Steve Blank

JUNE 3, 2010

He believed that large companies handle sustaining innovation – evolutionary changes in their markets, products, etc. If you’ve been reading my book on Customer Development and follow my work on Market Type , this type of innovation is best for adding new products to existing markets. Just like a startup. More in future posts.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 4, 2017

But, an illness takes the velocity of the product or quality of support from heroic to zero. So, no project can have fewer than, say, three people dedicated to it, plus people management and possibly some form of Product or Project Management. If Google launches a new product that generates $10,000,000/year in revenue, is that good?

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 16, 2010

But VC is an “illiquid asset&# so funds didn’t disappear quickly - In 2000/01 the stock market quickly adjusted punishing investors in the NASDAQ and in individual public technology stocks. side note: our last fund at GRP Partners is currently ranked as the 5th best performing fund of the year 2000.

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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 ). Use that intelligence to inform product portfolio and investment choices.”. Image source ).

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2013

Lean vs. Mean – Small Business and Responsibility – [link]. How should one go about pricing their software product? How CEOs Stay So Productive | Fast Company – [link]. What is someone going to stop doing when they start using your product? The Value of Taking a Productive Pause – [link].

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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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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

I know that most people who are close to them tend to deny their existence, as we saw in the great housing bubble of 2002-2007 and the dot com bubble of 1997-2000. In addition to FOMO it is partly driven by massive increase in valuations for earlier-stage companies who raised money at bit seed prices but who still have product risk.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

I am convinced one of Joel Spolskys lasting contributions to the field of managing software teams will turn out to be the Joel Test , a checklist of 12 essential practices that you could use to rate the effectiveness of a software product development team. He wrote it in 2000, and as far as I know has never updated it.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 17, 2015

What follows is a guest post by Kirsten Cluthe, the new Editorial Director of The Lean Startup Conference. Kirsten is leading our program development and speaker selection -- curating a four day, multi-tracked, 2000-person event. We’re reaching into the Lean Startup community to find hidden gems--the stories we don't know (yet).

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

Jeff Bezos’s private space technology company Blue Origin was founded back in 2000. You’d think that no one could recreate a product so sophisticated and advanced as space rockets, right? With enough resources, products can always be copied. It’s tough to compete on product alone and you’re likely to see diminishing returns.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

Dot.com Bubble ( 1995-2000): “ Anything goes” as public markets clamor for ideas, vague promises of future growth, and IPOs happen absent regard for history or profitability. Startups needed millions of dollars of funding just to get their first product out the door to customers. August 1995 – March 2000: The Dot.Com Bubble.

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Mike Michalowicz

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

in February 2000 – part time, with the goal to quit my full-time job within one year. By the end of December, 2000 I had sold over $100,000 in Hunter Douglas shadings, through my company, Custom Blinds for Less, Inc. I started this in business part-time, in 2000, loaded with a prayer and a fully stocked min-van.

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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. I know this is an unpopular thing to say, since it sounds so patently absurd. But I've seen the teams with my own eyes and witnessed their results first hand.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

Beyond just those who will be hearing about the lean startup for the first time, Im expecting to shake a lot of hands and have a lot of interesting side conversations. Since 2000 we have passed a number of laws and regulations that are killing innovation in the US. All three of the pillars have been under attack since 2000.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 18, 2011

There is tremendous legal support behind our products, but people need to FEEL comfortable as well. than it is to explain how the 1999 UETA and 2000 ESIGN Acts and our https framework help keep us secure. One of the greatest industry challenges is educating the public about the security behind digital technology.

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www.joelonsoftware.com

JULY 10, 2012

There are modern algorithms to optimize how much buffer you need at every point (read up on Toyota’s lean production system and the Theory of Constraints to get started). The software production process has several major “inventory” accumulation points, itself. Think of product ideas as the raw material. Feature backlogs.

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 16, 2012

As we have seen with the recent speed bumps at highfliers like Groupon and Zynga, taking “lean startups” from foundation to creating sustainable, scalable, profitable business models is a very rare and special task. Big Data meets travel…in 2000. As I mentioned in my post last week , scaling is hard. Really hard. Magical, really.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 7, 2016

A similar way of thinking is to “minimize execution risk,” because early on startups are nothing but risk — risk that the product won’t work, risk that the customers won’t pay (enough), risk that you can’t economically acquire customers, risk that the market doesn’t exist, and so on.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2021

I just directly observed that the technology for doctors was really far from what they needed to operate at a high productivity level," he told me. That's one of the very, very early companies that I was talking to Lean Startup about. So, that's how I came to Silicon Valley in the first place. ER : I remember Speed Date. EB : Yeah.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 6, 2012

Four months ago, T he Lean Startup debuted at #2 on the New York Times bestseller list. On Monday, I’m taking The Lean Startup across the pond to the UK to launch the first international edition. The Lean Startup is a new approach to business that's being adopted around the world. Now is the time to think Lean.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 15, 2011

The Stanford Lean LaunchPad class was an experiment in a new model of teaching startup entrepreneurship. For some of the teams their expectation was if they built the product customers will come. The feedback they were getting was that the product was a “nice to have” but not a “hair-on-fire” product. Week 5 of the class.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2020

18:21) Carl on optimism and what he did as head of stores at Home Depot post-Katrina to take care of customers and employees, including selling products out of the back of a truck via an IOU system. If you lean in and understand this is a brilliant time to play offense. All our cleaning products. Carl Liebert : Yeah.

