Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2010

There are few courses which teach aspiring entrepreneurs the skills (business models, customer and agile development, design thinking, etc.) We’ll build the class around the business model / customer development / agile development solution stack. The end result is not a PowerPoint slide deck for a VC presentation.

Wiki 316

Wiki Lean Management Business Model 316

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 20, 2008

When I first encountered agile software techniques, in the form of extreme programming , I thought I had found the answer. I explained it to people this way: agile lets you make the trade-offs visible to whole company, so that they can make informed choices. Even worse, agile wasnt really helping me ship higher quality software.

Software Review 164

Software Review Engineer Management Technical Review 164

Steve Blank

MARCH 11, 2010

First Team Presentation – What’s the Idea and How Large is the Opportunity. Metrics That Matter (Business Model Metrics). Accounting Basics and Multi-stage Finance. Final Team Presentation – What’s the Business Model? Presenting the Project. And here was another presentation in a very different market.

Intellectual Property 257

Intellectual Property Business Model Customer Development Distribution 257

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

Each brave presenter gets five minutes and 20 slides—which advance automatically every 15 seconds. For instance, Brant Cooper will lead you through applying Lean Startup in HR, IT and finance teams. On the evening of December 8, Ignite Lean Startup kicks off the conference.

Continuous Deployment 162

Continuous Deployment Norway Lean Analytics 162

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 26, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, April 26, 2009 Product development leverage Leverage has once again become a dirty word in the world of finance, and rightly so. Startup Visa update ► February (5) Kiwi lean startup + Australia next Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business) Beware of Vanity Metrics (for Harvard Business Rev.

Product Development 88

Product Development Developer San Francisco Product 88

ConversionXL

AUGUST 4, 2020

You do CX a disservice if you focus only on metrics like NPS. You’re impartial to the emotional labor the design team put into redesigning the homepage and unsympathetic to the rationale that finance gives for sending buyers through a convoluted payment process. waterfall, agile , etc.)? Finance team.

SQL 117

SQL Software Review Agile Metrics 117

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Army’s Rapid Equipping Force on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan finding and deploying technology solutions against agile insurgents. The framework has the team talking not just to potential customers but also with people responsible for legal, support, contracting, policy, and finance. Newell ran the U.S.

Community 237

Community Silicon Valley Technical Review Incubator 237

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Unfortunately in early stage startups the drive for financing hijacks the corporate DNA and becomes the raison d’etre of the company. When you are presenting to a VC there are two conversations going on – the one you are presenting and the one that investors are thinking as they are listening to your presentation.

Customer Development 267

Customer Development Developer Customer Silicon Valley 267

Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 21, 2010

This is why so many small businesses can be financed with simple bank loans; the level of risk and uncertainty is well enough understood that a reasonably intelligent loan officer can assess its prospects. Fundamentally, the lean startup is a methodology for coping with uncertainty and unknowns with agility, poise, and ruthless efficiency.

San Francisco 168

San Francisco Startup Lean Continuous Deployment 168

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Prescriptive analytics The digital analytics metrics you need to know How to use analytics to improve marketing campaigns Define your mission, goals, and KPIs Set key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure marketing performance What to look for in a digital analytics product 9 tools for your digital analytics stack 1. Descriptive analytics.

Analytics 106

Analytics Metrics Channel Campaign 106

Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

Step 5: Get financed. In fact, when you consider the fact that VCs finance just one or two ventures out of every 100 pitches they see, you might be better off bootstrapping it to begin with. Additional resources to help you finance your business: How to Get Your Business Funded. Step 8: Track your metrics.

Software Review 74

Software Review Software Delaware Forecast 74

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2017

While 20th century metrics were revenue and profit, today it’s common for companies to get acquired for their user base. Incubators and accelerators like Y-Combinator have institutionalized experiential training in best practices (product/market fit, pivots, agile development, etc.); 4. Founder-friendly VCs.

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Founder Technical Review CTO Hire IPO 274

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 11, 2008

Among those: plentiful financing and nerds , a culture that celebrates both failure and success, and an ethos of openness and sharing. Startup Visa update ► February (5) Kiwi lean startup + Australia next Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business) Beware of Vanity Metrics (for Harvard Business Rev. Expo SF (May.

Silicon Valley 68

Silicon Valley San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment 68

crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Your brand lives in everyday interactions your company has with its prospects and customers, including the images you share, the messages you post on your website, the content of your marketing materials, your presentations and booths at conferences, and your posts on social networks. Start by defining what metrics are important.

Marketing 162

Marketing Charlotte Naming Design 162

The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 8, 2013

I also want to explain that it is possible to have a truly agile work environment based on small, autonomous teams. The rest are providing central services like marketing, customer care and localization (20%) or others like HR, PR, Finance, Business Analytics and teams that maintain simple services for persistence of games.

