Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

In his Harvard Business Review article summing up his tenure, Immelt recalls that the two things that influenced him most were Marc Andreessen’s 2011 Wall Street Journal article “ Why Software Is Eating the World, ” and Eric Ries’s book The Lean Startup. Are lean innovation and the Startup Way a failure in large companies?

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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 ). Bain offers a rubric based on your current market position and financial strength: ( Image source ).

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Using Balsamiq instead of SnagIt, Website Optimizer over just Google Analytics and FTP). We went “nuclear&# and slimmed down to 33 people (yes, I know, still large by today’s standards but this was 2001), raised $10 million and we built a real company.

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genylabs.typepad.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

The best start-up I ever invested in went bankrupt in 2001. They had a great managment team, A list VCs, great technology, excellent sales traction and market leadership in a very exciting space. Wall Street Journal: With New Technology, Start-Ups Go Lean. Data & Analytics. They looked like a sure winner. Categories.

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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. Despite the Internet bubble bursting, the company was able to generate over $160 million in revenue in 2001.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 5, 2014

Most C-suites and shareholders speak the language of the hard edge: metrics, analytics, logistics, strategies, and a well-defined and easy-to-see ROI. To stay ahead of the curve, Parrish and Stoddard regularly meet to discuss trends in predictive analytics, sentiment analysis, and other valuable information. Soft Edge Pillar: SMARTS).

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Just as.NET is both a lock-in and very restricting, and Java violates both “lean cuisine class hierarchy” and “objects if necessary, but not necessarily objects”, the “we’ll just use XML” mantra deserves to die. You use marketing and sales language, when attempting to make technical points.

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