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Lessons From Leaders

SVPG

Think in leaps, but iterate in steps" - I attribute this to Google, and I like it because it helps to highlight the need for both product vision and for Agile methods, and to help teams understand why these goals are not in conflict. "Be I have literally hundreds that I've aggregated and curated. Very hard for me to pick just ten.

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Why Entrepreneurs Start Companies Rather Than Join Them

Steve Blank

In this case the entrepreneurs know something potential employers don’t – that nowhere on their resume does it show resiliency, curiosity, agility, resourcefulness, pattern recognition, tenacity and having a passion for products. (Asymmetric Information is when one party has more or better information than the other.) Or is it calling ?

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Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business)

Startup Lessons Learned

Two others – that each team member give their input independently and that the results be objectively aggregated – are also key parts of building a meritocracy. Diversity is not the only requirement for making good group decisions. So why is demographic diversity important? So why is demographic diversity important? Expo SF (May.

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It’s Time to Play Moneyball: The Investment Readiness Level

Steve Blank

Teams use the Lean Startup toolkit: the Business Model Canvas + Customer Development process + Agile Engineering. Metrics visible at a glance are number of customer interviews in the current week as well as aggregate interviews, hypotheses to test, invalidated hypotheses, mentor and instructor engagements.

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It's a startup, not a spreadsheet

Startup Lessons Learned

It’s entirely possible for the startup to be a massive success without having large aggregate numbers, because the startup has succeeded in finding a passionate, but small, early adopter base that has tremendous per-customer behavior. Expo SF (May. Conference streaming, sponsors, discounted tickets.

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Lessons Learned: Validated learning about customers

Startup Lessons Learned

First of all, it means that most aggregate measures of success, like total revenue, are not very useful. Go on an agile diet quickly. With a product development team that is not shipping, any agile methodology will surface major problems quickly. Labels: agile , customer development 15comments: Scott Shapiro said.

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Marching through quicksand

Startup Lessons Learned

Or follow all of the New York Times columnists equally? This is good news for everyone except those who have huge legacy investments in large-batch distribution. Because of the incredible array of information available, we have a desperate need for filtering mechanisms. Does anyone really watch the full NBC lineup anymore?