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JANUARY 13, 2024

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Down Round Marketing Artificial Inteligence Startup 154

Steve Blank

MAY 6, 2015

Back then, an entrepreneur used a serial product development process that proceeded step-by-step with little if any customer feedback. And too often, after months or even years of development, entrepreneurs learned the hard way that customers were not buying their product because they did not need or want most of its features.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 27, 2015

But for startups with limited resources and experience, I always recommend a soft launch or toe-in-the-water approach in a local market -- and scale up later. In addition, with today’s fast moving market, the whole environment can change in the year or more you are hiding out to get the solution and your total infrastructure built.

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Hockey Stick Startup Stealth Agile 120

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

For the business leaders I know, these priorities almost always include the following: Business agility. Implicit in agility is increased productivity on change initiatives. In today’s world of distributed data, global reach, and powerful incursion technologies, how do I protect my data and my customers’ data? Data security.

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Technology Agile Architecture Distribution 206

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 11, 2015

Giant tech companies like Google, Amazon and Apple all started out in garages or in someone’s basement and now each boast hundreds of billions in market capitalization. As a small business owner and entrepreneur, it is easy to get frustrated and discouraged when faced with daily obstacles as you try to scale your business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

After many years in business, working in large companies as well as startups, I’m no longer surprised at why mature and successful companies struggle with introducing innovative new ventures as the market and environment changes. Make sure everyone comes with an entrepreneur mindset for real innovation.

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Advisory Board Incubator Dilution Agile 359

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 28, 2011

For the business leaders I know, these priorities almost always include the following: Business agility. Implicit in agility is increased productivity on change initiatives. In today’s world of distributed data, global reach, and powerful incursion technologies, how do I protect my data and my customers’ data? Data security.

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Agile Startup Architecture Distribution 230

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 7, 2023

Young entrepreneurs often are so excited by new technology or their latest invention that they forget to translate it into a value proposition that their customers or potential investors can understand and relate to. Every business leader knows how difficult it is to keep up with a changing market.

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Elevator Pitch Social Network Agile Technology 272

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 20, 2022

You can’t ignore the key principles preached by every innovative entrepreneur: Build tomorrow’s opportunity rather than extend today’s. Even if your business is local, like ride sharing, think about the potential for emerging markets in new countries. Don’t be trapped by linear thinking.

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Silicon Valley Artificial Inteligence Global Agile 367

Hearpreneur

JANUARY 27, 2021

Here’s what entrepreneurs predict for business in 2021. #1- The thing is, businesses will start to have curated content and feeds to attract more consumers, and introduce their services or product to a larger market. 11- An increased shift towards social media marketing. Being agile, nimble, and quick.

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Artificial Inteligence Entrepreneur Social Media Green 80

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 15, 2020

Young entrepreneurs often are so excited by new technology or their latest invention that they forget to translate it into a value proposition that their customers or potential investors can understand and relate to. Every business leader knows how difficult it is to keep up with a changing market.

Technology 412

Technology Elevator Pitch Social Network Agile 412

Gust

SEPTEMBER 16, 2012

For the business leaders I know, these priorities almost always include the following: Business agility. Implicit in agility is increased productivity on change initiatives. In today’s world of distributed data, global reach, and powerful incursion technologies, how do I protect my data and my customers’ data? Data security.

Technology 162

Technology Agile Architecture Distribution 162

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. Virtual channels include Dedicated e-commerce, Two-step e-distribution and Aggregators. Veritas estimated that their new total available market was 13 million city street lights in the U.S.,

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Channel Artificial Inteligence San Francisco Business Model 233

Steve Blank

JULY 13, 2021

By the end of the 20th century, case studies and business plans had reached an evolutionary dead-end for entrepreneurs. By the early 1920s a new dean changed the curriculum – shifting it from an industry orientation (steel, railroads, etc.) – to a functional one (marketing, factory and employment management (HR), etc.).

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Lean Agile Business Model Business Plan 436

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2016

These misses weren’t in some tangential markets – missing search, mobile and the cloud were directly where Microsoft users were heading. While they’ll likely never regain the market dominance they had in the 20 th century, (their business model continues to be extremely profitable) Nadella likely saved Microsoft from irrelevance.

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Azure Business Model Cloud Artificial Inteligence 120

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2016

These misses weren’t in some tangential markets – missing search, mobile and the cloud were directly where Microsoft users were heading. While they’ll likely never regain the market dominance they had in the 20 th century, (their business model continues to be extremely profitable) Nadella likely saved Microsoft from irrelevance.

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Azure Business Model Cloud Artificial Inteligence 120

The Startup Magazine

MAY 30, 2019

Crowdify, a new kind of full-service marketing group built for the next generation of clients, communities, frontiers and consumers, launches with prestigious client roster. And that’s what Crowdify is all about,” says James Rix, the 36-year old entrepreneur and CEO of Crowdify.

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Marketing Agile Social Network Valuation 76

Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

I like the guy because he’s credited with coining the word entrepreneur. Think about this; 7 years ago Nokia owned 50% of the handset market. Fast-forward to today—Apple is the most profitable Smartphone company in the world and in Spain Android commands a market share of more than 90%. I’m sure many of you have heard his name.

