Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

For the business leaders I know, these priorities almost always include the following: Business agility. Implicit in agility is increased productivity on change initiatives. In today’s world of distributed data, global reach, and powerful incursion technologies, how do I protect my data and my customers’ data? User privacy.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 28, 2011

For the business leaders I know, these priorities almost always include the following: Business agility. Implicit in agility is increased productivity on change initiatives. In today’s world of distributed data, global reach, and powerful incursion technologies, how do I protect my data and my customers’ data? User privacy.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 15, 2017

Recent developments in applications have rendered the firewall outdated and incapable of deciphering the good and trusted from the bad traffic. Agile businesses have moved to the cloud because of its scalability, efficiency and reliability, amongst other benefits. Without a doubt, the firewall era has come to an end.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 21, 2013

Through rapid experimentation, short product development cycles, and rigorous measurements of the right metrics, they can ascertain what customers really want. Such direct experiences allows one to test critical “leap-of-faith” assumptions about what customers like and dislike.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 31, 2018

He also believes that startups often have an advantage in using technological advances to help them innovate customer experiences. “In In many respects, it’s the leanness, flexibility and agility of startups that help them become successful,” he says. They’re the ones doing the disrupting, and their innovations are making waves.”.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

As small businesses increasingly look towards mobile applications as a marketing strategy to reach their customers, the question some of them are asking is this: Is it better to go with a native application (i.e. How quick and easy is it? What kinds of businesses would most benefit from having a mobile web-based app?

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Gust

SEPTEMBER 16, 2012

For the business leaders I know, these priorities almost always include the following: Business agility. Implicit in agility is increased productivity on change initiatives. In today’s world of distributed data, global reach, and powerful incursion technologies, how do I protect my data and my customers’ data? User privacy.

Technology 162

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Steve Blank

JULY 25, 2023

Now at Imperial College Business School and Co-Founder of the Wicked Acceleration Labs , Cristobal and I wondered if we could combine the tenets of Lean (get out of the building, build MVPs, run experiments, move with speed and urgency) with the expanded toolset developed by researchers who work on Wicked problems and Systems’ Thinking.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

When Ive asked mentors of mine who have worked in big companies about the role of the CTO, they usually talk about the importance of being the external face of the companys technology platform; an evangelist to developers, customers, and employees. Thats more than just drawing architecture diagrams, though.

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

Seeing the tangible results of our efforts, like a client's business flourishing because of a website we designed or a marketing strategy we developed, is incredibly rewarding. The excitement of learning & adapting to new trends in digital marketing & web development keeps me engaged & inspired.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 29, 2009

Like a financial debt, the technical debt incurs interest payments, which come in the form of the extra effort that we have to do in future development because of the quick and dirty design choice. Startups especially can benefit by using technical debt to experiment, invest in process, and increase their product development leverage.

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Venture Chronicles

AUGUST 2, 2013

and more on point is that the best product is a result of what you learn from your customers, not what you think you should be doing. Ultimately you need to achieve best in class but if you try to achieve that in the first iteration you will be hopelessly late.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

We wanted an agile approach that would allow us to build our software architecture as we needed it, without downtime, but also without large amounts of up-front cost. After all, the worst kind of waste in software development is code to support a use case that never materializes. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 26, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, April 26, 2009 Product development leverage Leverage has once again become a dirty word in the world of finance, and rightly so. But I want to talk about a different kind of leverage, the kind that you can get in product development. Its a key lean startup concept.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 20, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, October 20, 2008 The engineering managers lament I was inspired to write The product managers lament while meeting with a startup struggling to figure out what had gone wrong with their product development process. He has a good team, and theyve shipped a working product to many customers.

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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. Needless to say, this is a slow and complex process.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 23, 2016

ARM, a competitor, not only had a better, much lower power processor, but a better business model – they licensed their architecture to other companies that designed their own products. Today that’s built on the premise that an x86 architecture is the one best suited for big data. Startups are unencumbered by the status quo.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 25, 2009

Twenty eight years ago I was the bright, young, eager product marketing manager called out to the field to support sales by explaining the technical details of Convergent Technologies products to potential customers. These companies would take our computers and put their name on them and resell them to their customers.

