crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2016

The biggest trend in marketing in 2016 has been the idea of “agile marketing.” In a survey conducted by Workfront and Marketing Profs, roughly 30% of marketers are already using an agile methodology in their departments. In other words, make sure your team management is agile (in the more conventional sense) as well.

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Brandanew

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Susan David is a leading academic and researcher on emotional agility , so if you are one of the 10 million people who saw her TED talk , you already know about this. What is emotional agility? Our nimbleness in being able to accept feelings to use them as data points is what David describes as being emotionally agile.

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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. Good performance management is more about rewarding desirable behavior than penalizing bad performance.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

by Aaron Adlem, Managing Director at Mercury IT Solutions UK. With a nation-wide reliance on remote working schemes calling for countless employees to carry out the business’ essential processes from their own homes – proficient IT support and management has never been so important. Data Storage and Management.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Startup companies often face numerous obstacles that stand in the way of their desired level of success—from lack of planning to inability to scale up or poor management to neglecting marketing. However, there is no better source than the actual customer using the product in the present. Agility, Adaptiveness, and Responsiveness.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 11, 2016

A big part of adopting Lean Startup in an established company involves fundamentally shifting the way organizations manage people and ideas. 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.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 16, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, March 16, 2009 Combining agile development with customer development Today I read an excellent blog post that I just had to share. Jim Murphy is a long-time agile practitioner in startups. But startups sometimes have trouble applying agile successfully. Anyway, thanks Jim for the great post.

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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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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 27, 2019

Thus I was pleased to see the evidence confirming that perspective in a new book, “ The Amazon Management System ,” by Ram Charan and Julia Yang. They present a convincing story that every entrepreneur has the same potential, but most get sidetracked and bogged down by their technology, competitors, and internal organization.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

APRIL 16, 2024

This article will review the effect instant shipping quotes have on the logistics industry, examining the subtle differences of cost savings, time management, and the competitive advantages they deliver. Accuracy of the rates eschews unforeseen expenses, enhancing predictability in operational budgeting.

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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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Steve Blank

MARCH 26, 2019

The team presentations are at the end of this post. The class was unique in that it was 1) team-based, 2) experiential, 3) lean-driven (hypothesis testing/business model/customer development/agile engineering). It’s the same, but different. We just finished the 8 th annual Lean LaunchPad class at Stanford. Class Velocity/Depth.

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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. Kinsman’s experiences with his agency, Base Creative, present an intriguing case study for small businesses. It makes sense.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Due to a small work environment, there is very little paperwork involved in startups, especially in agile development. Your internal culture should be reflected in every piece of presentation, website design and product that comes out of your shop. Adopt an Agile Work Environment. Less Bureaucracy. Network Early and Constantly.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 4, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, November 4, 2008 Principles of Lean Startups, presentation for Maples Investments Image via Wikipedia Steve Blank and I had the opportunity to create a presentation about lean startups for Maples Investments. Agile software development. This speeds up the Ideas-Code-Data feedback loop.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 27, 2017

Great tech support is about going above a customers’ needs, meaning you need to be agile and adapt to changes in your area of expertise. James Ontra is CEO of presentation management company Shufflrr. So what does great tech support mean and how can you use it to acquire customers and generate new opportunities? Be available.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

The most evident and present danger that startups face amid the pandemic is decreasing investment. Most startups have been competent in managing their cash burn by determining how they spend and utilizing government subsidies to meet their goals. Startup Survival Tactics During the Pandemic. Adaptability goes hand in hand with speed.

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Technology’s Pervasive Influence The digital age, marked by an unprecedented surge in technological advancements, presents a dual-faced paradigm. Globalization and Supply Chain Vulnerabilities The relentless march of globalization has led to supply chains that span continents, presenting both opportunities and risks.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

This change has presented a challenge for the news and media companies to adopt digital technologies for their business operations. However, these technological developments have also presented a special opportunity for companies to understand what their customers need and how they interact with their businesses.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 9, 2023

5- By embracing challenges Photo Credit: Ori Fruhauf Managing a business in the midst of economic instability is definitely challenging, but also a great opportunity. It definitely makes managing the company harder, but it’s also a great motivator. Scenario planning, strategic cost management, diversification, flexibility, and agility.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 5, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, October 5, 2008 The product managers lament Life is not easy when youre working in an old-fashioned waterfall development process, no matter what role you play. The product manager was clearly struggling to get results from the rest of the team. Lets start with what the product manager does.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 12, 2010

Over time at my first startup our developers encouraged us to move to Agile development. So when I read my post it sounded to me more like a new philosophy for “The Agile Board,&# so I put that as my subtitle. Nivi (from VentureHacks ) said it best: “Agile is about short feedback loops. I liked that.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 2, 2022

An important thing to invest in is a website or an application to tell about your services and present all the menus. ERP will integrate and manage finance, order supply chains, user operations, reporting, manufacturing, and human resources. An aspiring entrepreneur does not need a lot of investment.

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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. Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? Thank you so much!) Expo SF (May.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

Presenting your startup vision as a founder to a potential investor, or presenting an idea as an employee to an executive, requires that you effectively communicate, or “translate”, the value proposition into terms that the receiver can fully understand and appreciate. If you fail, it’s your loss, not theirs, no matter what the reason.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 10, 2012

I did a presentation recently for a graduate class from The Founder Institute around getting online/mobile products out the door. I LOVED it because, the presenting part was over quickly and we got into specific issues that the founders had in terms of getting things built. They will have the title Lead or Manager.

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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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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 25, 2021

But this is a minor change compared to the next generation of workforce management. Today’s HR departments and organizations rely on HR software like Rippling to handle things like payroll, benefits management, and employee device management. In the future, this is going to become an even bigger priority.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 10, 2023

By presenting your plans in an organized manner to potential investors and lenders, you increase the chances of them taking action and providing the resources necessary for you to get started or expand. #4- 14- No, as I relied on customer feedback Photo Credit: Michael Mastin I relied on agility and adaptability.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 27, 2011

student of our MS&E department at Stanford ,) where they are set on being a leader in developing the management science of entrepreneurship. This startup search process is the business model / customer development / agile development solution stack. The 47th (-46) Annual Business Model Competition.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 28, 2011

Presenting your startup vision as a founder to a potential investor, or presenting an idea as an employee to an executive, requires that you effectively communicate, or “translate”, the value proposition into terms that the receiver can fully understand and appreciate. If you fail, it’s your loss, not theirs, no matter what the reason.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2017

Eight teams presented their Lessons Learned presentations. Eight teams spoke to over 800 beneficiaries, requirements writers, program managers, warfighters, legal, security, customers, etc. Each of their slide presentation follow their customer discovery journey. The video of the team presenting is below.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 28, 2015

I remember my friend Ryan Martens sitting down with me and Chris Wand around 2001 and walking us through his idea for changing the how he approached managing the software development process. Ryan had a vision for an integration web-based system to layer on top of all of this to help support and manage the software development process.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 3, 2016

Today the eight teams presented their Lessons Learned presentations. Because of the embedded presentations this post is best viewed on the website.). This is a first step to a more agile, responsive and resilient, approach to national security in the 21 st century. You can watch the entire presentation here.

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

The Tuckman Model is presented and each team workshops their progress towards high effectiveness. Conflict Management: Conflict, or the avoidance of it, is the biggest barrier to team productivity. Teams are made aware of the relationship between diversity and conflict, and given tools on how to manage that polarity.

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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. Risk Management Tools. The department launched a pilot program with commercial risk management tools. Now, I think of this as we think of ISO quality.

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