ConversionXL

JULY 16, 2019

Taking lessons from agile project management (specifically: sprints), I’ll show you how to build more effective, less assumptive, marketing campaigns. That’s the nature of shipping marketing campaigns—the sprint is a framework, not a mandate, for guiding our work. Here’s where a decision-making framework like DACI comes in handy.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 3, 2015

To create great entrepreneurs, we had to give our students the experience of navigating the chaos and uncertainty of running a lean startup while providing the same kind of rigorous framework the business plan did in its day. It taught lean theory ( business model design , customer development and agile engineering) and practice.

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TechEmpower

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

Focusing on the metrics that ultimately drive the business, often the bottom line, has provided a reality check, a counter-weight to the desire to consume all new technologies. Besides, more development time means the client can be more agile with functionality and has a greater potential for success.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

MARCH 2, 2023

In other words, we can learn, build and measure at any stage because the lean process shapes a malleable framework that integrates iterative and incremental progress at its core. We exhibit wisdom by utilizing objective data for our experiments and identifying the truth that manifests in the metrics compiled from our data.

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Lean South Korea Metrics Framework 98

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

To achieve this mission, we established a framework that leveraged Marine Corps tenacity, agility, and adaptability to create a persistent culture of innovation. One of our primary goals in establishing this framework was to keep the user front and center, and to quickly deliver solutions to their challenges. Always Be Shipping.

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Framework Lean Metrics Government 322

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

To achieve this mission, we established a framework that leveraged Marine Corps tenacity, agility, and adaptability to create a persistent culture of innovation. One of our primary goals in establishing this framework was to keep the user front and center, and to quickly deliver solutions to their challenges. Always Be Shipping.

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Framework Lean Metrics Government 322

The Startup Magazine

MAY 12, 2022

While it is unclear how much Google uses speed as a metric, what is clear is how users treat a slow-loading website. For faster loading times, you’ll want to take advantage of front-end frameworks that help convert eCommerce sites to Progressive web apps (PWAs) while also taking advantage of headless eCommerce.

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eCommerce Analytics Framework Mobile 143

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Master of 500 Hats: Startup Metrics for Pirates (SeedCamp 2008, London) This presentation should be required reading for anyone creating a startup with an online service component. He also has a discussion of how your choice of business model determines which of these metric areas you want to focus on. Choose one. Expo SF (May.

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Given the common challenges encountered by founders as they navigate through this hiring decision, I thought I’d outline some of my thoughts below that can hopefully serve as a simple framework when it comes to making the first Analytics hire at your startup. Analytics vs. Finance?—?what’s what’s the difference (and what do you need)?

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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. When combined with the business model canvas, the Three Horizons of Innovation provide a framework for corporate innovation. Fast forward to today. Get to Yes.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 7, 2016

series that also includes the Future of Work , the Future of Corporate Agility, Skill-Sharing, and more in the weeks leading up to Lean Startup Week. To me, Lean Startup provides a framework and a methodology for taking customer empathy work and translating that into real and measurable outcomes for our community.

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Government Lean Startup San Francisco 165

Occam's Razor

JULY 22, 2013

The world does not need a new business framework. seconds)" for business framework on Google today. But most of the frameworks available to us solve for divisional silos. Then there is Agile for engineering. Then there is Agile for engineering. Why build a framework? And really the list is too long.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 15, 2010

Behind this analysis is a spreadsheet model, complete with detailed metrics for a set of customer behaviors that show just how valuable the new product will be. This whole framework breaks down when teams confront entrepreneurial situations in which theyre trying to build something new under conditions of extreme uncertainty.

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Hockey Stick San Francisco Entrepreneur Lean 105

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

Every board meeting, the metrics of success change. Go on an agile diet quickly. With a product development team that is not shipping, any agile methodology will surface major problems quickly. Time-to-complete-a-sale is not a bad metric for validated learning at this stage. And yet, their investors are frustrated.

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Customer San Francisco Lean Hockey Stick 167

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 9, 2018

More often than not, the modality that most fits this brief is cloud-based software, as its framework and delivery method allow businesses to customise how they display their information and data. The ideal software solutions for business are generally customisable, easily accessible, and able to be accessed from anywhere and at any time.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 5, 2010

While the customer development framework of Four Steps is universally relevant, The Entrepreneur’s Guide updates its practices for modern startups. While the customer development framework of Four Steps is universally relevant, The Entrepreneur’s Guide updates its practices for modern startups. Expo SF (May.

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Customer Development Developer San Francisco Customer 166

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

The site visits include stops at Square (the payments startup founded by Twitter co-creator Jack Dorsey), WeWork Soma (an amazing co-working space) and Pivotal Labs (leaders in Lean and Agile consulting), along with one more super-interesting location we’ll announce shortly. Which are the most important pieces, and which can you delay?

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 14, 2020

The Jobs-to-be-done framework (JTBD) was invented by economist Clayton Christensen and is a great way to identify user intent for a topic and define the right features. For many inventory-driven sites, the JTBD framework is a better alternative to personas. To merge this emotional context with the JTBD framework, use needs as filters.

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SEO Framework SCRUM Search 159

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 8, 2008

This theory has become so influential that I have called it one of the three pillars of the lean startup - every bit as important as the changes in technology or the advent of agile development. But you still need a framework to be able to observe and process what you are seeing and hearing. December 11, 2009 6:54 PM James Abley said.

