Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 6, 2023

For example, a while back a passionate entrepreneur approached me with an innovative solution for reducing world hunger, but hadn’t focused on the fact that hungry people often don’t have any money, and governments are not easy customers. Selling below cost doesn’t do it, nor does giving it away free, and hoping to make it up in volume.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 4, 2017

If we under-estimate, our support folks get overwhelmed with too much work, their quality of life suffers, and service to each customer suffers; if we over-estimate, we have too many people which is a cost penalty. “The future is inherently unpredictable,” insists the small company, spurred on by Lean and Agile mindsets.

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 9, 2024

Corporate governance expert Nygina Mills discusses the critical role of compliance in building resilient businesses that can withstand regulatory and market changes. Effective compliance programs not only detect and prevent violations but also position a company to react agilely to legislative changes.

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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. One of the subordinate functional areas is cybersecurity, which is a foundational aspect of any acquisition that cannot be traded for cost, schedule or performance.

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

Businesses also demand flexibility, choice, agility, and cost-effectiveness from these enabling technologies to ensure that business capabilities can change with demand, market, trade mission, and more.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

And if their initial guesses were wrong, they needed a process that would permit them to change early on in the product development process when the cost of changes was small – the famed “pivot”. And government agencies find themselves being disrupted by adversaries unencumbered by legacy systems, policies and history. The result?

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Steve Blank

MAY 17, 2022

You succeed in convincing one company and a government to adopt computers and learn to code much faster than their competitors /adversaries. These technologies will transform businesses and government agencies. GPT-3 uses 175 billion parameters and was trained on a cluster with 1,024 Nvidia A100 GPUs that cost ~$25 million!

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

APRIL 16, 2024

Sustainability reporting, particularly about environmental, social, and governance (ESG) criteria, has burgeoned as a fundamental vehicle through which companies can reflect their operations’ social responsibility and commitment to sustainable development practices.

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ctotodevelopers.blogspot.com

JULY 11, 2012

Social, Agile, and Transformation. I cover several topics including agile software development, software startups, web 2.0, Strategic Agile Thinking: Balancing Value, Innovation and Research. The x-axis depicts technical complexity, risk, and cost which are all related. 2) The agile "happy place".

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 6, 2011

This translates to cost savings and companies move away from the traditional fixed capacity infrastructure that may exceed or be insufficient to meet their needs. With the cloud, users may have significant cost savings as they shift their data and applications to the cloud. Governments adopting the use of the Cloud.

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Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

Government and the enterprise are now followers rather than leaders. Continuous innovation requires the imagination and courage to challenge the initial hypotheses of your current business model (channel, cost, customers, products, supply chain, etc.) and there were no books, blogs or YouTube videos about entrepreneurship.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 19, 2012

Smart entrepreneurs are making changes now, to be more agile in defining strategy, making organizational changes, and analyzing markets for change. Look for new volatility, caused by inflation or deflation, new government regulations, and of course new technology and even more determined competitors. Proactive pursuit of new markets.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

The press took notice, especially since just a few months later startups were laying off employees en-masse to cut costs. Sustainable growth: Prioritise sales efficiency over growth at all costs. Use agility to your advantage and make speed a team priority. In times of uncertainty, be like Scrooge McDuck!

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 18, 2011

Smart entrepreneurs are making changes now, to be more agile in defining strategy, making organizational changes, and analyzing markets for change. Look for new volatility, caused by inflation or deflation, new government regulations, and of course new technology and even more determined competitors. Proactive pursuit of new markets.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

the failure rate of new ventures (startups had no formal rules and were a hit or miss proposition), the slow adoption rate of new technologies by the government and large companies. Today open source software has slashed the cost of software development from millions of dollars to thousands. The Democratization of Entrepreneurship.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 1, 2020

Due to the restrictions imposed by different governments, many have been relying on digital platforms for their needs. In today’s quest for agile and flexible platforms, the mainframe is seen by many as an aging, slow, and dying system. Devops is something that you seldom hear together with mainframes in one sentence.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 4, 2011

I did a keynote on innovation hubs at the newly created DoFuture program , spoke at Santiago’s Startup Weekend on Customer and Agile Development, and at a Conference in Patagonia supported by the Ministry of Economy’s Innovation Division. The good news: Entrepreneurship and innovation is being talked about continually in Chile.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 1, 2018

They cost money. For sure if they remove everything there and rent the space, the renting revenues will pay for a big slice of monthly cloud cost. Talking about the Brazilian market, they can even get a fine from the government because of some missing transactions on that day. For me it’s a waste of time. Physical space.

