SoCal CTO

APRIL 9, 2013

And they should not get to count items in their portfolio that were done at another company/job - yes, that''s quite common, especially in new firms. Do not fall into the trap of Startups and a Common Misunderstanding in Agile Software Development. Is there a project manager? Quality Result. See it in action. References.

Web Development 204

Web Development Web Developer Los Angeles 204

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Massive liquidity awaited the first movers to the IPO’s, and that’s how they managed their portfolios. To be fair, in the 20 th century, there really wasn’t a model for how to build startups other than write plan, raise money, and execute – the bubble was this method, on steroids.

Lean 335

Lean Burn Rate Startup IPO 335

YoungUpstarts

MARCH 22, 2017

by Dan McCarthy, event manager for Venueseeker. Business intelligence (BI) is the gateway for achieving greater agility. Agility in this sense means the flexibility to make more informed decisions based on a diverse array of data outlining consumer patterns and purchasing behavior. Transparency – How transparent is the data?

Agile 104

Agile Non-Compete Analytics Social Media 104

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Johansen knows this space, as a distinguished fellow at the Institute for the Future in Silicon Valley, and Ronn is a serial entrepreneur and managing director of Innovation Portfolio Partners in Palo Alto. Maintain the agility to quickly pivot or quit. Social media relationships fuel the scaling fire. Not everything will work.

Partner 328

Partner Intellectual Property Silicon Valley Cloud 328

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Amazon and Jeff Bezos have managed to do this well, with customers only remembering the fun and ease of shopping online, seemingly instant no-cost delivery, and no-hassle returns or replacements. Today, scaling an existing business in a large interconnected environment is generally easier than growing a disparate portfolio.

Customer 333

Customer Agile Social Media Portfolio 333

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. VCs crave the ability to help portfolio companies. You should read it.

Advisory Board 365

Advisory Board CTO Hire Fractional CTO Los Angeles 365

Where to Play

AUGUST 18, 2020

In 2000, they included tentage into their portfolio and since then they have established themself as a premium brand in marriage event management. This analysis highlighted that Gopa has strong competencies in Event management, Cooked food supply, Decoration, and Human resource management for events.

Pakistan 62

Pakistan Sales Cycle Marketing Technical Review 62

Steve Blank

MAY 7, 2019

Lean Methodology consists of three tools designed for entrepreneurs building new ventures: The Business Model Canvas – to write down all the hypotheses about a new business; Customer Development – a process for testing those hypotheses outside the building; Agile Engineering – to rapidly build minimal viable products to test product/market fit.

Lean 333

Lean Marketing Agile Customer Development 333

Transformify

AUGUST 18, 2022

A well-managed business should use both in a proper ratio. Agile Delivery. Their portfolios give you a quick overview of how good their work is. The pandemic has shifted people’s attitudes towards both traditional employment and freelance projects. One isn’t a replacement for the other.

Hiring 95

Hiring Technical Review Salary Employee 95

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. To manage these employees companies create metrics to control, measure and reward execution.

Private Equity 325

Private Equity Metrics China Intellectual Property 325

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 28, 2010

To shed some light, I talked with kaChing , a destination that enables individual investors to find outstanding money managers to manage their money. kaChing launched a virtual portfolio management game on Facebook in January 2008 and a similar version shortly thereafter on kaChing.com. The result?

San Francisco 158

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment SEC 158

The Equity Kicker

MAY 7, 2013

The traditional economy – a real economy with many large firms providing real goods and services, but their hierarchical management and focus on shareholder value are preventing them from responding well to the challenges and opportunities of the 21st century.

Development Team Review 94

Development Team Review Business Plan Agile Operations 94

Where to Play

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Adrien Briod , the co-founder, envisioned how a collision-tolerant drone would assist in managing such dangerous situations. Step 3: Designing the Agile Focus Strategy. Once they felt confident with the evaluation results, Flyability’s team could then use Worksheet 3 to design their Agile Focus Strategy. The Challenge.

Agile 54

Agile Technical Review Sales Cycle Distribution 54

Women Entrepreneurs Can

JANUARY 14, 2020

You can hire someone based on their online portfolio, you can send them the materials via the cloud, they can edit documents in real-time, and when the job is done – you can pay them immediately online. Even email management processes can help you to tackle your inbox with ease.