Software Review 146

Software Review Agile Analytics SCRUM 146

Occam's Razor

DECEMBER 9, 2009

They also tend to generate inefficiencies (everyone's doing their own thing after all) be it with tools or work or metrics definitions or testing platforms or… Decentralized organizations optimize for a local maxima and it happens all the time that while individual divisions in a company win, that the company as a whole loses.

Analytics 95

Analytics Framework Web Lean 95

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 7, 2009

In the case of an entrepreneur pitching for finance, its the same fear that has them putting on a facade and not comfortable in what they do and dont know that will see them a long way off getting funded. Obviously they're not voicing their objections that way, but it isn't hard to read between the lines. Expo SF (May.

San Francisco 131

San Francisco Continuous Deployment Software Review Lean 131

Occam's Razor

DECEMBER 12, 2016

In a world when your work will never be done, how do you assess that the core things necessary are present? What guarantees that agility and innovation are present in your analytics practice? What one critical metric will help you clearly measure performance for each strategy above? You plus Finance plus CMO.].

Analytics 60

Analytics DC Software Review Leadership 60

Steve Blank

MARCH 26, 2019

The team presentations are at the end of this post. The class was unique in that it was 1) team-based, 2) experiential, 3) lean-driven (hypothesis testing/business model/customer development/agile engineering). It’s the same, but different. We just finished the 8 th annual Lean LaunchPad class at Stanford. Class Velocity/Depth.

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Lean Business Model Balance Sheet Video 254

Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Don’t test for a vanity metric. One of my solutions is to send an email out to Finance, Logistics, Customer Support, a wide diversity of employees. There was a big presentation to go with the idea. But, the ability to see the big picture and demonstrate agility is a necessary skill to build for long-term success.

Analytics 101

Analytics Programming Global Campaign 101

Occam's Razor

JANUARY 9, 2012

It is a lot easier to predict the present. Rather, I'm going to share a clump of realities/rules garnered from the present to help ready you for the predictable near future. The web demands immense agility and flexibility from every company. Fill it with the best web metrics to measure success.

Marketing 140

Marketing Analytics Web Channel 140

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 19, 2009

But lots of lawyers and finance kids in New York thought they had stable jobs that would make them rich. But lots of lawyers and finance kids in New York thought they had stable jobs that would make them rich. Thats an awesome responsibility and it certainly makes me feel rich about everything I do. How about, living in a world.

San Francisco 111

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment DC 111

Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 28, 2009

Compounding is not a process that most people find intuitive, and thats as true in engineering as it is in finance, so it requires a lot of encouragement in the early days to stay the course. Labels: agile , product development , Test-driven development 11comments: William Pietri said. Its a version of the law of compounding interest.

San Francisco 79

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment DC 79

mashable.com

MAY 24, 2011

This is especially true for mobile commerce sites, where the conversion rates between browsers and purchasers can vary dramatically based on the platform and the method of presentation. Discovery by social and webapp html5 is more agile and less icon-find-item-search.

Mobile 90

Mobile Web Social Media Software Review 90

ConversionXL

APRIL 3, 2019

You stop focusing on presenting “numbers” and present information. Talk to your finance people: What performance indicators get attention? There are tons of metrics you can monitor: Conversion rate; Bounce rate ; Click-through rate ; Pageviews; Lead captures; Purchase conversion rate. your users are not psychics.

Artificial Inteligence 114

Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Metrics SEO 114

Cracking the Code

APRIL 13, 2007

The post-internet sales force evolved into a more agile tiered engine, starting with leads generated on the website, followed by a telesales team that would further qualify the lead and assigned it to the proper sales team (telesales for SMB or direct sales for Enterprise). SaaS business metrics: why are they different? Yahoo Finance.

Software Review 48

Software Review Internet Software Technical Review 48

steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

Github - Free public repositories, collaborator management, issue tracking, wikis, downloads, code review, graphs Pivotal Tracker – Agile project management tool that enables real time collaboration. WebSequenceDiagrams - sketch sequence diagrams.

Software Review 110

Software Review Startup Silicon Valley Analytics 110

Agile VC

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

This past Friday Square also filed an initial pricing range of $11-13/sh which would give them an enterprise value less than their last round of financing ($6B post-money). Square really democratized “card present” (e.g. So let’s start with What Square’s Business Looks Like Today : As we all know, Square helps small offline (e.g.

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IPO .Net Revenue Acquisition 165

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Videos/presentations. Presentation tools. Startup Metrics for Pirates â?? SaaS Metrics Tutorial â?? Agile project management tool that enables real time collaboration. simple way to make timelines for presentations. Agile project management. agile product management. Agile eLearning.

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