TechEmpower

OCTOBER 9, 2023

This presents businesses with an opportunity to enhance their search functionalities for both internal and external users. With Generative AI and LLMs, new avenues for improving operational efficiency and user satisfaction are emerging every day. Strive for a balanced outcome.

Artificial Inteligence 346

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Steve Blank

JULY 13, 2021

With Lean LaunchPad, we were going to toss teaching the business plan aside and try to teach students a completely new, hands-on approach to starting companies – one which combines customer development, agile development, business models and pivots. Lean-driven (hypothesis testing/business model/customer development/agile engineering).

Lean 436

Lean Agile Business Model Business Plan 436

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2013

He has grown our US operations from 1 employee (him) to a global organization of 75 employees that will finish the year with 8-digit revenues (90+% recurring) and more than 350% year-over-year growth. By being so metrics driven we can have a lot more quantifiable and objective discussions at board meetings and at mid-point reviews. .

Advisory Board 365

Advisory Board CTO Hire Fractional CTO Los Angeles 365

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

But by taking advantage of open source, agile software, and iterative development, lean startups can operate with much less waste. So far, I have found "lean startup" works better with the entrepreneurs Ive talked to than "agile startup" or even "extreme startup.") The lean startup is an application of Lean Thinking.

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Lean San Francisco Startup Continuous Deployment 168

View from Seed

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Analytics is about designing, reporting, and leveraging operating metrics to aid strategic and functional decision-making. These are operating metrics because they are not part of GAAP financial statements, even though they are critical for everyone from the CEO to marketers and PMs to make data-informed decision on a daily basis.

Analytics 149

Analytics Hiring SQL Forecast 149

Occam's Razor

MAY 2, 2017

The very best analysts are comfortable operating with ambiguity and incompleteness, while all others chase perfection in implementation / processing / reports. There is no golden metric for everyone, we are all unique snowflakes! :). and tell you what are the best key performance indicators (metrics) for them.

Metrics 141

Metrics Acquisition eCommerce Analytics 141

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

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

Demand 167

Demand San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment 167

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 5, 2008

Eventually, I hope to get them on a full agile diet, with TDD, scrums, sprints, pair programming, and more. Indeed the first thing I thought when I read the first paragraphs that the product manager was operating in a white tower and that the developers felt disenfranchised. October 6, 2008 12:17 AM r& said. Expo SF (May.

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San Francisco Management Software Review Product 158

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

What we do is try to help make sure that the way of working—the operating system, the culture, the organization's design—is well-matched to that challenge. Because right now we mostly operate on a factory model from a hundred years ago, which is all about the linear. So you need to be conscious of the context you're operating in.

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Lean Founder Las Vegas Startup 83

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

Growth - when you have existing customers, the pressure is on to grow your key metrics day-in day-out. 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.

San Francisco 88

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment DC 88

Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

Similar results apply in product management, design, testing, and even operations. When operating with continuous deployment, its almost impossible to have integration conflicts. Sounds very similar to agile development which is the way. Today, I want to talk about the reasons smaller batches are better. Expo SF (May.

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San Francisco Software Review Continuous Deployment Development Team Review 161

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.

Customer Development 168

Customer Development Developer San Francisco Customer 168

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

Every board meeting, the metrics of success change. Compared to the million-dollar startup, they are operating at micro-scale. Go on an agile diet quickly. With a product development team that is not shipping, any agile methodology will surface major problems quickly. And yet, their investors are frustrated. Great post!

Customer 167

Customer San Francisco Lean Hockey Stick 167

Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 8, 2009

That’s because many of our reports feed us vanity metrics: numbers that make us look good but don’t really help make decisions. Yet even among those who have access to good actionable metrics, I’ve noticed a phenomenon that prevents taking maximum advantage of data. Too much of this data is non- actionable.

San Francisco 84

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment DC 84

Women Entrepreneurs Can

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

It presents a golden opportunity for small businesses to enhance their brand visibility and drive sales. This agility enables you to make informed decisions, optimizing your advertising efforts for maximum impact. Use analytics tools to track metrics and conversion rates. billion in 2024.

Advertising 52

Advertising Small Business Campaign Audience 52

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

Each brave presenter gets five minutes and 20 slides—which advance automatically every 15 seconds. For example, in an enterprise context, moving to continuous delivery can mean making significant architectural changes and changing the culture of development, testing, and operations teams.

Continuous Deployment 162

Continuous Deployment Norway Lean Analytics 162

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 29, 2009

I hope to show why lean and agile techniques actually reduce the negative impacts of technical debt and increase our ability to take advantage of its positive effects. Yet other agile principles suggest the opposite, as in YAGNI and DoTheSimplestThingThatCouldPossiblyWork. Real life seldom presents such comparable choices.

Technical Review 168

Technical Review Software Review San Francisco Lean 168

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 9, 2010

In management jobs related to operations – that is, the people tasked with actually making and distributing physical products – this kind of thinking is now considered ludicrous, thanks to a century of progress. Probably not; it’s much easier to blame the particular person who made the mistakes. Expo SF (May.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2010

Business schools teach aspiring executives a variety of courses around the execution of known business models, (accounting, organizational behavior, managerial skills, marketing, operations, etc.). There are few courses which teach aspiring entrepreneurs the skills (business models, customer and agile development, design thinking, etc.)

Wiki 316

Wiki Lean Management Business Model 316

Occam's Razor

APRIL 15, 2019

Factually presented. Bubble Kings most commonly reside in organizations where there is little to no accountability (or misplaced accountability, ex: celebration of vanity metrics). The operative instinct is to maintain mediocrity with just enough reality massaging flowing upstream to ensure existing mediocrity is not utterly obvious.

