SoCal CTO

JUNE 26, 2012

They didn't feel they had visibility into timelines and costs for development of their software. Investors and early customers were becoming worried about the ability of the founder to deliver. A great post , Joe Little starts with acknowledging that Scrum and Agile proponents often downplay upfront planning.

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Software Developers Software Development Agile Fractional CTO 254

The Next Web

MARCH 6, 2014

The business development team needs to see the customer feedback they deliver make it back into the product, and the tech team needs to see reasonable requests to develop new features without a constant stream of changing direction. Systems such as Scrum can help separate departments communicate effectively, and that is an absolute necessity.

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Technical Review Development Team Review Developer Agile 129

Steve Blank

MARCH 2, 2013

By Tuesday morning, students fleshed out what they believed to be their value proposition and customer segments. Scrum boards went up detailing everything they needed to accomplish by Friday afternoon. Tuesday afternoon they got out of the building and headed to a local mall to begin the customer validation and development process.

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Lean SCRUM Ohio Cleveland 308

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

See Customer Development Engineering for my first stab at articulating the theory involved) Ferocious customer-centric rapid iteration, as exemplified by the Customer Development process. Labels: customer development , lean startup 8comments: Amy said. September 11, 2008 2:06 PM Editor said. No more, no less.

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Lean San Francisco Startup Continuous Deployment 168

Gust

AUGUST 22, 2012

Just getting through the day in these countries can try the patience of coddled westerners, accustomed as we are to a relatively high level of efficiency, customer orientation and reliable infrastructure. Perhaps most importantly, IT and Internet business are simply a breed of their own.

Technical Review 172

Technical Review Egypt Morocco Russia 172

steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

signup, upgrade, trial pricing Zuora – online subscription management FeeFighters – find the cheapest credit card processors HealPay – Collections made easy Customer Support Tender – support, knowledgebase tool for your site GetSatisfaction - conversations between companies / customers.

Software Review 110

Software Review Startup Silicon Valley Analytics 110

Steve Blank

MARCH 2, 2013

By Tuesday morning, students fleshed out what they believed to be their value proposition and customer segments. Scrum boards went up detailing everything they needed to accomplish by Friday afternoon. Tuesday afternoon they got out of the building and headed to a local mall to begin the customer validation and development process.

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Lean SCRUM Ohio Cleveland 200

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 29, 2015

In recent years, this community has had greater access to cost-effective technological solutions. 18 percent experienced pricing or cost issues. 14 percent ignored customers. There are several advantages that startups can reap from managed hosting, including more cost-effective access to high-performance IT equipment.

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Hosting Management SCRUM Delaware 100

SVPG

JUNE 5, 2015

In most companies, they’re coming from execs or key stakeholders or business owners, or big customers (or prospective customers), but in any case there are always a whole bunch of things that different parts of the business need us to do. and 2) how much money or time will it cost? Here’s why.

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Product Agile Engineer SCRUM 60

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2020

As a veteran of many disasters in which improvising in the moment to meet an immediate need led to innovative solutions, Carl has been impressed by how many businesses, small and large, have reinvented the way they serve their customers during the pandemic. Then they've gotten to work. It's member-owned.

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Technical Review Balance Sheet Texas Austin 148

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 9, 2009

Rather than use boring section headers, I thought Id just quote from actual customers, in their own words. Thats the essence of so many of the lean startup techniques Ive evangelized: customer development , the Ideas/Code/Data feedback loop , and the adaptation of agile development to the startup experience.

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San Francisco Continuous Deployment Lean Agile 132

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

There are several ways to make progress evident - the Scrum team model is my current favorite. If you have a true cross-functional team, empowered (a la Scrum) to do whatever it takes to succeed its likely they will converge on the result quickly. There are no customers for that feature, UI issues or no. Do you have a spec?

Software Review 144

Software Review Technical Review San Francisco Continuous Deployment 144

View from Seed

AUGUST 5, 2014

Culture bleeds right into our product, our relationships with customers, and our potential impact on the world. We keep ourselves accountable to those goals through company progress dashboards, Scrum, etc. How can it not? We find those people. Clear Goals: We seek to have clear goals — organizational down to individual.