Technical Review 52

Technical Review Technology Agile Social Media 52

Cracking the Code

MARCH 29, 2022

One of the benefits of the cloud is that it gives development teams more agility and flexibility, but with increased flexibility comes the downside of a loss of control and visibility. That said, some large sectors like financial services and healthcare only started to migrate their core workloads and data to the cloud more recently.

Cloud 62

Cloud Cofounder Architecture Technical Cofounder 62

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Johansen knows this space, as a distinguished fellow at the Institute for the Future in Silicon Valley, and Ronn is a serial entrepreneur and managing director of Innovation Portfolio Partners in Palo Alto. Maintain the agility to quickly pivot or quit. Social media relationships fuel the scaling fire. Not everything will work.

Partner 310

Partner Intellectual Property Silicon Valley Startup 310

Austin Startup

APRIL 12, 2018

As clients, we’ve done our fair share of portfolio reviewing and research. They Build Skill and Agility This one’s a gimme: passion projects are opportunities to learn and test new skills, techniques or approaches efficiently. Practice in this format trains each creative to do work under the pressures of creative autonomy.

Software Review 54

Software Review Portfolio Design Agile 54

Agile VC

OCTOBER 23, 2012

It’s true that FoFs provide LPs a way to purchase VC funds in a basket, but by design these are comparatively narrow actively-managed investment funds rather than broad-based passive vehicles. But no matter how you slice it, FoFs don’t really represent a broad-based way to invest in VC. 3.0x+ cash on cash) is profitable.

LP 176

LP Accredited Investor Carried Interest Portfolio 176

Up and Running

DECEMBER 17, 2014

Email management tools. Want an affordable CRM tool to manage your contacts, deals, projects, and messages? Use it to manage the hiring process, to keep track of investment and fundraising projects, to manage deals, and much more. Project management tools. LastPass Password Manager. Boomerang for Gmail.

Entrepreneur 153

Entrepreneur Email SCRUM Stock 153

Steve Blank

JULY 25, 2023

This meant the class was team-based, Lean-driven (hypothesis testing/business model/customer development/agile engineering) and experiential – where the students, rather than being presented with all of the essential information, must discover that information rapidly for themselves. How to map stakeholders and systems’ dynamics?

Lean 294

Lean Chile Ukraine Spain 294

SVPG

MARCH 10, 2015

Mostly what I hear falls into one of two cases: In the first case, the team simply isn’t trusted yet by management, and management is reluctant to give too long of a rope to the team. As an example of the latter, it would be very unusual for each team to select it’s own software configuration management tool.

Technical Review 60

Technical Review Software Review Portfolio Agile 60

Austin Startup

AUGUST 30, 2019

MANAGING DIRECTOR OF TECHSTARS AUSTIN AMOS SCHWARTZFARB REVEALS DETAILS ON SEPT. Austin-based author, tech investor and Managing Director of Techstars Austin Amos Schwartzfarb reveals details for the launch event for his new book “Sell More Faster: The Ultimate Sales Playbook for Start-Ups,” published by Wiley.

Austin 48

Austin Management Los Angeles New York City 48

Steve Blank

AUGUST 31, 2009

Every startup has some methodology for product development, launch and life-cycle management. Yet startup companies have traditionally used this model to manage and pace not only engineering but also non-engineering activities. The Focus on Execution Versus Agility The product development diagram has a linear flow from left to right.

Customer Development 238

Customer Development Developer Customer Silicon Valley 238

SVPG

JUNE 16, 2012

Think in leaps, but iterate in steps" - I attribute this to Google, and I like it because it helps to highlight the need for both product vision and for Agile methods, and to help teams understand why these goals are not in conflict. "Be Very hard for me to pick just ten. I have literally hundreds that I've aggregated and curated.

Silicon Valley 69

Silicon Valley Aggregator Curation Agile 69

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

Id like to talk about a technique Ive used to help manage this growth without slowing down. Managers in this area have to take a portfolio approach, promoting ideas that work and might make good candidates for further investment. Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? Expo SF (May.

