Board Effect

MARCH 22, 2022

The pandemic revealed just how innovative and agile community banks could be as they moved swiftly to adapt their operating strategies and continue serving the new needs of their customers. Technology will help your bank to be adaptable, innovative, and agile no matter what the future brings.

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Community Technical Review Agile Non-Compete 98

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Many have disappeared, and others have forgotten how to be agile and innovative. It’s the right way to get money without giving up too much equity or control of your business. The large investment amounts preferred by VCs are no longer needed to launch winners. Some VC firms are bogged down by their own weight.

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Angel Investor Venture Capital Silicon Valley Portfolio 342

Agile VC

DECEMBER 4, 2014

As a result, one of the trickier things co-founders tackle is determining the equity split amongst the founding group of individuals. Across both the startups I’ve personally been involved in (PayPal and LinkedIn) and the startups in which I’ve been an investor, I’ve seen a broad range of co-founder equity splits.

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Cofounder Equity Founder Sweat Equity 173

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.

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Agile Differentiation Lead Generation Social Media 321

Gust

OCTOBER 29, 2014

For the City, including the de Blasio administration and NYCEDC, the partnership has yielded an enterprise level online platform, a private sector team dedicated to accountability and agile, ongoing improvements, and most importantly an invaluable resource for accelerating the economic development of the region.

Early Stage 133

Early Stage Technical Review New York Deal Flow 133

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Maybe you are more comfortable going slow, with limited resources, or aiming high and giving up equity. Commitment, tenacity, and agility are key in this stage. Landing investments and backing requires a new level of confidence, communication, and risk. The test – iterate and pivot, based on market feedback.

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Entrepreneur Silicon Valley Incubator Merger 348

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 19, 2020

Many have disappeared, and others have forgotten how to be agile and innovative. It’s the right way to get money without giving up too much equity or control of your business. The large investment amounts preferred by VCs are no longer needed to launch winners. Some VC firms are bogged down by their own weight.

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Angel Investor Venture Capital Silicon Valley Startup 314

Steve Blank

JUNE 12, 2020

All the teams used the Mission Model Canvas , (videos here ) Customer Development and Agile Engineering to build Minimal Viable Products, but all of their journeys were unique. Recognizing the ability of these teams to produce real results, 38 members of the venture and private equity community dialed in to these presentations.

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Oakland Asia Lean Video 301

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2013

You may know how much to pay in cash or equity for your new VP Engineering. The Agile Board. And you can often throw in a separate action like approving stock-option grants, getting approval for CAPEX spend, discussing fund raising timing – whatever. Always seek input. But asking your board will keep them engaged.

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Advisory Board CTO Hire Fractional CTO Los Angeles 365

YoungUpstarts

JULY 14, 2015

It may seem counterintuitive but the best way to measure their commitment to your mission is to ask them to invest within the company for equity. Chances are, you’re excited because a few short months ago, you couldn’t get anyone to collaborate, much less join the team, but now that you’ve got buzz, how do you gauge their commitment?

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

Once you decide your brand strategy, you should stay the course to build brand equity. Every touchpoint is an opportunity to build or subtract brand equity from your brand. The brand strategy has some roots. However, don’t be afraid to pivot when change is needed.). The marketing strategy is continuously in flux. Image source.

Marketing 128

Marketing Campaign Software Review Tulsa 128

Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

In spite of this, private equity funds have used the rallying cry of efficiency to hijack corporate strategy and loot the profits that historically would have been reinvested into research and development and new products. We legalized robbing the corporate treasury. Act Like a Startup.

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Private Equity Metrics China Intellectual Property 325

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 8, 2019

You may start with prototype products, but you need rock-solid processes for successful growth and agility. Build your brand equity and relationships with customers. These days, brand equity means relationships with more customers, and a more memorable overall experience. Hire the best people and continually upgrade your team.

