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. We should have asked for a broader innovation time off and incentive policy for employees, managers, and executives. 3) We unknowingly set up an organizational conflict on day one.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

It’s why Canva can call itself a multibillion-dollar platform and how ConvertKit pulled itself up to compete with goliaths like MailChimp and Campaign Monitor. Growth hacking in marketing incorporates the five stages of the customer lifecycle into the “ AARRR Framework ,” otherwise known as the “Pirate Metrics model.”.

Retention 113

Retention Marketing Acquisition Channel 113

YoungUpstarts

JULY 16, 2020

Especially because non-compliance may damage any legal relations between the parties involved. Non-Disclosure Agreements. Non-Compete Contracts. As such, you need the no-compete business contract to curtail such employees from using any business information. Read on for details. Independent Contractor Agreements.

Small Business 173

Small Business Non-disclosure Agreement NDA Non-Compete 173

ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

Honeywell CEO Dave Cote also cautions against shortsightedness during economic downturns: I’ve been a leader during three recessions and I’ve never heard a management team talk about how the choices they make during a downturn will affect performance during a recovery. Frameworks for businesses during a crisis.

Marketing 121

Marketing Campaign Non-Compete Lean 121

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.

India 123

India Bootstrapping Non-Compete Entrepreneur 123

Occam's Razor

APRIL 15, 2019

When business performance is non-positive, every employee, at every level, will work super-duper hard to look at every dimension of data to find any semblance of good news (no matter how small). To poke holes in the data/methodology (regardless of the Rationalizer’s analytical competence). They dilute the analysis with non-facts.

Leadership 79

Leadership Non-Compete Analytics Software Review 79

David Teten

JANUARY 9, 2018

A friend of mine interviewed for a job with massively successful hedge fund manager Steven A. If you can just execute competently , you will outperform a lot of people who might have a theoretically superior strategy. . – Thoughtful fund management. Investing is a completely different skillset from being a good manager.

Venture Capital 60

Venture Capital Private Equity Silicon Valley Differentiation 60

David Teten

JANUARY 9, 2018

A friend of mine interviewed for a job with massively successful hedge fund manager Steven A. If you can just execute competently , you will outperform a lot of people who might have a theoretically superior strategy. . – Thoughtful fund management. Investing is a completely different skillset from being a good manager.

Venture Capital 60

Venture Capital Private Equity Silicon Valley Differentiation 60

blog.alinelerner.com

JUNE 21, 2013

When a company gets to be a certain size, hiring managers don’t have the bandwidth to look over every resume and treat every applicant like a unique and beautiful snowflake. Bemoaning that non-technical people are the first to filter resumes is silly because it’s not going to change. News and World Report). Highest degree earned.

CTO Hire 98

CTO Hire Hiring Software Review Technical Review 98

David Teten

JULY 25, 2017

We have lower AUM, therefore lower management fees. For each of these, there is a human element (non-scaleable) and the possibility of a tech layer (which any one VC will only have implemented to varying extents). We have insight on the competencies of our companies’ personnel, and who is hiring or shrinking.

Portfolio 60

Portfolio Technical Review Private Equity Database 60

View from Seed

APRIL 21, 2015

I couldn’t believe how inefficient and non-transparent the rental industry was and I knew then that I’d one day come back to take it on. But it was great experience to put yourself in an uncomfortable place to manage 90 Type A personalities. Clark: Competing through Social Networks. Prince: Business History.

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Mike Michalowicz

DECEMBER 18, 2012

” Actually, it’s the opposite that’s usually true: it’s far too easy to take off too little time, and not create a clear-cut line between work and non-work; it’s especially true for those of us who work out of our home offices. Create systems and manage your time. Stay focused on your goals and projects.

LLC 166

LLC Non-Compete Revenue Hiring 166

The Startup Magazine

MARCH 30, 2018

With ITIL, you get a practical framework which can be used to identify, plan and deliver supporting IT services to the functions that are integral to the business of an organization. ITIL Foundation Training & Certification is a must as it lets you lead the pack in all IT management roles. You get a common language to speak.