Leadership 79

Leadership Non-Compete Analytics Software Review 79

Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 28, 2009

You can train your operations or customer service staff on how it works - all live in the production environment. Some of these benefits are shared by agile systems which have continuous integration but large batch releases, but others are unique to continuous deployment. Monitoring of real-world metrics. I just dont believe it.

Continuous Deployment 122

Continuous Deployment San Francisco Lean Metrics 122

Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 18, 2010

Many people still find this idea challenging, even for companies that operate solely on the web. This case presents a further complication: desktop software. If you are a start-up with a MVP, there is no better time to adopt a continuous deployment process than the present.

Continuous Deployment 151

Continuous Deployment San Francisco Lean Wiki 151

ConversionXL

MAY 22, 2017

As very often happens, to understand the present, you have to know the past. All manual operations. SaaS stacks give companies the agility they need to move fast, but often they are the cause of a huge data fragmentation. Contact Management: The Beginning. launched a contact management software.

Customer 92

Customer Marketing Artificial Inteligence Clickthrough 92

Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 19, 2009

This is another sub-optimization caused by incentivizing the wrong metric. For example, lets say you dont have an operations team, and so youre still getting paged late at night when servers crash. Is it time to make your first operations hire? This is a variant of the time-quality-money fallacy , and it is not necessarily true.

Lean 140

Lean Hiring San Francisco Continuous Deployment 140

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 18, 2008

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

San Francisco 60

San Francisco Continuous Deployment Lean DC 60

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 20, 2008

When I first encountered agile software techniques, in the form of extreme programming , I thought I had found the answer. I explained it to people this way: agile lets you make the trade-offs visible to whole company, so that they can make informed choices. Even worse, agile wasnt really helping me ship higher quality software.

Software Review 164

Software Review Engineer Management Technical Review 164

Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 15, 2009

For example, imagine a team operating in a traditional waterfall development system, without continuous deployment, test-driven development, or continuous integration. So we need to find solutions that operate at the systems level to break teams out of this pincer action. Expo SF (May.

Continuous Deployment 167

Continuous Deployment Software Review San Francisco Lean 167

Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 4, 2009

Today, Id like to spend some time on two techniques: the problem presentation and learning what channels of information reach customers. If you are grappling with understanding what problem your product solves, try building a "problem presentation." Since my subscriber count has doubled again (thanks!), Thats an early adopter.

San Francisco 68

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment DC 68

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 8, 2009

Lean methods present a third option: to invest in our process so that our design gets more feedback sooner and is more adaptable to changes in purpose. There is not "just product development" in a startup - the context of extreme uncertainty that we operate in means that every choice we make impacts the whole company.

Software Review 87

Software Review Design Software San Francisco 87

The Next Web

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

Unfortunately, most startups don’t operate in a space with a lot of stability. Whenever stability is not present, the fundamentally 20th century scientific management tools are not going to work,” Ries said. It’s time to use a different set of metrics and accounting systems to measure progress in new or unstable industries.

Forecast 136

Forecast Startup Metrics Agile 136

Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2009

You are quite right about openness with the present devices like iPhone, back in the day even Microsoft was pretty open with GW Basic. these devices all need human instruction to enable correct and desired operation. I remember learning LOGO when I was 10, me and my buddy created a House using LT and RT. then it was GW BASIC.

Programming 143

Programming San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment 143

SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

I did a presentation this week at Coloft that looked at how Non-Technical Founders can go about getting their MVP built. Once you build it, they will now ask you about the key metrics that they need proven in order to see if you really are a good investment. " Once you have the metrics defined, it focuses your effort.

Technical Cofounder 338

Technical Cofounder Technical Review CTO Hire Fractional CTO 338

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Some are strategic peers, some are near peers in specific areas, some are threats as non-state disrupters operating with no rules. Army’s Rapid Equipping Force on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan finding and deploying technology solutions against agile insurgents. Newell ran the U.S.

Community 237

Community Silicon Valley Technical Review Incubator 237

ConversionXL

AUGUST 4, 2020

You do CX a disservice if you focus only on metrics like NPS. To succeed, you need to tie your improvements directly to revenue, reduced churn , lower operational costs, etc. Start by researching your options on Google and follow the paths presented to you. waterfall, agile , etc.)? waterfall, agile, etc.)?

SQL 117

SQL Software Review Agile Metrics 117

Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 23, 2009

Pretty soon you’re chasing your own tail a little bit because you’re not operating against a clear, long-term vision of what you’re trying to accomplish. I started writing and teaching about shipping imperfect products a few years ago but this is a far better, practical and more powerful presentation. Expo SF (May.

San Francisco 167

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment Audio 167

ConversionXL

JULY 16, 2019

Taking lessons from agile project management (specifically: sprints), I’ll show you how to build more effective, less assumptive, marketing campaigns. Once you understand the goal, you can move on to the research—how you’ll achieve it and the specific targets and metrics that indicate “success.”. Adapting sprints for marketing.

Framework 114

Framework Management Marketing Campaign 114

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 21, 2008

Lean startups operate by a different standard. Everything else (including a lot of traditional "agile" or "lean" tactics) is waste. Lean startups operate by a different standard." Eric, what kind of agile or lean tactics are generally wasteful in a startup? aka "how you get to product/market fit.") Expo SF (May.

Lean 121

Lean San Francisco Continuous Deployment Startup 121