Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 16, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, March 16, 2009 Combining agile development with customer development Today I read an excellent blog post that I just had to share. Jim Murphy is a long-time agile practitioner in startups. But startups sometimes have trouble applying agile successfully.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 12, 2012

When you’ve made it to the management level, it’s tempting to think that you’re in a comfortable position where you don’t have much room for improvement. But while you may be a great manager now, there is always the possibility of becoming a better one, if only you just know how. Better Managers Blog. Agile Management.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 6, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, November 6, 2008 Steveys Blog Rants: Good Agile, Bad Agile I thought Id share an interesting post from someone with a decidedly anti-agile point of view. Steveys Blog Rants: Good Agile, Bad Agile : "Google is an exceptionally disciplined company, from a software-engineering perspective.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

APRIL 16, 2024

This article will review the effect instant shipping quotes have on the logistics industry, examining the subtle differences of cost savings, time management, and the competitive advantages they deliver. Users can alter shipment inputs—weight, dimensions, destination, and more—and receive instantaneously updated quotes.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 15, 2019

This article previously appeared in the Harvard Business Review. What had previously been a strength – their great management processes – now holds back their ability to respond to new challenges. People who manage processes are not the same people as those who create product. However, their biggest obstacle is internal.

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 5, 2021

Short for customer relationship management, CRM system is a software that businesses and organizations use to manage all their interactions and relationships with past, existing and potential customers. In this article, we will focus on the simple reasons to use CRM in a business startup. Increased Agility.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 12, 2020

Network management is a controlled process of administering and overall managing a company’s computer networks. It involves analyzing, checking performance, providing networks, and maintaining top-notch services through network management software. Here are the five ways. Reliance on software-defined perimeter technology.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 16, 2013

It was not only my secret weapon in thinking about new startup strategies, it also gave me a view of the management issues my customers were dealing with. Through HBR I discovered the work of Peter Drucker and first read about management by objective. I learned about Michael Porter s’s five forces.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

This article previously appeared in War On The Rocks. With Agile development, used by all startups, updates can occur in weeks or sometimes days, or even hours. The answer is that, yes, government agencies need to be more agile. There was a time when much of U.S. Some of the speed is simply due to development methodologies.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 16, 2013

It was not only my secret weapon in thinking about new startup strategies, it also gave me a view of the management issues my customers were dealing with. Through HBR I discovered the work of Peter Drucker and first read about management by objective. I learned about Michael Porter s’s five forces.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

A version of this article first appeared in the Harvard Business Review. Massive liquidity awaited the first movers to the IPO’s, and that’s how they managed their portfolios. And to be honest, VC’s in this bubble really didn’t care.

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Navigating these complexities demands a sophisticated understanding of global dynamics and a proactive approach to risk management. Anticipating and adapting to the impacts of social and political shifts is integral to effective risk management in a rapidly changing world.

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 4, 2022

Even some of the greatest technology leaders have shown over time that they have managed to maintain business success through digital transformation. Getting a first-rate business intelligence service, for example, would be a good move in terms of supplying startups with valuable data management assistance.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 25, 2023

However, if you do manage to find success, the rewards can be significant. There are many ways to do this, including going onto other people’s podcasts, talking at events, attending local Chamber of Commerce functions, talking about what you do at parties, and writing articles for other people’s publications like this one.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 12, 2010

I recently wrote an article on how to respond to board members between meetings. Over time at my first startup our developers encouraged us to move to Agile development. So when I read my post it sounded to me more like a new philosophy for “The Agile Board,&# so I put that as my subtitle. I liked that. Especially Ad.ly.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 12, 2022

The solution is to establish and maintain a culture and processes that don’t view change as a discrete event to be spotted and managed, but as an ongoing opportunity to improve competitiveness. Increase change agility. It’s called the management of unplanned changes, or how well your startup reacts to crises.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 7, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, January 7, 2010 Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? for Harvard Business Review) Im excited to have just published the first of several articles on entrepreneurship for the Harvard Business Review online. Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? - So, Id like to ask you a favor.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 15, 2017

We’d managed to secure another infusion of cash, but it wasn’t going to last long. When I asked our trade show manager, she looked surprised and said, “Steve, don’t you know that my job is to take our booth to trade shows and set it up?” What I was hearing was a failure of management. This is a big idea.

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Steve Blank

JULY 13, 2021

This article first appeared in Poets and Quants. The Rise of Business Schools – Management as an Occupation. These explosions in company size and scale created a demand for professional managers. Its purpose was to educate management on best practices to run existing companies. Here’s why and what we did about it.

