2011 Lean Sales Stock 
Steve Blank
NOVEMBER 1, 2017
In his Harvard Business Review article summing up his tenure, Immelt recalls that the two things that influenced him most were Marc Andreessen’s 2011 Wall Street Journal article “ Why Software Is Eating the World, ” and Eric Ries’s book The Lean Startup. Are lean innovation and the Startup Way a failure in large companies?
Both Sides of the Table
SEPTEMBER 10, 2021
.” * I first wrote about the changes to the Venture Capital ecosystem 10 years ago and this still serves as a good primer of how we arrived at 2011, a decade on from the Web 1.0 The market today would barely be recognizable by a time traveler from 2011. dot-com bonanza. Ten years on much has changed.
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Both Sides of the Table
AUGUST 30, 2010
My original thinking from Oct ’09 was, while I didn’t (and still don’t) have a crystal ball I worried that: consumers were over-stretched with debt (and make up 77% of the economy), unemployment would continue to rise, which in turn would drive the stock market south and cut the rate of M&A activity and VC investment even further.
steveblank.com
JULY 8, 2011
AgileZen – project management visually see and interact with your work Kanbanery – Simple online team or personal kanban board LeanKit Kanban – Great for visualizing work of product development Kanban Pad – “Nice and lean” and free online Kanban tool Banana Scrum – A tool simple as Scrum itself.
Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 19, 2011
Matt was one of my inspirations behind Launchpad LA (yes, we’re going to have a program in 2011 – news very, very soon). Mark: 10% warrant coverage is like stock options. Icing is the warrant for banks – stock they can buy in future but don’t have to buy so they make their $$ later in the future.
Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 22, 2011
Huge structural under-employment in much of the country and full employment in some niche tech markets where it’s impossible to hire developers, designers or sales professionals. If you are interested the Vimeo is here. For others it feels like a two-speed economy, where rules apply to hot tech startups that don’t apply elsewhere.
Startup Lessons Learned
JULY 10, 2012
2011 Winners: Coffee Joulies 1. I was working in manufacturing studying lean principals on the factory floor when I came up with the idea for Coffee Joulies and asked Dave if he would help me. We are still coming up with ways to improve our packaging that can keep the process lean but make an even better finished product.
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