Framework 75

Framework Retention Non-Compete Global 75

VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

She makes money for the platform that hosts her without receiving the legal and financial protections of employee status, or the stock options typically given to the platform’s engineers, designers, and managers. It’s very hard to scale a new platform and compete with Twitch in live streaming, Zoom in video calls, Youtube in video, etc.

Startup 207

Startup Social Media Venture Capital Audio 207

Up and Running

AUGUST 17, 2015

Between my experiences as a management consultant, as well as my product and marketing roles at multiple tech companies, I felt that I had enough operational experience to make that leap sooner than later. C Corp versus LLC, non-competes, liquidation preferences, preferred versus common stock, and so on).

Entrepreneur 60

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 8, 2021

We put together a (non-comprehensive) list of some of the best marketing books, both new and old, to help you become a better marketer—and a better person. In Hooked , Eyal explores the “Hook Model” framework, a four-step process used by some of the most well-known companies and products today. We can help. – Peter F.

PPC 134

PPC Marketing Lean Differentiation 134

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 9, 2013

I broke down the types of CC companies into 5 main buckets today to give a framework to think about your startup if you’re entering this space: 1. Here I talked about Lending Club where I understand hedge fund managers are now deploying capital to lend directly against pools of borrowers.

Syria 361

Syria Marketing Libya Los Angeles 361

David Cohen

AUGUST 29, 2013

We paused because it was an inaugural cohort but being that it was vertical-specific and the managing director worked for a highly lauded startup in our vertical, we decided to go for it. ([a The Managing Director also made two hires so there was some hope that some of the promises might be delivered upon. None of it happened.

Cofounder 134

Cofounder Technical Review Vertical Programming 134

Altgate

NOVEMBER 19, 2016

Lorraine Moore is a strategically focused talent management and leadership specialist. She has extensive experience in the domain of assessment and development specializing in Assessment/Development Centers, Potential and Readiness Assessment, Candidate Coaching and Competency Based Interviewing.

Partner 28

Partner Non-Compete Framework Retention 28

www.drowningamerican.com

JUNE 22, 2012

Who We Are: We’re two individuals with a strong background in strategic consulting and management. Our application tool will be free and will immediately compete with Peterson’s, Kaplan, Princeton Review, and other smaller players. In the longer term we will compete with social networks and online advertising.

Sweat Equity 40

Sweat Equity Equity Hiring Technical Review 40

Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

Not only that, I was bound by a non-compete in my local area and his meant that I couldn’t make my magic in my local market where I had an established track record and positive business reputation (unless I negotiated a contract buyout to start my own agency and I didn’t have the funds to do that at the time. Invitation.”

Non-Compete 108

Non-Compete Entrepreneur Demand Reputation 108

The Startup Magazine

APRIL 13, 2017

It will require skill in the service area as well as management and additional competencies. There are also a number of non-profit organizations that will also help you start your business. However, it will create the framework for your startup activities. Success in small business is not an accident.

Non-Compete 61

Non-Compete Incubator Framework Operations 61

Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

” I’ve been involved in projects where I’m not facilitating and have suffered through competent-but-deadly-dull, poorly organised, faux fun, and at the end of the day, sadly ineffective idea generation sessions. If you have an obvious, off target, or non-perspective-shifting question, you’re set up for failure.

Non-Compete 74

Non-Compete Framework Design Management 74

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 8, 2009

This simple three-part framework underlies almost all discussions about technical design today, and it was clearly on display in the recent debates over technical debt. Worse of all, the plaintext codes we were used to sending were considered non-authoritative, since they could be pulled off a third-party network.

Software Review 87

Software Review Design Software San Francisco 87

viniciusvacanti.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

You’re starting a new photo sharing site and you were the project manager for Facebook’s photo app; you’re starting a music label disruptor and you worked for a music label for the last five years. You know how to product manage and you’ve hired programmers before. Are frameworks the way to go ?

