Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

If you’re an early employee at a startup, one day you will wake up to find that what you worked on 24/7 for the last year is no longer the most important thing – you’re no longer the most important employee, and process, meetings, paperwork and managers and bosses have shown up. The company was going to hire a VP of Marketing.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Many of these businesses operated on shoestring budgets and tiny margins, which the pandemic’s challenges all but obliterated. Pivoting only works if a business is small and agile and can shift its operations quickly and flawlessly in a different direction. Adaptability goes hand in hand with speed.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 27, 2020

Everything from customer service, technical support, to back office operations are able to be outsourced as a way to reduce costs, keep up with the evolving consumer expectations, and drive a faster return on investment. Put simply, offshore outsourcing means hiring a company to perform a service from a different part of the world.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 30, 2022

6- Recruit and retain employees. So many people are starting their own businesses that employees are becoming scarce. You may find that a previous employee has started his or her own business and created exactly what you need. Cross-training existing employees will help cover staffing shortages in the interim.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2011

Over the last decade we assumed that once we found repeatable methodologies (Agile and Customer Development , Business Model Design) to build early stage ventures, entrepreneurship would become a “science,” and anyone could do it. Entrepreneurial employees are the talented performers who hear the siren song of a founder’s vision.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 8, 2021

You’ll need money to get all the initial equipment, space, and people required to begin operations. You can hire more salespeople and practice social selling. . It’s going to serve as your central hub of operations – and the centerpiece of all your promotional channels. . Adaptability/Agility .

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

2- It can affect team communication Photo Credit: Andre Oentoro It's hard to qualify employees doing only bare minimum tasks into engaged employees. This attitude of quiet quitting or work-to-rule will also make it hard for managerial positions to make decisions, especially when they have to motivate employees with low engagement.

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

2- It can affect team communication Photo Credit: Andre Oentoro It's hard to qualify employees doing only bare minimum tasks into engaged employees. This attitude of quiet quitting or work-to-rule will also make it hard for managerial positions to make decisions, especially when they have to motivate employees with low engagement.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

When & Whom should you hire? when is the right time to hire your first sales employee? agile sales process? how should a VC do due diligence on sales operations? 14:18 Your first hire should be someone who’s hungry and willing to work. 15:00 Hire somebody who will punch above their weight class.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 3, 2019

The premise is simple; operate with all your leaders and employees working remotely, sometimes all over the world, to cut costs and broaden your potential employee pool. Wider hiring options. Companies that operate fully remotely don’t need to restrict their hiring options to any one local area.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

He just hired Meg Whitman. With fewer than 10 employees but almost $2-billion dollars in the bank, they plan on jumping right in. Startups wrote business plans, generated expansive 5-year forecasts and executed (hired, spent and built) to the plan. the ex-CEO of HP and eBay, as CEO of NewTV. And it may work. The result?

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Steve Blank

MARCH 15, 2017

When organizations are small (startups, small teams in companies and government agencies) early employees share a mission (why they come to work, what they need to do while they are at work, and how they will know they have succeeded). It wasn’t that I had somehow inherited dumb employees. We hired union laborers to do that.

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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.” Managing access is essentially finding and eliminating “loose ends” in your operation. Set the responsibilities.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

MARCH 19, 2020

While it currently handles 5 users just fine (you and four other employees), would you be able to drop in a replacement router and support extra users with ease, or are there processes that would prevent you from doing so? By embracing a cloud-based workflow, your business will be far more agile and resistant to disruptions.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

As a business consultant, I see many different employee cultures, from exciting and motivational, to dysfunctional and non-productive. Culture change is especially sensitive to a consistent message from leaders, who may be focused on day-to-day challenges, and a fixed operating style.

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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. Account hacking: It just takes one employee to fall victim to a phishing or spear phishing attack for the entire company’s data to be breached. The possibilities are endless and detrimental to one’s business.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 13, 2021

At Buttercloth for example, we pivoted early during the pandemic, hiring out-of-work salon workers to help make fashionable Face Masks which we gave to customers. As a result the transition to remote was relatively painless but this meant managing every employee as if they are offshore. 8-Stay agile. Photo Credit: Jimmy Chebat.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 26, 2022

To overcome these challenges, leaders will need to keep people at the center of our conversations, and organizations will need to help their employees build emotional intelligence and expert people skills. Prezi hired the former director of product from Pixar to build a more cinematic video meeting experience.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 15, 2020

