Steve Blank

OCTOBER 15, 2019

HR processes, legal processes, financial processes, acquisition and contracting processes, security processes, product development and management processes, and types of organizational forms etc. By process I mean all the tools that allow companies and government to scale repeatable execution. Process Versus Product.

Government 317

Government Technical Review Acquisition Metrics 317

Steve Blank

AUGUST 31, 2009

After 20 years of working in startups, I decided to take a step back and look at the product development model I had been following and see why it usually failed to provide useful guidance in activities outside the building – sales, marketing and business development. So what’s wrong the product development model?

Customer Development 241

Customer Development Developer Customer Silicon Valley 241

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Given that software is central to every major DOD mission and system, we need to acquire and deliver software with much greater speed, agility, and cyber security. What do you consider your most important reforms initiated under your leadership today? They develop the agenda. And there are many, many out there.

Acquisition 293

Acquisition Technical Review Technology Security 293

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 11, 2016

Mark Raheja, founding partner at August , a consultancy focused on organizational development, will be speaking as part of the enterprise learning track at Lean Startup Week about agility at scale. In thinking about the future of corporate agility and management, what modern practices are most vital to today’s leaders?

Agile 60

Agile Lean San Francisco Technical Review 60

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

Finally, I’ll write about how Eric Ries and the Lean Startup concept provided the equivalent model for product development activities inside the building and neatly integrates customer and agile development. Blame it On Marketing In the next 3-6 months, a new VP of Sales is hired.

Customer Development 228

Customer Development Developer Customer Silicon Valley 228

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

It does require leadership at all levels of the organization to find shared values, set clear expectations, attract and develop talent, accelerate execution of a winning strategy, and generate a feeling of alignment, togetherness, and engagement every day. It’s about turning personal values into repeatable behaviors.

Leadership 291

Leadership Agile Metrics Programming 291

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 20, 2019

But to get to the finish line successfully, there are several key company milestones that leadership must identify and address. Startups tend to put a premium on being “agile,” but that doesn’t always work – and certainly won’t replace the effective collaboration a business needs to grow. Series B: Hiring and Developing Managers.

Technical Cofounder 113

Technical Cofounder Burn Rate Seed Stage Cofounder 113

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. it is an art) and again hired professionals. Some men see things as they are and ask why.

Agile 332

Agile Customer Development Early Stage Business Model 332

Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 29, 2021

It could be more revenue, hiring clients, or launching a new product or service, but every new year is an exciting time because it’s ripe with opportunity. Initially, I would like to hire people from my neighborhood, with the goal of expanding to other communities in the future. It's important to keep business agile.

Entrepreneur 139

Entrepreneur Social Media Employee Los Angeles 139

Steve Blank

MARCH 2, 2011

In it Shackleton defined courage and leadership. Working with him, I’ve been impressed to watch his small team embrace Customer Development (and Business Model Generation ) and search the world for the right product/market fit. This would be one of the most heroic journeys of exploration ever undertaken. Corporate elephants can dance.

Silicon Valley 228

Silicon Valley Agile Customer Development Early Stage 228

Board Effect

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Employee development. Planning for adequate training goes hand-in-hand with succession planning as it enables you to include leadership training for employees with long-term leadership potential. Moreover, a flexible workforce will enable your staff to be more agile and responsive when change needs to occur quickly.

Software Review 52

Software Review Technical Review Retention Employee 52

mashable.com

MAY 9, 2011

Hiring the wrong person for key company positions can cost a business thousands — or tens of thousands — of dollars and man hours. This is especially true when it comes to tech companies hiring the wrong chief technology officer. Leadership Abilities Are A Must It’s natural to want a tech savvy and competent CTO.

CTO Hire 73

CTO Hire Fractional CTO CTO Technical Review 73

Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

In the entrepreneurial ecosystem, where agility and adaptability are key, quitting can be particularly detrimental. The quiet quitters around many entrepreneurs have spurred them to realize the importance of their health and happiness, focusing on developing a more sustainable relationship with their own businesses.

