Steve Blank

JUNE 26, 2015

government to help them innovate faster– not just kind of fast, but 10x the number of initiatives in 1/5 the time. —– Lean Innovation Management. Each horizon requires different focus, different management, different tools and different goals. I’ve been working with large companies and the U.S. Here’s how.

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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, social networking, SaaS, content management, media, enterprise 2.0 Strategic Agile Thinking: Balancing Value, Innovation and Research. 2) The agile "happy place". and business transformation.

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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). We’d managed to secure another infusion of cash, but it wasn’t going to last long.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

In a new book, “ The Leadership Capital Index ,” Dave Ulrich, a best-selling author, business consultant, and business school professor, provides some real insights and metrics on what makes up the elements of goodwill in the minds of top valuation experts. Modern information management tools. Strategic proficiency.

Leadership 120

Leadership Technical Review Due Diligence Valuation 120

Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 6, 2013

Seth Sternberg Co-Founder & CEO Scott Chacon CIO Kevin Hale Senior Product Manager NEW! Vinod Khosla Founder Dave McClure Founding Partner Eric Ries Author Steve Blank Serial Entrepreneur & Professor Todd Park CTO Travis Kalanick CEO & Co-Founder Joe Zadeh Director of Product Sam Shank Co-Founder & CEO NEW!

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ConversionXL

JULY 3, 2020

Product manager objective: Evaluate new feature ideas. The goal tree becomes hard to manage after that point.). You also need metrics on cart abandonment and purchase rates of those who saw your test idea and those who didn’t. Specific activities to comply with security or governance should be the highest priority.

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Steve Blank

JULY 13, 2021

The Rise of Business Schools – Management as an Occupation. These explosions in company size and scale created a demand for professional managers. Its purpose was to educate management on best practices to run existing companies. Here’s why and what we did about it. that took place in the last quarter of the 19th century.

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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.

Silicon Valley 229

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

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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Women Entrepreneurs Can

MARCH 2, 2023

We exhibit wisdom by utilizing objective data for our experiments and identifying the truth that manifests in the metrics compiled from our data. We demonstrate courage when we align our efforts and activities with those metrics despite our personal feelings and desires. Managers and leaders alike can agree that metrics matter.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

Kent, a veteran programmer, a founder of the Agile method and the creator of Extreme Programming, came armed with anecdotes and lessons from his own experience, as well as a few questions for Eric. So if we are the managers, if we are the leaders, then we have to look in the mirror. We changed the work.”

Lean 165

Lean San Francisco Cofounder Programming 165

Steve Blank

JUNE 1, 2011

As customer and agile development reinvent the Startup, it’s time to ask why startup board governance has not kept up with the pace of innovation. Rather than invent a new form of corporate governance, venture investors adopted the traditional board meeting structure from large corporations. The Wrong Metrics. Here’s how.

Silicon Valley 292

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Steve Blank

JUNE 1, 2011

As customer and agile development reinvent the Startup, it’s time to ask why startup board governance has not kept up with the pace of innovation. Rather than invent a new form of corporate governance, venture investors adopted the traditional board meeting structure from large corporations. The Wrong Metrics. Here’s how.

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Silicon Valley Business Model Venture Capital Balance Sheet 263

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 26, 2009

And, as you can see in my previous post on “ The cardinal sin of community management &# the feedback could be all over the map. What we call “community management&# is actually governance. It is our obligation to govern well, but – as history has repeatedly shown – this is incredibly hard.

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Advisory Board Customer San Francisco Lean 151

OnlyOnce

AUGUST 12, 2013

A few years ago, people started talking a lot more about User Experience (UX) as a new crossover discipline between design and engineering, and our experience at Return Path has been that UX is an incredibly powerful tool in our arsenal to build great technical products via lean/agile methods. It has a beginning but it doesn’t have an end.”

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 8, 2009

That’s because many of our reports feed us vanity metrics: numbers that make us look good but don’t really help make decisions. Yet even among those who have access to good actionable metrics, I’ve noticed a phenomenon that prevents taking maximum advantage of data. Too much of this data is non- actionable.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 29, 2020

One of the many challenges facing the world’s governments is the fact that no one really knows how this virus behaves. Thus, the world’s scientists, medical experts, and governments are in new territory, determining what works and what doesn’t work as each country moves through the peaks and troughs of this pandemic. Draw up a budget.

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Occam's Razor

APRIL 15, 2019

Even with the limitations of tools, government regulations, and the astonishing fragmentation of everything (attention, devices, consumption sources, identities and more). Bubble Kings most commonly reside in organizations where there is little to no accountability (or misplaced accountability, ex: celebration of vanity metrics).

Leadership 79

Leadership Non-Compete Analytics Software Review 79

Steve Blank

JANUARY 10, 2011

There’s something about the combination of human nature (rationalization and self deception) and large hierarchical organizations (corporations, military, government, etc.) In other startups I was lucky and had great investors who knew how to manage and deal with chaos. that actively conspire to hide failure and errors.

