The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 1, 2020

Due to the restrictions imposed by different governments, many have been relying on digital platforms for their needs. This may mean reskilling an organization’s IT professionals in application delivery and applications or hiring ones that can fill the skill gap.

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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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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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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 13, 2021

At Buttercloth for example, we pivoted early during the pandemic, hiring out-of-work salon workers to help make fashionable Face Masks which we gave to customers. We dabbled with it and found it more work for management and quality control than the actual potential cost saving. 8-Stay agile. Photo Credit: Tony Tullio.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 1, 2018

However – agile small businesses who figure this out early could have a major advantage. Do you not have (or want to hire) a team of creatives to make your content and your marketing stand out? And it’s not just directed at the government, either. Protect the trust you’ve earned even if it costs you some profits.

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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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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. Photo Credit: Kevin Burke.

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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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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Among its many implications, the digital office means that jobs don’t necessarily need to be done in-person, and today’s startup leaders are realizing that many projects can be done at a lower cost remotely, without any drop in quality. A globally distributed business model allows you to hire the best talent wherever in the world it is.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 4, 2017

By which they mean: Without stupid rules that assume employees are dumb or evil, without everything taking ten times longer than it should, without wall-to-wall meetings, without resorting to hiring anything less than the top 1% of the talent pool, and so on. It’s a big reason why they move quickly. No, it’s a colossal failure.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 29, 2020

One of the many challenges facing the world’s governments is the fact that no one really knows how this virus behaves. Thus, the world’s scientists, medical experts, and governments are in new territory, determining what works and what doesn’t work as each country moves through the peaks and troughs of this pandemic.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 5, 2010

I think you can blame Customer and Agile Development for a small part of it. Finally the amount of capital needed to take a drug to FDA trials could be enormously expensive, at least 10x more than startup costs at an electron-based company. Lean VC’s are expert in on-line distribution, Agile and Customer Development. Here’s why.

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Board Effect

AUGUST 30, 2019

The costs of cyber risks are financially high and carry a range of risks across the operation. There are a host of benefits in hiring a CIO and learning what they do to help protect the company and how they can help the company take advantage of opportunities.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

We assume it will be a 2-3 day discussion, but may be much longer, because of the CR (Continuing Resolution) to fund the government overall. laughter) Kappos: The current fees ($10-$15K) are way below our real cost ($30-$40K). Dickinson: If government shuts down, only political appointees can work. we just need more funding].

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

. — I just watched a very smart company try to manage innovation by hiring a global consulting firm to offload engineering from “distractions.” They accomplished their goal, but at a huge, unanticipated cost: the processes and committees they designed ended up strangling innovation. There’s a much better way. Segments of the U.S.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 5, 2011

This allows them to be agile in meeting changes in the business environment or in internal changes. SaaS offering such as Salesforce.com’s Sales Cloud allows companies to rapidly increase, or decrease, the number of subscribers they are using for a solution whereas traditional software costs are fixed.

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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! Team, product, market.

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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. Although there is cost and overhead associated with continuous deployment, the benefits are immense. We tend to equate startup success with making money, but that is a poor choice.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

We met a number of policy makers from the White House and State Department, and had a solid Startup2Startup all about government policy and entrepreneurship. In a previous post , I asked readers for suggested topics that the US government needs to know about startups and entrepreneurs, and got some really interesting responses.

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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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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 9, 2015

To prepare the discussion, I worked with my colleague Pia d'Iribarne on a short memo summarizing a few elements that could be addresses in the labor law to reduce complexity and increase the agility of start-ups. At the time of enactment, the tax rate was set at around 24%, instead of the average income tax rate which was around 43%.

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Occam's Razor

MAY 2, 2017

The challenge I want to take on is to be specific in the recommendations make, and to share how we can be very nimble and agile. It is hard to understand the implications of the behavior inherent in Path Length – which means you’ll hire more clever Digital Analysts for hour business. I love governments! Make tough choices.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Call it facts for hire. It would be a bit like the hired gun in the old west, but more suited for today’s times. Today, brands are hiring social media specialists for customer support, crowdsourced product development, promotions and even leads generation. Hiring The Right Candidate. The Proof Is In The Revenue.

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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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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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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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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Google’s USP might be in the way they connect people with information, whereas Amazon’s might be providing whatever product you need quickly, efficiently, and at as low a cost as possible. It directly affects your ability to sell, to fundraise, to hire the best employees, and to grow. Those customer groups differ from each other.

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 10, 2011

A majority of your success will come from following the 10/90 rule , hiring smart analysts and then ensuring their work day is optimally structured , weaning your management away from faith based decisions , and ensuring you have a clear line of sight and that you are following the process outlined in the web analytics measurement model.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Update: The end is near, Expensify is hiring a.NET programmer! As you might know, we’re hiring the best programmers in the world. If you are a startup looking to hire really excellent people, take notice of.NET on a resume, and ask why it’s there. Expensify Blog. Expense Reports That Don't Suck. Sjoerd Franken.

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Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

Government and the enterprise are now followers rather than leaders. In this business environment, hiring a new CEO who had experience growing a company around a single technical innovation was a rational decision for venture investors. and there were no books, blogs or YouTube videos about entrepreneurship. That’s no longer the case.

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 7, 2014

No company hires anyone called a Reporting Squirrel. Everyone hires what they believe are Analysis Ninjas. Again, remember no company actually hires anyone called a Reporting Squirrel. Most companies hire a Web Analyst, Sr. The type of people you hire is critical in creating a Ninja culture. That is ok.

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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. A company developing software would have to buy computers and license software from other companies and hire the staff to run and maintain it.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 4, 2012

In the 1920’s individual states were beginning to censor movies and the federal government was threatening to do so as well. By the 1960’s, the MPPA achieved regulatory capture (where an industry co-opts the very people who are regulating it,) when they hired Jack Valenti , who ran the studios’ lobbying efforts for the next 38-years.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

This single decision wound up costing the company significant revenue and over the course of several months sent its customer growth into decline. In the end, we managed to repair the damage, but only after losing a lot of time and at significant opportunity cost. We were totally unprepared for the magnitude of what happened.

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