Agile, Demo and Design

Why Real Learning is Outside the Building, Not Demo Day

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

While our teams have mentors, socialize a lot and give great demos, the goal of our class final presentations is “ Lessons Learned ” – about product/market fit, pricing, acquisition/activation costs, pricing, partners, etc.

Lean

Lean Customer Development Sales Cycle Business Model

What’s Plan B? – The Small, the Agile, and the Many

Steve Blank

JANUARY 18, 2022

The Navy has demos of alternatives, but there is no force structure built on a different set of principles that would complicate China’s plans and create doubt in our adversaries of whether they could prevail in a conflict. The Hedge Strategy – Create “the small, the agile, and the many”. (Like the pre-WW2 aircraft carriers.)

Agile

Agile China Artificial Inteligence Taiwan

Even Branding Should Be Agile: An Interview With Base Creative’s Matthew Kinsman

Up and Running

AUGUST 23, 2016

Thirteen years later, Kinsman is a veteran of the industry and a thought leader advocating in Forbes for an agile approach. The agile strategy is all about brand flexibility. To create visuals for your website, you don’t have to be a designer with Photoshop experience. It makes sense.

Agile

Agile Viral Social Media Differentiation

The Lean LaunchPad Class: It’s the same, but different

Steve Blank

MARCH 26, 2019

The class was unique in that it was 1) team-based, 2) experiential, 3) lean-driven (hypothesis testing/business model/customer development/agile engineering). When we started this class, the concept of Lean (business models, customer development, agile, pivots, mvp’s) was new to everyone. Class Velocity/Depth.

Lean

Lean Business Model Balance Sheet Video

Innovation – something both parties can agree on

Steve Blank

JANUARY 15, 2017

It’s curriculum is built on a framework of business model design, customer development and agile engineering – and its emphasis on evidence , Lessons Learned versus demos, makes it the worlds most advanced accelerator. It’s success is measured not only by the technologies that leave the labs, but how many U.S.

Lean

Lean Technical Review Government Programming

Learning Through Reflection

Steve Blank

MARCH 11, 2016

The combination of the Business Model Canvas, Customer Development and Agile Engineering is an extremely efficient template for the students to follow. Demo Days Versus Lesson Learned Presentations. As a consequence, we couldn’t care less about a “Demo Day” at the end of the class. Demo of final MVP. Pivot stories.

Lean

Lean Incubator Business Model Channel

Case Study: Lean UX at work

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 19, 2011

Jeff will also be joining us on stage at Startup Lessons Learned 2011 , where he will be presenting a case study on his experience blending design, Lean Startup, and large company culture. Originally a waterfall shop, we transitioned to Agile development about two years ago.

Lean

Lean Software Review SCRUM Non-Compete

The Class That Changed the Way Entrepreneurship is Taught

Steve Blank

JULY 13, 2021

With Lean LaunchPad, we were going to toss teaching the business plan aside and try to teach students a completely new, hands-on approach to starting companies – one which combines customer development, agile development, business models and pivots. Lean-driven (hypothesis testing/business model/customer development/agile engineering).

Lean

Lean Agile Business Model Business Plan

Why Tim Cook is Steve Ballmer and Why He Still Has His Job at Apple

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2016

The best are agile and know how to pivot – make a substantive change to the business model while or before their market has shifted. Visionary CEOs don’t need someone else to demo the company’s key products for them. Apple brilliantly mastered User Interface and product design to power the iPhone to dominance.

Azure

Azure Business Model Cloud Artificial Inteligence

Why Tim Cook is Steve Ballmer and Why He Still Has His Job at Apple

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2016

The best are agile and know how to pivot – make a substantive change to the business model while or before their market has shifted. Visionary CEOs don’t need someone else to demo the company’s key products for them. Apple brilliantly mastered User Interface and product design to power the iPhone to dominance.

Azure

Azure Business Model Cloud Artificial Inteligence

The Awesomeness of a Hackathon

Feld Thoughts

MARCH 11, 2010

I’ve become a big advocate of true Agile development (partly because of my experience with Rally Software – the leader in Agile software development environments) and – more recently – the notion of trying to get to continuous deployment which has been popularized by Eric Ries. Designate one person in charge of managing the hackathon.

Software Review

Software Review Wiki Continuous Deployment Agile

Innovation – something both parties can agree on

Steve Blank

JANUARY 15, 2017

It’s curriculum is built on a framework of business model design, customer development and agile engineering – and its emphasis on evidence , Lessons Learned versus demos, makes it the worlds most advanced accelerator. It’s success is measured not only by the technologies that leave the labs, but how many U.S.

