Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

And over time every venture capitalist develops their own gut feel for what makes up a great team in their industry. For example, if you’re building a mobile app, then the key activities are: app software development, user interface design and demand creation skills. I told Radhika this is a perennial question for startups.

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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.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 27, 2020

Everything from customer service, technical support, to back office operations are able to be outsourced as a way to reduce costs, keep up with the evolving consumer expectations, and drive a faster return on investment. What is the difference between offshoring and nearshoring?

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Steve Blank

JUNE 26, 2014

We’re changing the order in which we teach the business model canvas and customer development to better-fit therapeutics, diagnostics and medical devices. “Customer Development” to test the hypotheses outside the building and. We’ve pivoted our Lean LaunchPad / I-Corps curriculum.

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BeyondVC

APRIL 4, 2018

Despite that, it’s also hard to ignore the following facts: Enormous spend and growth for public cloud and app infrastructure, middleware and developer software of $50b (Gartner, Pivotal S-1). Every large enterprise is a software company which means developer productivity is paramount. Rise of multi-cloud.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 14, 2010

Today, Rally Software – a company I’ve been an investor in since 2003 – announced that they have acquired AgileZen. If you are an Agile software development shop, or follow ALM, Rally just added Kanban to the mix. and We’ve joined Rally Software. How could you not fall in love with a company named AgileZen ?

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TechEmpower

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

As software developers, we're technophiles, so we enjoy these cycles and quite often find humor listening to the energy spent arguing on either side of issues. Not to downplay developer happiness. Few developers will find themselves at an extreme or precisely in the middle, and we're no exception. It's important to us.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MAY 31, 2010

It always goes like this: I'm just a two-person operation with no budget. What if a huge company with a hundred software developers and a million dollars in marketing budget decides to copy my idea? We scoff at their inability to innovate and for prioritizing shareholders over customers, but still we quiver in fear.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

In fact, many startups fail to launch a product because they get bogged down with software development and either run out of money, or are left behind by their competitors. It’s clear to me that what we’re doing now – simple, focused features followed by iteration – is the best way for startups to operate.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

But by taking advantage of open source, agile software, and iterative development, lean startups can operate with much less waste. I am heavily indebted to earlier theorists, and highly recommend the books Lean Thinking and Lean Software Development. The lean startup is an application of Lean Thinking.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

When applied to the workplace, kaizen refers to activities that aim to improve every individual function within a company, including the way each of the employees operate, from the customer service representative, right up to the CEO until the whole business is running like a well-oiled machine. See Also: Want Your Team Engaged?

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 29, 2023

The integration of technology into various aspects of business operations has become essential for organizations to remain competitive, deliver exceptional customer experiences, and drive innovation. They offer comprehensive services, including strategy development, technology implementation, and ongoing support.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 13, 2017

Agile marketing may not be a phrase you hear often, but it’s becoming increasingly popular and important. Traditionally associated with development and product management, agile is a lightweight and, well, agile framework for software development and bringing features and products to market.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 4, 2008

Boyd emphasized the importance of agility in combat: "the key to victory is to be able to create situations wherein one can make appropriate decisions more quickly than ones opponent." Agile software development. Agile allows companies to build higher quality software faster. Customer development.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 15, 2009

If youre looking for resources on getting started, see " Continuous deployment in 5 easy steps ") The goal of continuous deployment is to help development teams drive waste out of their process by simultaneously reducing the batch size and increasing the tempo of their work. How severely is failure punished?

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 3, 2017

After saying I wanted to develop a product that would make a client’s glossy and then she would just toss it around (I like careless hair) I said I didn’t know what to call it and said you just called it yourself – GLOSS & TOSS. I was a developer so I could write code, but not blog posts. 5- Simple way.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Marketing automation software will help to create logical buyer journeys, provide data insights that drive targeting the most valuable customers and prospects, and enable agile development and optimization of marketing campaigns that ensure that you are maximizing your marketing investment to drive revenue.

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www.theenterprisearchitect.eu

MARCH 26, 2014

The Enterprise Architect building an Agile Enterprise Home MDD PaaS Startup Presentations About The cloud landscape described, categorized, and compared October 12, 2013 Johan Den Haan 10 comments “I work for a PaaS company” I answered him. Layer 3 clearly targets professional developers. speak, write). they are â??businessâ??

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

There are a few cases where you somewhat need to see the system operating to have a sense of the value. If you are on the lower complexity end, the key is defining small chunks of work that can be done quickly by a developer. Structure development contracts appropriately or directing the in-house team appropriately.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

As our agile coach mentioned when he started working with our team, he was super attuned to the fact we were all women and then realized that it really shouldn’t be any more unique than the teams he’s worked with that were all men.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 1, 2010

Running the “Agile&# Board. Doing nothing between board meetings to me is like running the “ waterfall software development process. &# We all know that modern software companies run on the “ agile &# development process by having short release cycles and frequent communications.

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Up and Running

APRIL 18, 2017

For the following eight years, despite seeing great growth in our business, we made a mistake many entrepreneurs make: we operated the business as though the competitive, technological, and economic landscape was the same as when we started. I knew that developing a new registration system would take some time. We were wrong.

Campaign 90

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 30, 2015

Back in early 2003, a Dane named Janus Friis and a Swede named Niklas Zennström had an idea for a software application, and founded a business with the help of three Estonian software developers. They can operate their businesses around the world and around the clock across multiple time-zones [10].

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OnlyOnce

AUGUST 6, 2015

If your organization still does software development through a waterfall process or has separate and distinct development, QA, and IT/Operations teams, I’d say you should run, not walk, to get this book. I can’t imagine operating a business any other way. Visited 1 times, 1 visits today).

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 19, 2010

About twenty people on Answers OnStartups have asked this question in one form or another: When I meet an angel investor, he may ask: "What if a big company copies your idea and develops the same website as yours after your website goes public?". In the 90's, y'all, before that was built into all the operating systems!) Common vision.

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Software By Rob

APRIL 7, 2010

More than two years ago my business partner and I discussed launching a hosted version of my ASP.NET invoicing software , DotNetInvoice. We developed the plan and a task list, and estimated the effort at around 160 hours including development time needed to make DotNetInvoice a multi-tenant application. So we tossed it.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

I’ve seen many times what happens when a single department get’s holed-up in its own space, like the terrifying “ operations cave.&# Even if men have an innate advantage at software development, the gap would have to be massive in order to explain why startup after startup has an all-male team. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 6, 2008

When youve mastered that, consider adding operations, customer service, marketing, product management, business development - the idea is that when the team needs to get approval or support from another department, they already have an "insider" who can make it happen. Keep the team size small, maybe just two or three people.

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Steve Blank

MAY 17, 2022

But they herald a sea change in what computers are capable of doing, how they do it, and what hardware and software is needed to do it. It uses new words to define programming steps, job descriptions, development tools, etc. Classic Computers – Software Updates, New Features. The sum of these feels like buzzword bingo.

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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

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Compressing the Product Development Cycle. A company developing software would have to buy computers and license software from other companies and hire the staff to run and maintain it. Today open source software has slashed the cost of software development from millions of dollars to thousands.

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Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

Defense and Intelligence organizations drove the pace of innovation in Silicon Valley by providing research and development dollars to universities, and defense companies built weapons systems that used the Valley’s first microwave devices and semiconductor components. and there were no books, blogs or YouTube videos about entrepreneurship.

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