YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 27, 2014

It is a frame of mind and is not the sole prerogative of large multinationals or startups. Be agile and adapt to changing market needs – your customer’s needs are not static and they will continue to evolve. Karen Reddington is Regional Vice President of FedEx Express, South Pacific, a position that she assumed since June 2011.

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Steve Blank

JULY 13, 2021

By the end of the 20th century entrepreneurship education fell into two categories: 1) starting small businesses and 2) starting high-growth, high-risk scalable startups. The case method and business plans are the antithesis of how entrepreneurs create startups. Neither cases nor business plans replicate the actual startup experience.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 25, 2011

It’s been just over a year since the inaugural Startup Lessons Learned conference , and it’s time to do it again. The Lean Startup movement has made tremendous progress in the past year. Kent Beck himself helped us explain that “quality work” means something different when we’re facing the extreme uncertainty of a startup.

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Agile VC

DECEMBER 13, 2011

AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. December 13, 2011. I often tell these entrepreneurs that I genuinely hope they prove us wrong, and are wildly successful with their startup. © 2011 GenuineVC - All rights reserved. How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC. How To Think About The Future. And Why 20%?

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Seed Stage Silicon Valley Cofounder Technical Review 185

Agile VC

JUNE 5, 2012

AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. In 2011 Facebook paid out $1.4 Facebook generated a little less than $600M in direct revenue from its “platform” in 2011 and we can infer Apple generated something like $800M – $1B (see note 1). Apple generated nearly $130B in revenue in 2011. June 5, 2012.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 12, 2020

All the teams used the Mission Model Canvas , (videos here ) Customer Development and Agile Engineering to build Minimal Viable Products, but all of their journeys were unique. Hacking for Defense has its origins in the Lean LaunchPad class I first taught at Stanford in 2011. It Started with an Idea. What’s Next for These Teams?

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Oakland Asia Lean Video 301

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 19, 2011

Jeff has been promoting the use of Lean UX as an effective method to spur greater innovation, quality and productivity in startups as well as within teams in larger organizations. Lean Startups need to make snap decisions, iterate quickly and pivot when needed. Levels of Agile adoption span the full spectrum across our 6 Scrum teams.

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Lean Software Review SCRUM Non-Compete 165

crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 13, 2011

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Three ways to measure your new startup idea to decide if it’s good enough to pursue – [link]. What You Need to Know About Agile UX – [link]. Who are we?

Social Media 91

Social Media Small Business Design Media 91

Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

What are they, how do they differ and what can startup do to take advantage of them? Paths to Liquidity: a quick history of the four waves of startup investing. 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.

Internet 334

Internet IPO Silicon Valley Agile 334

Altgate

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

We tried to provide a framework for startups to think about what activities should be outsourced and why. What kind of startup outsources everything? Well, you’re right, most don’t, but one example of a startup that does is PlentyOfFish. Also, most startup attorneys will do deferred payment plans.

Software Review 65

Software Review Offshore Startup Boston 65

Agile VC

JANUARY 4, 2012

AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. NextView originally invested in the company’s seed round in the spring of 2011 and we again participated in this latest round along with Atlas Venture. © 2011 GenuineVC - All rights reserved. GrabCAD & Professional Communities. January 4, 2012. And Why 20%?

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Steve Blank

JUNE 18, 2013

Ten years ago I started thinking about why startups are different from existing companies. I wondered if business plans and 5-year forecasts were the right way to plan a startup. In 2004 I funded IMVU, a startup by Will Harvey and Eric Ries. Finally we had a definition of what it was startups were searching for.

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mashable.com

MAY 9, 2011

I asked a panel of successful young entrepreneurs what fledging tech startups should be looking for in a CTO hire to ensure founders get the right person for the job. It will be important that your CTO can execute on big projects, too, hacking away to build an amazing product that is agile. Experience with Startups!

