OnlyOnce

APRIL 23, 2024

Normally, I’m in favor of small government and fewer regulations, but this is one where I think the government has a legitimate interest in setting up guardrails to a free market. They’re about as American as the metric system and hereditary dictatorships. But by and large, I say good riddance to non-competes.

Non-Compete 71

Non-Compete Covenant California Government 71

Haystack

DECEMBER 29, 2018

Also during this time, the underlying metrics in that business can change positively, potentially trapping companies to accept the initially-agreed upon valuation. Governments blocking acquisitions, the curtailment of company expansion, more scrutiny on overseas operations of U.S. That will take a long time to settle.

Technical Review 165

Technical Review Venture Capital Russia China 165

YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

Put this buttoned-up concept together with its dreamy-eyed sibling and you have “innovation governance” — something that is sorely needed in many organizations. Innovation governance sounds like an oxymoron, but in fact it’s an extremely powerful concept. Governance = Execution & Discipline.

Government 100

Government Channel Metrics Portfolio 100

Steve Blank

JUNE 21, 2017

I was in Boston and was interviewed by The Growth Show about my current thinking about innovation in companies and government agencies.The interviewer was great and managed to get me to summarize several years of learning in one podcast. 7:11 Agile Engineering – Eric Ries. 17:08 Government Agency innovation limitations.

Silicon Valley 252

Silicon Valley Lean Government Boston 252

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

government does have some unique convening power and the ability to tap external talent and resources. After a quarter-century in government – serving with the National Security Council, the Senate Armed Services Committee and now State – Blinken says Washington can no longer afford to pretend it can solve such complex problems alone.

Silicon Valley 120

Silicon Valley Washington United Kingdom Lean 120

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

government does have some unique convening power and the ability to tap external talent and resources. After a quarter-century in government – serving with the National Security Council, the Senate Armed Services Committee and now State – Blinken says Washington can no longer afford to pretend it can solve such complex problems alone.

Silicon Valley 120

Silicon Valley Washington United Kingdom Lean 120

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 9, 2013

Policies governing employee behaviour, account management, content, security, and legal issues should also be implemented. Goals and Measurements : Like any strategic endeavor, social media marketing must be aligned to the organization’s vision, and cascade downwards into discrete goals, strategies, tactics and metrics.

Technical Review 159

Technical Review Social Media SEM SCRUM 159

Steve Blank

JUNE 26, 2015

government to help them innovate faster– not just kind of fast, but 10x the number of initiatives in 1/5 the time. 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. A 50x speedup kind of fast. Here’s how.

Lean 120

Lean Management Business Model Incubator 120

Steve Blank

MARCH 3, 2015

During the Cold War with the Soviet Union, science and engineering at both Stanford and U.C. Starting in the 1950’s, Stanford’s engineering department became “outward facing” and developed a culture of spinouts and active faculty support and participation in the first wave of Silicon Valley startups. The Business Plan is Dead.

Business Plan 120

Business Plan Silicon Valley Saudi Arabia Lean 120

Occam's Razor

JUNE 25, 2012

My hope is to simply help you internalize the impact of these decisions on reports, which metrics might be impacted and which will be fine, as well as what types of decisions you can still make with confidence and which decisions you might make with a grain of salt. Implication on the Visits metric: You get the best case scenario of a Visit.

Analytics 130

Analytics IP Web Metrics 130

Women Entrepreneurs Can

MARCH 2, 2023

We exhibit wisdom by utilizing objective data for our experiments and identifying the truth that manifests in the metrics compiled from our data. We demonstrate courage when we align our efforts and activities with those metrics despite our personal feelings and desires. Managers and leaders alike can agree that metrics matter.

Lean 98

Lean South Korea Metrics Framework 98

David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

This structure allows for alignment on the front end, and real-time flexibility for performance metrics,” says Samira Salman , a family office investor and advisor. . Flexible VCs have created structures based on other company performance metrics than revenues, such as profits or founder salaries. Governance. Cash collateral.