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Angel Investor Equity Leadership Demand 220

crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 25, 2019

Logos that use a wolf in their design demonstrate a ferocity, agility, and clever edge that work especially well for sports-related logos. For companies eager to join memorable concepts with their businesses, symbols can create brand equity. The wolf is often used to show independence, freedom, the wild, strength, and guardianship.

Design 88

Design Technical Review Due Diligence Phoenix 88

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 19, 2012

In a career that has moved from GE to NBC Universal and back to GE, she has brought technological innovation and agile business techniques to two of the US’s biggest legacy corporations. Beth is Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer at GE, but her work defies the standard understanding of big corporate business.

Lean 167

Lean Saudi Arabia Startup Technical Review 167

Steve Blank

MARCH 4, 2014

These groups are adapting or adopting the practices of startups and accelerators – disruption and innovation rather than direct competition, customer development versus more product features, agility and speed versus lowest cost. KPI’s and processes are the root cause of corporations’ inability to be agile and responsive innovators.

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IRR Startup Business Model Agile 335

Steve Blank

JUNE 11, 2009

Agile – you may find the real opportunities for your company was somewhere else. This means you still need to have a resilient personality, and be agile. And you’ll still need to have a resilient and agile personality, as new customer and product opportunities will appear and change your work. How quickly will you recover?

Cofounder 219

Cofounder Founder Silicon Valley Technical Cofounder 219

The Equity Kicker

MAY 7, 2013

When our companies started switching from ‘waterfall’ to ‘agile’ development methodologies we went from having detailed pictures of how products were going to evolve (albeit with delivery risk) to little visibility of what new features would emerge and when.

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Development Team Review Business Plan Agile Operations 94

Board Effect

AUGUST 14, 2023

Cybersecurity risks, requirements for climate change and environmental mitigation, and diversity and equity policies and practices are all part of an increasingly complex oversight job. Smaller boards may be more agile.” More agile, yes. The digital transformation organizations are undergoing also poses risks and opportunities.

Agile 52

Agile Government Equity Leadership 52

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 26, 2013

The program pays scientists $50,000 to attend the program and takes no equity. It’s curriculum is built on a framework of business model design, customer development and agile engineering – and its emphasis on evidence, Lessons Learned versus demos, makes it the worlds most advanced accelerator. in Science or Nature.

Lean 262

Lean Washington Incubator Agile 262

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 27, 2014

Many have disappeared, and others have forgotten how to be agile and innovative. It’s the right way to get money without giving up too much equity or control of your business. The large investment amounts preferred by VCs are no longer needed to launch winners. Some VC firms are bogged down by their own weight.

Angel Investor 260

Angel Investor Silicon Valley Startup Portfolio 260

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

Yet many entrepreneurs rely on expensive outside services and outside money, rather than do the networking for a co-founder or two who have the right skills to work for equity. Creative and determined entrepreneurs always find ways to get people to work for equity, barter services or share later revenue rather than pay cash up front.

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Bootstrapping Cofounder Equity Agile 120

Agile VC

OCTOBER 23, 2012

And even if they wanted the index return, there is essentially no way to buy (or sell) a broad-based basket of VC funds in the way you can trade the S&P 500 or Russell 2000 or other public equity index. What about fund of funds (FoF), you ask? Aren’t they a form of bundled investment into the VC asset class?

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LP Accredited Investor Carried Interest Portfolio 176

Agile VC

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

But if you read the whole article you glean more insight… the entire public equity markets have sunk in the last 3-4 months. This is clearly true and obviously sucks for any investors who bought these shares in the offering and currently hold them. What will happen for the startup IPO market?

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IPO Marketing Silicon Valley Technical Review 100

ReadWriteStart

MAY 30, 2022

Sometime in your future, an investor will offer you money in return for equity. In this article, you’ll learn how bootstrapping makes you a better business – a leaner, smarter, more agile company that can roll with the punches. Then you need to retain the lion’s share of equity. Will you be ready? You might even ask for it.

