Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 17, 2014

I strongly recommend a dramatic departure from this model, called “planned iteration” or Lean Startup methodology, where you assume you won’t get it right the first time, so you launch with a minimum viable product (MVP). Then you assess feedback, adjust your offering, and iterate until you get it right (have some very satisfied customers).

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 5, 2017

This is an emerging theme in the past decade as investors learn that customers assign more value and loyalty to business owners who display this attribute. The result is a win-win-win situation for investors, entrepreneurs, and customers alike. Implement “lean startup” principles. More value delivered and success for all.

Technical Review 152

Technical Review Stealth Lean Social Media 152

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 9, 2013

I strongly recommend a dramatic departure from this model, called “planned iteration” or Lean Startup methodology, where you assume you won’t get it right the first time, so you launch with a minimum viable product (MVP). Then you assess feedback, adjust your offering, and iterate until you get it right (have some very satisfied customers).

Agile 263

Agile Startup Social Network Software Developers 263

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

Whether you are an entrepreneur starting a new business, or a corporate executive seeking to revitalize a mature business, the challenge is the same – to become the obvious choice within the hearts and minds of your customers, your employees, and your chosen communities. Seek out only the best potential partners and customer leaders.

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Lean Leadership Partner Customer 290

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 14, 2014

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. Commit to a major customer.

Entrepreneur 283

Entrepreneur Intellectual Property Technical Review Incubator 283

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

His new book on this subject, “ The Lean Startup ,” lays out how today's entrepreneurs use continuous innovation to create radically successful businesses. Eric espouses designing products with the smallest set of features to please a customer base, and moving products into the marketplace quickly to test reaction, then iterating.

Lean 255

Lean Entrepreneur Silicon Valley Architecture 255

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 1, 2017

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. Commit to a major customer.

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Product Development Cost Developer Product 177

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 28, 2014

VCs and Angel investors like to see a startup that is running lean and mean, with no more than three or four of the conventional C-level or VP titles. This person may be an extraordinary communicator, who rallies employees, customers, and colleagues around the vivid future he sees. Chief Sales Officer (VP Sales). Chief Brand Officer.

CTO Hire 252

CTO Hire Fractional CTO Angel Investor Public Relations 252

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 4, 2021

Waste in a startup is any activity that burns resources, but creates no value or competitive advantage in the eyes of customers. Much has been written about this subject in the world of manufacturing, stemming primarily from the 1990’s work by Taiichi Ohno, called the Toyota Production System (“Lean”). Defective products and services.

Startup 404

Startup Lean Metrics Matching 404

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. Commit to a major customer.

Intellectual Property 309

Intellectual Property Technical Review Venture Capital Startup 309

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2018

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. Commit to a major customer.

Intellectual Property 134

Intellectual Property Technical Review Startup Incubator 134

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 10, 2023

Every business organization, large or small, has a variety of individual and team member types that factor into your ability to innovate and change the business to meet evolving customer needs and competition. Lean on your neutral instincts until the right domain experts can explore them.

Silicon Valley 240

Silicon Valley Lean Leadership Analytics 240

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 20, 2020

Whether you are an entrepreneur starting a new business, or a corporate executive seeking to revitalize a mature business, the challenge is the same – to become the obvious choice within the hearts and minds of your customers, your employees, and your chosen communities. Seek out only the best potential partners and customer leaders.

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Lean Partner Customer Leadership 419

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 2, 2016

In my role as a business advisor, I often see well-meaning entrepreneurs try to be everything to everyone, which results in many things done poorly, and few totally delighted customers. People are confused by multiple messages, and employees are frustrated trying to personalize customer experiences.

Customer 120

Customer Aggregator Lean Design 120

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Rather than punish them, it may pay you to nurture and manage their outside-the-box thinking, and capitalize on their innovations that help your customers and keep you ahead of the competition. Sometime employees on your front lines have a better handle on what customers need next than external entrepreneurs.

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Employee Java Architecture Technical Review 133

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

Even customers, while they all want the next big thing, want it to happen with minimal new learning. Focus on customer needs rather than profits. When innovations are implemented that have clear value and acceptance by customers, business success will follow. Startup leadership and survival is all about execution.

Artificial Inteligence 285

Artificial Inteligence Open Source Lean Leadership 285

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

It’s equally easy to go online and incorporate your new entity, register some intellectual property and have some fun with social media for marketing and interacting with customers. Keep expenses down, but keep customer visibility and sensitivity as a top priority. Practice living on a shoestring budget. Marty Zwilling

Equity 349

Equity Hockey Stick Bootstrapping Sweat Equity 349

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 22, 2013

VCs and Angel investors like to see a startup that is running lean and mean, with no more than three or four of the conventional C-level or VP titles. This person may be an extraordinary communicator, who rallies employees, customers, and colleagues around the vivid future he sees. Chief Sales Officer (VP Sales). Chief Brand Officer.

CTO Hire 244

CTO Hire Fractional CTO Startup Angel Investor 244

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 7, 2022

Resurgence begins when entrepreneurs and top executives stop trusting only themselves, and build a coalition with customers to see what is and isn’t working. Formalizing change involves distributing authority to make important decisions to the team members most able to add direct customer value. Reinvent the vision for change.

Social Media 317

Social Media Lean Distribution Business Model 317

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

You need them to make a personal commitment to customer service, improved quality, and change to improve the future. Satisfaction and commitment come from choosing a path to move forward, evaluation results and customer feedback, and learning from all their best efforts. Be the model of customer focus for the team.

