Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

The founders were simply wrong about their assumptions about customer needs. It turns out the term “visionary founder” was usually a synonym for someone who was hallucinating. Founders Need to Run the Company Longer. So, almost like clockwork 20 th century startups fired the innovators/founders when they scaled.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Even with advantages that independent startups can never hope to match, including brand recognition, customers, financial capital, and distribution, I don’t often see the entrepreneurial passion for innovation, agility, and team perseverance exhibited by new startups.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 30, 2015

by Raj Subramaniam, Executive Vice President, Global Marketing and Communications, FedEx Services. “No No new business is worth starting in these times unless it can go global.” – Sir Richard Branson, founder, Virgin Group. Today, all you need is a mobile device, a shipping platform and a big idea.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

Presenting your startup vision as a founder to a potential investor, or presenting an idea as an employee to an executive, requires that you effectively communicate, or “translate”, the value proposition into terms that the receiver can fully understand and appreciate. Implicit in agility is increased productivity on change initiatives.

Technology 206

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

What we do is try to help make sure that the way of working—the operating system, the culture, the organization's design—is well-matched to that challenge. Because right now we mostly operate on a factory model from a hundred years ago, which is all about the linear. So you need to be conscious of the context you're operating in.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 11, 2021

Every waking day, we are having tremendous changes in regulations and technology which greatly affects the way businesses operate. Some entrepreneurs will say the future is definitely bright but to others, some of these changes are meant to work against their expansion and business operations. Thanks to Erick Riddle, Driven Wheels ! #10-

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 28, 2011

Presenting your startup vision as a founder to a potential investor, or presenting an idea as an employee to an executive, requires that you effectively communicate, or “translate”, the value proposition into terms that the receiver can fully understand and appreciate. Implicit in agility is increased productivity on change initiatives.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 31, 2018

In many respects, it’s the leanness, flexibility and agility of startups that help them become successful,” he says. Too often organizations invest heavily in digital tools and platforms in the hope of swiftly bringing their business operations into the digital age.

United Kingdom 113

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Idealistic founders believe they will break the mold when they scale, and not turn into a “typical big company.” Small companies operate this way by necessity, and it works! Or it’s fatal because that was a co-founder. Communication and decision-making occupy the minimum possible time. No, it’s a colossal failure.

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

In the entrepreneurial ecosystem, where agility and adaptability are key, quitting can be particularly detrimental. The key here is that entrepreneurship thrives on enthusiasm and commitment, not just from the founder but from every team member. Thanks to Valev Laube, The VL Studios ! #4- Thanks to Andrew Van Noy, DeepPower Inc. ! #11-

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

In the entrepreneurial ecosystem, where agility and adaptability are key, quitting can be particularly detrimental. The key here is that entrepreneurship thrives on enthusiasm and commitment, not just from the founder but from every team member. Thanks to Valev Laube, The VL Studios ! #4- Thanks to Andrew Van Noy, DeepPower Inc. ! #11-

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Gust

SEPTEMBER 16, 2012

Presenting your startup vision as a founder to a potential investor, or presenting an idea as an employee to an executive, requires that you effectively communicate, or “translate”, the value proposition into terms that the receiver can fully understand and appreciate. Implicit in agility is increased productivity on change initiatives.

Technology 162

Technology Agile Architecture Distribution 162

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2013

He has grown our US operations from 1 employee (him) to a global organization of 75 employees that will finish the year with 8-digit revenues (90+% recurring) and more than 350% year-over-year growth. It consists of a highly intelligent and opinionated founder – Nick Halstead. The Agile Board. Board Meetings.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 30, 2012

The class teaches founders how to dramatically reduce their failure rate through the combination of business model design, customer development and agile development using the Startup Owners Manual. It doesn’t take equity and just has a small fee that varies by city ($140 to $299), to cover event operations and expenses.

Startup 335

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 18, 2017

Google recently declared that they desire to be THE operating system for your life. The speed of change in the global business environment might eventually reach a point where it also doubles every year. These shockwaves have been economic challenges, geo-political pressures, new technologies, and stiff global competition.

Global 113

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

The founders were simply wrong about their assumptions about customer needs. The globalization of entrepreneurship means the worldwide pool of potential startups has increased at least ten fold since the turn of this century. When the speed of how businesses operated changed forever.

Silicon Valley 335

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 11, 2015

by Eyal Shinar, CEO & Founder of Fundbox. In addition to cash flow, operational and organizational challenges often have a bigger impact on small businesses than larger companies as they typically have fewer resources at their disposal. Everything big must first be small. Still, companies need access to capital in order to grow.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 2, 2018

Jonathon Karelse is co-founder and a partner at NorthFind Partners, a Canadian-based, global consultancy that helps businesses transform through the use of data driven analytics, forecasting and planning, and change management strategies. But Jonathon Karelse says they couldn’t be more wrong.

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Hearpreneur

MAY 18, 2022

My co-founder and I started our labor-only moving company as the first movers ourselves. We want to leave an impact on the communities we operate in and the employees on our team, so we even offer them networking and internship opportunities. Thanks to Lucy Bedewi, Veronica V Sopher ! #4- 4- To leave an impact.

