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The Lean LaunchPad Goes to Middle School

Steve Blank

Scrum boards went up detailing everything they needed to accomplish by Friday afternoon. On Wednesday and Thursday, splash pages were launched; email addresses captured, cost structures and revenue streams explored. Next time, I am going to talk to people without my partner so it’s one-to-one.

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The Lean LaunchPad Goes to Middle School

Steve Blank

Scrum boards went up detailing everything they needed to accomplish by Friday afternoon. On Wednesday and Thursday, splash pages were launched; email addresses captured, cost structures and revenue streams explored. Next time, I am going to talk to people without my partner so it’s one-to-one.

Lean 198
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Should You Co-Found Your Company With a Software Development Shop (2 of 2)?

David Teten

I’ve talked with a number of software development shops who are eager to get into the business of cofounding companies, i.e., getting product revenue and equity instead of just consulting revenue. Partnering with a source of capital, connections, and expertise for a large equity chunk is often worth it in those scenarios (e.g.,

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Behind Every Great Product

SVPG

If you think the product manager job is what’s described in a Certified Scrum Product Owner class, you almost certainly fall into this category. To be specific, AdWords is currently 16 years old, and last year alone it generated well over $50B in revenue. In this model, the product manager is really a backlog administrator.

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Oppose HB 1192 – The “Software Tax”

VC Adventure

If the state has budget issues, which I believe it does, and needs to raise tax revenue (which has other options available such as cutting staff, eliminating duplication and programs and implementing automation – all of which businesses have been doing for the last ~2 years), then let’s raise taxes. Citrix Presentation Server 4.0,

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Episode 3: Smart Bear Live!

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Totally automate all that so it doesn’t bring me down all the time and instead I can sign all the revenue, because that’s fun. Like the ability to spend X dollars on advertising and gain Y dollars in revenue or something like that. Patrick: How close did he get? Ryan: 50%, sort of. Patrick: All right. Yeah, no, absolutely.

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Create a “Content Playground” that’s Fun for Buyers (and Lucrative for You)

ConversionXL

For example, Kanban and Scrum are two popular agile project management rituals. We partnered with the corporate social media team to coordinate responses in a dedicated Slack channel and incorporated the individual responses into an FAQ for the team to use going forward. Uniting content across multiple touch-points.

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