Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Operating across varied industries, Fractional CMOs offer a fresh, tailored approach, helping businesses to be more agile, adaptive, and strategic in their planning Questions I ask Nicole Bernard [00:46] What exactly is a fractional CMO? A few are architectural design companies. And I think also the accountability. Yes, exactly.

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Social Media Software Review Hiring Framework 75

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2010

The terms “CTO&# and “VP Engineering&# have such stigmas associated with what they are that I’m sure some people will feel uncomfortable with the definitions I’ve put forward. This post is designed mostly for non-technical founders. As the CEO you can personally help manage deadlines and the Agile process.

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Fractional CTO CTO Hire Fractional VPE Part-Time VPE 400

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

We think teaching teams a formal methodology around the Lean Framework (Business Model design, Customer Development and Agile Engineering) is a natural evolution of how successful incubators/accelerators will build startups. Here’s the story of one such team; Jonathan Wylie, Lakshmi Shivalingaiah and the Evoke team.

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Lean Customer Development Sales Cycle Business Model 315

Where to Play

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

The answer is definitely dazzling, because there are numerous options. Step 3: Designing the Agile Focus Strategy. Once they felt confident with the evaluation results, Flyability’s team could then use Worksheet 3 to design their Agile Focus Strategy. Worksheet 3 – Designing your Agile Focus Strategy.

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Agile Technical Review Sales Cycle Distribution 54

Steve Blank

JANUARY 30, 2013

By definition, before they had a chance to fully buy into the idea and the team). 2) We should have had buy-in about the value of disruptive new business models, design and open innovation thinking. Venture Fest was not integral to their success. 3) We unknowingly set up an organizational conflict on day one.

Programming 265

Programming Technical Review Incubator Intellectual Property 265

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2016

The best are agile and know how to pivot – make a substantive change to the business model while or before their market has shifted. Apple brilliantly mastered User Interface and product design to power the iPhone to dominance. Visionary CEOs are product and business model centric and extremely customer focused.

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Azure Business Model Cloud Artificial Inteligence 120

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2016

The best are agile and know how to pivot – make a substantive change to the business model while or before their market has shifted. Apple brilliantly mastered User Interface and product design to power the iPhone to dominance. Visionary CEOs are product and business model centric and extremely customer focused.

Azure 120

Azure Business Model Cloud Artificial Inteligence 120

Brandanew

DECEMBER 23, 2022

I definitely need the readiness to create with intention. The best design (writing or visual) often comes from a creative conflict. Favorite podcast episode: The myths of modern marriage (part 1 and 2) Favorite book(s): In custody , Sorrow and Bliss , This is marketing Two words to describe your year: Emotional agility.

India 130

India Agile Email Design 130

The Startup Magazine

APRIL 29, 2018

The IT process automation should be the primary step in IT operations management, organizational designs, investments and supports. Effective understanding of how to design, develop, test, deploy and administer a workflow should be provided. The ability to develop and design scripts for data collection and integration is necessary.

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Operations Architecture Cost Technical Review 65

andrewchenblog.com

MARCH 10, 2010

However, there’s the other side of the coin, which is the product design. After you’ve added a ton of new features and stuck them all on the homepage, you create Product Design debt. Arguably, MySpace is a company that never paid down their product design debt, and their traffic has been impacted as a result.

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Technical Review Design Las Vegas Product 47

crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 9, 2018

Use design thinking to be an innovator in your market. Design thinking sounds like its meant exclusively for creative thinkers, but anyone can take advantage of its straightforward process. Or, as I learned to think of it when I was getting my degree in design: The Process. Design matters. Be an innovator. Check it out!

Marketing 90

Marketing Social Media Cofounder Design 90

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 29, 2009

Like a financial debt, the technical debt incurs interest payments, which come in the form of the extra effort that we have to do in future development because of the quick and dirty design choice. We can choose to continue paying the interest, or we can pay down the principal by refactoring the quick and dirty design into the better design.

