Steve Blank

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Joe Felter , Raj Shah and I designed a class to examine the new military systems, operational concepts and doctrines that will emerge from 21st century technologies – Space, Cyber, AI & Machine Learning and Autonomy. Designing in exploitability early in programs. Prior to this appointment, Ms.

Acquisition 284

Acquisition Technical Review Technology Security 284

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.

Agile 76

Agile San Francisco Software Review Continuous Deployment 76

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 15, 2019

These processes reduce risk to an overall organization, but each layer of process reduces the ability to be agile and lean and – most importantly – responsive to new opportunities and threats. And by product, I mean the creation of new hardware, services, software, tools, operations, tradecraft, etc.

Government 315

Government Technical Review Acquisition Metrics 315

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 17, 2017

We could design warfighting tactics based on knowing the tactics of our opponent. We could design and manufacture the best systems. In the 21st century you need a scorecard to keep track of the threats: Russia, China, North Korea, Iran, ISIS in Yemen/Libya/Philippines, Taliban, Al-Qaeda, hackers for hire, etc.

Community 212

Community Silicon Valley Technical Review Incubator 212

Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2011

Over the last decade we assumed that once we found repeatable methodologies (Agile and Customer Development , Business Model Design) to build early stage ventures, entrepreneurship would become a “science,” and anyone could do it. Now everyone can do design,” was the mantra. it is an art) and again hired professionals.

Agile 332

Agile Customer Development Early Stage Business Model 332

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

During the first year of the company’s life, I was a fireball – relentless in creating and pursuing opportunities – getting on an airplane at the drop of a hat to fly anywhere, anytime, to get a design win. Our chip was nearing completion, and I had convinced early lighthouse customers to design it into their computers.

Part-Time VPE 333

Part-Time VPE Employee Cofounder Hiring 333

Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 16, 2023

This executive-level maestro is no ordinary hire; they’re an ace up your sleeve when navigating the cutthroat world of competitive markets. Sit tight as we pull back the curtain on these unsung heroes, showing how hiring one could be game-changing for your business… ready? It’s like wanting champagne on a beer budget.

Agile 65

Agile Technical Review Social Media Salary 65

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

He just hired Meg Whitman. Startups wrote business plans, generated expansive 5-year forecasts and executed (hired, spent and built) to the plan. Lean was designed to inform the founders’ vision while they operated frugally at speed. the ex-CEO of HP and eBay, as CEO of NewTV. The result?

Lean 335

Lean Burn Rate Startup IPO 335

Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2017

For example, if a chief executive officer manages the daily operation, a chief entrepreneur heads up innovation efforts. The result is a combination of design thinking, Lean Startup, and Agile Scrum, and Ignacio’s innovation team includes 25 coaches who train employees in PACE best practices. They’re qualified.

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Lean Startup CTO Hire Cofounder 245

ReadWriteStart

JULY 3, 2019

Startups are starting to launch without a central headquarters, or any designated office building, in an attempt to create “fully remote” businesses. The premise is simple; operate with all your leaders and employees working remotely, sometimes all over the world, to cut costs and broaden your potential employee pool. Brand visibility.

Startup 125

Startup Reputation United States Business Model 125

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

— I just watched a very smart company try to manage innovation by hiring a global consulting firm to offload engineering from “distractions.” They accomplished their goal, but at a huge, unanticipated cost: the processes and committees they designed ended up strangling innovation. Use Cases/ Concept of Operations.

Incubator 312

Incubator Curation Engineer Government 312

View from Seed

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Recently, I’ve been working with a few of our portfolio companies to help them think about how to recruit and interview their first analytics hire. Analytics is about designing, reporting, and leveraging operating metrics to aid strategic and functional decision-making. When to make your first analytics hire.

Analytics 149

Analytics Hiring SQL Forecast 149

Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

In this business environment, hiring a new CEO who had experience growing a company around a single technical innovation was a rational decision for venture investors. To continually innovate, companies need to operate at startup speed and cycle time much longer their 20 th century counterparts did. That’s no longer the case.

