The Equity Kicker

JANUARY 27, 2015

Steve Denning, one of the leading business thinkers pushing the business world to abandon the outdated idea of maximising shareholder value has published an interesting article on Forbes titled Why do managers hate agile? The good news for agile fans is that this battle is only going one way.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 16, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, March 16, 2009 Combining agile development with customer development Today I read an excellent blog post that I just had to share. Jim Murphy is a long-time agile practitioner in startups. But startups sometimes have trouble applying agile successfully.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 15, 2014

For us, this means using best of breed cloud hosted services like Adobe Connect and Kaltura , taking advantage of the best open source applications that run the Internet like Apache and MongoDB , and building our own proprietary cloud-hosted tools when appropriate on great platforms like Amazon Web Services and Salesforce.com.

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Transformify

JANUARY 6, 2021

To become more agile in the market, a flexible employee structure is a huge advantage. This software is focused on web-based business tools and IT, including online office instruments and a project management platform. In today’s world, companies need to adapt fast to the ever changing environment.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

applications developed specifically for a particular mobile operating system), or to opt for a web-based application – accessed through a mobile browser – instead? We speak to Luke Lightfoot, works in marketing and client services at UR Mobile , a software company that provides enterprise-level, mobile web solutions.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 6, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, November 6, 2008 Steveys Blog Rants: Good Agile, Bad Agile I thought Id share an interesting post from someone with a decidedly anti-agile point of view. Steveys Blog Rants: Good Agile, Bad Agile : "Google is an exceptionally disciplined company, from a software-engineering perspective.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 4, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, April 4, 2010 Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Kent Beck will give the opening keynote at the Startup Lessons Learned conference on April 23. Labels: sllconf Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Kent Beck will give the opening keynote at the Startup Lessons Learned conference on April 23.

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ctotodevelopers.blogspot.com

JULY 11, 2012

Social, Agile, and Transformation. I cover several topics including agile software development, software startups, web 2.0, Strategic Agile Thinking: Balancing Value, Innovation and Research. 2) The agile "happy place". Agile teams sprint when value is known, implementation is low risk. More to come.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 27, 2019

Their pricing algorithm crawls the Web daily, and adjusts prices to always match the lowest price found anywhere, offline or online. In my view, Amazon illustrates that the world of business management has evolved, from command and control being dominant, to one designed for speed, agility, and scale in serving customers.

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 9, 2024

Develop agility and adaptability Image credit Having agility in decision-making is a vital aspect of achieving business success. Proxies also enable efficient web traffic control and monitoring through geo-restrictions on the resources in their networks. This way, you can avoid being a victim of identity theft.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Dev shops may also have different processes for managing projects One of the most common is called agile development - and has rave reviews due to its emphasis on quick iteration. Most shops that are agile will state it clearly, so look out for this if it’s important to you. Contact references. Catch her on Twitter at @StartupStella.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 25, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, March 25, 2009 The Lean Startup at Agile Vancouver April 21st A surprising number of respondents in the latest Lessons Learned survey hail from one of the flourishing startup hubs in Canada. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. And when did there get to be 3000 of you? Expo SF (May.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

While he correctly understood how to frame his hypotheses with a business model canvas, and he was doing a good job in customer development – the third component of Lean is using Agile Development to rapidly and iteratively build incrementally better versions of the product – in the form of minimal viable products (MVP’s). Lessons Learned.

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

Businesses also demand flexibility, choice, agility, and cost-effectiveness from these enabling technologies to ensure that business capabilities can change with demand, market, trade mission, and more. Thus was born the hybrid cloud model.

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SoCal CTO

APRIL 2, 2013

Do you have a Technical Advisors: Every Web/Mobile Startup Must Have One ? Don't be fooled by a Common Misunderstanding in Agile Software Development. Have you looked through Things You May Have Forgot in Your MVP and provided answers to these? While You Are Building Your MVP Look for the following Symptoms of a Weak Development Team.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

“After reading your post on Why Founders Should Know How to Code it looks like web/mobile startups have it easy. She started by sketching her business model canvas on a napkin, but somehow the conversation quickly shifted to what was really on her mind. But what about for us, a consumer hardware hardware company?

