Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 15, 2020

In his classic book, “ The Leadership Capital Index ,” Dave Ulrich, a best-selling author, business consultant, and business school professor, provides some real insights and metrics on what makes up the elements of goodwill in the minds of top valuation experts. Modern information management tools. Strategic proficiency.

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

With heavy global competition between airlines and customers having online alternatives at their fingertips, airlines face challenges of constantly updating pricing, which can make airline revenue management complex and optimizing revenue a major challenge across industries. What Airline Revenue Management Does.

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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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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 27, 2019

Thus I was pleased to see the evidence confirming that perspective in a new book, “ The Amazon Management System ,” by Ram Charan and Julia Yang. In my view, every startup in today’s world would do well to adopt a management system with the same key objectives: Start with a customer-obsessed business model.

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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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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. He called the combination “ The Lean Startup ” and wrote a great book with that name.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 29, 2019

From meager beginnings selling books online back in 1994, Amazon is currently the largest e-commerce retailer and cloud computing platform in the world, and now dominates even the giant Walmart. Recently, I saw some help in that regard in a new book, “ Think Like Amazon ,” by John Rossman, a former top executive at Amazon.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

A complete list of book tour stops for the first leg of my journey is below. Many of you who pre-ordered the book -especially those of you on Kindle- have already received your copy. The Amazon.com reviews page for the book has just opened to the general public (up until now it's been limited to Amazon Vine reviewers).

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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. He called the combination “ The Lean Startup ” and wrote a great book with that name.

Technical Review 219

Technical Review Lean Venture Capital Customer Development 219

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. This engineering manager is a smart guy, and very experienced.

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The Startup Magazine

APRIL 11, 2019

All of us know in software companies that scrum is the most significant agile methodology for handling software projects. Scrum is a lightweight agile process framework used primarily for managing software development. Big projects are divided into small manageable sprints. SCRUM METHODOLOGY.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 29, 2021

As a result of the pandemic, not everyone has managed to hold onto their work. What we offer is a way for employees to feel appreciated at work as well as a way for managers to easily recognize and engage with their employees, both of which are incredibly important in the workplace. It's important to keep business agile.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 24, 2021

In the classic book, “ The Attacker’s Advantage ,” by world-renowned business advisor Ram Charan, I found some real guidance on what skills are required, what to look for, and how to react in time. Adeptness in managing the transition to the new path. Skill in making the organization steerable and agile.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Their book Lead and Disrupt describes how others can learn how to do so. This book not only explains the “why does this happen” but more importantly gives you the tools for “what to do about it.”. In this book O’Reilly and Tushman succinctly articulate why these tools succeed in start-ups but fail in large companies.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

Book of Five Rings. He was using 3 rd parties to build his app but he had no expertise on how to manage external developers. Not to become developers but at a minimum to appreciate how to hire and manage technical resources and if possible to deliver the next level of MVP’s themselves. A Startup is Not Just About a Good Idea.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Given that software is central to every major DOD mission and system, we need to acquire and deliver software with much greater speed, agility, and cyber security. Risk Management Tools. The department launched a pilot program with commercial risk management tools. Now, I think of this as we think of ISO quality.

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

OCTOBER 1, 2020

I just ordered Felix’s new book: FightBack, How to win in the digital economy with platforms, ventures and entrepreneurs. The time to invest in innovation agility is now. I consulted with management to focus a rapid innovation process effort. Slow and steady used to work for corporate innovation. Two Real World Examples.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 24, 2018

It’s the kind of flexibility the IoT needs: an appetite for change and agility. Most organizations transform from the edge as I call it in my book: they maintain their existing markets and channels, while investing money in new opportunities at the edge of their core offerings. The ability to collaborate in diversity.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 18, 2020

I found this reality addressed well in a new book, “ Fast Times ,” by McKinsey Partners Arun Arora, Peter Dahlstrom, Klemens Hjartar, and Florian Wunderlich. Set up training courses that highlight agility, and adopt agile working practices.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

If you’re an early employee at a startup, one day you will wake up to find that what you worked on 24/7 for the last year is no longer the most important thing – you’re no longer the most important employee, and process, meetings, paperwork and managers and bosses have shown up. Manager of people and process? Loss of Autonomy?

