Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Venture Capitalists on your board developed the expertise to get your firm public as soon as possible using whatever it took including hype, spin, expand, and grab market share because the sooner you got your billion dollar market cap, the sooner the VC firm could sell their shares and distribute their profits.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

It was fall 2004, and the presidential election was in full swing. Oops - there went several precious weeks of development effort down the drain. And if you dont know who your customer is, perhaps some customer development is in order? Labels: customer development , search engine marketing 13comments: Jim Lindstrom said.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 16, 2013

Guest post by Lisa Regan, writer for The Lean Startup Conference. As Lean Startup methods have been used now for a number of years, we’ve become increasingly interested in how companies use them to sustain growth. During this period, the Palantir Gotham team grew from five developers to around 35. It wasn’t always this way.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 4, 2021

In the early 2000s, digital design and development freelancers were sort after – I was fresh out of University (having completed a degree in Media Arts) and was hungry for work. But I also leaned that is actually ok. So I packed in my day job – as a software developer – and devoted more time monetizing the blog and website.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 14, 2008

This was 2004, and we had never even heard of MySpace, let alone had any understanding of social networking. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science?

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 19, 2011

Lean startup: o It’s situational so some businesses are operationally/people intensive, high LTV (lifetime value) means you can spend more upfront. Selling LowerMyBills: o In 2004 he was getting a lot of call to take more money but was not interested. Mark’s view: too much money can eliminate discipline.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

I learned everything I know about startups in these lean years: 2001-2004. Our company developed a cost-conscious mentality. 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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ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

He was swiftly followed by Richard Branson and Virgin Galactic in 2004. Lean into your strengths, and don’t try to appeal to everyone. Share content exploring what it’s like to work at your organization, such as remote working, away days, professional development programs, etc. In 2002, Elon Musk created Space X. Image source.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 15, 2011

While the word lean might conjure up notions of cheap, it’s really about taking a scientific approach to innovating, measuring and responding in ways that stop companies from wasting time and money. The basis of the concept, as applied to startups, comes from the Lean manufacturing world popularized by Toyota.

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Up and Running

JUNE 16, 2014

According to business development consultant, Wyn Lydecker , both investors and venture capitalists are looking to invest in businesses and industries that they can understand. In 2004, Alexis Ohanian and Steve Huffman launched Reddit. If you have good experience then the VC will be leaning forward for the rest of the presentation.”.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, February 24, 2009 The lean startup at UC Berkeley Haas School of Business Image by Jessica_Mah via Flickr Last week I had the opportunity to lecture again in Steve Blank s entrepreneurship class at Haas, which is always a great learning experience - for me at least! Nice talk, thanks for sharing.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 29, 2013

Guest post by Lisa Regan, writer for The Lean Startup Conference. Last week, we hosted a webcast conversation, Lean Startup for Growing Companies , with Eric Ries, Wyatt Jenkins of Shutterstock, and Ari Gesher of Palantir. Wyatt and Ari will both be speaking at The Lean Startup Conference in December.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 9, 2011

Image Tom BKK via Flickr Most business owners lean toward the negative side of things and view this question as a warning that their suppliers, staff and customers are trying to take advantage of them. In my opinion, developing and executing an effective ma. What was your first thought when you read this title?

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 21, 2011

While most businesses use a marketing model that tends to lean heavy on the desire to go from know us to buy from us, any business that fills each of these seven touchpoints will be well on their way to finding and keeping customers that become part of the lead generation and conversion team. . Adding the Facebook Like. :

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500hats.com

AUGUST 2, 2012

One of the earliest and most well-known of the Micro-VC funds was First Round Capital , founded in 2004 by Josh Kopelman , a former entrepreneur who sold Half.com to eBay in 2000. Now this might sound like a minor development, but actually it’s something that is changing the entire playing field.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 27, 2011

The Trend Towards Lean Startups How to Get an MBA for Less Than $20 Has Social Media Changed Customer Service? In my opinion, developing and executing an effective ma. iTunes link – Cost is $2.99) or Related Posts: Creating Customer Bliss Do You Run a 24 Hour Business? Note: There have been some updates since I published th.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 12, 2011

Creating Customer Bliss Accelerate Your Startup The Trend Towards Lean Startups Are You Making Evil Plans? In my opinion, developing and executing an effective ma. iTunes link – Cost is $2.99) or Related Posts: Has Social Media Changed Customer Service? Note: There have been some updates since I published th. 5 Steps to Successful Fac.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 24, 2021

More and more companies lean toward adopting agile culture into their team through its principles and behaviors. This notorious quote has been attributed to many individuals, but, originally it was used at a stand-up meeting in February of 2004 by David J. Stop Starting, Start Finishing with Agile. Agile Model for Project Requirements.