Cofounder 78

Cofounder Technical Review Equity Dividend 78

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 14, 2014

Let’s not get into exactly what sort of “shingle” is hanging out with the oldest profession …) This past weekend, WP Engine hung its shingle as well, but this time it’s so much more meaningful, and not just because this building doesn’t have rats: I grew up in Austin. “The WP Engine Building.”

RSS 309

RSS Engineer Metrics Government 309

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. This is a philosophy that governs my daily life as well as my entrepreneurial activities. September 11, 2008 2:06 PM Editor said. Less is more.

Lean 168

Lean San Francisco Startup Continuous Deployment 168

The Startup Magazine

JULY 9, 2020

Almost all national governments had advised their citizens to stay indoors to prevent the COVID-19 virus. Improving your visibility and Rankings on Search Engines with SEO. Many startups are using the pandemic to invest in SEO or Search Engine Optimization. Improve traffic figures, metrics and digital performance.

Social Media 107

Social Media PPC Marketing SEO 107

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

And what''s frustrating to me--it was then and it still is--is that as soon as I became a manager and a team leader and an architect and really thinking out how to do that stuff, I was doing human systems engineering and I was no longer making things with my bare hands. And so I''ve also had that frustration.

Lean 165

Lean San Francisco Cofounder Programming 165

Steve Blank

JUNE 1, 2011

As customer and agile development reinvent the Startup, it’s time to ask why startup board governance has not kept up with the pace of innovation. Rather than invent a new form of corporate governance, venture investors adopted the traditional board meeting structure from large corporations. The Wrong Metrics. Jonathan Swift.

Silicon Valley 297

Silicon Valley Business Model Venture Capital Balance Sheet 297

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 9, 2017

Many aspiring entrepreneurs, especially engineers, are focused on their invention or technology, and never consider the challenges of entering the business realm until too late. Plan to make it the best experiment that you can, with metrics to focus on the “why,” as much as “what.”

Social Network 147

Social Network Engineer Metrics Government 147

Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

No updates, screen comps, or metrics have been publicly shared yet. While that is true, if you rely on outside capital to reach escape velocity, keep the cockpit talking to the engine room. Three months in, the burn is now at $70k/month. It’s too early for that s**t. Heads down on product, they say.

Burn Rate 152

Burn Rate Equity Software Review Early Stage 152

Steve Blank

JUNE 1, 2011

As customer and agile development reinvent the Startup, it’s time to ask why startup board governance has not kept up with the pace of innovation. Rather than invent a new form of corporate governance, venture investors adopted the traditional board meeting structure from large corporations. The Wrong Metrics. Jonathan Swift.

Silicon Valley 270

Silicon Valley Business Model Venture Capital Balance Sheet 270

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 11, 2014

Many aspiring entrepreneurs, especially engineers, are focused on their invention or technology, and never consider the challenges of entering the business realm until too late. Plan to make it the best experiment that you can, with metrics to focus on the “why,” as much as “what.”

Social Network 235

Social Network Engineer Metrics Government 235

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 19, 2018

They (not government) have to lead the way. They’re using community dashboards to keep critical metrics front and center. Just like a company, a community needs objective metrics to know how healthy they are, to identify areas that need improvement, and to gauge progress over time. This is both a science and an art.

America 100

America Community Covenant Metrics 100

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 29, 2013

Last year, the co -founders of B ack to the Roots talked about their innovation accounting and how they were ignoring sales metrics in order to grow. You can give counter-intuitive advice on implementing Lean Startup techniques. Charles Hudson shared his hard decision to pivot from the iPhone to Android platform for his company’s games.

Lean 165

Lean Technical Review Startup Software Review 165

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 26, 2009

In previous posts, I’ve mentioned quite a few of these, including these most important ones: having engineers post on the forums in their own name when they make a change routinely split-testing new changes routinely conducting in-person usability tests and interviews Net Promoter Score Each of these techniques is fundamentally bottoms-up.

Advisory Board 151

Advisory Board Customer San Francisco Lean 151

David Teten

MAY 16, 2011

I’m excited about the program below on “Investing in Intellectual Capital: Intellectual Capital: Patents, Trademarks, Domain Names, Litigation, Government Rights, and other Intangible Assets” Click here to make a reservation.

