Feld Thoughts

APRIL 8, 2014

Raj Bhargava (CEO of JumpCloud ) and I have been talking about how startups can leverage DevOps and Agile more. We created a conference on DevOps last year for our portfolio companies and it was a huge hit. The post Q&A on Startups, DevOps, and Agile appeared first on Feld Thoughts. My Investments DevOps jumpcloud'

Agile 131

Agile Startup Portfolio Community 131

YoungUpstarts

MARCH 26, 2014

For project management to be an asset in critical time to market projects, it needs to be flexible and very agile to borrow a term from our software development friends. Needless to say, not the use of the word that everyone was hoping for. Can this be accomplished? The best practices he advocates stem from key learning’s acquired from his M.S

Management 223

Management Software Review Technical Review Agile 223

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Massive liquidity awaited the first movers to the IPO’s, and that’s how they managed their portfolios. And to be honest, VC’s in this bubble really didn’t care.

Lean 335

Lean Burn Rate Startup IPO 335

Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

Ben Deda from FullContact convened about 100 execs from our 60 or so portfolio companies for the day. Amongst other things, it describes a start-upper’s most valuable core attributes: fire, ability, agility, adaptability, and clear, concise communication skills. As I read this wonderful post, I got very positively charged up.

Agile 153

Agile Software Review Denver Database 153

SoCal CTO

APRIL 9, 2013

And they should not get to count items in their portfolio that were done at another company/job - yes, that''s quite common, especially in new firms. Do not fall into the trap of Startups and a Common Misunderstanding in Agile Software Development. But it''s quite different working for large firms than it is with startups. References.

Web Development 204

Web Development Web Developer Los Angeles 204

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 19, 2020

Examples of some leaders in this space include Ron Conway in Silicon Valley and Jeff Bezos , CEO of Amazon, who each may have over 500 startups in their portfolio. Many have disappeared, and others have forgotten how to be agile and innovative. VCs are committed to servicing existing portfolios.

Angel Investor 314

Angel Investor Venture Capital Silicon Valley Startup 314

Steve Blank

MAY 7, 2019

Lean Methodology consists of three tools designed for entrepreneurs building new ventures: The Business Model Canvas – to write down all the hypotheses about a new business; Customer Development – a process for testing those hypotheses outside the building; Agile Engineering – to rapidly build minimal viable products to test product/market fit.

Lean 333

Lean Marketing Agile Customer Development 333

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Johansen knows this space, as a distinguished fellow at the Institute for the Future in Silicon Valley, and Ronn is a serial entrepreneur and managing director of Innovation Portfolio Partners in Palo Alto. Maintain the agility to quickly pivot or quit. Social media relationships fuel the scaling fire. Not everything will work.

Partner 328

Partner Intellectual Property Silicon Valley Cloud 328

Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 16, 2020

4- Remain agile as a brand. For 2021, my number one goal is to be able to remain agile as a brand to be able to come out on the right side of the changes that are and will continue to come out of the global pandemic because I believe we are shifting to new ways of doing business, a different economy, and changing consumer behavior.

Entrepreneur 147

Entrepreneur Agile Artificial Inteligence San Francisco 147

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 29, 2020

Here are some of the key features and benefits of deploying PDFelement as part of your software portfolio. Though not strictly adherent to “agile” project management protocols like its sibling, Jira (also from Atlassian), it offers a compelling interface that uses drag-and-drop, click-to-edit, and other such convenient features.

Software Review 194

Software Review Software Employee Cloud 194

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Today, scaling an existing business in a large interconnected environment is generally easier than growing a disparate portfolio. This requires continuous communication up front, agility in adapting to change, and continuous innovation improving satisfaction and experience.

Customer 333

Customer Agile Social Media Portfolio 333

Transformify

AUGUST 18, 2022

Agile Delivery. Their portfolios give you a quick overview of how good their work is. It helps that freelancers are inherently competitive as well, so you won’t be lacking in willing recruits. Freelancers are well-known for providing quality work at a surprisingly quick pace.

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Hiring Technical Review Salary Employee 95

Where to Play

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Step 3: Designing the Agile Focus Strategy. Once they felt confident with the evaluation results, Flyability’s team could then use Worksheet 3 to design their Agile Focus Strategy. Worksheet 3 – Designing your Agile Focus Strategy. Worksheet 3 – Designing your Agile Focus Strategy.

