The document summarizes Steve Blank's observations about startups from a presentation he gave. Some of the key points include:
- Startups are not smaller versions of large companies, but rather search for business models through customer development.
- The business model canvas is a tool used to describe a company using 9 building blocks and test hypotheses about the model.
- Customer development is the process of getting out of the building to test hypotheses through customer discovery, validation, and getting early customers.
This document discusses improving board meetings for startups by making them more continuous and digital. It suggests that startups should blog their progress, including customer development findings and business model canvases. This allows advisors and investors to continuously monitor progress remotely. It argues this approach professionalizes the search for a business model and improves advice, accountability and efficiency compared to traditional periodic board meetings. It also eliminates geography as a barrier to investors participating in startups. A demo of interactive business model canvases and comment features is then shown to illustrate this continuous board meeting approach.
Logistics management information system(lmis)Roshan Thapa
The document discusses Logistics Management and Information System (LMIS) in Nepal. It provides background on logistics and LMIS in Nepal, describing how LMIS was established in 1994 to systematically manage logistics. It collects quarterly data from over 4,000 health facilities to forecast needs, monitor the pipeline, and ensure availability of health commodities. The LMIS helps decision making and is now web-based, linking district inventory to improve reporting accuracy and timeliness.
This document provides an overview of biomedical waste management rules and regulations in India. It defines biomedical waste and outlines the key steps for managing waste, including characterization, quantification, segregation, storage, transportation, treatment, and disposal. It discusses the current scenario of biomedical waste generation and treatment in India. It also summarizes the major differences between the 1998 and 2016 biomedical waste management rules, including changes to waste categories, treatment standards, and operator duties. Formats for authorization applications, annual reports, and accident reporting are also included.
The document discusses biomedical waste management. It defines biomedical waste as waste generated during diagnosis, treatment, or immunization of humans or animals. It notes that biomedical waste includes infectious waste, pathological waste, sharps waste, pharmaceutical waste, genotoxic waste, chemical waste, and radioactive waste. The document also outlines the Ministry of Environment and Forest's classification of biomedical waste into 10 categories and the recommended treatment and disposal methods for each category. Key sources of biomedical waste are identified as hospitals, clinics, labs, and other healthcare facilities.
The document discusses common biomedical waste treatment facilities (CBWTF) and their advantages over individual treatment by small healthcare units. It notes that CBWTF address costs and prevent proliferation of equipment by running treatment, like incineration, at full capacity. The main treatment methods discussed are incineration, autoclaving, shredding, and secured landfill disposal. Incineration treats around 90% of biomedical waste in Warangal by reducing it to inert ash and gases at high temperatures. Autoclaving and shredding also help treat waste in an environmentally-safe manner.
The document discusses six ways startups can fail and provides tips for success. It begins by outlining traditional models that implicitly assume the customer problem and product features are already known. However, the document argues startups should not assume they know these things and should instead search for an unknown business model. It recommends using customer development to test hypotheses about the problem, customer, and solution through interviews and iteration. The document advocates developing minimum viable products and being willing to pivot based on what is learned from customers.
This document discusses improving board meetings for startups by making them more continuous and digital. It suggests that startups should blog their progress, including customer development findings and business model canvases. This allows advisors and investors to continuously monitor progress remotely. It argues this approach professionalizes the search for a business model and improves advice, accountability and efficiency compared to traditional periodic board meetings. It also eliminates geography as a barrier to investors participating in startups. A demo of interactive business model canvases and comment features is then shown to illustrate this continuous board meeting approach.
Logistics management information system(lmis)Roshan Thapa
The document discusses Logistics Management and Information System (LMIS) in Nepal. It provides background on logistics and LMIS in Nepal, describing how LMIS was established in 1994 to systematically manage logistics. It collects quarterly data from over 4,000 health facilities to forecast needs, monitor the pipeline, and ensure availability of health commodities. The LMIS helps decision making and is now web-based, linking district inventory to improve reporting accuracy and timeliness.
This document provides an overview of biomedical waste management rules and regulations in India. It defines biomedical waste and outlines the key steps for managing waste, including characterization, quantification, segregation, storage, transportation, treatment, and disposal. It discusses the current scenario of biomedical waste generation and treatment in India. It also summarizes the major differences between the 1998 and 2016 biomedical waste management rules, including changes to waste categories, treatment standards, and operator duties. Formats for authorization applications, annual reports, and accident reporting are also included.
The document discusses biomedical waste management. It defines biomedical waste as waste generated during diagnosis, treatment, or immunization of humans or animals. It notes that biomedical waste includes infectious waste, pathological waste, sharps waste, pharmaceutical waste, genotoxic waste, chemical waste, and radioactive waste. The document also outlines the Ministry of Environment and Forest's classification of biomedical waste into 10 categories and the recommended treatment and disposal methods for each category. Key sources of biomedical waste are identified as hospitals, clinics, labs, and other healthcare facilities.
The document discusses common biomedical waste treatment facilities (CBWTF) and their advantages over individual treatment by small healthcare units. It notes that CBWTF address costs and prevent proliferation of equipment by running treatment, like incineration, at full capacity. The main treatment methods discussed are incineration, autoclaving, shredding, and secured landfill disposal. Incineration treats around 90% of biomedical waste in Warangal by reducing it to inert ash and gases at high temperatures. Autoclaving and shredding also help treat waste in an environmentally-safe manner.