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Cofounder Startup SCRUM Seed Stage 307

ConversionXL

JUNE 2, 2022

Account-based marketing is an extremely targeted approach (one-to-one rather than one-to-many), so it usually has a much higher customer acquisition cost (CAC). Solve customer pain points to build trust, and make sure lead generation content covers bottom-of-funnel topics to lift purchase intent and improve conversion rates.

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Marketing Campaign Email Sales 100

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. Customer service. Google Custom Search Engine. Customer Relationship Management. great web customer acquisition tutorials. tells you how much adwords cost. customer retention, churn reduction, lifetime value. free/cheap web customer relationship mgmt software.

Software Review 53

Software Review Technical Review Startup 53

Up and Running

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

In this episode, Peter and Jonathan discuss Kaizen, Kanban, and Scrum methodology and how they can be applied to small businesses. Atlassian: A Brief Introduction to Scrum. Forbes: Scrum is a Major Management Discovery . Scrum is more of a process, an application of process. You do Scrum every week.

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SCRUM Agile Employee Small Business 60

ctotodevelopers.blogspot.com

JULY 11, 2012

The x-axis depicts technical complexity, risk, and cost which are all related. Use prototyping to lower technical risks and costs. I label this as a business or technical risk because if left unaddressed, it could open the door to new competitors or leave customers with unaddressable needs. customer service. (3).

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 29, 2009

Although it costs to pay down the principal, we gain by reduced interest payments in the future. Unfortunately, customers hated that initial product. In addition, third-party services and API’s enabled us to do more with less, but at a cost: taking on the technical debt of products and teams outside our direct control.

Technical Review 168

Technical Review Software Review San Francisco Lean 168

SVPG

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

If you think the product manager job is what’s described in a Certified Scrum Product Owner class, you almost certainly fall into this category. From the customer’s point of view, they would rather wait a little longer and have a better platform-specific solution, than simultaneously ship a generic product on all platforms.

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Product Technical Review Software Review Engineer 60

Up and Running

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

As a new startup, you’re likely well aware of how inventory costs money and how those costs can quickly add up the longer you go without orders. However, did you also know that it costs your company money when you encounter zero inventory counts? So, how are these two cost categories broken down?

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Management SCRUM Balance Sheet Cost 60

David Teten

OCTOBER 1, 2015

Customer development would be reduced to a single person exercise that could be repeated in parallel dozens of times over, ultimately yielding 30+ companies a year. After releasing the MVP, we work on a lean scrum to iterate based on early data/feedback until we start to see signs of product-market fit. Our model at Casual Corp.

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Software Developers Software Development Software Review Technical Cofounder 60

VC Adventure

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

SAP Global Trade Services, SAP R/3, Other Technologies / ITO Agreements / IT Intel ABC has created a custom application server using Oracle Fusion Middleware and Oracle WebLogic Server called ABC Unified Strategic Information Optimization Network, or FUSION. Citrix Presentation Server 4.0, Citrix Presentation Server 4.5, Oracle PeopleSoft 8.9,

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 24, 2011

Because then you’d miss out on: Whether it’s better experience to build a complete, tiny startup or to do more in-depth customer development for a meatier problem. So that means stuff like thinking about what a business model might be, it does mean customer development. So I have a question for you, Jason. Patrick: Exactly.

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

Youll estimate time and cost better. Also important: Only go for providers who have great reviews from many past customers. I think many people have an idea, but dont really know how to develop their idea into a project specification, how much it should cost, or how long it should take. Misunderstandings cant run on too long.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 16, 2015

It’s analytical, it’s science, its creativity, its technical, its collaboration, its dealing with ambiguity, its building the bridges, it’s project [inaudible 00:01:10], it’s everything, above all, its voice of customer. By keeping our ears to the ground via AB testing, we are honored what a customer truly wanted.

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