Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 7, 2016

It’s been exciting to watch the Lean Startup movement grow from a practice utilized in the tech world to one implemented in a wide variety of sectors ranging from enterprise to education, religious organizations, nonprofits, and government groups. You also can’t just take private sector ideas and overlay them on local government.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

APRIL 16, 2024

Sustainability reporting, particularly about environmental, social, and governance (ESG) criteria, has burgeoned as a fundamental vehicle through which companies can reflect their operations’ social responsibility and commitment to sustainable development practices.

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Transformify

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

What are the drivers behind these figures and why Africa is so polarized when it comes to skills development and unemployment rates? Reaching out to new markets and opportunities requires skills, experience, and networks that are usually developed by those who have studied abroad. Scrum, Agile, Product Management.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

A version of this article first appeared in the Harvard Business Review. Tech IPO prices exploded and subsequent trading prices rose to dizzying heights as the stock prices became disconnected from the traditional metrics of revenue and profits. Then the cycle repeats with a new set of technologies. The result?

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The Startup Magazine

APRIL 11, 2019

All of us know in software companies that scrum is the most significant agile methodology for handling software projects. In spite of its well-known advantages (flexibility, quick feedbacks, adaptability and better communication), we might be uncertain whether to use this framework or follow a traditional way for the development.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2021

This class is built on conducting in-person of interviews with customers/ beneficiaries and stakeholders, but due to the pandemic, teams now had to do all their customer discovery via a computer screen. Few consider opportunities to make the world safer with the Department of Defense, Intelligence community or other government agencies.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

Investors, partners, team members, and customers implicitly value or devalue a startup based on the leader’s physical presence, emotional identity, social skills, intellectual agility, moral values, and past performance in the domain. Leadership brand development. Strategic proficiency. Focus on talent and people growth.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 11, 2016

Mark Raheja, founding partner at August , a consultancy focused on organizational development, will be speaking as part of the enterprise learning track at Lean Startup Week about agility at scale. In thinking about the future of corporate agility and management, what modern practices are most vital to today’s leaders?

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ConversionXL

JULY 3, 2020

It’s tempting to develop a strategy that works just for your department. We consider four critical areas for planning your data strategy: Strategy and culture; People and skills; Technology and tools; Methodology and process. Avoid writing a technical solution at this point (e.g., “we The how should be led by your tech team.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 26, 2022

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. Press releases are becoming less successful, partly due to the difficulty of obtaining earned media. COVID-19 saw several changes, particularly in the area of telephonic development.

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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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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 6, 2011

Cloud computing has become a buzzword in the recent years, with numerous companies providing the technology to enable organizations to access applications over a network to remote computing sites. Governments adopting the use of the Cloud. by Yi Ning Lim, marketing specialist at GMO GlobalSign.

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Board Effect

MARCH 17, 2021

Developing Strategies for Efficient Board Collaboration. As much as technology has become part of the problem, it’s also part of the fix when you use the right board technology. Your board has many choices for technology that you can use for electronic communication and file-sharing.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 12, 2020

All the teams used the Mission Model Canvas , (videos here ) Customer Development and Agile Engineering to build Minimal Viable Products, but all of their journeys were unique. Few consider opportunities to make the world safer with the Department of Defense, Intelligence Community or other government agencies.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 13, 2021

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. This constantly changing environment has been incredibly taxing and so many businesses – but those who were not able to remain agile and change with the environment are those who felt the effects most.

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Steve Blank

MAY 23, 2016

It said, “teach us to number our days that we gain a heart of wisdom “ Since then I’ve had a series of interesting careers: technician in the Air Force, tech writer, marketer, entrepreneur, CEO and now educator and mentor. While Ben taught me how to think, Gordon Bell taught me what to think about.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 19, 2012

In a career that has moved from GE to NBC Universal and back to GE, she has brought technological innovation and agile business techniques to two of the US’s biggest legacy corporations. Healthymagination is a cooperative endeavor in healthcare, which along with energy and transportation, is one of GE’s primary technological fields.

