Gust

NOVEMBER 9, 2014

All you old software development types will recognize the analogy to the traditional two year “waterfall model” of software development, which has been totally replaced with the Agile iterative methodology. Agile assumes and plans for iterative development, where requirements and solutions evolve as more is known and markets change.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 12, 2012

All you old software development types will recognize the analogy to the traditional two year “waterfall model” of software development, which has been totally replaced with the Agile iterative methodology. Agile assumes and plans for iterative development, where requirements and solutions evolve as more is known and markets change.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 7, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, September 7, 2008 Customer Development Engineering Yesterday, I had the opportunity to guest lecture again in Steve Blank s entrepreneurship class at the Berkeley-Columbia executive MBA program. Ive attempted to embed the relevant slides below.

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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. This engineering manager is a smart guy, and very experienced.

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ctotodevelopers.blogspot.com

JULY 11, 2012

Social, Agile, and Transformation. I cover several topics including agile software development, software startups, web 2.0, Strategic Agile Thinking: Balancing Value, Innovation and Research. The x-axis depicts technical complexity, risk, and cost which are all related. 2) The agile "happy place".

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 15, 2022

It provides the freedom to partner with entrepreneurs and reduce the costs of agency work in exchange for equity in their startup. Consider Agile or one of its variants for a flexible approach to building top-shelf mobile apps or interactive websites. Today’s Talented Engineers & Designers Need Top-Shelf Tools of the Trade.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 25, 2023

While platforms like Instagram offer a great starting point, the key to differentiation lies in the age-old strategy of Search Engine Optimization (SEO). Make sure you use keyword tools to actually see how many people do search, you can use a low-cost tool such as Keywords Everywhere which gives you some great quality data at a low cost.

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View from Seed

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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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Or if you’re building consumer electronics the key activities might be: low cost hardware design, high volume manufacturing, user interface design, consumer branding and retail distribution. Therefore the ideal medical device team might be a physician; engineer; operator; business development/financial analyst.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

We have to design our forces to be able to operate in a contested environment and to reduce duplication of effort, enhance our speed and reduce costs. There are several lines of effort that we’re focusing on: We’re working to build the Space Force as a very Lean and Agile service. We’re also focusing on partnerships.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Evaluate your potential developers’ knowledge, experience, and the skills listed on their software engineer resume. Discuss costs upfront and be sure the talent fits within your budget while still providing you excellent quality. Cost-savings with the more affordable developer and IT project manager salary.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 8, 2021

There are countless strategies to consider employing here, including search engine optimization (SEO), pay per click (PPC) advertising, email marketing, and even traditional advertising are all viable options. . If you don’t have a researched, written strategy in place, you’re doing something wrong – and it might cost you. .

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 20, 2019

Startups tend to put a premium on being “agile,” but that doesn’t always work – and certainly won’t replace the effective collaboration a business needs to grow. For example, we worked with a company and observed that each release required eleven engineers. The sheer inefficiency cost the company an exorbitant amount of money.

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Steve Blank

MAY 6, 2015

Founders assumed they understood customer problems/needs, wrote engineering requirements documents, designed the product, implemented /built the hardware/software, verified that it worked by testing it, and then introduced the product to customers in a formal coming out called first customer ship. customer relationships to create demand.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 26, 2014

Agile Engineering” to have teams prototype, test, and iterate their idea while discovering if they have a profitable business model. Finally we move to the left side of the canvas to teach the supporting elements of Resources, Partners, Activities and Costs. I-Corps @ NIH Lecture Order Details.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 9, 2017

Lean is a methodology that can be applied to all disciplines of knowledge work to increase business efficiency, agility, and visibility. Research shows that 95% of organizations do not start as Lean organizations – they implement Lean after identifying a need for better agility, visibility, and efficiency. 9 Reduced Costs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

All you old software development types will recognize the analogy to the traditional two year “waterfall model” of software development, which has been totally replaced with the Agile iterative methodology. Agile assumes and plans for iterative development, where requirements and solutions evolve as more is known and markets change.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 21, 2013

Customer development (the understanding of customer needs) must be married to agile development (a process which drives waste out of product development). Pivots can take the form of changes to singular product features, customer segments, platforms, business architecture, growth engines, technology and more.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

While our teams have mentors, socialize a lot and give great demos, the goal of our class final presentations is “ Lessons Learned ” – about product/market fit, pricing, acquisition/activation costs, pricing, partners, etc. Here’s the story of one such team; Jonathan Wylie, Lakshmi Shivalingaiah and the Evoke team.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 2, 2011

And they’ve being doing this while driving product cost down and performance up. GE’s performance in implementing Customer Development gives lie to the tale that only web startups can be agile. Corporate elephants can dance. So why this post?