Lean

Lean Technical Review Government Programming

Real Unfair Advantages

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 19, 2010

But now she has the vision and ability to design her own software, capitalizing on modern trends (e.g. Some examples of a feature being a company's primary advantage are: Apple compromises everything in the name of design. Even "cool, agile" companies like 37signals are trapped. That's just one example!

Software Review

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Going to Trade Shows Like it Matters – Part 2

Steve Blank

MAY 22, 2009

And inviting to the booth/dinner/private demo. General Comments for both Awareness and Lead Generation Demo’s I don’t care how small the booth or trade show is, do a canned demo every 20 to 30 minutes regardless of whether anyone is at your booth or not. Demo’s are the heart of the booth. One of them is a loser.

Silicon Valley

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We Flew To SXSW So You Don’t Have To

Austin Startup

MARCH 17, 2017

For example, I participated in a VR demo at SXSW that was a retail shopping simulation. The answer lies in strategic thinking, great design, and ultimately with the end user. The key to rapid validation is to have designers and engineers at the same table. Engineer the experience so you can evolve the product.

Texas

Texas Software Engineering Austin Engineer

Good enough never is (or is it?)

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

The team was demoing their AJAX-powered map solution, the first of its kind, to senior management at Google. This is precisely the dilemma that the doctrine of minimum viable product is designed to solve. Lean manufacturing , agile software development , and Theory of Constraints are all examples of this idea in action.

San Francisco

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment Software Review

How to Kick-Off the Design of an MVP

Austin Startup

MARCH 21, 2018

Four tips for any UX designer joining a start-up In January 2016 I joined one of the fastest-growing startups in surgical education. Here’s my advice for anyone designing a new product for a start-up: 1. I also meticulously dissected all the research that previous designers had done before me. Don’t wait?—?get

Design

Design Agile New York Programming

The Evolution of Entrepreneurial Education and Corporate Innovation

Steve Blank

MAY 29, 2019

My contribution has been, “Why don’t we design classes more closely modeled to what innovators and entrepreneurs actually do.” The hard part in a company is not getting a demo or setting up an internal accelerator, it’s getting something delivered all the way through your existing sales channel.

Incubator

Incubator Lean Programming Government

300 Teams in Two Years

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 26, 2013

It’s curriculum is built on a framework of business model design, customer development and agile engineering – and its emphasis on evidence, Lessons Learned versus demos, makes it the worlds most advanced accelerator. It’s success is measured not only by the technologies that leave the labs, but how many U.S.

Lean

Lean Washington Incubator Agile

Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2018 – wonder and awe

Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2018

All the teams used the Mission Model Canvas , Customer Development and Agile Engineering to build Minimal Viable Products, but all of their journeys were unique. Our mantra to the students was that we wanted them to learn about “Deployment not Demos.” Each of their slide presentations follow their customer discovery journey.

Southern California

Southern California San Diego Mississippi SBIR

So You're Going To Start A Huge New Web Project

css-tricks.com

JANUARY 2, 2013

Web Design. Responsive design can help with this and is an awesome solution for a lot of sites. On a large project, you really need to develop a design system. That means re-usable parts and design patterns that help you build quickly and keep you consistant. This isnt just a design thing, its everything.

Web

Web Software Review Technical Review Caching

Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2017 – Lessons Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2017

Our mantra to the students was that we wanted them to learn about “Deployment not Demos.” Our observation is that the DOD has more technology demos than they need, but often lack deep problem understanding. Our sponsors did remind us, that at times getting a solution deployed meant that someone did have to see a demo!).

Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley Southern California Lean San Diego

Raising Money Using Customer Development

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

No amount of learning how to get a VC meeting or improving your VC demo skills will fix the lack of concrete customer data. They will realize that you have built a startup that’s agile, resilient and customer-centric. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. You might as well bring your lucky rabbits foot to the VC meeting.

Customer Development

Customer Development Developer Customer Silicon Valley

Lessons Learned: The one line split-test, or how to A/B all the time

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

The new design improved on the old one in several ways, but these improvements didnt translate all the way through the funnel. Usually, I think that means youve lost some good aspect of the old design. The designers might be telling you that the new design looks much better than the old one, and thats probably true.

San Francisco

San Francisco Lean Technical Review Continuous Deployment

Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2019

Steve Blank

JUNE 7, 2019

Unlike traditional demo days or Shark Tanks which are “here’s how smart I am, please give me money,” a Lessons Learned presentation tells a story of a journey of hard-won learning and discovery. Our keynote speaker was Palmer Luckey , founder of Oculus and the designer of the Oculus Rift. Presentation Format.

Oakland

Oakland Lean SBIR Afghanistan

Lessons Learned: A hierarchy of pitches

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 28, 2008

Most important slide: live demo Prototype product Key questions: what will it take to ship a working product? Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Six streaming locations Interviews ► March (7) New conference website, speakers, agenda Two new scholarship programs for lean startups Speed up or slow down?

