Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 15, 2020

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. Every business and brand has unique requirements to fit into their market environment. Strategic proficiency. Leadership brand development.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Disruption today is more than just changes in technology, or channel, or competitors – it’s all of them, all at once. If they were a commercial company, they figured out product/market fit; or if a government organization, it focused on solution/mission fit. This article previously appeared in the Harvard Business Review.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 25, 2023

From crafting a compelling brand identity to mastering digital marketing, it's a multifaceted journey that demands careful planning and execution. By creating high-quality, engaging content on your website, you drive sustained traffic over the long term and establish yourself as a reliable player in the market.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 29, 2023

Companies should invest in the necessary resources and technologies to ensure employees have a comfortable and secure work environment. Businesses must invest in the right technology. Adaptability is essential for success, and I'm constantly learning to make use of technology and tools to work more efficiently.

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 4, 2022

It conjures up visions of gleaming new technology and equipment that may propel them to the top of their respective sectors. The ultimate goal is to boost productivity and performance to stay competitive in an increasingly digital market. When it concerns implementing new technology, most businesses are playing catch-up.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Reading the NY Times article “ Jeffrey Katzenberg Raises $1 Billion for Short-Form Video Venture, ” I realized it was time for a new startup heuristic: the amount of customer discovery and product-market fit you need to find is inversely proportional to the amount and availability of risk capital. ” Fire, Ready, Aim. IPOs dried up.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 8, 2023

Keeping up with trends is the reality show of the e-commerce world, which is constantly developing, gaining a significant market share, and driving online sales. It becomes even more interesting in the world of emerging technologies and the IoT. This fact makes voice commerce stand out and grow on the market in 2023.

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ctotodevelopers.blogspot.com

JULY 11, 2012

Social, Agile, and Transformation. I cover several topics including agile software development, software startups, web 2.0, Strategic Agile Thinking: Balancing Value, Innovation and Research. 2) The agile "happy place". Agile teams sprint when value is known, implementation is low risk. and business transformation.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

APRIL 16, 2024

Technology is revolutionizing how sustainability data is collected, analyzed, and reported, making it a valuable asset for businesses striving for accuracy and efficiency in their reporting practices. Regulatory requirements for sustainability reporting are ever-evolving, and businesses must remain agile to meet these changing standards.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

MAY 3, 2024

Explore the importance of sustainability and functionality in packaging to stay ahead in the competitive cannabis market. By investing in green packaging initiatives, businesses in the cannabis sector can strengthen their market positioning while contributing positively to the environment.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 18, 2022

The challenge is that the future is much harder to quantify than existing competitor markets. Don’t let all the data you now have on the past keep you from listening for changes in the market. Sometimes you have to be willing to jeopardize current revenue streams to penetrate new markets or technologies.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 14, 2017

by Amanda Setili, author of “ Fearless Growth: The New Rules to Stay Competitive, Foster Innovation, and Dominate Your Markets “ Polarization is a common problem for companies trying to make smart and agile strategic decisions. They know how to reach the consumers who are in the market for their products.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

No company can afford to lose the agility, flexibility, and innovation of a startup. Companies follow each other rather than the market. Metrics and observations while running the existing business become the primary basis for future projections. Change is hard. The future is extrapolated from internal data analysis.

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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. Every business and brand has unique requirements to fit into their market environment. Strategic proficiency. Leadership brand development.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 21, 2013

Through rapid experimentation, short product development cycles, and rigorous measurements of the right metrics, they can ascertain what customers really want. Customer development (the understanding of customer needs) must be married to agile development (a process which drives waste out of product development).

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Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

Think about this; 7 years ago Nokia owned 50% of the handset market. Fast-forward to today—Apple is the most profitable Smartphone company in the world and in Spain Android commands a market share of more than 90%. Its worldwide market share of Smartphones has dwindled to 5%. Apple owned 0%.

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BeyondVC

APRIL 4, 2018

While one of the darlings of the last 10 years, Facebook, is getting pummeled, the enterprise market is back in the spotlight. Look at the Dropbox IPO which priced above its initial value and came out white hot at the end of one of the worst weeks in stock market performance. Serverless technologies….

