Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 17, 2014

Every aspect of every product requires development, testing, manufacturing, marketing, and distribution. It’s tough for an elephant to be agile. Perhaps the focus should be on a single distribution channel, better customer service, or a simplified pricing structure.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Who can I hire later? Or if you’re building consumer electronics the key activities might be: low cost hardware design, high volume manufacturing, user interface design, consumer branding and retail distribution. But what about for us, a consumer hardware hardware company? How do I decide who I need to have on board on day one?

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, September 18, 2008 How to get distribution advantage on the iPhone I have had the opportunity to meet a lot of iPhone-related companies lately. There are other models, in other distribution channels. On Facebook, viral distribution has proved decisive. I havent found any yet. Expo SF (May.

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Transformify

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Adeel established a team in Lahore and we all did Agile training together to formalize a working relationship. We used an agile coach to help us navigate the challenges of remote working on a software engineering project and the project went extremely well. Our team went from being fully in-office to an international distributed team.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 27, 2015

Every aspect of every product requires development, testing, manufacturing, marketing, and distribution. It’s tough for an elephant to be agile. Perhaps the focus should be on a single distribution channel, better customer service, or a simplified pricing structure.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 13, 2021

Throughout the different phases of the pandemic, we have spent even more time with our existing customers and actively sought out their advice on how we can make our platform and services better as this distributed work environment continues. 8-Stay agile. Thanks to Ablorde Ashigbi, 4Degrees ! Thanks to Tony Tullio, Inorbital ! #7-

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 16, 2018

They of course need to be agile and adaptable, but home businesses should still have some formalized planning and structure. You might hire a part-time worker who steals your data and sells it on the “dark web.” by David Zimmerman, CEO of LC Technology International . Your toddler might knock a bowl of cereal onto your company laptop.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 25, 2022

How to they use the new distribution channels competitors have adopted? How do they make these transitions without alienating and losing their existing customers, distribution channels and partners? How do they connect with a new generation of customers who had no brand loyalty? It meant pivoting an entire company – and its culture.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 27, 2022

Specifying roles is seen by the team as distributing power. This may require hiring new people, expanding skillsets, and providing coaching to get the high degree of creativity often required. Clarify individual roles and required capabilities.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Make sure your hiring practices include diversity, inclusion, and equity. Practice your agility. I recently saw that many companies were slow in adopting pandemic required virtual workplaces, plexiglass barriers, and restaurant tables outside. Some of these companies no longer exist. Innovate in real time to protect your business.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 15, 2017

Agile businesses have moved to the cloud because of its scalability, efficiency and reliability, amongst other benefits. As the cloud becomes increasingly common and the data deluge shows no signs of slowing down, the good old firewall is simply no longer sufficient for protecting the highly distributed assets of the enterprise.

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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. It’s a big reason why they move quickly. Risk-mitigation.

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Transformify

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Post Brexit, many companies in the UK consider distributed teams overseas as an alternative to the shrinking talent pool and high recruitment costs in Britain. Scrum, Agile, Product Management. Scrum, Agile, Problem Analysis, Business Catalyst, Business Analytics. What would a startup team look like based on this data only?

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Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

For example, Coke added snack foods, which could be distributed through its existing distribution channels. And to keep executing large organizations hire employees with a range of skills and competencies. Fourth and finally is disruptive innovation – this is the innovation we associate with startups. Act Like a Startup.

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

Derek Sivers about me blog books email list contact How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen 2010-06-19 Do you have an idea for a website, online business, or application, but need a programmer to turn that idea into reality? Say, “We are hiring a developer to create only the beginning of an application. Hire one from each.

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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. Visionary CEOs are not “just” great at assuring world-class execution of a tested and successful business model, they are also world-class innovators. Filed under: Corporate Innovation.

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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. Visionary CEOs are not “just” great at assuring world-class execution of a tested and successful business model, they are also world-class innovators. Filed under: Corporate Innovation.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 8, 2019

You may start with prototype products, but you need rock-solid processes for successful growth and agility. Hire the best people and continually upgrade your team. A big mistake often made in the rush to scale is to shortcut the hiring and training processes, to get out there fast, assuming that the team can learn on the job.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 3, 2018

Amazon has hired more people for their Alexa division than Google has for the entire company – it’s not hunch, this is going to be the focus. Corporate Agility. Transparency correlates to agility (Does your CEO know how many tests you ran last month?). Hire & fire – tools to do a job. Use data enrichment.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

We wanted an agile approach that would allow us to build our software architecture as we needed it, without downtime, but also without large amounts of up-front cost. You can also download our presentation, " Just-In-Time Scalability: Agile Methods to Support Massive Growth." Expo SF (May.

