YoungUpstarts

APRIL 16, 2018

Fast-forward to the present day. We are now in the midst of the Fourth, characterized by the fusion of technologies that is blurring the lines between physical, digital, and biological worlds. Satisfying the Demand for Safer Experiences. A century ago, we had the industrial revolution. How did all this happen?

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 6, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, November 6, 2008 Steveys Blog Rants: Good Agile, Bad Agile I thought Id share an interesting post from someone with a decidedly anti-agile point of view. Steveys Blog Rants: Good Agile, Bad Agile : "Google is an exceptionally disciplined company, from a software-engineering perspective.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

What does your Chief Technology Officer do all day? Often times, it seems like people are thinking its synonymous with "that guy who gets paid to sit in the corner and think technical deep thoughts" or "that guy who gets to swoop in a rearrange my project at the last minute on a whim." But along the way, something strange happened.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 11, 2021

Every waking day, we are having tremendous changes in regulations and technology which greatly affects the way businesses operate. But, thanks to today's digital platforms and technical infrastructure, it's becoming more typical to be able to create a billion-dollar business in less than a decade. 8- More digital. It isn't knowledge.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 25, 2021

But the nature of HR is likely to evolve with new technologies, research, and trends. Using one platform, they can store, review, and gather information, send messages, and even generate reports to analyze data. This is increasingly difficult in a world dominated by remote work, but it’s increasingly demanded by the workforce.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 23, 2017

Recently many of us dedicated our Saturday attending and presenting at the biannual un-conference, ProductCamp. 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. User Stories Suck!

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Board Effect

MARCH 17, 2021

When your email inbox is so overloaded with new emails, it’s tough to sort out the ones that demand immediate attention. As much as technology has become part of the problem, it’s also part of the fix when you use the right board technology. The Problem of Digital Noise in Nonprofit Board Business.

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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. More importantly, it makes no demands of you to stand and deliver your weekly customer development progress in front of your peers.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 20, 2023

With so many startups facing a tough journey right from their inception, the pressing question becomes: How does one successfully navigate the tech industry? The key lies in having a groundbreaking idea and understanding the broader tech landscape and the forces shaping it.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 13, 2021

So as the pandemic shifts phases, we are best positioned to capture this incoming demand for people who need to figure out a new way to work. 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. Thanks to Jimmy Chebat, ZiZo Technologies, Inc. ! #9-

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MAY 31, 2010

It was the little precambrian warm-blooded agile (oh sorry, now we're saying "lean") rodents who adapted by getting "outside the nest" to discover how to eat cockroaches, because we all know that cockroaches are the one form of life that can survive anything. Don't fear the dinosaur, fear the quivering warm-blooded tree-shrew.

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andrewchenblog.com

MARCH 10, 2010

Most engineers know that in this kind of a case, the best practice is NOT to rewrite your code, but rather refactor it continually and take down the so-called “Technical debt&# so that it’s always under control. Anyway, let’s dive into this topic more, starting with technical debt.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 24, 2021

At the same time, leaders are also looking towards acquiring that entrepreneur Agility. Thus, many have been fostering Agile thinking and mindset within their teams. The four Agile values, defined in the Agile Manifesto, deliver value to the customer, responsiveness to change, effective communication, and people centricity.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 29, 2021

The year 2021 has presented a lot of business opportunities for us and we have successfully established our workflow and protocols. This will help those who lost work due to the pandemic. It's important to keep business agile. Thanks to Wes Marlan, Lighthouse Web Design, Inc ! #2- 2- Scaling up. Photo Credit: Michael Peres.

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Growthink Blog

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

And doing so along with proper and appropriate strategic repositioning as the consistent and correct interpretation of the data allows, affords, and demands. But it goes deeper than this. You see, leading and managing a business based on proper data collection and analysis is no longer a choice - it is a necessity. Now, I don''t believe this.

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Agile VC

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. And even other strong, but perhaps not standout, companies like Active Network and Demand Media completed their own offerings. How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC. How To Think About The Future. Startup IPO Market: A Fickle Mistress. September 15, 2011. Bankers licked their chops.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

Playing with new technologies. One approach to the issue you bring up that's worked for us is to set an initial due date that’s overly aggressive, and expect that we’ll probably blow through it (while suspending disbelief as much as possible). Using AdWords to assess demand for your new online. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

The other revels in the world as we all know it will be someday: limitless distribution enabled by new technologies, the importance of collaborative filters, and on-demand availability of all content for end-users. So let’s turn our attention from what may happen in the future to what is definitely happening in the present.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 24, 2017

What are the industry and technology trends that are fueling the need for these skills? Those working in data-centric tech organizations probably don’t find this idea out-of-the-norm. With agile development cycles and uncertain monetization models, they live and die by data and experimentation. What should they learn today?

