American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 21, 2025

Talk to potential customers, gather feedback, and analyze existing competitors. Product Test and Validate Early Its easy to get excited about a new product or service, but before committing a significant amount of resources, its vital to test and validate your idea with real customers.

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Revolution

MARCH 7, 2024

The CEO: Amena Ali The Company She Leads: Optoro , a reverse logistics technology platform that uses data science and real-time decision-making automation to improve returns for customers, retailers, and the planet. Alas, COVID has changed the work paradigm forever, it seems.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

OCTOBER 7, 2021

how it’s structured, who they hire for different roles, how they plan and prioritize their work democratically, and how they use sprints to constantly identify problems and make improvements. However, for other teams like Marketing and Customer Success, it failed. Say that the team needs to forecast customer churn.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 26, 2024

And, no matter what time of day the phone rings, one of Ruby’s personable team members answers and provides your customers with exactly what they need — making your company shine. Growing a business is like running a marathon at a sprint pace, so if there’s not something in your core driving you forward, it’s not easy to last.”

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Hunter Walk

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

HW: I loved a recent blog post of yours on “ Code Yellows ,” basically a call-to-arms sprint where a leader can focus as many resources as they need on solving an existential challenge. We are a forever holding company for exceptional software businesses that serve niche or specific customer bases.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2021

The capital is coming from a group of investors that includes Eurazeo Growth, Sprints Capital and Wellington Management. It comes on the heels of a $50 million round the company raised last August from Sprints, along with Citi and HPE Growth; and a further $50 million it picked up in 2018 led by strategic investor PayPal.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 21, 2021

I appreciated her desire to get back to work, but I convinced her to agree to a 2-3 week sprint. Anything from intense customer love despite barely even having a product, pre-sales, a deal for access to data that creates a moat that no one else has—the list goes on. What counts as a rabbit?

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MAY 2, 2023

Step 5: Schedule a build-sprint A build sprint is a time-boxed, controlled environment where you can emulate aspects of company building. You’ll work with your potential co-founder(s) over a 2–4 week period to establish a sprint milestone, assess problems, and ship experiments to validate your hypotheses with real customers.

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Dream It

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Over the next 14 weeks, these startups will work with the Dreamit team to de-risk their products, build their sales pipelines, pitch to new customers, improve their investor pitches and funding strategy, and present their businesses to venture capital investors. In weeks 6 and 7, the startups will hit the road for the Customer Sprint.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2022

Through this work, we’ve discovered a lot about how different founders fulfill their journey of customer discovery and product-market fit. Here’s what they had to share: Pre-MVP/customer discovery phase: Tiny Organics. Identify and define their customer personas. Conduct customer interviews and synthesize them.

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Jason Malki

OCTOBER 11, 2024

By providing exceptional customer support and continuously refining our platform based on user feedback, we aim to create a truly empowering and enjoyable shopping experience for everyone. To any founder about to embark on their startup journey, I would offer this advice: Embrace the marathon, not the sprint.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 11, 2019

However sleep is a wonderful, natural and free resource that anyone starting or running a business must draw on optimally to be the best they can be for their customers, colleagues, stakeholders and loved ones. Better accuracy and faster sprint times: This has been observed in basketball, swimming plus tennis among other sports.

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Gust

AUGUST 2, 2012

I felt that I had personally failed (after what had, until that point, been a life of almost unbroken success), that despite my best efforts and a decade of non-stop work I had betrayed those who had had the faith to back my vision with their cash, and that I had let down my employees, my family and my customers.

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StartupNation

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

When you approach your business as a marathon, not a sprint, you’re using the power of grit. Had we given up, we would have disappointed countless customers, employees and investors in the company who were depending on my grit — a dogged perseverance — to lead the company to exponential growth and an inevitable exit to everyone’s benefit.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Sprint Zero development estimation and release planning. Listening to the voice of my customers, and. All of your core competencies must be process-driven so they can be optimized to enable the business to innovate and drive profitability. UX design of new and legacy applications. Agile development. Recruiting and hiring.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

Amazon knew that the last mile is the way to reach customers,” he said, “but before COVID, that accessibility didn’t make sense for smaller companies. At Happily, we focus our project work in two week ‘sprints’ every Tuesday,” Kolomyjec said. Inside those sprints, everyone knows what to do.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2022

Until a company builds a growing base of customers who are deeply engaged with its products, asking investors for money is a largely egotistical exercise. Early-stage employees are accustomed to using ad hoc processes to get their work done as they sprint for growth, so I asked how she approached the work from a cultural perspective.

