Up and Running

DECEMBER 17, 2014

AdBlock gets rid of everything—Google ads, banner ads on websites, YouTube video ads, you name it. You can create an unlimited number of accounting reports, create and send unlimited invoices, scan receipts, manage your personal finances, and get access to free email support. After all, how do you know what your competition is doing?

Entrepreneur 153

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Up and Running

AUGUST 6, 2015

Without positive cash flow, all companies (and small businesses in particular) likely won’t possess the agility necessary to respond to today’s quickly evolving business landscape. So if your business is low on funds, you might want to look into lease financing instead of heading over to the bank to ask for a loan.

Management 60

Management Technical Review Software Review .Net 60

The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Even those that are household names and operate worldwide are constantly driving to expand and grow, which means your business must do the same. 1. If you are struggling to amass a following, promoting a few of your posts can help to get your business’s name out there and drive business growth. Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay.

Social Media 102

Social Media Early Stage Algorithm Agile 102

Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

I’m sure many of you have heard his name. Cheered on by finance professors, Wall Street analysts, investors and hedge funds, companies have learned how to make metrics like Internal Rate of Return look great by one; outsourcing everything, two, getting assets off their balance sheet, and three only investing in things that pay off fast.

Private Equity 328

Private Equity Metrics China Intellectual Property 328

Steve Blank

AUGUST 31, 2009

The first hint lies in its name; this is a product development model, not a marketing model, not a sales hiring model, not a customer acquisition model, not even a financing model (and we’ll also find that in most cases it’s even a poor model to use to develop a product.) So what’s wrong the product development model?

Customer Development 243

Customer Development Developer Customer Silicon Valley 243

The Startup Magazine

JUNE 28, 2017

These tips have been brought to you by personal loans from Latitude Finance and are aimed at new businesses who want some direction. Choosing Your Business Name And Registering It. Finding the perfect name for your business requires a bit more nuance than just choosing your favourite name and deciding on it.

Security 126

Security Social Media Government Agile 126

ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 20, 2023

While Silicon Valley remains iconic, cities from Bangalore to Berlin are making names for themselves as hotbeds of tech innovation. 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.

Technical Review 137

Technical Review Startup Silicon Valley Agile 137

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 20, 2008

When I first encountered agile software techniques, in the form of extreme programming , I thought I had found the answer. I explained it to people this way: agile lets you make the trade-offs visible to whole company, so that they can make informed choices. Even worse, agile wasnt really helping me ship higher quality software.

Software Review 164

Software Review Engineer Management Technical Review 164

Board Effect

JULY 16, 2023

What challenges and opportunities lie ahead in terms of: Finance Operations Risk management Regulations and laws Fundraising The people you serve and your mission What specific skills will you need on your board in order to navigate these opportunities and challenges? Your board management software will help you do the job.

Government 52

Government Agile Software Leadership 52

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

Now, in some situations, this over-selling would lead to a secondary problem, namely, that customers would realize they had been duped and refuse to re-subscribe. Go on an agile diet quickly. With a product development team that is not shipping, any agile methodology will surface major problems quickly. Great post! Expo SF (May.

Customer 167

Customer San Francisco Lean Hockey Stick 167

Steve Blank

JANUARY 4, 2010

Staring at us in the board meeting were three term-sheets from brand name VC’s and an unexpected buy-out offer from Google. They used Customer and Agile development to search for a scalable and repeatable business model to become a large company. They grow their business via profits or traditional bank financing.

Hockey Stick 296

Hockey Stick Venture Capital Startup Cofounder 296

This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 1, 2010

It’s often some combination of the idea not being big enough to sustain a venture exit or the company just not being appropriate for venture financing. My company was not well executed enough to achieve venture capital financing—and that wasn’t the city’s fault, it was mine. I was there, too. They’re not “dumb Wall Street money”.