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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. They try different customers, different customer contacts, different versions of the presentations, etc.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

On November 14 (that’s this Thursday) at 1p PT, Eric Ries will speak with Kent Beck, a creator of Agile software development, about facilitating the work of engineers and product teams. I interrupted them and gave them “the spiel: about TDD. They pretty clearly didn''t care, but I didn''t let that stop me. Crazy, huh?

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Our defense department and intelligence community owned proprietary advanced tools and technology. We and our contractors had the best technology domain experts. Army’s Rapid Equipping Force on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan finding and deploying technology solutions against agile insurgents. Newell ran the U.S.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 15, 2009

As a consumer internet company with millions of customers, it may seem to have little relevancy for an enterprise software company with only a handful of potential customers, or a computer security company whose customers demand a rigorous audit before accepting a new release. Expo SF (May. Conference streaming, sponsors, discounted tickets.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

This post describes how companies using the Customer Development model can increase their credibility, valuation and probability of getting a first round of funding by presenting their results in a “Lesson Learned&# venture pitch. Tons of advice is available on how to pitch , present and market your company. How many are there?

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 4, 2020

Achieving a great customer experience that delights demanding customers (and delivers for demanding stakeholders) isn’t easy—even in the most forward-thinking organizations. What you’ll do: Run a fresh-eyes review of the end-to-end customer journey. Fresh-eyes review. waterfall, agile , etc.)? Days 0–30: Discovery.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

Hes a new employee, and he was not properly trained in TDD So far, this isnt much different from the kind of analysis any competent operations team would conduct for a site outage. What started as a technical problem actually turned out to be a human and process problem. We didnt even practice TDD across our whole team.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 7, 2008

Its common to find a hacker at the heart of almost any successful technology company. When a startup encounters difficult technical problems, this is the guy you want solving them. As the company grows, hes the go-to person for almost everything technical, and so hes very much in demand. All is not lost, though.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 3, 2018

Procter & Gamble, the biggest company ever targeted this way, made headlines in 2017 when Nelson Peltz of Trian Partners demanded, and ultimately won, a seat on its board. And to achieve that, you must be bold, agile, innovative, asset-light, and incredibly in sync with your customers. Delayer and eliminate cumbersome processes.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 3, 2009

Without further ado, the video: Slides are below: Minimum Viable Product View more presentations from Eric Ries. Refreshing to finally see lean and agile thinking emerge in product/business-floors and not only in technology. Iterate quickly to uncover true market demands. Thank you. August 13, 2009 3:43 AM Robert said.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 2, 2009

That’s because Five Whys will often pierce the illusion of separate departments and discover the human problems that lurk beneath the surface of supposedly technical problems. But if we stay stuck at the technical parts of the problem, and never uncover the human problems behind them, we’re not going far enough.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 5, 2009

Due to an interaction effect between your hardware, solar flares, and quantum flux, this virus will crash your computer and erase your hard drive sometime soon. I have been present for these kinds of negotiations many times in my career. In other words, a principled way to combine agility with stability.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 12, 2009

The heart of the Cafepress presentation is the “ Lessons Learned from our Customers ” section. After these slides, these VC’s recognized that this company had dramatically reduced risk and built a startup that was agile, resilient and customer-centric. Lesson learned, review how each action [.]

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 10, 2009

It’s important to note that system I’m about to explain evolved organically in response to new demands on the system and in response to post-mortems of failures. Code reviews and pairing Great practices. Heck, thats what it says right there in the agile manifesto. But it worked. We made it. So can you.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Your brand lives in everyday interactions your company has with its prospects and customers, including the images you share, the messages you post on your website, the content of your marketing materials, your presentations and booths at conferences, and your posts on social networks. Importantly, your brand is not what you say it is.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

Over time, such teams either explode due to irreconcilable differences or dramatically slow down. Lean manufacturing , agile software development , and Theory of Constraints are all examples of this idea in action. Or what if the features they demand we build are different from the ones we were planning to build?

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 13, 2017

Your brand lives in everyday interactions your company has with its prospects and customers, including the images you share, the messages you post on your website, the content of your marketing materials, your presentations and booths at conferences, and your posts on social networks.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 26, 2019

The team presentations are at the end of this post. So in 2011, with support from the Stanford Technology Ventures Program (the entrepreneurship center in the Stanford Engineering School), we created a new capstone entrepreneurship class – the Lean LaunchPad. It’s the same, but different. But while it’s the same, it’s different.

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