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Why Some Startups Win

Steve Blank

It dawned on me that we had a department full of people with titles describing process-centric execution while we were in environment that required relentless agility and speed with urgency. But what I wanted was an agile marketing team capable of operating independently without day-to-day direction. Educate our sales channel(s).

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How To Find the Right Co-Founders?

Steve Blank

While most of the early attention in a startup is paid to finding product market fit ( the match between value proposition and customer segment on the right-side of the canvas) it’s the left side of the canvas that will tell you what your founding team should look like. If you’re a startup it’s easy to get confused on this step.

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7 Steps to Driving Impact in Community Banking

Board Effect

The pandemic revealed just how innovative and agile community banks could be as they moved swiftly to adapt their operating strategies and continue serving the new needs of their customers. Customers demand the same services from community banks they enjoy at large commercial banks such as online and mobile tools.

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27 Entrepreneurs Share Tips on Building an Ecommerce Business

Hearpreneur

From crafting a compelling brand identity to mastering digital marketing, it's a multifaceted journey that demands careful planning and execution. The expansion of e-commerce should also bring about seeing returns as a strategic lever, similar to how companies used faster delivery to drive customer experience and revenue.

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5 Preconditions for Success in Spawning a New Venture

Startup Professionals Musings

Even with advantages that independent startups can never hope to match, including brand recognition, customers, financial capital, and distribution, I don’t often see the entrepreneurial passion for innovation, agility, and team perseverance exhibited by new startups. Commit a source of internal or external seed funding.

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Why Build, Measure, Learn – isn’t just throwing things against the wall to see if they work

Steve Blank

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. A major improvement over Waterfall development, Build Measure Learn lets startups be fast, agile and efficient. Lessons Learned.

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Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning– Explained

Steve Blank

Their real-world performance generally degrades over time if they are not updated regularly with new training data that matches the changing state of the world. An AI can recognize patterns which don’t match the behaviors expected for a particular system, out of millions of different inputs or transactions. We’re Just Getting Started.