Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

In 2001 companies IPO’d very quickly if they were working, by 2011 IPOs had slowed down to the point that in 2013 Aileen Lee of Cowboy Ventures astutely called billion-dollar outcomes “unicorns.” We can’t wait for customers to use the product for 12–18 months and do customer interviews or look at purchase cohorts.

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The Next Web

AUGUST 6, 2013

There is a lot of talk about the lean startup and whether it works or not. Others claim that it’s unproven , unscientific and gets your product to market in a haphazard way that is ungrounded in quality. WebVan went bankrupt in 2001 after burning through $1 billion on warehouses, inventory systems and fleet delivery trucks.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 5, 2014

Lean and hungry. These are the ones who will spend extra hours on a project, who will think about that problem or product on the weekends, in the shower, wherever they go. In the end, their differing opinions and interests will sharpen the company and result in better products and services. That’s where you start.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

But this mania to not miss out on the next big thing is driving some investors to pay growth-equity prices for traditional market risk (as in, they’re paying up before it is clear there is product / market fit). If you are interested the Vimeo is here. And so on down then line. If a company that would traditionally raise $500k at a $3.5

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Saudi Arabia Valuation IPO Technical Review 309

Mucker Lab

OCTOBER 12, 2016

Combined with the usual summer slowdown, some are already raising the spectre of 2001 or 2008. To make it through these downturns, entrepreneurs can make sure they have capital efficient business models and lean operations to get to, or close to, profitability between stages. The “venture recession” of 2016 is in full swing.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 16, 2010

The VC industry grew dramatically as a result of the Internet bubble - Before the Internet bubble the people who invested in VC funds (called LPs or Limited Partners) put about $50 billion into the industry and by 2001 this had grown precipitously to around $250 billion. Staying “lean&# is not an option.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

Lean Startups/Back to Basics (2000-2010): No IPO’s, limited VC cash, lack of confidence and funding fuels “lean startup” era with limited M&A and even less IPO activity. Startups needed millions of dollars of funding just to get their first product out the door to customers. 2001 – 2010: Back to Basics: The Lean Startup.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 8, 2021

Products that require a high degree of behavior change are doomed to fail. What does it take to build products your customers love to use? What separates a wildly successful product from one that fails to gain traction? Published in early 2001, Positioning remains as relevant and actionable now as it was then.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 15, 2016

Here’s an interesting fact that I’m certain managers and business owners never share with people who work 60 to 100 hour per week: we can’t actually tell the difference between the productivity of someone who works over 80 hours vs. someone who works fewer than 40 hours. Lean Marketing tips: business card as selling tool.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 26, 2022

We come in after a product has landed and found product market fit and has some escape velocity. I will say the one thing we tell all our portfolio companies is to get fit and lean in. I like the get fit and lean in. So there’s a product side and a business side. . That’s not what we do. Jonathan Siddharth .

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 18, 2013

When the products you sell are also available from thousands of other vendors at the same or lower prices, how do you differentiate your business and convince customers to buy from you? Related posts: Lean Business: Do Unto Others*. It has always been difficult to stand-out in a crowded market. image: wtiphotos.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 9, 2016

After leaving Razorfish in 2001, Craig spent a year immersed in food, including a stint as a prep cook at Babbo, Mario Batali’s flagship restaurant. Customer input shaped Amper’s product: One of the things that was really important to us was using Lean methodology. Can you do it for us instead?”

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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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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. stock market: The change led by NASDAQ in early 2001 to valuing stocks in increments from one-eighth of a dollar down to one cent.

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Campus Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 18, 2012

— sound like its time for the Lean University. State funding declined as a share of these universities’ budgets from 28 percent in 2001 to 19 percent in 2009. Good piece covering NSF’s new “ Science and Engineering Indicators ” and its data on the funding of research universities in the U.S.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 1, 2018

In 2001, I moved from Citibank to become the CMO of Morgan Stanley’s brokerage business, where I was tasked with modernizing and reviving the brokerage business there. It innovation of the product lines in businesses, and I was put in charge of coming up with new ways to do things around digitizing GE and modernizing the company.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 12, 2014

They signal their intelligence by putting great emphasis on the design of their products and services (Taste). They use lean teams. He has been a regular panelist on television’s Forbes on FOX since the show’s inception in 2001. They know how to tell their company story in ways that are both authentic and compelling (Story).