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ConversionXL

MAY 1, 2017

One of the greatest threats to long-term success is when companies aren’t vigilant enough about responding to the changes in their market—whether it’s by failing to spot product or channel fatigue, acknowledge new competition, make needed updates to products or marketing adjustments in a timely fashion, or embrace new technology coming online.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 30, 2019

The highly competitive Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program was created by Congress back in 1982 to fund and encourage domestic small businesses to engage in Federal Research/Research and Development (R/R&D). There are 3 Phases total, and each results in an increased monetary award as well as varying development pipelines. “

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Board Effect

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

It can seem overwhelming to tackle all of this, but fortunately, there is technology available to support board chairs and members in an age of transformation. These boards are more agile and can make decisions quickly when necessary. With changes come opportunities but also challenges and risk.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

I continue to collect great content that is the intersection of startups, products, online and technology. The United States is now a debtor nation to China and that the bill is about to come due. Was it a Startup Founder Developer Gap ? These are probably the two sites where I've posted the most reviews.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 31, 2016

We decided to start something we felt would have the greatest positive impact on fellow business owners, an Agile Methodology consulting company. We quit our jobs, pooled our money, and set out to help companies implement Agile – a highly efficient, organized, and empowering way to run your business. It turns out I was right.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

I took fairly detailed notes at last night’s panel on ‘ The Future of America’s Innovation Economy Progress and Challenges at the USPTO’ It was sponsored by The Gibbons Institute of Law, Science & Technology; Seton Hall University School of Law; and the New Jersey Intellectual Property Law Association.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 21, 2017

It could be studying entrepreneurship in school or it could have been working with a government contractor or maybe someone had a sales job. I founded SilkRoll in 2015, I spent 10 years developing my style and taste in fashion while working around the world as an investment banker. 9 – Developing an Entrepreneur Program.

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Start Up Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

The biggest tech trend in 2020 won’t be a new widget or shiny piece of glass. It will be one of the oldest technologies from civilised society – Governance. One of our species oldest and most important technologies is language itself. Finally activists and Governments are starting to take notice.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Running an eCom business in India, a developing nation is a bumpy ride. The mission of my company, Invivobiosystems, is to enable researchers to develop and deliver solutions that improve human health. I have remained patient and worked diligently on the growth and success of the business. There are new challenges and problems.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 20, 2023

He serves clients across a range of industries on growth strategy, performance improvement, and value creation by harnessing the power of data and analytics, digital culture and capabilities, and modernized core technology. Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! Like this show? That's right.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 4, 2011

I spent two weeks of December in Chile as a guest of Professor Cristóbal García, Director of EmprendeUC at the Catholic University of Chile , which just signed up a 3-year collaboration partnership with Stanford’s Technology Ventures Program. Yet the copper companies import nearly 100% of the advanced technology they use.

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bhargreaves.com

MARCH 7, 2010

Many capable founders aren’t developers, and I frequently meet with entrepreneurs that have taken a very different path. Most disturbingly, I’ve occasionally found myself agreeing with an entrepreneur’s decision to hire a development shop to build their product. But this often isn’t the way things turn out.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Branding is a process designed to develop, among other things, a unique business name and custom logo design for a company, product, or service. Some have spent millions of dollars developing branding to attract tourists and businesses. 3) Develop personas for your target customers. Develop your brand identity assets.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 12, 2020

Marty Hayes, Online Business Manager for UK Consumers at Dell Technologies, uses data to show people why customer centricity is important and to get people to start questioning opinions: I once worked for an online womenswear retailer, where our target market was fast-fashion-craving teenage girls and young women. So how can data help you?

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 13, 2010

“These results suggest that [developers rely] on stereotype & instinct to understanding user needs&# – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. Build a technology company without a tech cofounder – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 13, 2010

“These results suggest that [developers rely] on stereotype & instinct to understanding user needs&# – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. Build a technology company without a tech cofounder – [link].

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mashable.com

MAY 5, 2011

Make A (Smart) Game Of It Subjot , the brainchild of game developer Chris Carella, turned its coming soon page into a social game using a feature available on LaunchRock. We are a startup social media dashboard in development, but have amassed over 5000 followers pre-beta. Very interesting product under development at Personify.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Or, rather, more offensively to Facebook and Google employees, less offensive to.NET developers, though the underlying message is the same.). But just to clarify a couple points, 24-hours into the storm: Yes,NET developers are great at what they do. It’s the most modern platform for application development on the planet.

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Steve Blank

MAY 17, 2022

The Department of Defense has thought that Artificial Intelligence is such a foundational set of technologies that they started a dedicated organization- the JAIC – to enable and implement artificial intelligence across the Department. These technologies will transform businesses and government agencies.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

The United States is now a debtor nation to China and that the bill is about to come due. This doesn’t mean just more technology stuff, though we’ll get that. Over the last half a century, Silicon Valley has grown into the leading technology and innovation cluster for the United States and the world. Starting now.

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