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ConversionXL

MAY 22, 2017

You see, the current structure of the modern marketing stack leads to a large amount of data fragmentation. A Brief History of Marketing Technology Software. How their product leaders and CMOs embrace the change adjusting product/marketing strategies based on new technologies. Contact Management: The Beginning.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 20, 2022

These changes can be cultural, like the increasing need to be social, spawning Facebook and a hundred others, or technological, like the explosion of mobile devices around the world. The advent of new breakthrough technologies. Changes in your organization’s core performance metrics.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 7, 2016

Companies that do this best become market leaders. Smart entrepreneurs architect a value chain that includes customers, partners and vendors, based on market dynamics. Set business goals and milestones, and use metrics to track performance. A great business must be agile.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 29, 2021

It's important to keep business agile. 11- Growing our market. Our number 1 goal for 2022 is to grow our market control both domestically and internationally. One of the key metrics of success in Real Estate is having a large market share. #8- Being prepared for the unexpected. Photo Credit: Sean Kelly.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

No company can afford to lose the agility, flexibility, and innovation of a startup. Companies follow each other rather than the market. Metrics and observations while running the existing business become the primary basis for future projections. Change is hard. The future is extrapolated from internal data analysis.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 3, 2015

The disadvantage is that its methodology was based on the old waterfall model of product development and not the agile and lean methods that startups use today. It taught lean theory ( business model design , customer development and agile engineering) and practice. Seeing Is Believing. The Business Plan is Dead.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 8, 2008 Waves of technology platforms I still remember the first time I switched to LAMP. That startup didnt turn out so well, but not for lack of technology. I was building a new startup in 1999, and wanted to do it right. 1 comments: flixsterwidgettest said. yeah, its awesome.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

These changes can be cultural, like the increasing need to be social, spawning Facebook and a hundred others, or technological, like the explosion of mobile devices around the world. The advent of new breakthrough technologies. Changes in your organization’s core performance metrics.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

But by taking advantage of open source, agile software, and iterative development, lean startups can operate with much less waste. So far, I have found "lean startup" works better with the entrepreneurs Ive talked to than "agile startup" or even "extreme startup.") Of course, many startups are capital efficient and generally frugal.

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ConversionXL

JULY 3, 2020

We consider four critical areas for planning your data strategy: Strategy and culture; People and skills; Technology and tools; Methodology and process. You also need metrics on cart abandonment and purchase rates of those who saw your test idea and those who didn’t. Someone will need to track additional metrics. Image source ).

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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.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 26, 2017

A successful market intelligence campaign can be the extra ingredient which pushes your business to new levels of success. To get a better idea of how smart market intelligence can help your business, let’s look at 5 ways you can prepare your business to adopt a successful market intelligence campaign. Know Your Competition.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

MARCH 18, 2024

Discussing the future evolution of ERP technologies and the strategic value of such systems. However, the benefits extend further, offering enhanced customer service and fostering an environment that can quickly adapt to market changes or internal shifts in policy and procedures.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 26, 2015

In the last five years “ Lean Startup ” methodologies have enabled entrepreneurs to efficiently build a startup by searching for product/market fit rather than blindly trying to execute. . —– Lean Innovation Management. Companies pursuing innovation can Buy, Build, Partner or use Open Innovation. Fast forward to today. Get to Yes.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

We wanted an agile approach that would allow us to build our software architecture as we needed it, without downtime, but also without large amounts of up-front cost. You can also download our presentation, " Just-In-Time Scalability: Agile Methods to Support Massive Growth." Expo SF (May. Seth Godin: How often should you publish?

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 7, 2008

In addition to presenting the IMVU case, we tried for the first time to do an overview of a software engineering methodology that integrates practices from agile software development with Steves method of Customer Development. Ive attempted to embed the relevant slides below. What about a hardware business with some long-lead-time components?

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 4, 2008

Boyd emphasized the importance of agility in combat: "the key to victory is to be able to create situations wherein one can make appropriate decisions more quickly than ones opponent." As Ive written previously , lean startups are built upon three main trends: Technology commoditization. Agile software development.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 8, 2008

But too often when its time to think about customers, marketing, positioning, or PR, we delegate it to "marketroids" or "suits." Many of us are not accustomed to thinking about markets or customers in a disciplined way. a roadmap for how to get to Product/Market Fit." Very few startups fail for lack of technology.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 4, 2022

Old companies can be blind to, and even fearful of, innovation and new technology. To get big, old businesses to work, at least in some ways, like small, agile, young start-ups? Measuring the new company or spin-out with the same metrics as the core business can sometimes choke the momentum and not give an accurate picture.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 8, 2019

The biggest challenge these days doesn’t seem to be in starting a new business, but sustaining it against the onslaught of market changes and new competitors that emerge every day. For a successful launch and scalable growth, they need to establish many checkpoints, with metrics to assess their progress and alignment with the vision.

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