Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 29, 2019

Institute deep metrics measuring all aspects of the customer experience. Amazon is famous for their Two-Pizza.Teams (no bigger than two pizzas will feed), allowing an entrepreneurial mindset more autonomy, agility, and accountability. Customer and competitive demands are rising across all sectors and experiences.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 15, 2017

It dawned on me that we had a department full of people with titles describing process-centric execution while we were in environment that required relentless agility and speed with urgency. But what I wanted was an agile marketing team capable of operating independently without day-to-day direction. Educate our sales channel(s).

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

APRIL 16, 2024

This open environment has led consumers, investors, and regulatory bodies to demand higher levels of accountability from corporations, especially concerning environmental and social impacts. Regulatory requirements for sustainability reporting are ever-evolving, and businesses must remain agile to meet these changing standards.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 6, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, November 6, 2008 Steveys Blog Rants: Good Agile, Bad Agile I thought Id share an interesting post from someone with a decidedly anti-agile point of view. Steveys Blog Rants: Good Agile, Bad Agile : "Google is an exceptionally disciplined company, from a software-engineering perspective.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Pivoting only works if a business is small and agile and can shift its operations quickly and flawlessly in a different direction. In contrast, others had to retool their business protocols to deal with the new demands of a remote office. What we should have learned is that businesses need to be more agile in their construction.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 25, 2023

From crafting a compelling brand identity to mastering digital marketing, it's a multifaceted journey that demands careful planning and execution. 18- Blend strategy, innovation and agility Photo Credit: Ankit Prakash Building a thriving e-commerce business in this digital era requires a precise blend of strategy, innovation, and agility.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, November 7, 2008 Using AdWords to assess demand for your new online service, step-by-step If you want to build an online service, and you dont test it with a fake AdWords campaign ahead of time, youre crazy. Turns out, there was aboslutely no demand whatsoever for that particular product.

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 4, 2022

Apart from missing out on the chance to be first, individual company demands or goals may differ from those of even immediate competitors. The digital transformation strategy must be agile, flexible, and customer-centric to stay ahead of the competition. Because their rivals are doing it, they feel they should follow suit.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 27, 2011

42:20 Did agile development influence you? 48:30 Vanity metrics. 52:00 Actionable metrics. 57: 00 How do you rectify company mission and customer demand. 48:30 Vanity metrics. 52:00 Actionable metrics. 57: 00 How do you rectify company mission and customer demand. 40:05 What happened after Imvu.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 12, 2022

Increase change agility. Change agility represents a startup’s ability to immediately and effectively engage everyone in pending changes and innovations. Failure rates this high demand a new mindset and startups are the logical place for this to happen.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 8, 2023

In 2023, mobile commerce will remain in demand and grow even further. Last Mile & Next-Day Delivery Last-mile delivery, the last leg of the parcel movement from the transportation hub to the final destination, will also be in high demand in 2023. Only in 2021, 72.9% Amazon has been at it for years.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Make sure that metrics and goals are set up front, and not modified as the project progresses. If you demand accountability, but expect to make every decision, both of you will fail. If key metrics and expectations rely on results from another group, then you have a conflict which prevents accountability from either group.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 26, 2019

The class was unique in that it was 1) team-based, 2) experiential, 3) lean-driven (hypothesis testing/business model/customer development/agile engineering). This type of teaching firepower and headcount was necessary as the teaching team expanded the class size to meet student demand. Class Size. Class Velocity/Depth.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 25, 2021

This is increasingly difficult in a world dominated by remote work, but it’s increasingly demanded by the workforce. In line with this, HR leaders will have to remain agile, forging culture-based connections when they can while still preserving the structure of the business. The Gig Economy: Here to Stay?

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Even with advantages that independent startups can never hope to match, including brand recognition, customers, financial capital, and distribution, I don’t often see the entrepreneurial passion for innovation, agility, and team perseverance exhibited by new startups.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

APRIL 5, 2010

In the quest for optimization, A/B tests, metrics, and funnels, we're in danger of losing the fun and value of creative work. When we demand overwhelming customer outcry before committing to the slightest product change, we're in danger of losing the value of creating a cool feature that takes too much effort but people just love.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 22, 2018

This was validated when we re-wrote those parts in React Native or mobile app technologies and saw metrics which showcased more engagement from our customers.” If you are really looking for an option to save money, use a Time and Material model in combination with agile methodology and ask your project manager for weekly progress reports.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 25, 2011

It may be hard to remember that there was a time when people in the agile software development community thought Lean Startup was incompatible with agile practices. No BS, no vanity metrics, no launches, no PR. As always, our rule is by entrepreneurs, for entrepreneurs. Wealthfront CTO Pascal-Louis Perez will show you how.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 29, 2021

It's important to keep business agile. One of the key metrics of success in Real Estate is having a large market share. This means that by 2023, if these demands are not dialed back significantly, then it will be virtually impossible to maintain the balance between work and fun that has been instrumental in making me who I am today.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 21, 2011

