Steve Blank

OCTOBER 30, 2012

The class teaches founders how to dramatically reduce their failure rate through the combination of business model design, customer development and agile development using the Startup Owners Manual. The program expands to all of Startup Weekend’s 350 member communities in 2013 where it will be offered up to five times a year in each city.

Startup 335

Startup Lean Incubator Business Model 335

Transformify

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Scrum, Agile, Product Management. Scrum, Agile, Problem Analysis, Business Catalyst, Business Analytics. in 2013, Benin is among the countries that have made significant progress in the recent years. What are the most common skills in each category? Java EE, Java SE, Javascript, PHP, Software, Development, Software Testing, SQL.

Africa 75

Africa Benin Seychelles Nigeria 75

Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

For me, it's a live example of agile and sustainable business. They were founded in 2013 and have only grown since then. Photo Credit: Jeremy Goldman. I really admire the Walt Disney empire in terms of innovation. As time passes, this company is moving ahead more and more. 17- Aurora Solar. Photo Credit: Ouriel Lemmel.

Technical Review 124

Technical Review Entrepreneur Software Review SEO 124

www.theenterprisearchitect.eu

MARCH 26, 2014

The Enterprise Architect building an Agile Enterprise Home MDD PaaS Startup Presentations About The cloud landscape described, categorized, and compared October 12, 2013 Johan Den Haan 10 comments “I work for a PaaS company” I answered him. Johan den Haan November 23, 2013 | Reply Hi DBJ, 1. Two things please ?

Cloud 48

Cloud Software Review Framework Java 48

Steve Blank

JUNE 18, 2013

Eric’s insight was that traditional product management and Waterfall development should be replaced by Agile Development. Business model design + customer development + agile development is the process that startups use to search for a business model. As a condition of my investment I insisted Will and Eric take my class at Berkeley.

Lean 286

Lean Agile Customer Development Business Model 286

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 3, 2013

June is the start of hurricane season – especially for those in the Northeast – and according to meteorologists, 2013 looks to be far worse than 2012. This infographic shows some numbers about how disasters can affect a business: Others Agility Recovery business continuity disaster recovery hurricane small business'

Agile 140

Agile Channel Social Media Media 140

Hearpreneur

JANUARY 31, 2016

We decided to start something we felt would have the greatest positive impact on fellow business owners, an Agile Methodology consulting company. We quit our jobs, pooled our money, and set out to help companies implement Agile – a highly efficient, organized, and empowering way to run your business. Photo Credit : Liz Cooke.

Entrepreneur 48

Entrepreneur India Cofounder Technical Review 48

Steve Blank

JUNE 18, 2013

Eric’s insight was that traditional product management and Waterfall development should be replaced by Agile Development. Business model design + customer development + agile development is the process that startups use to search for a business model. As a condition of my investment I insisted Will and Eric take my class at Berkeley.

Lean 178

Lean Agile Customer Development Business Model 178

Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

You can pre-order on their site until February 10 th 2013, and after that on Amazon. As we head into 2013, it's a good time to reflect on how far the Lean Startup movement has come: When I first started blogging in August of 2008, I had no idea what to expect. The result: a new idea I called The Lean Startup. It's a big tent.

Lean 167

Lean Entrepreneur Agile San Francisco 167

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

In 2013, everything changed. Small businesses can be agile – when a driver is on the phone to a staff member who sits opposite the CEO, we can make decisions and troubleshoot on the spot. During its infancy, YourParkingSpace was just a website that put drivers in touch with homeowners who had empty driveways and garages.

Cofounder 127

Cofounder Agile Business Model Operations 127

Steve Blank

JULY 2, 2015

military can work together – for access to advanced technology and to learn how to move with agility, speed and urgency. Pete Newell retired from the US Army in 2013 as the director of the Rapid Equipping Force (REF), responsible for rapidly understanding problems of soldiers in combat and rapidly providing solutions.

Channel 120

Channel Japan Bosnia Silicon Valley 120

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

The site visits include stops at Square (the payments startup founded by Twitter co-creator Jack Dorsey), WeWork Soma (an amazing co-working space) and Pivotal Labs (leaders in Lean and Agile consulting), along with one more super-interesting location we’ll announce shortly. Both of those are forms of experimentation.

Continuous Deployment 162

Continuous Deployment Norway Lean Analytics 162

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

The Lean LaunchPad class teaches students how to build a Lean Startup using business model design, customer development and agile engineering. (The Innovation Corps, or I-Corps for short, is my Stanford Lean LaunchPad class offered by the National Science Foundation to our leading scientists. Spend it Wisely.

Lean 269

Lean New York City New York Customer Development 269

BeyondVC

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

As we look into 2014, we thought it was important to reflect on our activities in 2013 and refocus and refine our thinking and messaging as a firm. focus on the mobile, agile, and smart enterprise". We are thematic in our approach and primarily known as seed investors with a focus on enterprise and companies that can scale quickly.

