The Next Web

NOVEMBER 17, 2013

In order to find out, I asked a panel of 12 successful founders from the Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC) the following question: What are the pros/cons of hiring an agency to do development work, vs. having all your technical talent in house? If it’s a one-time project with a completion date, hiring an agency is a good way to go.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 16, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, March 16, 2009 Combining agile development with customer development Today I read an excellent blog post that I just had to share. Jim Murphy is a long-time agile practitioner in startups. But startups sometimes have trouble applying agile successfully.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 6, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, November 6, 2008 Steveys Blog Rants: Good Agile, Bad Agile I thought Id share an interesting post from someone with a decidedly anti-agile point of view. Steveys Blog Rants: Good Agile, Bad Agile : "Google is an exceptionally disciplined company, from a software-engineering perspective.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 4, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, April 4, 2010 Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Kent Beck will give the opening keynote at the Startup Lessons Learned conference on April 23. Labels: sllconf Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Kent Beck will give the opening keynote at the Startup Lessons Learned conference on April 23.

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View from Seed

MAY 14, 2019

A number of blog posts recently have mentioned this, but we seem to be experiencing a rise in repeat founders starting new businesses and raising seed capital. We’re also seeing a wave of folks who were not founders, but were star players among the first 25 folks at a unicorn company also starting new companies.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Jeff Katzenberg has a great track record – head of the studio at Paramount, chairman of Disney Studios, co-founder of DreamWorks and now chairman of NewTV. He just hired Meg Whitman. Startups wrote business plans, generated expansive 5-year forecasts and executed (hired, spent and built) to the plan. The result?

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Being able to hire talented professionals remains a difficult proposition in the current job market, especially when sourcing experienced developers, designers, and project managers. Consider Agile or one of its variants for a flexible approach to building top-shelf mobile apps or interactive websites.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Founders Institute defines pivoting as shifting the business to encompass a new strategy that may entail changing how the entire company functions. Pivoting only works if a business is small and agile and can shift its operations quickly and flawlessly in a different direction. Rebooting The Startup Post-Pandemic.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

The company was going to hire a VP of Marketing. I was agile enough to keep up with innumerable changes and I was changing lots of things myself. Some (like your peers or even the founders) don’t understand it, and others (the VCs) realize it’s not in their interest to let you know. Declare them cultural co-founders.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 10, 2012

I did a presentation recently for a graduate class from The Founder Institute around getting online/mobile products out the door. I LOVED it because, the presenting part was over quickly and we got into specific issues that the founders had in terms of getting things built. CTO Founder - Do they really still need a technical advisor?

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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. Founders fit the definition of a creator: they see something no one else does. George Bernard Shaw.

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The Next Web

MARCH 6, 2014

Here’s a problem I bet every non-technical founder has experienced: the communication gap between what the biz dev team wants and what the tech team thinks they want, and vice versa. It’s disruptive, and for founders, very frustrating to watch. Practice Agile Development. Hire T-Shaped People. Their answers are below.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 25, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, March 25, 2009 The Lean Startup at Agile Vancouver April 21st A surprising number of respondents in the latest Lessons Learned survey hail from one of the flourishing startup hubs in Canada. Combining agile development with customer developm. And when did there get to be 3000 of you?

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 20, 2019

Startups tend to put a premium on being “agile,” but that doesn’t always work – and certainly won’t replace the effective collaboration a business needs to grow. Series B: Hiring and Developing Managers. All startups find themselves struggle with hiring to meet growing demand, leaving most startups scrambling to onboard hires.

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mashable.com

MAY 9, 2011

Hiring the wrong person for key company positions can cost a business thousands — or tens of thousands — of dollars and man hours. This is especially true when it comes to tech companies hiring the wrong chief technology officer. Hire someone well-versed in communication between developers, customers and team members.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 19, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, January 19, 2009 Lean hiring tips In preparing for the strategy series panel this week, I have been doing some thinking about costs. And all of that cost was caused by one activity: hiring. Hiring is no different from any other company process. Sounds a little abstract, though, doesnt it?

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Recently, I’ve been working with a few of our portfolio companies to help them think about how to recruit and interview their first analytics hire. Many founders confuse the two as they both involve lots of numbers. When to make your first analytics hire. Being a data analyst in addition to being the founder is a lot of work?—?you’re

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2010

This post is designed mostly for non-technical founders. You still have some leeway to hire above them if need be. But for non-technical founders let me offer you a definition that you can use when you build a team. As the CEO you can personally help manage deadlines and the Agile process.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 9, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, July 9, 2010 Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# theory of management At any given time, something like four percent of the US population is engaged in some form of new-company-creation. Are we solving the right problem? We can do better by focusing on process instead of personality.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 20, 2023

4- Find the right relationships Photo Credit: Mike Pio Roda “Never leave money on the table” might seem tempting, but it's not always the wisest path for founders and business owners. 5- Hire the experts Photo Credit: Rachel Eigen “You can do it all starting small” — B.S.

