The Next Web

NOVEMBER 17, 2013

When it comes to scaling your startup’s Web development resources (or lack thereof), it seems like you can never have enough assistance. Here’s what they had to say about whether or not to outsource technology development: 1. Developers get bored with one project after a while. And at what price? Agencies thrive on innovation.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Reading the NY Times article “ Jeffrey Katzenberg Raises $1 Billion for Short-Form Video Venture, ” I realized it was time for a new startup heuristic: the amount of customer discovery and product-market fit you need to find is inversely proportional to the amount and availability of risk capital. The result?

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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. Seychelles.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 9, 2020

I’ve extracted and paraphrased a few of Ellen Lords key insights and urge you to read the entire transcript here and watch her video. Given that software is central to every major DOD mission and system, we need to acquire and deliver software with much greater speed, agility, and cyber security. They develop the agenda.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 7, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, September 7, 2008 Customer Development Engineering Yesterday, I had the opportunity to guest lecture again in Steve Blank s entrepreneurship class at the Berkeley-Columbia executive MBA program. Ive attempted to embed the relevant slides below. Talk about waste.

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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. Part 4 of the Customer Development Manifesto to follow.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

We think teaching teams a formal methodology around the Lean Framework (Business Model design, Customer Development and Agile Engineering) is a natural evolution of how successful incubators/accelerators will build startups. From the first 10 interviews, we learned that video is a big problem for researchers who use that medium.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 12, 2020

If you can’t see the four videos of General Mattis click here for the entire talk. How on earth would customer interviews work via video? Second, doing customer discovery via video actually increased the number of interviews the students were able to do each week. If you can’t see the Omniscient 2-minute video click here.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

I’ve extracted and paraphrased a few of General Raymond’s key insights and urge you to read the entire transcript here and watch the video. We started developing capabilities as part of that great power competition with the Soviet Union. We need to develop space experts that understand how to operate in the contested domain.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 13, 2020

It may take a significant amount of time and money to develop a right-sized office space that can accommodate the production and growth a business hopes to experience. Research shows that a right-sized office boosts productivity, increases employee satisfaction, and helps companies attract and continue to develop high-level talent.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 8, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, November 8, 2008 What is customer development? Steve Blank has devoted many years now to trying to answer that question, with a theory he calls Customer Development. You can learn about customer development, and quite a bit more, in Steves book The Four Steps to the Epiphany.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 16, 2018

Companies are embarking on digital transformation journeys to experiment new digital ways of doing business — this means leveraging data smarter to enable unprecedented levels of efficiency, agility, and productivity. Let’s take a look at how apps became such a vital part of our lives and how they went through dramatic change and development.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 27, 2020

While traditional offshoring to Asia or Eastern Europe has always been lauded for its cheap labor, for companies that practice agile, or require better collaboration, communication, and a higher level of engagement, the advantages of nearshore software development are clear. What is the difference between offshoring and nearshoring?

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 27, 2011

What’s awesome is that the ThisWeekIn team now does time coding so you can go directly to the section in the video you want to hear (you need to click on link for video and then below the video in YouTube the links to the exact times will take you to that section in the video). 38:00 Should you use avatars?

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 25, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, March 25, 2009 The Lean Startup at Agile Vancouver April 21st A surprising number of respondents in the latest Lessons Learned survey hail from one of the flourishing startup hubs in Canada. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 5, 2010

I believe it is the best introduction to Customer Development you can buy. As all of you know, Steve Blank is the progenitor of Customer Development and author of The Four Steps to the Epiphany. I have personally sold many copies of his book, and continue to recommend it as one of the most important books a startup founder can read.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 6, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, July 6, 2009 Lean Startup fbFund slides and video As a follow-up to my previous post on my talk for fbFund at Facebook , there was enough interest in watching video of the talk that I have finally uploaded it using Apples MobileMe. If you want to see the original video, use the link above.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 30, 2016

When a project owner seeks for a software development company, they often mention in their inquiries that they want to deal with a very professional developer. But what kind of service do they actually want their developers to provide? Professional software developers. Do they prepare a development plan?

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 21, 2019

While large corporations are struggling with the digital transformation, small agile firms emerge every day and challenge traditional retailers. The two founders spent two full months doing nothing but producing image and video material. The commercial video for example, can be seen here.