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Technical Review Software Review San Francisco Lean 168

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 26, 2021

Each episode is designed to spark ideas you can put into practice for your agency today. Chris is a Senior Consultant and coach with ADAPTOVATE, a global management consulting firm, based in Sydney Australia, specializing in Agile at Scale business model transformations. Check out the new Spark Lab Consulting website here !

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North America Agile Australia America 99

VC Cafe

AUGUST 2, 2022

Given the ‘fuzzy’ period we’re in, where we still struggle with a definition of the Metaverse, it’s easy to dismiss it all as a fad. Roblox’s design is very simplistic, almost pixelated, but perhaps the secret to its success is its simplicity. source ) Roblox generated $1.9

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IP Cofounder Valuation Acquisition 206

ConversionXL

JUNE 13, 2017

Agile marketing may not be a phrase you hear often, but it’s becoming increasingly popular and important. Traditionally associated with development and product management, agile is a lightweight and, well, agile framework for software development and bringing features and products to market. sourced from the Scrum Guide.

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SCRUM Agile Marketing Development Team Review 112

SVPG

JUNE 13, 2014

I was also a reviewer of the book and it is definitely a must-read for any product person and fills a very big gap in the current library of Agile titles. Good teams have product, design and engineering sit side-by-side, and embrace the give and take between the functionality, the user experience and the enabling technology.

Product 107

Product Technical Review Engineer Agile 107

Steve Blank

MAY 23, 2016

By the way, the engineering definition of serendipity is, that life is too unpredictable to pre-compute. Shortly after that, I met Pete Newell , the retired head of the Army’s Rapid Equipping Force – one of the best Lean and agile organizations in the military – and I met Joe Felter an ex Special Forces Colonel.

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Lean Technical Review Vietnam Engineer 221

Steve Blank

JUNE 18, 2013

Eric’s insight was that traditional product management and Waterfall development should be replaced by Agile Development. For the last two decades there was no standard definition. Finally we had a definition of what it was startups were searching for. Finally we had a definition of what it was startups were searching for.

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Lean Agile Customer Development Business Model 286

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

We spent time out in the marketplace talking with customers, looking at their solutions, comparing ourselves with our competition and then squirreling ourselves away in our offices designing our next set of features. I used to always tell my development team, “you need to design a product that my dad could use. It was humbling.

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Customer Technical Review Software Review Mexico 280

ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 6, 2022

Yes, picking the flashiest and most attention-grabbing visuals can definitely get the attention of many consumers. These issues have challenged businesses and their visual design teams for decades. Scalable and affordable data-driven design engines. Use the Right Data-Driven Design Engine.

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Audience Engineer Design Reputation 141

Up and Running

JANUARY 25, 2018

Digital businesses need to be agile and reactive too. Don’t forget to factor in skillsets like graphic design and videography—these can quickly become very expensive for a new ecommerce business. It can be hard to be nimble if your business plan is 200 pages long and has been in a drawer since you finished it.

eCommerce 96

eCommerce Business Plan Audience Lean 96

Spencer Fry

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

I definitely recommend this book as the perfect starter. Agile Web Development with Rails by DHH 3.5/5. With most of Learn Ruby the Hard Way under my belt, I dove into David Heinemeier Hansson 's book, Agile Web Development with Rails. There's no better way to learn than just to keep plowing through the examples.

Programming 75

Programming Ruby HTML Web Development 75

Steve Blank

MARCH 5, 2012

One of the confusing things to entrepreneurs, investors and educators is the relationship between customer development and business model design and business planning and execution. However, I realize I’ve primarily written about business model design and customer development. And when do business planning and execution come into play?

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Search Business Model Customer Development Agile 320

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. I havent had to work this model under those conditions, so I cant say anything definitive. Expo SF (May.

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Customer Development Engineer San Francisco Developer 131

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 26, 2021

Each episode is designed to spark ideas you can put into practice for your agency today. Chris is a Senior Consultant and coach with ADAPTOVATE, a global management consulting firm, based in Sydney Australia, specializing in Agile at Scale business model transformations. Check out the new Spark Lab Consulting website here !