The document discusses six ways startups can fail and provides tips for success. It begins by outlining traditional models that implicitly assume the customer problem and product features are already known. However, the document argues startups should not assume they know these things and should instead search for an unknown business model. It recommends using customer development to test hypotheses about the problem, customer, and solution through interviews and iteration. The document advocates developing minimum viable products and being willing to pivot based on what is learned from customers.
The document outlines six common ways startups can fail and provides advice on how to succeed instead. It discusses how startups should not try to operate like large companies by following traditional models. Startups need to search for an unknown business model rather than execute a known one. The key is getting out of the building to test hypotheses through customer development, building minimal viable products, and pivoting based on feedback.
5 Pillars Of Organizational Strategy Powerpoint Presentation SlidesSlideTeam
Introducing our 5 Pillars Of Organizational Strategy PowerPoint Presentation Slides to help your company achieve the targets and aims. These slides depict the structure, processes, culture, technology, and systems for strengthening each element of the organization. Analyze the purpose of your organization and the ways to multiply your profits with the help of these organizational structure PPT templates. This workforce management PPT presentation helps to analyze the core competencies and develop them to increase the development of your company. Illustrate the efficient business activities that your firm engages in to satisfy the clients by employing our workplace administration PPT layouts. Exhibit the key business operations like purchasing, marketing, manufacturing, r&d, and business development with the help of our organizational planning PPT slideshow. Using this institutional strategy PPT visuals, survey a wide range of business process model and implement the best-suited model for your company. Download this ready-to-use business planning PowerPoint template and grab the attention of your viewers towards the company’s vision, mission, and goals. https://bit.ly/2NKfueA
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Develop an effective business plan with the help of this content ready Creating The Perfect Organizational Strategy PowerPoint Presentation Slides. Analyze your business core competencies such as strong customer or brand loyalty, employee training and certifications, etc. by using our professionally designed strategic business planning PowerPoint templates. Take advantage of the visually appealing strategic enterprise plan PPT slideshow to talk about efficient business activities like detect new sales opportunities, improve inventory management, anticipate new market trends, accelerate decision making, monitor competition and so on. Utilize the topic-specific strategic organizational framework PPT slides to showcase norms to build the best organizational culture that can engage employees. You can also use the strategy and structure of organization PowerPoint templates to demonstrate steps to build effective and efficient infrastructure. Thus download this ready-to-use organization structure as business strategy PPT graphics to represent the relationship between structure and strategy. Glory beckons you with our Creating The Perfect Organizational Strategy Powerpoint Presentation Slides. It is only a few clicks away. https://bit.ly/2KTCnXM
Leanconf 2014 Keynote - the One Metric to Rule Them All By Ash MauryaLeanconf
Companies drown in a sea of numbers. Google Analytics alone spits out over a thousand numbers. Add to that a few other analytics tools and your own homegrown dashboard and you know what I mean.
We don’t need more numbers, but actionable metrics.
In this talk, I’m going to show you how to measure the progress of any business using just a handful of metrics. And then I’m going to distill these metrics even further into a single macro metric that drives every business
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Introducing our Fundamentals Of Organization Best Practices And Templates PowerPoint Presentation Slides to help you develop an effective business plan for your company. Utilize these organizational strategy PPT templates to identify the purpose of your organization and gain investors for your company. Analyze your business core competencies to build strong relationships with the stockholders by using our professionally designed strategic business planning PowerPoint layouts. Detect the weaknesses in your business operations to find suitable solutions for the development of your firm with the help of these workforce management PowerPoint visuals. Utilize these topic-specific strategic organizational framework PPT slides to showcase business activities and strong processes of your company’s operations. Engage in efficient business activities like purchasing, marketing, manufacturing, r & d, and business development with the help of our workplace administration PPT slideshow. These slides depict the structure, processes, culture, technology, and systems for strengthening each element of the organization. Download this completely adaptable strategic management PPT slideshow to save your time and energy. https://bit.ly/2QBB5qt
Abstract
Learn how to make lean work in your company.
Lean Defined
Lean's Origin
5 Principles / 8 Wastes / A3
Making Lean Work in Your Company
Lean as a Strategy
Expectations
Typical Results
Tips for a Successful Transformation
Pitfalls to Avoid
Getting Started
Terry Norris, CEO
Terry Norris is a United States Air Force (USAF) veteran with more than 24 years of active service. His formal continuous process improvement (CPI) journey began in the early 1990's when the USAF implemented Total Quality Management. Since that time he's led several diverse and multinational teams to award winning success across the US, Asia, Europe and the Middle East. He spent his last few years in the USAF as a Lean Program Manager leading lean improvement projects across a 5,500 employee enterprise spread across five locations in four European countries. He literally developed the organization's CPI infrastructure from the ground up. He was the architect of the strategic and tactical plan and mapped out the responsibilities from the Executive Council down to the CPI team members. He personally led or managed dozens of improvement projects that improved performance, eliminated waste and significantly increased employee productivity and morale.