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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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Steve Blank

JULY 13, 2021

A decade later, I began to teach the foundations of Lean, first at UC Berkeley (Customer Development) and then at Stanford using cases and business plans. Lean-driven (hypothesis testing/business model/customer development/agile engineering). Third, the tools for customer discovery (videos, sample experiments, etc.)

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 26, 2022

Rather than sending text-based releases to media sites in the hopes of being published, brands are more likely to bring press releases in-house and generate video announcements of important company advancements. When press releases are required, interactive or video-based versions will be most effective. Photo Credit: Kevin Burke.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

OCTOBER 27, 2020

With video calling, live chat and instant messaging, departments can work together, morale gets a boost and group projects can be tackled coherently and cohesively. If you develop software, you could design and build an app that monitors fitness, provides access to guided meditations or tracks calorie intake. Picture from [link].

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 2, 2022

As an early stage investor in the world of gaming and metaverse technology at Remagine Ventures, I find these companies have the potential to set the agenda, become the potential platforms for developers building in this space and future acquirers/consolidators of startups building the next generation of the Internet. Here we go! Epic Games.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 23, 2022

As a good solution developer, it’s easy for you to see team members only as components of your business solution. Even in today’s remote environments, you can use video sessions, social media, and email to keep up with team efforts informally and share updates, both positive and negative. Spend time coaching and mentoring team members.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 19, 2020

It would be easy to just put up the video and the transcription in this blog and be done with it. I’ve extracted and paraphrased a few below, but I urge you to read the transcript and watch the video. The Pentagon needs to be fast and agile. You need to be exceptionally fast and agile. Technology is what it is.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Websites like Udemy, YouTube, and LinkedIn Learning are chock full of short video tutorials to help keep your ingenuity sharp and ready. It's important to keep business agile. create impediments to personal development. We want to induce group and personal development seminars and workshops. 2- Scaling up. organization.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 1, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 1, 2008 Test-Driven Development as andon cord You cannot control what you cannot see, and the hardest part of managing software projects is that the final product is so intangible. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Expo SF (May. .

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 6, 2013

If you want to see what all the fuss was about, you can watch complete video of last year's track courtesy of my friends at Udemy.) Luckily, in a room full of entrepreneurs, plenty of new businesses popped up to bring people food and water. (If

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Steve Blank

APRIL 10, 2009

Customer Development ) to help you quickly recognize and reverse any incorrect decisions. That’s why startups are agile. Startups that are agile have mastered one other trick – and that’s Tempo – the ability to make quick decisions consistently over extended periods of time. Good Enough Decision Making [.]

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 20, 2017

Do we develop new capabilities internally or partner? To be able to respond quickly and intelligently to the fast pace of change, all levels and functions in your businesses must be creative, responsive, and agile. Do we craft a careful plan or simply plunge right in? Rule #3: Partner, borrow, and share. Not anymore. and Malaysia.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 26, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, April 26, 2009 Product development leverage Leverage has once again become a dirty word in the world of finance, and rightly so. But I want to talk about a different kind of leverage, the kind that you can get in product development. Its a key lean startup concept.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 3, 2015

Berkeley were heavily funded to develop Cold War weapon systems. Starting in the 1950’s, Stanford’s engineering department became “outward facing” and developed a culture of spinouts and active faculty support and participation in the first wave of Silicon Valley startups. Seeing Is Believing. Berkeley-wide. We’ve gone global as well.

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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. Labels: customer development , lean startup 8comments: Amy said.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 3, 2017

It means that the digital flow of information, searches, transactions, and communication media (voice, video, chat, data) and intracompany traffic has grown, and digital products and services have surged. Developing countries, small companies and start-ups, and billions of individuals are global suppliers and customers.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 30, 2022

I think e-commerce and brick-and-mortar businesses will have to pivot towards developing or optimizing social commerce strategies. . 16- Become more agile and flexible. In my opinion, one of the changes that companies will have to make this year is becoming more agile and flexible. Thanks to Stephen Light, Nolah Mattress ! #9-

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Where to Play

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

The idea to develop a caged drone was born after the Fukushima nuclear disaster. The drone that Flyability develops has unique accessibility due to the decoupled and light protection cage that surrounds it. Step 3: Designing the Agile Focus Strategy. Worksheet 3 – Designing your Agile Focus Strategy. The Challenge.

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