2000 Customer Distribution Lean 
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.
Steve Blank
MAY 6, 2015
I am always surprised when critics complain that the Lean Startup’s Build, Measure, Learn approach is nothing more than “throwing incomplete products out of the building to see if they work.”. It’s time to update Build, Measure, Learn to what we now know is the best way to build Lean startups. Here’s how. Waterfall Development.
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Steve Blank
SEPTEMBER 14, 2009
In this time, building a successful business meant building a company that had paying customers quarter after quarter. It did not mean building a startup into a company to flip or hype on the market with no earnings or revenue, but building a company that had paying customers. They taught you about customers, markets and profits.
ConversionXL
MARCH 19, 2020
Greater discipline during boom times offered more flexibility during lean years. And getting it right during the lean years, Bain reports , has a massive impact on companies’ growth rate after things improve: ( Image source ). They do more of the same with less, often lowering quality and customer satisfaction. Promotion.
ConversionXL
JANUARY 18, 2022
Jeff Bezos’s private space technology company Blue Origin was founded back in 2000. In this article, you’ll understand how to build a memorable brand that your customers want to buy from. Your brand is your reputation – that intangible thing that determines whether your customers trust you above the rest.
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. Here’s an interesting excerpt on finding value despite the noise: There’s lots of noise in AI.
Startup Lessons Learned
FEBRUARY 5, 2013
Yes, there are Lean Startups even in the United States federal government. For my take on how this is possible, you can see my previous post on Lean Government here. Over 2000 proposals have been reviewed and over 40 investments made across the world in a wide range of sectors, with many more under negotiation.
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