Staying engaged with your Core Values

Last year, I was introduced and read a book by Steve Blank called, The Four Steps to the Epiphany. It has served me well and there are five questions from it that I constantly use and have found it to be a great help in determining my own core values – from MY CUSTOMER PERSPECTIVE Read More …

Lean Kanban from a Software Developer

Recently I had Chris Hefley, President and Co-Founder Bandit Software on a special edition of the Business901 Podcast. Bandit Software is the maker of an electronic Kanban tools for Lean Software and Systems development teams called Lean Kit Kanban. This conversation starts with a discussion of where Kanban stands today in the software community and Read More …

Video on Lean Startup Principles, Part 2 of 2

Great Video on the Lean startup principles from an interview by Scobleizer, April 01, 2010 (Sponsored by Rackspace, we help entrepreneurs build great Internet businesses): Eric Ries is changing how software companies form companies, build teams, and ship software that rocks customers’ lives. He writes http://www.startuplessonslearned.com/ and has popularized the term "lean startups." Are you Read More …

Video on Lean Startup Principles, Part 1 of 2

Great Video on the Lean startup principles from an interview by Scobleizer, April 01, 2010 (Sponsored by Rackspace, we help entrepreneurs build great Internet businesses): Eric Ries is changing how software companies form companies, build teams, and ship software that rocks customers’ lives. He writes http://www.startuplessonslearned.com/ and has popularized the term "lean startups." Are you Read More …

Key Marketing Concepts from Korean War

From Wikpedia: Boyd’s key concept was that of the decision cycle or OODA Loop, the process by which an entity (either an individual or an organization) reacts to an event. According to this idea, the key to victory is to be able to create situations wherein one can make appropriate decisions more quickly than one’s Read More …

Case Study using Lean Startup Techniques

The video is far from perfect, some of the questions you will not even be able to hear.  However, when we are talking about new Lean Startup theory with a mix of Product Innovation and Product Launches this is as good of a case study I have found for public viewing. Lean Startup case study Read More …