Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 14, 2022

The key elements of leadership in a company, both individual and organizational, are less tangible, but very critical in setting a market value for investment, acquisition, or going public. In the investment community, these leadership elements are often called “goodwill.” Execution leadership. Leadership brand development.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 24, 2014

Business agility is defined as the ability to adapt rapidly and cost efficiently. Today’s customers are much more proactive in going online for the latest information, rather than simply reacting to the “push” messages that businesses traditionally use to drive commerce. It all starts with agile leadership.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 1, 2020

Business agility is defined as the ability to adapt rapidly and cost efficiently. Today’s customers are much more proactive in going online for the latest information, rather than simply reacting to the “push” messages that businesses traditionally use to drive commerce. It all starts with agile leadership.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 26, 2015

Business agility is defined as the ability to adapt rapidly and cost efficiently. Today’s customers are much more proactive in going online for the latest information, rather than simply reacting to the “push” messages that businesses traditionally use to drive commerce. It all starts with agile leadership.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 15, 2020

The key elements of leadership in a company, both individual and organizational, are less tangible, but very critical in setting a market value for investment, acquisition, or going public. In the investment community, these leadership elements are often called “goodwill.” Execution leadership. Leadership brand development.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 1, 2022

Every leading position in business requires a demonstration of diverse skills and leadership styles. Transformative leadership is also important. My leadership style is best described as benevolent in that I feel that the best leader is the one who is most supportive of the people below them. Innovations drive my leadership.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

The key elements of leadership in a company, both individual and organizational, are less tangible, but very critical in setting a market value for investment, acquisition, or going public. In the investment community, these leadership elements are often called “goodwill.” Execution leadership. Leadership brand development.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 31, 2022

Where do you see your fit in this leadership transformation ? If you are interested in advancing your leadership, and achieving more success in this new Internet age, here are some principles to guide your focus: Foster the trend to flat teams versus vertical organizations. Let collaborative leadership mitigate individual biases.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

AgileFall is an ironic term for program management where you try to be agile and lean, but you keep using waterfall development techniques. All are Horizon 1 or 2 projects – creating new features for existing products targeting existing customers or repurposing existing products, tools, or techniques to new customers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 6, 2020

Others pivoted quickly based on customer need changes, rather than just spending more money on advertising and charging ahead. Smart entrepreneurs continually test their perceptions against those of customers, outside leaders, and experts. Focus on agility as the key skill your organization needs.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

In the very early days of any startup, the matters of company strategy , structure, culture and leadership are rarely formally addressed. Most people are already familiar with agile principles to some extent, but just in case let’s go over the basics. Improved adaptability. Putting the product/service on the market early.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

As a business and entrepreneur advisor, I have no trouble getting owners and managers to agree that change is happening faster and faster in the consumer and technology world, requiring them to keep their business more agile , just to keep up. Crisis-driven agility is not enough today.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 29, 2023

To do this effectively, they must have a clear understanding of their customer base and their needs. By gaining insight into their customer’s behavior and preferences, businesses can identify which technologies will have the most impact on their current operations and help them to stay ahead of their competitors.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Due to a small work environment, there is very little paperwork involved in startups, especially in agile development. Leadership Development. Leadership skills are abundant in startups since everyone has to pitch in in order for a project to succeed. Adopt an Agile Work Environment. UX, Customer Support and Loyalty.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 19, 2022

Be able to provide a current understanding of these objectives by regularly asking for feedback from stakeholders, including vendors, customers, and peers, and really listening to what they need. Building agility and timeliness are critical components of modern leadership, due to the pace and complexity of change today.

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 9, 2024

Develop agility and adaptability Image credit Having agility in decision-making is a vital aspect of achieving business success. For instance, if you operate in the hospitality industry, keeping up with the latest food and drink trends can help attract more customers and lead to growth.

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Occam's Razor

APRIL 15, 2019

When you do that much stuff, and you can measure almost everything… The result is that our ecosystem of data people are returning a lot more negative data when measuring performance of Marketing, Sales, User Experience and Customer Service. Four Negative Data Leadership Archetypes. Long-term…. : (. Paul Polman. A Plan for Action.

