Steve Blank

JUNE 29, 2009

I was met by a very apologetic manager who said, “We’ve been trying to get a hold of you for the last week. The manager of the training department who hired you wasn’t authorized to do so – and he’s been fired. You’re Hired, You’re Fired. I am sorry there really isn’t a job for you.&#

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2017

For example, if a chief executive officer manages the daily operation, a chief entrepreneur heads up innovation efforts. And the chief entrepreneur has a staff of chief portfolio manager, chief venture capitalist, and chief risk officer, right? So that gives us two different management structures for these two different portfolios.”

Lean 245

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

Bootstrap mentality keeps the organization focused on being frugal, innovative and agile. They would focus on being able to sustain without any funding and manage their overheads in a manner that they are able to manage with little or no funding. Funding is never guaranteed.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

They helped build the blue collar working class in China and India. My conclusion from the narrative that followed the families is that they would have been better served by basic training in the reality of their new economic context, financial management and new life skills. In addition, skills training in resilience, agility, etc.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 5, 2011

By Terry Hicks, General Manager and Vice President, Intuit Global Small Business. This allows them to be agile in meeting changes in the business environment or in internal changes. He currently manages teams in India, Canada, Singapore and the UK.

Cloud 162

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 8, 2009

As people get more and more used to piloting, they will start to ask themselves “why wait until the last minute?&# (See Management Challenges for the 21st Century by Peter Drucker for more on this thesis.) In May of 1998, India detonated several nuclear weapons at a test site near New Delhi. Expo SF (May.

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SVPG

DECEMBER 29, 2013

I started writing about this as far back as 2005 (see Startup Product Management ), and this concept is at the core of the Lean Startup movement. They cite the loaded cost of an outsourced engineer in India or China and point out that it’s a fraction of what that engineer would cost locally. I could go on, but you get the idea.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Here’s an example from App Manager 5.0, It’s a strategy often used by smartphone brands like Samsung and Huawei in emerging markets such as India. Product lifecycle management goals at this stage are: Increasing market share Creating brand preference. Whatever you decide, manage the decline by milking the brand.

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Product Marketing Software Review Social Media 142

The Next Web

JANUARY 24, 2014

To put it into management speak, our digital infrastructure is world-class. The Dutch ‘invented’ the limited liability corporation with the inception of the Dutch East India Company. Think of Stanford and Sandhill road in Silicon Valley, Route 128 in Boston or IIT in Bangalore India. A top-notch infrastructure.

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Netherlands Technical Review Stock Silicon Valley 143

Steve Blank

MAY 18, 2009

We agreed that all her founding CEOs seemed to have the same set of personality traits – tenacious, passionate, relentless, resilient, agile, and comfortable operating in chaos. It’s our hood alignment station,” the plant manager said proudly. the manager followed us still yelling. were born in India.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

AUGUST 30, 2010

Agile Development, meet Agile Business. If your VA is self-managing, you can lay out tasks a month at a time. India, Bangladesh or other countries do not have quality VA's, but the Filipinos learn English in school, do not tend to be entrepreneurial (thus are less likely to steal ideas), and are culturally service-oriented.

Software Review 284

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Occam's Razor

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

My professional career spans three countries: India, Saudi Arabia and the United States. I’ve contributed at the junior, senior, and mid-level, been a project manager, business analyst, manager, director, and … I'm not quite sure how to describe it, but an evangelist.

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Cracking the Code

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Europe and India are growing particularly quickly, and investment more than doubled from 2015, while the US is up 20%. A healthy funding environment and momentum in Europe Like the public market, the private funding environment is still at an all-time high in 2017 with an annualised investment rate of $8.4B in the US, $2.6B

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Europe Cloud API 83

Agile VC

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

This was also the period when VC started expanding seriously in emerging markets like India and China, and many LPs put new capital into these OUS funds. For those who aren’t familiar, Mobius was a VC fund with offices in Silicon Valley and Boulder CO and at it’s peak Mobius had $2B+ under management.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 4, 2009

And in MMOs, of course, it was a fiction-derived term for parallel servers which has managed to stick (many people refer to parallel VW servers as "shards" now). nice post April 2, 2009 11:00 PM web design India said. Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? Did a DB term of art come from UO?

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

I’ve managed to contact two serial entrepreneurs by email, give them the pitch, and both of them agreed with me but commented that it would be a challenge to set up. Might be cost effective if you outsource your project to India Inc. @$10-15/hour. I have a related dilemma. None of my friends and I are able to do this ourselves.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Risk capital has emerged in China, India and other countries where risk taking, innovation and liquidity is encouraged, on a scale previously only seen in the U.S. Entrepreneurship as It’s Own Management Science. Finally, venture capital and angel investing is no longer a U.S. or Euro-centric phenomenon.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

And.NET’s languages (C#, IronPython, managed C++, etc.) The VAST majority of what you’re dealing with (HTTP, MIME, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, relational databases, page template, authentication, session management, caching, etc.) Do you manage to hire any programmers in the first place. are also reasonable and flexible.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 5, 2010

The CEO weighs in with his perspectives, the head of product management disputes his conclusions and the marketing VP has a different take. He gossips with the office manager who tells 3 software developers. We spend hours of seemingly “wasted&# time just in these informal chats simply shooting the shit.

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Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

Risk capital has emerged in China, India and other countries where risk taking, innovation and liquidity are encouraged, on a scale previously only seen in the U.S. We now have specific management tools to grow startups. First, Venture Capital and angel investing is no longer a U.S. or Euro-centric phenomenon.

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

Scoping the prpject down to something manageable is really hard. I am starting a big web project, and have been thinking about how to break it down into manageable chunks. This may well be the first project you have managed but most programmers have worked on dozens and they have invaluable experience designing features and interfaces.

CTO Hire 84

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

Here your challenge is to convince that manager that you really can do the job at such low cost. Why do you think outsources have been happy to generate all this PR the past few years about people losing their jobs to India? Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? Expo SF (May.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Task Management. Project Management Tools. Subscription Payments / Management. Managing APIs. Customer Relationship Management. Contractor Management. Private beta invitations & management: Prefinery. Scanning / Document Management. Project Management tools. Part 4- Closing.

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