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 4, 2016

Most startups’ founding mythologies are full of the same phrases : “hard work,” “agile strategy,” “smart scaling.” Take this article my co-founder Shane Snow wrote for Mashable a few months after we founded Contently. Like a lot of startup founders, I’m a huge nerd. As they say, timing is everything.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

For startups, the entrepreneur and founder is almost always the face of the company. Investors, partners, team members, and customers implicitly value or devalue a startup based on the leader’s physical presence, emotional identity, social skills, intellectual agility, moral values, and past performance in the domain.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

It's the same as going to the gym when you hire a personal trainer. The fact is, that between agile, lean, open-source, teal, and dozens of other philosophies of work out there, there are a lot of principles floating around--a lot of wisdom and aphorisms and ways of thinking and mindsets. Is it complicated? Is it chaotic?

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 25, 2011

The benefits of customer and agile development and minimum features set are continuous customer feedback, rapid iteration and little wasted code. Ironically it becomes the antithesis of agile. He hired an operating exec as the CEO a few years ago. It Seems Logical.

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The Startup Magazine

APRIL 23, 2020

Here’s more from The Startup Magazine Founder Interview series. We interviewed Michel Ruiz, CEO and co-founder of KaviAR Tech , an augmented reality software startup headquartered in Paris. TSM: What is your favorite part of being the founder of KaviAR Tech? KaviAR Tech is a laboratory for augmented reality. Quality control?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 15, 2020

Very few entrepreneurs can play both roles, so find a partner or hire an integrator to help. These are the timeless principles that must guide all hiring, marketing, and execution decisions. Build change agility into all your processes. Your challenge is to hire help just before you reach capacity so you don’t stop growth.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 27, 2022

Hawkes, as the Founder of Growth River consulting, speaks from his experience helping to create high performance organizations around the world. This may require hiring new people, expanding skillsets, and providing coaching to get the high degree of creativity often required. Specifying roles is seen by the team as distributing power.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 31, 2009

The first hint lies in its name; this is a product development model, not a marketing model, not a sales hiring model, not a customer acquisition model, not even a financing model (and we’ll also find that in most cases it’s even a poor model to use to develop a product.) So what’s wrong the product development model? Where Are the Customers?

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SoCal CTO

APRIL 9, 2013

You are looking for someone who cares about the look, but you are hiring the development firm for it''s development skills not its graphic design skills. Do not fall into the trap of Startups and a Common Misunderstanding in Agile Software Development. Are they asking good questions? The firm is less than two years old.

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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. Then, We Leverage Consultants vs. Hiring Full-Time. First, We Think Differently About Talent.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 2, 2022

Tim Sweeney, the founder and CEO of Epic is a long term visionary of our online future and the Metaverse. Tim Sweeney, Epic Games’ founder and CEO. Yuga Labs Pitch Deck: BAYC founders raised $450M from Andreesen Horowitz from Pitch Decks. Here we go! Epic Games. No company has more riding on the Metaverse than Meta.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Why do these founders get to stay around? Because the balance of power has dramatically shifted from investors to founders. VCs competing for unicorn investments have given founders control of the board. Hire a CEO to Go Public. A pre-IPO board usually had two founders, two VCs and one “independent” member.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 16, 2016

By Bryan Miles, CEO and co-founder, Miles Advisory Group, Inc. But entrepreneurs face other concerns that compete with this growth focus, including hiring, maintaining current revenue sources and distinguishing themselves from the competition. Bryan Miles is CEO & co-founder of Miles Advisory Group, Inc. Hell or high water.

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

In the entrepreneurial ecosystem, where agility and adaptability are key, quitting can be particularly detrimental. The key here is that entrepreneurship thrives on enthusiasm and commitment, not just from the founder but from every team member. Thanks to Valev Laube, The VL Studios ! #4- Thanks to Andrew Van Noy, DeepPower Inc. ! #11-

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

In the entrepreneurial ecosystem, where agility and adaptability are key, quitting can be particularly detrimental. The key here is that entrepreneurship thrives on enthusiasm and commitment, not just from the founder but from every team member. Thanks to Valev Laube, The VL Studios ! #4- Thanks to Andrew Van Noy, DeepPower Inc. ! #11-

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Entrepreneur Employee Revenue LLC 107

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2016

The best are agile and know how to pivot – make a substantive change to the business model while or before their market has shifted. When visionary founders depart (death, firing, etc.), Visionary CEOs are not “just” great at assuring world-class execution of a tested and successful business model, they are also world-class innovators.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2016

The best are agile and know how to pivot – make a substantive change to the business model while or before their market has shifted. When visionary founders depart (death, firing, etc.), Visionary CEOs are not “just” great at assuring world-class execution of a tested and successful business model, they are also world-class innovators.

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Azure Business Model Cloud Artificial Inteligence 120