Technical Review 140

Technical Review Entrepreneur Software Review Jordan 140

Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

In fact, it was only 7 years ago that Apple shipped its first iPhone and Google introduced its Android operating system. Your time at ESADE has trained you to become a global business leader. If they don’t, then the management team has simply become caretakers of the founders’ legacy. Apple owned 0%. The Perfect Storm.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

Successful founders have a laser-like focus and commitment; a keen understanding of customers’ needs; and a tenacious spirit, said the latest guests on Entrepreneurs are Everywhere , my radio show on Sirius XM Channel 111. Steve : … Team captain is a lot like the founder and CEO of a startup. Reetu Gupta. Mandela Schumacher-Hodge.

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Cofounder India Entrepreneur Maryland 120

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Joe Felter , Raj Shah and I designed a class to examine the new military systems, operational concepts and doctrines that will emerge from 21st century technologies – Space, Cyber, AI & Machine Learning and Autonomy. And so this very agile, iterative process of bringing new technologies and prototyping systems. — On China.

Technology 308

Technology China United States Government 308

ReadWriteStart

JUNE 29, 2020

Thus, let’s start this discussion by defining the global crisis caused by the new coronavirus, COVID-19 , so that we can look forward to finding the opportunity in the crisis. What this means is that the global economy has been paused while we wait for the virus to burn itself out. .” – Albert Einstein.

Bootstrapping 85

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2020

13:58) Advice for companies who think it's too late to start looking for new ways to operate, including some examples from Austin, Texas. (15:55) We have companies now who have every store, globally or in a whole country, shuttered. So we went back, got our agile teams engaged and in 48 hours, we could put up aerial of people's homes.

Technical Review 148

Technical Review Balance Sheet Texas Austin 148

ConversionXL

APRIL 3, 2019

Go beyond standard sources of voice of customer data ; better options are: Interview founders (the original “customers”); Thank-you page surveys; Usertesting.com; Mine sales calls; Mine support tickets; Mine Facebook comments ; Mine online reviews. Founder interviews can find the story, the value proposition , and the big idea.

Artificial Inteligence 114

Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Metrics SEO 114

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 29, 2009

I hope to show why lean and agile techniques actually reduce the negative impacts of technical debt and increase our ability to take advantage of its positive effects. Yet other agile principles suggest the opposite, as in YAGNI and DoTheSimplestThingThatCouldPossiblyWork. Reconciling these principles requires a little humility.

Technical Review 168

Technical Review Software Review San Francisco Lean 168

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 27, 2010

Presenting an idea as an employee to an executive, or presenting your startup as a founder to an investor, requires that you effectively communicate, or “translate”, the value proposition into terms that the receiver can fully understand and appreciate. Implicit in agility is increased productivity on change initiatives. Data security.

Entrepreneur 220

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

.” Hackernews list of “Tools of the Trade” for startups - includes over 150 SaaS tools used by startups, and over 150 comments with interesting insights from founders. Agile project management tool that enables real time collaboration. Agile project management. agile product management. Agile eLearning.

Software Review 53

Software Review Technical Review Startup 53

Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 6, 2008

When youve mastered that, consider adding operations, customer service, marketing, product management, business development - the idea is that when the team needs to get approval or support from another department, they already have an "insider" who can make it happen. Lots of little projects erodes teamwork and builds up work-in-progress.

San Francisco 74

San Francisco SCRUM Lean Continuous Deployment 74

Ben's Blog

MAY 15, 2020

In normal times, every company operates against some hypothetical growth model—a data-driven framework that describes how your product grows and how you acquire new users. In normal times, every company operates against some hypothetical growth model—a data-driven framework that describes how your product grows and how you acquire new users.

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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.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 21, 2017

Prior to starting my own public relations and marketing consultancy, I worked for one of the largest global advertising agencies as well as smaller boutique PR and advertising agencies. I’m an architect turned entrepreneur, Founder and CEO of Cheekd a mobile dating app that makes missed connections obsolete. Image Credit: Lori Cheek.

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Agile VC

JUNE 5, 2011

Even for those who don’t care to dive into the numbers, it’s worth a quick glance because co-founder/CEO Andrew Mason wrote a letter which forms the preamble of the full document. So Groupon obviously filed their S-1 the other day to formally being the IPO process.

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North America Chicago Boston Silicon Valley 100

The Next Web

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Dan Ushman is the Co-Founder and CMO of Singlehop. This poses a problem to businesses that are still operating under the assumption that e-commerce is only from a single site. Transparency: Building trust via verifiable and enforceable operational transparency. Those times are long behind us.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 26, 2014

Most of today’s CEOs, CFOs, chief operating officers, boards of directors, and shareholders speak the language of this hard edge. Since collaboration and innovation are a must in the global economy, effective teamwork is vital. Nest Labs founder Tony Fadell said, “If you don’t have an emotionally engaging design, no one will care.”.

Analytics 160

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 12, 2016

We just held our final week of the Hacking for Diplomacy class, teaching students entrepreneurship and “Lean Startup” principles while they engaged in national public service applying advanced technologies to solve global challenges. Bureau of Conflict and Stabilization Operations. Bureau of Political-Military Affairs.

Silicon Valley 191

Silicon Valley Lean San Diego Agile 191

Agile VC

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

The world is experiencing a global economic crisis of a proportion most living people have never witnessed. But during this period, many founders and investors do prize growth above most everything else. Secondary transaction liquidity also starts to become a reality for founders and early investors. 2009-2011: Retrenchment.

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