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New York City New York Startup Burn Rate 120

Hearpreneur

AUGUST 31, 2022

Besides the control and flexibility I have over my life, finances, and well-being, I love that I am a representation that anything is possible. In college, I bounced from digital marketing to finance to others on my path to becoming an entrepreneur. 21- Agility. Thanks to Silvana Massolo, The Bloom Agency ! #10- 11- Variety.

Entrepreneur 129

Entrepreneur Green America Community 129

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2010

There are few courses which teach aspiring entrepreneurs the skills (business models, customer and agile development, design thinking, etc.) We’ll build the class around the business model / customer development / agile development solution stack. Deliverable for Jan 18 th : Find a name for your team. to optimize this search.

Wiki 315

Wiki Lean Management Business Model 315

Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 20, 2023

And that really is like the guide for corporate finance executives on how to value a company. And there's a bit of a sense that digital was a bit sort of the wild west in terms of, oh, it's all about agile and people improvise the method and you can't measure things as well. Do you really have a proper agile operating model?

Technical Review 66

Technical Review Silicon Valley Generative AI Arizona 66

Altgate

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

As your business grows, you will likely need more and more time from your accountant and at some point you’ll hire a full time person to handle the day-to-day, likely combined with roles as office manager or finance (not to be confused with accounting). Again…another nobrainer unless you’re LegalZoom. in equity. .]…

Software Review 65

Software Review Offshore Startup Boston 65

David Teten

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Dickinson: 3 amendments likely to be offered: 1) Financing 2) Schumer, at request of financial services sector, is thinking of bringing an amendment to the floor re: business method patents. We’ve revectored to an agile development methodology. Kappos: No inventions are needed to manage the post-grant process [i.e.,

Intellectual Property 60

Intellectual Property Detroit Technical Review Software Review 60

YoungUpstarts

JULY 30, 2015

Back in early 2003, a Dane named Janus Friis and a Swede named Niklas Zennström had an idea for a software application, and founded a business with the help of three Estonian software developers. They set about registering an internet domain name and preparing for the release of a Beta version of their app later that year.

Dominican Republic 100

Dominican Republic Global San Francisco Arizona 100

Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2017

Two particularly important roles include the chief venture capitalist, because the investment philosophy for invention is different than traditional finance, and the chief internal ambassador “who connects the two [functions] and builds bridges.” To support the three Cs, ING has also developed their own iterative practice named PACE.

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Lean Startup CTO Hire Cofounder 245

Transformify

AUGUST 5, 2019

Research shows that hiring diverse and inclusive talent leads to a high-performance culture that respects the customer, suppliers, community partners and employees while emphasizing results, innovation, service and agility. The combination of these factors makes recruiting talent a challenge for the insurance industry as a whole.

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Hiring Portland Non-Compete Seattle 40

crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Branding is a process designed to develop, among other things, a unique business name and custom logo design for a company, product, or service. But branding isn’t solely about tangible concepts like a company’s name and logo. A simple but effective way to do this is to ask yourself, “would [persona name] do [action]?”.

Marketing 162

Marketing Charlotte Naming Design 162

Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

The importance of a domain name. For Gabriel Kuperman, founder and CEO of CuePin, finding a good domain name was a key part of his branding strategy. If you find the domain name you want is taken, Gabriel suggests turning to a domain marketplace that sells premium domains. Pick a name for your business.

Software Review 74

Software Review Software Delaware Forecast 74

Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2009

Waterfall, Agile, Lean? Seed and Follow-on Financing – How do your finance it? Product Development – How do you engineer it? Manufacturing – How do you build it? Liquidity – How? M&A, IPO? These are just my checklist list items for students, your list doesn’t have to look like this.)

Vertical 124

Vertical Silicon Valley RSS Marketing 124

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2020

And then from there, I was running a fitness company on the west coast by the name of 24 Hour Fitness, which was private equity backed and quite a bit of debt. So we went back, got our agile teams engaged and in 48 hours, we could put up aerial of people's homes. Be very outcome-driven in the world we're going to. Let's go."

