2008, Agile, Business Model and Metrics

Is the Lean Startup Dead?

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Tech IPO prices exploded and subsequent trading prices rose to dizzying heights as the stock prices became disconnected from the traditional metrics of revenue and profits. Startups wrote business plans, generated expansive 5-year forecasts and executed (hired, spent and built) to the plan.

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Lean Burn Rate Startup IPO

ESADE Business School Commencement Speech

Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

Metrics like Return on Net Assets, Return on Capital and Internal Rate of Return are the guiding stars of the board and CEO. As Harvard professor Clayton Christensen noted, these efficiency metrics provided wise guidance for times when capital was scarce and raising money was hard. Act Like a Startup.

Private Equity

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Lessons Learned: The three drivers of growth for your business.

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 22, 2008 The three drivers of growth for your business model. Master of 500 Hats: Startup Metrics for Pirates (SeedCamp 2008, London) This presentation should be required reading for anyone creating a startup with an online service component. Choose one. Expo SF (May.

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Lessons Learned: The lean startup

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 8, 2008 The lean startup Ive been thinking for some time about a term that could encapsulate trends that are changing the startup landscape. But by taking advantage of open source, agile software, and iterative development, lean startups can operate with much less waste. Less is more.

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Lessons Learned: What does a startup CTO actually do?

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, September 30, 2008 What does a startup CTO actually do? If youre trying to design an architecture to maximize agility, how can that work if some people are working in TDD and others not? October 1, 2008 2:13 AM archenland said. October 2, 2008 8:58 AM Chad said. Great piece!

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It's a startup, not a spreadsheet

Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 5, 2009

In a startup context, numbers like gross revenue are actually vanity metrics, not actionable metrics. One way to conceive of our goal in an early-stage venture is to incrementally “fill in the blanks&# for the business model that we think will one day power our startup. June 8, 2009 1:16 AM Colin said. Expo SF (May.

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Lessons Learned: Validated learning about customers

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

What matters is proving the viability of the company’s business model, what investors call “traction.&# Of course this is not at all true of many profitable small businesses, but they are not what I mean by startups.) Every board meeting, the metrics of success change. Go on an agile diet quickly.

Customer

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Austin: the Lean Startup tour continues

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 27, 2009

It uses principles of agile software development, open source and web 2.0, and lean manufacturing to guide the creation of technology businesses that create disruptive innovation. This presentation will empower entrepreneurs and managers to: -Identify a profitable business model faster and cheaper than your competitors.

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Lean Austin San Francisco Continuous Deployment

Embrace technical debt

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 29, 2009

I hope to show why lean and agile techniques actually reduce the negative impacts of technical debt and increase our ability to take advantage of its positive effects. Just as a business incurs some debt to take advantage of a market opportunity developers may incur technical debt to hit an important deadline.

Technical Review

Technical Review Software Review San Francisco Lean

a16z Podcast: Growth in Turbulent Times

Ben's Blog

MAY 15, 2020

Finally, we’ll zoom out and assess the big picture: how various categories of company may be impacted long-term, how this crisis compares to 2008 (and what that means for early-stage founders), and the industries and business models that are now prime for growth. What are those metrics?

Founder

Founder Conversion Technical Review Cash Position

Four myths about the Lean Startup

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 18, 2010

What differentiates them is their disciplined approach to determining when to spend money: after the fundamental elements of the business model have been empirically validated. Many lean startups are ambitious and are able to deploy large amounts of capital. Expo SF (May. Conference streaming, sponsors, discounted tickets.

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Lean San Francisco Continuous Deployment Startup

Why Uber is The Revenge of the Founders

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2017

— all great things when you are executing and scaling a known business model. For three decades (1978-2008), investors controlled the board. Because the new CEO had built a team capable of and comfortable with executing an existing business model, the company would fail or get acquired. Board Control.

