Steve Blank

JUNE 26, 2015

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. Here the company executes a known business model (known customers, product features, competitors, pricing, distribution channel, supply chain, etc.)

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Steve Blank

JULY 13, 2021

Business plans presume that building a startup is a series of predictable steps requiring execution of a plan which assumes a series of known facts: known customers, known features, known pricing, known distribution channel. Lean-driven (hypothesis testing/business model/customer development/agile engineering). experiential.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 14, 2021

In this article, we’ll share key brand tracking metrics and methods for how to measure and optimize your success. Key brand tracking metrics. For example, you could deploy CSAT surveys at various parts of the buyer’s journey (distributed across leads so as not to bombard a single customer with multiple questions).

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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. 7- The service operations industry. In my opinion, a new sector centered on carbon farming is just around the corner.

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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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Occam's Razor

MAY 2, 2017

The very best analysts are comfortable operating with ambiguity and incompleteness, while all others chase perfection in implementation / processing / reports. There is no golden metric for everyone, we are all unique snowflakes! :). and tell you what are the best key performance indicators (metrics) for them.

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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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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

If you’re working closely with partners who are helping you distribute your product, it’s especially important to make sure they understand who you are, how you speak, and who you serve. You get to call all the shots, including how you want to operate the business and who you want to be involved. Step 8: Track your metrics.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 9, 2010

In management jobs related to operations – that is, the people tasked with actually making and distributing physical products – this kind of thinking is now considered ludicrous, thanks to a century of progress. Probably not; it’s much easier to blame the particular person who made the mistakes. Expo SF (May.

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ConversionXL

MAY 22, 2017

All manual operations. Organizing multi-channel campaigns, segmenting audiences, and distributing personalized content, suddenly appeared to be easy, like never before. SaaS stacks give companies the agility they need to move fast, but often they are the cause of a huge data fragmentation. launched a contact management software.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

Every board meeting, the metrics of success change. Compared to the million-dollar startup, they are operating at micro-scale. Because they have no presence in the market, they have to find distribution channels to bring in customers. Go on an agile diet quickly. And yet, their investors are frustrated. Great post!

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

In other words, how can we adapt the Business Model Canvas when the metrics of success for an organization is not revenue? Does legal need to sign off for cyber operations? Distribution Channel changes to Deployment. In the defense and intelligence community the metrics of success are not revenue but mission achievement.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 29, 2020

It means relying on your own savings and revenue to operate and expand.”. It is also important to realize that, statistically speaking, most startups become operational without any venture capital or external funding sources. It’s vital to be aware of the fact that agile iterations are not random and haphazard.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Even the most radical Bell Curve -style thinkers have to concede that even if there are differences between men and women in the distribution of these traits on average, these curve have substantial overlap, and there should still be a lot more of them represented in high-tech startups. This is especially important across functional lines.

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Up and Running

JULY 28, 2015

“Time has always been our biggest problem,” Michael notes, saying that when you’re a small operation, not having a enough time to invest in the business can limit its growth. Someone to do bottling and labeling and perhaps some selling and distribution, basically. ” Do you track metrics or KPIs?

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 4, 2009

Im talking about the actual data-fetching operation. This information is normally maintained by your operations team. This is great for something like a huge DHT or a distributed work queue. Im not talking about high-level abstractions (like an object-oriented view of a customers data). The second is the mapping itself.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Startup Metrics for Pirates â?? SaaS Metrics Tutorial â?? Agile project management tool that enables real time collaboration. free, distributed source code control management system. Agile project management. agile product management. agile product management and Scrum tool. Agile eLearning.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 6, 2011

Most of our management tools, like planning and forecasting, require a long and stable operating history. It enables a company to shift directions with agility, altering plans inch by inch, minute by minute. How much of that investment is squandered because the funder is relying on vanity metrics for evaluation?

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 12, 2009

For most of its existence, PHP didnt have a standard package-distribution system or very good module support. But I think debates about which language, which operating system, even which editor (emacs, vim, Visual Studio) can go on forever. And this all came bundled up in another bad practice: a big monolithic interpreter.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 26, 2012

They all went away; they got rolled up in 1999 and 2000 into these too-big-to-fail banking operations," Davidson tells us. A company can validate its growth metrics, Bullpen believes, in as little as four to six months after its initial funding periods. They were some great, small banks: Robertson Stephens, Hambrecht & Quist, Alex.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 3, 2018

Corporate Agility. Transparency correlates to agility (Does your CEO know how many tests you ran last month?). Ed Fry – Customer Data Operations: Unleashing your hidden growth engine. Work hard to define meaningful product metrics – enabler of team success. Culture of Innovation. Continuous Optimization.

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Occam's Razor

DECEMBER 12, 2016

What guarantees that agility and innovation are present in your analytics practice? What one critical metric will help you clearly measure performance for each strategy above? How will you know if the performance was a success or failure, what's the target for each critical metric? You plus Finance plus CMO.].

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

It took hundreds of years for newspapers to learn to behave as worthy holders of this public trust and cover the news without fear or favour, and create a firewall between news and views and the ad-sales side of the operation. Users felt themselves to be valued partners because you made them feel that way. You earned their loyalty.

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Occam's Razor

APRIL 23, 2012

While there is a great deal of appreciation for the power of metrics/data, I've come to realize that Sr. Leaders don't quite appreciate the deep, and often corrosive, consequences of choosing metric x over metric y as a key performance indicator (KPI). It is a standard metric. Don't believe me?

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ConversionXL

APRIL 3, 2019

Why our CRO jobs will die: Teams operate at different paces. There are tons of metrics you can monitor: Conversion rate; Bounce rate ; Click-through rate ; Pageviews; Lead captures; Purchase conversion rate. Setting up your experiments for success: Define success metrics. Historically that’s been expensive. Not anymore.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 19, 2019

Set targets: metrics to tackle the overarching goal for your product lifecycle. We need a metric or KPI that shows how good we are at increasing the likelihood that someone will convert in the future. Brand voice must represent who you are as an organization, your mission, how you operate, etc. Shapes the curve of your business.

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