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CTO Hire Fractional CTO CTO Technical Review 73

Agile VC

JUNE 5, 2011

AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. June 5, 2011. Filing Date: initial filing June 2, 2011. Run Rate Revenue: $2.6B (Q1 2011 annualized). Revenue Growth: 2241% YoY (2010 vs 2009), 1357% YOY (Q1 2011 vs Q1 2010). Run Rate Gross Profit: $1.1B (Q1 2011 annualized). How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC.

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Agile VC

APRIL 17, 2011

AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. April 17, 2011. GameFly filed in 2010 and remains in registration, though 2011 has seen a positive start for VC-backed IPOs with 14 in Q1 2011. Filing Date: initial S-1 filed Nov 17, 2010 , updated March 9, 2011. © 2011 GenuineVC - All rights reserved.

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Agile VC

OCTOBER 27, 2011

AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. October 28, 2011. How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC Syndicate 10 July 2012, 5:13 pm What A VC Orders for Breakfast Says 27 June 2012, 10:16 am To Leave or Not to Leave as Your Startup Grows 12 June 2012, 12:21 pm. © 2011 GenuineVC - All rights reserved. And Why 20%?

Software 100

Software B2B Silicon Valley Acquisition 100

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

A place to start would be by recognizing the fundamental difference between an existing company and a startup: existing companies execute business models, while startups search for a business model. (Or Or more accurately, startups are a temporary organization designed to search for a scalable and repeatable business model.)

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Agile Business Model Customer Development Lean 250

Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. May 26, 2011. Salesforce.com is a startup with 76,000 subscribers (over 2.1M I also joke with Reid Hoffman that this was back in the days before he was “Reid” Reid’s an incredible entrepreneur, startup investor, and human being. How To Think About The Future.

Term Sheet 178

Term Sheet Silicon Valley Technical Review Social Network 178

Steve Blank

JUNE 18, 2013

Ten years ago I started thinking about why startups are different from existing companies. I wondered if business plans and 5-year forecasts were the right way to plan a startup. In 2004 I funded IMVU, a startup by Will Harvey and Eric Ries. Finally we had a definition of what it was startups were searching for.

Lean 178

Lean Agile Customer Development Business Model 178

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Hershey just bought Krave Jerky, a team in our 2011 Berkeley Lean LaunchPad class, for >$200 million. —– Jon Sebastiani and his team came into the 2011 Berkeley Lean LaunchPad class with several key observations: Snack foods were a large ~$35 billion but the moribund food category was starving for innovation and modernization.

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North America Lean Customer Development Distribution 120

www.readwriteweb.com

MARCH 7, 2011

Past failures of enterprise technology to live up to its promises and ITs lack of agility caused by legacy technology have decreased the influence of the CIO, explained R "Ray" Wang in a piece for Forbes last year. The global recession, the consumerization of IT, the great cloud migration and other factors are changing the role of the CIO.

Technical Review 48

Technical Review Balance Sheet Cloud Software Review 48

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, October 5, 2010 The Lean Startup Bundle People often ask me if they can buy "Lean Startup in a box" from me. Startups run into this problem all the time: not every possible way of making money is equally useful. People want to get started with Lean Startup but arent exactly how.

Lean 153

Lean San Francisco Startup Continuous Deployment 153

Steve Blank

MAY 29, 2019

Philip Bouchard : You’ve started teaching at Berkeley since 2002, Columbia in 2003 and at Stanford since 2011. And the odds of learning from faculty who actually had experienced the chaos and uncertainty of building a startup was low. Building an entrepreneurship ecosystem. What changes have you seen in the last 15 years?

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Steve Blank

JUNE 25, 2009

Startups and Sales If you read this post you can come away with the impression that every startup with a direct salesforce needs a consultative sales team. what Market Type is your startup? Hiring a VP of Sales in customer discovery typically sets a startup back.

Technology 138

Technology Silicon Valley Fractional VPE Part-Time VPE 138

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

Over 1,000 students a year are learning lean startup concepts. —– In August 2011 I received an email from someone at NYU I never heard of. The Lean LaunchPad class teaches students how to build a Lean Startup using business model design, customer development and agile engineering. Encourage new startups?

