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Ecommerce Trendwatching: How To Find, Follow, and Set Trends

ReadWriteStart

Kearney , for instance, found out that more than a third of US, France, and Germany weekly buyers have already signed up for subscriptions, whereas 12% are still debating this service. Conferences are significant events for networking and getting to know people in your industry when you are a newbie to the business.

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Lessons Learned: The lean startup

Startup Lessons Learned

But by taking advantage of open source, agile software, and iterative development, lean startups can operate with much less waste. So far, I have found "lean startup" works better with the entrepreneurs Ive talked to than "agile startup" or even "extreme startup.") Of course, many startups are capital efficient and generally frugal.

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Lessons Learned: Customer Development Engineering

Startup Lessons Learned

In addition to presenting the IMVU case, we tried for the first time to do an overview of a software engineering methodology that integrates practices from agile software development with Steves method of Customer Development. Ive attempted to embed the relevant slides below. What about a hardware business with some long-lead-time components?

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To Better Understand Innovation, Measure The Right Things

YoungUpstarts

The vast majority of recent innovation research has focused on entrepreneurs: why are they more innovative and agile than larger organizations? What does it mean to be an “agile” leader or a “purpose-driven” leader who can inspire people to act innovatively? Organizations. Entrepreneurs.

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Startup IPO Market: A Fickle Mistress ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

And even other strong, but perhaps not standout, companies like Active Network and Demand Media completed their own offerings. For a time that meant that other category leaders accelerated their own IPO plans… think Groupon and Zynga. Bankers licked their chops. VCs dreamt of liquidty. Life was good. How diffferent 2H 2011 looks.

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Embrace technical debt

Startup Lessons Learned

I hope to show why lean and agile techniques actually reduce the negative impacts of technical debt and increase our ability to take advantage of its positive effects. For example, I’ve talked often about our belief that an instant messaging add-on product would allow IMVU to take advantage of a network effects strategy.

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Lessons Learned: The three drivers of growth for your business.

Startup Lessons Learned

For eBay, this is caused by the incredible network effects of their business (so-called demand-side increasing returns and supply-side increasing returns). This has led to exponential growth. For Neopets, its simply a side-effect of their game-like product design. . Expo SF (May. Conference streaming, sponsors, discounted tickets.