Steve Blank

JUNE 26, 2014

Agile Engineering” to have teams prototype, test, and iterate their idea while discovering if they have a profitable business model. Activities are the key things you need to do to make the rest of the business model (value proposition, distribution channel, revenue) work. I-Corps @ NIH Lecture Order Details.

Intellectual Property 281

Intellectual Property Lean IP Open Source 281

YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 24, 2018

However, the real staggering growth numbers of IoT are elsewhere: in how it’s transforming industries, powering start-ups, changing how we solve societal challenges and boosting demand for IoT-related jobs. It’s the kind of flexibility the IoT needs: an appetite for change and agility. IoT profiles, skills and job trends.

Internet 150

Internet Demand Software Engineering Agile 150

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, November 7, 2008 Using AdWords to assess demand for your new online service, step-by-step If you want to build an online service, and you dont test it with a fake AdWords campaign ahead of time, youre crazy. Turns out, there was aboslutely no demand whatsoever for that particular product.

Demand 167

Demand San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment 167

ReadWriteStart

APRIL 8, 2023

In 2023, mobile commerce will remain in demand and grow even further. Last Mile & Next-Day Delivery Last-mile delivery, the last leg of the parcel movement from the transportation hub to the final destination, will also be in high demand in 2023. Only in 2021, 72.9% Amazon has been at it for years.

eCommerce 185

eCommerce Technical Review Software Review Analytics 185

Steve Blank

MAY 6, 2015

Best practices in software development started to move to agile development in the early 2000’s. With Agile you could end up satisfying every feature a customer asked for and still go out of business. Learning could be about product features, customer needs, the right pricing and distribution channel, etc.) Lessons Learned.

Lean 120

Lean Agile Business Model Customer Development 120

The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

Airline revenue must be managed on a daily basis due to changes affected by demand, pricing, scheduling and aircraft maintenance. You will be able to offer deals in real-time across all channels while providing travelers with a personalized service. Either way, the platform can provide valuable analytics for agile decision-making.

Revenue 61

Revenue Management Software Review Technical Review 61

The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 1, 2020

Increasing demand on digital features and channels equate to a huge increase in mainframe transaction volumes—so much so, that a recent survey shows that 59% of executives put the mainframe under a positive light as a platform for growth. Devops is something that you seldom hear together with mainframes in one sentence.

Marketing 98

Marketing Open Source eCommerce Technical Review 98

ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 25, 2021

This is increasingly difficult in a world dominated by remote work, but it’s increasingly demanded by the workforce. Accordingly, HR will need to find new channels for communication, teambuilding, and collecting employee feedback. The Gig Economy: Here to Stay? Technology is responsible for introducing the “gig economy.”

Artificial Inteligence 150

Artificial Inteligence Algorithm Retention Software Review 150

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 27, 2015

Maximum agility for required pivots. Startups need the agility to test various business models and positioning messages. Startups need the agility to test various business models and positioning messages. Partners and distribution channels will take you seriously. Build your audience and the product at the same time.

Hockey Stick 120

Hockey Stick Startup Stealth Agile 120

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 30, 2012

The class teaches founders how to dramatically reduce their failure rate through the combination of business model design, customer development and agile development using the Startup Owners Manual. More importantly, it makes no demands of you to stand and deliver your weekly customer development progress in front of your peers.

Startup 335

Startup Lean Incubator Business Model 335

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 6, 2011

It delivers on-demand, self-servicing capacity so as to allow users to run applications through a simple administrative console. This flexibility helps them to free up unnecessary costs associated with running their IT structure and channel it to other purposes. Governments adopting the use of the Cloud. The Rise of the Mobile Cloud.

Cloud 223

Cloud Asia Government Mobile 223

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 3, 2020

The one promotional mix channel most impacted by social distancing is personal selling. What you lose in personal selling marketing power, you’ll have to make up in marketing power using other promotional mix channels. But when things happen fast, it’s important that companies respond quickly to rebalance their promotional mix.

Campaign 246

Campaign Marketing Agile Channel 246

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 6, 2020

What you lose in personal selling marketing power, you will have to make up in marketing power using other promotional mix channels. We’ve arranged tens of thousands of product news stories over the last 30 years so we’ve seen this demand for good news stories to offset the bad ones many times before.

