View from Seed

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

You always want to be careful with how tightly you schedule things to make sure you stay agile and responsive to evolving business needs, but you also need to make sure your overall journey makes sense and that you’re building things in the right order, as well as taking on risks in a measured way. We did that for a lot of reasons.

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Steve Blank

MAY 6, 2015

Founders assumed they understood customer problems/needs, wrote engineering requirements documents, designed the product, implemented /built the hardware/software, verified that it worked by testing it, and then introduced the product to customers in a formal coming out called first customer ship. Microsoft Windows 3.0).

Lean 120

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

Since the term “cloud computing” was coined in 1996—at least as we have come to understand its meaning—the software as a service industry has exploded. If you use software like LivePlan, you can create this initial “lean plan” in under an hour and then spend your time where it really matters—on validating your idea. Wireframes.

Software Review 74

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 13, 2020

Leonard Callejo, Director of Online Marketing at Cisco Webex, is a successful enterprise software digital marketing leader that has built agile, data-driven demand generation cultures that span start-up, high-growth, large enterprise and turnaround business situations.

Product 136

Product Software Review Due Diligence Agile 136

Steve Blank

JUNE 26, 2014

Agile Engineering” to have teams prototype, test, and iterate their idea while discovering if they have a profitable business model. Activities are the key things you need to do to make the rest of the business model (value proposition, distribution channel, revenue) work.

Intellectual Property 281

Intellectual Property Lean IP Open Source 281

Hearpreneur

JANUARY 29, 2023

billion monthly users, and it quickly became a go-to platform for brands looking to increase their distribution and reach. 9- L&D enables teams to be agile Photo Credit: Chris Gadek Investing in L&D is essential for companies to build agility into their cultures. Thanks to Joshua Haley, Moving Astute ! #9-

Artificial Inteligence 115

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

For example, if you’re building a mobile app, then the key activities are: app software development, user interface design and demand creation skills. Or if you’re building consumer electronics the key activities might be: low cost hardware design, high volume manufacturing, user interface design, consumer branding and retail distribution.

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Transformify

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Chris, many software companies work on a project basis. The first was a shakeup in our software engineering team, which was originally based out of New York City. Adeel established a team in Lahore and we all did Agile training together to formalize a working relationship. Our guest today is Chris Lacinak, President of AVP.

Wyoming 64

Wyoming Pakistan Software Engineering New York City 64

YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 16, 2018

They of course need to be agile and adaptable, but home businesses should still have some formalized planning and structure. Everyone involved in the business, whether it’s your uncle that does accounting, or your teenage kids that distribute surveys, needs to know how to protect your data.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 9, 2020

Leonard Callejo, Director of Online Marketing at Cisco Webex, is a successful enterprise software digital marketing leader that has built agile, data-driven demand generation cultures that span start-up, high-growth, large enterprise and turnaround business situations.

Hiring 154

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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. To be fair, one of their team members had built the software and worked on it for awhile.).

Channel 215

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Transformify

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

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. Java EE, Java SE, Javascript, PHP, Software, Development, Software Testing, SQL. Scrum, Agile, Product Management. Project/ Product Management.

Africa 75

Africa Benin Seychelles Nigeria 75

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Microsoft entered the 21st century as the dominant software provider for anyone who interacted with a computing device. 16 years later it’s just another software company. The best are agile and know how to pivot – make a substantive change to the business model while or before their market has shifted. Here’s why.

Azure 120

Azure Business Model Cloud Artificial Inteligence 120

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Microsoft entered the 21st century as the dominant software provider for anyone who interacted with a computing device. 16 years later it’s just another software company. The best are agile and know how to pivot – make a substantive change to the business model while or before their market has shifted. Here’s why.

Azure 120

Azure Business Model Cloud Artificial Inteligence 120

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 15, 2017

Agile businesses have moved to the cloud because of its scalability, efficiency and reliability, amongst other benefits. As the cloud becomes increasingly common and the data deluge shows no signs of slowing down, the good old firewall is simply no longer sufficient for protecting the highly distributed assets of the enterprise.

Security 118

Security Software Review Technical Review API 118

ReadWriteStart

MARCH 11, 2020

For a distributed team to be successful, you must streamline communications. Furthermore, many businesses purchase software or subscribe to the newest, shiniest platform or tool only to discover that communication and processes became more complicated rather than easier. Build an Agile Culture. And the trend continues to grow.

