Board Effect

JULY 16, 2023

. ———————————————————————————————– Step One: Identify What You’re Looking For Create your wishlist for a dynamic, diverse, agile, future-focused, ready-for-anything board. Governance surveys indicate that the vast majority of boards prefer to keep this task in-house with self-evaluations or evaluations by peers.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 2, 2011

A revolution has taken hold as customer development and agile engineering reinvent the Startup process. It’s time to ask why startup board governance has failed to keep pace with innovation. They would: Blog their Customer Development progress as a narrative. Comments, help, suggestions and conversation can happen 24/7.

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Occam's Razor

APRIL 15, 2019

The conversion rate is down 30% at launch. Even with the limitations of tools, government regulations, and the astonishing fragmentation of everything (attention, devices, consumption sources, identities and more). But on this blog and in my newsletter I’ve shared enough strategies you should not use to slant data – use them.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 3, 2009

If your practice is not designed to cope with uncertainty, it has no place in a startup - even if your startup is located in government or enterprise. Split-testing is great for linear optimization; making our landing pages, conversion rates, and retention metrics incrementally better day-in day-out. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 6, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, March 6, 2010 Startup Visa update As I write this, I am traveling at 30,000 feet on Virgin Americas excellent IAD->SFO nonstop, following an intense few days of conversations in Washington, DC about the Startup Visa. Our trip was bipartisan, bicameral, and bi-branches-of-government.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 6, 2011

And others are from unusual folks we don't normally think of as entrepreneurs, from corporate managers to government agencies. What I am most proud of is what I hope will be a significant contribution to our collective conversation about entrepreneurship. Unfortunately, most of those people are not reading blogs about entrepreneurship.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

On to what seems to have stuck: kwooleyy : #g2s Showed startup OODA loop developed by USAF pilot John Boyd I included two Boyd-inspired books in the recommended reading list on the right-hand side of this blog: Certain to Wi n and Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War. Federal government should do nothing. link] Amen!

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 16, 2013

One good example is the way in which we''ve adjusted the length of different phases of our agile sprints. We don''t follow a set agile methodology, but rather follow a more home-grown, minimal version of various approaches. We have a blog that''s internal-only to capture important stories for prosperity.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

How To Land a Job at Google (or elsewhere) - FairSoftware's Blog , November 9, 2010 It’s been 11 years now that the obvious hit me: the best way to land a job is to do the job , not talk about it. few years ago I also started following Alexander Osterwalder in his blog about his Business Model Generation -mantra. Give yourself a month.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

Im writing this post from an airplane headed to Washington DC, where Ill be presenting at the Government 2.0 Im especially curious to gauge the reaction of the civilian and military representatives of our government. Ive been in a few government-themed meetings recently, so I know some of the standard answers.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 26, 2017

Elite Camp is a traffic and (mainly) conversion event held in Estonia every summer. Invite influencers to guest post on your blog. Teach your sales & customer support team to send helpful content from the blog. Bob Ruffalo : How IMPACT Used the ResearchXL Model to 3x Conversions from Content Marketing.

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Analytics Sweden Metrics Estonia 85

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 17, 2011

Not only is the private sector suffering, but huge budget deficits mean the government sector is feeling the pain as well. Yes, budget battles in state and local governments have led to extreme, never-before-seen cuts in education budgets — thousands of teacher layoffs and the slashing of music, athletic, gifted, and other programs.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2018

All the teams used the Mission Model Canvas , Customer Development and Agile Engineering to build Minimal Viable Products, but all of their journeys were unique. Few consider opportunities to make the world safer with the Department of Defense, Intelligence Community or other government agencies. Team: TrackID. Hacking for Oceans.

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Occam's Razor

DECEMBER 12, 2016

What guarantees that agility and innovation are present in your analytics practice? At the end of this post, I'll share the two that I recommended to the team in our conversation above. If you are a government analytics team, you are wasting time. How do you ensure that your can zig-zag with business strategy?

Analytics 60

Analytics DC Software Review Leadership 60

crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Make your feedback process a conversation so that your customers know that their input is valued. No matter what method you use, make sure that you’re engaging with your customers in a conversation. Sans-serif fonts evoke an informality that works well for blogs, personal websites, and casual business cultures. User personas.

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Marketing Charlotte Naming Design 162

mashable.com

MAY 5, 2011

It got 10% conversion,” Carrella says. Another way is get behind the power blogs such as mashable, techcrunch and get them to write a review or do an interview for your solution. Start blogging, talk about the problems that you’re facing and how your product is the solution. Each referral moves you further up in line.

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 10, 2011

You don't necessarily need an MBA, but if you can't have a intelligent business analysis conversation you won't be effective. Companies care about money, non-profits care about impact, governments care about costs reduced. Torture everyone to identify economic value of non-revenue micro conversions. Tried again.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 11, 2008

Youll need bundles, promotions, category and segment managers, and algorithms for upsell, cross-sell, and conversion optimization. The government doesnt assign each clothing brand its own level of benefit. Startup Lessons Learned season one : Every post from the blogs first year in print form. Appreciate your insights.

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San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment DC 68

blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Expensify Blog. Blog posts like this might be part of why you’re finding it hard to hire good people. Think of it like Ruby on Rails, you can do the “Blog in 15 minutes” trick by scaffolding everything in RoR, but it won’t be a production app. « chawisa's blog. Sunday edit : Still going!

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

In this talk, James Surowiecki discusses the 2005 tsunami, and what he believes is the pinpointed moment that social media really showed off what it could do in the news, as YouTube videos, blogs, IMs and texts shared the news and personal stories from the storm. Mena Trott on blogs. Howard Rheingold: The new power of collaboration.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 15, 2015

Small Business and Startups: 8 Steps To a Successful Redesign | @crowdSPRING Blog – crowdspring.co/1KuCfWj. How To Avoid Agility. Marketing Tools To Use To Automate and Improve Your Website Conversions crowdspring.co/1EeI6eu. Marketing Tools To Use To Automate and Improve Your Website Conversions crowdspring.co/1EeI6ex.

Small Business 48

Small Business Design Social Media Startup 48

Occam's Razor

JANUARY 7, 2014

Site Conversion Rate. My second blog post covered what and why ! In addition to that, if sign 1 exists, you are so successful and dominant as a company you are about to be sued by the government because they are confident you are doing something illegal (except you are not). All data in aggregate is crap. Total revenue.

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Analytics Web Metrics DC 140

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

In the middle of a serious conversation on the joys of motherhood or the stress of a career you might realize that the person you’re talking to is only 15. But to your point, you can't even have a conversation with them, they have made their decisions and moved on. But it also has some drawbacks.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 29, 2020

In the time since our conversation, data and science have shown again and again that wearing masks is an incredibly effective, low-cost and simple way to prevent viral spread. You can listen to our conversation on Apple , Google, or wherever you like to download podcasts. Here's my conversation with Jeremy Howard.

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