ReadWriteStart

MARCH 7, 2022

Whether you’re managing a digital business or a brick-and-mortar storefront, marketing is a practical necessity. Several decades ago, the world’s best marketers and advertisers we’re trying to come up with catchy taglines and persuasive advertisements that blatantly tried to sell a new product to a target audience.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 25, 2023

However, if you do manage to find success, the rewards can be significant. As soon as you have 2-3 months' worth of sales data to work with, use a formula to calculate stock reorder levels to ensure you always have stock ready to go, especially if you're promoting your products on platforms known for viral content, like TikTok.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 23, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, December 23, 2009 Why vanity metrics are dangerous In a previous post, I defined two kinds of metrics: vanity metrics and actionable metrics. In this post, Id like to talk about the perils of vanity metrics. My personal favorite vanity metrics is "hits."

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Steve Blank

JUNE 26, 2015

—– Lean Innovation Management. In the last five years “ Lean Startup ” methodologies have enabled entrepreneurs to efficiently build a startup by searching for product/market fit rather than blindly trying to execute. Each horizon requires different focus, different management, different tools and different goals.

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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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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 6, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, November 6, 2008 Steveys Blog Rants: Good Agile, Bad Agile I thought Id share an interesting post from someone with a decidedly anti-agile point of view. Steveys Blog Rants: Good Agile, Bad Agile : "Google is an exceptionally disciplined company, from a software-engineering perspective.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

APRIL 16, 2024

Regulatory requirements for sustainability reporting are ever-evolving, and businesses must remain agile to meet these changing standards. While early sustainability reports focused heavily on environmental impacts, such as waste management and greenhouse gas emissions, their scope has significantly broadened.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 4, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, April 4, 2010 Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Kent Beck will give the opening keynote at the Startup Lessons Learned conference on April 23. Labels: sllconf Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Kent Beck will give the opening keynote at the Startup Lessons Learned conference on April 23.

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 4, 2022

They not only have to create a new product or service that is innovative and appealing to customers, but they also have to do it quickly and efficiently. The ultimate goal is to boost productivity and performance to stay competitive in an increasingly digital market. Startup companies are under a lot of pressure to succeed.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 15, 2017

But he was getting uneasy that as his headcount was growing the productivity of his marketing department seemed to be rapidly declining. We’d managed to secure another infusion of cash, but it wasn’t going to last long. What I was hearing was a failure of management. All good news. I wasn’t surprised. This is a big idea.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Reading the NY Times article “ Jeffrey Katzenberg Raises $1 Billion for Short-Form Video Venture, ” I realized it was time for a new startup heuristic: the amount of customer discovery and product-market fit you need to find is inversely proportional to the amount and availability of risk capital. ” Fire, Ready, Aim.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 25, 2021

But this is a minor change compared to the next generation of workforce management. How will you ensure that humans and machines can collaborate and maximize productivity together? In the future, this is going to become an even bigger priority. How will you handle the transition from a human position to one handled by an AI algorithm?

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Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

But the world you lead will be much different from the one your professors knew or your predecessors managed. Yet in the face of all this change, traditional firms continue to embrace a management ethos that values efficiency over innovation. Your time at ESADE has trained you to become a global business leader. Innovation.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 18, 2020

They outline and give some positive recommendations to counter the key organizational impediments to fast transformation that I see all too often, even in businesses with top management committed to first-mover speed and agility: Passive resistance to change from within the organization.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 22, 2023

Jeff Bezos now manages Amazon, which encompasses over 40 subsidiaries and operates worldwide. Bezos believes that if you double the number of experiments you do per year, you’re going to double your agility, and thus grow the business more rapidly. Use metrics and data to quantify progress and return.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 20, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, October 20, 2008 The engineering managers lament I was inspired to write The product managers lament while meeting with a startup struggling to figure out what had gone wrong with their product development process. This engineering manager is a smart guy, and very experienced.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 14, 2017

by Amanda Setili, author of “ Fearless Growth: The New Rules to Stay Competitive, Foster Innovation, and Dominate Your Markets “ Polarization is a common problem for companies trying to make smart and agile strategic decisions. They know how to reach the consumers who are in the market for their products.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 12, 2022

