Steve Blank

MAY 7, 2019

Lean Methodology consists of three tools designed for entrepreneurs building new ventures: The Business Model Canvas – to write down all the hypotheses about a new business; Customer Development – a process for testing those hypotheses outside the building; Agile Engineering – to rapidly build minimal viable products to test product/market fit.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Another partnering model example is the IBM Watson Group $1 billion investment to share cloud-based development and super-computing tools. Cloud-served services will be an amplifier for almost any opportunity, not only in the developed world, but in the developing world as well. Maintain the agility to quickly pivot or quit.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 26, 2014

For project management to be an asset in critical time to market projects, it needs to be flexible and very agile to borrow a term from our software development friends. Needless to say, not the use of the word that everyone was hoping for. Can this be accomplished? In a word: Yes.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 16, 2020

4- Remain agile as a brand. For 2021, my number one goal is to be able to remain agile as a brand to be able to come out on the right side of the changes that are and will continue to come out of the global pandemic because I believe we are shifting to new ways of doing business, a different economy, and changing consumer behavior.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 19, 2020

Examples of some leaders in this space include Ron Conway in Silicon Valley and Jeff Bezos , CEO of Amazon, who each may have over 500 startups in their portfolio. Many have disappeared, and others have forgotten how to be agile and innovative. VCs are committed to servicing existing portfolios. Marty Zwilling.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 2, 2022

As an early stage investor in the world of gaming and metaverse technology at Remagine Ventures, I find these companies have the potential to set the agenda, become the potential platforms for developers building in this space and future acquirers/consolidators of startups building the next generation of the Internet. Here we go! Epic Games.

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Where to Play

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

The idea to develop a caged drone was born after the Fukushima nuclear disaster. The drone that Flyability develops has unique accessibility due to the decoupled and light protection cage that surrounds it. Step 3: Designing the Agile Focus Strategy. Worksheet 3 – Designing your Agile Focus Strategy. The Challenge.

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Steve Blank

JULY 25, 2023

Now at Imperial College Business School and Co-Founder of the Wicked Acceleration Labs , Cristobal and I wondered if we could combine the tenets of Lean (get out of the building, build MVPs, run experiments, move with speed and urgency) with the expanded toolset developed by researchers who work on Wicked problems and Systems’ Thinking.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Another partnering model example is the IBM Watson Group $1 billion investment to share cloud-based development and super-computing tools. Cloud-served services will be an amplifier for almost any opportunity, not only in the developed world, but in the developing world as well. Maintain the agility to quickly pivot or quit.

Partner 310

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Austin Startup

APRIL 12, 2018

As clients, we’ve done our fair share of portfolio reviewing and research. Whether it’s participating in an Instagram challenge or developing an independent concept, finding a robust self-generated project roster is a strong symbol of value. It’s developed an amazing sense of capability and confidence in the whole design team.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

Fifty years later another Harvard professor, Clayton Christensen, developed his theory of disruptive innovation, which actually described how creative destruction worked. The Amazon Kindle played on Amazon’s strengths as a distributor of content but required developing expertise in electronics and manufacturing.

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Cracking the Code

MARCH 29, 2022

One of the benefits of the cloud is that it gives development teams more agility and flexibility, but with increased flexibility comes the downside of a loss of control and visibility. That said, some large sectors like financial services and healthcare only started to migrate their core workloads and data to the cloud more recently.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 28, 2010

kaChing launched a virtual portfolio management game on Facebook in January 2008 and a similar version shortly thereafter on kaChing.com. Because kaChing prefers its portfolio managers to have a long track record, the marketplace launch (i.e., A portfolio manager’s entire track record & holdings had to be disclosed.

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The Equity Kicker

MAY 7, 2013

As much as I seek to empower our portfolio companies to do what they think is right and to avoid over-planning I sympathise with these ‘traditional managers’ in the sense that when you switch from operating with a detailed operating plan to operating without one it feels like you are flying blind.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2013

But the thing I am most proud of about Rob is that he has taken a company with a uniquely talented founder & CTO – Nick Halstead – and managed to build a very tight working relationship with Nick where we drive world-class product development without having the usual founder / CEO conflicts. The Agile Board.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 14, 2015

By the time you realize it’s a bad fit, you’ve lost months of potential revenue stream development. Before leaving GE Healthcare in late 2010 to start Caremerge, Asif was responsible for a portfolio of healthcare products generating $140 million annually with over 3000 customers (Hospitals and large centers) worldwide.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 26, 2015

Gore , I’ve found two corporate strategy tools developed by other smart people helpful in bridging Lean Startups with Corporate Innovation. To move innovation faster, we now have 21 st century tools — Business Model Canvas , Customer Development , Agile Engineering – all adding up to a Lean Startup.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 13, 2011

Why Every Designer Should Have a Portfolio – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template tco use today) – [link]. Useful tools and resources for web designers and developers – [link]. What You Need to Know About Agile UX – [link].

