ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Still, COVID-19 helped tip the balance towards a globally distributed model. Managers realized that there’s little difference between employees working from home on the other side of town and employees working on the other side of the world. Transitioning to and managing a globally distributed model isn’t plain sailing.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

We asked entrepreneurs and business owners about the industries that are ripe for disruption and here are the response; #1- Cell phone carrier. Restaurant owners and employees are being treated extremely poorly by many customers since service has changed with the lack of staffing. Photo Credit: Rameez Usmani. 3- Restaurant.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 11, 2015

As a small business owner and entrepreneur, it is easy to get frustrated and discouraged when faced with daily obstacles as you try to scale your business. These days, it’s not uncommon for companies large and small to be completely distributed, i.e., have a wholly remote workforce. to be productive.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 5, 2022

So, that’s why we are excited about 2022 because there will be more and more entrepreneurs and businesses. Here’s the pivot other entrepreneurs are making next year: #1- Work four days a week. Additionally, some employees have requested that they work remotely, which has not been possible so far. 26- Help in employee engagement.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 27, 2021

Here’s what entrepreneurs predict for business in 2021. #1- This number sequence is three days in the physical office, two days where employees work remotely from home, and then two days off. I believe there is a lot of good that this new work schedule can provide in creating a stronger work/life balance for employees.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

Presenting your startup vision as a founder to a potential investor, or presenting an idea as an employee to an executive, requires that you effectively communicate, or “translate”, the value proposition into terms that the receiver can fully understand and appreciate. Implicit in agility is increased productivity on change initiatives.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 28, 2011

Presenting your startup vision as a founder to a potential investor, or presenting an idea as an employee to an executive, requires that you effectively communicate, or “translate”, the value proposition into terms that the receiver can fully understand and appreciate. Implicit in agility is increased productivity on change initiatives.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 20, 2022

You can’t ignore the key principles preached by every innovative entrepreneur: Build tomorrow’s opportunity rather than extend today’s. Entrepreneurs are always looking for breakthroughs and business models in other industries that can be adapted to a new one. Don’t be trapped by linear thinking.

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Gust

SEPTEMBER 16, 2012

Presenting your startup vision as a founder to a potential investor, or presenting an idea as an employee to an executive, requires that you effectively communicate, or “translate”, the value proposition into terms that the receiver can fully understand and appreciate. Implicit in agility is increased productivity on change initiatives.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 25, 2019

We asked some entrepreneurs and business owners, why they started their businesses: #1- Two reasons. The desire for me to create something meaningful and the choking environment of the corporate culture made me quit my full-time job and become an entrepreneur. Each story is different though the reasons may be the same.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 4, 2017

By which they mean: Without stupid rules that assume employees are dumb or evil, without everything taking ten times longer than it should, without wall-to-wall meetings, without resorting to hiring anything less than the top 1% of the talent pool, and so on. Why is this impossible when you have 500 employees? From Brittle to Robust.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

I like the guy because he’s credited with coining the word entrepreneur. Some companies use a suggestion box, others like Google give employees 20% of their time to work on their own projects. For example, Coke added snack foods, which could be distributed through its existing distribution channels. Act Like a Startup.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 13, 2024

In a progressively saturated market, these startups need to reevaluate their strategies and wisely distribute resources to remain competitive and sustainable amidst the demands of investors and well-established competitors.

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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. They remain entrepreneurs. With 115,000 employees Apple can barely get annual updates out for their laptops and desktop computers. Between 2001 to 2008, Jobs reinvented the company three times.

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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. They remain entrepreneurs. . With 115,000 employees Apple can barely get annual updates out for their laptops and desktop computers. Between 2001 to 2008, Jobs reinvented the company three times.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 26, 2015

In the last five years “ Lean Startup ” methodologies have enabled entrepreneurs to efficiently build a startup by searching for product/market fit rather than blindly trying to execute. Here the company executes a known business model (known customers, product features, competitors, pricing, distribution channel, supply chain, etc.)

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 27, 2010

Presenting an idea as an employee to an executive, or presenting your startup as a founder to an investor, requires that you effectively communicate, or “translate”, the value proposition into terms that the receiver can fully understand and appreciate. Implicit in agility is increased productivity on change initiatives. Data security.

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Agile VC

APRIL 17, 2011

Distribution revenue is CPC and CPA. . Historically more revenue came from distribution/lead-gen (57% in 2007), but this tipped in 2008 though appears to be steady from 2009 to 2010 at about 58% advertising and 42% distribution. Kayak generates both distribution (i.e. Expedia accounted for 24.5% as of 12/31/09).