The solution is to establish and maintain a culture and processes that don’t view change as a discrete event to be spotted and managed, but as an ongoing opportunity to improve competitiveness. This contextual focus is critical to innovation and survival – the right product at the right time. Increase change agility.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 21, 2013

Creators of new products in environments of extreme uncertainty, startups face enormous risks. Through rapid experimentation, short product development cycles, and rigorous measurements of the right metrics, they can ascertain what customers really want. In the US, about 50% of small businesses fail in the first five years.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

The real question is what you can do to improve it, as a manager, or even as a concerned team member. Based on my own many years in the workplace, as a professional, manager, and executive, I believe most accountability issues stem from a lack of individual confidence in themselves, or a lack of necessary skills.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 4, 2015

Full of vigor and enthusiasm with a product-market fit that seems destined to change the world, it’s easy to get caught up in the excitement and strive for world domination. In order to grow, startups need a much more focused, realistic and agile approach to goal setting that builds momentum and establishes a pattern of success.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 25, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, March 25, 2009 The Lean Startup at Agile Vancouver April 21st A surprising number of respondents in the latest Lessons Learned survey hail from one of the flourishing startup hubs in Canada. This workshop brings together leading thinkers from Lean Production and Lean software. Thank you so much!)

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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.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 29, 2021

It could be more revenue, hiring clients, or launching a new product or service, but every new year is an exciting time because it’s ripe with opportunity. As a result of the pandemic, not everyone has managed to hold onto their work. It's important to keep business agile. 1- Expanding skillset. 4- Creating more jobs.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 6, 2013

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! Seth Sternberg Co-Founder & CEO Scott Chacon CIO Kevin Hale Senior Product Manager NEW!

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 15, 2020

Many of the entrepreneurs like you that I have met in my role as a business advisor are really product creators versus business creators, convinced that a great product will generate a great business. In most businesses, this means selling something, and proving that your product or service has value.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 5, 2021

Similarly, many new businesses emerging in the modern world begin with a remote work model; it makes financial sense for young, cash-strapped businesses to save money and remain agile. If you and your team are used to working remotely, working in an office will be a major challenge for both productivity and morale. Consider: .

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

As a business consultant, I see many different employee cultures, from exciting and motivational, to dysfunctional and non-productive. They keep waiting for top management to somehow fix the situation. In reality, I believe that building and sustaining a winning culture is everyone’s business, not just that of top management.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 9, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, July 9, 2010 Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# theory of management At any given time, something like four percent of the US population is engaged in some form of new-company-creation. But I’m not convinced those labels are right at all.

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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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BeyondVC

APRIL 4, 2018

There will also still be some amazing companies that raise their Series C, D and beyond funding rounds with scaling metrics. Every large enterprise is a software company which means developer productivity is paramount. Infrastructure market moves way too fast and more software needed to help manage this chaos.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 7, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, January 7, 2010 Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? My explicit goal in working with HBR is to foster a dialog between entrepreneurs and more traditional general managers. Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? - Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? Without further ado.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2013

He wrote a post this long weekend on how he manages the board of DataSift. In this period (less than 2 years) he has brought on incredibly talented senior execs is sales, marketing, product management, client services, finance, vp engineering and more. Rob Bailey is the CEO of DataSift. You should read it. It is really working.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 27, 2023

Everyone in the company must adopt the principles of customer-first focus, agility in responding to change, and constant innovation to improve your processes as well as the solution. Measure progress through metrics on sales, revenue, and penetration. Seek customer feedback on ways to improve value and satisfaction.

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OnlyOnce

AUGUST 31, 2017

Over the years, I’ve written a lot about the Agile methodology on this blog. For those of you who are regular readers, you may remember a post I wrote about our Agile Everywhere initiative — where all Return Path teams were tasked with implementing agile practices. weren’t at all familiar with agile practices.

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ConversionXL

JULY 3, 2020

Example OKRs: Company objective: Customers love our product. Product team objective: Build features our customer want. Key result: 65% of customers use new product features at least once a week by the end of Q3. Product manager objective: Evaluate new feature ideas. Adding the data requirements. Dependencies.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 14, 2021

In this article, we’ll share key brand tracking metrics and methods for how to measure and optimize your success. Key brand tracking metrics. Supplement brand loyalty metrics with qualitative measures such as brand associations and perceived quality, as these can give you insight into why customers intend to repurchase.

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