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 27, 2014

Examples of some leaders in this space include Ron Conway in Silicon Valley and Brian Cohen , chairman of the New York Angels, who each may have over 500 startups in their portfolio. Many have disappeared, and others have forgotten how to be agile and innovative. VCs are committed to servicing existing portfolios.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 20, 2023

The Founder’s Journey To truly succeed, a founder needs resilience , a consistent capacity to innovate, and the agility to adapt to an ever-changing market. Positioned as an expert mobile development team, Applabz turns conceptual ideas into tangible, cutting-edge mobile solutions.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

Another partnering model example is the IBM Watson Group $1 billion investment to share cloud-based development and super-computing tools. Cloud-served services will be an amplifier for almost any opportunity, not only in the developed world, but in the developing world as well. Maintain the agility to quickly pivot or quit.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 3, 2014

Another new partnering model is the IBM Watson Group $1 billion investment to share cloud-based development and super-computing tools. Johansen knows this space, as a distinguished fellow at the Institute for the Future in Silicon Valley, and Ronn is a serial entrepreneur and managing director of Innovation Portfolio Partners in Palo Alto.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

Managers in this area have to take a portfolio approach, promoting ideas that work and might make good candidates for further investment. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? What is customer development? Talking to potential customers and competitors customers. Expo SF (May.

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SVPG

JUNE 16, 2012

Think in leaps, but iterate in steps" - I attribute this to Google, and I like it because it helps to highlight the need for both product vision and for Agile methods, and to help teams understand why these goals are not in conflict. "Be And my favorites change over time and depending on the company.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 18, 2011

There is not enough flexibility in them to really embrace change and use creative, innovative and hungry developers to the best of their abilities. Let's face realities here: it's no doubt tempting and cool for many developers to work for Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, Facebook or Twitter to name but a few. Don't believe the hype.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Encouraging and supporting a career in tech continues to be a key focus in Singapore, with the government announcing a $120m fund to prepare and develop Singapore talent for 30,000 new ICT jobs by 2020. For developers and designers, it is key to showcase their work and skills on platforms, such as LinkedIn, GitHub and Stack Overflow.

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BeyondVC

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

With a focus on seed investing in the mobile, agile, and smart enterprise and business models that harness the power of network effects, our entrepreneurs have successfully been able to raise over $200 million of financing following our initial seed investment. focus on the mobile, agile, and smart enterprise".

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

DECEMBER 10, 2014

We had seen Lightspeed portfolio company Nicira disrupt networking layers 2-3 with an architecture that consisted of highly distributed scale out software elements coupled with centralized control, culminating in an acquisition by VMWare for $1.25B in the summer of 2012.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 17, 2014

At Palo Alto Software, we use it to manage our editorial calendar and the web development queue. Even at its simplest, it’s a great place to manage and make new connections, to find and hire employees, and to build a portfolio that showcases your skills, experience, and abilities. Don’t have a website or blog? canva.com.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 14, 2015

Another new partnering model is the IBM Watson Group $1 billion investment to share cloud-based development and super-computing tools. Johansen knows this space, as a distinguished fellow at the Institute for the Future in Silicon Valley, and Ronn is a serial entrepreneur and managing director of Innovation Portfolio Partners in Palo Alto.

Intellectual Property 120

Intellectual Property Silicon Valley Startup Cloud 120

Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2017

LESSON #1: Equip your business with a portfolio map and a 21st century org chart. To do the same, Alex recommends building two things: a business portfolio map that recognizes invention as necessary and an updated organization chart. So that gives us two different management structures for these two different portfolios.”

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Agile VC

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Also portfolio management strategy has shifted a bit in recent years, and many large investors now evaluate at all risky assets together (US tech IPOs, Brazilian bonds, Chinese private equity, etc) rather than making discrete allocations to each bucket. Or growth and sound economic policies in developed countries could return quickly.

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Version One Ventures

MAY 30, 2013

For startups, the message is that you should develop your business in the long tail, focusing on those customers in your market that the incumbents don’t care about. Smaller businesses are far more agile when it comes to purchasing and deploying a new technology than Fortune 500 companies.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 23, 2016

Thirteen years later, Kinsman is a veteran of the industry and a thought leader advocating in Forbes for an agile approach. The agile strategy is all about brand flexibility. Now, Base Creative is one of Asia’s leading agencies, with a portfolio that includes Walmart, Cisco, and Hermes. It makes sense.

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Venture Chronicles

JUNE 29, 2010

Accept has built a set of products for “innovation management&# and while I reflexively gag at the word “innovation&# when applied to large companies, I actually think Accept has the right approach for delivering a solution to the problem of connecting customers with product development.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 21, 2017

They do a great job at building an amazing culture, and they are able to keep a small company feel in terms of speed and agility because they keep the teams small and have basically broken the company up into a whole bunch of companies. Today I own and manage a company specifically designed to help people grow their portfolios.

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

Then, make a list next to it of your existing products and IP portfolio. Ask yourself, what could be combined, from your existing portfolio, with those new digital capabilities? Local economic development leaders could do this same exercise, listing local assets on one side, and new technology (or trends) on the other.

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