mashable.com

MAY 9, 2011

Not only do they need to have a high level of diversified technical prowess and proficiency, but they also need to possess strong leadership and project management capabilities. However, it’s more important that the CTO have exceptional interpersonal skills and be able to manage a team effectively. ); // Welcome to Mashable!

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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. In other words, if there’s any one way to control whether a post goes viral, quality is it. Include a free offer: This is a good way to get contact info.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 12, 2008

vs. sustainable: Compare this to the renewable strategies, like viral marketing, SEO, widgets, and ads, which can scale into 10s of millions of users but are primarily centered around tough, non-user centric work. Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? Expo SF (May.

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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.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

These founders have not managed, to borrow a phrase from Steve Blank , to create a scalable and repeatable sales process. Products can find sources of validation with impressive stats along a number of dimensions, such as high engagement, viral coefficient, or long-term retention. Go on an agile diet quickly. Great post!

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The Next Web

JUNE 29, 2012

Like every startup out there mine is also after the holy grail of finding our viral loop — our interpretation of “invite a friend and get 1 GB free” of DropBox. I cannot stress enough the importance of finding the viral loop. If you don’t have a critical mass of users or customers you cannot start thinking about going viral.

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Board Effect

AUGUST 30, 2019

One comment on social media from a client citing their lack of trust in a company can go viral within minutes and create a public outrage even if the comments are untrue. A strong relationship between the CIO and the board will yield numerous benefits as each fulfills their role in cybersecurity management and oversight.

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Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

We were post product and had viral growth, albeit at very small scale and still had to evangelize the concept of a vital coefficient w/ most investors. Btw, here’s our startup [link] We are bringing yield management to the restaurant industry. link] leehower. It was a pretty good valuation for the time. A lot has changed.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 29, 2020

There has never been a viral outbreak of such magnitude before. Thus, you must manage your available finances wisely. Eric Ries, the founder of theleanstartup.com , states that the lean startup philosophy“provides a scientific approach to creating and managing startups and get the desired product to customers’ hands faster.”.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

If its part of a viral loop, its probably trying to get them to invite more friends (on average). 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.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

And the back-end is something that a non-technical founder can manage. Investors my tell you that, but what they can look at your product on paper and tell what it does and they will understand if it can be built. WordPress is pretty easy to hack. We end up using WordPress a lot as the marketing front-end of our web sites.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

Not being caught up in a corporate management structure gives me the freedom and agility to be at the top of our game. You often are required to go through several layers of management in the attempt to properly take care of a customer’s issue. And, not being stuck in the 9 to 5 grind is an added bonus.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 27, 2009

Google has shown their awareness of this issue by carefully managing the annoyance-factor of ads that are shown during search. At a high level, anything that drives virality should be free. To take your specific example about virality - why do we want to have more users sign up? January 28, 2009 1:54 AM startupcfo said.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 5, 2022

Specifically, I plan on putting out one study per quarter that I'll send out to reporters and hopefully get viral coverage on social media. It's important to keep business agile. After a thorough workflow audit, we’ve realized that we need to streamline our process workflow in order to become more agile.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 3, 2018

Corporate Agility. Transparency correlates to agility (Does your CEO know how many tests you ran last month?). Virality: # of users that refer your product for you: exponential growth if your K factor is greater than 1. Dropbox: first achieved growth through virality. Managing a lot at once. Culture of Innovation.

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Retention Artificial Inteligence Channel Email 106

Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 16, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, December 16, 2008 Engagement loops: beyond viral Theres a great and growing corpus of writing about viral loops, the step-by-step optimizations you can use to encourage maximum growth of online products by having customers invite each other to join. This is essentially a version of the viral loop.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 11, 2009

If you ask an expert in Facebook apps to come help build yours, youll usually hear the same advice: build your app for virality. Thats sensible advice; most people who have made a business on Facebook rely on the viral driver of growth. If you have a virally-growing app, you dont need the extra installs. . Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2009

In a previous post , I covered the three main drivers of growth: Paid, Sticky, and Viral. Let’s look at a viral growth company, like Facebook. If you are building a large, viral, ad-support consumer internet property, you just want to go big! They’re off to cross the chasm. As soon as possible!&#

