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6 Keys To Convince Investors Of Your Competitive Edge

Startup Professionals Musings

There are a myriad of other important ways that you can demonstrate your competitive advantages in your presentations, discussions, and business plan, including the following: Highlight your intellectual property. Past leadership success is definitely a competitive advantage. Promote any inside relationships or customer base.

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Qualcomm’s Corporate Entrepreneurship Program – Lessons Learned (Part 2)

Steve Blank

By definition, before they had a chance to fully buy into the idea and the team). I earnestly believe that large corporations should emulate Lean Startups (Business model design, Customer Development and Agile Engineering.) The result was that we couldn’t find internal homes for what would have been great projects or spinouts.

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ESADE Business School Commencement Speech

Steve Blank

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. Innovation. At its most basic, innovation means to introduce something new.

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Workstreamer Launches Public Beta

Austin Startup

Given the expanded user base that will surely come starting today, I’m sure the team of agile developers will have even more great ideas to implement in Workstreamer. But the financial markets have definitely raised the bar. The team at Workstreamer is definitely worth mentioning.

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Rewiring Organizations For A Successful Digital Transformation

Duct Tape Marketing

And there's a bit of a sense that digital was a bit sort of the wild west in terms of, oh, it's all about agile and people improvise the method and you can't measure things as well. Do you really have a proper agile operating model? Look, I think that it, it, it, it is definitely written to be dipped into, right?

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Startup Founder Agreements

blog.simeonov.com

I have been thinking a lot recently about how to apply agile development principles to investing and key aspects of startup development such as team building. Both stem from the agile principle of delaying decisions until the last responsible moment. The first post is about agile startup fundraising.

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How to Impress Angel Investors and Make It into “Startup Heaven”

Up and Running

what’s behind your financials, your go-to-market strategy, your current traction in the marketplace, your competition and why you’re better, your intellectual property or “secret sauce,” your exit strategy, etc.). I also learned quickly that no two angels are alike. What one angel likes another may not care about. 51 percent).