2000 Cofounder Lean Product 
Steve Blank
SEPTEMBER 5, 2018
Reading the NY Times article “ Jeffrey Katzenberg Raises $1 Billion for Short-Form Video Venture, ” I realized it was time for a new startup heuristic: the amount of customer discovery and product-market fit you need to find is inversely proportional to the amount and availability of risk capital. It’s the antithesis of the Lean Startup.
ConversionXL
FEBRUARY 27, 2019
But, increasingly, the Apple hype-fests are a marketing—not a product—showcase. For product launches, long-term success relies on cornerstones of marketing research and execution, like a strong value proposition and full-funnel campaign. Yet while product launches are a risk, they’re not as risky as you think. Image source ).
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Up and Running
JANUARY 27, 2020
There is much debate as to whether Peter Drucker actually said to Mark Fields, then CEO of Ford Motor Company in March 2000. Overemphasizing culture alone is pointless; if founders and leaders aren’t guiding business growth with a series of stretch but SMART goals —measurable milestones, there won’t be a business culture to manage. .
Startup Lessons Learned
AUGUST 17, 2020
Here's my conversation with the founders of Revolution Foods. I'm the co founder and Chief Impact Officer at Revolution Foods. I'm the co-founder and CEO of Revolution Foods. I co-founded Revolution Foods with Kirsten Tobey in 2006 to ensure quality food access for all children across the nation.
A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
OCTOBER 4, 2017
Idealistic founders believe they will break the mold when they scale, and not turn into a “typical big company.” But, an illness takes the velocity of the product or quality of support from heroic to zero. Or it’s fatal because that was a co-founder. Small companies operate this way by necessity, and it works!
crowdSPRING Blog
FEBRUARY 15, 2013
Lean vs. Mean – Small Business and Responsibility – [link]. How do I find good technical co-founders? How should one go about pricing their software product? How CEOs Stay So Productive | Fast Company – [link]. How CEOs Stay So Productive | Fast Company – [link]. Quora – [link].
VC Cafe
SEPTEMBER 8, 2023
There’s a question on whether all this GPU hogging, and building capacity is not just a bubble waiting to pop, similar to the Telecom crash in the early 2000’s. Seth Rosenberg at Graylock published ‘ Product Led AI’ – pointing to opportunities for founders building AI-first companies.
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