Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

There are several lines of effort that we’re focusing on: We’re working to build the Space Force as a very Lean and Agile service. Everybody that comes into the space force will learn coding and adopt digital engineering standards as our as our standard for acquisition. That’s the leadership team.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Army, both internal ( existing leadership ) and external (existing contractors,) used these early WWW1 failures as rationale to keep the status quo – in this case horses/cavalry. But the painful lessons from nations that lost wars teach us that technology/weapons leadership is ephemeral. Slides 10-13).

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Only a few have found the leadership to continually innovate in the face of change, and the rest are still looking for the recipe or secret. Continuous innovation is a mindset that you cannot outsource, or bring in through acquisition or consultants. Have each develop a personal transformation plan with your support.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Here you need a team, people with disparate but complementary skills bonded by your leadership, to ship product and go live. Commitment, tenacity, and agility are key in this stage. We look for evidence of all the other required mindsets, and your execution and leadership skills, to make a successful business journey happen.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 20, 2019

But to get to the finish line successfully, there are several key company milestones that leadership must identify and address. Startups tend to put a premium on being “agile,” but that doesn’t always work – and certainly won’t replace the effective collaboration a business needs to grow. At Women 2.0

Technical Cofounder 113

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 11, 2012

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Better Agile Than Smart – [link]. Building It Is Not Enough: 5 Practical Tips On User Acquisition – [link]. Better Agile Than Smart – [link].

Social Media 92

Social Media Small Business Design Media 92

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Army, both internal ( existing leadership ) and external (existing contractors,) used these early WWW1 failures as rationale to keep the status quo – in this case horses/cavalry. But the painful lessons from nations that lost wars teach us that technology/weapons leadership is ephemeral. Slides 10-13).

Technology 122

Technology North Korea Silicon Valley Artificial Inteligence 122

Steve Blank

AUGUST 29, 2016

The good news for the country is that the leadership of the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency has decided to turn the ship now. Putting lean principles into NGA’s acquisition practices. The end result is often that change can happen but it is going to come at the cost of disruption and difficulty.”.

Lean 177

Lean Silicon Valley Government Acquisition 177

Steve Blank

AUGUST 29, 2016

The good news for the country is that the leadership of the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency has decided to turn the ship now. Putting lean principles into NGA’s acquisition practices. The end result is often that change can happen but it is going to come at the cost of disruption and difficulty.”.

Lean 177

Lean Silicon Valley Government Acquisition 177

ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

Its target customers are likely only purchasing software solutions every few years, but the brand stays relevant by producing thought leadership that is of clear value to business leaders. It also demonstrates leadership from Buffer by being so transparent. To stay culturally relevant, speed matters.

Marketing 128

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 15, 2022

A particularly critical moment is when the founders hand over the leadership to a more managerial regime. The challenge during this phase is to stay innovative and agile. This is the end game for an industry, and many companies, characterized by mergers and acquisitions to a few dominant players. Geographic expansion.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Cloud-based software, with its scalability, agility and low total cost of ownership, empowers businesses to manage growth on their own terms. Zakir has more than 20 years of experience in management, customer acquisition and retention as well as sales leadership across the globe, complemented by a strong understanding of the Asian market.

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ConversionXL

MAY 1, 2017

Such lapses in strategic vision and product innovation often lead to a company experiencing what is called a growth stall, a phrase coined by Matthew Olson, Derek van Bever, and Seth Verry of CEB , a leadership advisory network. billion, a 35 percent drop. Swimming with Sharks. Growth teams are like those sharks.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 31, 2009

The first hint lies in its name; this is a product development model, not a marketing model, not a sales hiring model, not a customer acquisition model, not even a financing model (and we’ll also find that in most cases it’s even a poor model to use to develop a product.) So what’s wrong the product development model? Where Are the Customers?

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Agile VC

JUNE 13, 2019

I know some of the investors in Chewy prior to the PetSmart acquisition, but I am not a shareholder nor do I intend to purchase shares in the IPO. The post Chewy S-1: Category Leadership + Conveyor Belt Into Consumers’ Homes appeared first on AGILEVC. I’ll break down Chewy’s business based on their recent S-1 filing here.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

To achieve this mission, we established a framework that leveraged Marine Corps tenacity, agility, and adaptability to create a persistent culture of innovation. Rapid implementation also allows leadership to make quicker decisions on where, when, and how to apply resources. Always Be Measuring.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

To achieve this mission, we established a framework that leveraged Marine Corps tenacity, agility, and adaptability to create a persistent culture of innovation. Rapid implementation also allows leadership to make quicker decisions on where, when, and how to apply resources. Always Be Measuring.

Framework 322

Framework Lean Metrics Government 322

Agile VC

MARCH 13, 2012

Patents and the threat of patent infringement lawsuits provide maximum leverage against a competitor when they’re in the middle of a strategic inflection point… a major financing, acquisition, or large product launch. deems valuable. in court if necessary even if it meant delaying their IPO slightly. CEO at the helm, Yahoo!’s

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Steve Blank

MAY 29, 2019

With the nature of work changing, the core skills entrepreneurs need to know to become practitioners are actually core skills that everybody will need to know to get a job: creativity, agility, resilience, tenacity, curiosity. But this type of innovation requires leadership who understands that is their goal.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 21, 2019

A particularly critical moment is when the founders hand over the leadership to a more managerial regime. The challenge during this phase is to stay innovative and agile. This is the end game for an industry, and many companies, characterized by mergers and acquisitions to a few dominant players. Geographic expansion.