San Francisco

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment DC

Create a “Content Playground” that’s Fun for Buyers (and Lucrative for You)

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Let’s jump on a call for a demo and maybe we can talk about pricing at the end.” And after some number of opens, clicks, and visits, we’d go in for the hard sale—a phone call from a sales rep, an office visit to provide a demo, and some kind of “buy now or else” discount on pricing. Straight-forward, logical, easy to track.

Agile

Agile Social Media Audience Software Review

[ADV] SysAid – The Enterprise-Level Solution That Can Streamline Your Organization’s IT

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 23, 2017

Fortunately, there is a bevy of great helpdesk software packages out there that are designed to make the process somewhat easier. It has a 30-day free trial and also has several software demo options to try out the software before you make a purchase. This is one of the more robust and agile methods of active directory integration.

Software

Software Agile Mobile Cloud

HOW TO: Sign Up Users Even Before You Launch Your Startup

mashable.com

MAY 5, 2011

Asghar says: Military action in Abbottabad (Pakistan) was nothing but a drama entailing conspiracy just like the conspiracy of 9/11 to wage a crusade war against the Muslim world in the guise of self-designed War on Terror. After submitting the site design to website design galleries it’s really taken off. Have an account?

Pakistan

Pakistan Social Media Startup Stealth

What Does the Future Hold for Conversion Optimization?

ConversionXL

JANUARY 24, 2017

With agile development cycles and uncertain monetization models, they live and die by data and experimentation. research, data analysis, UX, psychology, copywriting, design and many more skills).”. For example, a web designer. Therefore, product demos, “trying before buying,” live support, etc., Image Source.

Conversion

Conversion Technical Review Artificial Inteligence Analytics

Eureka! A New Era for Scientists and Engineers

Steve Blank

JULY 28, 2011

The NSF Innovation-Corps program (I-Corps) is designed to help bridge the gap between the many scientists and engineers with innovative research and technologies, but little knowledge of the first steps to take in starting a company. And they’ll do this using the business model / customer development / agile development solution stack.

Engineer

Engineer Silicon Valley United States Intellectual Property

The Red Queen Problem – Innovation in the DoD and Intelligence Community

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 17, 2017

We could design warfighting tactics based on knowing the tactics of our opponent. We could design and manufacture the best systems. 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.

Community

Community Silicon Valley Technical Review Incubator

The Top CRM Companies for Business Owners

ReadWriteStart

APRIL 3, 2018

You can get a hang of the tool by signing up for a 21-day free trial or requesting for a demo. An affordable SaaS solution, Agile allows a team of up to 10 users to manage a collective group of 50,000 contacts for free. It comes with AI based lead scoring, built-in phone, email integration, automation, reporting, and more. Salesforce.

Artificial Inteligence

Artificial Inteligence Agile Software Small Business

The Lean LaunchPad – Teaching Entrepreneurship as a Management Science

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2010

Or more accurately, startups are a temporary organization designed to search for a scalable and repeatable business model.) There are few courses which teach aspiring entrepreneurs the skills (business models, customer and agile development, design thinking, etc.) Set up a booth, put up posters, run demos, etc.

Wiki

Wiki Lean Management Business Model

Hacking for Diplomacy @ Stanford –What We Learned With the State Department

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Lessons Learned – Not a Demo Day. Silicon Valley folks are familiar with Demo Days – presentations where the message is: “Here’s how smart we are right now.” These solutions, called Minimal Viable Products (MVP’s), are what allow the teams to become extremely agile and responsive.

Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley Lean San Diego Agile

Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Design/Front End: Twitter Bootstrap : Include this in your website, and you are half finished. LiveRoad : A Great IDE for design is very helpful. Color Scheme Designer. online/offline, extensible wireframing tool w/design library. 99 Designs - marketplace for crowdsourced graphic design. Customer service.

Software Review

Software Review Technical Review Startup

How to Automate Apps with Workflows & Integrations

ConversionXL

AUGUST 5, 2021

For example, you may find that, upon experimenting with chatbots, it increases demo signups to your SaaS product by ~3%. They suggest asking yourself the following questions: As well as understanding those involved at the decision-making level, before you onboard or roll out new tools, you need to design your workflow.

Software Review

Software Review Technical Review San Diego Retention

Cracking The Code: Software 2.0: How the use of internet is.

Cracking the Code

APRIL 13, 2007

Companies need to be prominent on the web (see my previous post on online marketing for more details) 2) Product evaluation and testing: From seminar and demo to free online trial The second element that radically changed in Enterprise software is how people evaluate and test products. for a demo. SAP understood that very quickly.