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 17, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, March 17, 2009 Join the Lean Startup discussion at Web 2.0 Expo for free Im honored to announce that my Lean Startup session at the Web 2.0 Although Im not a developer, I am captivated by the lean and agile start-up model that you write about. The chance to not only be at the Web 2.0

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, February 9, 2009 The lean startup @ Web 2.0 Expo (and a call for help) Ive been asked to speak this year at the Web 2.0 It uses principles of agile software development, open source and web 2.0, Im especially interested in hearing from those of you who are planning to attend the Web 2.0

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 28, 2015

I can’t remember if Ryan used the word Agile at that time, but I remember scribbles on a white board that listed out all the different software that Ryan had used at BEA to manage his dev team and how maddening it was to try to integrate information in Word, Excel, Project, a dev workbench, a set of testing tools, and the support / QA system.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 20, 2011

These weren’t 22-year olds who wanted to build a social shopping web site. We taught them the business model / customer development / agile development solution stack. I thought about the common wisdom that only 20-year olds doing Internet startups could be agile. The Innovation Corps Startup Team. The I-Corps Incubator Program.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 27, 2017

Great tech support is about going above a customers’ needs, meaning you need to be agile and adapt to changes in your area of expertise. Nowadays, people will search for an answer to their question on the web long before they actively reach out to you. You can do this by honing in the following areas: 1. Be available.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Thanks to David Walsh, SEO Web Logistics ! #12- 14- No, as I relied on customer feedback Photo Credit: Michael Mastin I relied on agility and adaptability. Doing so ensures we are all pulling in the same direction and that goals are shared. I make sure I have a well-thought-out business plan and update it at least once annually.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 2, 2011

GE’s performance in implementing Customer Development gives lie to the tale that only web startups can be agile. And they’ve being doing this while driving product cost down and performance up. Corporate elephants can dance. So why this post?

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BeyondVC

APRIL 4, 2018

If you are looking for a story about how large enterprises digitally transform themselves into agile software organizations (to the extent they can), then I suggest reading Pivotal’s recently filed S-1 on Friday. Their ascent over the last 5 years mirrors many of the trends we are hearing about on a daily basis; cloud in all forms?—?public,

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semanticuniverse.com

MARCH 9, 2010

This tendency poses a challenge when teaching any new technology (and Semantic Web technology in particular); the key to communicating the innovative value of the new technology lies exactly at the point where previous experience fails to be applicable. Moments While the Semantic Web standards are fundamentally very simple (e.g.,

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 2, 2018

A startup by nature is a small, agile company which is innovating to solve a problem. Unless you’re an expert, it’s worth outsourcing your web design to ensure that you end up with a polished result. Start-ups are lean and designed to grow or scale up quickly. However, a low budget doesn’t mean you have to sacrifice professionalism.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 7, 2023

Senior business leaders, for example, are unlikely to relate when you pitch your latest web app, highlighting the mashup technology, which you derived from early online social networking applications. They become frustrated with investors, senior executives, and even customers who don’t seem to “get it,” with the result that everyone loses.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 3, 2017

You can uncover how to become one of those fully-trained and certified Agile (and its popular Scrum framework) masters with this Agile and Scrum Project Management Certification Bundle. Right now, grab this high-level instruction at just $29 from TNW Deals.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 15, 2017

It dawned on me that we had a department full of people with titles describing process-centric execution while we were in environment that required relentless agility and speed with urgency. But what I wanted was an agile marketing team capable of operating independently without day-to-day direction.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 16, 2018

Companies are embarking on digital transformation journeys to experiment new digital ways of doing business — this means leveraging data smarter to enable unprecedented levels of efficiency, agility, and productivity. Nowadays, consumers and end-users are able to consume content on the go, without having to sit at their desktop PCs.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 13, 2021

At Inorbital we’ve been immersed in web-based project management tools for a several years while all our staff were onsite. 8-Stay agile. 2020 was a year of many lessons, but if I had to pick one takeaway, it would be the importance of agility. It was a short-lived but necessary experiment. Photo Credit: Jimmy Chebat.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 26, 2014

Agile Engineering” to have teams prototype, test, and iterate their idea while discovering if they have a profitable business model. I realized we were trying to conform to a lecture order optimized for web, mobile, hardware. “Customer Development” to test the hypotheses outside the building and.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Mobile and web software apps may cost even less. Many have disappeared, and others have forgotten how to be agile and innovative. Twenty years ago, it cost several million dollars to launch an e-commerce startup, which can be done today for a few thousand dollars. Some VC firms are bogged down by their own weight.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 21, 2011

All the teams were showing us what agile looked like, but this week several would remind us what focused and relentless really meant. There are two major channels: physical channels and virtual (web/mobile) channels. How does the web differ from other channels? Parts one through five are here , Syllabus is here.

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Who’s On Your Team : An assessment is given (the web-based FourSight assessment) to determine each individuals thinking and problem solving style, and a composite score of the team is compiled. It can augment, Lean, Design Thinking or Agile approaches. Listening skills are built and teams learn to collaborate.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 15, 2020

Senior business leaders, for example, are unlikely to relate when you pitch your latest web app, highlighting the mashup technology, which you derived from early online social networking applications. They become frustrated with investors, senior executives, and even customers who don’t seem to “get it,” with the result that everyone loses.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

We think teaching teams a formal methodology around the Lean Framework (Business Model design, Customer Development and Agile Engineering) is a natural evolution of how successful incubators/accelerators will build startups. Here’s the story of one such team; Jonathan Wylie, Lakshmi Shivalingaiah and the Evoke team. Here’s how that happened.

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