Spencer Fry

JANUARY 23, 2013

I took a Visual Basic class in high school, enjoyed it, graduated in 2002 and entered college on track to get a Computer Science degree. While you shouldn't run to them whenever you get stuck, it will be helpful to have a friend to lean on during the most difficult times.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

I took the opportunity this past week to publish summary notes of some of the VCs and entrepreneurs I had interviewed on This Week in VC. One of my goals in doing the show was not only to educate entrepreneurs but also to put a human face on many of the VCs in our industry as VCs can be hard to get to know. (5:00 5:00 – 5:55).

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Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2015

BMNT , a new Silicon Valley company, is combining the Lean Methods it learned in combat with the technology expertise and speed of startups. The OODA Loop was the Lean Startup philosophy before lean. In Afghanistan in 2002 U.S. In peacetime the U.S. military is an immovable and inflexible bureaucracy.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

Reply Best books for the lean product managers — Justin Gibbs , on April 28, 2009 at 2:44 pm Said: [.] This product development diagram had become part of the DNA of Silicon Valley. So much so that after I started teaching I’d ask, “Can anybody recognize this model of startups? familiar with Customer Development you should be.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Entrepreneur news from reporter Eric Markowitz. In the 1990s, Graham was one of those entrepreneurs giving away equity in exchange for crucial services. In 2002, he stepped gingerly into the work-for-equity arena, with a modest investment in one start-up. But Ive definitely had to lean on Dave. Finance | Tuesdays.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Thats why some entrepreneurs are trying another approach to product launches: marketing a product online before spending much on research and development or inventory. We do not develop a product until we get a paying customer," says Orit Pennington , who co-founded the six-employee company with her husband in 2002. Read the rest.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 15, 2016

The most successful entrepreneurs and business owners are good leaders. Successful entrepreneurs , business owners, and employees all echoed the same sentiments: the best leaders show little evidence of toxic behavior and therefore, improve the chances for success. A 2002 study explored whether good leaders must have empathy.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

A Lean Startup methodology offers entrepreneurs a framework to focus on what’s important: Business Model Discovery. Teams use the Lean Startup toolkit: the Business Model Canvas + Customer Development process + Agile Engineering. Filed under: Customer Development , Customer Development Manifesto , Lean LaunchPad , Teaching.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 16, 2014

He is co-founder of international start-up community event organisation 3beards and founder and director of Albion Drive , a fully integrated communicaitons agency for entrepreneurs and challenger brands. Australia Entrepreneur Analysis and Opinion Investigations Lists Roundups' Australia is not short on those.

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David Teten

MARCH 24, 2014

” It’s great reading for anyone that leans too heavily on the left side of the brain. A different but related issue: Some former entrepreneur family offices like to talk about their hot hedge fund manager on the golf course. We over-weighted small cap value stocks in 1998-2002.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 14, 2018

Sagefrog Marketing Group, LLC was founded in 2002 as a two-person enterprise through the merger of two existing entities. Using the Lean Startup methodology, I created a quick landing page but was stuck searching for a unique name for the company. And it resonated of a lean manufacturing process, which I thought was cool.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 11, 2012

Two of the best recent examples include Steve Blank ’s 4 Steps to the Epiphany and Eric Ries’s The Lean Startup. If you are new to the startup game, Blank and Ries are smart guideposts on the road to becoming a technology entrepreneur. The Startup Trifecta. The team that wants to introduce a disruptive technology more?

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Do you “entrepreneurs” really think a guy or gal that can compile Linux on a bicycle wants to write a secure payment processor on an iPhone, or a Flash app that runs on every browser? I am an entrepreneur and own a start-up, and have hired many coders over the years. And it was slow going to master that. … James.

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