In addition, he influenced how the USAF developed aspects of their lean program. He wrote the first job description initially adopted by the USAF, and provided inputs for the USAF in Europe's: Concept of Operations, CPI event execution, metrics selection and familiarization training. He's taught multiple, 4-day Lean Green Belt courses and personally trained or briefed over 1000 employees on Lean methodologies. Lastly, he developed and taught a 2-day Root Cause Analysis workshop that was benchmarked and used throughout the USAF.
Terry is now a professional lean consultant and the owner of Lean Consulting Works, LLC; a lean consulting company. Lean Consulting Works, LLC provides on-site lean consulting and training with services ranging from enterprise-wide lean transformations to targeted improvements to various workshops and certifications. www.LeanConsultingWorks.com
This document provides information about obtaining help with assignments from an assignment assistance service. It gives a mail ID and phone number to contact for help with MBA assignments. It provides 8 sample questions on various operations management and quality control topics, along with partial or full answers for each question. Students are encouraged to send their semester and specialization details to the mail ID or call the phone number for help with assignments.
The document discusses how organizations can listen and learn from stakeholders. It identifies key stakeholders as customers, employees, suppliers, distributors, government bodies, and society. It emphasizes the importance of listening to better retain customers, understand suppliers, build relationships, and improve products. It recommends conducting surveys, market research, and implementing suggestion schemes to collect feedback. Organizations should also share ideas with customers and ensure knowledge sharing between all stakeholders to continuously learn and improve.
Agile is a bad strategy or 5 things every Agile practitioner should know abou...Hanno Jarvet
Many people confuse strategy (the "what") with operations (the "how") and as a result spend time spinning their wheels without getting anywhere. Actually Agile is not a strategy at all, its an ongoing operational priority.
Agile might help you get to your destination faster, but if the destination is wrong the last thing we need is to get there sooner.
Sometimes business executives or customers come to us with vague images that are short on the what and why and rich on the how. Company strategy, product strategy, Agile strategy, strategic agility, key growth strategy, business strategy. Strategy this and strategy that. In order to help them and yourself you need to think at a higher level of abstraction.
Come and find out what strategy is and how to implement it. As a result you will know how to think strategically and help executives do the same.
Hanno Jarvet - Agile is a bad strategy or 5 things every Agile practitioner s...DevConFu
Many people confuse strategy (the "what") with operations (the "how") and as a result spend time spinning their wheels without getting anywhere. Actually Agile is not a strategy at all, its an ongoing operational priority.
Agile might help you get to your destination faster, but if the destination is wrong the last thing we need is to get there sooner.
Sometime our business executives or customers come to us with vague images that are short on the what and why and rich on the how. In order to help them and yourself you need to think at a higher level of abstraction.
Come and find out what strategy is and how to implement it. As a result you will know how to think strategically and help executives do the same.
Syed Abid Ali is a Business Development Manager from Pakistan with over 10 years of experience in sales and marketing of industrial processing, packing, and printing equipment. He currently works for Sayeed International, a leading supplier of industrial solutions in Pakistan. His responsibilities include business development, sales, customer support, and managing staff. He has a history of successfully selling equipment to major companies in Pakistan and increasing sales.
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If you are a startup venture or an enterprise that is looking for funds to upgrade your business, our venture capital financing PowerPoint presentation slides have all the answers to represent pitch to stakeholders. This Venture Capital Financing presentation slide is helpful to pitch your ideas, to address key problem areas, and their solutions which can be helpful to get funding and value proposition of your ideas. This PPT template is helpful to showcase your strategy, plan to run your business, model of your organization and its structure. We offer you a perfectly designed PowerPoint theme where you can update all information to entice capital firms related to business pitch, valuation of company, SWOT analysis, client testimonials and of course your exit strategy also. With the help of this venture capital financial presentation template, you can always do more as it has subcategories and eye-catching icons to represent information. Just download this Venture Capital Financing presentation slides and you can also choose other related themes from our big collection template database. Begin the fireworks with our Venture Capital Financing Powerpoint Presentation Slides. Everyone will feel like celebrating. https://bit.ly/32YURTy
A Practical Approach to Agile Methodology by Weedmaps Sr PMProduct School
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5 Attributes for delivering Best-in-class Retail Execution
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Venture Capital Financing PowerPoint Presentation SlidesSlideTeam
If you are a startup venture or an enterprise that is looking for funds to upgrade your business, our venture capital financing PowerPoint presentation slides have all the answers to represent pitch to stakeholders. This Venture Capital Financing presentation slide is helpful to pitch your ideas, to address key problem areas, and their solutions which can be helpful to get funding and value proposition of your ideas. This PPT template is helpful to showcase your strategy, plan to run your business, model of your organization and its structure. We offer you a perfectly designed PowerPoint theme where you can update all information to entice capital firms related to business pitch, valuation of company, SWOT analysis, client testimonials and of course your exit strategy also. With the help of this venture capital financial presentation template, you can always do more as it has subcategories and eye-catching icons to represent information. Just download this Venture Capital Financing presentation slides and you can also choose other related themes from our big collection template database. Begin the fireworks with our Venture Capital Financing PowerPoint Presentation Slides. Everyone will feel like celebrating.