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Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

The inspiration for Tasktop came from the need to connect developers to what we call the software “value stream”, ie, all of the people, process and tools involved in delivering value to customers through software. . For me, there is nothing like seeing a large customer using our product at a massive scale to address complicated challenges.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Virtual sales presentations and customer service. 2020 has taught us that external impacts to business have a substantial effect on an organization’s ability to align employees, connect with customers, and enhance communities. Take the Strategic Leadership Team offsite to do the following. Online product sales.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 1, 2019

Scrum is the most popular subset of the Agile methodology and is used by seventy percent of software teams around the world for project management. It differs from other agile methodologies because of its specific concepts and practices. Some skills that a scrum master ought to have are as follows: Excellent Scrum and agile skills.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 22, 2020

As they prepare to roll out their AI solutions, corporate leadership teams must be sure to conduct careful cost-benefit analyses. For example, one of Amazon’s top cultural beliefs — what the e-commerce giant refers to as Leadership Principles — is “Customer Obsession.” Conduct Cost-Benefit Analyses.

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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. 2) The agile "happy place". Agile teams sprint when value is known, implementation is low risk. and business transformation.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Once upon a time every great organization was a scrappy startup willing to take risks – new ideas, new methods, new customers, targets, and mission. This typically plays out in three ways: Often the first plan from leadership for innovation is hiring management consultants who bring out their 20th-century playbook.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 31, 2009

The first hint lies in its name; this is a product development model, not a marketing model, not a sales hiring model, not a customer acquisition model, not even a financing model (and we’ll also find that in most cases it’s even a poor model to use to develop a product.) Where Are the Customers? Product Development Diagram 1.

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 4, 2022

They not only have to create a new product or service that is innovative and appealing to customers, but they also have to do it quickly and efficiently. The digital transformation strategy must be agile, flexible, and customer-centric to stay ahead of the competition. Startup companies are under a lot of pressure to succeed.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 23, 2022

Yet, I’m convinced that connected leadership can be learned proactively, as opposed to waiting for painful negative experiences. Here are my suggestions for focus and actions that will build and maintain your connected leadership with any team: Listen and relate to every team member as a person. Of course, listening alone isn't enough.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 9, 2020

leading a multi-billion dollar business with a broad range of products and services supporting defense, homeland security, aerospace, infrastructure protection, and customers around the world. What do you consider your most important reforms initiated under your leadership today? Progress in Modernizing the Defense Acquisition System.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 9, 2023

Focusing on products and services that are extremely valuable to your customers is essential as it helps them rely more on you and ensures your business weathers the tough economic times. This strategy is aimed at providing our customers with a variety of options that can accommodate different budget ranges and preferences.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 9, 2017

Lean is a methodology that can be applied to all disciplines of knowledge work to increase business efficiency, agility, and visibility. Lean is more about aligning your organization’s skills, talents, resources, processes, and strategy with the needs of your customers. Lean Transformations. Top 10 Benefits of Lean.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 24, 2018

Transcript of Building Accountable Leadership to Transform Your Business written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. John Jantsch: You know, leadership might be the hardest job for an entrepreneur. ” What exactly is a leadership contract? Back to Podcast. Transcript. It’s not for the meek.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2017

I believe these factors are key to the future success of every new startup, as well as every mature company: Leadership must be values-based and people focused. The command and control leadership of the past is proving to be too inflexible, devoid of values, and not empathic to people issues – customers, employees, and partners.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

I found that view confirmed for a wide range of leadership situations in a classic book, “ The Mindset of Success ,” by Jo Owen. In business, when growth eludes you, it may seem like you have no choice but to cut prices and people, when you could be finding better customer fits and more value. Suppress you own emotions and feelings.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 7, 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. Three to six months after first customer ship, if Sales starts missing its numbers, the board gets concerned.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 18, 2022

Instead of sizing up new opportunities and actively courting every new customer, you start worrying about cutting costs, repeatable processes , and overtaking known competitors. As a consultant, I hate to see you lose that startup focus on innovation, change, and customers. Enable a positive and highly engaged leadership culture.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 27, 2023

Everyone in the company must adopt the principles of customer-first focus, agility in responding to change, and constant innovation to improve your processes as well as the solution. Seek customer feedback on ways to improve value and satisfaction. Make customer experience your key priority.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 12, 2022

How good are you and everyone on your team at proactively scanning the environment for opportunities, emerging trends, and customer feedback? Increase change agility. Change agility represents a startup’s ability to immediately and effectively engage everyone in pending changes and innovations. Imbue customer change focus.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2011

Over the last decade we assumed that once we found repeatable methodologies (Agile and Customer Development , Business Model Design) to build early stage ventures, entrepreneurship would become a “science,” and anyone could do it. Filed under: Big Companies versus Startups: Durant versus Sloan , Customer Development , Family/Career.

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