Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Escalate all problems upward to senior management. Avoid the macho concept that only top management can solve problems, or address strategic challenges. Business plans should be loose frameworks to be used as guidelines rather than detailed route maps. Decisions made lower down always get more buy-in.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 30, 2013

With hindsight we should have had “proof of concepts” tested in a corporate center (think ‘pop-up incubator’) where they would do extensive Customer Discovery. Eventually Qualcomm did create a corporate incubator to handle projects beyond the scope of traditional R&D, yet too early to hand-off to existing business unit).

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 19, 2017

Escalate all problems upward to senior management. Avoid the macho concept that only top management can solve problems, or address strategic challenges. Business plans should be loose frameworks to be used as guidelines rather than detailed route maps. Decisions made lower down always get more buy-in.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

We think teaching teams a formal methodology around the Lean Framework (Business Model design, Customer Development and Agile Engineering) is a natural evolution of how successful incubators/accelerators will build startups. Here’s the story of one such team; Jonathan Wylie, Lakshmi Shivalingaiah and the Evoke team.

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

MARCH 19, 2019

Make it a project that allows people time to do research and think, incubate , and your results will dramatically improve. The session/project will be better planned and managed, and some of your best brains can join the team in jamming ideas instead of managing process. The danger and the reality is they check out.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2016

Investors and partners now look only for a framework of your business essentials, within the context of your opportunity, solution, and financials. Angel groups, accelerators, and incubators are pervasive. Set milestones and manage to those targets. Just make sure you can fill in all the details.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 29, 2012

Nate Redmond is the managing partner of Rustic Canyon Partners – he’s probably one of the youngest managing partners of a major fund you’ll meet. He talked in the video about how he finds it helpful in companies to think about practical theory and frameworks for thinking about company strategy.

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The Startup Magazine

APRIL 18, 2023

Most online MBA programs have gained traction since the pandemic and are a favorable alternative to an on-campus program because of their flexibility, affordability, and innovative frameworks. Human Resource Management: It helps in people management and the development of the human resource of any organization.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 2, 2013

With mobile development agencies and product incubators on the rise and more corporate “labs” spinning out each day, there’s no shortage of talent to help you build the next great Web or mobile app. We could probably build an MVP of any one of these products using public SDK’s, frameworks and a rudimentary design at a weekend hackathon.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 19, 2011

Binpress , the latest project by the Israeli startup incubator Lionite is making waves in the coding community with their source code marketplace. Their focus is on code for web applications in all sorts of languages, frameworks, and platforms. Transactions are completely managed by Binpress, and include a 14-day money back guarantee.

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Steve Blank

MAY 30, 2016

Now with over 917 interviews of beneficiaries (users, program managers, stakeholders, etc.), If you’ve been reading along so far, you know that this class is not an extended hackathon nor is it a 10-week long incubator. The teams capture their work in the mission model canvas a framework for each week’s activities.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 16, 2011

Small and medium size business owners can set up online customer support platforms that combine the backend help desk system used by agents (ticketing, knowledge management) with an online customer portal (self service, forums, idea management, voting, etc) on the front end. To learn more, you can check out some of the videos here.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

80+ effective email templates 70 marketing books 120 Customer support resources Brand storytelling framework for founders 50+ tools for scaling eCommerce Planning and pipeline tools 80 stock image and video sites Web marketing strategy. ?Venture Sales, Marketing and customer success. Venture capital. Online education.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Investors sitting through Incubator or Accelerator demo days have three metrics to judge fledgling startups – 1) great looking product demos, 2) compelling PowerPoint slides, and 3) a world-class team. We now have the tools, technology and data to take incubators and accelerators to the next level. We think we can do better.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

Brad has had some success in working with retailers as well, but I advised him to be careful about the cash flow management. I asked her to work with the Clarify Your Story framework, something we ask people to use in preparing for the roundtable, but clearly, Jeanne did not do her homework. Vimagino.com.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 8, 2011

While we were going to teach theory and frameworks, these students were going to get a hands-on experience in how to start a new company. While I had managed to persuade two great VC’s to teach the class with me ( Jon Feiber and Ann Miura-ko ), what if I was wasting their time? We made clear that this class wasn’t an incubator.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 24, 2019

A bank or fund manager will always ask you what is your appetite for risk; is it low, medium, or high? You can use your plan as a framework for making a risk assessment against every business goal. My bank turned me down and put me into incubation where they controlled all my cash movements until I had repaid all my loans from them.

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David Teten

MARCH 28, 2012

The objective of the research is to define a blueprint for how investors can help portfolio companies succeed through operational (non-financial) support, including but not limited to facilitating shared services, recruiting, knowledge sharing, and enhancing management skills. Entrepreneurs please click here.