All the teams were showing us what agile looked like, but this week several would remind us what focused and relentless really meant. Our assignment for the teams for next week: What are the key financials metrics for your business model? So they sent out mass emails to create demand. Week 6 of the class. Two weeks to go.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 12, 2019

Increase change agility. Change agility represents a startup’s ability to immediately and effectively engage everyone in pending changes and innovations. Failure rates this high demand a new mindset and startups are the logical place for this to happen.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Without these key metrics, employees will be free agents and looking for better work culture. The real estate market that we are used to is missing out on a lot– the evolving consumer market, meeting the changing demands of buyers and real estate owners. Thanks to Paul French, Intrinsic Search ! #23- 23- Recruitment.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 10, 2020

You can and must fix this by communicating business goals and objectives, and establishing personal metrics which only reward success. It’s easy for you to blame someone else in the organization, economic conditions outside, or even overly demanding customers, when things are not going well.

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Steve Blank

JULY 13, 2021

These explosions in company size and scale created a demand for professional managers. With Lean LaunchPad, we were going to toss teaching the business plan aside and try to teach students a completely new, hands-on approach to starting companies – one which combines customer development, agile development, business models and pivots.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 8, 2019

A recent high-profile one, Theranos , the blood-testing company, had no trouble getting customers, but promised more than their technology could deliver, Another, Shyp , an early on-demand delivery platform, blamed their demise on premature scaling. Demand continuous innovation to keep up with change.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 4, 2014

These groups are adapting or adopting the practices of startups and accelerators – disruption and innovation rather than direct competition, customer development versus more product features, agility and speed versus lowest cost. They measure their success on metrics that reflect success in execution, and they reward execution.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Master of 500 Hats: Startup Metrics for Pirates (SeedCamp 2008, London) This presentation should be required reading for anyone creating a startup with an online service component. He also has a discussion of how your choice of business model determines which of these metric areas you want to focus on. Choose one. Expo SF (May.

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TechEmpower

OCTOBER 9, 2023

In layman's terms, while conventional search mechanisms demand exact phrases or keywords to return relevant results, LLMs can understand and interpret the intent and context behind a query. Assuming you do decide to improve the Proof of Concept, then typically you iterate using an agile process. Strive for a balanced outcome.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 29, 2012

Pair Customer Development with Agile Development. Startup Metrics are Different from Existing Companies. Startups Demand Comfort with Chaos and Uncertainty. So by popular demand, here’s a poster of the Customer Development Manifesto. for A Repeatable and Scalable Business Model. Not All Startups Are Alike.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 3, 2009

In a lot of cases, this requires a lot of energy invested in talking to customers or metrics and analytics. Refreshing to finally see lean and agile thinking emerge in product/business-floors and not only in technology. Iterate quickly to uncover true market demands. Thank you. I know it's going to help me immensely!

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San Francisco Product Lean Continuous Deployment 168

Women Entrepreneurs Can

MARCH 18, 2024

Best Practices for ERP Integration ERP integration is not a decision taken lightly; it’s a strategic investment that demands careful deliberation and planning. These adoptions often lead to a company-wide metamorphosis, ushering businesses into a new era of efficiency, agility, and data-driven decision-making.

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Analytics is about designing, reporting, and leveraging operating metrics to aid strategic and functional decision-making. These are operating metrics because they are not part of GAAP financial statements, even though they are critical for everyone from the CEO to marketers and PMs to make data-informed decision on a daily basis.

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 12, 2022

The other is that at least there’s proof of demand. At the point of saturation, a company can only achieve further growth through new product improvements, by taking existing market share from competitors, or through a rise in overall consumer demand.” Stagnancy will allow other more agile marketers to leapfrog you.

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eCommerce Analytics Framework Mobile 144

Version One Ventures

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

You may remember Bala’s talk on supply-demand equilibrium at our data-driven marketplace meetup back in May 2017. The reason being is that in most marketplaces, we cannot simply split samples by demand or supply since they are all interdependent. Bala is a seasoned product, business, and technology leader. slow death).

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 4, 2008

Boyd emphasized the importance of agility in combat: "the key to victory is to be able to create situations wherein one can make appropriate decisions more quickly than ones opponent." Agile software development. Agile allows companies to build higher quality software faster. This speeds up the Ideas-Code-Data feedback loop.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Reaching my mini-goals and recording new numbers on the growth metrics going through thick and then is what keeps me going. This process helps me to think differently, giving me the agility to think fast on my feet. But demand for print circulation and advertising eventually declined, and a print magazine was no longer viable.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 11, 2014

Increase change agility. Change agility represents a startup’s ability to immediately and effectively engage everyone in pending changes and innovations. Failure rates this high demand a new mindset and startups are the logical place for this to happen.

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Entrepreneur Agile Metrics Leadership 277