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2021

Gopal told TechCrunch that as its user base grows, it is acquiring more new customers through word-of-mouth and referrals. It’s only been live for a couple of months, but we’ve already gotten so much feedback from our users and we’re sprinting to unlock new capabilities such as real-time payments and credit,” said Gopal.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Sprints Capital, Endeavor Catalyst, HubSpot Ventures and Jigsaw VC are also participating in the round. Payhawk customers receive 3% cash back on card payments with a cap at the Payhawk subscription price. The startup confirms that it has reached a post-money valuation of $1 billion, as The Information’s Kate Clark previous reported.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 10, 2021

A custom-tailored architectural design allows for a more efficient development process, fast iteration and gets to the robust and scalable software solution leaner and with fewer bumps along the way. We tend to focus our recommendations on the time span of roughly six to 12 months so that we do not get stuck with premature optimization.

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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. Silicon Arabia has engineers in Russia as well as Egypt.)

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 13, 2018

Other signs of engagement are: they ask you to meet with portfolio companies (they want feedback on your product and you), they ask you to meet a colleague, they set up a call to go through a product demo / financial walk-through, they ask to speak with customers, etc. As dumb as it sounds, this is a very common playbook for entrepreneurs.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 8, 2010

Define your customers, partners and other relevant people to your organization (e.g. That’s blogging to the echo chamber unless they’re your target customers. and it’s where I got my custom URL’s grp.vc It’s a marathon and not a sprint. What should you blog about? and bothsid.es.

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Jason Malki

JANUARY 16, 2025

Inefficiencies in how businesses approach lead generation and customer acquisition. Building a company is a marathon, not a sprint. It wasnt just about creating a product or service; it was about launching a platform where our ideas could thrive and make a difference. Take care of yourself.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Today, the company announced $80 million in Series C funding, led by Menlo Ventures, which was joined by Advance Venture Partners, Sprints Capital, Pear Ventures, Sway Ventures, MassMutual Ventures, Teamworthy and ECT Capital Partners’ Brian N. Building customer-first relationships in a privacy-first world is critical.

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Gust

FEBRUARY 22, 2014

Instead, it is our eight years of indefatigable relationship and customer building with large segments of the world’s early stage finance industry. despite having lots of competitors. ” With that in mind… No: It’s a similar situation in the entrepreneurial funding space.

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TechCrunch

MAY 30, 2022

As Strong Compute founder Ben Sands, who previously also co-founded AR company Meta , told me, the team has recently made some breakthroughs where it was able to take Nvidia’s reference implementation, which its customer LayerJot used, to run 20 times faster. Image Credits: Strong Compute. “That was a big win,” Sands said.

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Reforge

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

They lay out the framework as follows: The Roles : Scrum Master, Development Team, and Product Owner The Ceremonies : Sprints, Daily Scrums, and Retrospectives The Artifacts : Product and Sprint Backlogs They go on to say, “ If the team were to remove or alter any of these components, they are no longer using Scrum.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2023

It came to be known as MentorcliQ , and — within a few years, with the pandemic as an accelerant — it grew its customer base to hundreds of companies. George says that the funding will be put toward product development and ramping up MentorcliQ’s customer acquisition efforts.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2023

“We have over 1,000 customers across our four key verticals — machine learning and AI, batch processing, pixel streaming and visual effects and rendering,” Intrator said. Every day is a sprint for victory, and it shows in the quality and quantity of their customers.

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Tomasz Tunguz

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Most sophisticated data teams run like software engineering teams with product requirement documents, ticketing systems, & sprints. LLMs are fantastic first-pass filters and phenomenal classifiers that extract insight or build machine learning features from unstructured data like customer support conversations or sales calls.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 25, 2021

The enlarged $270 million round — the January tranche was from Eurazeo Growth, Sprints Capital and Wellington Management — includes both primary and secondary capital, and this latest tranche is part of the secondary element, PPRO CEO Simon Black confirmed to me. ” In particular, the U.S. ” In particular, the U.S.

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Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 29, 2021

I discovered rhetoric in 2021 and read this book and The Elements of Eloquence which demonstrate the hundreds of literary devices we use to imbue language with flourish to entice or cajole the reader to hurdle over the period at the end of a sentence and sprint through the next, till the end of a tract.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 16, 2022

One of the winners is GrowthSpace, founded by Omer Glass, which leverages algorithms to match individual employees and groups of employees with experts for development sprints. But Glass claims that GrowthSpace has seen substantial growth over the past year, now reaching 3,000 active users across 200 paying customers, including a U.S.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

In wake of Sprint/T-Mobile deal, Ryan Reynolds has an announcement. ” Mint also released a holiday ad just a couple of weeks ago warning of wireless promo season, wherein large wireless carriers may try to lure customers into expensive contracts using new devices.

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NZ Entrepreneur

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Niesh worked with ecentre, the startup business incubator at Massey University, as part of the Sprint Launch programme, focusing on growth through customer acquisition. “We thought spending more time would solve most of the big issues. It’s not always the right approach,” said Yoo.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2021

Its leadership “sprints” focus on topics like retaining knowledge, and what goes into curating a safe environment for teams. NewCampus is an online, live learning platform that hopes to train rising managers within hyper-growth organizations.

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