Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

The key elements of leadership in a company, both individual and organizational, are less tangible, but very critical in setting a market value for investment, acquisition, or going public. In the investment community, these leadership elements are often called “goodwill.” Execution leadership. Leadership brand development.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

As a business and entrepreneur advisor, I have no trouble getting owners and managers to agree that change is happening faster and faster in the consumer and technology world, requiring them to keep their business more agile , just to keep up. Crisis-driven agility is not enough today.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 13, 2021

We asked entrepreneurs and business owners about the tough lessons they have learned in 2020. #1- We have taken time as a community and leadership team to reflect and set short and long-term goals and build programs to support and grow member success over time. 8-Stay agile. 1- Balance is key. Photo Credit: Calista Redmond.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 12, 2019

Most entrepreneurs are quick to assert to potential investors that their product or solution will kill the competition, but unfortunately your opinion alone is not enough to convince most experienced investors. Past leadership success is definitely a competitive advantage. Promote any inside relationships or customer base.

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Steve Blank

MAY 29, 2019

Innovators are not entrepreneurs. My contribution has been, “Why don’t we design classes more closely modeled to what innovators and entrepreneurs actually do.” The only hard part about it, is to get well-defined problems from sponsors in the local city or government agency that you offer to students.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

Last May, I shared the news that long-time Lean Startup advocates Brant Cooper and Patrick Vlaskovits were working on a new book called The Lean Entrepreneur featuring illustrations by FAKEGRIMLOCK. Social entrepreneurs take note!) Lastly, I wanted to share with you the foreword I wrote for The Lean Entrepreneur.

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NZ Entrepreneur

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Whether you’re a budding entrepreneur, an established entrepreneur, or somewhere in between, when you’re developing new products and solutions it can be helpful to have a PhD researcher on your innovation team, write Associate Professor Mary Tate and Dr Ivano Bongiovanni.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

MARCH 2, 2023

Interestingly, this weight loss journey is similar to the entrepreneur’s strategy for building and growing a lean business. Through this refine and test approach, entrepreneurs minimize wasting resources – like time and money – and continue to improve their products and services while increasing efficiencies and decreasing cycle times.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Being an entrepreneur or business owner has its share of ups and downs. While the downs can be pretty low the ups always seem to triumph for a true entrepreneur at heart. Milestones are what entrepreneurs and business owners work towards. To be a successful entrepreneur, one can never standstill. 1- Freedom with my time.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 6, 2009

If you’re an entrepreneur, ESL is the most important company you’ve never heard of. Forty years before Agile Development methodologies became popular, ESL had analysts from its &# customer&# sitting side-by-side with ESL engineers designing new equipment together. If you think the Cold War turned out the right side up (i.e.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

To an entrepreneur or small business owner, achieving a project management certification may seem unnecessary. Agile is widely using in software development and is especially suitable for projects where requirements are uncertain at the start. Governance themes. What’s the point of being certified? Transformational flow.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 25, 2015

I’ve spent this year working with corporations and government agencies that are adopting and adapting Lean Methodologies. We were once a scrappy, agile and feared organization with a “can-do” attitude. The biggest surprise for me was getting schooled on how extremely difficult it is to be an innovator inside a company of executors.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 19, 2012

Smart entrepreneurs are making changes now, to be more agile in defining strategy, making organizational changes, and analyzing markets for change. Look for new volatility, caused by inflation or deflation, new government regulations, and of course new technology and even more determined competitors. Eliminate deadwood.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 18, 2011

Smart entrepreneurs are making changes now, to be more agile in defining strategy, making organizational changes, and analyzing markets for change. Look for new volatility, caused by inflation or deflation, new government regulations, and of course new technology and even more determined competitors. Eliminate deadwood.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 4, 2011

I did a keynote on innovation hubs at the newly created DoFuture program , spoke at Santiago’s Startup Weekend on Customer and Agile Development, and at a Conference in Patagonia supported by the Ministry of Economy’s Innovation Division. There seemed to be very few who knew how to coach entrepreneurs and to build companies.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 17, 2011

Not only is the private sector suffering, but huge budget deficits mean the government sector is feeling the pain as well. Yes, budget battles in state and local governments have led to extreme, never-before-seen cuts in education budgets — thousands of teacher layoffs and the slashing of music, athletic, gifted, and other programs.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 11, 2008

To an early observer, it would have seemed obvious that Route 128 had all the advantages: a head start, more government and military funding, and far more established companies. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Two Ways to Hold Entrepreneurs Accountable (for Ha.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2010

Smart entrepreneurs are making changes now, to be more agile in defining strategy, making organizational changes, and analyzing markets for change. Look for new volatility, caused by inflation or deflation, new government regulations, and of course new technology and even more determined competitors. Eliminate deadwood.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 13, 2010

These posts and videos are about design, startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Infographic on entrepreneurs’ state of mind in 2010 – [link]. Why Startups are Agile and Opportunistic – Pivoting the Business Model – [link]. – [link]. – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 13, 2010

These posts and videos are about design, startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Infographic on entrepreneurs’ state of mind in 2010 – [link]. Why Startups are Agile and Opportunistic – Pivoting the Business Model – [link]. – [link]. – [link].

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Steve Blank

APRIL 7, 2009

But what I remind them is that great grades and successful founders/technology entrepreneurs have at best a zero correlation (and anecdotal evidence suggests that the correlation may actually be negative.) You don’t get grades for having resiliency, curiosity, agility, resourcefulness, pattern recognition and tenacity.

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NZ Entrepreneur

APRIL 8, 2020

Here in New Zealand we are two weeks into alert Level Four, whereby schools and non-essential businesses have closed their premises – a nationwide lockdown measure by the Government to curb the spread of the virus. For a small business guide to the government’s economic stimulus package, check out this infographic.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 19, 2013

His article (and the follow-up published in October ) did a brilliant job of showcasing the mind-sets of hip young entrepreneurs (the type who wear trendy nerd-glasses and slouchy jeans) and hot Flux-friendly companies like Nike, Mashable, and Foursquare. Markets, governments, and cultures are shifting. But what about the rest of us?

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 5, 2014

A strong soft edge makes a company resilient and agile — even in the face of the occasional C-suite disagreement. He is also the publisher of Forbes magazine, where he writes a column, Innovation Rules, known for its witty assessment of business and leadership issues.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 12, 2012

What can entrepreneurs learn from politicians? While rejecting the negative approach we see so often in politics, entrepreneurs can and should learn from those politicians who compete by emphasizing the values they represent, the superiority of their ideas, and the benefits that come with their service. Politicians adjust.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 15, 2009

The reality is that independent electric vehicle startups will win over time (closer to the customer, more agile, etc.) As part of this spin out I’d make sure the Government also supports the nascent U.S. As I said, I am far from an expert in the auto industry, government bailouts or other related big “businesses”.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 15, 2015

We just love sharing articles about fonts, logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, economics and other interesting stuff! How To Avoid Agility. Proof The Time Is Right For The Government To Approve Same-Sex Marriage crowdspring.co/1ETu8RF. 1KQ05fU.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

The truth is that the.NET community, outside of the thought leadership at Microsoft and a few outliers (e.g. Do you “entrepreneurs” really think a guy or gal that can compile Linux on a bicycle wants to write a secure payment processor on an iPhone, or a Flash app that runs on every browser? StackOverflow), is anemic.

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