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Private Equity Metrics China Intellectual Property 329

Transformify

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Reaching out to new markets and opportunities requires skills, experience, and networks that are usually developed by those who have studied abroad. Post Brexit, many companies in the UK consider distributed teams overseas as an alternative to the shrinking talent pool and high recruitment costs in Britain. Project/ Product Management.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 28, 2016

Startups are intended to be agile businesses that consistently face engineering and marketing challenges with creative thinking and a willingness to evolve. began to develop a product focused on providing data to marketers with easy to use measurement and reporting tools. changed their name to Simply Measured.

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Naming Startup Marketing Technical Review 48

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

But by taking advantage of open source, agile software, and iterative development, lean startups can operate with much less waste. So far, I have found "lean startup" works better with the entrepreneurs Ive talked to than "agile startup" or even "extreme startup.") The lean startup is an application of Lean Thinking.

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Lean San Francisco Startup Continuous Deployment 168

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 27, 2010

For the business leaders I know, these priorities almost always include the following: Business agility. Implicit in agility is increased productivity on change initiatives. In today’s world of distributed data, global reach, and powerful incursion technologies, how do I protect my data and my customers’ data? Data security.

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Entrepreneur Agile Architecture Distribution 220

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2018

Young entrepreneurs often are so excited by new technology or their latest invention that they forget to translate it into a value proposition that their customers or potential investors can understand and relate to. Every business leader knows how difficult it is to keep up with a changing market.

Elevator Pitch 227

Elevator Pitch Social Network Agile Technology 227

Steve Blank

JUNE 26, 2015

In the last five years “ Lean Startup ” methodologies have enabled entrepreneurs to efficiently build a startup by searching for product/market fit rather than blindly trying to execute. Here the company executes a known business model (known customers, product features, competitors, pricing, distribution channel, supply chain, etc.)

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Lean Management Business Model Incubator 120

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 244

Customer Development Developer Customer Silicon Valley 244

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 7, 2008

In addition to presenting the IMVU case, we tried for the first time to do an overview of a software engineering methodology that integrates practices from agile software development with Steves method of Customer Development. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

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Customer Development Engineer San Francisco Developer 131

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

We wanted an agile approach that would allow us to build our software architecture as we needed it, without downtime, but also without large amounts of up-front cost. You can also download our presentation, " Just-In-Time Scalability: Agile Methods to Support Massive Growth." Two Ways to Hold Entrepreneurs Accountable (for Ha.

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San Francisco Continuous Deployment Agile Lean 94

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 6, 2023

Many passionate entrepreneurs fight to add more features into their new products and services, assuming that more function will make the solution more appealing to more customers. In many business domains today, the market seems to change about every ninety days. It’s tough for an elephant to be agile.

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Startup Bandwidth Distribution Agile 287

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." Lean startups have the ability to use this commodity stack to lower costs and, more importantly, reduce time to market. Agile software development.

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Lean San Francisco Agile Continuous Deployment 102

Agile VC

OCTOBER 23, 2012

3) GP’s Care About Absolute, Not Relative, Returns - Of course most GPs pay attention to the broader returns of the market, but at the end of the day absolute returns are what matter. Startup outcomes are a power law distribution rather than a standard distribution.

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LP Accredited Investor Carried Interest Portfolio 176

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

One is explaining the world as it used to work: the importance of gatekeepers, the scarcity implied by limited distribution, and the resulting quality bar that the industry is so proud of. Mostly it is the time and expense required to create the means of distribution for that industry. It’s just taking some longer than others.

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San Francisco Lean Technical Review Distribution 113

Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

Dot.com Bubble ( 1995-2000): “ Anything goes” as public markets clamor for ideas, vague promises of future growth, and IPOs happen absent regard for history or profitability. VC’s worked with entrepreneurs to build profitable and scalable businesses, with increasing revenue and consistent profitability – quarter after quarter.

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Internet IPO Silicon Valley Agile 335

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 11, 2020

Many passionate entrepreneurs fight to add more features into their new products and services, assuming that more function will make the solution more appealing to more customers. In many business domains today, the market seems to change about every ninety days. It’s tough for an elephant to be agile.

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Startup Bandwidth Distribution Agile 424

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 30, 2014

Young entrepreneurs often are so excited by new technology or their latest invention that they forget to translate it into a value proposition that their customers or potential investors can understand. Every business leader knows how difficult it is to keep up with a changing market. Personal-privacy assurances.

Technology 245

Technology Customer Elevator Pitch Social Network 245

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, September 10, 2008 Smarticus — 10 things you could be doing to your code right now Smarticus — 10 things you could be doing to your code right now A great checklist of techniques and tools for making your development more agile, written from a Rail perspective. Expo SF (May.

Software Review 68

Software Review San Francisco Technical Review Continuous Deployment 68

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 28, 2010

Yet there’s a lot of mystery around pivots, and entrepreneurs ask all the time how you know it’s time to commit to a new direction. They were interested in the tools and new distribution medium kaChing provided. One of those pros was John Powers , head of the Stanford endowment. Thus far the results are encouraging.

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San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment SEC 158

Agile VC

APRIL 17, 2011

Last week ZipCar began trading and has a market cap of about $1 billion. Distribution revenue is CPC and CPA. . Historically more revenue came from distribution/lead-gen (57% in 2007), but this tipped in 2008 though appears to be steady from 2009 to 2010 at about 58% advertising and 42% distribution. Author howerl.

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Pre-Money Valuation Liquidation Preference Dividend Common Stock 113