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techcrunch.com

JUNE 22, 2012

It’s an age-old scenario: You’re building a company, you have a product idea, and you’ve got the framework laid out in your head, but you want some expert advice and guidance on how to take the next steps. Project Manager Dice Holdings Software Engineer, Python, YouTube Google/YouTube Web Developer Yelp Inc.

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David Teten

JANUARY 9, 2018

A friend of mine interviewed for a job with massively successful hedge fund manager Steven A. – Thoughtful fund management. When I talk with non-founding insiders at many alternative investment firms, I regularly hear complaints about the quality of firm management. The result is a poorly managed organization.

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David Teten

JANUARY 9, 2018

A friend of mine interviewed for a job with massively successful hedge fund manager Steven A. – Thoughtful fund management. When I talk with non-founding insiders at many alternative investment firms, I regularly hear complaints about the quality of firm management. The result is a poorly managed organization.

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Venture Capital Private Equity Silicon Valley Differentiation 60

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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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 6, 2011

Sramana Mitra is the founder of the One Million by One Million (1M/1M) initiative, an educational, business development and incubation program that aims to help one million entrepreneurs globally to reach $1 million in revenue and beyond. And finally, we have defined 1M/1M as a framework for capitalism 2.0, What makes 1M/1M unique?

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 28, 2010

. “Juniper is excited to acquire one of the industry’s leading virtualization security vendors and the extremely talented team that built it,&# – Mark Bauhaus, executive vice president and general manager, Juniper Networks. RUSNANO ESTABLISHES RUSSIAN-ISRAELI NANOTECH FUND.

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Steve Blank

JULY 2, 2015

My guests this past week on Bay Area Ventures on Wharton Business Radio on Sirius XM Channel 111 were: Pete Newell , managing partner of BMNT Partners. Matt Weingart, program development manager in the Strategic Development Office at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

Up last, Leandro Telles from Brazil, pitched ledface , a knowledge management technology company that still needs a business strategy. We discussed all sorts of options, and I provided a basic framework to make the business decisions that are critical at this point. All in all, a very promising venture. About Sramana Mitra.

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www.reincubate.com

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Theres nothing inherently wrong with Flash or Silverlight, but most often their use should be considered only for incremental interface enhancements to a system built on an establish web framework. One can, however, make these arguments about different frameworks. and Drupal – which are often confused for frameworks.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Task Management. Project Management Tools. Express : Express is built on NodeJS framework. Subscription Payments / Management. Managing APIs. Web frameworks. Zend Framework (PHP). Customer Relationship Management. Contractor Management. Scanning / Document Management. Live Mocha.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

— I just watched a very smart company try to manage innovation by hiring a global consulting firm to offload engineering from “distractions.” The ideas that pass through the prioritization filter enter an I-Corps incubation process. A shorter version of this post first appeared on the HBR blog. There’s a much better way.

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www.allthingsdistributed.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Technology Visionary andOperations Manager – This pattern is usually found in dot.com and othertechnology-oriented companies where information technology is key ingredient inimplementing business strategy. I have metCTOs who manage divisions that had 500 - 1000 engineers or more. This is the‘technology visionary’ aspect of the role.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 23, 2023

One passed the other was born four months or so early and spend that time in the incubator and we relied, my wife and I relied on this community called Fish's mom's group to bring us some sanity in terms of hope and how other people who were in that situation dealt with it. (12:33): We were expecting twins. So that was the key thing.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 28, 2020

They managed to shorten and simplify the process that tended to help. We as educators need to not treat solopreneurs or Main Street businesses as second-class citizens in our classrooms or incubators, or our meetups. And it’s something that they can use in their skill sets as project managers as they continue forward.

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Check out BrightIdea (a leading Idea Management System). Existing incubators like 1871 in Chicago , or the Idea Center at Notre Dame are examples where you can rent space for a short term period. If you want to know about how to do that (training, team formation, usage of innovation project frameworks) — you know who to call.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 29, 2010

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. Meetup groups, universities, incubators, and anyone else who wants to get together to watch is welcome to do so. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 31, 2016

If your motivation is not having a boss, the freedom to manage your own calendar, or getting out of the corporate environment—anything other than a driving passion to solve an industry problem with your big idea—don’t take the leap. Incubators and economic development agencies may invest at the concept stage. It just plain hard.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 31, 2016

They constantly evaluate their systems, frameworks, and processes to determine whether they’re operating in the most effective manner for where they are now. Startups that successfully scale understand they can’t just throw warm bodies at their problems — they often need to recreate processes that got them to where they are today.

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The Startup Magazine

APRIL 13, 2017

It will require skill in the service area as well as management and additional competencies. There are many universities that offer business incubators. However, it will create the framework for your startup activities. Success in small business is not an accident. 4Mat have create a great piece on this subject.

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