Honduras 368

Honduras Nepal Startup Lean 368

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 27, 2020

Even customers, while they all want the next big thing, want it to happen with minimal new learning. Focus on customer needs rather than profits. When innovations are implemented that have clear value and acceptance by customers, business success will follow. Startup leadership and survival is all about execution.

Artificial Inteligence 413

Artificial Inteligence Open Source Lean Leadership 413

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 8, 2015

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. Commit to a major customer.

Entrepreneur 120

Entrepreneur Intellectual Property Technical Review Incubator 120

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 1, 2010

VCs and angel investors like to see a startup that is running lean and mean, with no more than three or four of the conventional C-level or VP titles. This person may be an extraordinary communicator, who rallies employees, customers, and colleagues around the vivid future he sees. Chief Sales Officer (VP Sales). Chief Brand Officer.

CTO Hire 227

CTO Hire Fractional CTO Startup Angel Investor 227

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 18, 2020

It’s equally easy to go online and incorporate your new entity, register some intellectual property and have some fun with social media for marketing and interacting with customers. Keep expenses down, but keep customer visibility and sensitivity as a top priority. Practice living on a shoestring budget. Marty Zwilling.

Hockey Stick 423

Hockey Stick Bootstrapping Sweat Equity Intellectual Property 423

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 31, 2021

Forward-leaning questions can illuminate the values of both the leader and the team. This, in turn, will enable employee buy-in, and good choices with regard to interacting with customers and future goals. I agree with his outline of five critical areas: Improving vision. Ensuring accountability.

Leadership 435

Leadership Lean Employee Management 435

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2016

He nails the current key startup parameters, including the following: Crafting a lean business plan as your road map. Building a minimum viable product, with customer validation. Early customer feedback will position your solution, and help you make pivots before critical time and money are lost.

Intellectual Property 120

Intellectual Property Startup Angel Groups Social Media 120

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 10, 2023

Testing for real is the assumption behind approaches such as Lean Startup. So keep your eyes open and respond to new customers, new markets, and new partnerships. Market research techniques for trying to predict the market’s response to a new venture can be costly and are often unreliable. Get started and get some momentum.

Business Plan 357

Business Plan Lean Matching Cost 357

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 27, 2022

The payback in team engagement, as well as customer revenue and loyalty, can be large. Of course, implementation also requires the resources to test, iterate, and prototype solutions, in a lean and agile fashion, dictated by the needs of the marketplace. Keep focus on the journey to a common goal.

Forecast 340

Forecast Agile Lean Distribution 340

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

Trust is the key to productive relationships, and relationships with peers, constituents and customers are key to great businesses. The most effective and satisfying leadership comes without a title to lean on. Without trust, you can’t lead. You can’t get people to believe in you or each other. Marty Zwilling.

Leadership 334

Leadership Startup Lean Community 334

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 8, 2022

Expensive “lean startup” specialists can see a career potential, work full-time, and drive multiple successes. As your customer list grows in one, you own it for the second. Cross-fertilization from current market feedback.

Bandwidth 362

Bandwidth Entrepreneur Portfolio Cofounder 362

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Later, half of these come back to admit that their day job was not all that bad, less stressful, the work predictable, with others to lean on for hard decisions. It pays to be able to fall back into a familiar mental role to recover, when the pressures of fund raising, new product development, and satisfying initial customers wears you down.

Salary 383

Salary Cofounder Lean Revenue 383

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 17, 2020

Testing for real is the assumption behind approaches such as Lean Startup. So keep your eyes open and respond to new customers, new markets, and new partnerships. Market research techniques for trying to predict the market’s response to a new venture can be costly and are often unreliable. Get started and get some momentum.

Startup 359

Startup Business Plan Lean Matching 359

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

Resurgence begins when entrepreneurs and top executives stop trusting only themselves, and build a coalition with customers to see what is and isn’t working. Formalizing change involves distributing authority to make important decisions to the team members most able to add direct customer value. Reinvent the vision for change.

Social Media 213

Social Media Lean Distribution Business Model 213

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 22, 2016

While thinking about the parameters of traction, and how to measure it, I was impressed with a new book, “ Scaling Lean: Mastering the Key Metrics for Startup Growth ” by Ash Maurya, a serial entrepreneur, and creator of the one-page business modelling tool Lean Canvas. Benchmark your business progress as a customer factory.

Metrics 143

Metrics Advisory Board Startup Lean 143

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 3, 2012

His popular book on this subject, “ The Lean Startup ,” lays out how today's entrepreneurs use continuous innovation to create radically successful businesses. Eric espouses designing products with the smallest set of features to please a customer base, and moving products into the marketplace quickly to test reaction, then iterating.

Silicon Valley 273

Silicon Valley Architecture Startup Channel 273

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 8, 2018

Waste in a startup is any activity that spends resources, but creates no value or competitive advantage in the eyes of customers. Much has been written about this subject in the world of manufacturing, stemming primarily from the 1990’s work by Taiichi Ohno, called the Toyota Production System (“Lean”). Defective products and services.

Lean 130

Lean Metrics Matching Small Business 130

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 16, 2012

If you are new to the entrepreneurial world of startups, you are likely confused by the terminology of seed-stage, lean startups, micro-VCs, and Super Angels. For angel investors, early-stage means there is a good business plan and maybe a prototype, but no customer revenue. Lean startup. Business accelerator.

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Early Stage Finance Seed Stage Entrepreneur 253