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www.bothsidesofthetable.com

MAY 13, 2012

Some CTO’s swear that it is a huge improvement in development timeframes and doesn’t cause performance issues. Your deepest thinkers on technology architecture are seldom good team leaders. They often aren’t great at planning development work. They should be setting the standards for how code is developed.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 17, 2010

Even more surprisingly, the engineering team was equally vocal about their contention that adding rounded corners would add weeks of development time to the project, which would have pushed it out way past its hard deadline, effectively killing it. The engineering team wasn’t happy either. No departments Big companies have departments.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 27, 2012

It was great to watch him embrace the spirit and practice of customer development. He was constantly in front of customers, listening, selling, installing and learning. It seemed like once a week Yuri would come back from a customer meeting brimming with new insights. And that’s where the problem was. A Pivot a Week.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

DECEMBER 10, 2014

We had seen Lightspeed portfolio company Nicira disrupt networking layers 2-3 with an architecture that consisted of highly distributed scale out software elements coupled with centralized control, culminating in an acquisition by VMWare for $1.25B in the summer of 2012.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 15, 2009

If we accept the verdict of customers instead of pundits, I think these claims are easy to dismiss. One large source of waste in development is “double-checking.&# For example, imagine a team operating in a traditional waterfall development system, without continuous deployment, test-driven development, or continuous integration.

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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. Understand Your Customer and Teach Them to Solve Real Problems. Innovation begins and ends with understanding the customer and the specific problems they are facing.

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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. Understand Your Customer and Teach Them to Solve Real Problems. Innovation begins and ends with understanding the customer and the specific problems they are facing.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 28, 2009

That mission critical customers wont accept new releases on a continuous basis. Most customers of most products hate new releases. Even worse, the sad state of product development generally means that the new "features" are as likely to be ones that make the product worse, not better. Lets take each in turn. Another release?

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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. 9 – Developing an Entrepreneur Program. Thanks to Jason Bond, Jason Bond Picks ! #6

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 8, 2009

And as Kapor himself points out, the core ideas have even older origins: The Roman architecture critic Vitruvius advanced the notion that well-designed buildings were those which exhibited firmness, commodity, and delight. Yet a huge class of modern software projects are being developed in a very different context.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2008

We just had our app support a few tens of thousands of customers, and it did well. You dont need to invent a new architecture, and you dont need to even build your architecture up-front. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? 1 comments: flixsterwidgettest said.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 21, 2020

It was whatever you can do to get away from the classic DOD stovepipe way of doing business to a much more agile software approach. Josh Marcuse and the Defense Innovation Board were instrumental in helping us see what those agile principles were and how we could get moving and go fast. Warfighters Need to Be Demanding Customers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 27, 2010

For the business leaders I know, these priorities almost always include the following: Business agility. Implicit in agility is increased productivity on change initiatives. In today’s world of distributed data, global reach, and powerful incursion technologies, how do I protect my data and my customers’ data? Data security.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

As a formal method, the Lean Startup consists of three parts: The Business Model Canvas – to frame hypotheses, Customer Development – to test those hypotheses in front of customers, and Agile Engineering – to build Minimum Viable Products to maximize learning. Customer Segments is changed to Beneficiaries.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 13, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, July 13, 2009 The Principles of Product Development Flow If youve ever wondered why agile or lean development techniques work, The Principles of Product Development Flow: Second Generation Lean Product Development by Donald G. Reinertsen is the book for you.

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mashable.com

MAY 9, 2011

With development teams often based around the world, being the center of communication and progress can either lead to a tremendously successful strategy or a bottleneck that can slow down an entire company. An Eye for Business Development Your new CTO’s technology vision should fall in line with your overall business strategy.

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andrewchenblog.com

MARCH 10, 2010

Coupled with A/B testing, customer development, and thinking through business problems in a scientific, hypothesis-driven way, you end up with a powerful cocktail of techniques to build a modern startup in the most iterative way possible. Listen to your customers. You can also find more essays here. what a coincidence.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

It might be the products or the customers they deal with, or it could even be the fact that they are the ones in charge of it all. Not being caught up in a corporate management structure gives me the freedom and agility to be at the top of our game. Different business owners also have different reason why they love their business.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 1, 2021

Founded in 2009 by JoeBen Bevert, Joby Aviation has been working under the radar at a base in Santa Cruz, California to develop an electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft. But Joby’s quest includes even more than the amazing hardware it’s developing. Joby plans to start taking paying customers in 2024.

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