Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 1, 2020

Business agility is defined as the ability to adapt rapidly and cost efficiently. According to a classic survey conducted by Dimensional Research for Zendesk , 90 percent of respondents asserted that positive online reviews influenced buying decisions, and 86 percent admitted buying decisions were influenced by negative online reviews.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 24, 2014

Business agility is defined as the ability to adapt rapidly and cost efficiently. According to a recent survey conducted by Dimensional Research for Zendesk , 90 percent of respondents asserted that positive online reviews influenced buying decisions, and 86 percent admitted buying decisions were influenced by negative online reviews.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 15, 2022

It’s a volatile period for every company, where most struggle with getting commercial and technological traction, usually based on a single product or service. A particularly critical moment is when the founders hand over the leadership to a more managerial regime. The challenge during this phase is to stay innovative and agile.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

The key elements of leadership in a company, both individual and organizational, are less tangible, but very critical in setting a market value for investment, acquisition, or going public. In the investment community, these leadership elements are often called “goodwill.” Execution leadership. Leadership brand development.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 26, 2015

Business agility is defined as the ability to adapt rapidly and cost efficiently. According to a survey conducted by Dimensional Research for Zendesk , 90 percent of respondents asserted that positive online reviews influenced buying decisions, and 86 percent admitted buying decisions were influenced by negative online reviews.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

In the very early days of any startup, the matters of company strategy , structure, culture and leadership are rarely formally addressed. Most people are already familiar with agile principles to some extent, but just in case let’s go over the basics. Improved adaptability. Putting the product/service on the market early.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 21, 2021

Every leading position in business requires a demonstration of diverse skills and leadership styles. Afterall, I hired them for their expertise and not simply to follow a set of instructions every day. I would describe my leadership style as individualized, and balanced. Thanks to Jordan Fuller, Perfect Captain ! #3-

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 15, 2019

This article previously appeared in the Harvard Business Review. Disruption today is more than just changes in technology, or channel, or competitors – it’s all of them, all at once. The type of disruption most companies and government agencies are facing is a once-in-every-few-centuries event. Process Versus Product.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 21, 2019

It’s a volatile period for every company, where most struggle with getting commercial and technological traction, usually based on a single product or service. A particularly critical moment is when the founders hand over the leadership to a more managerial regime. The challenge during this phase is to stay innovative and agile.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 15, 2017

by David Nagrosst, head of sales for Cyxtera Technologies in Asia Pacific, Australia and Japan. Agile businesses have moved to the cloud because of its scalability, efficiency and reliability, amongst other benefits. Security-focused code reviews and rigorous penetration testing are also highly recommended. The onset of death.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 11, 2016

Mark Raheja, founding partner at August , a consultancy focused on organizational development, will be speaking as part of the enterprise learning track at Lean Startup Week about agility at scale. In thinking about the future of corporate agility and management, what modern practices are most vital to today’s leaders? Definitely.

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mashable.com

MAY 9, 2011

Hiring the wrong person for key company positions can cost a business thousands — or tens of thousands — of dollars and man hours. This is especially true when it comes to tech companies hiring the wrong chief technology officer. Solid leadership is essential to the success of any team. Have an account?

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2017

With industries from banking to transportation being transformed and, in some instances, undermined by new business models and technology, executives are smart to wonder, “Are we next?” LESSON #3: Avoid these three hiring mistakes. When it comes time to grow your team, Jeff Jordan and Eric pointed out three hiring mistakes to avoid.

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Has there ever been a moment in time when so many new technologies are washing over us all at once? The elephant in the room is that the new technology requires a truly different approach. Innovating with digital technology requires a blended approach, truly diverse teams, training, and new ideation methods.

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Board Effect

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Planning for adequate training goes hand-in-hand with succession planning as it enables you to include leadership training for employees with long-term leadership potential. Moreover, a flexible workforce will enable your staff to be more agile and responsive when change needs to occur quickly. Improve Retention . Flow Model.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

What does your Chief Technology Officer do all day? Often times, it seems like people are thinking its synonymous with "that guy who gets paid to sit in the corner and think technical deep thoughts" or "that guy who gets to swoop in a rearrange my project at the last minute on a whim." But along the way, something strange happened.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 2, 2017

It’s a volatile period for every company, where most struggle with getting commercial and technological traction, usually based on a single product or service. A particularly critical moment is when the founders hand over the leadership to a more managerial regime. The challenge during this phase is to stay innovative and agile.

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Up and Running

JULY 2, 2018

As a business owner, it’s important to monitor the health of your growing company to spot warning signs—a fractured team, negative customer reviews, poor customer retention, and a lack of creative innovation. Hiring is a minefield for startups, but with the right approach, you can recruit top talent. Negative customer reviews.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 13, 2021

We have taken time as a community and leadership team to reflect and set short and long-term goals and build programs to support and grow member success over time. At Buttercloth for example, we pivoted early during the pandemic, hiring out-of-work salon workers to help make fashionable Face Masks which we gave to customers.