The document provides steps for becoming an entrepreneur, including deciding what type of entrepreneur you want to be, finding an idea of sufficient size, crafting company hypotheses, building a basic website, testing ideas with customers, and asking for funding. It discusses different types of startups like lifestyle businesses, small businesses, social enterprises, and scalable companies. It emphasizes the importance of getting customer feedback to test hypotheses and pivot if needed through the customer development process.
The document provides a digital roadmap for Atlas Copco to establish its brand digitally, including analyzing decision makers and their needs, understanding the current brand, developing a communication strategy using various digital channels like social media, and proposing media targets and measurement of results. It analyzes the B2B digital landscape and customer journey, and recommends strategies for branding, communication, social media, and digital advertising platforms.
Sources Of Sustainable Competitive Advantage Powerpoint Presentation SlidesSlideTeam
Introducing Sources Of Sustainable Competitive Advantage PowerPoint Presentation Slides. Showcase the unique features of the product that are perceived by the target market as significant and superior to the competition. Discuss the reasons for the company to have competitive advantages such as customer satisfaction, an increase in loyalty, an increase in profit, etc. by using core competency PPT visuals. The comparative advantage slide deck explains the sources of a competitive advantage which constitutes high skilled labor, geographic location, high entry barriers, access to new technology. Take the assistance of the generic competitive strategy PPT infographics and describe generic strategies of competitive advantage like differentiation, cost leadership, cost focus, differentiation focus. A well-structured competitor analysis framework will help you evaluate your competitive advantage effortlessly. The competitive advantage presentation is professionally designed for your convenience. Make an impact on your audience with a visually attractive yet simple PowerPoint presentation. https://bit.ly/3qYPdXu
Team Networks - 2022 Technology, Innovation & Great Power CompetitionStanford University
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The document outlines six common ways startups can fail and provides advice on how to succeed instead. It discusses how startups should not try to operate like large companies by following traditional models. Startups need to search for an unknown business model rather than execute a known one. The key is getting out of the building to test hypotheses through customer development, building minimal viable products, and pivoting based on feedback.
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Introducing our 5 Pillars Of Organizational Strategy PowerPoint Presentation Slides to help your company achieve the targets and aims. These slides depict the structure, processes, culture, technology, and systems for strengthening each element of the organization. Analyze the purpose of your organization and the ways to multiply your profits with the help of these organizational structure PPT templates. This workforce management PPT presentation helps to analyze the core competencies and develop them to increase the development of your company. Illustrate the efficient business activities that your firm engages in to satisfy the clients by employing our workplace administration PPT layouts. Exhibit the key business operations like purchasing, marketing, manufacturing, r&d, and business development with the help of our organizational planning PPT slideshow. Using this institutional strategy PPT visuals, survey a wide range of business process model and implement the best-suited model for your company. Download this ready-to-use business planning PowerPoint template and grab the attention of your viewers towards the company’s vision, mission, and goals. https://bit.ly/2NKfueA
Creating The Perfect Organizational Strategy PowerPoint Presentation SlidesSlideTeam
Develop an effective business plan with the help of this content ready Creating The Perfect Organizational Strategy PowerPoint Presentation Slides. Analyze your business core competencies such as strong customer or brand loyalty, employee training and certifications, etc. by using our professionally designed strategic business planning PowerPoint templates. Take advantage of the visually appealing strategic enterprise plan PPT slideshow to talk about efficient business activities like detect new sales opportunities, improve inventory management, anticipate new market trends, accelerate decision making, monitor competition and so on. Utilize the topic-specific strategic organizational framework PPT slides to showcase norms to build the best organizational culture that can engage employees. You can also use the strategy and structure of organization PowerPoint templates to demonstrate steps to build effective and efficient infrastructure. Thus download this ready-to-use organization structure as business strategy PPT graphics to represent the relationship between structure and strategy. Glory beckons you with our Creating The Perfect Organizational Strategy Powerpoint Presentation Slides. It is only a few clicks away. https://bit.ly/2KTCnXM
Leanconf 2014 Keynote - the One Metric to Rule Them All By Ash MauryaLeanconf
Companies drown in a sea of numbers. Google Analytics alone spits out over a thousand numbers. Add to that a few other analytics tools and your own homegrown dashboard and you know what I mean.
We don’t need more numbers, but actionable metrics.
In this talk, I’m going to show you how to measure the progress of any business using just a handful of metrics. And then I’m going to distill these metrics even further into a single macro metric that drives every business
Fundamentals Of Organization Best Practices And Templates Powerpoint Presenta...SlideTeam
Introducing our Fundamentals Of Organization Best Practices And Templates PowerPoint Presentation Slides to help you develop an effective business plan for your company. Utilize these organizational strategy PPT templates to identify the purpose of your organization and gain investors for your company. Analyze your business core competencies to build strong relationships with the stockholders by using our professionally designed strategic business planning PowerPoint layouts. Detect the weaknesses in your business operations to find suitable solutions for the development of your firm with the help of these workforce management PowerPoint visuals. Utilize these topic-specific strategic organizational framework PPT slides to showcase business activities and strong processes of your company’s operations. Engage in efficient business activities like purchasing, marketing, manufacturing, r & d, and business development with the help of our workplace administration PPT slideshow. These slides depict the structure, processes, culture, technology, and systems for strengthening each element of the organization. Download this completely adaptable strategic management PPT slideshow to save your time and energy. https://bit.ly/2QBB5qt
Abstract
Learn how to make lean work in your company.