Agile 54

Agile Technical Review Sales Cycle Distribution 54

Where to Play

AUGUST 18, 2020

In 2000, they included tentage into their portfolio and since then they have established themself as a premium brand in marriage event management. Step 3: Agile Focus Dartboard. After analyzing all the opportunities for their respective potential and challenges, Worksheet 3 was used to design the Agile Focus strategy.

Pakistan 62

Pakistan Sales Cycle Marketing Technical Review 62

Women Entrepreneurs Can

JANUARY 14, 2020

You can hire someone based on their online portfolio, you can send them the materials via the cloud, they can edit documents in real-time, and when the job is done – you can pay them immediately online. And the same flexibility works for large corporations too.

Technical Review 52

Technical Review Technology Agile Social Media 52

The Equity Kicker

MAY 7, 2013

As much as I seek to empower our portfolio companies to do what they think is right and to avoid over-planning I sympathise with these ‘traditional managers’ in the sense that when you switch from operating with a detailed operating plan to operating without one it feels like you are flying blind.

Development Team Review 94

Development Team Review Business Plan Agile Operations 94

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Johansen knows this space, as a distinguished fellow at the Institute for the Future in Silicon Valley, and Ronn is a serial entrepreneur and managing director of Innovation Portfolio Partners in Palo Alto. Maintain the agility to quickly pivot or quit. Social media relationships fuel the scaling fire. Not everything will work.

Partner 310

Partner Intellectual Property Silicon Valley Startup 310

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 28, 2010

kaChing launched a virtual portfolio management game on Facebook in January 2008 and a similar version shortly thereafter on kaChing.com. Because kaChing prefers its portfolio managers to have a long track record, the marketplace launch (i.e., A portfolio manager’s entire track record & holdings had to be disclosed.

San Francisco 158

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment SEC 158

Austin Startup

APRIL 12, 2018

As clients, we’ve done our fair share of portfolio reviewing and research. They Build Skill and Agility This one’s a gimme: passion projects are opportunities to learn and test new skills, techniques or approaches efficiently. It’s a win-win. Or is that a win-win-win? Pssst… like what you read?

Software Review 54

Software Review Portfolio Design Agile 54

Agile VC

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

When Rob, David, and I started NextView nearly five years ago we thought it was important to enlist a small group of talented entrepreneurs as we built and helped our portfolio over time. So if they’re not just names on a page, how are these entrepreneur advisors involved with us at NextView and our portfolio companies?

Software Review 113

Software Review Technical Review Entrepreneur Cofounder 113

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2013

VCs crave the ability to help portfolio companies. The Agile Board. ” and this morning, “Mark, I sent intro to [redacted], she is in LA. Please meet her while she’s there.” ” Here’s the thing people don’t quite get. Board Meetings. Running More Effective Board Meetings. Between Board Meetings.

Advisory Board 365

Advisory Board CTO Hire Fractional CTO Los Angeles 365

YoungUpstarts

JULY 14, 2015

Instead, take the time to compose a nimble, agile sales team that has worked in the industry you’re looking to penetrate, understands the fluctuating nature of a startup and is willing to do the dirty work: segment the market, make cold calls, automate sales and implement a sales process that is unique to your company and product.

Startup 100

Startup Agile Sales Conversion 100

Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

These Key Performance Indicators and processes are what make a company efficient —but they are also the root cause of its inability to be agile and innovative. Third, smart companies manage an innovation portfolio where they can pursue potential disruption in a variety of ways. Act Like a Startup.

Private Equity 325

Private Equity Metrics China Intellectual Property 325

Agile VC

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

When Rob, David, and I started NextView nearly five years ago we thought it was important to enlist a small group of talented entrepreneurs as we built and helped our portfolio over time. So if they’re not just names on a page, how are these entrepreneur advisors involved with us at NextView and our portfolio companies?

Software Review 100

Software Review Technical Review Entrepreneur Cofounder 100

Steve Blank

JULY 25, 2023

This meant the class was team-based, Lean-driven (hypothesis testing/business model/customer development/agile engineering) and experiential – where the students, rather than being presented with all of the essential information, must discover that information rapidly for themselves. How to map stakeholders and systems’ dynamics?