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Bootstrapping Startup Equity Silicon Valley 147

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 22, 2016

While they can not expect to be able to move with the speed and agility of a young company, big companies need to be sure they are always taking a fresh, outside-looking-in view of their organizations, and not simply resting on their laurels. Still, established companies need to take a page from start-ups.

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Private Equity Miami Equity Early Stage 100

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 14, 2009

Unlike other incubator-led programs, this workshop is open to anyone who wants to learn, and it does not require companies take investment or give out equity. We changed our model to B2B and adopted Agile around 2002. This shift allowed us to crank out working software quickly as a service. Expo SF (May.

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Lean San Francisco Continuous Deployment Software Review 60

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

agile engineering. They don’t ask for equity and charge just enough to cover the costs of pizza and the room rental. I teach potential founders a hands-on, experiential class called the Lean LaunchPad at Berkeley, Stanford, Columbia and Caltech. customer development. Sign up here. The Lean LaunchPad Educators Course.

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Open Source Silicon Valley Lean Customer Development 335

The Startup Lawyer

MARCH 17, 2012

You’re on a big beast, but your lack of agility will prevent you from scoring. Even if a startup compensates the dev shop with equity or cash + equity, the amount of equity will not likely be enough to get the dev shop to devote the time, effort, and TLC that a true technical co-founder would.

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Cofounder Vesting Equity Agile 92

Steve Blank

JULY 2, 2015

military can work together – for access to advanced technology and to learn how to move with agility, speed and urgency. Prior to that, he worked for the Industrial Bank of Japan and General Electric specializing in deliberative trading, private equity investment, and post merger integration.

Channel 120

Channel Japan Bosnia Silicon Valley 120

SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers Technology Roles in Startups Want to Know the Difference Between a CTO and a VP Engineering? If you are on the lower complexity end, the key is defining small chunks of work that can be done quickly by a developer.

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Technical Cofounder Technical Review CTO Hire Fractional CTO 338

Altgate

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

For example, you can barter for a service or you can negotiate payment terms or even equity for service. The key is to get the outsourced team locked in for the long term and to build your own lean/agile culture. To that I say baloney. Even without cash you have many ways to outsource. You can often pursue a hybrid solution.

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Software Review Offshore Startup Boston 65

This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 1, 2010

Content companies, for example, should be able to amass traffic and sell advertising on a bootstrapped budget before they come close to seeking equity financing—because you can, and because that’s the market expectation and that’s what your competitors are already doing. Do you have a Bose radio at home? How about doing what Gilt Groupe did?

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New York City New York Startup Burn Rate 113

Up and Running

JUNE 23, 2015

“It took an enormous investment of sweat equity on both our parts,” Allyson admits. Also a favorite around Palo Alto Software, this is a book that highlights a path for startup success, focusing on agility, tracking the right metrics and KPIs, and adapting to a changing business environment before problems become overwhelming.

Cofounder 60

Cofounder Sweat Equity Social Media Business Model 60

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Strategy expert, Gary Fox , defines growth marketing as: “An agile and adaptive marketing methodology that focuses on how to get, grow and keep customers.”. Brand equity is the reason people choose Coca-Cola over Pepsi and Google over Bing. If not, brand equity is your strongest asset. Establishing strong brand identity.

Product 142

Product Marketing Software Review Social Media 142

SoCal CTO

APRIL 28, 2014

Other Topics Covered I also covered topics that are covered more thoroughly in the following posts: Document Your MVP for a Developer.

Technical Cofounder 280

Technical Cofounder Developer Fractional CTO CTO Hire 280

Steve Blank

JUNE 2, 2011

A revolution has taken hold as customer development and agile engineering reinvent the Startup process. The result – an instant technology cluster – with equity at a fraction of Silicon Valley prices. There is nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come. Victor Hugo. When The Boardroom is Bits. Now they can.

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Silicon Valley Business Model Early Stage Venture Capital 281