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Seeing Both Sides

APRIL 12, 2012

In other words, the criteria to make a new investment - clearing "the bar" - would get more strict with time as I developed more experience and saw more things. In other words, before they had raised a nickel, they had made as much progress as a $10 million funded Series A start-up circa 1999 or even 2004.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 13, 2008

Only much later did I realize that this was an application of customer development to online marketing. BillSeitz - yes, but that was already true back in 2004. There is much work that I need to do (the only developer so far) before we have something customers can use. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

And you know what – this was mostly in 2012 (+ Moneyball came out in 2004). Are you familiar with the Lean Startup methodology? They call it Lean Startup, but it’s also essentially conversion optimization. Lean Analytics (book, mainly for startup folk, but good primer for all). So this is the past.

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

APRIL 22, 2010

It is also a common block of functionality in every application and unfortunately many developers underuse them (or don’t use them at all) or misuse them (emails go to the Spam folder) or abuse them. Google apps for domain (15 min) To manage my emails, I have been using Google apps for domain since 2004 and I am very happy with them.

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

APRIL 22, 2010

It is also a common block of functionality in every application and unfortunately many developers underuse them (or don’t use them at all) or misuse them (emails go to the Spam folder) or abuse them. Google apps for domain (15 min) To manage my emails, I have been using Google apps for domain since 2004 and I am very happy with them.

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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. TripAdvisor, in effect, was a model lean start-up with an engineering-driven, product-focused founder. Really hard.

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abovethecrowd.com

DECEMBER 18, 2017

In their marvelous book, Lean Solutions , James Womack and Daniel Jones unpack what it means to apply the discipline of lean manufacturing to service industries. From 2004 to 2014, the average payments for coinsurance rose 107% from $117 to $242. That same shift is now coming to healthcare.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

His findings are based on data from more than 2,000 companies that received venture funding, generally at least $1 million, from 2004 through 2010. Mr. Dreymann moved his family from Israel in 2004 after co-founding Goodmail in Mountain View, Calif., Harley Goes Lean to Build Hogs. Replay the event. the previous year.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

You may have read my previous posts about the Lean LaunchPad class taught at Stanford , Berkeley, Columbia , Caltech and for the National Science Foundation. I read a ton of existing literature and came up with a formal methodology for search I called Customer Development. Berkeley asked me to teach a class in Customer Development.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

At the end, I asked myself what are the most critical resources I need to be successful and the answer was partners and developers. Hiring is hard, and without proper experience, we should have leaned more heavily on our investors to help us with this decision. Post-Mortem Title : How To Develop a Product Nobody Wants.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Or, rather, more offensively to Facebook and Google employees, less offensive to.NET developers, though the underlying message is the same.). But just to clarify a couple points, 24-hours into the storm: Yes,NET developers are great at what they do. It’s the most modern platform for application development on the planet.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 12, 2009

Since then, PHP (as part of the LAMP stack ) has really been the dominant development platform, at least in the free software and startup worlds. And yet I keep returning to PHP as a development platform, as have most of my fellow startup CTOs. But by the time I was building my first websites for commercial use , PHP had taken over.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Should you spend some time developing a plan for your business, or just dive in and start, figuring things out as you go? For an existing business, planning involves fewer guesses or assumptions that need to be proven, so the strategies they develop are based on more information. I recommend starting with a Lean Plan.

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mashable.com

JUNE 11, 2013

In fact, recent research shows that 75% of startups fail (based on a study of 2,000 startups that received VC funding from 2004 to 2010). In Running Lean , Ash Maurya says that you know when you have spoken to enough customers when you can start to predict what they will say. Some startups are destined for failure. "A

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Scalable Startup

MAY 16, 2015

“Boom and bust is our lot and we must follow the ancient advice.that Joseph gave to the Pharaoh: Put away your surplus during the years of great plenty so you will be ready for the lean years which are sure to follow.”. Governor Jerry Brown, State of the State speech, January 2014.

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Up and Running

MARCH 9, 2015

Should you spend some time developing a plan for your business, or just dive in and start, figuring things out as you go? See Also Introducing Lean Planning: How to Plan Less and Grow Faster. I recommend starting with a lean plan. But, before we dive into the data, why do we even need to look at research on business planning?

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