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SVPG

OCTOBER 14, 2014

Hopefully everyone understands that in technology companies, continuous innovation is not an option. ” I first witnessed this many years ago when I was an engineer for HP, building platform and tool technology products for “the enterprise.” In an IT mindset organization, product and tech are mercenaries.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 14, 2013

It’s a volatile period for every company, where most struggle with getting commercial and technological traction, usually based on a single product or service. A particularly critical moment is when the founders hand over the leadership to a more managerial regime. The challenge during this phase is to stay innovative and agile.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 29, 2021

It could be more revenue, hiring clients, or launching a new product or service, but every new year is an exciting time because it’s ripe with opportunity. Initially, I would like to hire people from my neighborhood, with the goal of expanding to other communities in the future. This will help those who lost work due to the pandemic.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2020

9:33) Scaling Up Excellence , process debt, technical debt, and human capital debt, plus rapid prototyping during the pandemic. (13:58) 28:12) The pandemic as a moment to invest in people and technology, have a plan and execute. 39:34) Humility in leadership and learning from the mistakes. (42:07)

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 14, 2015

It’s a volatile period for every company, where most struggle with getting commercial and technological traction, usually based on a single product or service. A particularly critical moment is when the founders hand over the leadership to a more managerial regime. The challenge during this phase is to stay innovative and agile.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 7, 2008

Its common to find a hacker at the heart of almost any successful technology company. When a startup encounters difficult technical problems, this is the guy you want solving them. As the company grows, hes the go-to person for almost everything technical, and so hes very much in demand. Just change it. All is not lost, though.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Growing my business and then getting a training facility of my own will enable me to hire more trainers and other staff so I can primarily focus on marketing, sales, and coaching. I have remained patient and worked diligently on the growth and success of the business. Right now I do all services myself at the client’s home.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 31, 2018

The nonprofit Austin Tech Alliance (ATA) noted that the city would need to move past paper-driven processes to fully benefit from smart city opportunities. Getting the blessing of department heads and other leadership gives staff freedom to participate fully in the process. Her advice: start top down with each office and get buy-in.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 5, 2023

With Nicole’s first-hand experiences and insights, we explored how this Fractional CMO trend is not just a fleeting fad but a strategic maneuver that’s reshaping the contours of business leadership in today’s dynamic landscape. Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! That's right. Do you see anything?

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 6, 2014

Hire for hustle. A great way to separate the entrepreneurial thinkers from those who aren’t is to place a special emphasis on hiring people with a sense of urgency; people who can and will move quickly; people who don’t always have to be told what their next step should be. But the most innovative, agile companies embrace mistakes.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 20, 2009

By the late 1930′s when HP started, a small group (measured in hundreds) of engineers who made radio tubes were building the valleys’ ecosystem for electronics manufacturing, product engineering and technology management. link] [link] I guess you could call it the “Continuous Wave Radio&# technology period.

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ConversionXL

MAY 1, 2017

One of the greatest threats to long-term success is when companies aren’t vigilant enough about responding to the changes in their market—whether it’s by failing to spot product or channel fatigue, acknowledge new competition, make needed updates to products or marketing adjustments in a timely fashion, or embrace new technology coming online.

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

MAY 1, 2018

Frameworks assume: engaged leadership, talent on the team, day to day creativity, curiosity, and domain knowledge. You will fail with: Lean, Agile, Design Thinking, TRIZ, Stage-Gate, Osborn-Parnes CPS, KILN’s FuseTrail, or a homegrown/blended framework. Seven Innovation Fundamentals: Applying creative thinking to problems.

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www.women2.org

MARCH 8, 2012

Published on: July 13, 2011 Posted By Angie Tags: Elizabeth Knopf , Finding A Co-Founder , FounderDating , Sorced , Technical Co-Founder , Tips & Tricks. Consequently, I either needed a tech co-founder or to pay someone to develop the product. Thus, I embarked on the journey to find a technical co-founder.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 9, 2009

But what I wanted was an agile marketing team capable of operating independently without day-to-day direction. competitive analyses, channel and customer collateral (white papers, data sheets, product reviews), customer surveys, and market requirements documents. We hired union laborers to do that.

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Agile VC

JULY 11, 2012

AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. You can learn as much from these cautionary tales as you can from the enduring successes, plus studying a broad sample of firms helps avoid drawing false conclusions due to survivorship bias. How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC. How To Think About The Future. July 11, 2012.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 29, 2022

Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! But now you go on, you look at Google reviews and they talk about rusty, the technician that came to their house and did an amazing job. So in looking at those reviews and that's the best social listening that a brand can do by the way is, uh, that's the best consumer insight.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! And I think that that's exactly why of those brands are taking the tech that they are. But now you go on, you look at Google reviews and they talk about rusty, the technician that came to their house and did an amazing job. Jacqueline’s podcast: Uncooked.

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