YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 16, 2016

This top-of-mind awareness and intentionality with our cash keep us agile and enable us to take on new opportunities. But take it from what a good friend and advisor once said to me: “Ego is dilutive to net worth.”. Knowing where each dollar is coming and going is essential. Hell or high water.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 15, 2022

A common practice is to hire local employees who know the geographic culture, even though this may well dilute the company culture. The challenge during this phase is to stay innovative and agile. This usually marks the end of organic growth, as partnerships and alliances aid growth, but again dilute the focus on culture.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 26, 2019

A coaching culture thrives on agility and resilience. People need coaching to weather setbacks and surprises which can dilute their confidence, and take away their ability to experience their full potential. They need to possess uncommon empathy and compassion for others, in order to really help them.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 27, 2014

Many have disappeared, and others have forgotten how to be agile and innovative. This can cause early investor dilution, lower ultimate returns or leave the startup stranded. The large investment amounts preferred by VCs are no longer needed to launch winners. Some VC firms are bogged down by their own weight.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 5, 2010

Brant and Patrick undertook a difficult challenge: to provide a generally accessible introduction to Customer Development, without diluting its impact or dumbing-down its principles. On the minus side, that has made it a wee bit hard to understand. I think theyve succeeded. The Entrepreneur’s Guide is an easy read. Expo SF (May.

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Agile VC

OCTOBER 23, 2012

This impact of exceptional returns is diluted some at the fund level due to portfolio effect, so the distribution between the best and worst funds is far narrower than the distribution of startup outcomes. But the median investment is almost certainly a middling return if not a modest loss.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 21, 2019

A common practice is to hire local employees who know the geographic culture, even though this may well dilute the company culture. The challenge during this phase is to stay innovative and agile. This usually marks the end of organic growth, as partnerships and alliances aid growth, but again dilute the focus on culture.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

And as everyone’s attention starts to focus on those same indicators, their value is being diluted. We’ve learned that data can be used as a reality-check against vision without diluting the mission or reverting to “sum of all features&# focus groups. Which leads to the next problem: We need new status indicators.

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Occam's Razor

APRIL 15, 2019

They dilute the analysis with non-facts. Invest in self-learning every week – even couple hours a week – to ensure you can keep pace with the demands for sophisticated analysis which will be expected at an agile pace. You might think it would be the Attacker. A Rationalizer subtly sows doubt.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Every time you listen to customers, you fear diluting your vision. Every time you listen to customers, you fear diluting your vision. We were afraid that this was just the tip of the iceberg, and that once we “gave in&# to these five demands there would be five more, ad infinitum. That’s natural. That’s natural.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 15, 2009

The agile software movement has made numerous contributions: continuous integration, which helps accelerate feedback about defects; story cards and kanban that reduce batch size; a daily stand-up that increases tempo. In fact, excess time pressure is exactly why they think they have these problems in the first place. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 2, 2017

A common practice is to hire local employees who know the geographic culture, even though this may well dilute the company culture. The challenge during this phase is to stay innovative and agile. This usually marks the end of organic growth, as partnerships and alliances aid growth, but again dilute the focus on culture.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 14, 2020

The answer is given by user intent: If your existing pages already target a clear intent, and the new feature would dilute it, create a new page for it. Unless you’re a small, agile startup, shipping new features isn’t as simple as it sounds. If you’ve never heard the term scrum or agile before, you’re behind. Know the process.

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Agile VC

DECEMBER 4, 2014

It’s also worth keeping in mind that regardless of how the founders’ common stock is divided, there will be future issuance of stock that will dilute the founders over the lifecycle of the company. You can then work with your law firm to formally draw up founder common stock paperwork either then or subsequently.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 14, 2013

A common practice is to hire local employees who know the geographic culture, even though this may well dilute the company culture. The challenge during this phase is to stay innovative and agile. This usually marks the end of organic growth, as partnerships and alliances aid growth, but again dilute the focus on culture.

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Agile VC

MAY 9, 2014

Such an approach is common in Silicon Valley… Google, Facebook, LinkedIn, and others have dual-class equity structures which give the holders of one class of shares (typically founders) disproportionate voting rights relative to their fully-diluted ownership stake in the company. Companies like Ford and the New York Times Co.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 14, 2015

A common practice is to hire local employees who know the geographic culture, even though this may well dilute the company culture. The challenge during this phase is to stay innovative and agile. This usually marks the end of organic growth, as partnerships and alliances aid growth, but again dilute the focus on culture.

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Agile VC

DECEMBER 4, 2014

It’s also worth keeping in mind that regardless of how the founders’ common stock is divided, there will be future issuance of stock that will dilute the founders over the lifecycle of the company. You can then work with your law firm to formally draw up founder common stock paperwork either then or subsequently.

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blog.simeonov.com

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

I have been thinking a lot recently about how to apply agile development principles to investing and key aspects of startup development such as team building. Both stem from the agile principle of delaying decisions until the last responsible moment. The first post is about agile startup fundraising. Board member.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 9, 2016

With agile and other incremental development processes, schedule and track the allowable time boxes -- one to four weeks -- per cycle. Marketing and product owner negotiate the minimum viable product level based on competition and customer expectations. Financial executives set staffing budgets and monitor spending.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 24, 2014

I believe it is our excessive urge to ‘act normal’ and disdain of ‘networking’ that dilutes our social glue. Our socially progressive attitude has helped shape the most creative and agile playing of the global game. We don’t have a ‘Paypal’ mafia, a Netscape brethren or an equivalent strong network in tech. How to fix this?

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Agile VC

JULY 11, 2012

Like any other form of diluting your focus… it occasionally works, but usually doesn’t. But usually what makes a VC partnership great in its early days doesn’t easily translate into other new strategies down the road.

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Occam's Razor

MAY 2, 2017

The very best analysts distill, rather than dilute. The challenge I want to take on is to be specific in the recommendations make, and to share how we can be very nimble and agile. The very best analysts focus, when most will tend to gather. The very best analysts are display critical thinking, rather than giving into what’s asked.

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

If they are not there, I know there are other dilutive elements in between what I’m trying to do and the Secondary Success. But, the ability to see the big picture and demonstrate agility is a necessary skill to build for long-term success. But, that’s simply to see second order effects. If they are there, I take it as a bonus.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2018

If your brand tries to be too many things at once, the message becomes scattered and the brand grows diluted. Curved lines are visibly flexible and can communicate agility and reactivity. And, ideally, that message should come from your business’s core values and strategies.

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