View from Seed

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

Isaac Cambron is co-founder and CTO of Zensight.co , whose pre-launch product enables sales reps to find and use their best content to close more deals. The main driver for that is the degree to which it will impact how the rest of your software is written. The scope you want is “when will I have something that actually works?”

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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. No,” my friend replied, sadly shaking his head, “the rest of the board said it sounded like a good idea.”. It Seems Logical.

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SoCal CTO

APRIL 9, 2013

Most of the rest of the post is going to focus more on finding development rather than design firms. Do not fall into the trap of Startups and a Common Misunderstanding in Agile Software Development. They didn''t ask you some of the questions in: 32 Questions Developers Should Ask a Startup Founder. They will give you a quote.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 7, 2020

The classes are built on the Lean Startup methodology: Customer Discovery, Agile Engineering and the Business/Mission Model Canvas. Talking to customers seems like a simple idea, but most founders find it’s one of the hardest things they have to do. The rest of the canvas might be validated with pricelists, spreadsheets, etc.

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Steve Blank

JULY 13, 2021

By 1923, 2/3rds of the courses at Harvard were taught with the case method, and the pattern was set for business education for the rest of the 20th century. Cases and plans are useful for teaching managers of process, not founders. Lean-driven (hypothesis testing/business model/customer development/agile engineering).

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 25, 2011

SLLCONF featured incredible entrepreneurs on stage to put those ideas to rest (watch, for example: Aardvark , Grockit , Dropbox , PBworks ). It may be hard to remember that there was a time when people in the agile software development community thought Lean Startup was incompatible with agile practices.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 2, 2010

As start-ups scale, this agility will be lost unless the founders maintain a consistent investment in that discipline. Read the rest of The Five Whys for Start-Ups. As start-ups scale, this agility will be lost unless the founders maintain a consistent investment in that discipline. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 1, 2019

He is a serial entrepreneur and founder of several successful startups, as well as a consultant to some of the world’s largest organizations. If you get angry or upset, and adopt a victim’s mindset, your little cloud of gloom will spread like a major depression across the rest of the office. Suppress you own emotions and feelings.

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Steve Blank

JULY 25, 2023

Now at Imperial College Business School and Co-Founder of the Wicked Acceleration Labs , Cristobal and I wondered if we could combine the tenets of Lean (get out of the building, build MVPs, run experiments, move with speed and urgency) with the expanded toolset developed by researchers who work on Wicked problems and Systems’ Thinking.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 2, 2008

but rest assured they would be. Its to everyones advantage to let the world think the founders thought of everything. I say this as a founder: the contribution of founders is always overestimated. And funding delays are a big distraction for founders, who ought to be working on their company, not worrying about investors.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 8, 2008

This theory has become so influential that I have called it one of the three pillars of the lean startup - every bit as important as the changes in technology or the advent of agile development. Instead, we do everything possible to validate the founders belief. We dont just abandon the vision of the company at every turn.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

The past year was a wild ride for startups and founders, giving a whole new meaning to the ”rollercoaster” aspect of being an entrepreneur. Patrick Collison , self-made billionaire founder of Stripe. Use agility to your advantage and make speed a team priority. Bill Gates , founder of Microsoft. Team, product, market.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 30, 2019

The closing panel on Day 1 felt like the start of a witty punchline, “A startup founder, a government official, and a venture capitalist walk into a room…”?—?what Can't wait to see what the rest of the day brings! what ensued was an incredibly insightful exchange about the reality of working with each other.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 25, 2010

Read the rest of The Startups Rules of Speed - The Conversation - Harvard Business Review. Read the rest of The Startups Rules of Speed - The Conversation - Harvard Business Review. Will the addition of process kill our innovative culture? Well-functioning teams just dont make these kinds of mistakes, right? Expo SF (May.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 25, 2021

The digital transformation represents a learning curve and skills transformation not only for employers, but for the rest of their teams. Pablo Listingart is the Founder and Executive Director of ComIT , a non-profit organization designed to help people overcome employment barriers and re-introduce themselves to the local market.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 31, 2010

You can read the rest of his posts on his blog : Introduction , Part 1 , Part 2.) You can read the rest of his posts on his blog : Introduction , Part 1 , Part 2.) All I can tell the folks who attended the simulcasts is that I’m not missing either the time or the money. Expo SF (May.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

This startup search process is the business model / customer development / agile development solution stack. When founders discover their assumptions are wrong, as they inevitably will, the result isn’t a crisis , it’s a learning event called a pivot — and an opportunity to update the business model. Lean Launchpad.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 5, 2010

I have personally sold many copies of his book, and continue to recommend it as one of the most important books a startup founder can read. You can easily take from it whatever makes sense for your business, and leave the rest. You can easily take from it whatever makes sense for your business, and leave the rest. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 5, 2008

