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How to Solve Problems in Your Business: Kanban, Kaizen and Scrum

Up and Running

And in this arena, they observed a deceptively simple relationship between customers and the stores they shopped in: that customers traditionally retrieve only the items they need when they need them; in turn, that stores stock only what customers need at any given time. Scrum: a flexible way to manage product development.

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Building Great Founding Teams

Steve Blank

Key attributes of an entrepreneur on a founding team are passion, determination, resilience, tenacity, agility and curiosity. What sets them apart from the rest of the team is that they can project a fearless reality distortion field that they use to recruit, fund raise, pivot and position the company. FIgure out who you are.

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Paul Graham on fundraising

Startup Lessons Learned

but rest assured they would be. But the investor is already being compensated for that risk in the low price of the stock, so it is unfair to delay. Alas, they arent published in a dead-tree medium yet, so I cant say something like "they are the essential reference on my bookcase." more data about their trajectory. Even VCs do it.

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The Sharp End of the Stick « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

My way of explaining our support and service role to the marketing department was that: Sales is the sharp end of the stick, and marketing at best, is the stick. But while the sales team works for commission, the rest of the employees have equity (stock) in the company. No one was confused after that. Who’s on the Sharp End?

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Assessing fit with the Wisdom of Crowds

Startup Lessons Learned

Similar mechanisms are at work in the stock market, Google PageRank , and guessing an oxs weight at the state fair. When doing the post-interview team meeting, it was common for the first opinion expressed about a candidate to become the prevailing opinion of the rest of the team members. Expo SF (May.

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Three decisions to make on virtual goods

Startup Lessons Learned

Your challenge will be incentivizing your developers to create, and managing the volume of their output. And what do you do with the rest? Yes, I have had to deal with developers on strike. How do you help customers find the best of the best? And you may find yourself at the whim of some pretty unstable people. Expo SF (May.

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How to Build Robust User Personas in Under a Month

ConversionXL

The first, according to Dr. David Travis at UserFocus , was agile development : Dr. David Travis: “‘Development’ teams morphed into ‘design’ teams. To use the agile terminology, design teams wanted to get a ‘shared understanding’ of their users and they were suspicious of any attempt to set requirements in concrete.”.