Technical Review 148

Technical Review Balance Sheet Texas Austin 148

Mike Michalowicz

FEBRUARY 18, 2015

We don’t have the enormous resources – financial and otherwise – that the big guys do, and we don’t have the benefit of name recognition. Business Technology Cash Flow Entrepreneur Stories Entrepreneur Strategies Entrepreneurship Innovation Mindset Motivation Productivity Systems finance necessity program resources small business underdog'

Small Business 60

Small Business Technical Review Agile Dividend 60

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 6, 2011

It enables a company to shift directions with agility, altering plans inch by inch, minute by minute. She works every day financing the next generation of startups. Although I truly believe this book is about you and the work you are doing to change the world -- for better or worse -- it's my name on the cover.

Lean 167

Lean Startup Metrics Private Equity 167

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

In future posts I’ll describe how Eric Ries and the Lean Startup concept provided the equivalent model for product development activities inside the building and neatly integrates customer and agile development. Perhaps you can determine whether a product is new by asking customers to name the competition. It was a new product.

Customer Development 217

Customer Development Developer Customer Silicon Valley 217

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

AUGUST 30, 2010

Agile Development, meet Agile Business. The deliverable was a Google spreadsheet containing the blog URL, blogger's name and blogger's email. Tags: How-To finance productivity tools. I tasked my VA with finding blogs that deal with startups/microISVs and rank in the top 100k in Technorati. Did you make it this far?

Software Review 284

Software Review Startup Technical Review Hosting 284

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

If it helps, use a basic formula like this one by HelloDotNYC : At [COMPANY NAME], it’s our mission to help [TARGET CUSTOMER] do / achieve / reach / eliminate / reduce [HAPPINESS/PAIN] by providing [A BENEFICIAL OUTCOME]. Finance is working with their data, marketing is working with their data, and sales is working with their data.

Analytics 106

Analytics Metrics Channel Campaign 106

Occam's Razor

DECEMBER 12, 2016

What guarantees that agility and innovation are present in your analytics practice? You plus Finance plus CMO.]. Each step has a sweet name: Objectives | Goals | KPIs | Targets | Segments. In a world when your work will never be done, how do you assess that the core things necessary are present? You plus Marketing Team.].

Analytics 60

Analytics DC Software Review Leadership 60

NZ Entrepreneur

APRIL 8, 2020

For instance, late payment and filing penalty write-offs and instalment arrangements for tax debt – to name a couple. If finance is needed, then it’s best to start exploring your options early. If you’ve been impacted by the downturn in business due to COVID-19, you may be eligible for tax relief and income assistance.

Small Business 70

Small Business New Zealand Government Agile 70

Occam's Razor

JANUARY 9, 2012

Just because your site is B2B, you do not have the right to create a 1940s website and force visitors to type their name, precise GPS coordinates and underwear size to get a PDF that should have existed as a webpage in the first place (as HTML has been invented). The web demands immense agility and flexibility from every company.

Marketing 140

Marketing Analytics Web Channel 140

mashable.com

MAY 24, 2011

Discovery by social and webapp html5 is more agile and less icon-find-item-search. May 23, 2011 17:45:54 Reply 0 Flag this comment HD1080i Follow +1 DITTO ON THAT … counting app downloads vs use-case metrics shows that the native app gets lost in its own sea of icons.

Mobile 90

Mobile Web Social Media Software Review 90

Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

I lived through the time when working in my first job in Ann Arbor Michigan we had to get out a map to find out that San Jose was not only in Puerto Rico but there was a city with that same name in California. A 20 th century VC was likely to have an MBA or finance background. 39 years ago I got on that plane and never went back.

Restful 238

Restful Silicon Valley Puerto Rico San Jose 238

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. My name is Crystal Williams, and I maintain a small business blog called Babeofbusiness.com. Keep up the great work!

Software Review 110

Software Review Startup Silicon Valley Analytics 110

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Add a class name to buttons, forms, quotes, etc. Agile project management tool that enables real time collaboration. Agile project management. agile product management. agile product management and Scrum tool. Agile project management tool collaborative product life-cycle. Agile eLearning. Eventbrite.

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Software Review Technical Review Startup 53