Lean 269

Lean New York City New York Customer Development 269

Steve Blank

JUNE 7, 2019

All the teams used the Mission Model Canvas , Customer Development and Agile Engineering to build Minimal Viable Products, but all of their journeys were unique. Hacking for Defense has its origins in the Lean LaunchPad class I first taught at Stanford in 2011. All the presentations are worth a watch. Team: Panacea.

Oakland 266

Oakland Lean SBIR Afghanistan 266

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 6, 2011

The Lean Startup Book is done. If you've been waiting for a comprehensive account of the Lean Startup and how it can help you achieve dramatically better business results, this is it. Some are from obscure startups who you haven't heard of -- yet. Here's the description you'll find on the book jacket itself: Most startups fail.

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Lean Startup Metrics Private Equity 167

ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

announced this evening at its annual Pitch Night , that it has received sponsorship by the Kauffman Foundation to support its "Founder Labs," a pre-incubator program whose mission is to increase the number of female founders of technology startups. Diverse Founding Teams, Agile Development Techniques. and that creates jobs."

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Founder Incubator Cofounder Lean 146

Agile VC

AUGUST 22, 2011

AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. Odds Are, Your Startup Probably Isn’t a Platform. August 22, 2011. I have the great privilege of meeting lots of entrepreneurs every day and hearing about the startups they’re building. © 2011 GenuineVC - All rights reserved. How To Think About The Future.

Silicon Valley 113

Silicon Valley Seed Stage Startup Syndicate 113

Agile VC

JULY 26, 2019

sometime back in 2010 or early 2011) one of the limited partners we met with asked us what our “favorite future” was for NextView. When meeting with founders we now often ask them what their favorite future is for their startup. Early in NextView’s history, when we were raising our first fund (e.g.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 3, 2017

After years of being at startups where you get to do 100 different things and are forever looking for ways to be more innovative, I somehow found myself at this miserable little consulting company who was very into conformity and liked to put each of us into little boxes. I combined Kid and Engineer to name the business KidGINEER!

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Naming Entrepreneur LLC Social Media 73

Agile VC

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

I first met Hardi at the beginning of 2011 here in Cambridge. He was wrapping up GrabCAD’s participation in the Seedcamp accelerator program, and the Seedcamp startups were in the US to visit potential advisors and investors in Boston, New York, and SF. Congrats again not only to Hardi but to the entire GrabCAD team.

Boston 154

Boston Acquisition Estonia Viral 154

Steve Blank

MAY 12, 2015

After seeing the results of 500+ teams through the I-Corps, the NSF now offers all teams who’ve received government funding to start a company an introduction to building a Lean Startup. SBIR/STTR Program and Startup Seed Funding. startups that don’t fit whatever’s hot in venture capital. were funded by the SBIR program.

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SBIR Maryland Lean Seed Stage 120

Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 15, 2011

SIMPLE, EFFECTIVE AND AFFORDABLE SMALL BUSINESS MARKETING Home About Consulting Products Programs Workshops Blog Resources Contact Subscribe by RSS Subscribe to Duct Tape Marketing by Email Small Business Week 2011 Our winners! The basis of the concept, as applied to startups, comes from the Lean manufacturing world popularized by Toyota.

Lean 54

Lean Small Business RSS Marketing 54

Agile VC

MARCH 13, 2012

AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. I have some limited experience in dealing with patents though, both from my time as a VC and also back in my own startup days. © 2011 GenuineVC - All rights reserved. How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC. How To Think About The Future. vs Facebook: Lame Lawsuit, Good Timing.

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IP IPO Social Network Silicon Valley 100

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2010

I have: Im going to mark the occasion at SXSW Interactive in March, 2011. Im starting to experiment with new ways of talking about the Lean Startup movement and the impact you all are having on the practice of entrepreneurship across countries, industries, and even sizes of companies. It is called the Lean Startup.

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San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment DC 127

Agile VC

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. I recently wrote a post noting that while the growth cycle of startups has clearly accelerated in the last 5 years, the number of truly monster new businesses (a company ultimately worth $75-100B) remains about the same … it’s a once in a decade sort of thing. February 2, 2012.

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