tech company that has partnered up with an incredibly forward-thinking bank partner to bring small business banking into the future, with the mindset of building products by founders, for founders. Novo is based in New York City. What is your competitive advantage?

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 5, 2009

Imagine a general manager that has read The Innovator’s Dilemma and related books, and is therefore trying hard to help her organization make a transition to a new product category via disruptive innovation. For a change of pace, I’ll take an example from a startup inside a large enterprise. Expo SF (May.

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mashable.com

MAY 9, 2011

a New York-based sizzle reel production company specializing in promotional videos for PR and marketing professionals, and the Young Entrepreneur Council. Organization and Execution Your new CTO should be able to handle your development team so that projects run along smoothly. Danny Wong , Blank Label Group, Inc.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 9, 2009

Books like Crossing the Chasm are excellent, but they can be misleading. 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? Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 4, 2009

In particular, Ive focused on the two channels of communication that were most commonly suggested in the first survey: conferences and books. Combining agile development with customer developm. The second set of questions in the survey are focused on learning where you currently go to find solutions. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

Examples, theory, practical advice, links to books, counter-intuitive thinking. 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? Expo SF (May.

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