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The Startup Toolkit

JANUARY 17, 2017

One of the big mistakes technical folks make is optimising their time too tightly around product and clobbering all the other priorities. The response to this is lean manufacturing, where you ideally don’t make anything until the customer has ordered it. This one idea is how Dell ended up so successful in the 90s.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Jumpstart was one of Grahams first clients; it signed on shortly after he founded Arizona Bay, in 2000. And his vendors ended up with nothing when his company, OpenAuto.com , went out of business, in 2000. But Ive definitely had to lean on Dave. Be Connected & Productive Anywhere, Any Time. Why customers watch videos.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

Are you in the “lean&# phase? I’m a very big believer in the “Lean Startup&# principles as espoused by Steve Blank and Eric Ries. When you see evidence that there is this so called “product / market fit&# then you may be ready for larger amounts of capital. They evolve the product faster.

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Up and Running

MAY 16, 2016

percent in 2000 to 19.6 See Also: 12 Tips for a Wildly Productive Home Office. Start with a lean plan if you’re eager to get up and running fast or if you’re simply interested in validating your idea. From 2010 through 2015, the industry saw a moderate but steady four percent growth. population. percent by 2030.

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Steve Blank

MAY 5, 2016

I partnered with people all over the company and I basically built new products. This is back in 2000 and most hospitals in Brazil didn’t have computers. — The Hawken School entrepreneurship program is modeled on the Lean LaunchPad curriculum, and has been adopted by high schools across the country. Guido : Yeah.

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500hats.com

AUGUST 2, 2012

While a flood of new VCs came into existence during the late 90’s internet boom, many had difficulty raising new funds after the crashes of 2000-2001 and 2008 , and as a result significantly fewer fund managers exist now compared to a decade ago. In the past ten years there have been several dramatic changes in venture capital.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

In future posts I’ll describe how Eric Ries and the Lean Startup concept provided the equivalent model for product development activities inside the building and neatly integrates customer and agile development. This was possible because in 2000, Donna and Handspring were in an Existing Market. Why does Market Type matter?

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 16, 2013

I used to joke that ASPs (remember that term) were the mom and pop businesses of the late 90’s early 2000’s. Maybe the proliferation of tools has expanded faster than demand (One of the great cases in Ash Maurya’s book, Running Lean is defining the problem to solve and whether the problem is worth solving).

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 25, 2013

In 2000 our industry had more than $100 billion in LP money. In my mind, the best VCs actually deliver outsized returns by “leaning on the scale” not by “deal sourcing.” And I’ll know in 18 months whether we have product / market fit. The industry isn’t dying. It is changing. I create videos.

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Mucker Lab

MARCH 8, 2016

We’ve written code, launched products, acquired users, managed P&Ls, and lost sleep over making payroll. How can we tell founders to stay lean, keep focused on their customers, and keep burn rates low if we cannot walk the talk and eat our own dog food? We’ve ridden the ups and downs of economic cycles.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 26, 2012

For a technology startup company to launch an initial product and survive long enough to gauge its success, requires two-orders-of-magnitude less money today than at the start of the previous decade. They all went away; they got rolled up in 1999 and 2000 into these too-big-to-fail banking operations," Davidson tells us.

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Steve Blank

MAY 5, 2016

I partnered with people all over the company and I basically built new products. This is back in 2000 and most hospitals in Brazil didn’t have computers. — The Hawken School entrepreneurship program is modeled on the Lean LaunchPad curriculum, and has been adopted by high schools across the country. Guido : Yeah.

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 3, 2012

The Lean Start-Up movement, as exemplified in Eric Ries' book The Lean Start-Up, has appropriately focused a great deal of attention on the hard decisions and techniques required to create a company from nothing. But the second year (2000) was simply astounding: nearly $90 million! Scaling Akamai – Part 1: A Little Fat.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

Consumer Products. Paper & Forest Products. The results were similar when he examined data for companies funded from 2000 to 2010, he says. Harley Goes Lean to Build Hogs. Chemicals & Allied Products. Fabricated Metal Products. Food and Kindred Products. Leather and Leather Products.

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The Equity Kicker

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

I’ve worked in digital businesses since 2000 as Product Manager, ECommerce Operations Director and most recently as Chief Operating Officer (3 companies). In the last 15 years, the cost of production has gone down, distribution has gone mainstream. I’ve tested pricing models and conversion rates.

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