Entrepreneur 112

Entrepreneur Employee Revenue LLC 112

Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

In the entrepreneurial ecosystem, where agility and adaptability are key, quitting can be particularly detrimental. The quiet quitters around many entrepreneurs have spurred them to realize the importance of their health and happiness, focusing on developing a more sustainable relationship with their own businesses.

Entrepreneur 112

Entrepreneur Employee Revenue LLC 112

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 19, 2019

While we all solve problems, managers and consultants are professionals — they’re hired and paid to do so. Leadership consultancy Zenger Folkman recently surveyed over 300,000 managers and found that problem solving was the second most important competency, regardless of function or level. When experts are paid to solve problems.

Non-Compete 113

Non-Compete Vesting Boston Agile 113

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 15, 2017

Recent developments in applications have rendered the firewall outdated and incapable of deciphering the good and trusted from the bad traffic. Agile businesses have moved to the cloud because of its scalability, efficiency and reliability, amongst other benefits. Without a doubt, the firewall era has come to an end.

Security 140

Security Software Review Technical Review API 140

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 27, 2022

It’s up to you to provide clarity around priorities, visualizing the required results, and developing a shared sense of being “in it together.” Priorities must include both those for today and tomorrow, and the changes you are targeting to maintain business leadership from tomorrow through the future.

Forecast 340

Forecast Agile Lean Distribution 340

Hearpreneur

JANUARY 13, 2021

We have taken time as a community and leadership team to reflect and set short and long-term goals and build programs to support and grow member success over time. At Buttercloth for example, we pivoted early during the pandemic, hiring out-of-work salon workers to help make fashionable Face Masks which we gave to customers.

Offshore 134

Offshore Entrepreneur Jordan Agile 134

Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 5, 2023

With Nicole’s first-hand experiences and insights, we explored how this Fractional CMO trend is not just a fleeting fad but a strategic maneuver that’s reshaping the contours of business leadership in today’s dynamic landscape. You really do develop a deeper relationship than just businesswise. Yeah, it's funny.

Social Media 78

Social Media Software Review Hiring Framework 78

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. Plus, you are developing your employees in areas meaningful to them. First, We Think Differently About Talent.

Cofounder 246

Cofounder Hiring Agile Employee 246

The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Entrepreneurs often focus on developing innovative ideas and creating startups. However, organizational leadership is a key skill that every entrepreneur needs to manage a successful company that grows over time. If you are interested in leading a company, then consider studying organizational leadership. Source: Pexels.

Leadership 104

Leadership Entrepreneur Hiring Employee 104

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 6, 2014

Hire for hustle. A great way to separate the entrepreneurial thinkers from those who aren’t is to place a special emphasis on hiring people with a sense of urgency; people who can and will move quickly; people who don’t always have to be told what their next step should be. But the most innovative, agile companies embrace mistakes.

Employee 208

Employee Leadership Technical Review Hiring 208

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 8, 2019

The keys to sustainable success require you to retain that sense of urgency, focus, and vigilance after the launch that you felt during the development and early funding stages. That starts with initially building a solid business strategy, including a strong support system for scalability, long-term leadership, and adaptability.

Angel Investor 220

Angel Investor Equity Leadership Demand 220

Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

MAY 1, 2018

Frameworks assume: engaged leadership, talent on the team, day to day creativity, curiosity, and domain knowledge. You will fail with: Lean, Agile, Design Thinking, TRIZ, Stage-Gate, Osborn-Parnes CPS, KILN’s FuseTrail, or a homegrown/blended framework. An authentic desire to improve or invent.

Framework 64

Framework Agile Lean Technical Review 64

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 13, 2016

Rita McGrath, a Columbia Business School professor says, “there’s pleasing today’s customers and there’s developing tomorrow’s business.” The latter requires speed and agility. Large companies have a habit of hiring outside agencies to do market research and customer discovery. You need to be excellent at both.