Lean Defined
Lean's Origin
5 Principles / 8 Wastes / A3
Making Lean Work in Your Company
Lean as a Strategy
Expectations
Typical Results
Tips for a Successful Transformation
Pitfalls to Avoid
Getting Started
Terry Norris, CEO
Terry Norris is a United States Air Force (USAF) veteran with more than 24 years of active service. His formal continuous process improvement (CPI) journey began in the early 1990's when the USAF implemented Total Quality Management. Since that time he's led several diverse and multinational teams to award winning success across the US, Asia, Europe and the Middle East. He spent his last few years in the USAF as a Lean Program Manager leading lean improvement projects across a 5,500 employee enterprise spread across five locations in four European countries. He literally developed the organization's CPI infrastructure from the ground up. He was the architect of the strategic and tactical plan and mapped out the responsibilities from the Executive Council down to the CPI team members. He personally led or managed dozens of improvement projects that improved performance, eliminated waste and significantly increased employee productivity and morale.
In addition, he influenced how the USAF developed aspects of their lean program. He wrote the first job description initially adopted by the USAF, and provided inputs for the USAF in Europe's: Concept of Operations, CPI event execution, metrics selection and familiarization training. He's taught multiple, 4-day Lean Green Belt courses and personally trained or briefed over 1000 employees on Lean methodologies. Lastly, he developed and taught a 2-day Root Cause Analysis workshop that was benchmarked and used throughout the USAF.
Terry is now a professional lean consultant and the owner of Lean Consulting Works, LLC; a lean consulting company. Lean Consulting Works, LLC provides on-site lean consulting and training with services ranging from enterprise-wide lean transformations to targeted improvements to various workshops and certifications. www.LeanConsultingWorks.com
This document provides information about obtaining help with assignments from an assignment assistance service. It gives a mail ID and phone number to contact for help with MBA assignments. It provides 8 sample questions on various operations management and quality control topics, along with partial or full answers for each question. Students are encouraged to send their semester and specialization details to the mail ID or call the phone number for help with assignments.
The document discusses how organizations can listen and learn from stakeholders. It identifies key stakeholders as customers, employees, suppliers, distributors, government bodies, and society. It emphasizes the importance of listening to better retain customers, understand suppliers, build relationships, and improve products. It recommends conducting surveys, market research, and implementing suggestion schemes to collect feedback. Organizations should also share ideas with customers and ensure knowledge sharing between all stakeholders to continuously learn and improve.
Agile is a bad strategy or 5 things every Agile practitioner should know abou...Hanno Jarvet
Many people confuse strategy (the "what") with operations (the "how") and as a result spend time spinning their wheels without getting anywhere. Actually Agile is not a strategy at all, its an ongoing operational priority.
Agile might help you get to your destination faster, but if the destination is wrong the last thing we need is to get there sooner.
Sometimes business executives or customers come to us with vague images that are short on the what and why and rich on the how. Company strategy, product strategy, Agile strategy, strategic agility, key growth strategy, business strategy. Strategy this and strategy that. In order to help them and yourself you need to think at a higher level of abstraction.
Come and find out what strategy is and how to implement it. As a result you will know how to think strategically and help executives do the same.
Hanno Jarvet - Agile is a bad strategy or 5 things every Agile practitioner s...DevConFu
Many people confuse strategy (the "what") with operations (the "how") and as a result spend time spinning their wheels without getting anywhere. Actually Agile is not a strategy at all, its an ongoing operational priority.
Agile might help you get to your destination faster, but if the destination is wrong the last thing we need is to get there sooner.
Sometime our business executives or customers come to us with vague images that are short on the what and why and rich on the how. In order to help them and yourself you need to think at a higher level of abstraction.
Come and find out what strategy is and how to implement it. As a result you will know how to think strategically and help executives do the same.
Syed Abid Ali is a Business Development Manager from Pakistan with over 10 years of experience in sales and marketing of industrial processing, packing, and printing equipment. He currently works for Sayeed International, a leading supplier of industrial solutions in Pakistan. His responsibilities include business development, sales, customer support, and managing staff. He has a history of successfully selling equipment to major companies in Pakistan and increasing sales.
Venture Capital Financing Powerpoint Presentation SlidesSlideTeam
"You can download this product from SlideTeam.net"
If you are a startup venture or an enterprise that is looking for funds to upgrade your business, our venture capital financing PowerPoint presentation slides have all the answers to represent pitch to stakeholders. This Venture Capital Financing presentation slide is helpful to pitch your ideas, to address key problem areas, and their solutions which can be helpful to get funding and value proposition of your ideas. This PPT template is helpful to showcase your strategy, plan to run your business, model of your organization and its structure. We offer you a perfectly designed PowerPoint theme where you can update all information to entice capital firms related to business pitch, valuation of company, SWOT analysis, client testimonials and of course your exit strategy also. With the help of this venture capital financial presentation template, you can always do more as it has subcategories and eye-catching icons to represent information. Just download this Venture Capital Financing presentation slides and you can also choose other related themes from our big collection template database. Begin the fireworks with our Venture Capital Financing Powerpoint Presentation Slides. Everyone will feel like celebrating. https://bit.ly/32YURTy
A Practical Approach to Agile Methodology by Weedmaps Sr PMProduct School
This document summarizes an online presentation about how the Weedmaps product team embraces agile methodology. It discusses setting team purpose and defining goals/KPIs. It outlines defining user value through job stories and building out features in JIRA. It covers agile ceremonies like planning, retrospectives, and daily standups. Finally, it discusses delivering user value through sprints, continuous deployment, and iterating on strategy, product, process and velocity through retrospectives.