Restful 222

Restful Silicon Valley Puerto Rico San Jose 222

Steve Blank

JANUARY 25, 2011

The benefits of customer and agile development and minimum features set are continuous customer feedback, rapid iteration and little wasted code. Ironically it becomes the antithesis of agile. He hired an operating exec as the CEO a few years ago. The Siren Song to CEO’s Who Aren’t Technical.

Part-Time VPE 318

Part-Time VPE Agile Engineer Startup 318

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Microsoft left the 20 th century owning over 95% of the operating systems that ran on computers (almost all on desktops). The best are agile and know how to pivot – make a substantive change to the business model while or before their market has shifted. And that brings us to Apple, Tim Cook and the Apple board.

Azure 120

Azure Business Model Cloud Artificial Inteligence 120

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Microsoft left the 20 th century owning over 95% of the operating systems that ran on computers (almost all on desktops). The best are agile and know how to pivot – make a substantive change to the business model while or before their market has shifted. And that brings us to Apple, Tim Cook and the Apple board.

Azure 120

Azure Business Model Cloud Artificial Inteligence 120

ConversionXL

AUGUST 4, 2020

To succeed, you need to tie your improvements directly to revenue, reduced churn , lower operational costs, etc. Access to a team with skills that include scientific experimentation, UX, copywriting , consumer psychology , statistics , data analysis, coding, research methodologies, change management, and design. Fresh-eyes review.

SQL 117

SQL Software Review Agile Metrics 117

Hearpreneur

JANUARY 13, 2021

Despite the many challenges 2020 has brought, it’s been inspiring to see people from all over the world collaborate to share ideas, innovate together and drive forward this new era of design freedom with RISC-V. Well as we ramped up to hire again with our pre-pandemic growth we’ve now expanded our hiring globally for new employees.

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Offshore Entrepreneur Jordan Agile 130

Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

I've volunteered and worked for non-profits in a variety of countries on projects ranging from an organic olive oil operation to a permaculture demonstration site to a forestry project in western Guatemala's mountains. Different designers produce garments based on body shape, size, skin color, season, and many other factors.

Artificial Inteligence 103

Artificial Inteligence Entrepreneur Technical Review Security 103

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? [14:11] A few are architectural design companies. This is John Jantsch.

Social Media 78

Social Media Software Review Hiring Framework 78

Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 19, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, January 19, 2009 Lean hiring tips In preparing for the strategy series panel this week, I have been doing some thinking about costs. And all of that cost was caused by one activity: hiring. Hiring is no different from any other company process. Sounds a little abstract, though, doesnt it?

Lean 140

Lean Hiring San Francisco Continuous Deployment 140

Hearpreneur

JUNE 26, 2022

Every waking day, we are having tremendous changes in regulations and technology which greatly affect the way businesses operate. Some entrepreneurs will say the future is definitely bright but to others, some of these changes are meant to work against their expansion and business operations.

Artificial Inteligence 131

Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Entrepreneur Software Review 131

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 15, 2017

Agile businesses have moved to the cloud because of its scalability, efficiency and reliability, amongst other benefits. Objective 3 – Narrow the field and clear the noise for Incident Response, “observe and respond” operations to be more targeted and effective.

Security 140

Security Software Review Technical Review API 140

Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Thanks to Rodney Warner, Connective Web Design LLC ! #2- In the entrepreneurial ecosystem, where agility and adaptability are key, quitting can be particularly detrimental. This behavior can manifest as a lack of innovation, limited effort in business development, or neglect of critical operational responsibilities.

Entrepreneur 107

Entrepreneur Employee Revenue LLC 107

Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Thanks to Rodney Warner, Connective Web Design LLC ! #2- In the entrepreneurial ecosystem, where agility and adaptability are key, quitting can be particularly detrimental. This behavior can manifest as a lack of innovation, limited effort in business development, or neglect of critical operational responsibilities.