Naming 122

Naming Government Intellectual Property LLC 122

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 24, 2018

It can’t just be the planning commission or the local government, but it must include business and education leaders who understand how to manage change and civic engagement, as well as many other segments of the community. Create a dashboard showing critical, objective metrics, update it regularly, and keep it in front of citizens.

Community 100

Community America Government Florida 100

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 23, 2015

Many aspiring entrepreneurs, especially engineers, are focused on their invention or technology, and never consider the challenges of entering the business realm until too late. Plan to make it the best experiment that you can, with metrics to focus on the “why,” as much as “what.”

Startup 120

Startup Social Network Engineer Metrics 120

ReadWriteStart

JUNE 29, 2020

One of the many challenges facing the world’s governments is the fact that no one really knows how this virus behaves. Thus, the world’s scientists, medical experts, and governments are in new territory, determining what works and what doesn’t work as each country moves through the peaks and troughs of this pandemic.

Bootstrapping 85

Bootstrapping Global Startup Hungary 85

Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 8, 2009

That’s because many of our reports feed us vanity metrics: numbers that make us look good but don’t really help make decisions. Yet even among those who have access to good actionable metrics, I’ve noticed a phenomenon that prevents taking maximum advantage of data. Too much of this data is non- actionable.

San Francisco 84

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment DC 84

Steve Blank

JULY 13, 2021

Lean-driven (hypothesis testing/business model/customer development/agile engineering). The explicit goal of 10-15 customer interviews a week along with the requirement for building a continual series of minimal viable products, provides metrics that track the team’s progress. experiential. Working Memory and Reflection.

Lean 436

Lean Agile Business Model Business Plan 436

OnlyOnce

AUGUST 12, 2013

A few years ago, people started talking a lot more about User Experience (UX) as a new crossover discipline between design and engineering, and our experience at Return Path has been that UX is an incredibly powerful tool in our arsenal to build great technical products via lean/agile methods. It has a beginning but it doesn’t have an end.”

Lean 94

Lean Agile B2B Metrics 94

ctotodevelopers.blogspot.com

JULY 11, 2012

The implementation and architecture can also suffer if the team under or over invests engineering time, implementation of standards, or testing discipline in the wrong areas. decide on success metrics, measure, and then decide if additional investment is warranted. This, in some way, is a byproduct of self organization. More to come.

Agile 40

Agile Architecture Offshore Software Developers 40

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 3, 2009

If your practice is not designed to cope with uncertainty, it has no place in a startup - even if your startup is located in government or enterprise. Nothing is more demoralizing to an engineering team. leanstartup bmorrow : Not just for engineers: ask why 5x every time something unexpected happens. jellytheory : Ask WHY?

Lean 60

Lean San Francisco Continuous Deployment Cofounder 60

Steve Blank

MAY 16, 2016

Why Innovation in Government Is Hard. They have to change the metrics across the entire organization. If not, then the effectiveness of the Horizon 3 effort will be graded using Horizon 1 metrics. But in the military success has different metrics. In those case revenue will become an additional metric.

San Diego 145

San Diego Metrics Indonesia Silicon Valley 145

Occam's Razor

JANUARY 6, 2010

No longer can tools or "analysts" just puke 15 metrics on a report and hope to survive. It is that important (especially if you are a non-ecommerce b2b government peaceful protest photo sharing website). Here is a post with seven different strategies: Brand Measurement: Analytics & Metrics for Branding Campaigns.

Analytics 99

Analytics Web Campaign PPC 99

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Pete Newell and I have spent a lot of time bringing continuous innovation to government organizations. Here are our thoughts about how to confront the Red Queen trap and adapt a government agency to infuse continuous innovation in its culture and practices. These Horizons also apply to government agencies and other large organizations.

Community 237

Community Silicon Valley Technical Review Incubator 237

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

In other words, how can we adapt the Business Model Canvas when the metrics of success for an organization is not revenue? What if you’re a government or a military organization or part of the intelligence community? In the defense and intelligence community the metrics of success are not revenue but mission achievement.

Business Model 120

Business Model Revenue Channel Community 120