5 Attributes for delivering Best-in-class Retail Execution
AFS Technologies presented the 5 common characteristics needed to deliver best-in-class retail execution based on observations of consumer goods organizations around the world. Learn about AFS retail execution solution: http://www.afsi.com/retail-execution-sfa-store-merchandisers/.
Co-dependency with Clients - building a great product ≠ great product successBarry Magee
This document discusses the importance of client adoption of new products and change management. It notes that simply building a great product does not guarantee success and that the client organization must adapt to fully utilize the new product. The document provides several examples and argues that deployment, adoption, engagement and results (D-A-E-R) should be systematically monitored and improved over time to ensure clients derive value from products. It also stresses understanding organizational behaviors, change requirements and culture to facilitate adoption of new technologies and processes.
Venture Capital Financing PowerPoint Presentation SlidesSlideTeam
If you are a startup venture or an enterprise that is looking for funds to upgrade your business, our venture capital financing PowerPoint presentation slides have all the answers to represent pitch to stakeholders. This Venture Capital Financing presentation slide is helpful to pitch your ideas, to address key problem areas, and their solutions which can be helpful to get funding and value proposition of your ideas. This PPT template is helpful to showcase your strategy, plan to run your business, model of your organization and its structure. We offer you a perfectly designed PowerPoint theme where you can update all information to entice capital firms related to business pitch, valuation of company, SWOT analysis, client testimonials and of course your exit strategy also. With the help of this venture capital financial presentation template, you can always do more as it has subcategories and eye-catching icons to represent information. Just download this Venture Capital Financing presentation slides and you can also choose other related themes from our big collection template database. Begin the fireworks with our Venture Capital Financing PowerPoint Presentation Slides. Everyone will feel like celebrating.
The document provides steps for becoming an entrepreneur, including deciding what type of entrepreneur you want to be, finding an idea of sufficient size, crafting company hypotheses, building a basic website, testing ideas with customers, and asking for funding. It discusses different types of startups like lifestyle businesses, small businesses, social enterprises, and scalable companies. It emphasizes the importance of getting customer feedback to test hypotheses and pivot if needed through the customer development process.
The document provides a digital roadmap for Atlas Copco to establish its brand digitally, including analyzing decision makers and their needs, understanding the current brand, developing a communication strategy using various digital channels like social media, and proposing media targets and measurement of results. It analyzes the B2B digital landscape and customer journey, and recommends strategies for branding, communication, social media, and digital advertising platforms.
Sources Of Sustainable Competitive Advantage Powerpoint Presentation SlidesSlideTeam
Introducing Sources Of Sustainable Competitive Advantage PowerPoint Presentation Slides. Showcase the unique features of the product that are perceived by the target market as significant and superior to the competition. Discuss the reasons for the company to have competitive advantages such as customer satisfaction, an increase in loyalty, an increase in profit, etc. by using core competency PPT visuals. The comparative advantage slide deck explains the sources of a competitive advantage which constitutes high skilled labor, geographic location, high entry barriers, access to new technology. Take the assistance of the generic competitive strategy PPT infographics and describe generic strategies of competitive advantage like differentiation, cost leadership, cost focus, differentiation focus. A well-structured competitor analysis framework will help you evaluate your competitive advantage effortlessly. The competitive advantage presentation is professionally designed for your convenience. Make an impact on your audience with a visually attractive yet simple PowerPoint presentation. https://bit.ly/3qYPdXu
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Team Networks - 2022 Technology, Innovation & Great Power CompetitionStanford University
Technology Innovation and Great Power Competition,TIGPC, Gordian knot Center, DIME-FIL, department of defense, dod, intlpol 340, joe felter, ms&e296, raj shah, stanford, Steve blank, AI, ML, AI/ML, china, networks
Team LiOn Batteries - 2022 Technology, Innovation & Great Power CompetitionStanford University
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Team Quantum - 2022 Technology, Innovation & Great Power CompetitionStanford University
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Team Disinformation - 2022 Technology, Innovation & Great Power CompetitionStanford University
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Team Wargames - 2022 Technology, Innovation & Great Power CompetitionStanford University
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Team Climate Change - 2022 Technology, Innovation & Great Power Competition Stanford University
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The document describes a team's efforts to commercialize a new protein quantification technology called PLA-Seq. After initially thinking the technology's value propositions of lower cost, faster throughput, and lower sample volume would appeal to pharmaceutical and personalized health companies, the team conducted customer interviews and learned accuracy was more important than cost to most customers. They also found their target markets should be preclinical biotech and academia rather than personalized health or CROs. The team incorporated their business and pivoted their marketing strategy and funding plans accordingly based on learnings outside of the building.
