Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 26, 2015

Business agility is defined as the ability to adapt rapidly and cost efficiently. Moving forward, you should expect the market volatility to increase, driven not only by customers, but by new technology, changing government regulations, and a surge in new competitors. It all starts with agile leadership.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 30, 2017

If companies are to thrive in a data-driven economy, they can’t afford to be handcuffed to ‘old’ technologies; they need the flexibility and agility to move at a moment’s notice to the latest market innovations. How can your company meet the agility imperative? Integration Approaches for Data Agility. Agile Data Fabric.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 18, 2022

The Hedge Strategy – Create “the small, the agile, and the many”. In a world where the large and the complex are either too expensive to generate en masse or potentially too vulnerable to put at risk, “the small, the agile, and the many” has the potential to define the future of Navy formations. ONR’s plan is to move boldly.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 14, 2022

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. Strategic proficiency. Stable and friendly work environment.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 20, 2011

government has been running one of the most audacious experiments in entrepreneurship since World War II. government agency that supports research in all the non-medical fields of science and engineering. We taught them the business model / customer development / agile development solution stack. This week we saw the results.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

As a business and entrepreneur advisor, I have no trouble getting owners and managers to agree that change is happening faster and faster in the consumer and technology world, requiring them to keep their business more agile , just to keep up. Crisis-driven agility is not enough today.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 11, 2016

Mark Raheja, founding partner at August , a consultancy focused on organizational development, will be speaking as part of the enterprise learning track at Lean Startup Week about agility at scale. In thinking about the future of corporate agility and management, what modern practices are most vital to today’s leaders?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 15, 2020

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. Strategic proficiency. Stable and friendly work environment.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Given that software is central to every major DOD mission and system, we need to acquire and deliver software with much greater speed, agility, and cyber security. How would your organization increase collaboration between industry and government, especially at the startup and small company level? How do we get going?

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

APRIL 16, 2024

Sustainability reporting, particularly about environmental, social, and governance (ESG) criteria, has burgeoned as a fundamental vehicle through which companies can reflect their operations’ social responsibility and commitment to sustainable development practices.

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ctotodevelopers.blogspot.com

JULY 11, 2012

Social, Agile, and Transformation. I cover several topics including agile software development, software startups, web 2.0, Strategic Agile Thinking: Balancing Value, Innovation and Research. 2) The agile "happy place". Agile teams sprint when value is known, implementation is low risk. and business transformation.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

And government agencies find themselves being disrupted by adversaries unencumbered by legacy systems, policies and history. Both companies and government agencies struggle with how to deliver innovation at speed. Lean is now essential for companies and government agencies to deliver innovation at speed.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

While startups often prioritize innovation, growth, and agility, establishing robust internal audit practices can provide valuable insights, mitigate risks, and enhance overall governance. The post The Essential Role Of Internal Audit For Your Startup’s Success appeared first on Young Upstarts.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 31, 2018

We’re super lean and agile,” says Ortiz Shields, who works with two researchers in the city’s Office of Design & Delivery. Austin’s Paper Census: Helping Government Break Up with Paper was originally published in Austin Startups on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2021

While all the teams used the Mission Model Canvas , (videos here ), Customer Development and Agile Engineering to build Minimal Viable Products, each of their journeys was unique. Few consider opportunities to make the world safer with the Department of Defense, Intelligence community or other government agencies.

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

Businesses also demand flexibility, choice, agility, and cost-effectiveness from these enabling technologies to ensure that business capabilities can change with demand, market, trade mission, and more.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Most startups have been competent in managing their cash burn by determining how they spend and utilizing government subsidies to meet their goals. Pivoting only works if a business is small and agile and can shift its operations quickly and flawlessly in a different direction. Adaptability goes hand in hand with speed.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 18, 2019

I much prefer this approach, with a highly functional agile team of experts, rather than yet another $100 million contract with a large consulting firm, government contractor, or legacy technology company that will result in a three-year build and deployment of a system that never actually sees the light of day.

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The Startup Magazine

APRIL 11, 2019

All of us know in software companies that scrum is the most significant agile methodology for handling software projects. Scrum is a lightweight agile process framework used primarily for managing software development. Scrum is a framework that can have a transforming power. CONCLUSION.

