Board Effect

OCTOBER 15, 2023

The Benefits of Generative AI for Nonprofits Nonprofit organizations and associations typically run on tight budgets and lean staff numbers. Risk Management AI poses potential risks, including reputation harm caused by AI errors. BoardEffect is designed with the unique needs of volunteer boards in mind.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

Over the last three years our Lean LaunchPad / NSF Innovation Corps classes have been teaching hundreds of entrepreneurial teams a year how to build their startups by getting out of the building and testing their hypotheses behind their business model. Filed under: Customer Development , Lean LaunchPad , Teaching.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 8, 2011

In January, we introduced a new graduate course at Stanford called the " target="_blank">Lean LaunchPad. It was designed to bring together many of the new approaches to building a successful startup – customer development, agile development, business model generation and pivots. (The to get hard-earned information.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

(Almost) everything you need to know (but are afraid to ask) before you wistfully ask a product manager to coffee so they will help you find a job. TL;DR Product management is a unique and poorly understood discipline, especially as it applies to software and other tech-related companies.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 16, 2013

It was not only my secret weapon in thinking about new startup strategies, it also gave me a view of the management issues my customers were dealing with. Through HBR I discovered the work of Peter Drucker and first read about management by objective. Today, we’ve come full circle as Lean goes mainstream.

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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.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

MARCH 2, 2023

Interestingly, this weight loss journey is similar to the entrepreneur’s strategy for building and growing a lean business. So, What Exactly Is the Lean Method? Lean thinking begins with our vision. Fortunately, and perhaps luckily, failure is an acceptable and essential component of the lean methodology.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

This philosophy comes from The Lean Startup methodology , which relies on testing hypotheses to better understand your customers’ pain points and goals. Marketers can use this framework to evaluate the risks associated with different growth strategies. Design a marketing growth strategy that increases market share and revenue.

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ConversionXL

JULY 16, 2019

In this post, I’ll walk you through a rigorous project management process to help you optimize your campaign strategy. Taking lessons from agile project management (specifically: sprints), I’ll show you how to build more effective, less assumptive, marketing campaigns. Here’s where a decision-making framework like DACI comes in handy.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Brand-faithful design and layout. If you’re not using an automated solution to manage revision control, put appropriate policies in writing to ensure that no work is lost. Stay Lean and Low. Stay Lean and Low. Full treatment of product components and functions. Adequate documentation for Customs clearance.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 30, 2013

They could have helped us anticipate and solve organizational challenges and agree on how we planned to manage the risks. 2) We should have had buy-in about the value of disruptive new business models, design and open innovation thinking. Venture Fest was not integral to their success.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! How does a cat manage to always land on their feet when falling from any height? Amazon’s Jeff Bezos: The ultimate disrupter | Fortune Management – [link].

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 5, 2015

If you keep up with the news on project management and business strategy, you’ve probably come across the buzzword “agile” more than a few times. It’s clear that the IT world loves agile: over 75 percent of software developers are using, or plan to use agile project management software. Defining Agile.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 8, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, August 8, 2009 Revisiting the Software Design Manifesto (and whats changed since then) My recent article on technical debt and its positive uses generated a fair bit of controversy. The argument itself got me thinking a lot about design and its role in building products.

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Conflict Management: Conflict, or the avoidance of it, is the biggest barrier to team productivity. Teams are made aware of the relationship between diversity and conflict, and given tools on how to manage that polarity. It can augment, Lean, Design Thinking or Agile approaches. Management teams. Innovation teams.

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

MAY 1, 2018

Invest in Frameworks, But First, Establish a Culture Where Innovation Thrives. More structure is needed as fundamentals take hold, and that means an innovation process framework. More structure is needed as fundamentals take hold, and that means an innovation process framework. Innovation Fundamentals for Leaders.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

Guest post by Lisa Regan, writer for T he Lean Startup Conference. We’ve posted the full program for The Lean Startup Conference , and it includes more than three days of events for Gold pass holders and six days of events for VIP pass holders. On the evening of December 8, Ignite Lean Startup kicks off the conference.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 16, 2015

So operating at a higher level, helping to set the framework for decision making and then sitting down and watching the game be played, is certainly the way to go.” Here is where I see this really play out: Product Management. Allocation planning in product management in ingenious and helps a lot with CEO meddling.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

When WordStream began receiving complaints that the seven-day free trial of their PPC management software wasn’t long enough, the brand decided to A/B test 14-day and 30-day trials. Growth marketing borrows a concept from the lean startup methodology. The results? Prospect trial to conversion rates fell with the longer trials.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 25, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, March 25, 2009 The Lean Startup at Agile Vancouver April 21st A surprising number of respondents in the latest Lessons Learned survey hail from one of the flourishing startup hubs in Canada. This workshop brings together leading thinkers from Lean Production and Lean software.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

Greater discipline during boom times offered more flexibility during lean years. And getting it right during the lean years, Bain reports , has a massive impact on companies’ growth rate after things improve: ( Image source ). Frameworks for businesses during a crisis. Survey design. Where do your consumers fall?