Cofounder 43

Cofounder Technical Cofounder Founder Ruby 43

www.virtuosimedia.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Look at the market size and the number of competing products. If you require a non-disclosure agreement for me to simply even hear your idea, I’m going to walk away unless you’re a Steve Jobs or Bill Gates type of figure. This should be non-negotiable for any business venture. Find what you need.

Technical Cofounder 41

Technical Cofounder Cofounder Technical Review NDA 41

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

This approach is fundamentally non-scalable. These founders have not managed, to borrow a phrase from Steve Blank , to create a scalable and repeatable sales process. Eric, I have Steves book and wish I had it for 1 couple of my earlier startups where the framework would have helped our team get on the same page.

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Customer San Francisco Lean Hockey Stick 167

VC Cafe

JANUARY 12, 2022

The movie ‘Ready Player One’ also showed a representation of the Metaverse as one large virtual world where people socialise, play and compete with one another. The book depicted the Metaverse as a 3D virtual world where people walk around as avatars and socialize / interact with one another as well as with AI-generated characters.

Technical Review 217

Technical Review Non-Compete IP 217

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

I’m teaching my first non-lean start up class in a decade at Stanford next week; Technology, Innovation and Modern War : Keeping America’s Edge in an Era of Great Power Competition. — Why This Course? The syllabus for the class is below: Technology, Innovation and Modern War. Part I: History, Strategy and Challenges.

Artificial Inteligence 368

Artificial Inteligence Technology North Korea Iran 368

Occam's Razor

AUGUST 22, 2011

Lack Management Support or Buy-in? A Framework For Critical Thinking. Defining a "Master Metric", + a Framework to Gain a Competitive Advantage in Web Analytics. Customer Personas, Customer Value, Customer Retention and Non-line Marketing. Podcast: Competitive Analysis Best Practices, Competency Judgement Model.

Analytics 124

Analytics Metrics SEM Web 124

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Some are strategic peers, some are near peers in specific areas, some are threats as non-state disrupters operating with no rules. In most industries, manufacturing is no longer a core competence of the U.S. Problem 3: Risk equals failure and failure is to be avoided as it indicates a lack of competence.

Community 212

Community Silicon Valley Technical Review Incubator 212

BeyondVC

JANUARY 2, 2006

For cash starved startups, having management and employees believing in the opportunity and team and being motivated by equity is key to success. On a public company board, for example, I look at other companies that we compete with and other businesses that are in a similar stage of revenue growth and financial numbers.

Management 60

Management Equity Forecast Salary 60

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

The third class focused on Russia, which since 2014 has asserted itself as a competing great power. How does the proliferation of autonomous weapon systems to great powers, lesser powers, or non-state actors (pick one of the three) threaten America’s traditional military advantages in that domain? Pick one domain of war (e.g.

Artificial Inteligence 353

Artificial Inteligence Russia Technology China 353

The Startup Magazine

JULY 28, 2022

While cryptocurrencies and non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are the most talked about use cases for blockchains, the secure peer-to-peer validation enabled by the technology has many other applications. Asset Management. Identity Management. Unique Item Management. Connect Freelancers to Jobs.

Technology 124

Technology Non-Compete Security Algorithm 124

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 10, 2020

There's probably things you could do in the world if you have a framework of even hundreds of years, much less thousands or tens of thousands of years." My first job was a Product Manager at Oracle, then I worked at a tech startup called meVC. It was really myself and my boss, who was our portfolio manager.

California 60

California Silicon Valley Framework China 60

Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 30, 2018

While doing research for his extraordinary new book, Great at Work , Morten Hansen studied more than 5,000 managers and employees in corporate America to identify the key practices that explain why some perform better than others. We just need to give them tools, frameworks, and right encouragement.

Metrics 349

Metrics Startup Lean Detroit 349

Hunter Walker

SEPTEMBER 9, 2023

There also weren’t a lot of novel ‘consumer startups’ being built in non-gaming areas, so Creator Economy was attractive to folks who didn’t want to work in B2B. Creativity is happening within communities and platforms which bring together distribution and collaboration. Global Fandom.

Non-Compete 161

Non-Compete Distribution Community B2B 161