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Steve Blank

JULY 11, 2016

Their initial product was nice-to-have, but people didn’t want to pay for it, Jessica explained: Everything was going so well. Jessica ran things as lean as she could for the next few months while figuring out what to do. Especially difficult were the days after the Internet bubble burst: 2001 was a staggering blow to technology.

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genylabs.typepad.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

If we mention a product or service that we received for free or other considerations, we will note it. The best start-up I ever invested in went bankrupt in 2001. Wall Street Journal: With New Technology, Start-Ups Go Lean. Emergent Research works with corporate, government and non-profit clients. Small Business Blogs.

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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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Up and Running

JANUARY 8, 2019

It can be as simple as a short, Lean Business Plan that serves as a strategic roadmap for your business, or as comprehensive as a formal business plan that instills confidence in bank lenders and investors. Remember, if you just need a Lean Business Plan, not a formal business plan, shorter is better. Form follows function.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 17, 2016

And a company culture and values need to be design and engineered just like the product. . Their first product aims to make meetings more productive. Just as important as the product) we did not pay a lot of attention and we’re not particularly intentional about how we were building the company (and its culture.) .

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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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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 11, 2019

Ann will be speaking at this year’s Lean Startup Conference in October about all of this and more. The first time was just for a couple years, from 2001-2003, before I went to grad school. Yeah, I mean there's a lot of that because when we think about how we invest in companies, we’re not thinking about just a product that people want.

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Mike Michalowicz

OCTOBER 22, 2019

I tried teaching the business owners how to coach, so they could get better productivity out of their warm body team members. We teach them to grow with lean and mighty teams. I knew that was the issue that needed to be solved and it was a tough one! I started using everything I had in my toolbox as a psychologist to help them.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 10, 2013

Of course, Excite also went bankrupt in 2001, so maybe five is a terrible number? Shoulder – not to cry on, but to lean on. Skills – I do product, business, marketing. When things have to happen, your co-founders are the ones who will step up. As CEO of a company, a strong – yet sometimes stubborn – vision is a requirement.

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Cofounder Technical Cofounder Kenya Dilution 143

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 14, 2014

This is the magic number for leadership teams, product teams, research teams, design teams, and more. Each team had the competence and authority to make the decisions necessary to complete the entire product development cycle, including the quality of the software, the functionality, and the architectural blueprint.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 5, 2014

Fadell brings everyone together — from user-experience people to management people to algorithms people — so that there are people there who can speak to every aspect of their product from design to marketing to user experience. Story can create legends that an entire workplace culture can build upon, grow with, and lean on.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 9, 2013

Consider that NYT.com readers are on average 44 years old, have an average income of just under $75,000, over 50% are college educated, and over 25% work in some professional or managerial position – it makes sense that awe or anger inducing, opinionated articles perform the best on the left-leaning news site.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 2, 2012

The image to the left shows the Lord Howe stick insect, Dryocecelus australis , which was presumed extinct by 1960 but found again in 2001 on Ball’s Pyramid, the remains of an old volcano that emerged from the sea 7 million years ago. Kickstart Your Lean Startup With Effective Feedback – [link].

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

In fact, the open source community can learn a lot from Microsoft in terms of backward compatibility and tools for productivity. These development platforms have contributed significantly to the popularity of the products from Apple and Microsoft. Eclipse has been emulating Visual Studio for years now. March 26, 2011 at 3:52 am.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 17, 2018

That’s because these innovative startups are learning new things about their product and customers at a very fast pace and their strategies change more frequently. Simpler plans— Lean Plans that can fit on a single page —get updated more frequently and are more helpful to these companies because they can review their strategy at a glance.

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Up and Running

MARCH 9, 2015

See Also Introducing Lean Planning: How to Plan Less and Grow Faster. That’s because these innovative startups are learning new things about their product and customers at a very fast pace and their strategies change more frequently. I recommend starting with a lean plan. Journal of Management Studies, 47(3), 391-415.

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