San Francisco 88

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment DC 88

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

Johansen knows this space, as a distinguished fellow at the Institute for the Future in Silicon Valley, and Ronn is a serial entrepreneur and managing director of Innovation Portfolio Partners in Palo Alto. Maintain the agility to quickly pivot or quit. Social media relationships fuel the scaling fire. Not everything will work.

Intellectual Property 150

Intellectual Property Silicon Valley Cloud Agile 150

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 3, 2014

Johansen knows this space, as a distinguished fellow at the Institute for the Future in Silicon Valley, and Ronn is a serial entrepreneur and managing director of Innovation Portfolio Partners in Palo Alto. Maintain the agility to quickly pivot or quit. Social media relationships fuel the scaling fire. Not everything will work.

Partner 251

Partner Intellectual Property Silicon Valley Cloud 251

Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 30, 2013

Last week our portfolio company, JumpCloud - who is deep in the DevOps market with their automated cloud server management product – hosted the first annual DevOps conference here in Boulder. It was a huge success – we had over 200 people show up and engage in a full day of deep discussions on DevOps.

Conversion 132

Conversion Agile Portfolio Lean 132

Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2017

LESSON #1: Equip your business with a portfolio map and a 21st century org chart. To do the same, Alex recommends building two things: a business portfolio map that recognizes invention as necessary and an updated organization chart. You need a pipeline of tested and validated ideas,” Alex said. LESSON #2: Forget innovation.

Lean 245

Lean Startup CTO Hire Cofounder 245

Venture Chronicles

JUNE 29, 2010

Accept has built a set of products for “innovation management&# and while I reflexively gag at the word “innovation&# when applied to large companies, I actually think Accept has the right approach for delivering a solution to the problem of connecting customers with product development.

Software 34

Software Portfolio Agile Retention 34

VC Adventure

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Getting expert at hiring and managing remote employees. We’ve been recommending Meru Health (a Foundry portfolio company) to internal Foundry employees as well as our portfolio, and many have found their system really helpful. Pretty obvious, given how businesses are operating in this time. A focus on mental fitness.

Portfolio 91

Portfolio Employee Agile Finance 91

Where to Play

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

It provides the key questions to ask, and allows managers to combine endless bits of information into one clear pattern. Mainly, it allows them to adopt a ‘portfolio mindset’ while focusing, thus helping them to avoid a fatal lock-in. Quantify how much you don’t know. Here it is: The advantage of a structured process.

Early Stage 69

Early Stage Agile Framework Portfolio 69

Agile VC

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Also portfolio management strategy has shifted a bit in recent years, and many large investors now evaluate at all risky assets together (US tech IPOs, Brazilian bonds, Chinese private equity, etc) rather than making discrete allocations to each bucket.

IPO 100

IPO Marketing Silicon Valley Technical Review 100

Version One Ventures

MAY 30, 2013

For example, Clio , a company in my portfolio, first focused on providing legal practice management for solo lawyers and very small firms (today, Clio is now serving firms with over 50 lawyers). Smaller businesses are far more agile when it comes to purchasing and deploying a new technology than Fortune 500 companies.

Sales Cycle 141

Sales Cycle Startup Viral Agile 141

View from Seed

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Recently, I’ve been working with a few of our portfolio companies to help them think about how to recruit and interview their first analytics hire. Similar to Product Managers, a strong Analytics hire requires a diverse set of skills. When to make your first analytics hire. What to look for in your first analytics hire.

Analytics 149

Analytics Hiring SQL Forecast 149

Up and Running

AUGUST 23, 2016

Thirteen years later, Kinsman is a veteran of the industry and a thought leader advocating in Forbes for an agile approach. The agile strategy is all about brand flexibility. Now, Base Creative is one of Asia’s leading agencies, with a portfolio that includes Walmart, Cisco, and Hermes. It makes sense.

Agile 60

Agile Viral Social Media Differentiation 60

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 14, 2015

Johansen knows this space, as a distinguished fellow at the Institute for the Future in Silicon Valley, and Ronn is a serial entrepreneur and managing director of Innovation Portfolio Partners in Palo Alto. Maintain the agility to quickly pivot or quit. Social media relationships fuel the scaling fire. Not everything will work.

Intellectual Property 120

Intellectual Property Silicon Valley Startup Cloud 120