YoungUpstarts

JUNE 20, 2019

by Everett Harper, CEO and cofounder of Truss. Startups tend to put a premium on being “agile,” but that doesn’t always work – and certainly won’t replace the effective collaboration a business needs to grow. Founder Labs in 2011, Everett pitched an idea to make calendars more useful for executive assistants. At Women 2.0

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 28, 2015

I can’t remember if Ryan used the word Agile at that time, but I remember scribbles on a white board that listed out all the different software that Ryan had used at BEA to manage his dev team and how maddening it was to try to integrate information in Word, Excel, Project, a dev workbench, a set of testing tools, and the support / QA system.

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Hearpreneur

MAY 18, 2022

My co-founder and I started our labor-only moving company as the first movers ourselves. In 2010, I co-founded Community Tax LLC, a tax company dedicated to helping customers nationwide with tax preparation, bookkeeping, and accounting services. Thanks to Lucy Bedewi, Veronica V Sopher ! #4- 4- To leave an impact.

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Steve Blank

JULY 25, 2023

I just spent a month and a half at Imperial College London co-teaching a “Wicked” Entrepreneurship class. Co mpanies also face Wicked problems. Team Information Pollution Click here if you can’t see the Team Information Pollution presentation. Team Into The Blue Click here if you can’t see the Team Blue presentation.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 3, 2017

by Bill Lewis, co-founder at Temasys Communications. It means that the digital flow of information, searches, transactions, and communication media (voice, video, chat, data) and intracompany traffic has grown, and digital products and services have surged. Increasing value being added by Digital wrappers.

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View from Seed

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

Isaac Cambron is co-founder and CTO of Zensight.co , whose pre-launch product enables sales reps to find and use their best content to close more deals. Does that inform everything from the start, or does it come in after you’ve identified a problem to solve with a product you’ll build?

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 16, 2016

By Bryan Miles, CEO and co-founder, Miles Advisory Group, Inc. This means starting first with the “why,” which informs the what, how and when of your company and its culture. This top-of-mind awareness and intentionality with our cash keep us agile and enable us to take on new opportunities. Some people call it a credo.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Idealistic founders believe they will break the mold when they scale, and not turn into a “typical big company.” Or it’s fatal because that was a co-founder. “The future is inherently unpredictable,” insists the small company, spurred on by Lean and Agile mindsets. Everyone can know everything.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 23, 2017

Upgrade From This Old Unnecessary Process David Hawks , CEO, Agile Velocity Main take-away — focus on discovery, not as much delivery. Most of the Agile world is in the perspective of delivery focus. After listening, below are lessons learned from four sessions of the 25 offered. User Stories Suck!

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 17, 2019

He was voted one of the Top 10 Organizational Culture Gurus in the world and is CEO and founder of the Best Practice Institute. Though bursting with data and information, I saw the need for practical definitions and useful practices. As co-founder of Rackspace, he got deeply involved. What is the Best Practice Institute?

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2008

He previously co-founded and served as Chief Technology Officer of IMVU. He is the co-author of several books including The Black Art of Java Game Programming (Waite Group Press, 1996). While an undergraduate at Yale Unviersity, he co-founded Catalyst Recruiting. October 13, 2008 6:47 PM Luke G said. Eric, love the blog.

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Agile VC

DECEMBER 13, 2011

I looked at this founder’s prior startup, which ultimately had a successful exit, and then was happy to connect with him again as he launches a new project. All VCs make decisions by drawing on the data we have at hand, information gleaned through our diligence process, and our own experience and judgement. Author howerl.

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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. All the research is out there – there are a lot of smart people on the internet sharing information for free. They are ultimately trusting their friends.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 9, 2009

Thats the essence of so many of the lean startup techniques Ive evangelized: customer development , the Ideas/Code/Data feedback loop , and the adaptation of agile development to the startup experience. Creating a company-wide feedback loop that incorporates both customer development and agile development is a challenge.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 8, 2008

This theory has become so influential that I have called it one of the three pillars of the lean startup - every bit as important as the changes in technology or the advent of agile development. Instead, we do everything possible to validate the founders belief. We dont just abandon the vision of the company at every turn.

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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. Armed with that information, we can make rational trade-offs.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Open up access to information. Remote workers, outsourced teams, distanced managers, suppliers, and more can all struggle to access the information they need at the right time. Support agile working practices. The fast-paced business world favors small, nimble teams that support agile decision-making.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 19, 2010

Insider information. They say the only way to consistently make money on Wall Street is to have insider information. Chris Brogan commands $22,000 for a single day of consulting in an industry (social media marketing) where all the information you need is already online and free. Like what?? Personal authority. The Dream Team.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 11, 2021

Many people focus on technology, cooperation, and information, but technology isn't the solution. With the rise in technology and getting ease in learning with ample of information on the internet. As a co-founder of a digital marketing agency, I'm already planing forward to expanding my marketing reach through other ventures.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 30, 2019

The closing panel on Day 1 felt like the start of a witty punchline, “A startup founder, a government official, and a venture capitalist walk into a room…”?—?what From there, it’s a matter of informing companies that there are new ways to work with defense customers through connecting with Tony at Spark or through SBIR programs, for example.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 31, 2016

We decided to start something we felt would have the greatest positive impact on fellow business owners, an Agile Methodology consulting company. We quit our jobs, pooled our money, and set out to help companies implement Agile – a highly efficient, organized, and empowering way to run your business. Photo Credit : Sara Brenner.