Social Media 246

Social Media Agile Channel Media 246

Women Entrepreneurs Can

APRIL 27, 2020

Outsourcing the whole app development is common practice today and enables entrepreneurs without coding knowledge to create an additional channel for communicating with their customers. YouTube Channels & Video Tutorials. You can cater to the needs of your customers by developing and using a business app. Live Chats. But you can!

Technical Review 52

Technical Review Customer Software Review Mobile 52

Steve Blank

APRIL 9, 2009

But what I wanted was an agile marketing team capable of operating independently without day-to-day direction. To do that we will create end-user demand and drive it into the sales channel, educate the channel and customers about why our products are superior, and help Engineering understand customer needs and desires.

Silicon Valley 259

Silicon Valley Technical Review RSS PR 259

Steve Blank

JULY 13, 2021

These explosions in company size and scale created a demand for professional managers. Business plans presume that building a startup is a series of predictable steps requiring execution of a plan which assumes a series of known facts: known customers, known features, known pricing, known distribution channel. experiential.

Lean 433

Lean Agile Business Model Business Plan 433

Steve Blank

APRIL 7, 2020

The classes are built on the Lean Startup methodology: Customer Discovery, Agile Engineering and the Business/Mission Model Canvas. Finally to have a better chance of a viable enterprise, they need to test all the other hypotheses in their business/mission model (pricing, demand creation, revenue, costs, etc.).

Customer 413

Customer Business Model Restful Video 413

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MAY 31, 2010

It was the little precambrian warm-blooded agile (oh sorry, now we're saying "lean") rodents who adapted by getting "outside the nest" to discover how to eat cockroaches, because we all know that cockroaches are the one form of life that can survive anything. Don't fear the dinosaur, fear the quivering warm-blooded tree-shrew.

Software Review 243

Software Review Development Team Review Technical Review Software Developers 243

crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 9, 2018

The design thinking process may have originated with designers, but the business world has started to take notice because of the agility, speed, and innovation that it promises. Amalie Beauty is now an in-demand, six-figure beauty business. The demand for organic beauty products is expected to grow to over $13 billion dollars by 2018.

Marketing 90

Marketing Social Media Cofounder Design 90

Up and Running

JANUARY 25, 2018

Digital businesses need to be agile and reactive too. See Bplans article on demand validation for a more detailed look at how to do this. Don’t forget to use social media channels, especially Instagram and Pinterest, to find out more about industry influencers and brands to watch. List who’s on your team and why.

eCommerce 96

eCommerce Business Plan Audience Lean 96

The Startup Magazine

MAY 30, 2019

A new kind of company, built to leverage new technologies, new media channels, new working practices and new consumer markets, Crowdify is agile, adaptive, responsive and forward thinking — but also grounded and focused on product and brand strategy and return on marketing investment.

Marketing 76

Marketing Agile Social Network Valuation 76

Steve Blank

MARCH 4, 2014

These groups are adapting or adopting the practices of startups and accelerators – disruption and innovation rather than direct competition, customer development versus more product features, agility and speed versus lowest cost. KPI’s and processes are the root cause of corporations’ inability to be agile and responsive innovators.

IRR 335

IRR Startup Business Model Agile 335

Steve Blank

APRIL 30, 2009

SuperMac sold our graphic boards for the Macintosh through multiple distribution channels: direct sales to major accounts, national chains, independent rep firms, etc. But the computer retail channel was a large part of our sales. Or blame my MarCom department who approved it. But that wasn’t the root cause of the problem.

Sales 120

Sales Silicon Valley RSS Las Vegas 120

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2010

There are few courses which teach aspiring entrepreneurs the skills (business models, customer and agile development, design thinking, etc.) If you’ve read any of my previous posts, you know I believe that: 1) a product is just a part of a startup, but understanding customers, channel, pricing, etc. to optimize this search.

Wiki 311

Wiki Lean Management Business Model 311

Growthink Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

It is an ambition that is channeled daily into ongoing personal and professional improvement and learning. It demands that everything be done right – strategy, tactics, innovation, execution, entrepreneurship, management. Find this kind of ambition – channeled to ethical, capitalistic ends – and back it.