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Steve Blank

JULY 11, 2017

The belief then was that most founders couldn’t acquire the HR, finance, sales, and board governance skills rapidly enough to steer the company to a liquidity event, so they hired professional managers. These new CEOs would also act as a brake to temper the founder’s excesses.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 6, 2011

Governments adopting the use of the Cloud. In addition to small businesses, cloud adoption by governments has been growing in the Asia region. This migration to the cloud helps to meet their operational needs, as well as to reduce costs and increase agility and efficiency. Content Delivery Networks (CDN) Join the Fray.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 19, 2020

The SCO imagines new, often unexpected and game-changing uses of existing government and commercial systems.). Commercial technologies are being driven faster than any government can keep up with, though many governments are trying to steer it to their own advantage. The Pentagon needs to be fast and agile.

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Transformify

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Most young people can’t afford to study abroad without government subsidies or scholarships. Scrum, Agile, Product Management. Scrum, Agile, Problem Analysis, Business Catalyst, Business Analytics. To diversify the economy, the government put an emphasis on the services and sugarcane industries.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 15, 2017

When organizations are small (startups, small teams in companies and government agencies) early employees share a mission (why they come to work, what they need to do while they are at work, and how they will know they have succeeded). I wasn’t surprised. The first reaction from my CEO was, “That’s why you’re running the department.”

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 1, 2020

Due to the restrictions imposed by different governments, many have been relying on digital platforms for their needs. In today’s quest for agile and flexible platforms, the mainframe is seen by many as an aging, slow, and dying system. Devops is something that you seldom hear together with mainframes in one sentence.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 12, 2020

All the teams used the Mission Model Canvas , (videos here ) Customer Development and Agile Engineering to build Minimal Viable Products, but all of their journeys were unique. Few consider opportunities to make the world safer with the Department of Defense, Intelligence Community or other government agencies.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

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. Strategic proficiency. Stable and friendly work environment.

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Steve Blank

JULY 25, 2017

I shared my current thinking about innovation in companies and government agencies. 08:18 Agile Development and Lean – Eric Ries. 13:58 Startups operate with alacrity, agility and at times a death wish. 27:30 We can’t afford to have our government go out of business. It’s worth a listen.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 6, 2013

> Uber's " Reality Therapy 4 Startups": What U Need 2 Know NOW > Steve Blank on why NOT to be an Entrepreneur > Airbnb's Globetrotting Lessons: Building 4 a Global Market > Vinod Khosla - The VC Legend: Interview w/ Dave McClure > Eric Ries on Entrepreneurship: What He's Learned Along the Way > GitHub's Secret 2 Success: Rethinking (..)

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

If you read these quotes, you’d think they were from a CEO who just took over a company facing disruption from agile startups and a changing environment. Instead the focus is on global and rapid maneuver capabilities of smaller, dispersed units to “increase agility, speed, and resiliency. And you’d be right. on page 10.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 20, 2022

Look hard for unanticipated consequences of events like new government regulations on financial processes, changes in environmental patterns, or sociological changes in other countries. Re-evaluating relentlessly for the agility to survive. Broad disruptive events. First responders are the winners.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 22, 2020

Deputy Chief Technology Officers Cori Zarek and Ryan Panchadsaram to help all levels of government with COVID-19 response and delivery of services. Highlights from the show Jen describes her background in government-tech partnerships. (2:52) 12:44) A look at the three waves of requests coming from government. (14:06)

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 13, 2021

8-Stay agile. 2020 was a year of many lessons, but if I had to pick one takeaway, it would be the importance of agility. This constantly changing environment has been incredibly taxing and so many businesses – but those who were not able to remain agile and change with the environment are those who felt the effects most.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 30, 2012

The class teaches founders how to dramatically reduce their failure rate through the combination of business model design, customer development and agile development using the Startup Owners Manual. They may be privately run but often are non-profit, attached to a university or in some locations a local government.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 1, 2018

Talking about the Brazilian market, they can even get a fine from the government because of some missing transactions on that day. But the main thing here is the overhead that will be created inside those companies to put everything back into the systems. What does all that means? Waste of time. Why not the cloud?

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 13, 2024

Moreover, they must prioritize innovation and agility to differentiate themselves from many companies offering similar cybersecurity solutions. Consequently, businesses and governments increasingly rely on these startups to protect their digital assets and ensure the security of sensitive data from potential breaches.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 21, 2017

I was in Boston and was interviewed by The Growth Show about my current thinking about innovation in companies and government agencies.The interviewer was great and managed to get me to summarize several years of learning in one podcast. 7:11 Agile Engineering – Eric Ries. 17:08 Government Agency innovation limitations.

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