Agile 145

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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. I am heavily indebted to earlier theorists, and highly recommend the books Lean Thinking and Lean Software Development. Of course, many startups are capital efficient and generally frugal.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 26, 2022

To prevent hackers from gaining access to your business's checking account, use low-cost software and dual controls to strengthen your payment processes. B2B enterprises would have to use various digital technologies like workflow management software to attain these goals. Think of the agility that comes with CAI, etc.

Software Review 118

Software Review Technical Review Artificial Inteligence Entrepreneur 118

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 4, 2017

“The future is inherently unpredictable,” insists the small company, spurred on by Lean and Agile mindsets. In software terminology, communication challenges scale as O(n 2 ). All hardware and software systems have bottlenecks. Indeed, blue-sky invention and execution are hard to predict. Another is bottlenecking.

Government 223

Government Startup Cofounder Technical Support 223

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. After all, the worst kind of waste in software development is code to support a use case that never materializes. Expo SF (May.

San Francisco 94

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 11, 2015

These days, it’s not uncommon for companies large and small to be completely distributed, i.e., have a wholly remote workforce. That’s because today’s business world moves faster than ever, and organizations need to be agile in order to adapt to it quickly. Still, companies need access to capital in order to grow.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

Today’s workforce has radically different expectations, brands are losing their power, physical channels are being destroyed by virtual ones, market share is less important than market creation, and software is eating world. For example, Coke added snack foods, which could be distributed through its existing distribution channels.

Private Equity 325

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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. Can this methodology be used for startups that are not exclusively about software? Expo SF (May.

Customer Development 131

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

PernixData introduces a software-defined “Flash Virtualization Platform” that aggregates and virtualizes flash storage distributed across servers into a scale-out data tier for enterprise data centers to provide low cost, deterministic high performance to any out-of-box application.

Software 104

Software Flash Architecture Aggregator 104

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. November 5, 2008 10:13 AM spanky said.

Lean 102

Lean San Francisco Agile Continuous Deployment 102

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 8, 2020

Leonard Callejo, Director of Online Marketing at Cisco Webex, is a successful enterprise software digital marketing leader that has built agile, data-driven demand generation cultures that span start-up, high-growth, large enterprise and turnaround business situations.

Video 246

Video Hosting Agile Distribution 246

Agile VC

JANUARY 13, 2016

Potential for instant global distribution (mobile app stores, Facebook, etc). A pure software company might have 80-90%+ gross profit margins, but a commerce company might at best be 30-50% and service marketplaces might be far lower when measured on a gross revenue / GMV basis.

Technical Review 157

Technical Review .Net Revenue Software Review 157

Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

Software companies had to buy specialized computers and license expensive software. Customer Development , Agile Engineering and the Lean methodology enforced a process of incremental and iterative development. The reward for doing so was a liquidity event via an Initial Public Offering. Rules For the New Bubble: 2011 -2014.

Internet 334

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 10, 2009

Our tests suite takes nine minutes to run (distributed across 30-40 machines). That leads to a seemingly-obvious question: what is progress in software development? Heck, thats what it says right there in the agile manifesto. The high level of our process is dead simple: Continuously integrate (commit early and often).

Continuous Deployment 123

Continuous Deployment San Francisco Software Review Lean 123

Agile VC

APRIL 17, 2011

Kayak Software Corporation. 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. Kayak generates both distribution (i.e.

Pre-Money Valuation 113

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

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.

Customer 420

Customer Marketing Lean Vertical 420

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

I am convinced one of Joel Spolskys lasting contributions to the field of managing software teams will turn out to be the Joel Test , a checklist of 12 essential practices that you could use to rate the effectiveness of a software product development team. Please leave feedback!) Can you make a build in one step? Youd better.

Software Review 144

Software Review Technical Review San Francisco Continuous Deployment 144

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 25, 2019

Adding the right tools and automation, teams can design, test, build, and deploy software more agilely. There are plenty of open source software and commercial software solutions that DevOps teams are using to accelerate app development. Another software platform using containers is Docker. Kubernetes.

Java 118

Java XML Open Source Continuous Deployment 118

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.

Architecture 113

Architecture Stealth Agile Distribution 113

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.

San Francisco 113

San Francisco Lean Technical Review Distribution 113

steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

Github - Free public repositories, collaborator management, issue tracking, wikis, downloads, code review, graphs Pivotal Tracker – Agile project management tool that enables real time collaboration.

Software Review 110

Software Review Startup Silicon Valley Analytics 110

ConversionXL

MAY 22, 2017

A Brief History of Marketing Technology Software. launched a contact management software. Siebel took off the most important features from the Database Marketing Systems and combined them with contact management solutions software. As very often happens, to understand the present, you have to know the past.

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