Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 11, 2019

With modern technology, and worldwide reach, it should be seen as an important tool for building an efficient, lean, and competitive business, optimized to give you more time for strategic focus. In summary, an entrepreneur should never approach outsourcing as an inexpensive and easy method of offloading work.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 6, 2019

Software apps that once required a 10-person team can now be done with the Lean Development methodology by two people in a couple of months. In the early days (25 years ago), most new e-commerce sites cost a million dollars to set up. Now the price is closer to $100, if you are willing to do the work yourself.

Finance 320

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

Thus I was happily surprised when I found the classic book, “ The Tech Entrepreneur’s Survival Guide ,” by Bernd Schoner, PhD, and cofounder of ThingMagic, which leans heavily on the people side of the equation. Yet every entrepreneur I meet wants to talk about the idea, and rarely mentions the team.

Technical Cofounder 308

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 5, 2017

Implement “lean startup” principles. The lean startup methodology, popularized by Eric Ries about ten years ago, expedites new business success through iterative solution cycles, focused business experiments, and validated learning. The rules for success in any given business are not in the back of the book.

Technical Review 152

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 30, 2019

Software apps that once required a 10-person team can now be done with the Lean Development methodology by two people in a couple of months. In the early days (20 years ago), most new e-commerce sites cost a million dollars to set up. Now the price is closer to $100, if you are willing to do the work yourself.

Intellectual Property 219

Intellectual Property Technical Review Startup Incubator 219

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 2, 2019

Build a lean team to complement your strengths. I see this happening all the time, and in reality it may be a necessary stage, while funding and other resources are in short supply. The challenge is knowing when to move on to the next stage, before you kill yourself physically or mentally with the growing workload.

Leadership 248

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 10, 2023

Lean on your neutral instincts until the right domain experts can explore them. If you are a high-energy leader and see something that can enhance the customer experience or push the business forward, you always lean to making it happen. Pragmatist: open to change but recognizes realities.

Silicon Valley 240

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 22, 2018

With modern technology, and worldwide reach, it should be seen as an important tool for building an efficient, lean, and competitive business, optimized to give you more time for strategic focus. In summary, an entrepreneur should never approach outsourcing as an inexpensive and easy method of offloading work.

Philippines 181

Philippines Bandwidth Cofounder Affiliate 181

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).

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Agile Startup Social Network Software Developers 253

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 4, 2021

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”). Waste in a startup is any activity that burns resources, but creates no value or competitive advantage in the eyes of customers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 14, 2014

Software apps that once required a 10-person team can now be done with the Lean Development methodology by two people in a couple of months. In the early days (20 years ago), most new e-commerce sites cost a million dollars to set up. Now the price is closer to $100, if you are willing to do the work yourself.

Entrepreneur 283

Entrepreneur Intellectual Property Technical Review Incubator 283

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 1, 2017

Software apps that once required a 10-person team can now be done with the Lean Development methodology by two people in a couple of months. In the early days (20 years ago), most new e-commerce sites cost a million dollars to set up. Now the price is closer to $100, if you are willing to do the work yourself.

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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).

Agile 263

Agile Startup Social Network Software Developers 263

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. It’s your startup, so you can give early partners any title you want, but be aware of potential investor and peer implications.

CTO Hire 252

CTO Hire Fractional CTO Angel Investor Public Relations 252

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 18, 2014

With modern technology, and worldwide reach, it should be seen as an important tool for building an efficient, lean, and competitive business, optimized to give you more time for strategic focus. In summary, an entrepreneur should never approach outsourcing as an inexpensive and easy method of offloading work.

Entrepreneur 231

Entrepreneur Philippines Bandwidth Cofounder 231

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

It forces one to step from existing assumptions and tools, and lean instead on creativity and thinking outside the box. Some experts have long felt it is easier to make something 10 times better than it is to make it 10 percent better. It’s called radical innovation versus incremental improvement.

Artificial Inteligence 285

Artificial Inteligence Open Source Lean Leadership 285

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

It requires that you lean into complexity to proactively align people, processes, and systems to deliver on new opportunities, often at the expense of current and comfortable ones. Be the disruptor, rather than a reactor and hindrance to change. It takes a degree of courage and commitment to convert perspective and relationships into impact.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

Software apps that once required a 10-person team can now be done with the Lean Development methodology by two people in a couple of months. In the early days (20 years ago), most new e-commerce sites cost a million dollars to set up. Now the price is closer to $100, if you are willing to do the work yourself.

Intellectual Property 309

Intellectual Property Technical Review Venture Capital Startup 309

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Bootstrapping does require a full confidence in your own passion to make decisions and change the world with no investors to lean on or blame. In summary, bootstrapping means living within your means, watching costs carefully, finding alternatives to cash for building the team and expanding the business infrastructure. Marty Zwilling

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Propensity to “lean in” before being told how to act. Not many people know this, but the original Sony Playstation was, in essence, a prototype based on employee Ken Kutaragi’s Nintendo in an attempt to make it more powerful and deliver a better gaming experience for his daughter and other customers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2018

Software apps that once required a 10-person team can now be done with the Lean Development methodology by two people in a couple of months. In the early days (25 years ago), most new e-commerce sites cost a million dollars to set up. Now the price is closer to $100, if you are willing to do the work yourself.