Dilution 224

Dilution Merger Flash Global 224

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 2, 2013

They didn’t pull any punches in telling us how difficult — and yet important — it can be to get leadership on board. Overall, this is part of a tendency to see Lean Startup as simply an evolution of Agile, and to mistakenly think that it thus “belongs” in Engineering, or that it’s only useful for new product endeavors.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

In his 17-year career, Rosenberg has developed key insights into the minds of CFOs and FP&A teams, with strengths in both customer-facing leadership and data analytics itself. He has a wealth of experience in the data vertical, having served in previous roles at companies such as Intel, AllScripts, and Vision.bi. Prior Leader Moves On.

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www.theenterprisearchitect.eu

MARCH 26, 2014

The Enterprise Architect building an Agile Enterprise Home MDD PaaS Startup Presentations About The cloud landscape described, categorized, and compared October 12, 2013 Johan Den Haan 10 comments “I work for a PaaS company” I answered him. “Ah, okay, great”, and he moved to another subject. It shouldnâ??t

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Occam's Razor

MAY 2, 2017

The challenge I want to take on is to be specific in the recommendations make, and to share how we can be very nimble and agile. It is the only way to ensure your leadership is not trapped in the let’s solve for 2% of our business success thinking. You’ll see three consistent patterns in the thinking expressed below.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 2, 2017

A particularly critical moment is when the founders hand over the leadership to a more managerial regime. The challenge during this phase is to stay innovative and agile. This is the end game for an industry, and many companies, characterized by mergers and acquisitions to a few dominant players. Geographic expansion.

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Ben's Blog

MAY 15, 2020

And if step one or two of the growth model start hitting a lot of friction, then of course it’s just going to get harder and harder, because each group of users is going to produce fewer and fewer users from an acquisition standpoint. It’s not a great look, from the leadership standpoint. Same thing for engagement, as well.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 14, 2013

A particularly critical moment is when the founders hand over the leadership to a more managerial regime. The challenge during this phase is to stay innovative and agile. This is the end game for an industry, and many companies, characterized by mergers and acquisitions to a few dominant players. Geographic expansion.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 23, 2022

It also allows me to provide support to those flailing businesses through my acquisitions. 19- Leadership. The motivation for growing my business has everything to do with leadership. Thanks to Mila Alichaev, Manhattan Laser Spa ! #5- 5- Fostering a customer-centric authority over the business. Photo Credit: Padmaja Santhanam.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 14, 2015

A particularly critical moment is when the founders hand over the leadership to a more managerial regime. The challenge during this phase is to stay innovative and agile. This is the end game for an industry, and many companies, characterized by mergers and acquisitions to a few dominant players. Geographic expansion.

Matching 120

Matching Marketing Dilution Startup 120

Steve Blank

JANUARY 21, 2010

To get to this Transition stage, the company needed passionate visionaries who can articulate a compelling vision, agile enough to learn and discover in real time, resilient enough to deal with countless failures, and responsive enough to capitalize on what they learned in order to secure early customers. Planning is another key distinction.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

And so this very agile, iterative process of bringing new technologies and prototyping systems. Well first, the sense of urgency you do hear at the top among the Pentagon leadership is not necessarily fully shared throughout the bureaucracy – surprise, surprise. We’ve started to adjust our acquisition approach.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Simultaneously, the Chinese Communist Party is integrating party leadership in both state-owned companies and private businesses (which account for 60 percent of the country’s output). It needs to use rapid/agile innovation, disposable systems that take advantage of innovations in the commercial technology base. Yes you, Apple and DJI.)

Technology 269

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

For those of you who have been following the discussion, a Lean Startup is Eric Ries ’s description of the intersection of Customer Development , Agile Development and if available, open platforms and open source. What’s the customer acquisition cost? Who influences a sale? Who recommends a sale? Who is the decision maker?

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Occam's Razor

DECEMBER 9, 2009

get crushed (and ignored) very often because they end up sitting in an org, reporting to people, who actually don't have the power to make authorize changes to pages, campaigns, acquisitions strategies, testing paths, surveys etc etc. It matters who your boss is and how much power she has to make stuff happen. Everyone wins.

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Steve Blank

JULY 29, 2013

Even if they become part of the founding team, it’s not a given that the founder, having come up with the idea has a “guaranteed” leadership role (CEO or VP) in the new company. Key attributes of an entrepreneur on a founding team are passion, determination, resilience, tenacity, agility and curiosity.

Cofounder 335

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 13, 2010

These posts and videos are about design, startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Why Startups are Agile and Opportunistic – Pivoting the Business Model – [link]. Amazing tragedy as Poland’s entire leadership dies in plane crash – [link]. – [link].

Social Media 95

Social Media Small Business Design Media 95

crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 13, 2010

These posts and videos are about design, startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Why Startups are Agile and Opportunistic – Pivoting the Business Model – [link]. Amazing tragedy as Poland’s entire leadership dies in plane crash – [link]. – [link].

Social Media 95

Social Media Small Business Design Media 95