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Agile VC

APRIL 17, 2011

Kayak was started here in my backyard of Boston… co-founder & CTO Paul English and the product/engineering team is based here in Concord MA. Co-founder & CEO Steve Hafner and the business team are based in Norwalk, CT. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 19, 2016

Infobesity, or the onslaught of information thrown at our employees every day, is an epidemic, and it’s affecting us all. In this information age, your employees are always on the clock, always on their devices and rarely disconnecting from their work. By Santiago Jaramillo, CEO of Emplify. zettabytes, or one trillion gigabytes.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

Quizzes are embedded within the lectures and are meant to let you check-in with how completely you are digesting the course information. With Rob Majteles as a co-instructor, I started a tradition of teaching all my classes with venture capitalists as co-instructors. Instead the founders need to lead a customer development team.

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

“If you can fix a problem for someone and do it better, quicker, and/or cheaper than your competitor, you’re off to a good start.” – Gabriel Kuperman, founder and CEO of CuePin. We created UpKeep to fill this void—a cloud-based solution that was affordable for any size business.” – Ryan Chan, founder of UpKeep.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

AUGUST 30, 2010

He blogs to 10,000 web entrepreneurs at Software by Rob and co-hosts the podcast Startups for the Rest of Us. A virtual assistant (VA) is a remote worker hired to complete tasks you should not be doing as the founder of a startup. Agile Development, meet Agile Business. Introduction. What is a Virtual Assistant?

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

Kent, a veteran programmer, a founder of the Agile method and the creator of Extreme Programming, came armed with anecdotes and lessons from his own experience, as well as a few questions for Eric. And you couldn''t sign up for insurance in those days, it simply gave you information about the insurance options in your jurisdiction.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 22, 2010

The cost of creating new companies is falling rapidly, and access to markets, distribution, and information is within the reach of anyone with an Internet connection. For example, over 25% of the technology companies founded between 1995-2005 had a key immigrant founder. Expo SF (May. Conference streaming, sponsors, discounted tickets.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

She’s currently Co-Founder and Managing Partner of WestExec Advisors , and former Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of the Center for a New American Security (CNAS), a bipartisan national security think tank. See how they can inform the new concepts and vice versa. — On China.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 17, 2011

Entrepreneurs create success by being agile and by making effective but quick decisions based on what they have in front of them. The more you can look at things from the constituents’ perspective, and the more information you can give them, the better. These developments are tough to swallow for many of the nation’s educators.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 28, 2010

It is written using the information that the company voluntarily shared, and therefore reflects their current thinking and recollections. Andy Mathieson, a founder and managing member at Fairview Capital , was particularly supportive. Special thanks to Pascal-Louis Perez for sharing information and making this post possible.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 27, 2012

What I saw reminded me of some of the best and worst things I did as a founder. Tossing their agile development process and at times their entire business model in the air, the company would go into fire-drill mode and engineering would start working on whatever his latest insight was. A Pivot a Week. We’re building the wrong product!”

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

Depending on the type of product, postings on forums, classifieds and emails could give enough information to help gauge potential response. ► August (2) SXSW Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium ► July (4) Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot Some IPO speculation Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# th.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 12, 2010

Recent economic events, technological change, and the rapid diffusion of information about the old models have combined to help us all realize just how important entrepreneurship is - and just how little we really know about it. I continue to believe that the explosion of interest in the lean startup has very little to do with me.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

It should be even more important to the founders themselves, because it demonstrates that their business hypothesis is grounded in reality. These founders have not managed, to borrow a phrase from Steve Blank , to create a scalable and repeatable sales process. Go on an agile diet quickly. More on that in a moment.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 17, 2009

It wont even get passed the registrant information screen to even get to selecting what you want to register for. Although Im not a developer, I am captivated by the lean and agile start-up model that you write about. Combining agile development with customer developm. Tried it with multiple browsers. Expo SF (May.

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Mike Michalowicz

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Linda Murphy encourages Healthcare Staffing Firms to maintain an agile mentality to maintain innovation. Lack of Balance and Diversification … Bill DeVille, CEO & Co-Founder Health Carousel. C&A Industries, Inc. Health Carousel is one of the 2018 Inc. 5000 Fastest Growing Private Companies in America.

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