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Customer Development Developer San Francisco Customer 168

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Metrics for this depth are rare and only long-term. Strategic content gives the audiences the frameworks and processes they need to make the conceptual ideas reality, and helps them frame up the solution space (again, not your product or service but how to think about solutions). The strategic level.

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Agile Social Media Audience Software Review 139

crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 1, 2015

Why Revenue Isn’t the Most Important Financial Metric for Startups – buff.ly/1DhyQo4. A Designer’s Introduction to “Agile” Methodology – Tuts+ Web Design Article bit.ly/1JT4QEb. Which is better – themes or frameworks? Small Business and Startup Tips: Analyzing Your Search Data | @crowdSPRING Blog – bit.ly/1EFd59a.

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OnlyOnce

JUNE 30, 2022

And she believes in Agile Marketing , which is always a plus in my book (and I find rare in marketers).

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Silicon Valley Agile Venture Capital Framework 62

Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 29, 2010

Tactics were discussed out of context, and there wasnt an overarching framework for figuring out what works for what kinds of companies, industries, and stages of growth. And do I still need to get out of the building if Ive got great metrics and surveys?" You had a lot of conflicting advice and success theater. Expo SF (May.

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Version One Ventures

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

Below is a sample result of one such experiment: Instacart’s Fulfillment and Marketplaces team use this framework to run several product iterations and have been able to successfully keep up the pace of innovation with the pace of our business. It’s important to define each side independently for the sake of product innovation agility.

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San Francisco Metrics Demand Austin 133

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

I know plenty of people who prefer more advanced source control system, but my belief is that many agile practices diminish the importance of advanced features like branching. Its not that the idea behind them is wrong, but I think agile team-building practices make scheduling per se much less important. Youd better. Expo SF (May.

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Software Review Technical Review San Francisco Continuous Deployment 144

Occam's Razor

DECEMBER 9, 2009

In this post let me share with you a common sense framework I use in my consulting engagements to figure out a home for web analysts. The four pronged real world tested probing and loaded with politics framework to find a home for Web Analytics: 1. How long has the company been doing web analytics, what is the landscape of tools?

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Analytics Framework Web Lean 95

OnlyOnce

AUGUST 12, 2013

A few years ago, people started talking a lot more about User Experience (UX) as a new crossover discipline between design and engineering, and our experience at Return Path has been that UX is an incredibly powerful tool in our arsenal to build great technical products via lean/agile methods. It has a beginning but it doesn’t have an end.”

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Lean Agile B2B Metrics 94

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 8, 2009

This simple three-part framework underlies almost all discussions about technical design today, and it was clearly on display in the recent debates over technical debt. Commodity: A program should be suitable for the purposes for which it was intended. Delight: The experience of using the program should be pleasurable one. Expo SF (May.

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Software Review Design Software San Francisco 87

Occam's Razor

APRIL 15, 2019

Bubble Kings most commonly reside in organizations where there is little to no accountability (or misplaced accountability, ex: celebration of vanity metrics). The framework I've shared, how they react , cultural implication , and how to deal with it , can be applied to multiple dimensions of our professional ecosystem.

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Leadership Non-Compete Analytics Software Review 79

YoungUpstarts

MAY 26, 2014

It’s their comfort zone: numbers, metrics, analytics, logistics, strategies, and a well-defined and easy-to-see ROI. Or why, in an entirely different industry, did German software giant SAP blow up the management framework for its 20,000-person development department and replace it with small teams? It’s how companies become agile.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

Once you build it, they will now ask you about the key metrics that they need proven in order to see if you really are a good investment. The real reason to build an MVP is to do early tests of key Startup Metrics for the business. " Once you have the metrics defined, it focuses your effort. To prove/disprove a hypothesis.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 24, 2017

Everyone has railed against these practices ( including us , many times), but it still seems that much of the industry is focused on short term metrics and surface level changes. With agile development cycles and uncertain monetization models, they live and die by data and experimentation. Image Source.

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Conversion Technical Review Artificial Inteligence Analytics 48

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 26, 2009

Personally, the framework Ive found most helpful is MTVs "create, share, validate" feedback loop. Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Six streaming locations Interviews ► March (7) New conference website, speakers, agenda Two new scholarship programs for lean startups Speed up or slow down? Expo SF (May.

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Product Development Developer San Francisco Product 88

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Army’s Rapid Equipping Force on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan finding and deploying technology solutions against agile insurgents. The framework has the team talking not just to potential customers but also with people responsible for legal, support, contracting, policy, and finance. Newell ran the U.S.

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Community Silicon Valley Technical Review Incubator 212

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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ConversionXL

AUGUST 4, 2020

You do CX a disservice if you focus only on metrics like NPS. waterfall, agile , etc.)? waterfall, agile, etc.)? agile vs. waterfall) you plan to implement, alongside how you’ll educate and increase the focus on CX throughout the business. Align team goals and metrics with CX behaviors and outcomes.

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SQL Software Review Agile Metrics 117

SoCal CTO

APRIL 28, 2014

Provide the metrics you are trying to achieve. Other Topics Covered I also covered topics that are covered more thoroughly in the following posts: Document Your MVP for a Developer. Developers like to do things their way even when it doesn’t meet the needs of the business.

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