Entrepreneur 107

Entrepreneur Employee Revenue LLC 107

Board Effect

JANUARY 15, 2020

Digital governance helps to keep organizations agile, nimble and adaptable, which is necessary in today’s age of evolution and disruption. Many companies are now also hiring a CISO or CTO to fulfill their need for IT expertise. BoardEffect considered all these issues when they designed their board management software program.

Government 94

Government CTO Hire Security Internet 94

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 4, 2017

By which they mean: Without stupid rules that assume employees are dumb or evil, without everything taking ten times longer than it should, without wall-to-wall meetings, without resorting to hiring anything less than the top 1% of the talent pool, and so on. Small companies operate this way by necessity, and it works!

Government 223

Government Startup Cofounder Technical Support 223

The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 8, 2013

I also want to explain that it is possible to have a truly agile work environment based on small, autonomous teams. So hiring the right people is the single most important thing we do at Wooga. We believe in the mantra, “If in doubt, don’t hire.” Those who write the software operate it themselves. That works very well.

Software Review 146

Software Review Agile Analytics SCRUM 146

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 26, 2020

by Hema Crockett and Jamie Jacobs, co-founders of Gig Talent and authors of “ Designing Exceptional Organizational Cultures: How to Develop Companies where Employees Thrive “ We’re seeing it happen day by day. We’ve seen breweries convert operations and make hand sanitizer while clothing companies sew scrubs and face masks.

Cofounder 246

Cofounder Hiring Agile Employee 246

YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Designing the User interface. You then draw the hierarchy of your operational and managerial roles. Now you design a sales and marketing strategy. Now it’s time to choose between setting up and in-house marketing team or hiring an external marketing agency. First you design the logo of your app.

Mobile 113

Mobile Developer Social Media Later Stage 113

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 8, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, August 8, 2009 Revisiting the Software Design Manifesto (and whats changed since then) My recent article on technical debt and its positive uses generated a fair bit of controversy. The argument itself got me thinking a lot about design and its role in building products.

Software Review 87

Software Review Design Software San Francisco 87

VC Cafe

AUGUST 2, 2022

monthly active end-users who are engaging with content created or operated by Unity solutions in 2020. Roblox’s design is very simplistic, almost pixelated, but perhaps the secret to its success is its simplicity. The large corporates might invest billions, but startups have the benefit of speed, agility and courage to innovate.

IP 206

IP Cofounder Valuation Acquisition 206

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

A company developing software would have to buy computers and license software from other companies and hire the staff to run and maintain it. Or more accurately, startups are a temporary organization designed to search for a scalable and repeatable business model.). When the speed of how businesses operated changed forever.

Silicon Valley 335

Silicon Valley United States Venture Capital Software Review 335

Steve Blank

APRIL 20, 2009

Companies specializing in components and systems that operated in the microwave portion of the electromagnetic spectrum sprouted faster than fruit trees in the valley orchards. In ten years, from the early 1950′s to the early 1960′s, the valley went through a hiring frenzy as jobs in microwave companies went from 700 to 7,000.

Silicon Valley 270

Silicon Valley RSS San Francisco Technical Review 270

Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 20, 2023

Key Takeaway: Digital transformation requires organizations to rewire their processes and operations, leveraging new technologies to achieve value. Every year inbound brings together leaders across business, sales, marketing, customer success, operations, and more. 07:01): And a real fundamental change in the operating model.

Technical Review 66

Technical Review Silicon Valley Generative AI Arizona 66

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 29, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, November 29, 2008 The ABCDEFs of conducting a technical interview I am incredibly proud of the people I have hired over the course of my career. This second objective plays no small part in allowing you to hire the best. Hiring decisions are among the most difficult, and the most critical.

San Francisco 146

San Francisco Lean Agile Java 146

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 13, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, July 13, 2009 The Principles of Product Development Flow If youve ever wondered why agile or lean development techniques work, The Principles of Product Development Flow: Second Generation Lean Product Development by Donald G. Product development deals in designs, which are fundamentally intangible.

Product Development 153

Product Development Developer San Francisco Product 153