Founder

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Introducing Lean Planning: How to plan less and grow faster

Up and Running

DECEMBER 6, 2012

Lean Planning is a set of tools for discovering a business model that works, building an action plan to test your assumptions, creating financial models and a plan for a viable business, and tracking your performance so you can adjust your plan on the fly, quickly and easily. Do startups have a manual?

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Lean Silicon Valley Forecast Technical Review

What is a startup?

Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 21, 2010

Many startups don’t innovate at all in the product dimension, but use other kinds of innovation: repurposing an existing technology for a new use, devising a new business model that unlocks value that was previously hidden, or even simply bringing a product or service to a new location or set of customers previously underserved.

San Francisco

San Francisco Startup Lean Continuous Deployment

Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 16, 2010

Designed for large businesses, the channels let a company share several types of documents, brand the channel with their own design elements, and then include display advertising, contest promotions, blog aggregation, social media integration and metrics reporting. That is the essence of proving the business in micro-scale.

San Francisco

San Francisco Lean Analytics Continuous Deployment

Introducing the Lean Startup Cohort subscription program

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 8, 2009

In particular, we would cover customer development, continuous deployment, minimum viable product, and actionable metrics. I love the business model. "Lean Startups" just jumped the shark and became consultingware, like "agile" did. We are really looking forward to this.one day wasn't enough!

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Lean Programming San Francisco Continuous Deployment

Some IPO speculation

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 15, 2010

We have to continually invent new categories of products, new platforms, and new business models – all extremely risky bets. We have to continually invent new categories of products, new platforms, and new business models – all extremely risky bets. Oh, and by the way, we still have to execute flawlessly.

IPO

IPO San Francisco Lean Silicon Valley

Lessons Learned: When NOT to listen to your users; when NOT to.

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 6, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, October 6, 2008 When NOT to listen to your users; when NOT to rely on split-tests There are three legs to the lean startup concept: agile product development , low-cost (fast to market) platforms , and rapid-iteration customer development. October 6, 2008 9:41 PM Eric said. Any thoughts?

San Francisco

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment Agile

Last chance to register for The Lean Startup at HP on May 21

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 17, 2009

Identify a profitable business model faster and cheaper than your competitors. Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Six streaming locations Interviews ► March (7) New conference website, speakers, agenda Two new scholarship programs for lean startups Speed up or slow down? Expo SF (May.

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Lean San Francisco Continuous Deployment DC

10 years of entrepreneurship

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 9, 2009

No business model, either. All my products and ideas focus on early cash and a business model that works from the first day. So, the idea of starting without a business model is good ? It doesn't matter what business model you have thought about, in the early day. And Google? Expo SF (May.

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San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment DC

Lessons Learned: Don't launch

Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 13, 2009

You have to know your business model. Most startups launch before theyve figured out what business theyre in. Know what the success metrics are for the launch. Would have been nice to have this last year when I started my own business. Most startups arent so fortunate. March 13, 2009 11:20 PM Urs E. Gattiker said.

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Business ecology and the four customer currencies

Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, December 14, 2009 Business ecology and the four customer currencies Lately, I’ve been rethinking the concept of “business model&# for startups, in favor of something I call “business ecology.&# Constructing a working business model is a form of ecosystem design.

Customer

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Fear is the mind-killer

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 7, 2009

Initially, IMVU sought to quickly build a product that would prove out the soundness of their ideas and test the validity of their business model. Startup Visa update ► February (5) Kiwi lean startup + Australia next Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business) Beware of Vanity Metrics (for Harvard Business Rev.

Continuous Deployment

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Lessons Learned: Refactoring yourself out of business

Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 28, 2009

On the one hand, I think they have an urgent problem, and need to invest 100% of their energy into finding a business model (or another form of traction). Labels: agile , product development , Test-driven development 11comments: William Pietri said. Given their precarious situation, I really struggled with what advice to give.

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San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment DC

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ESADE Business School Commencement Speech

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a16z Podcast: Growth in Turbulent Times

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Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium

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