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

In a new book, “ The Leadership Capital Index ,” Dave Ulrich, a best-selling author, business consultant, and business school professor, provides some real insights and metrics on what makes up the elements of goodwill in the minds of top valuation experts. Modern information management tools. Strategic proficiency.

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Conflict Management: Conflict, or the avoidance of it, is the biggest barrier to team productivity. Teams are made aware of the relationship between diversity and conflict, and given tools on how to manage that polarity. It can augment, Lean, Design Thinking or Agile approaches. Management teams. Sales Management teams.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 3, 2010

How large companies can stay innovative and entrepreneurial has been the Holy Grail for authors of business books, business schools, consulting firms, etc. If we use our “startup to large company,” diagram, we can see that sustaining innovations occur within a large company’s existing management structures. Just like a startup.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 20, 2017

To be able to respond quickly and intelligently to the fast pace of change, all levels and functions in your businesses must be creative, responsive, and agile. These companies are willing to take prudent risks and know how to manage risk. And yet, we can’t afford to let fear, uncertainty, and doubt paralyze us. and Malaysia.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Even these have had their ups and downs, but credit their team culture with a mindset of being innovative and agile, compared to the more prevalent corporate culture of focus on profits, repeatable processes, minimal risk, and business as usual. Create flat cross-functional teams and experimentation.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

They keep waiting for top management to somehow fix the situation. In reality, I believe that building and sustaining a winning culture is everyone’s business, not just that of top management. As a result of his work with clients around the world, Matt is recognized as an expert in culture change and development.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

No company can afford to lose the agility, flexibility, and innovation of a startup. Penalties for management learning experiences. In fact, even within Fortune 100 companies, almost 90 percent have encountered growth stalls or flirted with failure, or worse, in the last 50 years.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

These initiatives are what Bob Johansen and Karl Ronn call “ The Reciprocity Advantage ” in their classic book on how partnerships must work in the future for innovation and growth. Maintain the agility to quickly pivot or quit. Social media relationships fuel the scaling fire. Not everything will work.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 21, 2013

Embracing the principle of genchi gembutsu – translated in English as “go and see for yourself” – Ries regaled how Toyota’s manager for Sienna minivan Yuji Yokoya went on a 53,000 mile trip around North America to understand firsthand what consumers wanted in a minivan.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 23, 2013

Jubenville, co-authors of “ Zebras and Cheetahs: Look Different and Stay Agile to Survive the Business Jungle “. And, of course, these behaviors prevent their organizations from being agile, accountable, and innovative enough to compete in the global economy. by Micheal J. Burt and Colby B. This place is a jungle.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 28, 2022

I found this perspective confirmed recently in a new book, “ The Crux, ” by Richard Rumelt. The resources may be money, public controversy, or management attention. Business agility can also be improved by proactively looking ahead – for new trends and technologies that will likely attract competitors and customers.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 23, 2017

It is a free, volunteer run conference to help participants build skills and expand product management and product marketing knowledge. I attended with the goal of gaining insights on the Product Management world, and to meet and hear the stories of others who showed up. Most of the Agile world is in the perspective of delivery focus.

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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

SEPTEMBER 5, 2021

I remember the classic book, “ The Collaboration Imperative ,” by Ron Ricci and Carl Wiese, which makes the case very well for why collaboration matters in every business, as well as startups. Executives and managers must be willing participants, modeling collaborative behavior and embracing the technology tools, not just taskmasters.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

I recall one classmate using a risk management model we had just studied to turn around a company during an internship placement. Students analyse case studies and simulations that mimic real-life challenges to ensure they’re not simply book smart but street smart as well. Here is the story of its formation.

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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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