The product manager was clearly struggling to get results from the rest of the team. Eventually, I hope to get them on a full agile diet, with TDD, scrums, sprints, pair programming, and more. I went through some of this in bringing agile methodologies to my current firm - except that I am the product manager in question at this case.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

If we don't get a certain amount of signups on that splash page, we don't develop the rest of the site becuase they will not have any customer. Stevey's Blog Rants: Good Agile, Bad Agile Learning from Obama: maneuver warfare on the campa. June 22, 2009 6:30 AM Anonymoussaid. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 7, 2010

Read the rest at The Conversation - Harvard Business Review. Read the rest at The Conversation - Harvard Business Review. ► August (2) SXSW Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium ► July (4) Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot Some IPO speculation Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# th.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2008

So if youre new, consider not paying any attention to the rest of this post, and just diving into the archives, if you havent already. Although Catalyst folded with the dot-com crash, Ries continued his entrepreneurial career as a Senior Software Engineer at There.com, leading efforts in agile software development and user-generated content.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 30, 2009

In 2002 I became exposed to the idea of “agile software development&# and subsequently was a first round investor in Rally Software which is now the market leader in Agile application lifecycle management software. Read the rest. Weve got slides , video , audio and twitter commentary. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

This technique rests on three things: identifying the kinds of work that need to get done, creating the right type of teams for each kind, and steering the company by allocating resources among them. Some companies and founders refuse to serve existing customers, and are always lurching from one great idea to the next. Expo SF (May.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 21, 2017

My Mama, the founder of Yuca’s Hut in Los Feliz, CA, didn’t allow a lack of college degrees or a business plan to deter her from launching her dream. I am co founder of GreenPal which has been described as Uber for lawn care. It helps me have the agility to make adjustments on the fly that benefit brands.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 17, 2017

He is a serial entrepreneur and founder of several successful startups, as well as a consultant to some of the world’s largest organizations. If you get angry or upset, and adopt a victim’s mindset, your little cloud of gloom will spread like a major depression across the rest of the office. Suppress you own emotions and feelings.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, September 19, 2009 Support the Startup Founders Visa with a tweet Its been an exhilarating first day here in Washington DC for the Geeks on a Plane tour. We can remedy it by creating a special visa for startup founders. 2gov.org will take care of the rest.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Jacqueline is the f ormer Managing Partner and the Head of Strategy Story Worldwide and current founder of BrandCrudo. She's a former managing partner and the head of strategy for story worldwide and the co founder of Brand Crudo. So you could still be agile and respond. Of course, the rest of the team doesn't agree.

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Agile VC

JANUARY 4, 2012

Founders Hardi Meybaum and Indrek Narusk originally started building the company in their native Estonia before moving to Boston to join the hub of SaaS / CAD software companies located here. In addition to compelling founders, we were drawn to the company by their vision for a professional community for mechanical engineers and designers.

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Steve Blank

MAY 18, 2009

We agreed that all her founding CEOs seemed to have the same set of personality traits – tenacious, passionate, relentless, resilient, agile, and comfortable operating in chaos. What makes an individual a great startup founder (versus an employee) has been something I had been thinking about since I retired.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

Finally, I’ll write about how Eric Ries and the Lean Startup concept provided the equivalent model for product development activities inside the building and neatly integrates customer and agile development. Moreover, since the first CEO was likely to have been one of the founders, the trauma of CEO removal begins. innovation.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 26, 2022

Jacqueline is the f ormer Managing Partner and the Head of Strategy Story Worldwide and current founder of BrandCrudo. She's a former managing partner and the head of strategy for Story Worldwide and the Curve founder of Brand Crudo. So you could still be agile and respond. Of course, the rest of the team doesn't agree.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 29, 2022

Jacqueline is the f ormer Managing Partner and the Head of Strategy Story Worldwide and the current founder of BrandCrudo. She's a former managing partner and the head of strategy for story worldwide and the current founder of brand kudo. So you can still be agile and respond. Of course, the rest of the team doesn't agree.

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blog.simeonov.com

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

I have been thinking a lot recently about how to apply agile development principles to investing and key aspects of startup development such as team building. Both stem from the agile principle of delaying decisions until the last responsible moment. The first post is about agile startup fundraising. Urban legends.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

I teach potential founders a hands-on, experiential class called the Lean LaunchPad at Berkeley, Stanford, Columbia and Caltech. agile engineering. So for the rest of us I put together this Visitors Guide to Silicon Valley. The Founder’s Workbook. The Lean LaunchPad course online. customer development.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 15, 2010

Read the rest here. Read the rest here. ► August (2) SXSW Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium ► July (4) Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot Some IPO speculation Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# th. The visionary’s lament The Superbowl ad test Lo, my 57692 subscribers, who are you?

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Software By Rob

APRIL 8, 2010

Follow me Startups for the Rest of Us. Im a serial web entrepreneur here to share what Ive learned in my 11 years as a self-funded startup founder. Check out my book Like this post? Subscribe via RSS On Twitter? If youre trying to grow your startup youve come to the right place.

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