Non-Compete 330

Non-Compete Agile Business Model San Francisco 330

SVPG

OCTOBER 14, 2014

” We were big practitioners of what we now call Customer Development, and our customer was typically the IT organization of large companies. In IT mindset companies, you usually find very slow, heavy, Waterfall processes, even when the engineers consider themselves Agile. 10) Leadership. 6) Process.

Product 91

Product Technical Review Engineer CTO Hire 91

ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

Indeed’s CMO Paul D’Arcy says their priority is brand awareness and reducing friction: “The number one thing we’re doing is making sure that that product is everywhere and a click away when people are looking for a job or looking to hire.” [ via The Drum ]. LEGO : “Inspire and develop the builders of tomorrow.”

Marketing 128

Marketing Campaign Software Review Tulsa 128

The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 25, 2021

40% also ranked ‘the organization’s overall commitment to professional development’ at the same level of importance, and 39% did the same for ‘career development opportunities.’. The need for digital leadership in the new workplace landscape is at an all-time high. The answer has never been so straightforward.

Non-Compete 150

Non-Compete Employee Leadership Cofounder 150

Up and Running

JULY 2, 2018

Hiring is a minefield for startups, but with the right approach, you can recruit top talent. In an article on the Forbes magazine, leadership expert David Kruse points to organizational psychologist Liane Davey’s advice on how to counter dysfunctional team dynamics. A lack of innovation and agility. A fractured team.

Software Review 78

Software Review Technical Review Retention Startup 78

The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Hire Resourceful People. Hiring the best people for the job means that their productivity will skyrocket. Hiring smarter people means respecting their different skill sets. Combining your leadership skills with brainpower means that your company will be set up for prosperity. Leadership Ability. Problem-Solving.

Leadership 114

Leadership Agile Lean Hiring 114

Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Get this alignment and mandate, or, risk projects stopping dead in their tracks due to lack of top leadership support, or, watch projects fail because of incomplete understanding of need states and technical possibilities. If you have a more diverse team, this helps in coming up with ideas, but get training, and/or hire expertise.

Technical Review 57

Technical Review Agile IP Social Media 57

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

This post describes how the traditional product development model distorts startup sales, marketing and business development. Finally, I’ll write about how Eric Ries and the Lean Startup concept provided the equivalent model for product development activities inside the building and neatly integrates customer and agile development.

Customer Development 220

Customer Development Developer Customer Silicon Valley 220

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 18, 2017

In today’s ultra-competitive business environment, loyalty is critical in driving agile decision-making and forging lasting relationships with colleagues and customers. Loyalty often develops over time via trusted relationships with colleagues or customers. It’s a skill you can develop over time — and draw from in any circumstance.

Vesting 213

Vesting Agile Leadership Employee 213

Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

AUGUST 12, 2021

Leverage the innate agility. Real expertise is expensive and many second stage companies get sticker shock when faced with hiring expertise. In general “insight development” (finding opportunities to grow) is something that should not be purely intuitive. Here’s why. That never works. Fractional Trend.

Framework 71

Framework Agile Product Development Hiring 71

YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

And those two famous females are hardly alone: women now occupy 24% of corporate senior leadership positions around the world. Your boss, for example, wants to know that he bet on a winner when he hired you — and that knowledge will, in turn, make him more likely to promote you. Still not convinced? Don’t underprice yourself.

America 178

America Networking Management Agile 178

Steve Blank

JUNE 25, 2009

They couldn’t keep up with the fast product development times that were enabled by using standard microprocessors. The answer depends on your answer to two questions: which step in the Customer Development process are you on? Customer Development and Selling Strategy If you’ve just started your company you are in customer discovery.

Technology 139

Technology Silicon Valley Fractional VPE Part-Time VPE 139

The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

DataRails , the financial analysis and reporting software startup, has announced the hiring of David Rosenberg as the company’s new VP of customer success. In his 17-year career, Rosenberg has developed key insights into the minds of CFOs and FP&A teams, with strengths in both customer-facing leadership and data analytics itself.

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Hiring Software Review Customer 138