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

Managing your cash position when forecasted sales aren’t being achieved is tough, and if you are spending more than you are generating and cash piles are dwindling, now is the time to address your financial position. One of the great benefits of a startup is their ability to be agile and adapt quickly to a changing environment.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Brand momentum can be calculated similarly to physical momentum (mass x velocity): Brand momentum = brand mass (your company’s size, reputation, and relevance) x brand velocity (speed of growth, agility in keeping up with industry changes). Take Tesla. It could be argued that they are driving these changes). Brand awareness and recall.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 24, 2009

This is a common problem that results from viral-loop optimization. By copying the exact same registration flow as every other successful viral app, many viral apps completely lose their positioning. Heres why I dont think engagement loops are that helpful: unlike viral loops, its not bad if its not self-sustaining.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 7, 2008

On the web, we have many of these channels: SEM, SEO, world of mouth, PR and viral. If your app has strong word-of-mouth or viral components, your retention drives new acquisition, and its not so important to have good placement in the store. Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

On Facebook, viral distribution has proved decisive. Those companies who have learned to build apps that optimize the viral loop dominate in every category where they compete. So far, I dont see any apps that have much in the way of viral distribution. We're leading the charge in enabling viral distribution for iPhone apps.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 13, 2009

If the viral coefficient is 0.9, We didnt manage todo that yet. I think it comes down to managing risk. 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?

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 11, 2009

It was as if each advocate sensed that they were about to be ambushed; if another team had managed to bring clarity to the situation, that might have benefited them – so the rational response was to obfuscate as much as possible. What a waste. Putting it all together, let me illustrate with an example from another company. What a waste.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 7, 2008

In a few cases, they are clearly smart people in a bad situation, and Ive written about their pain in The product managers lament and The engineering managers lament. The last thing you need is a manager telling you how to do your job. If youve ever been abused by a bad manager in your career, its easy to become traumatized.

Software Review 94

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 14, 2019

It’s super easy to use, and you can add benefits and management tools to help take care of your team and keep your business safe. This is something I actually learned from my time working for a software company, which is something called agile methodology. It went viral as the kids say. It’s loyal. It’s modern.

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Technical Review Campaign Software Review Agile 52

Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 6, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, December 6, 2008 The four kinds of work, and how to get them done: part three Those startups that manage to build a product people want have to deal with the consequences of that success. You could easily manage that as two 30-day scrums, or four two-week sprints. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 30, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, December 30, 2008 Assessing fit with the Wisdom of Crowds When I wrote earlier about how to conduct a good technical interview , I had only a few things to say about how to assess if the candidate fits in with the team, including this: This responsibility falls squarely to the hiring manager.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 8, 2008

My manager, part of the QA group, gave me a tour of a site and we entered a huge depressing warehouse stacked full with cubes. 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?

Software Review 136

Software Review San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment 136

Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

I used a freelance web designer and I only created the core functions to create, send, and manage invoices. Noah says, “Agile is what most software companies use. You can learn more about the agile development methodology on Version One’s site. Use a development methodology. Keep core development in-house.

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Software Review Software Delaware Forecast 74

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 29, 2008

Revenue is always my preferred measure, but you can use anything that is important to your business: retention, activation, viral invites, or even customer satisfaction in the form of something like net promoter score. Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? tool for a large public Utility.

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Austin Startup

JULY 17, 2019

photo credit: Scott Francis If you follow my posts here or over on BP3’s blog , you know that I’ve been working with clients who are building automation solutions across many years, industries, business climates, and management fads. Often we confuse executive sponsorship or management, with leadership. we’ve all seen it happen.

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Architecture Artificial Inteligence Leadership Austin 49

mashable.com

MAY 5, 2011

But the fact that it managed to get thousands of people to take blind action (before the site even launched) with so much competition for early adopters is quite powerful. Create Viral Content Infographics startup Visual.ly ); //]]> Welcome to Mashable! Sign in with Facebook or Twitter to get started! I am gonna try for my new site.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 7, 2010

Or should you focus on user engagement or virality? Or should you focus on user engagement or virality? 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?

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San Francisco Lean Metrics Design 154

Up and Running

JANUARY 20, 2015

How Coca-Cola Learned to Combine Scale and Agility (and How You Can Too). From the description: “In ‘Design to Grow,’ a Coca-Cola senior executive shares both the successes and failures of one of the world’s largest companies as it learns to use design to be both agile and big. Design to Grow. By Rodd Wagner.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 20, 2012

In existing companies, the goal of traditional product management and marketing is to develop a market-requirements document (MRD) for engineering that contains the sum of all possible customer feature requests, prioritized in a collaborative effort among Product Management, Marketing, Sales and Engineering.

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