Agile, Bootstrapping, Lean and Product

Build Predictable Startup Models by Forming an Agency

ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 15, 2022

It also helps bootstrap new startup businesses. Consider Agile or one of its variants for a flexible approach to building top-shelf mobile apps or interactive websites. For example, Lean Startup offers many benefits to emerging organizations, especially considering its focus on crafting a minimum viable product (MVP).

Incubator

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Your Startup Probably Doesn’t Need Funding – and Here’s Why

ReadWriteStart

MAY 30, 2022

In this article, you’ll learn how bootstrapping makes you a better business – a leaner, smarter, more agile company that can roll with the punches. Bootstrapping Minimizes the Number of People Cashing in on Your Success. Bootstrapped founders don’t have these concerns. Secondly, just how badly do you need that funding?

Bootstrapping

Bootstrapping Startup Equity Silicon Valley

Lessons Learned: Combining agile development with customer development

Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 16, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, March 16, 2009 Combining agile development with customer development Today I read an excellent blog post that I just had to share. Jim Murphy is a long-time agile practitioner in startups. But startups sometimes have trouble applying agile successfully. Thats pretty clear.

Agile

Agile Customer Development Developer San Francisco

The lean startup @ Web 2.0 Expo (and a call for help)

Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, February 9, 2009 The lean startup @ Web 2.0 Expo to explain the lean startup concept to a larger audience. The Lean Startup: a Disciplined Approach to Imagining, Designing, and Building New Products.: It uses principles of agile software development, open source and web 2.0,

Lean

Lean San Francisco Web Advisory Board

The Lean Startup Workshop - now an O'Reilly Master Class

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 14, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, May 14, 2009 The Lean Startup Workshop - now an OReilly Master Class My rate of posting has been much lower lately, and this is mostly due to preparations for the upcoming Lean Startup Workshop on May 29. We changed our model to B2B and adopted Agile around 2002. Cash is tight.

Lean

Lean San Francisco Continuous Deployment Software Review

Crisis versus Opportunity: 6 Ways to Bootstrap a Startup in a Post-COVID-19 World While Navigating the New Normal

ReadWriteStart

JUNE 29, 2020

In other words, you must start bootstrapping an online startup , because the future of the global business world is online. Before we look at ways to bootstrap a startup, let’s consider a comprehensive definition of what a startup is. Ways to bootstrap a startup. Implement the “lean startup” philosophy.

Bootstrapping

Bootstrapping Global Startup Hungary

Lessons Learned: Validated learning about customers

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

This may sound crazy, coming as it does from an advocate of c harging customers for your product from day one. Their product definition fluctuates wildly – one month, it’s a dessert topping, the next it’s a floor wax. In fact, this company hasn’t shipped any new products in months. What’s going on?

Customer

Customer San Francisco Lean Hockey Stick

Raising Money Using Customer Development

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Product Development – Getting Funded as The Goal In a traditional product development model, entrepreneurs come up with an idea or concept, write a business plan and try to get funding to bring that idea to fruition. Get out of the building, get some more customer feedback, spin your product and go back and read the book.

Customer Development

Customer Development Developer Customer Silicon Valley

Four myths about the Lean Startup

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 18, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, April 18, 2010 Four myths about the Lean Startup Myth: Lean means cheap. Lean startups try to spend as little money as possible. Truth: The Lean Startup method is not about cost, it is about speed. Myth: The Lean Startup methodology is only for Web 2.0/internet/consumer

Lean

Lean San Francisco Continuous Deployment Startup

The Ultimate Guide to Starting a Software Company

Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

Noah has been a key figure in the making of LivePlan, our own SaaS product. Step 1: Start with a lean plan. It’s the fastest way to get your idea onto paper, and it’s the very first step in the lean planning process, which is much easier and more iterative than traditional business planning methods.

Software Review

Software Review Software Delaware Forecast

Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases non-events

Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 18, 2010

Ash Maurya is the founder of WiredReach , a bootstrapped startup that he has been running for seven years. Recently, he was bitten by the lean startup bug and has started writing about his experiences attempting to apply lean startup and customer development principles. The goal of both is to eliminate waste.

Continuous Deployment

Continuous Deployment San Francisco Lean Wiki

RIP PRDs. Long Live “Agile Conversations”

Street Smart Product Manager

NOVEMBER 2, 2014

Many of my free product help calls are about ways to pursue customer development and gather VOC, bootstrap new product efforts, and apply lean principles to product management activities. Long Live “Agile Conversations” appeared first on Street Smart Product Manager. The post RIP PRDs.

Agile

Agile Conversion Lean Bootstrapping

Dragons, Bootstrapping and Women in Tech

Up and Running

OCTOBER 1, 2014

Their latest product, Statdragon, launched just last week. What about bootstrapping? If not, be agile enough to change direction and re-focus,” Nelson advises. This is a process she went through first hand, deciding on the fresh direction for her business as they went into development a new product. Look inward.