Make sure someone is managing people and operations. Very few entrepreneurs can play both roles, so find a partner or hire an integrator to help. For the business to prosper, every employee, and your customers, must know and relate to your core values, such as product excellence, care for the environment, and personal integrity.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 26, 2020

by Hema Crockett and Jamie Jacobs, co-founders of Gig Talent and authors of “ Designing Exceptional Organizational Cultures: How to Develop Companies where Employees Thrive “ We’re seeing it happen day by day. In addition, employees have had to learn how to navigate a new and unfamiliar structure.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Microsoft left the 20 th century owning over 95% of the operating systems that ran on computers (almost all on desktops). The best are agile and know how to pivot – make a substantive change to the business model while or before their market has shifted. And that brings us to Apple, Tim Cook and the Apple board.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Microsoft left the 20 th century owning over 95% of the operating systems that ran on computers (almost all on desktops). The best are agile and know how to pivot – make a substantive change to the business model while or before their market has shifted. And that brings us to Apple, Tim Cook and the Apple board.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

MAY 31, 2020

The Coronavirus pandemic has underlined the importance of being agile in the world of business. Some employees might have benefited from spending more time at home and having more control of their schedule, and company owners could potentially reduce expenses by adopting a more flexible model. Embracing Technology.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 16, 2020

It could be more revenue, hiring clients or launching a new product or service, but every new year is an exciting time because it’s ripe with opportunity. 4- Remain agile as a brand. For 2021, I want to remain agile and understand our industry’s changes to apply them to our business decisions and ensure growth this coming year.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 27, 2021

This number sequence is three days in the physical office, two days where employees work remotely from home, and then two days off. It is a nod to how employees were able to successfully embrace working from home during the pandemic: working remote and from home five days a week. Being agile, nimble, and quick.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Operating across varied industries, Fractional CMOs offer a fresh, tailored approach, helping businesses to be more agile, adaptive, and strategic in their planning Questions I ask Nicole Bernard [00:46] What exactly is a fractional CMO? [14:11] You're an employee even though you're not. This is John Jantsch. Yes, exactly.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 16, 2016

In business, growth is a big deal, especially when you think about this: Most businesses cease operations and shutter their doors before ever really hitting their stride. But by year 10, just one-third remain in operation. According to an American Express survey , about 75 percent of business owners plan to grow their enterprises.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

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. What’s more, outsourcing projects and ongoing operations to offshore teams on a contract basis is a more flexible model that’s easy to scale. Create a cohesive team.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

In fact, it was only 7 years ago that Apple shipped its first iPhone and Google introduced its Android operating system. Some companies use a suggestion box, others like Google give employees 20% of their time to work on their own projects. To manage these employees companies create metrics to control, measure and reward execution.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 4, 2013

The school was grown out of the need of many local startups looking to scale and hire employees, but were not sure where to look. “We’re Right now, education doesn’t prepare people to be great employees for small companies.”. Growing Out Of TechStars. Growing Out Of TechStars. five days a week.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 8, 2019

Now, whether your company has five employees or 500, you have access to BI software that can provide key insights , save your company time, and predict what’s coming next on your professional agenda. Stay Agile. Predictive analytics, though, positions you ahead of the agile curve. Analyzing Customer Experience.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

From automating your administration processes to streamlining your digital marketing efforts, there are so many technology hacks which can really improve the way you’re operating, and free up more time and headspace for you to concentrate on what you do best. Get Some Virtual Assistance. Up Your Profile.

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Mike Michalowicz

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

These are individuals who are truly steering the pack with their excellence in operations, experience, and revolutionary ideas. They are unable to hire the best internal staff, they are unable to pay payroll taxes, and they are unable to invest in the development of the company.

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

MAY 22, 2019

The Benefits of Innovation Training for Operational Employees. Why is it that organizations don’t invest in training operational employees? Don’t this large group of employees deserve a Brown Bag Innovation Training? And management of operations is all about control. — and their jobs.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

What we do is try to help make sure that the way of working—the operating system, the culture, the organization's design—is well-matched to that challenge. Because right now we mostly operate on a factory model from a hundred years ago, which is all about the linear. And so would legions of employees.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 17, 2014

Use it to manage the hiring process, to keep track of investment and fundraising projects, to manage deals, and much more. Of course, if you’re operating a business, it’s not always a good idea to work in a bubble. Take a look at Palo Alto Software employee profiles: Noah Parsons and Josh Cochrane. hiveage.com.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

APRIL 12, 2023

This will likely reinvigorate the real estate market, but it could also provide more opportunities for smaller companies to secure commercial space for business operations. Write down all of the things that will bring the office back into good condition, then think about what equipment or services you’ll need to hire.

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