The Next Web

JANUARY 15, 2014

For us, this means using best of breed cloud hosted services like Adobe Connect and Kaltura , taking advantage of the best open source applications that run the Internet like Apache and MongoDB , and building our own proprietary cloud-hosted tools when appropriate on great platforms like Amazon Web Services and Salesforce.com.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 27, 2019

As a mentor to entrepreneurs, I often get asked for the magic that has made Amazon the world's most valuable brand , from a total unknown only twenty years ago. They present a convincing story that every entrepreneur has the same potential, but most get sidetracked and bogged down by their technology, competitors, and internal organization.

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Global Marketing Technical Review Algorithm 308

Hearpreneur

JANUARY 13, 2021

We asked entrepreneurs and business owners about the tough lessons they have learned in 2020. #1- Historically, these have been the times where entrepreneurs and business owners have emerged. At Inorbital we’ve been immersed in web-based project management tools for a several years while all our staff were onsite.

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Offshore Entrepreneur Jordan Agile 134

Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 16, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, March 16, 2009 Combining agile development with customer development Today I read an excellent blog post that I just had to share. Jim Murphy is a long-time agile practitioner in startups. But startups sometimes have trouble applying agile successfully.

Agile 111

Agile Customer Development Developer San Francisco 111

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 6, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, November 6, 2008 Steveys Blog Rants: Good Agile, Bad Agile I thought Id share an interesting post from someone with a decidedly anti-agile point of view. Steveys Blog Rants: Good Agile, Bad Agile : "Google is an exceptionally disciplined company, from a software-engineering perspective.

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Agile San Francisco Software Review Continuous Deployment 76

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 4, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, April 4, 2010 Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Kent Beck will give the opening keynote at the Startup Lessons Learned conference on April 23. Labels: sllconf Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Kent Beck will give the opening keynote at the Startup Lessons Learned conference on April 23.

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Agile Software Review San Francisco Continuous Deployment 99

Hearpreneur

AUGUST 20, 2023

These pieces of advice go against the notion of having a concrete blueprint, urging entrepreneurs to embrace uncertainty and navigate the uncharted waters of their journey with an adventurous spirit. Contrary to the initial advice, I learned that it's essential to embrace agility and be willing to pivot when necessary.

Entrepreneur 81

Entrepreneur Cap Table Dividend Cofounder 81

Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Here’s what entrepreneurs had to say about the companies they admire for their innovation. #1- I have always admired and been amazed by successful entrepreneurs who don't have a university degree. For me, it's a live example of agile and sustainable business. One of the companies that's known for innovation is Apple.

Technical Review 124

Technical Review Entrepreneur Software Review SEO 124

The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 9, 2024

Develop agility and adaptability Image credit Having agility in decision-making is a vital aspect of achieving business success. Despite the difficulties it involves for entrepreneurs, it supports business growth and allows decision-makers to focus on strategic objectives.

Programming 124

Programming Agile Advertising Lead Generation 124

YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Dev shops may also have different processes for managing projects One of the most common is called agile development - and has rave reviews due to its emphasis on quick iteration. Most shops that are agile will state it clearly, so look out for this if it’s important to you. Contact references. Catch her on Twitter at @StartupStella.

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Developer Hiring Cofounder Technical Review 203

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 11, 2015

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. A web-based collaboration tool that’s now valued at $2.8 Small businesses face numerous challenges and according to a U.S. to be productive.

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Technical Review Small Business Entrepreneur Pennsylvania 100

Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 25, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, March 25, 2009 The Lean Startup at Agile Vancouver April 21st A surprising number of respondents in the latest Lessons Learned survey hail from one of the flourishing startup hubs in Canada. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Expo SF (May.

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Agile Lean San Francisco Continuous Deployment 60

Up and Running

DECEMBER 17, 2014

To help you prep, I’ve collated a list of tools—for both web and mobile devices—that have helped me and others get things done, save time, and work more productively. At Palo Alto Software, we use it to manage our editorial calendar and the web development queue. ” Collect content from all over the web and organize it into lists.

Entrepreneur 153

Entrepreneur Email SCRUM Stock 153

Feld Thoughts

MAY 28, 2015

I can’t remember if Ryan used the word Agile at that time, but I remember scribbles on a white board that listed out all the different software that Ryan had used at BEA to manage his dev team and how maddening it was to try to integrate information in Word, Excel, Project, a dev workbench, a set of testing tools, and the support / QA system.

Software 70

Software Technology Agile SCRUM 70

Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 17, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, March 17, 2009 Join the Lean Startup discussion at Web 2.0 Expo for free Im honored to announce that my Lean Startup session at the Web 2.0 Although Im not a developer, I am captivated by the lean and agile start-up model that you write about. The chance to not only be at the Web 2.0

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Lean San Francisco Web Continuous Deployment 76

Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, February 9, 2009 The lean startup @ Web 2.0 Expo (and a call for help) Ive been asked to speak this year at the Web 2.0 It uses principles of agile software development, open source and web 2.0, Im especially interested in hearing from those of you who are planning to attend the Web 2.0

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Lean San Francisco Web Advisory Board 68

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 27, 2011

3:35 The real entrepreneurs come out during a down economy. 8:17 How did you decide to go with either shrinkwrap or web only product? 19:30 A teachable moment for entrepreneurs: HAVE A HYPOTHESIS! 42:20 Did agile development influence you? 44:45 Telling an entrepreneur to focus is like telling a fat person to lose weight.

Silicon Valley 301

Silicon Valley Lean Social Media PR 301

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. Entrepreneurs who make this case effectively will get the decision they want, no matter how esoteric their technology.

