Agile Entrepreneurs: AE

Vote for our two sessions at Product Camp Silicon Valley on May 25.

You mean *Customer Funding*? This is how the current crop of starry-eyed entrepreneurs often responds incredulously to my suggestion that they should focus on users/customers, revenues/profits, before scalability and investment for growth.

I asked Brad Smith, President of Microsoft, about 2nd derivative entrepreneurship, a core philosophy of my company, Agile Entrepreneurs. --- The link should take you there, but in case it doesn't, my question starts at 1:05:30

Join me & Agile Entrepreneurs: AE team 8am Sunday at Golden Gate park.

*Efficiency is about doing the same *with less*. Efficiency matters more until Product/Market Fit. *Productivity is about *doing more* with the same. Productivity matters for scaling after Product/Market Fit.

https://productcampsiliconvalley.org/sponsors/ - AE is a Bronze Sponsor: { Agile Entrepreneurs has been cross-pollinating patterns in organizational agility between established companies and hi-tech startups worldwide through hyper-efficient Product & Engineering Pipelines, helping them stay focused on user engagement & customer monetization, and growth. Krishna founded Agile Entrepreneurs based on hard-learned lessons as the co-founder of two ridesharing startups eCarpool... (consumer; 1999-2001) and CommuterStation (enterprise & Social; 2005-2008). In 2010 Agile Racecar (ARC) started as a Product/Engineering (P/E) agility & efficiency consulting for Product Management & Engineering leadership, defining Products with validated User Activities instead of endless Features, and pay-by-productivity Agile contracts with vendors to simultaneously minimize burn-rate and maximize speed & quality. Launched in 2013, 4WeekStartup (4WS) is an end-to-end coaching program for early-stage startups to build custom high-fidelity prototypes for customers in days, rapidly (in)validating Go-to-Market Strategies in weeks and developing the ability to refactor technology and pivot strategy, at will. Can your product do this? 7 Days to Validation, 4 Weeks to Traction, 3 Months to Product/Market Fit }

{ on average, it would take around 4.4 years to realize a 3x return on the initial investment amount, which ranged from $20,000 to $100,000. revenue-share finan...cing is generally only appropriate up to a certain size of investment, generally between $50,000 and $500,000, depending on the expected return multiple and timeline, and the company’s annual growth rate and traction at time of investment. } See more

Understand your Advantages & Disadvantages compared to your "useful" Role Models.

[ entrepreneurs don’t share a special gene for riskmost come from extremely wealthy families. The average cost to launch a startup is around $30,000, accordi...ng to the Kauffman Foundation, she writes. Data from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor show that more than 80% of funding for new businesses comes from personal savings and friends and family. The comparatively insurmountable doubt, bias, and belittling Hamilton facedwithout any personal savings or family and friend investmentis why her journey does not define meritocracy: If you know anything about my story, think about the extremes we’re talking about: four years ago, on food stamps; three years ago, sleeping on the floor of the airport while trying to raise. Do I have to be that extreme to have any sort of success here? Is that what you’re saying? Because that is not okay. That’s very fraught. ]

Let's meet there tomorrow if you're going! (It's FREE for Agile Entrepreneurs - if you haven't registered yet!)

Spring Potluck (Fri, 3/30) @ AE Campus: "Agile Entrepreneurs & Virtual Teams"Spring Potluck (Fri, 3/30) @ AE Campus: "Agile Entrepreneurs & Virtual Teams"