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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. So far, I have found "lean startup" works better with the entrepreneurs Ive talked to than "agile startup" or even "extreme startup.") Of course, many startups are capital efficient and generally frugal.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 31, 2009

The first hint lies in its name; this is a product development model, not a marketing model, not a sales hiring model, not a customer acquisition model, not even a financing model (and we’ll also find that in most cases it’s even a poor model to use to develop a product.) So what’s wrong the product development model? Where Are the Customers?

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

These operations learned during the last 18 months they could operate in a remote or distributed environment. Still, I will speak to one interesting trending: the emergence of hiring marketplaces that work more or less the same as talent marketplaces. Additionally, they better have a good handle on the well-being of the employees.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 7, 2008

In addition to presenting the IMVU case, we tried for the first time to do an overview of a software engineering methodology that integrates practices from agile software development with Steves method of Customer Development. Ive attempted to embed the relevant slides below. What about a hardware business with some long-lead-time components?

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 26, 2022

Prezi hired the former director of product from Pixar to build a more cinematic video meeting experience. Video marketing will also allow small businesses to distribute the same video content across many platforms, allowing them to serve a wide spectrum of clients at the same time. Think of the agility that comes with CAI, etc.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 27, 2021

Thus since it’s not an actual skill, businesses will start to either invest in templates for content planning or hire people to focus on that specific job. Being agile, nimble, and quick. 12- Constant evaluation and reactions. Photo Credit: Jonathan Bass. I predict 2021 will continue to be a trying time similar to 2020.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 5, 2022

It's important to keep business agile. With everything that has transpired, I've learned not to spread myself too thin, to appropriately distribute work and to fully trust my colleagues. After a thorough workflow audit, we’ve realized that we need to streamline our process workflow in order to become more agile.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 18, 2011

He was a lead for distributed teams in India, Europe and the U.S., and moved from delivery to architecture and developer evangelism to make sure that new hires don't have to have the same bad experiences we all had to go through until companies started appreciating the internet as a platform. Rockstars should be made, not found.

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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. This speeds up the Ideas-Code-Data feedback loop.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

The signals are loud and clear : seed and late stage valuations are getting frothy and wacky, and hiring talent in Silicon Valley is the toughest it has been since the dot.com bubble. Customer Development , Agile Engineering and the Lean methodology enforced a process of incremental and iterative development. Carpe Diem. Wide Adoption.

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 30, 2019

A new kind of company, built to leverage new technologies, new media channels, new working practices and new consumer markets, Crowdify is agile, adaptive, responsive and forward thinking — but also grounded and focused on product and brand strategy and return on marketing investment.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

One is explaining the world as it used to work: the importance of gatekeepers, the scarcity implied by limited distribution, and the resulting quality bar that the industry is so proud of. Mostly it is the time and expense required to create the means of distribution for that industry. It’s just taking some longer than others.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, September 10, 2008 Smarticus — 10 things you could be doing to your code right now Smarticus — 10 things you could be doing to your code right now A great checklist of techniques and tools for making your development more agile, written from a Rail perspective. Expo SF (May.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

For those of you who have been following the discussion, a Lean Startup is Eric Ries ’s description of the intersection of Customer Development , Agile Development and if available, open platforms and open source. When money is tight, when there aren’t dollars to redo mistakes, you look for processes that allow you to minimize waste.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 4, 2012

1940’s – movie studios had to divest their distribution channel – they owned over 50% of the movie theaters in the U.S. With a new channel of distribution, home movie rentals surpassed movie theater tickets. It was 75 years until studios had to deal with technology changing their platform and distribution channel.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Beware the new hire who has "extensive experience" in startups or big companies - using a different growth driver. Be-double-ware of the new hire who has "years of industry experience in multiple companies" all in a different growth driver. . Expo SF (May. Conference streaming, sponsors, discounted tickets.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 10, 2009

Our tests suite takes nine minutes to run (distributed across 30-40 machines). Heck, thats what it says right there in the agile manifesto. Labels: agile , continuous deployment , lean startup , product development , Test-driven development 4comments: Nivi said. On commit automatically run all tests. But it worked. We made it.

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