Steve Blank

APRIL 10, 2009

That’s why startups are agile. Startups that are agile have mastered one other trick – and that’s Tempo – the ability to make quick decisions consistently over extended periods of time. Reply Why Startups are Agile and Opportunistic -- Pivoting the Business Model , on April 14, 2010 at 6:32 am Said: [.]

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Up and Running

AUGUST 6, 2015

Without positive cash flow, all companies (and small businesses in particular) likely won’t possess the agility necessary to respond to today’s quickly evolving business landscape. Businesses that lack positive cash flow—i.e., Who doesn’t like paying less for products or services? Use an invoice-clearing service.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 4, 2008

Boyd emphasized the importance of agility in combat: "the key to victory is to be able to create situations wherein one can make appropriate decisions more quickly than ones opponent." Agile software development. Agile allows companies to build higher quality software faster. This speeds up the Ideas-Code-Data feedback loop.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

The net result: we sold exactly zero presidential debate avatars. Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Six streaming locations Interviews ► March (7) New conference website, speakers, agenda Two new scholarship programs for lean startups Speed up or slow down? We finally settled on a $1.99 Expo SF (May.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

Joe Felter , Raj Shah and I designed a class to examine the new military systems, operational concepts and doctrines that will emerge from 21st century technologies – Space, Cyber, AI & Machine Learning and Autonomy. So that’s something we need help with, to provide us greater agility.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 1, 2017

Your brains have been rewired to process all this Net-based information. The Net is like we invented writing, the printing press, radio, TV and the Internet in the same decade. When each of the other six waves initially arrived, the early adopters were the more agile outliers. And that was in New York City.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 23, 2016

As a consequence, corporations used metrics like return on net assets (RONA), return on capital deployed, and internal rate of return (IRR) to measure efficiency. Their size lets them adopt flatter and more agile organizational structures while providing incentives that reward risk-taking and collaboration. But it’s not over for Intel.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

The site visits include stops at Square (the payments startup founded by Twitter co-creator Jack Dorsey), WeWork Soma (an amazing co-working space) and Pivotal Labs (leaders in Lean and Agile consulting), along with one more super-interesting location we’ll announce shortly. One day, they saw that Norway just fell off the map.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 8, 2008

This theory has become so influential that I have called it one of the three pillars of the lean startup - every bit as important as the changes in technology or the advent of agile development. This is a self-published book, originally designed as a companion to Steves class at Berkeleys Haas school of business. . Heres the catch.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 26, 2016

Their R&D groups and contractors had the smartest domain experts who could design and manufacture the best systems. Terrorists today live on the ‘net and they are all early adopters. Most discussion about innovation of defense systems acquisition using an agile process starts with writing a requirements document.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 21, 2017

They do a great job at building an amazing culture, and they are able to keep a small company feel in terms of speed and agility because they keep the teams small and have basically broken the company up into a whole bunch of companies. Today I own and manage a company specifically designed to help people grow their portfolios.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Six streaming locations Interviews ► March (7) New conference website, speakers, agenda Two new scholarship programs for lean startups Speed up or slow down? Stevey's Blog Rants: Good Agile, Bad Agile Learning from Obama: maneuver warfare on the campa. Expo SF (May.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 23, 2016

Thirteen years later, Kinsman is a veteran of the industry and a thought leader advocating in Forbes for an agile approach. The agile strategy is all about brand flexibility. To create visuals for your website, you don’t have to be a designer with Photoshop experience. It makes sense.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 18, 2010

My transition to Continuous Deployment Prior to adopting continuous deployment, I used to release software on a weekly schedule (come rain or shine) which I viewed as pretty agile, disciplined, and aggressive. With staged releases, time provides a (somewhat illusory) safety net. On the other hand, it is scary as hell.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 18, 2008

Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Six streaming locations Interviews ► March (7) New conference website, speakers, agenda Two new scholarship programs for lean startups Speed up or slow down? Stevey's Blog Rants: Good Agile, Bad Agile Learning from Obama: maneuver warfare on the campa. Expo SF (May.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 3, 2018

An affordable SaaS solution, Agile allows a team of up to 10 users to manage a collective group of 50,000 contacts for free. Compared to other CRMs that can cost thousands of dollars per month, Agile CRM’s enterprise version is quite a value at less than $50 per user per month. Benchpoint.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 14, 2008

Some techniques that Ive found especially helpful: Build your own tracking survey, using a methodology like Net Promoter Score (NPS) to identify and get a regular check-up from promoters (and to screen out detractors). You need to foster situations where you - and everyone you work with - is likely to see feedback that matters. Expo SF (May.

