ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

In 2002, McKinsey published a study of 1,000 U.S. 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 ). What the big studies have shown.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 16, 2014

From starting the company on a AUD $10k credit card in 2002 to raising $60m from Atlas Partners in 2010, Sydney-based enterprise software firm counts Twitter and NASA among their clients. The firm now has 600+ employees with Facebook vice-president Jay Parikh and former Symantec chief executive Enrique Salem on its board as of August 2013.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

In 2002, Elon Musk created Space X. Lean into your strengths, and don’t try to appeal to everyone. 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?

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 22, 2017

Yes, there are a few self-taught naturals, like Bubba Watson, and, uh…Sam Snead (1912–2002). If you pay attention to the PGA Tour, you are aware than even the best golfers have a coterie of coaches, for the mechanics of the game, for the mental aspects and strategy, and for general fitness.

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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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David Teten

MARCH 24, 2014

” It’s great reading for anyone that leans too heavily on the left side of the brain. We over-weighted small cap value stocks in 1998-2002. But we are limbic system-driven humans first. A psychiatrist once told me to read a great book, “Voltaire’s Bastard.” It was a nutty thing to do at the time.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

In 2002 after exiting his second company he was attracted to the variety of being a VC. The second phase will be who can get the right combination lean back, lean forward, interaction, enhanced data, and make it fun. The idea was right but the timing was early and required a pivot into being a software company. 9:30 – 11:30).

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Campus Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 18, 2012

— sound like its time for the Lean University. From Kevin Kiley of Inside Higher Ed : In inflation-adjusted dollars, total state support for the top 101 public universities declined by 10 percent between 2002 and 2010, with nearly 75 percent receiving cuts.

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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: [.] That’s in stark contrast to the traditional Product Development Model where it’s expected a customer is already there and waiting and it’s simply a matter of [.] familiar with Customer Development you should be.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 19, 2009

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. This article is part of a trend that has taken me a bit by surprise: the adoption of lean startup techniques outside the traditional domain of high-tech startups. Read the rest.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 17, 2014

The organization builds awareness through events and outreach – historically their most popular fundraising effort has been their annual Walk to Defeat ALS , which since 2002 has raised almost $200 million in donations. Lean Marketing tips: not-for-profit edition. Congratulations to the ALSA for showing us the way! Photo: Marie Jades.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

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. Indeed, he regularly turned away would-be clients who couldnt afford his fees, even if they offered him equity instead. But in 2007, after Jumpstarts success, he decided to get serious.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

If you find a resource on bank loans dated 2002, for example, you’ll probably want to verify that the information is still correct by comparing it to other pages in your search results. A Lean Plan can help you get a handle on the most important aspects of running a successful business. Is it up to date ?

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 15, 2016

A 2002 study explored whether good leaders must have empathy. Lean Marketing tips: business card as selling tool. They do not allow themselves to stay stagnant by treating themselves as victims. They advocate for themselves to survive the tough points and persevere. Lacking empathy. Image credit: John Lester.

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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. In 2002, I joined a Wireless LAN startup called BlackStorm Networks (we later renamed it to Airespace thinking the original name would have bad karma) as one of the first dozen employees. The Startup Trifecta.

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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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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. We wrote all of our software in VB6 and then ported it to.NET in 2001/2002.

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