Up and Running

OCTOBER 4, 2017

That’s why it’s smarter to embrace the agile approach and constantly test your idea on the market to learn about the needs and desires of your target. Consumers interested in your product will search your company on Google and social media. Choose the right location. How to avoid premature scaling? Key takeaway.

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Startup Estonia Poland Silicon Valley 115

Steve Blank

JUNE 18, 2013

I wondered if business plans and 5-year forecasts were the right way to plan a startup. It dawned on me that the plans were a symptom of a larger problem: we were executing business plans when we should first be searching for business models. So what would a search process for a business model look like? In 2003 U.C.

Lean 286

Lean Agile Customer Development Business Model 286

Steve Blank

JUNE 18, 2013

I wondered if business plans and 5-year forecasts were the right way to plan a startup. It dawned on me that the plans were a symptom of a larger problem: we were executing business plans when we should first be searching for business models. So what would a search process for a business model look like? In 2003 U.C.

Lean 178

Lean Agile Customer Development Business Model 178

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

If youre trying to design an architecture to maximize agility, how can that work if some people are working in TDD and others not? Ive forecasted the issues you have spoken of without entertaining the thoughts of solutions like you have. But along the way, something strange happened. And what about if deployment takes forever?

CTO 168

CTO Fractional CTO CTO Hire Technical Review 168

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2010

In contrast, startups search for a business model. (Or Or more accurately, startups are a temporary organization designed to search for a scalable and repeatable business model.) There are few courses which teach aspiring entrepreneurs the skills (business models, customer and agile development, design thinking, etc.)

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 10, 2011

The revenue plan had the new product baked into the numbers and it was clear that this division General Manager was going to crater his forecast (happens all the time, nothing new here.) The resulting conversations made us smarter, agile and relentless. What was a surprise was the boldface lies the VP told us at the board meeting.

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Forecast Agile Revenue Founder 264

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). My partner @ LeeHower looks back: [link] 5 days ago Search.

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Term Sheet Silicon Valley Technical Review Social Network 178

Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

While it’s useful to be able to have a sales forecast and expense budget early on, it’s not something you need until you’ve validated your idea. Later you will want to come back and create a proper sales forecast, cash flow forecast, and expense budget. Circle back and create a more detailed forecast.

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Software Review Software Delaware Forecast 74

Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 5, 2009

Companies that reliably fail to make their forecasted numbers are exceptionally prone to “management retooling.&# Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Six streaming locations Interviews ► March (7) New conference website, speakers, agenda Two new scholarship programs for lean startups Speed up or slow down?

San Francisco 102

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment Startup 102

VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

For more about forecasting growth in these uncertain times, check out Sequoia’s “ Adapting to Endure ” presentations published in May 2022. Use agility to your advantage and make speed a team priority. Because the product and market can likely change in the search for product market fit. Team, product, market.

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Founder Startup Valuation Pre-Money Valuation 187

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 13, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, July 13, 2009 The Principles of Product Development Flow If youve ever wondered why agile or lean development techniques work, The Principles of Product Development Flow: Second Generation Lean Product Development by Donald G. Reinertsen is the book for you. Expo SF (May.

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Product Development Developer San Francisco Product 153

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 30, 2008

Get 18 months or more of cash (runway) in the business against a conservative forecast. Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Six streaming locations Interviews ► March (7) New conference website, speakers, agenda Two new scholarship programs for lean startups Speed up or slow down? Act now, act with speed.

Lean 121

Lean San Francisco Continuous Deployment DC 121

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 6, 2011

Most of our management tools, like planning and forecasting, require a long and stable operating history. It enables a company to shift directions with agility, altering plans inch by inch, minute by minute. But what surprised me most about that search was that I learned as much about myself as I did about publishing.

Lean 167

Lean Startup Metrics Private Equity 167

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Brand momentum can be calculated similarly to physical momentum (mass x velocity): Brand momentum = brand mass (your company’s size, reputation, and relevance) x brand velocity (speed of growth, agility in keeping up with industry changes). Take Tesla. Brand visibility.

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Metrics Marketing Campaign Audience 157

Software By Rob

APRIL 7, 2010

Agile Development, meet Agile Business. But the number one question you need to think about when going after this Agile Business approach: At what point is it worth spending the time to truly automate this? 4 Small Business News: Forecasting the Future | Small Business Trends on 04.07.10 at 7:23 pm [.] 5 Rob on 04.07.10

Agile 42

Agile Software Review Wiki Hosting 42

Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Paid Search. Organic Search. You come to the blog on the search phrase "Avinash is awesome," you land on a irrelevant page on this blog, you hit the back button and go back to Bing, you try a different search phrase "Avinash is not awesome," you land on the right page, you love it, you read lots of post, you leave.

Analytics 94

Analytics Web Non-Compete Metrics 94

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 9, 2009

Talking about trends is more about trying to forecast the future, like a guru, sometimes it works, sometimes not. Google was not the first search engine, but it's the one that succeeded. Of course, will be hard to turn in future your free success onto money success, but maybe it´s a to go. About spot trends. all about luck.

San Francisco 94

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment DC 94

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

Because five whys kept turning up a few key metrics that were hard to set static thresholds for, we even had a dynamic prediction algorithm that would make forecasts based on past data, and fire alerts if the metric ever went out of its normal bounds. Wed never heard of five whys, and we had plenty of "agile skeptics" on the team.

Software Review 167

Software Review Technical Review San Francisco Continuous Deployment 167

Steve Blank

JUNE 10, 2010

With venture capital came accountability to board members, forecasts, and other people’s agendas. They were smart enough to realize that IBM’s existing processes and procedures wouldn’t be agile enough to innovate in this new market. All searching for a sustainable business model. More on this later. Lessons Learned.

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Silicon Valley Entrepreneur United States New York City 328

ConversionXL

JULY 17, 2015

” and my CEO is saying, “Yeah, we’re agile. If you’re going to be changing your navigations and search results, integrate it into your back-end system, I think it’s a little bit lightweight for Optimizely. Just really structure the way people can search, can look it up very quickly. Peep: Awesome.

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Video Mobile Conversion Audience 48

Transformify

APRIL 4, 2022

It is clear that the majority of companies, leverage both full-time employees and freelancers, which enables them to increase their agility and flexibility in an unpredictable world. This includes everything from search, verify, engage, manage, track, pay, and rate freelancers, contractors via an end-to-end platform.

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Management IP NDA Agile 98

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

I wondered if business plans and 5-year forecasts were the right way to plan a startup. It dawned on me that the plans were a symptom of a larger problem: we were executing business plans when we should first be searching for business models. So what would a search process for a business model look like?

Lean 317

Lean Georgia Michigan Business Model 317

Steve Blank

MAY 17, 2022

Fusing and making sense of sensor data (detecting threats in optical /SAR imagery, classifying aircraft based on radar returns, searching for anomalies in radio frequency signatures, etc.) History tells us that late adopters fall by the wayside as more agile and opportunistic governments master new technologies. Carpe Diem.

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Artificial Inteligence Software Review Algorithm Technical Review 417

ConversionXL

APRIL 3, 2019

What to do with AI: Predict churn ; Identify which offers to send to an individual; Accelerate innovation; Personalize content; Account-based marketing ; Algorithmic attribution; Forecast future lift; Predict blame. Optimization is by nature agile: CRO yields new data for the team to prove that whatever the organization did was good or bad.

Artificial Inteligence 114

Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Metrics SEO 114