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Forecast Agile Revenue Founder 265

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 3, 2009

If your practice is not designed to cope with uncertainty, it has no place in a startup - even if your startup is located in government or enterprise. Split-testing is great for linear optimization; making our landing pages, conversion rates, and retention metrics incrementally better day-in day-out. They dont really create value.

Lean 60

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

We assume it will be a 2-3 day discussion, but may be much longer, because of the CR (Continuing Resolution) to fund the government overall. Kappos: No inventions are needed to manage the post-grant process [i.e., Dickinson: If government shuts down, only political appointees can work. we just need more funding].

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Intellectual Property Detroit Technical Review Software Review 60

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Pete Newell and I have spent a lot of time bringing continuous innovation to government organizations. Army’s Rapid Equipping Force on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan finding and deploying technology solutions against agile insurgents. These Horizons also apply to government agencies and other large organizations.

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Community Silicon Valley Technical Review Incubator 218

ReadWriteStart

JUNE 13, 2011

As customer and agile development reinvent the startup, it's time to ask why startup board governance has not kept up with the pace of innovation. Rather than invent a new form of corporate governance, venture investors adopted the traditional board meeting structure from large corporations. What's Wrong With a Board Meeting?

Silicon Valley 117

Silicon Valley Balance Sheet Metrics Early Stage 117

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

Managing urban areas has become one of the most important development challenges of the 21st century. Including accessibility and purposeful inclusion into Austin’s Smart City Strategic builds a more trusted governance model.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 6, 2011

And others are from unusual folks we don't normally think of as entrepreneurs, from corporate managers to government agencies. I believe entrepreneurship is the management discipline that deals with the domain of extreme uncertainty. I once received a phone call from a fund manager for one of the large university endowments.

Lean 167

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Up and Running

JUNE 8, 2015

Businesses that master cash flow management can: Pay their bills. It also gives decision makers the funds they need to pay suppliers, creditors, and the government. Positive cash flow ensures employees get checks each payroll cycle. Invest in new opportunities. Today’s business world moves quickly. Stomach the unpredictable.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

We met a number of policy makers from the White House and State Department, and had a solid Startup2Startup all about government policy and entrepreneurship. In a previous post , I asked readers for suggested topics that the US government needs to know about startups and entrepreneurs, and got some really interesting responses.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 21, 2010

It also causes them to miss the numerous other kinds of startups that appear in less-glamorous settings: inside enterprises, non-profits, and even governments. This is equally true of a packaged good in a grocery store, an ecommerce website, a non-profit social service or a variety of government programs. Wrong again. Wrong again.

San Francisco 168

San Francisco Startup Lean Continuous Deployment 168

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 16, 2013

One good example is the way in which we''ve adjusted the length of different phases of our agile sprints. We don''t follow a set agile methodology, but rather follow a more home-grown, minimal version of various approaches. The new process let us manage the velocity of change in the codebase low, keeping the resistance manageable.

Lean 167

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

Every bit as true for government as for enterprise - and even the two guys in a garage. A lot of conversation was about what "the federal government" should do. But its all too easy to lose sight of the fact that any government, even one as large as the US, is made up entirely of people. Federal government should do nothing.

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San Francisco DC Washington Lean 92

Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 6, 2010

Our trip was bipartisan, bicameral, and bi-branches-of-government. Our trip was bipartisan, bicameral, and bi-branches-of-government. Startup Visa update ► February (5) Kiwi lean startup + Australia next Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business) Beware of Vanity Metrics (for Harvard Business Rev. Expo SF (May.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 20, 2023

And there's a bit of a sense that digital was a bit sort of the wild west in terms of, oh, it's all about agile and people improvise the method and you can't measure things as well. But there isn't actually a top down roadmap of how to do it with real milestones and metrics and uh, around it. (07:01): They were the same mm-hmm. ,

Technical Review 66

Technical Review Silicon Valley Generative AI Arizona 66

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 11, 2008

To an early observer, it would have seemed obvious that Route 128 had all the advantages: a head start, more government and military funding, and far more established companies. Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science?

Silicon Valley 68

Silicon Valley San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment 68

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

Im writing this post from an airplane headed to Washington DC, where Ill be presenting at the Government 2.0 Im especially curious to gauge the reaction of the civilian and military representatives of our government. Ive been in a few government-themed meetings recently, so I know some of the standard answers.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 26, 2017

Know your North Star Metric. Hint: it’s not usually a company-valued metric like revenue. Example: Employee engagement -> small business -> productivity -> Management -> Culture -> Human resources. Implement Agile ! Data governance – hated but necessary: Rules of play.

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Analytics Sweden Metrics Estonia 85

crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2018

There are three parts to a good competitive analysis: (1) defining the metrics and identifying the competitors you’re comparing, (2) gathering the data, and (3) the analysis. You’re going to need some brand health metrics to track. Start by defining what metrics are important. 3) Develop personas for your target customers.

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Marketing Charlotte Naming Design 162

Occam's Razor

DECEMBER 12, 2016

What guarantees that agility and innovation are present in your analytics practice? Google Tag Manager. A good tag management platform fixes this problem as QA and other auditing is built into the tag manager's deployment process. Two reasons you need to ensure that you have Google Tag Manager. Management.

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Analytics DC Software Review Leadership 60