Lean 294

Lean Chile Ukraine Spain 294

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 27, 2014

Examples of some leaders in this space include Ron Conway in Silicon Valley and Brian Cohen , chairman of the New York Angels, who each may have over 500 startups in their portfolio. Many have disappeared, and others have forgotten how to be agile and innovative. VCs are committed to servicing existing portfolios.

Angel Investor 260

Angel Investor Silicon Valley Startup Portfolio 260

crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 13, 2011

Why Every Designer Should Have a Portfolio – [link]. What You Need to Know About Agile UX – [link]. Mobile Web Design: 10 Tips To Better Usability – [link]. 30 Collections of Creatively New Photoshop Tutorials – [link]. 16 Magazine Covers and Layouts Design Examples – [link].

Social Media 91

Social Media Small Business Design Media 91

Cracking the Code

MARCH 29, 2022

One of the benefits of the cloud is that it gives development teams more agility and flexibility, but with increased flexibility comes the downside of a loss of control and visibility. That said, some large sectors like financial services and healthcare only started to migrate their core workloads and data to the cloud more recently.

Cloud 62

Cloud Cofounder Architecture Technical Cofounder 62

Agile VC

OCTOBER 23, 2012

They matter in the sense that GPs only earn carried interest if they generate absolute gains on their portfolio, regardless of how their fund does relative to other VC funds or even other asset classes. Even if you’re top decile for your vintage year (e.g. 3.0x+ cash on cash) is profitable.

LP 176

LP Accredited Investor Carried Interest Portfolio 176

VC Cafe

AUGUST 2, 2022

Animoca has become a prolific investor in the world of Web3/NFTs and blockchain gaming with a portfolio of over 340 companies including Colossal, Axie Infinity, OpenSea, Dapper Labs (NBA Top Shot), Yield Guild Games, Harmony, Alien Worlds, Star Atlas, and others (Full disclosure: we are co-investors in Rebelbots with Remagine Ventures).

IP 206

IP Cofounder Valuation Acquisition 206

SVPG

MARCH 10, 2015

” How about the flavor of Agile they wish to use? Importance of Integration: In some companies, the portfolio is a set of related but largely independent products, where integration and leverage is less important. Should they be able to select the programming languages they wish to use? What about user interface frameworks?

Technical Review 60

Technical Review Software Review Portfolio Agile 60

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. While these theories explain how to think about innovation in a company they didn’t tell you how to make it happen. Fast forward to today.

Lean 120

Lean Management Business Model Incubator 120

Agile VC

MAY 13, 2013

While our portfolio at NextView is roughly equally weighted to consumer facing and B2B companies, it seems that for consumer companies in particular being first mover confers little benefit and the drawbacks probably outweigh whatever weak advantage might exist.

Cloud 205

Cloud B2B Software Review Technical Review 205

SVPG

JUNE 16, 2012

Think in leaps, but iterate in steps" - I attribute this to Google, and I like it because it helps to highlight the need for both product vision and for Agile methods, and to help teams understand why these goals are not in conflict. "Be And my favorites change over time and depending on the company.

Silicon Valley 69

Silicon Valley Aggregator Curation Agile 69

Steve Blank

AUGUST 31, 2009

Finally, I’ll write about how Eric Ries and the Lean Startup concept provided the equivalent model for product development activities inside the building and neatly integrates customer and agile development. The Focus on Execution Versus Agility The product development diagram has a linear flow from left to right.

Customer Development 238

Customer Development Developer Customer Silicon Valley 238

Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 30, 2013

Last week our portfolio company, JumpCloud - who is deep in the DevOps market with their automated cloud server management product – hosted the first annual DevOps conference here in Boulder. It was a huge success – we had over 200 people show up and engage in a full day of deep discussions on DevOps.

Conversion 132

Conversion Agile Portfolio Lean 132

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 15, 2022

For additional growth, most companies expand the product portfolio to cater to more customers, and sell more to existing customers. The challenge during this phase is to stay innovative and agile. A common practice is to hire local employees who know the geographic culture, even though this may well dilute the company culture.

Dilution 355

Dilution Startup Merger Flash 355