Software Review

Software Review Internet Software Technical Review

Hacking for Diplomacy @ Stanford –What We Learned With the State Department

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Lessons Learned – Not a Demo Day. Silicon Valley folks are familiar with Demo Days – presentations where the message is: “Here’s how smart we are right now.” These solutions, called Minimal Viable Products (MVP’s), are what allow the teams to become extremely agile and responsive.

Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley Lean San Diego Agile

This Week in New York Tech - January 11th

This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 11, 2010

Tuesday, January 12th 6:30PM Agile UX at the Economist (Waitlist only) The Economist online will share their experiences, successes and lessons learned around practicing user-centered design in an Agile development process. If you need to replicate yourself to attend any of these events, remember: Don't make a copy of a copy!

New York

New York Semantic Agile Venture Capital

21 Teams Gather at Capital Factory to Hack Daimler North America’s Voice Technology for Truck…

Austin Startup

JULY 27, 2019

21 Teams Gather at Capital Factory to Hack Daimler North America’s Voice Technology for Truck Report On Friday, July 19th a group of 77 ambitious developers, designers and entrepreneurs gathered at Capital Factory to participate in the Daimler Trucks North America (DTNA) Hackathon.

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North America Technology Texas America

How companies strangle innovation – and how you can get it right

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

They accomplished their goal, but at a huge, unanticipated cost: the processes and committees they designed ended up strangling innovation. In reality for innovation to contribute to a company or government agency, it needs to be designed a process from start to deployment. There’s a much better way. Lessons Learned.

Incubator

Incubator Curation Engineer Government

How to Nail Your First 90 Days as a CX Director

ConversionXL

AUGUST 4, 2020

Access to a team with skills that include scientific experimentation, UX, copywriting , consumer psychology , statistics , data analysis, coding, research methodologies, change management, and design. Can I sit in on customer demo calls/pitches/discovery calls? waterfall, agile , etc.)? waterfall, agile, etc.)?

SQL

SQL Software Review Agile Metrics

Hacking for Defense @ Stanford – Week 6

Steve Blank

MAY 12, 2016

Our advanced in-class lectures are designed to fill the knowledge gap between the on-line lectures and reading assigned for homework and the new realities of the Mission Model canvas and the DOD/IC as beneficiaries. Pivots are what allows startups to be agile, and to move with speed and urgency. Filling in the Gap: Advanced Lectures.

Virginia

Virginia Lean Analytics Incubator

Why Real Learning is Outside the Building, Not Demo Day

What’s Plan B? – The Small, the Agile, and the Many

Trending Sources

Even Branding Should Be Agile: An Interview With Base Creative’s Matthew Kinsman

The Lean LaunchPad Class: It’s the same, but different

Innovation – something both parties can agree on

Learning Through Reflection

Case Study: Lean UX at work

The Class That Changed the Way Entrepreneurship is Taught

Why Tim Cook is Steve Ballmer and Why He Still Has His Job at Apple

Why Tim Cook is Steve Ballmer and Why He Still Has His Job at Apple

The Awesomeness of a Hackathon

Innovation – something both parties can agree on

Real Unfair Advantages

Going to Trade Shows Like it Matters – Part 2

We Flew To SXSW So You Don’t Have To

Good enough never is (or is it?)

How to Kick-Off the Design of an MVP

The Evolution of Entrepreneurial Education and Corporate Innovation

300 Teams in Two Years

Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2018 – wonder and awe

So You're Going To Start A Huge New Web Project

Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2017 – Lessons Learned Presentations

Raising Money Using Customer Development

Lessons Learned: The one line split-test, or how to A/B all the time

Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2019

Lessons Learned: A hierarchy of pitches

Create a “Content Playground” that’s Fun for Buyers (and Lucrative for You)

[ADV] SysAid – The Enterprise-Level Solution That Can Streamline Your Organization’s IT

HOW TO: Sign Up Users Even Before You Launch Your Startup

What Does the Future Hold for Conversion Optimization?

Eureka! A New Era for Scientists and Engineers

The Red Queen Problem – Innovation in the DoD and Intelligence Community

The Top CRM Companies for Business Owners

The Lean LaunchPad – Teaching Entrepreneurship as a Management Science

Hacking for Diplomacy @ Stanford –What We Learned With the State Department

Startup Resources

How to Automate Apps with Workflows & Integrations

Cracking The Code: Software 2.0: How the use of internet is.

Hacking for Diplomacy @ Stanford –What We Learned With the State Department

This Week in New York Tech - January 11th

21 Teams Gather at Capital Factory to Hack Daimler North America’s Voice Technology for Truck…

How companies strangle innovation – and how you can get it right

How to Nail Your First 90 Days as a CX Director

Hacking for Defense @ Stanford – Week 6

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