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 24, 2011

Karl is a software engineer with more than 10 years of experience who specializes in agile web development and web services integrations. It is specifically designed for reward checking account holders, or those who are interested in finding about reward checking accounts and maximizing their savings.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 26, 2009

In previous posts, I’ve mentioned quite a few of these, including these most important ones: having engineers post on the forums in their own name when they make a change routinely split-testing new changes routinely conducting in-person usability tests and interviews Net Promoter Score Each of these techniques is fundamentally bottoms-up.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 22, 2020

They've brought together a group of passionate volunteers across engineering, data science, content strategy, design, logistics and supply chain and disaster response to assist with open source solutions. So what do you do if you go to your local claim website and the site was designed to handle 10,000 claims over the past three years.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 26, 2009

The net result was powerful: within six months of starting the company, we were able to get a basic version of our product into open beta. Making UGC work requires good tools, open standards, and proper incentive design. Each of these tactics was effective, and Ill return to them in detail in a moment. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 4, 2009

Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Six streaming locations Interviews ► March (7) New conference website, speakers, agenda Two new scholarship programs for lean startups Speed up or slow down? Combining agile development with customer developm. Lets start with what I learned last time. Expo SF (May.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 14, 2020

In the case above, I used Ahrefs to find a new (hypothetical) feature opportunity for Crunchbase: the net worth of companies and people. Unless you’re a small, agile startup, shipping new features isn’t as simple as it sounds. If you’ve never heard the term scrum or agile before, you’re behind. Know the process.

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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

You need people with deep skills in Scientific Method , Design of Experiments , and Statistical Analysis. We'll measure Revenue, Profit (the money we make less cost of goods sold), Expense (cost of campaign), Net (bottom-line impact). The net impact went down from $2.59 ask for a raise. It is that simple. The people.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 14, 2021

NPS (Net Promoter Score) and CSAT (Customer Satisfaction Score) are both methods of quantifying customer sentiment and satisfaction. With data in hand, they were able to design hyper-targeted branding campaigns to influence key goals and drive audience growth by 20%. NPS & CSAT. Take Tesla. This allowed L.L.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 5, 2008

Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Six streaming locations Interviews ► March (7) New conference website, speakers, agenda Two new scholarship programs for lean startups Speed up or slow down? Stevey's Blog Rants: Good Agile, Bad Agile Learning from Obama: maneuver warfare on the campa. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 29, 2008

The six key attributes spell ABCDEF: Agility. When talking about their past experience, candidates with agility will know why they did what they did in a given situation. To probe for agility, you have to ask the candidate questions involving something that they know little about. Does their personality bring something new?

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Chapter 4: Brand Identity Design: the Building Blocks of Your Brand Identity. Chapter 5: Designing Your Brand Identity. Put another way: a designer’s job isn’t to design a brand. Designers design the brand identity (explained in Chapter 5 ). Chapter 2: Creating Your Brand Strategy. style guide.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 3, 2018

Corporate Agility. Transparency correlates to agility (Does your CEO know how many tests you ran last month?). Understand growth accounting – new, resurrected vs churned = net growth (can also look at this at feature level, not only product). Be agile, move at the speed of business, don’t hold up product development.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 22, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, November 22, 2008 Net Promoter Score: an operational tool to measure customer satisfaction Ive mentioned Net Promoter Score (NPS) in a few previous posts, but havent had a chance to describe it in detail yet. Net Promoter Score NPS is a methodology that comes out of the service industry.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 19, 2008

Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Six streaming locations Interviews ► March (7) New conference website, speakers, agenda Two new scholarship programs for lean startups Speed up or slow down? Stevey's Blog Rants: Good Agile, Bad Agile Learning from Obama: maneuver warfare on the campa. Expo SF (May.

San Francisco 60

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 11, 2008

Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Six streaming locations Interviews ► March (7) New conference website, speakers, agenda Two new scholarship programs for lean startups Speed up or slow down? Stevey's Blog Rants: Good Agile, Bad Agile Learning from Obama: maneuver warfare on the campa. Expo SF (May.

Silicon Valley 68

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 30, 2019

A diversified marketing strategy not only serves as a safety net but is also key to the lean marketing process. And weak conversions may mean that your copy, call to action, or design is weak. . Send follow-up emails to customers who abandon their online shopping carts – test copy, design, and CTAs.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

The company once had the market’s highest churn rate and lowest Net Promoter Score (NPS). This could be content or UX-design-related. Issues such as changes in design, unexpected costs, and your checkout process can all impact conversions. What is it designed to do? Bounce rate. Website traffic. Cost per click (CPC).

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Ben's Blog

MAY 15, 2020

It’s immediate of what is happening and what the net result is. Brian : Our monkey brains are not designed to balance those things at the same time. Lauren : Yeah, it’s being able to lean into that agility—to shift strategies quickly and adapt. If you’re sitting on one of those spectrums, your job is easier.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 9, 2017

goals include “building out a new product or service within the next year” or “increasing net profit by 2 percent in ten months.” track whether the design of the program was working and delivering the level of results we were contracted to deliver,” says Hartley. (specific, measurable, actionable, reasonable, and timely).

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 2, 2009

Five Whys is designed to avoid these nebulous arguments. The net effect of all this was to make new engineers incredibly productive right away – in most cases, we’d have them deliver code to production on their very first day. So far, it's been a net win to keep supporting it. Expo SF (May.

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