Up and Running

DECEMBER 17, 2014

Email management tools. Want an affordable CRM tool to manage your contacts, deals, projects, and messages? Use it to manage the hiring process, to keep track of investment and fundraising projects, to manage deals, and much more. Project management tools. LastPass Password Manager. Boomerang for Gmail.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 15, 2011

While open-source tools, readily available APIs, social platforms and cloud hosting providers have made it easier in many ways, being a Web entrepreneur is still not for the faint of heart. At my last startup we eventually started using a process called "scrum," which is basically a framework for managing agile engineering projects.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 3, 2017

You can uncover how to become one of those fully-trained and certified Agile (and its popular Scrum framework) masters with this Agile and Scrum Project Management Certification Bundle. Right now, grab this high-level instruction at just $29 from TNW Deals.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 24, 2021

The competitive, oversaturated market pushes companies to seek better ways to manage workload and optimize the working process to strive for continuous improvement and client satisfaction. At the same time, leaders are also looking towards acquiring that entrepreneur Agility. It is executed through practices of Kanban , Scrum, XP.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 8, 2013

Maybe you are tasked with managing cross-functional teams, with a creative objective grounded in digital and tech. Talking scrum to creative won’t work as well as to developers. Entrepreneur Insider How-To''s' If I have just described you and your predicament, read on. Revel in the in-between. Image credit: Thinkstock.

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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? I can't really give my manager feedback. I've never done that before.

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Transformify

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Commenced in July 2017, The Youth Enterprise Development Fund provides start-up loans to help young entrepreneurs fund their businesses at a very early stage. The ‘’must have ingredients’’ of a strong start-up team are tech, product/project management, marketing, sales, and business/finance competences.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 5, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, October 5, 2008 The product managers lament Life is not easy when youre working in an old-fashioned waterfall development process, no matter what role you play. The product manager was clearly struggling to get results from the rest of the team. Lets start with what the product manager does.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 16, 2009

XP and Scrum don’t have much to say - they punt. If you look at the origins of most agile systems, including Scrum and XP , they come out of experiences in big companies. Both Scrum and XP had a role which you could happily call by the modern title "Product Manager". Embedded in that assumption is why startups fail.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 9, 2013

Social media marketing is probably the most heavily written management topic on the planet. Providing a methodical framework covering strategy, organisation, execution and measurement, the book provides a step by step process to managing the social media marketing function. These tend to be more inspirational than instructional.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 28, 2015

I remember my friend Ryan Martens sitting down with me and Chris Wand around 2001 and walking us through his idea for changing the how he approached managing the software development process. Ryan had a vision for an integration web-based system to layer on top of all of this to help support and manage the software development process.

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Mucker Lab

AUGUST 27, 2014

As an entrepreneur himself, founding and operating printed circuit board factories in Taiwan, my father was debating between two places to immigrate to and build his next new venture: Los Angeles (“The Valley” aka San Fernando Valley) and Santa Clara (“Silicon Valley”).

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

signup, upgrade, trial pricing Zuora – online subscription management FeeFighters – find the cheapest credit card processors HealPay – Collections made easy Customer Support Tender – support, knowledgebase tool for your site GetSatisfaction - conversations between companies / customers.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 6, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, December 6, 2008 The four kinds of work, and how to get them done: part three Those startups that manage to build a product people want have to deal with the consequences of that success. Scrum recommends 30 days; I have worked in one or two-week cycles up to about three months.

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Gust

AUGUST 22, 2012

” There is no law, other than the word of the manager on duty — who decrees that we could get in with the camera if we paid some ludicrous amount of money to procure a permit on the spot. Silicon Arabia has engineers in Russia as well as Egypt.)

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 8, 2013

Normally as a company grows this changes as management layers are added, and work simply becomes less efficient. This ensures a fast decision is always possible and the company can scale without top management becoming a bottleneck. In essence this is a delegation of power from central management to the teams.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

A group of Seedcamp entrepreneurs started a startup tools wiki for that purpose, and we thought it would be well suited here. Task Management. Project Management Tools. Subscription Payments / Management. Managing APIs. Customer Relationship Management. Contractor Management. Project Management tools.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

So far, I have found "lean startup" works better with the entrepreneurs Ive talked to than "agile startup" or even "extreme startup.") Very useful perspective - as a first-time CEO managing a small startup, these ideas are timely and thought-provoking. What are the characteristics of a lean startup? Less is more. No more, no less.