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Transformify

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Most young people can’t afford to study abroad without government subsidies or scholarships. Post Brexit, many companies in the UK consider distributed teams overseas as an alternative to the shrinking talent pool and high recruitment costs in Britain. Scrum, Agile, Product Management. Project/ Product Management.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

government labs, but today most of the advances come from commercial vendors—many of them Chinese. For the first time in the history of modern civilization most of the technologies needed for the military are driven by consumer demand and the potential for profit—not government directives. and Western company.

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Steve Blank

MAY 3, 2022

For decades, satellites that took detailed pictures of Earth were only available to governments and the high-resolution images were classified. government satellite in orbit. They know this and know that weapons that can be built at a fraction of the cost and upgraded via software will destroy their existing business models.

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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. The cost of attending a Startup Weekend Next is ridiculously inexpensive. 28 in more than 25 cities worldwide.

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 31, 2023

Estimating StartUp Costs and Obtaining Necessary Funding Starting your own business can be a challenging but rewarding experience. One of the most critical steps in getting started is estimating the costs required to launch your venture. Once you know your startup costs, you must obtain funding to finance your venture.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2010

Smart entrepreneurs are making changes now, to be more agile in defining strategy, making organizational changes, and analyzing markets for change. Look for new volatility, caused by inflation or deflation, new government regulations, and of course new technology and even more determined competitors. Proactive pursuit of new markets.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 13, 2021

We dabbled with it and found it more work for management and quality control than the actual potential cost saving. 8-Stay agile. 2020 was a year of many lessons, but if I had to pick one takeaway, it would be the importance of agility. Photo Credit: Tony Tullio. A few years ago outsourcing resources offshore was all the rage.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 1, 2018

However – agile small businesses who figure this out early could have a major advantage. And it’s not just directed at the government, either. Protect the trust you’ve earned even if it costs you some profits. Because while voice search is not yet a tidal wave, it’s growing. Trust is precious. Invest in customer service.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 18, 2020

If negotiations fail, China may respond and escalate, via one of many agile strategic responses short of war, perhaps succeeding in coercing the foundry to stop making chips for American companies – turning the tables on the United States. laws, The report recommended that no government or contractor systems include Huawei systems.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 20, 2023

And there's a bit of a sense that digital was a bit sort of the wild west in terms of, oh, it's all about agile and people improvise the method and you can't measure things as well. Do you really have a proper agile operating model? And it's sort of become like a standard business school textbook. They were the same mm-hmm. ,

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

And so this very agile, iterative process of bringing new technologies and prototyping systems. But we haven’t necessarily trained our acquisition people, incented them to have a greater risk tolerance that’s required for this agile development of emerging technologies. And you have to incent that.

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ConversionXL

JULY 3, 2020

Here are six factors to rate by importance: Data security and governance activities should occur throughout the roadmap. Specific activities to comply with security or governance should be the highest priority. Consider any costs involved weighted against the business value associated with the requirements. Dependencies.

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Steve Blank

MAY 7, 2019

Lean Methodology consists of three tools designed for entrepreneurs building new ventures: The Business Model Canvas – to write down all the hypotheses about a new business; Customer Development – a process for testing those hypotheses outside the building; Agile Engineering – to rapidly build minimal viable products to test product/market fit.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

But by taking advantage of open source, agile software, and iterative development, lean startups can operate with much less waste. So far, I have found "lean startup" works better with the entrepreneurs Ive talked to than "agile startup" or even "extreme startup.") Of course, many startups are capital efficient and generally frugal.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 26, 2022

To prevent hackers from gaining access to your business's checking account, use low-cost software and dual controls to strengthen your payment processes. This is critical since the government is moving toward a speedier payment system, which will reduce the time it takes for victims to get compensation.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 12, 2019

Many markets, including government and education, are especially difficult to penetrate, and connections to public leaders are very valuable. Quantify any dramatic changes to the cost or value equation. Most investors agree that cost reductions need to exceed 20 percent to break loyalty ties and convince customers to change.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 29, 2016

We tend to associate the government with words like bureaucracy rather than lean innovation. But smart people within government agencies are working to change the culture and embrace new ways of doing things. The end result is often that change can happen but it is going to come at the cost of disruption and difficulty.”.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 29, 2016

We tend to associate the government with words like bureaucracy rather than lean innovation. But smart people within government agencies are working to change the culture and embrace new ways of doing things. The end result is often that change can happen but it is going to come at the cost of disruption and difficulty.”.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 5, 2013

Visiting each official site took too long, and the information wasn’t always easy to compare (ex: “Net Cost of Attendance” vs. “Resident Tuition per Semester”). We resolved to build out the first dozen comparisons before we started calculating an exact cost per new market. Staying Agile.

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