Transformify

AUGUST 18, 2022

Having clear documentation and SOPs( standard operating procedures) will shorten the onboarding time dramatically. Agile Delivery. Their portfolios give you a quick overview of how good their work is. All the overhead costs are on their shoulders, leaving you to worry only about their salary and their work output.

Hiring 95

Hiring Technical Review Salary Employee 95

Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 16, 2020

4- Remain agile as a brand. For 2021, my number one goal is to be able to remain agile as a brand to be able to come out on the right side of the changes that are and will continue to come out of the global pandemic because I believe we are shifting to new ways of doing business, a different economy, and changing consumer behavior.

Entrepreneur 147

Entrepreneur Agile Artificial Inteligence San Francisco 147

Where to Play

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

It can fly or roll on any surface, and will actually be able to operate in a wide range of temperatures and pressures. Plants that convert heat energy into electric power, include huge boilers and super-heaters operating under extreme temperatures. Step 3: Designing the Agile Focus Strategy.

Agile 54

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The Equity Kicker

MAY 7, 2013

As much as I seek to empower our portfolio companies to do what they think is right and to avoid over-planning I sympathise with these ‘traditional managers’ in the sense that when you switch from operating with a detailed operating plan to operating without one it feels like you are flying blind.

Development Team Review 94

Development Team Review Business Plan Agile Operations 94

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. VCs crave the ability to help portfolio companies. The Agile Board. What Rob wrote in his post is right. Board Meetings.

Advisory Board 365

Advisory Board CTO Hire Fractional CTO Los Angeles 365

VC Cafe

AUGUST 2, 2022

monthly active end-users who are engaging with content created or operated by Unity solutions in 2020. We’ve yet to see the full scale of Google’s plans in this space, but the relaunch of Google Glass (now only focused on enterprise), new consumer devices (probably smart glasses) and a rumoured new AR operating system.

IP 206

IP Cofounder Valuation Acquisition 206

Steve Blank

JUNE 26, 2015

To move innovation faster, we now have 21 st century tools — Business Model Canvas , Customer Development , Agile Engineering – all adding up to a Lean Startup. And if they’re smart they’ll teach Horizon 1 teams to operate with mission and intent , not just process and procedure.). Fast forward to today.

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Lean Management Business Model Incubator 120

Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

In fact, it was only 7 years ago that Apple shipped its first iPhone and Google introduced its Android operating system. These Key Performance Indicators and processes are what make a company efficient —but they are also the root cause of its inability to be agile and innovative. Apple owned 0%. Act Like a Startup.

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Private Equity Metrics China Intellectual Property 325

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. Analytics is about designing, reporting, and leveraging operating metrics to aid strategic and functional decision-making. Candidate archetypes?

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Analytics Hiring SQL Forecast 149

VC Adventure

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Pretty obvious, given how businesses are operating in this time. This will vary from company to company but several I work with have set up cross-functional task forces to help come up with ideas for how to more efficiently operate/what practices to change to enable and promote remote work across the business.

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Portfolio Employee Agile Finance 91

Up and Running

DECEMBER 17, 2014

Of course, if you’re operating a business, it’s not always a good idea to work in a bubble. Even at its simplest, it’s a great place to manage and make new connections, to find and hire employees, and to build a portfolio that showcases your skills, experience, and abilities. After all, how do you know what your competition is doing?

Entrepreneur 153

Entrepreneur Email SCRUM Stock 153

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

Managers in this area have to take a portfolio approach, promoting ideas that work and might make good candidates for further investment. Stevey's Blog Rants: Good Agile, Bad Agile Learning from Obama: maneuver warfare on the campa. Talking to potential customers and competitors customers. Expo SF (May.

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San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment DC 88

BeyondVC

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

With a focus on seed investing in the mobile, agile, and smart enterprise and business models that harness the power of network effects, our entrepreneurs have successfully been able to raise over $200 million of financing following our initial seed investment. focus on the mobile, agile, and smart enterprise".

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Seed Stage Agile Viral API 110

Venture Chronicles

JUNE 29, 2010

Portfolio: A product portfolio management workbench that analyzes the portfolio investments you are making in your products with the goal of aligning those investments where you are achieving the most reward. Agile: Manages the product engineering methodology according to Agile or hybrid principles.

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Software Portfolio Agile Retention 34

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. So that gives us two different management structures for these two different portfolios.”

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Lean Startup CTO Hire Cofounder 245

Hearpreneur

JANUARY 21, 2017

They do a great job at building an amazing culture, and they are able to keep a small company feel in terms of speed and agility because they keep the teams small and have basically broken the company up into a whole bunch of companies. Today I own and manage a company specifically designed to help people grow their portfolios.

Entrepreneur 48

Entrepreneur Investment Bankers PR Social Media 48

Altgate

NOVEMBER 19, 2016

As an HR expert and organizational transformation consultant, Asif has partnered with organizations in the telecommunication, hospitality, retail, transportation and engineering industries, operating across the globe to help meet future challenges. He focuses on delivering high impact solutions that are strategic yet nimble in nature.

Pakistan 28

Pakistan Arkansas New Jersey Canada 28

Agile VC

APRIL 27, 2012

As many of you may know, we have a section on the NextView website called “Ethos” where we describe five key principles to how we operate. Ethos: What ‘Blank Canvas’ Means to NextView. April 27, 2012. My partners and I have blogged about some of these including Invited Guest , Golazo , Authentic , and Tribe.

Silicon Valley 124

Silicon Valley Seed Stage Syndicate Syndication 124

Austin Startup

AUGUST 30, 2019

I didn’t set out to write a book but as we looked around the market for an operational playbook for sales, we couldn’t find one, so I tapped into my 20 years of sales experience and my network so that we could create a valuable resource for founders everywhere,” said Schwartzfarb.