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Up and Running

JULY 2, 2018

In this article, I’ll explore these how to spot and reverse these problems. Slack), and know the policies for communicating on email and project management systems. Scott Gerber’s useful article about building team culture features 13 tips by business leaders, from hosting out of office meals to improving transparency.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Take a look at this article to learn more about the advantages of wearable tech and the difference it can make to individuals [link]. Your business may not be directly linked to health and wellness, but being agile is critical for survival, and it could also open doors. Picture from [link]. Cost-Saving. Image courtesy of [link].

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SVPG

DECEMBER 15, 2012

The past several articles have discussed the nature of Continuous Discovery and Dual-Track Agile. In this article I'd like to discuss another dimension of working effectively in an Agile environment, which is how we manage commitments. So the way we manage commitments is with a little bit of give and take.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 2, 2018

A startup by nature is a small, agile company which is innovating to solve a problem. Your industry and the level of management that you’re meeting with may dictate the dress code to a certain extent, but the general rule is, the more senior you are, the better you should dress. So, if you want to play with the bigwigs, look the part.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

This article aims to provide essential tips that will help budding entrepreneurs navigate the complex yet exciting world of business. With the availability of resources like a bachelor of business management online , learning has become more accessible than ever.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 9, 2021

From my own experience hiring and managing people in large companies as well as small, here are the key characteristics to seek and nurture in new team members: Look for people who exude energy and passion. Recent articles report that companies where everyone is focused on the big picture can increase their returns by up to 400 percent.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 3, 2010

If we use our “startup to large company,” diagram, we can see that sustaining innovations occur within a large company’s existing management structures. The diagram for managing disruptive innovation in large company looks suspiciously like starting from square one as a startup. F urther Reading : Harvard Business Review Articles.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 8, 2018

This article, which originally appeared on our LivePlan Blog , is part of our “Business Planning Guide” —a curated list of our articles that will help you with the planning process! We treat planning not as a document, but as a management tool that helps guide decisions and strategy. They’re right. Let’s do the numbers.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

In this article, we’ll chart its influence over time on global business practices while keeping its relevance current. I recall one classmate using a risk management model we had just studied to turn around a company during an internship placement. Here is the story of its formation.

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Where to Play

AUGUST 18, 2020

In 2000, they included tentage into their portfolio and since then they have established themself as a premium brand in marriage event management. This analysis highlighted that Gopa has strong competencies in Event management, Cooked food supply, Decoration, and Human resource management for events.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2016

If the Microsoft board was managing for quarter to quarter or even year to year revenue growth, Ballmer was as good as it gets as a CEO. Projects not directly related to those activities never got serious management attention and/or resources. Yet in five years the only new thing that managed to get out the door is the Apple Watch.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2016

If the Microsoft board was managing for quarter to quarter or even year to year revenue growth, Ballmer was as good as it gets as a CEO. Projects not directly related to those activities never got serious management attention and/or resources. Yet in five years the only new thing that managed to get out the door is the Apple Watch.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 17, 2014

Email management tools. Want an affordable CRM tool to manage your contacts, deals, projects, and messages? Use it to manage the hiring process, to keep track of investment and fundraising projects, to manage deals, and much more. Project management tools. LastPass Password Manager. Boomerang for Gmail.

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Transformify

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

The ‘’must have ingredients’’ of a strong start-up team are tech, product/project management, marketing, sales, and business/finance competences. 20 % of the project managers are familiar with Scrum, but there are very few product managers – less than 1% of all. Project/ Product Management.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 12, 2019

The solution is to establish and maintain a culture and processes that don’t view change as a discrete event to be spotted and managed, but as an ongoing opportunity to improve competitiveness. Increase change agility. It’s called the management of unplanned changes, or how well your startup reacts to crises.

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SVPG

DECEMBER 8, 2010

Readers of my book and articles know how much I value a strong project manager. I’ve written earlier about the positive impact to velocity a great project manager can have (see [link] and [link]. However, occasionally I run into teams where they have a very different type of project manager.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 13, 2017

Agile marketing may not be a phrase you hear often, but it’s becoming increasingly popular and important. Traditionally associated with development and product management, agile is a lightweight and, well, agile framework for software development and bringing features and products to market. Image Source.

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SVPG

OCTOBER 14, 2014

In this article I want to talk about some of the deep reasons why innovation is stifled at so many established companies. In IT mindset companies, you usually find very slow, heavy, Waterfall processes, even when the engineers consider themselves Agile. They just make minor optimizations to existing products. 4) Staffing. 5) Funding.

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