Bootstrapping

Bootstrapping Cofounder Portland Burn Rate

New conference website, speakers, agenda

Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 29, 2010

Traveling the past year, I have heard loud and clear that its time for the Lean Startup movement to enter its next phase. I believe it means were achieving product/market fit for a set of ideas. If you just throw a minimum viable product out the door to see what sticks, wont that necessarily be ugly and badly designed?

San Francisco

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment DC

Real Unfair Advantages

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 19, 2010

You don't have an "edge" just because you're passionate, hard-working, or "lean.". During a lull in her practice she got a serendipitous opportunity to shift gears completely and ended up leading software product development teams. Anything you read on popular blogs is also read by everyone else. Like what?? Insider information.

Software Review

Software Review Technical Review Development Team Review Bolivia

It's a startup, not a spreadsheet

Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 5, 2009

Sometimes an early negative result from an experiment is a harbinger of doom for that product, and means it should be abandoned. 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.

San Francisco

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment Startup

RIP PRDs. Long Live “Agile Conversations”

Street Smart Product Manager

NOVEMBER 2, 2014

Many of my free product help calls are about ways to pursue customer development and gather VOC, bootstrap new product efforts, and apply lean principles to product management activities. Long Live “Agile Conversations” The post RIP PRDs.

Agile

Agile Conversion Bootstrapping Lean

Introducing the Lean Startup Cohort subscription program

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 8, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, August 8, 2009 Introducing the Lean Startup Cohort subscription program Over the past few months, I have been engaged in another customer discovery exercise with passionate early adopters of the lean startup methodology. So if youre a lean startup earlyvangelist, read on.

Lean

Lean Programming San Francisco Continuous Deployment

Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Lean Methodology Sources. Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. Part 3- Lean Cust. Design/Front End: Twitter Bootstrap : Include this in your website, and you are half finished. Steve Blank’s Lean Startup Resources. Lean Startup Circle â?? Great for visualizing work of product development.

Software Review

Software Review Technical Review Startup

Create Your Business Case Using Customer Development

Street Smart Product Manager

JUNE 2, 2015

A few weeks ago, I spoke at the Modev MVP Conference and the Lean+Agile DC Conference about using a bootstrapped Customer Development approach to pursuing a new product idea in an existing company. The post Create Your Business Case Using Customer Development appeared first on Street Smart Product Manager.

Customer Development

Customer Development Developer Customer DC

Create Your Business Case Using Customer Development

Street Smart Product Manager

JUNE 2, 2015

A few weeks ago, I spoke at the Modev MVP Conference and the Lean+Agile DC Conference about using a bootstrapped Customer Development approach to pursuing a new product idea in an existing company. The post Create Your Business Case Using Customer Development appeared first on Street Smart Product Manager.

Customer Development

Customer Development Developer Customer DC

So You're Going To Start A Huge New Web Project

css-tricks.com

JANUARY 2, 2013

I need a full size image of that product - here you go. Now I need thumbnails of related products - here you go. Then when its good, move staging to "production" (youre live server that your users actually use). This is something that most technology companies fail at, and is reflected in the popularity of their products.

Web

Web Software Review Technical Review Caching

Your Business “Driving Force”

market-by-numbers.com

DECEMBER 7, 2009

Understanding your “driving force&# is critical to understanding what products to build and who to build them for. All future products are some derivative of the core product. Johnson & Johnson , for example, makes hundreds of highly differentiated products that serve doctors, nurses and patients.

San Diego

San Diego RSS Lean Elevator Pitch

StartUpRoar

Build Predictable Startup Models by Forming an Agency

Your Startup Probably Doesn’t Need Funding – and Here’s Why

Trending Sources

Lessons Learned: Combining agile development with customer development

The lean startup @ Web 2.0 Expo (and a call for help)

The Lean Startup Workshop - now an O'Reilly Master Class

Crisis versus Opportunity: 6 Ways to Bootstrap a Startup in a Post-COVID-19 World While Navigating the New Normal

Lessons Learned: Validated learning about customers

Raising Money Using Customer Development

Four myths about the Lean Startup

The Ultimate Guide to Starting a Software Company

Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases non-events

RIP PRDs. Long Live “Agile Conversations”

Dragons, Bootstrapping and Women in Tech

New conference website, speakers, agenda

Real Unfair Advantages

It's a startup, not a spreadsheet

RIP PRDs. Long Live “Agile Conversations”

Introducing the Lean Startup Cohort subscription program

Startup Resources

Create Your Business Case Using Customer Development

Create Your Business Case Using Customer Development

So You're Going To Start A Huge New Web Project

Your Business “Driving Force”

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