Steve Blank

DECEMBER 20, 2013

They used agile engineering perfectly to continually test variants of their Minimum Viable Product (MVP’s) in front of customers often and early to get immediate feedback. These clinics reduce hospitalization but Insurers weren’t paying to cover clinic costs nor would they cover the use of the Knox device. Lessons Learned.

Lean 241

Lean Customer Development IP Agile 241

Agile VC

DECEMBER 4, 2014

This needn’t be some terribly complex formula that tries to do a cost accounting of everyone’s contribution to the decimal point. 4) Ideation / IP – Sometimes a portion of founders’ equity splits are attributed to “who came up with the idea” or to actual IP that’s brought into the business at inception.

Cofounder 255

Cofounder Equity Founder Sweat Equity 255

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 21, 2015

It is evidence to the agility of DDoS attackers. On the other end reside the botnet-for-hire “services”; a sort of outsourcing where the beneficiary to the crime wants to keep costs low and attack lots of small victims. However, the use of this practice has almost entirely disappeared, all at once.

Search 100

Search Engineer IP Reputation 100

Steve Blank

MARCH 11, 2015

More agile competitors are starting to eat into our business. The strategy and structure for 21st corporate innovation will come from emulating the speed, urgency, agility and low-cost, rapid experimentation of startups. Bob looked wistful, “Our founders built a company known for taking risks and moving fast.

Widget 120

Widget Lean Business Model Metrics 120

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

IP Location Tools. tells you how much adwords cost. Agile project management tool that enables real time collaboration. Agile project management. agile product management. agile product management and Scrum tool. Agile project management tool collaborative product life-cycle. Agile eLearning.

Software Review 53

Software Review Technical Review Startup 53

Agile VC

DECEMBER 4, 2014

This needn’t be some terribly complex formula that tries to do a cost accounting of everyone’s contribution to the decimal point. 4) Ideation / IP – Sometimes a portion of founders’ equity splits are attributed to “who came up with the idea” or to actual IP that’s brought into the business at inception.

Cofounder 173

Cofounder Equity Founder Sweat Equity 173

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2010

There are few courses which teach aspiring entrepreneurs the skills (business models, customer and agile development, design thinking, etc.) We’ll build the class around the business model / customer development / agile development solution stack. What are your hypotheses around customer acquisition costs?

Wiki 311

Wiki Lean Management Business Model 311

David Teten

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

laughter) Kappos: The current fees ($10-$15K) are way below our real cost ($30-$40K). We’ve revectored to an agile development methodology. We are charging full boat: what it costs us to do the work. We want to enable people to buy & sell IP in the same way that buy & sell cars. to first action, 12 mos.

Intellectual Property 60

Intellectual Property Detroit Technical Review Software Review 60

The Next Web

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

According to a study by Emerson Network Power released during the Uptime Institute Symposium, downtime of one minute costs businesses $5,600 in lost revenue on average. Other network security measures include making access to the e-commerce site’s backend available for only a handful of IPs or using direct SSL VPN access.

Hosting 122

Hosting Database Matching Cloud 122

Agile VC

AUGUST 9, 2012

IP Litigation – EA is suing Zynga for copyright infringement , and regardless of the merits this is a headache Zynga will have to deal with and pay to defend itself. That being said, unlike a company that has essentially zero user acquisition costs (e.g. one-time purchase offsetting future leasing expenses).

Stock 160

Stock LBO .Net Valuation 160

Steve Blank

MAY 4, 2009

In an IP licensing business, legal and finance are the sharp end of the stick. Their own internal culture would tie them up in knots, and agile startups could run rings around them. Build a company culture where everyone supports the “sharp end of the stick.” Stay agile, stay focused.

Silicon Valley 126

Silicon Valley RSS Non-Compete California 126

Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 11, 2009

Those apps are generating even more page views, making it quite affordable to buy application installs (which is a cost-per-action ad that requires the user to install the app before the action is considered complete). These cost-per-install ads are a reasonable way to jumpstart traffic to a new app, which is what theyve been used for so far.

San Francisco 68

San Francisco Social Network Lean Continuous Deployment 68

blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Shame on you for spinning your desire for junior developers as being solely related to cost. there are start ups who are legitimately using.net because they don’t need to look directly into the tcp/ip stack. Purchase IP from the vendors. of course, you’re allowed to have your opinions. it takes no intelligence.

Java 107

Java PHP Software Review Coder 107

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

This single decision wound up costing the company significant revenue and over the course of several months sent its customer growth into decline. In the end, we managed to repair the damage, but only after losing a lot of time and at significant opportunity cost. We were totally unprepared for the magnitude of what happened.

Community 158

Community Management Lean Software Review 158

Transformify

APRIL 4, 2022

It is clear that the majority of companies, leverage both full-time employees and freelancers, which enables them to increase their agility and flexibility in an unpredictable world. It ensures the freelancer contracts and all other legal documents like NDA, IP agreements, data protection etc. are signed, with updated tax forms.

Management 98

Management IP NDA Agile 98

ConversionXL

JUNE 19, 2019

Don’t use cost per acquisition— use the cost to acquire a customer and the retention cost to keep that customer coming back to buy again. André Morys: Why “Agile Teams” Fail (And You Might Be the Only Savior). Beyond Agile: Analyze x Prioritize x Validate learning is the full package for growth.

Agile 90

Agile Analytics Algorithm Software Review 90