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Elevator Pitch Social Network Agile Technology 272

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 20, 2011

I remember thinking, “Wow, whoever’s on the other end of phone sounds just like an entrepreneur, they were asking for the impossible.” These weren’t 22-year olds who wanted to build a social shopping web site. We taught them the business model / customer development / agile development solution stack. The Stanford Lectures.

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Incubator Government Silicon Valley Lean 303

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 5, 2010

The Entrepreneur’s Guide is an easy read. While the customer development framework of Four Steps is universally relevant, The Entrepreneur’s Guide updates its practices for modern startups. Many “airport business books&# urge entrepreneurs to never give in. I think theyve succeeded. In fact, they probably will.

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Customer Development Developer San Francisco Customer 166

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. Entrepreneurs who make this case effectively will get the decision they want, no matter how esoteric their technology.

Technology 412

Technology Elevator Pitch Social Network Agile 412

Hearpreneur

JANUARY 31, 2016

Being in love with your business, when you’re an entrepreneur, is even better. Although there are days when tossing in your hat seems like a viable option, remembering how much you love your “job” can quickly snap an entrepreneur out of that mentality. We asked some entrepreneurs “why they started their businesses.”

Entrepreneur 48

Entrepreneur India Cofounder Technical Review 48

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Mobile and web software apps may cost even less. Many have disappeared, and others have forgotten how to be agile and innovative. Yet, in my view, every early-stage entrepreneur should be exploring this new funding alternative before approaching VCs. Some VC firms are bogged down by their own weight.

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Angel Investor Venture Capital Silicon Valley Portfolio 342

BeyondVC

APRIL 4, 2018

And with that, VC money poured into every category imaginable as every VC and entrepreneur scrambled to create a new system of record…until there were no more new systems of record to be created. What Pivotal understood early is that there is no digital transformation and agile application development without infrastructure spend.

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Cloud Agile Architecture Azure 60

The Next Web

MARCH 6, 2014

Practice Agile Development. We practice agile development principles, and having the constant feedback between business and development that agile suggests is key to successful integration of the two teams. Entrepreneur Insider Analysis and Opinion Entrepreneurship startup YEC yec.co Young Entrepreneur Council'

Technical Review 129

Technical Review Development Team Review Developer Agile 129

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. There are two major channels: physical channels and virtual (web/mobile) channels. Yet like passionate entrepreneurs, the team ignored our advice and pressed on. (To Week 6 of the class.

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Channel Artificial Inteligence San Francisco Business Model 221

crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 30, 2014

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! A tech bubble: What Chicago entrepreneurs think | Blue Sky Innovation – crowdspring.co/1lJaw6B. Agile UX vs Lean UX, which should you choose?

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 93

The Next Web

NOVEMBER 17, 2013

When it comes to scaling your startup’s Web development resources (or lack thereof), it seems like you can never have enough assistance. Many times, entrepreneurs who are starting up are very product focused, which can certainly be a good thing and a way to drive customers. And at what price? If you can’t do that, then you can’t exist.

Hiring 145

Hiring Developer Startup LLC 145

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

We think teaching teams a formal methodology around the Lean Framework (Business Model design, Customer Development and Agile Engineering) is a natural evolution of how successful incubators/accelerators will build startups. Here’s the story of one such team; Jonathan Wylie, Lakshmi Shivalingaiah and the Evoke team. Here’s how that happened.

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Lean Customer Development Sales Cycle Business Model 316

Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 15, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, January 15, 2010 Two Ways to Hold Entrepreneurs Accountable (for Harvard Business Review) The next part in the series I am writing for Harvard Business Review is online. This time, Im discussing the challenge for corporate CFOs and VCs alike in holding entrepreneurs accountable. Read the rest here.

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Hockey Stick San Francisco Entrepreneur Lean 105

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

Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 3, 2017

As our digital agency focuses on search engine marketing the name fit perfectly in reference to the ‘web’, ‘spiders’ used to crawl web sites and the historic naming of an early search engine. The Hacker Chick Blog ended up becoming one of the top agile software development blogs on the Internet.

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Naming Entrepreneur LLC Social Media 78

Hearpreneur

AUGUST 31, 2018

Then we paired it with a cool icon that represents wisdom and agility, Owl. Mike is a software engineer and very familiar with a popular web development framework named Django. I first heard the name Django after listening to Django Reinhardt, a famous Belgian-born jazz guitarist and composer.

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Naming Entrepreneur Jordan Software Review 100

The Next Web

DECEMBER 3, 2017

You can uncover how to become one of those fully-trained and certified Agile (and its popular Scrum framework) masters with this Agile and Scrum Project Management Certification Bundle. Right now, grab this high-level instruction at just $29 from TNW Deals.

SCRUM 122

SCRUM Agile Salary Framework 122

Steve Blank

MAY 17, 2010

The plan describes the execution strategy for addressing these “knowns.&# In the early days of venture capital, investors and entrepreneurs were familiar with the format of business plans from large company and adopted it for startups. There are now examples of business model presentations on the web.

Business Plan 314

Business Plan Business Model Customer Development Deal Flow 314

Steve Blank

MARCH 8, 2011

It was designed to bring together many of the new approaches to building a successful startup – customer development, agile development, business model generation and pivots. – not just web-based startups. In January, we introduced a new graduate course at Stanford called the " target="_blank">Lean LaunchPad.

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Lean Business Model Customer Development Guinea 300

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? Expo SF (May. .

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Customer Development Engineer San Francisco Developer 131