North America 68

North America Agile Australia America 68

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 6, 2011

This migration to the cloud helps to meet their operational needs, as well as to reduce costs and increase agility and efficiency. Cloud computing is definitely gaining momentum within the IT industry. In addition to small businesses, cloud adoption by governments has been growing in the Asia region. Is Cloud Computing for you?

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Cloud Asia Government Mobile 223

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

We lack a consistent and clear definition of the job. If youre trying to design an architecture to maximize agility, how can that work if some people are working in TDD and others not? With multiple people trying to work to the same standard, we had to be a lot crisper in our definitions. Massive proprietary databases?

CTO 168

CTO Fractional CTO CTO Hire Technical Review 168

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 8, 2019

Make sustainability a key design objective for every step. You may start with prototype products, but you need rock-solid processes for successful growth and agility. Congratulations are definitely appropriate for a successful new business launch, but it’s not the time to relax or take your eye off the ball.

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Angel Investor Equity Leadership Demand 220

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

What we do is try to help make sure that the way of working—the operating system, the culture, the organization's design—is well-matched to that challenge. My silly answer is I think that all the American auto manufacturers should just bring back their designs from the '30s, '40s, '50s, and '60s, but with all electric drive.

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Lean Founder Las Vegas Startup 83

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 9, 2010

And that narrow definition of entrepreneurship doesn’t count all of the managers inside established companies who are effectively engaged in the same process of building an internal startup (see What is a startup? for my more expansive definition). for my more expansive definition). What motivates all these entrepreneurs?

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San Francisco Management Founder Lean 161

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

There, a smoke test is the process of running test cases involving the “important functionality of a component or system, to ascertain if crucial functions of the software work correctly” Using this definition, smoke tests address questions like… Does the program run? This type of agile thinking is what matters.

Product 48

Product Audience Stock Conversion 48

Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

Before I answer that question, let’s take a minute to establish a common definition of innovation. These Key Performance Indicators and processes are what make a company efficient —but they are also the root cause of its inability to be agile and innovative. These will enable firms to embrace innovation by design not by exception.

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Private Equity Metrics China Intellectual Property 325

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

(Or more accurately, startups are a temporary organization designed to search for a scalable and repeatable business model.) This startup search process is the business model / customer development / agile development solution stack. Business Model Design meets Customer Development. Lean Launchpad. See you there.

Agile 250

Agile Business Model Customer Development Lean 250

Agile VC

OCTOBER 23, 2012

LPs investing in venture hold a subset of all the funds in the VC universe by design (see #4 & 5). It’s true that FoFs provide LPs a way to purchase VC funds in a basket, but by design these are comparatively narrow actively-managed investment funds rather than broad-based passive vehicles. 3.0x+ cash on cash) is profitable.

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LP Accredited Investor Carried Interest Portfolio 176

www.bothsidesofthetable.com

MAY 13, 2012

The terms “CTO” and “VP Engineering” have such stigmas associated with what they are that I’m sure some people will feel uncomfortable with the definitions I’ve put forward. This post is designed mostly for non-technical founders. In fact, they are passionate about automating testing overall.

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Fractional VPE Part-Time VPE Fractional CTO CTO Hire 89

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

Their product definition fluctuates wildly – one month, it’s a dessert topping, the next it’s a floor wax. Their product development team is hard at work on a next-generation product platform, which is designed to offer a new suite of products – but this effort is months behind schedule. Great post! Great post!

Customer 167

Customer San Francisco Lean Hockey Stick 167

Steve Blank

JUNE 18, 2013

Eric’s insight was that traditional product management and Waterfall development should be replaced by Agile Development. For the last two decades there was no standard definition. Finally we had a definition of what it was startups were searching for. Finally we had a definition of what it was startups were searching for.

Lean 178

Lean Agile Customer Development Business Model 178