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. Shooting Yourself in the Head.

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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. 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. Others that are heavier on development. Some will have some specific skill sets.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 8, 2013

I also want to explain that it is possible to have a truly agile work environment based on small, autonomous teams. So hiring the right people is the single most important thing we do at Wooga. We believe in the mantra, “If in doubt, don’t hire.” Being agile. This is only possible by having great people.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 1, 2021

The evidence is clear that companies that help people in need, and the environment, are paid back in revenue by the rest of us. Make sure your hiring practices include diversity, inclusion, and equity. Practice your agility. Customers are looking for a differentiator today. Some of these companies no longer exist.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 4, 2017

By which they mean: Without stupid rules that assume employees are dumb or evil, without everything taking ten times longer than it should, without wall-to-wall meetings, without resorting to hiring anything less than the top 1% of the talent pool, and so on. It’s a big reason why they move quickly.

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

Derek Sivers about me blog books email list contact How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen 2010-06-19 Do you have an idea for a website, online business, or application, but need a programmer to turn that idea into reality? Save the rest for later. Hire one from each. Then carry on with the rest.

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Board Effect

JANUARY 15, 2020

Digital governance helps to keep organizations agile, nimble and adaptable, which is necessary in today’s age of evolution and disruption. Many companies are now also hiring a CISO or CTO to fulfill their need for IT expertise. A focus on digital governance will also help streamline and support digital development.

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View from Seed

MAY 14, 2019

Their early hires are probably much stronger too, which allows for better execution as well. This may seem great at first, but may lead you to start building the rest of the business on a pretty weak foundation. These challenges put founders in a precarious position because they all contribute to a serious loss of agility.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

AUGUST 30, 2010

He blogs to 10,000 web entrepreneurs at Software by Rob and co-hosts the podcast Startups for the Rest of Us. A virtual assistant (VA) is a remote worker hired to complete tasks you should not be doing as the founder of a startup. Agile Development, meet Agile Business. You scaffold the rest with a human being; your VA.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 3, 2018

Shoutout to @PeepLaja and the rest of the CXL team for making this happen year after year. Amazon has hired more people for their Alexa division than Google has for the entire company – it’s not hunch, this is going to be the focus. Corporate Agility. Hire & fire – tools to do a job. Culture of Innovation.

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mashable.com

JUNE 11, 2013

Hiring Poorly. Make sure that new hires understand your rate of innovation. You are small and agile, which means you have a high rate of innovation and growth, and with that comes work! If you dont manage this expectation upon hiring, you will be managing employee issues six months down the line. Not Embracing Agility. "If

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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. Read the rest of The Five Whys for Start-Ups.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 6, 2014

Hire for hustle. A great way to separate the entrepreneurial thinkers from those who aren’t is to place a special emphasis on hiring people with a sense of urgency; people who can and will move quickly; people who don’t always have to be told what their next step should be. But the most innovative, agile companies embrace mistakes.

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ConversionXL

JULY 3, 2020

Now that you understand your starting point, you’ll need to prioritize the rest of the requirements. You don’t need to go to this extreme, but you do need to add training and key hires into your roadmap to ensure people know how to use data. Work out what goes where in the roadmap. Dependencies. Process and methodology.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

APRIL 27, 2020

However, only 1 out of 26 customers complain about poor customer service , and the rest just leave without saying anything. A business must be agile enough to incorporate both short-term & long-term changes, which can be achieved through year-round continuous surveys for real-time customer information. Live Chats. About the Author.

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Venture Chronicles

AUGUST 2, 2013

I have covered a couple of topics in this series, the first being hiring the best people and the second organizing for success based on the attributes of the people you are hiring. engineers paired would jump from frontend to backend erratically at each sprint iteration. Lastly, a foundational skill of great product managers is GSD.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 18, 2011

and moved from delivery to architecture and developer evangelism to make sure that new hires don't have to have the same bad experiences we all had to go through until companies started appreciating the internet as a platform. If there is no talent to be found in the valley, why not hire in Europe, Asia or India? and a team in the U.S.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 5, 2022

I used to believe that the more hours I put in, the more work I'd get done but now I realize that the most effective way to get the best results is to make sure you're not too stressed or overworked, and how much a rested mind and body contribute to a more positive mindset. It's important to keep business agile.

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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 2, 2011

You've built up some kind of a relationship over time--because recruiting (as opposed to hiring ) is a long term game. You have development practices in place (Agile, Scrum, test driven, etc). Your technical lead has good enough business sense to have the full respect of the rest of the management team. See the Joel Test.

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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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Software Review San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment 141

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. Much of the COVID-era survival strategy has relied on technological infrastructure, and has demanded new digital literacy across all segments of the organization. Naturally, this is easier said than done.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2020

And I think how you think about that, whether you're a restaurant owner that didn't invest in curbside pickup, what can you do to, I'll call it, hack it or in an agile mindset, how do you think about bringing a way to be able to do curbside and do that well, and not just rely on the delivery folks to be able to support you? Let's go."

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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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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

MARCH 22, 2010

Luckily for the rest of us, he was able to find his path to a green card, and now employs 24 Americans in West Lafayette, Indiana. Read the rest of The New Startup Arms Race at Huffington Post. Luckily for the rest of us, he was able to find his path to a green card, and now employs 24 Americans in West Lafayette, Indiana.

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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. So you can imagine how I expected some skepticism when pitching ideas about technology innovation to, say, the U.S. Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? Expo SF (May.

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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

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

And the rest is history: Google Maps was a huge success. After all, how would Craig Newmark’s life (and the rest of ours, too) be different today if he had waited to build something with a high-quality design before starting his famous list? And the rest is history: Google Maps was a huge success. Ship it.&# Ship it.&#

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

The rest is building the team. Obviously, this task is easier if you hire and nurture the right people, to minimize these situations in the first place. Managing the product and the processes is only half your job as an entrepreneur, or less.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Speed and agility have never before been so available and so crucial in business. Small businesses do not have to hire dedicated staff to set up and maintain unwieldy hardware systems. Your business can focus on improving your area of specialization, and your cloud provider can take care of the rest.

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Steve Blank

MAY 15, 2009

We hired an interior designer and a great facilities person to manage the process. Reply Jerry Ji , on May 15, 2009 at 4:56 pm Said: When my startup starts hiring, I’ll make “The Four Steps to the Epiphany&# a prerequisite reading for every interviewer.

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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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Steve Blank

JULY 29, 2013

If any of the answers are “Yes,” then hire them a bit later as an early employee. Key attributes of an entrepreneur on a founding team are passion, determination, resilience, tenacity, agility and curiosity. and, “Can we find someone else just like them?” If both answers are no, you’ve identified a co-founder.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 2, 2008

but rest assured they would be. Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Six streaming locations Interviews ► March (7) New conference website, speakers, agenda Two new scholarship programs for lean startups Speed up or slow down? Expo SF (May. Conference streaming, sponsors, discounted tickets.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 11, 2017

We wrote things like what five traits a new hire should have, or values everyone in the company should act on. The wrong word can mean the rest of it doesn’t work. And while not more important than the other lines of our credo, I love when we put our minds to “be lean, be agile, and small teams kick ass.

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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. Blame it On Marketing In the next 3-6 months, a new VP of Sales is hired. innovation.

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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. Stevey's Blog Rants: Good Agile, Bad Agile Learning from Obama: maneuver warfare on the campa. Expo SF (May.

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