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 26, 2021

You’ll hear from Staples on the five positive emotions that are the most effective in content to get people to lean forward and share: happiness, awe, curiosity, empathy, and surprise. His book, The Speed of Trust , is designed to help leaders build a collaborative team and environment on the basis of trust. Hall, Ph.D.,

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 10, 2012

I was working in manufacturing studying lean principals on the factory floor when I came up with the idea for Coffee Joulies and asked Dave if he would help me. The second is that we strictly enforced a framework that we called 'Original Vision' early on. Second: Web design. There were two things that made this idea different.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 25, 2018

Don’t forget to factor in skillsets like graphic design and videography—these can quickly become very expensive for a new ecommerce business. Now you have your roadmap, the final step is to divide your ecommerce journey into manageable segments. Start simple and create a simple spreadsheet, documenting any staffing or freelance needs.

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Up and Running

MAY 9, 2022

One of the best uses for a business plan is as an internal management tool to help you run your business. Instead, you can stick with a simple internal business plan model that keeps your document lean and easy to communicate. An internal business plan is a tool that is built to serve you and make your business easier to manage.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 5, 2010

While the customer development framework of Four Steps is universally relevant, The Entrepreneur’s Guide updates its practices for modern startups. While maintaining persistence and willpower is certainly good advice, Customer Development methodologies are designed to give you data and feedback you may not want to hear.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 31, 2009

Every startup has some methodology for product development, launch and life-cycle management. Yet startup companies have traditionally used this model to manage and pace not only engineering but also non-engineering activities. In this post I’m going to describe the flaws of the product development model. It’s a big idea.)

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 15, 2010

And when companies pursue sustaining innovations — like a product line extension or a new technology designed to serve an existing customer segment — this procedure makes complete sense. Safely because it is clear that the manager in question didnt do his homework. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 29, 2010

Traveling the past year, I have heard loud and clear that its time for the Lean Startup movement to enter its next phase. Tactics were discussed out of context, and there wasnt an overarching framework for figuring out what works for what kinds of companies, industries, and stages of growth. Is design important to lean startups?

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 27, 2016

This generally includes aligning your goals and resources to build out a roadmap, or at least a framework/process, for your experiments. We use the PXL Framework. So a roadmap is a way of incorporating your prioritization framework with some sort of strategic planning of your experiments over a time period.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

I am convinced one of Joel Spolskys lasting contributions to the field of managing software teams will turn out to be the Joel Test , a checklist of 12 essential practices that you could use to rate the effectiveness of a software product development team. Please leave feedback!) Joels Painless Bug Tracking is still the gold standard.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

is an elegant way to model any service-oriented business: Acquisition Activation Retention Referral Revenue We used a very similar scheme at IMVU, although we werent lucky enough to have started with this framework, and so had to derive a lot of it ourselves via trial and error. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0.

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 18, 2020

The framework helps in achieving the service goals effectively and efficiently. It has been designed by taking the various needs of different companies into consideration. ITIL 4 is the latest iteration of the ITIL framework. What is ITIL? What is ITIL 4?

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 16, 2013

Guest post by Lisa Regan, writer for The Lean Startup Conference. As Lean Startup methods have been used now for a number of years, we’ve become increasingly interested in how companies use them to sustain growth. The new process let us manage the velocity of change in the codebase low, keeping the resistance manageable.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 14, 2023

The 5 Key Skills That Successful Managers Possess written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing Marketing Podcast with Dave Dodson In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Dave Dodson. Questions I ask Dave Dodson: [02:08] How do you define the term manager ? [03:27] Like this show?

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www.subelsky.com

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

Mike Subelskys Blog Wednesday, November 11, 2009 Lean startup tools for Rails apps A few months ago I was invited to dinner with the Geeks on a Plane crew when they stopped in Washington, and had the opportunity to meet one of my heroes, Eric Ries , author of the Startup Lessons Learned blog. I'm a lighting audio and video designer.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 7, 2019

The eight teams spoke to over 820 beneficiaries, stakeholders, requirements writers, program managers, warfighters, legal, security, customers, etc. Our keynote speaker was Palmer Luckey , founder of Oculus and the designer of the Oculus Rift. He’s now the CEO/founder of the AI-focussed defense contractor Anduril Industries.

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