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

Lean manufacturing , agile software development , and Theory of Constraints are all examples of this idea in action. One common worry is that this might lead companies to “release crap,&# shipping too soon with a product of such low quality that it alienates potential customers and, thus, causes entrepreneurs to abandon their vision.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 31, 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. customers aren’t buying it, the cost of distribution is too high, etc.) Product Development Diagram 1. Where Are the Customers?

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 28, 2010

Yet there’s a lot of mystery around pivots, and entrepreneurs ask all the time how you know it’s time to commit to a new direction. They were interested in the tools and new distribution medium kaChing provided. They were interested in the tools and new distribution medium kaChing provided.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 17, 2009

Although Im not a developer, I am captivated by the lean and agile start-up model that you write about. The problem is that the most authentic innovators and entrepreneurs are in the Valley. Im passionate about music (topspin like companies)and movie (jaman like companies)distribution. Would appreciate a sponsor. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

I know plenty of people who prefer more advanced source control system, but my belief is that many agile practices diminish the importance of advanced features like branching. Its not that the idea behind them is wrong, but I think agile team-building practices make scheduling per se much less important. Youd better.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 28, 2016

Startups are intended to be agile businesses that consistently face engineering and marketing challenges with creative thinking and a willingness to evolve. When ZenPayroll was part of Y Combinator’s Winter 2012 batch, the intention of the company was to improve the payroll experience for both small businesses and employees.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

Github - Free public repositories, collaborator management, issue tracking, wikis, downloads, code review, graphs Pivotal Tracker – Agile project management tool that enables real time collaboration. Bontq – hosted bug tracking and project management needs.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

When Ive asked mentors of mine who have worked in big companies about the role of the CTO, they usually talk about the importance of being the external face of the companys technology platform; an evangelist to developers, customers, and employees. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 26, 2009

We combined three tactics: extensive use of free software, an open platform for user-generated content, and leveraged distribution channels. Its an amazing thing when you can hire an employee who knows more about your code base than you do, and this turned out to be a big source of advantage. Leveraged distribution channels.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 9, 2020

Now, the company and its CEO Ella Gudwin are taking that a step further—offering their resources and capabilities to assist in the manufacturing and distribution of PPE for essential workers on the front lines of the COVID-19 effort. Any advice you would give to entrepreneurs and business owners?

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

I have counseled innumerable entrepreneurs to change their focus to revenue, and many companies who refuse this advice get themselves into trouble by running out of iterations. Because they have no presence in the market, they have to find distribution channels to bring in customers. Go on an agile diet quickly. Great post!

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Now, the company and its CEO Ella Gudwin are taking that a step further—offering their resources and capabilities to assist in the manufacturing and distribution of PPE for essential workers on the front lines of the COVID-19 effort. Any advice you would give to entrepreneurs and business owners?

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Steve Blank

MAY 22, 2009

Everyone should have a chance to walk the floor looking for deals, technology, distribution, customers, etc. Everyone should be articulate and agile in describing and demoing the products.) If your don’t have enough employees on the payroll, hire relatives, friends, or part-timers and train them. What didn’t?

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 1, 2009

But they have no clue about how to design, make, distribute and service products that enable them to have experience, that's the company's competence. So I don't think the Apple experience should be used to discount lean, agile, or customer development-type approaches. Two Ways to Hold Entrepreneurs Accountable (for Ha.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

A group of Seedcamp entrepreneurs started a startup tools wiki for that purpose, and we thought it would be well suited here. Agile project management tool that enables real time collaboration. free, distributed source code control management system. Agile project management. agile product management. Mercurial â??

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

To give you a better idea of what entrepreneurs in this industry are thinking about during each phase of the startup process, I interviewed SaaS entrepreneurs from all over the world, including our own COO Noah Parsons. Practical Market Research Resources for Entrepreneurs. Noah says, “Agile is what most software companies use.

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View from Seed

JUNE 17, 2015

My first startup job was as an early employee at PayPal, where I took a job at the end of ‘1999 and started a few months later in 2000. Yet absent a family obligation or something similar, nobody left until 7, 8, 9pm, or later even though we were too cheap to provide dinner for employees back then in the early days.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 21, 2012

Many entrepreneurs spend thousands of dollars on site development and wait for orders to arrive. Minnows can maneuver with extraordinary agility, and their size causes bigger fish to overlook them. If business owners cannot write well, they can outsource the job to employees or inexpensive writing services that only cost a few dollars.

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NZ Entrepreneur

JUNE 11, 2019

In the entrepreneur world we hear a lot of talk about entrepreneurs and businesses needing to be “global from day one” Investors and business commentators lament our lack of large global businesses and say the “three-B” (bach, ‘Beemer’ and boat) mentality of Kiwi business owners is holding us back.

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