Agile 63

Agile Technical Review Valuation Channel 63

Steve Blank

JANUARY 25, 2010

What’s the distribution channel. How do we create end user demand? How Does Customer Development, Agile Development and Lean Startups Fit? Agile Development is the way startups quickly iterate their product as they learn. How do we price and position the product? Who are our partners? Where/how do we build the product?

Agile 335

Agile Startup Silicon Valley Business Model 335

Steve Blank

AUGUST 31, 2009

Finally, I’ll write about how Eric Ries and the Lean Startup concept provided the equivalent model for product development activities inside the building and neatly integrates customer and agile development. The Focus on Execution Versus Agility The product development diagram has a linear flow from left to right. before you ship.

Customer Development 238

Customer Development Developer Customer Silicon Valley 238

View from Seed

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

accounting/controller, FP&A, demand forecasting, etc.?—?but or the need to build dynamic demand forecasting models. but at a high level the work output here is usually historical or forecasted view of the business conveyed through GAAP financial metrics/statements, done in monthly, quarterly, or annual cadence.

Analytics 149

Analytics Hiring SQL Forecast 149

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2008

Although Catalyst folded with the dot-com crash, Ries continued his entrepreneurial career as a Senior Software Engineer at There.com, leading efforts in agile software development and user-generated content. While an undergraduate at Yale Unviersity, he co-founded Catalyst Recruiting. Expo SF (May.

San Francisco 155

San Francisco Technical Cofounder Fractional CTO CTO 155

Board Effect

AUGUST 14, 2023

Legal and regulatory demands and requirements also impact board composition and structure. Smaller boards may be more agile.” More agile, yes. Collecting reports, planning documents and other results can ease the growing demand for transparency and ESG regulations. But smaller volunteer boards also face pressure.

Agile 52

Agile Government Equity Leadership 52

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

The other revels in the world as we all know it will be someday: limitless distribution enabled by new technologies, the importance of collaborative filters, and on-demand availability of all content for end-users. Test-marketing is now easier than ever before, thanks to leveraged distribution channels like AdWords and Facebook.

San Francisco 113

San Francisco Lean Technical Review Distribution 113

The Startup Magazine

APRIL 29, 2018

And with proper management and software, it’s now possible to bundle all these different channels together into one dashboard. It’s Time to Get Agile. Instead, they need to start focusing on client demands — and that means getting more agile, more responsive and more modern.

Artificial Inteligence 81

Artificial Inteligence Customer Agile Cloud 81

YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

In today’s market, businesses need to employ a combination of inbound and outbound marketing techniques to attract qualified buyers across all channels. Attracting new customers and nurturing them along through the sales pipeline is what every business tries to do effectively and efficiently.

Small Business 173

Small Business Agile Software Software Developers 173

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

For eBay, this is caused by the incredible network effects of their business (so-called demand-side increasing returns and supply-side increasing returns). For Neopets, its simply a side-effect of their game-like product design. Expo SF (May. Conference streaming, sponsors, discounted tickets.

San Francisco 167

San Francisco CPA SEM CTO Hire 167

ConversionXL

JANUARY 14, 2020

It’s more than just a distribution channel. Whether it improves the quality of an existing page (and, therefore, rankings for keywords you’re already addressing) or justifies new page creation (to rank for new keywords), there has to be demand. Unless you’re a small, agile startup, shipping new features isn’t as simple as it sounds.

SEO 159

SEO Framework SCRUM Search 159

Steve Blank

MARCH 11, 2010

Distribution, Demand Creation and Partnerships. None of the students were domain experts in their areas, and each team had to figure out how to contact potential customers and channel partners. Did they describe demand creation and assign acquisition costs? Did they describe distribution channel and assign channel costs?

Intellectual Property 226

Intellectual Property Business Model Customer Development Distribution 226

YoungUpstarts

MAY 28, 2019

Large scale means larger demands on your time and possibly expensive new equipment or space. Stay Agile. For creative people: Throw an ad onto Fiverr where you can do everything from designing logos to singing YouTube channel jingles. What if you’re presented with an opportunity to grow your business fast?

Social Media 113

Social Media Agile Advertising Media 113