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Austin Management Los Angeles New York City 48

Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Smart Marketers work hard to ensure that their digital marketing and advertising efforts are focused on the most impactful portfolio of channels. The company truly has a portfolio strategy when it comes to marketing. Shout loudly until the entire company knows what you are up to (and beg for their co-operation). *

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.Net Campaign Analytics Channel 119

Rob Go

JULY 22, 2014

How should you operate in frothy times? These things didn’t happen to companies in our portfolio that day. Maintain agility. This includes both new funds being started with unusual backers , as well as later rounds being led by non-traditional entities. Take your pick, weird stuff is happening. Stay in the game.

Valuation 52

Valuation Agile Equity Acquisition 52

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 1, 2010

Running the “Agile&# Board. Doing nothing between board meetings to me is like running the “ waterfall software development process. &# We all know that modern software companies run on the “ agile &# development process by having short release cycles and frequent communications. You can do calls if need be.

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Software Review Early Stage Agile Partner 301

Hearpreneur

JANUARY 29, 2017

As an e-commerce entrepreneur, this quote resonates with me greatly and it is has guided many aspects of my business operations, especially the user experience design of my website. Getting things done well takes considerable testing and hinges on agile changes; striving for perfection is the opposite mentality.

Entrepreneur 48

Entrepreneur LLC Cofounder Montana 48

Agile VC

MAY 16, 2012

And we invest in US-based startups, primarily on the US east coast though we’ll consider other parts of country on a selective basis (roughly 15-20% of our portfolio is in the SF Bay area). We also invest only in software & internet enabled businesses.

Seed Stage 124

Seed Stage Silicon Valley B2B Syndicate 124

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Joe Felter , Raj Shah and I designed a class to examine the new military systems, operational concepts and doctrines that will emerge from 21st century technologies – Space, Cyber, AI & Machine Learning and Autonomy. And so this very agile, iterative process of bringing new technologies and prototyping systems.

Technology 300

Technology China United States Government 300

YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 7, 2016

This took place hot on the heels the launch of Microsoft’s Surface Pro 4, a 2-in-1 device that run on the full Windows operating system and offers the power to run almost any line-of-business apps for Windows in a light mobile package. In short, SMBs are realising that cloud allows them to operate smarter, not harder – and grow faster.

Cloud 100

Cloud Mobile Asia Agile 100

Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 25, 2019

Having been a journalist myself, I’ve experienced first hand the pains of sending lists of links or PDF files to editors – or, to anyone interested in my writing portfolio. Also, it was rather an operational than a technological business. At that time, I wanted something simple and easy to update.

Entrepreneur 131

Entrepreneur Technical Review LLC Software Review 131

ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

You’ve likely heard the advice to “diversify your portfolio” of investments. Generally, businesses with multiple revenue streams tend to operate more consistently than their single-stream counterparts. Do you need to make sure your business is agile and focused enough to scale over time? Diversification and protection.

Revenue 127

Revenue Startup Affiliate Advertising 127

Agile VC

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

On paper, VC portfolios perform well. Two of the three have gross margins <50% (AMZN is 40%, AAPL 38%, MSFT 67%) and one has operating profit margins <5% (AMZN 4%, AAPL 22%, MSFT 34%). Secondary transaction liquidity also starts to become a reality for founders and early investors. 2017-2018: Rediscovery of Unit Economics.

IPO 100

IPO Early Stage Cofounder B2C 100

Agile VC

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Some VC firms have eschewed taking direct investments from public pension funds, as state laws now sometimes require these pension funds to publicly disclose information about their investments that VCs consider sensitive, confidential info, like fund-level returns or individual companies in the portfolio. Endowments. new buildings, etc).

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Venture Capital LP Private Equity Institutional Investors 279

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

His reaction reminded me one more time why entrepreneurship is an art, why VC’s manage portfolios of companies and why new ideas come from those who don’t respect the status quo. The mentor tried his best to get the team to look at the actual operating data that exists for this kind of service and the likely regulatory hurdles they will find.

Vertical 332

Vertical Agile Customer Development Lean 332

Agile VC

DECEMBER 6, 2012

This person is an experienced CEO and a veteran of several startups, yet appreciating this nuance of how VC’s operate their business was relatively unfamiliar to him. I was talking with an entrepreneur recently about this phenomenon. If Acme Ventures III, LP invests in Startup X then typically Acme Ventures IV, LP would not.

LP 178

LP Balance Sheet Differentiation Limited Partner 178

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

His reaction reminded me one more time why entrepreneurship is an art, why VC’s manage portfolios of companies and why new ideas come from those who don’t respect the status quo. The mentor tried his best to get the team to look at the actual operating data that exists for this kind of service and the likely regulatory hurdles they will find.

Customer Development 224

Customer Development Vertical Agile Lean 224

Occam's Razor

APRIL 23, 2012

We are trying to… This is the operative word: Trying. But if you want to be an agile, nimble competitor, it is a discussion you have to have. An optimal inbound marketing portfolio will have balanced Owned, Paid and Earned channels.]. The reality is that there is a vacuum there. The debate is important.

Metrics 152

Metrics Analytics Search Channel 152

Agile VC

FEBRUARY 9, 2012

That’s because intermediaries like bankers/brokers, and even internal cold-call sourcing operations, create more standardized access to and information about potential deals. Also these are typically more mature assets that can be analyzed and understood in broader ways than a de novo startup.

Seed Stage 100

Seed Stage Framework Silicon Valley Early Stage 100

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Agile project management tool that enables real time collaboration. Agile project management. agile product management. agile product management and Scrum tool. Agile project management tool collaborative product life-cycle. Automates Agile / Scrum development. Agile eLearning. VC Portfolios.

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Software Review Technical Review Startup 53