Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

But, as any startup can tell you, this opens up a tremendous set of opportunities for the rest of us. But for the rest of us, who create content because we care passionately about having an impact on the world, we need to rethink the process by which we do it. For established media empires, this is a scary fact. Expo SF (May.

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APRIL 6, 2009

Forty years before Agile Development methodologies became popular, ESL had analysts from its &# customer&# sitting side-by-side with ESL engineers designing new equipment together. And the rest is history. These would be the heart of ESL’s business. Arms control with the U.S.

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Agile VC

FEBRUARY 28, 2013

They’d probably divest the theme park business but the rest of Disney would give Apple an incredible platform to rethink video @ home in an on demand world. 3) Vertically Integrate - Apple could also vertically integrate in more radical ways.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 30, 2009

Hopefully you and your co-founders are experts in one or two parts (agile development, SEO/SEM, etc.) But the rest; sales, marketing, bus dev is actually customer development that the founder needs to understand. Initially your job is to understand each of the parts of your business model before you hire someone to do it.

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Steve Blank

MAY 18, 2009

We agreed that all her founding CEOs seemed to have the same set of personality traits – tenacious, passionate, relentless, resilient, agile, and comfortable operating in chaos. I coach agile teams for a living, and I do most of my work with start-ups. Therefore I’m not sure what to make of the rest of their conclusions.

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Steve Blank

MAY 4, 2009

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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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 5, 2014

Masterful execution makes up one of the triangle’s two vertical sides. (I A strong soft edge makes a company resilient and agile — even in the face of the occasional C-suite disagreement. Rest assured these meetings aren’t spent with everyone in agreement, congratulating each other on their perfect ideas.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 7, 2009

You don’t get grades for having resiliency, curiosity, agility, resourcefulness, pattern recognition and tenacity. A+ in one or two courses every semester and mediocre in the rest. There’s a big difference between being an employee at a great technology company and having the guts to start one. You just get successful.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 24, 2018

And while companies might still organize themselves as a hierarchy, how we get work done now is less vertical and much more horizontal. Do your part, but work with colleagues across the organization to execute the strategy, to be agile, to drive innovation, all those things that companies are really working hard to drive and be successful.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Curved lines are visibly flexible and can communicate agility and reactivity. Horizontal vs vertical vs diagonal lines. Unlike vertical or diagonal lines, they look as though gravity has already acted upon them and there is nowhere for them to fall. This means that horizontal is the most restful and stable line position.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 28, 2009

The signals displayed by the ALR-20 were used to control the jammers of the rest of electronic countermeasures systems – putting out enormous number of kilowatts using brute force noise jamming and later on some much more sophisticated jamming techniques. And because of his training, an EWO could identify and prioritize the threats.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

oz burgers as fast as possible, and commit the rest of your career to an endless series of McDonalds menus. The rest of us have some fine dining to enjoy. I doubt anything can beat it the rest of this year. It’s like arguing against vertical software. Self-aggrandizing blowhards like yourself are a dime a dozen.

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