Intellectual Property 134

Intellectual Property Technical Review Startup Bootstrapping 134

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 31, 2021

Forward-leaning questions can illuminate the values of both the leader and the team. Cohen provides specific insights to seek in particular situations, while also explaining how to create a culture of question-based leadership. I agree with his outline of five critical areas: Improving vision.

Leadership 435

Leadership Lean Employee Management 435

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. It’s your startup, so you can give early partners any title you want, but be aware of potential investor and peer implications.

CTO Hire 244

CTO Hire Fractional CTO Startup Angel Investor 244

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 10, 2023

Testing for real is the assumption behind approaches such as Lean Startup. Market research techniques for trying to predict the market’s response to a new venture can be costly and are often unreliable. It is also what explorers do – they go and look, instead of trying to predict from a distance what they will find.

Business Plan 357

Business Plan Lean Matching Cost 357

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 18, 2018

Thus I was happily surprised when I found the classic book, “ The Tech Entrepreneur’s Survival Guide ,” by Bernd Schoner, PhD, and cofounder of ThingMagic, which leans heavily on the people side of the equation. Yet every entrepreneur I meet wants to talk about the idea, and rarely mentions the team.

Technical Cofounder 144

Technical Cofounder Cofounder Advisory Board Startup 144

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 7, 2022

When Eric Ries first made the term “pivot” a part of the business vernacular in his best-seller for entrepreneurs, “ The Lean Startup ,” many years ago, he wasn’t focused on the challenges of larger companies to re-invent themselves on a regular basis to maintain their synchronization with the market. Your market segment has lost its luster.

Social Media 317

Social Media Lean Distribution Demand 317

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 11, 2014

Thus I was happy to see a new book, “ The Tech Entrepreneur’s Survival Guide ,” by Bernd Schoner, PhD, and cofounder of ThingMagic, which leans heavily on the people side of the equation. Yet every entrepreneur I meet wants to talk about the idea, and rarely mentions the team.

Technical Cofounder 245

Technical Cofounder Cofounder Advisory Board Startup 245

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 25, 2015

With modern technology, and worldwide reach, it should be seen as an important tool for building an efficient, lean, and competitive business, optimized to give you more time for strategic focus. In summary, an entrepreneur should never approach outsourcing as an inexpensive and easy method of offloading work.

Philippines 120

Philippines Startup Bandwidth Cofounder 120

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 20, 2020

It requires that you lean into complexity to proactively align people, processes, and systems to deliver on new opportunities, often at the expense of current and comfortable ones. Be the disruptor, rather than a reactor and hindrance to change. It takes a degree of courage and commitment to convert perspective and relationships into impact.

Lean 419

Lean Partner Customer Leadership 419

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 27, 2020

It forces one to step from existing assumptions and tools, and lean instead on creativity and thinking outside the box. Some experts have long felt it is easier to make something 10 times better than it is to make it 10 percent better. It’s called radical innovation versus incremental improvement.

Artificial Inteligence 413

Artificial Inteligence Open Source Lean Leadership 413

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

The most effective and satisfying leadership comes without a title to lean on. Especially if you are don’t yet carry an executive role or title, now is the time to start practicing these activities. Marty Zwilling.

Leadership 334

Leadership Startup Lean Community 334

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 27, 2022

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. Here you need not only project management resources, but also skills in forecasting, budgeting, and resource tracking.

Forecast 340

Forecast Agile Lean Distribution 340

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. It’s your startup, so you can give early partners any title you want, but be aware of potential investor and peer implications.

CTO Hire 227

CTO Hire Fractional CTO Startup Angel Investor 227

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 18, 2020

Bootstrapping does require a full confidence in your own passion to make decisions and change the world with no investors to lean on or blame. In summary, bootstrapping means living within your means, watching costs carefully, finding alternatives to cash for building the team and expanding the business infrastructure. Marty Zwilling.

Hockey Stick 423

Hockey Stick Bootstrapping Sweat Equity Intellectual Property 423

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. Excellent detailed resources are everywhere, including a new book, “ The Startup Checklist ,” by serial entrepreneur and founder of the New York Angels, David S.

Intellectual Property 120

Intellectual Property Startup Angel Groups Social Media 120

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 8, 2015

Software apps that once required a 10-person team can now be done with the Lean Development methodology by two people in a couple of months. In the early days (20 years ago), most new e-commerce sites cost a million dollars to set up. Now the price is closer to $100, if you are willing to do the work yourself.

Entrepreneur 120

Entrepreneur Intellectual Property Technical Review Incubator 120

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Of course, if your interests and passion don’t lean in this direction, you can always bring in an outside CEO who already has the skills, or you can merge or sell your startup to another enterprise, and move on to start your next new venture.

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Honduras Nepal Startup Lean 368