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 21, 2019

While large corporations are struggling with the digital transformation, small agile firms emerge every day and challenge traditional retailers. This way they could mitigate inventory risk and costs at the same time. The pace of change in consumer behaviour has never been higher than in the last couple of years.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 2, 2022

On the infrastructure side, Epic owns ‘Unreal Engine’ the second most popular 3D graphic engine, and creator of MetaHumans, a digital twin rendering software that can be used to create hyper realistic characters to ‘populate’ the Metaverse. The largest and most popular 3D engine has big plans for the Metaverse.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 8, 2011

It was designed to bring together many of the new approaches to building a successful startup – customer development, agile development, business model generation and pivots. Two-thirds of the interested students were from the engineering school; the other third were from the business school. This post is part one.

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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. So far, I have found "lean startup" works better with the entrepreneurs Ive talked to than "agile startup" or even "extreme startup.") Of course, many startups are capital efficient and generally frugal.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 14, 2017

by Amanda Setili, author of “ Fearless Growth: The New Rules to Stay Competitive, Foster Innovation, and Dominate Your Markets “ Polarization is a common problem for companies trying to make smart and agile strategic decisions. In our age of disruption, you must be agile and courageous. Hint: That should be all companies.)

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Steve Blank

JULY 25, 2011

Scientists and engineers as founders and startup CEOs is one of the least celebrated contributions of Silicon Valley. ESL, the first company I worked for in Silicon Valley , was founded by a PhD in Math and six other scientists and engineers. It might be its most important. ———-. Cold War Spin Outs.

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SVPG

OCTOBER 14, 2014

” I first witnessed this many years ago when I was an engineer for HP, building platform and tool technology products for “the enterprise.” In IT mindset companies, you usually find very slow, heavy, Waterfall processes, even when the engineers consider themselves Agile. I call this problem “IT Mindset.”

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 9, 2020

Furthermore, you should ensure your content is 100% original and not plagiarised or this can annoy your search engine algo and upset any chances of your website ranking high someday. However, affiliate marketing remains a great cost-effective way to reach out to new masses.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 10, 2009

One of the things he mentioned was that when it came to decision-making he still tended to think and act like an engineer. Since every situation is unique, there is no perfect solution to any engineering, customer or competitor problem, and you shouldn’t agonize over trying to find one. That’s why startups are agile.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 23, 2010

Customer Development Without Agile Engineering Is A Plan For Failure. Beleving in Customer Development but still retaining waterfall development for engineering and manufacturing is a setup for problems if not outright failure. Solution : Get engineering buy-in by.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 21, 2015

Search engine impersonators are bots that pretend to be crawling a website in an attempt to index it and find useful links. Most website owners are more than happy to have the search engine bots (googlebot and bingbot, to name a couple) browsing their website all day long. It is evidence to the agility of DDoS attackers.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 13, 2016

Companies are great at improving their existing business model and value propositions, but fall short when it comes to inventing entirely new business models, value propositions, and growth engines. The latter requires speed and agility. This happens because managing the present often takes oxygen away from inventing the future.

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Steve Blank

MAY 7, 2019

Lean Methodology consists of three tools designed for entrepreneurs building new ventures: The Business Model Canvas – to write down all the hypotheses about a new business; Customer Development – a process for testing those hypotheses outside the building; Agile Engineering – to rapidly build minimal viable products to test product/market fit.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 29, 2009

Although it costs to pay down the principal, we gain by reduced interest payments in the future. The human tendency to moralize about debt affects engineers, too. 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.

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Technical Review Software Review San Francisco Lean 168

YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 31, 2018

In many respects, it’s the leanness, flexibility and agility of startups that help them become successful,” he says. Instead of hitting a ceiling down the road that may cost tens of thousands of dollars to fix, and potentially slow down the company’s growth, it’s always better to have a clear digital roadmap from early on.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Google wasn't the first search engine around. For me, it's a live example of agile and sustainable business. It cuts production time and costs in half without compromising functionality or style. #13- Google. Photo Credit: Ravi Davda. I love Google. But it's crazy how popular it's become. They've become a verb – to Google.

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SVPG

DECEMBER 15, 2012

The past several articles have discussed the nature of Continuous Discovery and Dual-Track Agile. In this article I'd like to discuss another dimension of working effectively in an Agile environment, which is how we manage commitments. I've written earlier about this situation (see www.svpg.com/your-business-plan-is-wrong ).

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