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adam.heroku.com

MAY 18, 2012

Founders and early employees tend to be very self-directed so the need for management is nearly non-existent. For example: full-fledged SCRUM, heavyweight tools like Jira, or hiring a project manager or engineering manager. Routing - Manages everything necessary to get HTTP requests routed to user web processes.

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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. Two Ways to Hold Entrepreneurs Accountable (for Ha. Please leave feedback!)

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Heres something I can relate to: We used assembla for subversion, scrums, milestones, wikis, and for general organizational purposes. Scrum reports would come in once a month, nobody was actually responsible for anything. While simple, it is easy to manage. Two Ways to Hold Entrepreneurs Accountable (for Ha.

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David Teten

OCTOBER 1, 2015

I’ve seen a range of options for supporting entrepreneurs, which I can rank from least to most involvement in companies by investors: financier VCs, e.g., Correlation Ventures. Thor Ernstsson is the founder of Alpha UX , a product validation company serving real-time user insights to Fortune 500 product managers.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 9, 2009

Metrics are people too" is a reminder I constantly needed when I was a manager. It hasn't been that long since I started reading your blog (and finally got to read Steven's book), but I've already started trying to put these ideas to work in my company and sharing them with some other entrepreneurs here in Brazil.

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The Equity Kicker

AUGUST 21, 2015

I’m only up to episode 5 of the first series (late convert) but already Erlich has saved the day with an off-the-cuff speech to a key investor about the company’s vision and Jared has implemented a scrum development process without which they would have missed a key deadline. Erlich and Jared don’t get along.

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The Equity Kicker

AUGUST 20, 2015

I’ve written a lot in the past about how smart entrepreneurs harness company culture as a tool to drive success. But if the culture isn’t working then the company won’t work until it’s fixed, and this framework lays out the tools at a manager’s disposal to create a solution.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 18, 2008

Its even more critical in lean startups when they need to manage growth. At IMVU , we called this person a Producer (revealing our games background); in Scrum , they are called the Product Owner. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? April 23, 2010 in San Francisco.

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Growthink Blog

AUGUST 31, 2016

And if you can't, it's a canary in the coal mine - flagging needing to be fixed problems with your strategic model, your management execution, or both. This is the high-flying mindset - to never be complacent or "me too," but instead to strive for efficiency and creativity in all aspects of how a company is led and managed.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 20, 2013

I do not believe that I am unique in this regard; most entrepreneurs and other professionals are required to manage intense workloads and many have Sundays that probably look a great deal like mine. The life of an entrepreneur is complicated, and we are often embroiled to varying degree between the two sides of our existence.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 24, 2011

If someone wants to become an entrepreneur, is it more important to keep looking for a really good media idea that you can do a month’s worth of customer development on or is it better to think of literally what complete start up can I make in a week? .’ Literally, ‘Launch a week from today, release something.’

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

Such thinking has led companies to adopt layers of middle management, confusing and useless reporting, and obscure processes. Some business owners still hesitate, fearing that language or even time zones are difficult barriers in building and managing distributed teams. image credit: Sean MacEntee.

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Distribution SCRUM Cofounder Lean 48

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 29, 2009

It is so true, but non-tech managers usually try to ignore the facts away. I have never seen (or even heard of) a normal team in your average large organization ever learn to manage technical debt dynamically. Darn good - I have struggled in relevant conversations with our in house move to scrum/agile. Excellent article.

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Technical Review Software Review San Francisco Lean 168

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2020

They were 90 minute, I'll call it, sprints and the team started scrumming really as soon as we got back on Saturday night. And I remember, we set up a war room that we managed, we met twice a day. And I remember listening to the district manager in New Orleans going, "This is." And what did we need?

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

Scoping the prpject down to something manageable is really hard. trav (2010-06-19) # This is GPS for would-be web entrepreneurs lost in a sea of ideas with no sailors to steer their imaginary ship. I am starting a big web project, and have been thinking about how to break it down into manageable chunks. I liked it through #1-#5.

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