The document summarizes the development of Invisa Bio over 10 weeks as they pivoted between different medical applications and solutions for their self-assembling medical device technology. They initially focused on manufacturing and delivery but shifted to leveraging drug delivery mechanisms. They considered applications in cardiology, neurology, and orthopedics before focusing on brain aneurysms based on feedback from physicians. The company incorporated, raised funding, and began shadowing doctors to further develop their technology to address unmet needs in difficult to reach areas.
(1) The document describes the journey of a team developing a saffron supplement product to address mental health issues like anxiety and depression.
(2) It started with the goal of targeting adults aged 18-40, but through customer interviews and testing, they learned that teenagers were more interested in an anti-anxiety gummy product.
(3) Key lessons included the challenges of building the right team, navigating advice, knowing when enough customer feedback has been received, and setting individual and project milestones. The team is now continuing work over the summer to further develop the product.
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Team Short Circuit - 2021 Technology, Innovation & Great Power CompetitionStanford University
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Team Aurora - 2021 Technology, Innovation & Great Power CompetitionStanford University
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Team Conflicted Capital Team - 2021 Technology, Innovation & Great Power Comp...Stanford University
Technology, Innovation and Great Power Competition,TIGPC, Gordian knot Center, DIME-FIL, department of defense, dod, intlpol 340, joe felter, ms&e296, raj shah, stanford, Steve blank, AI, ML, AI/ML, china, unmanned, autonomy, venture capital
Lecture 8 - Technology, Innovation and Great Power Competition - CyberStanford University
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Chapter wise All Notes of First year Basic Civil Engineering.pptxDenish Jangid
Chapter wise All Notes of First year Basic Civil Engineering
Syllabus
Chapter-1
Introduction to objective, scope and outcome the subject
Chapter 2
Introduction: Scope and Specialization of Civil Engineering, Role of civil Engineer in Society, Impact of infrastructural development on economy of country.
Chapter 3
Surveying: Object Principles & Types of Surveying; Site Plans, Plans & Maps; Scales & Unit of different Measurements.
Linear Measurements: Instruments used. Linear Measurement by Tape, Ranging out Survey Lines and overcoming Obstructions; Measurements on sloping ground; Tape corrections, conventional symbols. Angular Measurements: Instruments used; Introduction to Compass Surveying, Bearings and Longitude & Latitude of a Line, Introduction to total station.
Levelling: Instrument used Object of levelling, Methods of levelling in brief, and Contour maps.
Chapter 4
Buildings: Selection of site for Buildings, Layout of Building Plan, Types of buildings, Plinth area, carpet area, floor space index, Introduction to building byelaws, concept of sun light & ventilation. Components of Buildings & their functions, Basic concept of R.C.C., Introduction to types of foundation
Chapter 5
Transportation: Introduction to Transportation Engineering; Traffic and Road Safety: Types and Characteristics of Various Modes of Transportation; Various Road Traffic Signs, Causes of Accidents and Road Safety Measures.
Chapter 6
Environmental Engineering: Environmental Pollution, Environmental Acts and Regulations, Functional Concepts of Ecology, Basics of Species, Biodiversity, Ecosystem, Hydrological Cycle; Chemical Cycles: Carbon, Nitrogen & Phosphorus; Energy Flow in Ecosystems.
Water Pollution: Water Quality standards, Introduction to Treatment & Disposal of Waste Water. Reuse and Saving of Water, Rain Water Harvesting. Solid Waste Management: Classification of Solid Waste, Collection, Transportation and Disposal of Solid. Recycling of Solid Waste: Energy Recovery, Sanitary Landfill, On-Site Sanitation. Air & Noise Pollution: Primary and Secondary air pollutants, Harmful effects of Air Pollution, Control of Air Pollution. . Noise Pollution Harmful Effects of noise pollution, control of noise pollution, Global warming & Climate Change, Ozone depletion, Greenhouse effect
Text Books:
