Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Ensure that your website is easy to navigate, loads quickly, and is mobile-responsive to cater to a diverse audience. And that can make or break your customer retention, especially in the early stages. #12- Focus on UX and website design Photo Credit: Steven Light Prioritize user experience (UX) and website design.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Mobile and web software apps may cost even less. 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.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 12, 2010

Over time at my first startup our developers encouraged us to move to Agile development. So when I read my post it sounded to me more like a new philosophy for “The Agile Board,&# so I put that as my subtitle. Nivi (from VentureHacks ) said it best: “Agile is about short feedback loops. Especially Ad.ly.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

For early-stage startups, the goodwill component can easily exceed the size of all the financial elements together, or can just as easily mark a company with good financials as not investable. In the investment community, these leadership elements are often called “goodwill.” Strategic proficiency. People relationship focus.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 2, 2022

Is there an early mover advantage for being early on a technology trend? think about the entrepreneurs that started in the early days of the Internet, mobile, crypto, VR and yes… now Metaverse. The large corporates might invest billions, but startups have the benefit of speed, agility and courage to innovate.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 19, 2020

Mobile and web software apps may cost even less. 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.

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Transformify

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Commenced in July 2017, The Youth Enterprise Development Fund provides start-up loans to help young entrepreneurs fund their businesses at a very early stage. Scrum, Agile, Product Management. Scrum, Agile, Problem Analysis, Business Catalyst, Business Analytics. What are the most common skills in each category?

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Steve Blank

MARCH 8, 2011

It was designed to bring together many of the new approaches to building a successful startup – customer development, agile development, business model generation and pivots. BlinkTraffic will empower mobile users in developing markets (Jakarta, Sao Paolo, Delhi, etc.) This post is part one.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 27, 2014

Mobile and web software apps may cost even less. 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.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 1, 2011

As customer and agile development reinvent the Startup, it’s time to ask why startup board governance has not kept up with the pace of innovation. Board meetings that guide startups haven’t changed since the early 1900’s. Why don’t we have standards for what metrics VC’s want to see from their early stage startup teams?

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Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

In another we decended into a debate about our 5 year forecasts (I built the models so fielded most of these questions), and it became clear they probably weren’t the best fit for our Series A round (this group is no longer in the early-stage VC business). And a third firm “pressure tested” (i.e. link] dazhi chen.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 1, 2011

As customer and agile development reinvent the Startup, it’s time to ask why startup board governance has not kept up with the pace of innovation. Board meetings that guide startups haven’t changed since the early 1900’s. Why don’t we have standards for what metrics VC’s want to see from their early stage startup teams?

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 17, 2016

They are highly educated and mobile centric. hours per day, on their mobile phones. With the right customer service app, you can consolidate all your customer conversations and interactions—across website, phone, email and social media channels—into one centralised place enabling fast, efficient and agile responses.

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Altgate

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

The presentation was on outsourcing generally, not just software engineering and the audience was very early stage companies (some yet to be founded). Now, for very early stage companies, you may be thinking, “I don’t have any cash, so outsourcing isn’t an option.&# To that I say baloney.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 13, 2011

As customer and agile development reinvent the startup, it's time to ask why startup board governance has not kept up with the pace of innovation. Board meetings that guide startups haven't changed since the early 1900's. Why don't we have standards for what metrics VCs want to see from their early stage startup teams?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 1, 2010

Running the “Agile&# Board. Most early stage startups having monthly board meetings. Quarterly is too few for an early stage business. Or if you’re a mobile ad network and they announce iAd – same thing. I normally recommend 8 meetings per year. You can do calls if need be.

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Agile VC

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

Startups in NextView’s portfolio frequently receive inbound interest from other VC investors who are intrigued about what they’re doing, and I often talk with other early-stage entrepreneurs how to approach similar situations. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

And the urgency stems not from an agile competitor, a first-mover market, or a power-law distribution of reward, but rather from the need to achieve enough velocity to overcome the tremendous gravitational pull of business-as-usual. In my case, the scarce resources, rather than time and money, are time and political capital.

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Occam's Razor

MAY 2, 2017

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. Click on the site link, go browse around, go to their social pages, checkout the mobile app, then write down the six metrics you would choose. If you want to play along. Don’t read what I’ve chosen.

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Ben's Blog

MAY 15, 2020

Finally, we’ll zoom out and assess the big picture: how various categories of company may be impacted long-term, how this crisis compares to 2008 (and what that means for early-stage founders), and the industries and business models that are now prime for growth. Mobile isn’t growing on a fast rate. Andrew : Right.

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Agile VC

JULY 11, 2012

Here’s a slightly perverse scenario… Acme Ventures starts out as an early-stage VC investing in US-based IT companies. But usually what makes a VC partnership great in its early days doesn’t easily translate into other new strategies down the road. they generate $400M in proceeds from that $100M).

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Agile VC

MARCH 8, 2012

What are the implications for other late-stage private companies thinking of making the transition to public markets in the near to midterm future? What’s the impact for early-stage startups? I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. Read More ».

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www.women2.org

MARCH 8, 2012

This was actually a great piece of advice, because ideas change and evolve in the early stages of the startup, it’s about the other person not the idea as much. She has consulted for a number of startups in the mobile, Saas, and consumer health spaces. HTML5 Mobile App Hackathon. Follow her on Twitter at @eknopf2.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 7, 2007

Posted by: Neil | October 4, 2007 2:24 AM I am not sure if I am misreading this - but are you suggesting that a top down, water fall process works better then an agile /iterative development approach? Many projects fail because clients dont communicate the specs during the early stages.

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Agile VC

FEBRUARY 9, 2012

There are more similarities with early-stage VC than public investing, but in these asset classes you still see somewhat more uniform access to investment opportunities and less information asymmetry. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. Read More ».

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

VC Cafe covers early stage Israeli and European tech & mobile startups. We have an iOS SDK as well, for web-web, mobile-mobile, web-mobile video chat and video messaging. Twilio : Need to call/txt get a phone number from your web/mobile application? Mobile Ap Creator create quick mobile apps.

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