1. Palancharmy, Basic Civil Engineering, McGraw Hill publishers.
2. Satheesh Gopi, Basic Civil Engineering, Pearson Publishers.
3. Ketki Rangwala Dalal, Essentials of Civil Engineering, Charotar Publishing House.
4. BCP, Surveying volume 1
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62. Customer DevelopmentThe Search For the Business Model Company Building CustomerDiscovery CustomerValidation Customer Creation Pivot
63. Customer Discovery CustomerDiscovery CustomerValidation Company Building CustomerCreation Stop selling, start listening Test your hypotheses Continuous Discovery Done by founders
86. Found weeding in organic crops is HUGE problem; 50 - 75% of costs Crews of 100s-1000 Back-breaking task (Ilegal) labor harder to get 1-5 weedings per year/field $250-3,500 per acre and increasing Food contamination risk
88. Autonomous vehiclesWEEDING Dealers sell, installs and supports customer Co. trains dealers, supports dealers - Innovation - Customer Education - Dealer training - Low density vegetable growers - High density vegetable growers - Thinning operations - Conventional vegetables We reduce operating cost - Labor reduction (100 to 1) - Reduced risk of contamination - Mitigate labor availability concerns - Ag Dealers - Ag Service providers - Research labs - Ag Dealers - Ag Service providers Engineers on Machine Vision Two problems: - Identification - Elimination Asset sale Our revenue stream derives from selling the equipment Dealer discount COGS seek a 50-60% Gross Margin Heavy R&D investment
117. Visit Highlights Above: Organic Carrots, 7wks. Top right: Conventional carrots Bottom Right: Very weedy. Will require multiple passes of hand weeding
118. Visit Highlights Carrot vs. Weeds Due to small root systems, carrots have no chance against weeds
163. World Ag Expo interviews:the need is real and wide spread 10+ interviews at show Everyone confirmed the need Robocrop, UK based, crude competitor sells for $171 K Revenue Stream Mid to small growers prefer a service Large growers prefer to buy, but OK with service until technology is proven Charging for labor cost saved is OK, as we provide other benefits (food safety, labor availability) Confidential
196. We Act Like It’s the 19th Century Why do we need to get together in one room? Why do we need to wait a month to see progress? Why don’t we have standards for what you want? Why haven’t we adopted the tools we build/sell?
197. How to Run a Board Meeting Logistics Send out board materials 2 days before, have board dinner Approve minutes, stock grants Business Highlights/Lowlights summary of key events since last meeting Financials versus Budget waterfall charts Management asks the board to help strategy, markets, key hires, introductions. Executive session Meet without management to discuss performance
198. How to Run a Board Meeting Logistics Approve minutes, stock grants Business Highlights/Lowlights summary of key events since last meeting Financials versus Budget waterfall charts Management asks the board to help strategy, markets, key hires, introductions. Executive session Meet without management to discuss performance Misc Send out board materials 2 days before, have board dinner Why?
199. What’s Wrong With a Board Meeting? Time between meetings (every 4-6 weeks) Strategy-to-tactic-to implementation lag Often no follow-up on the outcomes Diffuse board member attention (sits on 6-12 boards) Punctuated Exec Staff Performance “The Get Ready for the Board Meeting” drill It’s often a performance rather than a snapshot No standards for what each side does What is the entrepreneur supposed to be doing? What are the board members supposed to be contributing?
200. What’s Wrong With a Board Meeting? Time between meetings (every 4-6 weeks) Strategy-to-tactic-to implementation lag Diffuse board member attention (sits on 6-12 boards Punctuated Exec Staff Performance “The Get Ready for the Board Meeting” drill It’s often a performance rather than a snapshot No standards for what each side does What is the entrepreneur supposed to be doing? What are the board members supposed to be contributing? Why?
204. Focus on What’s Important It’s about the search for the business model Not income statement, cash flow, balance sheet Advice/Guidance about metrics around the search What are the Business model hypotheses? What are the most important hypotheses to test now? Progress of validating each hypotheses What are the iterations and Pivots – and why?
206. How? Customer Development The Process Narrative Interviews Surveys Videos Prototypes Business Model Canvas Scorekeeping Real-time Feedback Physical Reality Checks Skype Face-to-face
230. CANVAS diagram is interactive and “stateful” Enter your hypotheses here
231. CANVAS diagram is interactive and “stateful” Test your hypotheses and record learnings in blog format
232. CANVAS diagram is interactive and “stateful” Test your hypotheses and record learnings in blog format Interviews Surveys Videos Photos etc
233. CANVAS diagram is interactive and “stateful” Test your hypotheses and record learnings in blog format Invite your advisors and investors to your project
234. CANVAS diagram is interactive and “stateful” Test your hypotheses and record learnings in blog format Invite your advisors and investors to your project They can view progress by flipping thru your CANVAS diagrams
235. CANVAS diagram is interactive and “stateful” Test your hypotheses and record learnings in blog format Invite your advisors and investors to your project They can view progress by flipping thru your CANVAS diagrams They can post feedback and leave comments inline
236. CANVAS diagram is interactive and “stateful” Test your hypotheses and record learnings in blog format Invite your advisors and investors to your project They can view progress by flipping thru your CANAVAS diagrams They can post feedback and leave comments inline Get email alert when new feedback comes in
237. CANVAS diagram is interactive and “stateful” Test your hypotheses and record learnings in blog format Invite your advisors and investors to your project They can view progress by flipping thru your CANAVAS diagrams They can post feedback and leave comments inline Get email alert when new feedback comes in The Lean Board Meeting
238. Sign up for private beta (FREE) http://www.leanlaunchlab.com @leanlaunchlab Ben Mappen benmappen@gmail.com
239. What Does this Change?For Angel-Funded Startups Angel funded startups can now get experienced advice No longer requires board commitment for involvement Encourages investors who need visibility Ends repetition at each investor coffee Turns adhoc startups into strategy-driven startups Invites investor participation in the process Professionalize the “throw it against the wall and see if it sticks” Highly time-efficient for investor and founders Eliminates Geography as a barrier to investment!
240. What Does this Change?For VC’s and Angels For the first time a structure for “search” Real-time monitoring of startup progress Zero-lag for coaching and course-correction Immediate follow-up on board meeting outcomes Allows a single VC to multiply their reach and/or depth Eliminates Geography as a barrier to investment!