Seed Stage 110

Seed Stage Agile Viral API 110

Agile VC

JUNE 30, 2016

My wife’s 2013 Ford Explorer, pretty much the quintessential mass market car for a suburban family like ours, literally has all of the features above. Like pretty much all innovation in cars, these features were only available in the most expensive luxury models initially.

Virginia 100

Virginia Acquisition California Global 100

Occam's Razor

APRIL 15, 2019

They bring up that one time in 2013 when your analysis missed an important assumption. Invest in self-learning every week – even couple hours a week – to ensure you can keep pace with the demands for sophisticated analysis which will be expected at an agile pace. Archetype #2: The Attacker. They attack the data.

Leadership 79

Leadership Non-Compete Analytics Software Review 79

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 16, 2012

A business model competition would emulate the “out of the building” experience of real entrepreneurs executing the customer development / business model / agile development stack. Harvard will be hosting the 2013 International Business Model Competition and Stanford in 2014. It takes a ton of face-face customer interactions.

Business Model 263

Business Model Customer Development Utah Business Plan 263

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

On the surface the book is an incredibly well written narrative over the course of five years, from 2008 to 2013, that connects the laid off auto workers, job center retraining, union organizers, community and business leaders, and politicians. In addition, skills training in resilience, agility, etc. Janesville is their story.

America 116

America Restful Vietnam Michigan 116

This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 1, 2013

I couldn't have done it without some habits that have served me well--and so while I double down on the practices that have gotten me where I am, I'd love to share them with you in case you're trying to figure out what to resolve in 2013. I started thinking more about flexibility, agility, and speed. 1) Run faster.

New York City 118

New York City Limited Partner Agile New York 118

Agile VC

APRIL 17, 2011

About 46% of airline related queries on Kayak (again vast majority of usage for flights) currently rely on data licensed from ITA and the current agreement runs out at the end of 2013, though obviously Kayak is working hard to reduce reliance on this data.

Pre-Money Valuation 113

Pre-Money Valuation Liquidation Preference Dividend Common Stock 113

Agile VC

APRIL 30, 2019

We first saw this with Twitter in 2013 when they went public and many (both retail & institutional investors) believed that company might be the “next Facebook”. But by definition, once-in-a-generation companies only come along say once in a generation or perhaps once a decade or so.

IPO 100

IPO B2B B2C Institutional Investors 100

Agile VC

JANUARY 22, 2014

It was great to get to know him and offer informal input, and though I wasn’t an investor in Zeo we stayed in pretty close contact over the years and then more recently in 2013 as he started to think about his next project.

Term Sheet 173

Term Sheet Cofounder Mobile Cloud 173

Agile VC

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

If this were a math class, I’d just say the proof is evident but if you want some data on Twitter’s 2013 YTD revenue here you go. There haven’t been any consumer internet companies with premium service business model to go public in 2013 here.

IPO 194

IPO Aggregator B2B Internet 194

Hearpreneur

JANUARY 21, 2017

They do a great job at building an amazing culture, and they are able to keep a small company feel in terms of speed and agility because they keep the teams small and have basically broken the company up into a whole bunch of companies. Before starting GreenPal in 2013, I ran a lawn care business for 15 years.

Entrepreneur 48

Entrepreneur Investment Bankers PR Social Media 48

Agile VC

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

That’s no longer the case… estimates range from $3-5+ billion for YouTube’s ad revenue in 2013. But a lot of people also underestimated Google’s ability to monetize YouTube when they paid $1.5 billion for it. Lastly, hats off to the folks at Sequoia.

Valuation 159

Valuation Acquisition Mobile Revenue 159

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 22, 2020

Deputy Chief Technology Officer in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy from 2013–2014, where she founded the United States Digital Service. She has been an advocate for a more responsive, a more resilient, more agile government. Jen is the founder and former executive director of Code for America.

New Jersey 60

New Jersey Government CTO America 60

Steve Blank

MAY 15, 2013

You don’t get grades for resiliency, curiosity, agility, resourcefulness, pattern recognition and tenacity. By the way, every year I remind my students that great grades and successful entrepreneurs have at best a zero correlation – and anecdotal evidence suggests that the correlation may actually be negative. You just get successful.

Minnesota 335

Minnesota Silicon Valley America Engineer 335

Agile VC

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

That’s no longer the case… estimates range from $3-5+ billion for YouTube’s ad revenue in 2013. But a lot of people also underestimated Google’s ability to monetize YouTube when they paid $1.5 billion for it. Lastly, hats off to the folks at Sequoia.

Valuation 127

Valuation Acquisition Mobile Revenue 127

Agile VC

OCTOBER 1, 2013

In September 2013 alone there were 6 tech IPOs (FireEye, Ring Central, Violin Memory, Applied Optoelectronics, Benefitfocus, and Covisint). At the infrastructure level companies are creating all stuff which will power cloud-based applications and services and keep them secure.

IPO 147

IPO Cloud Valuation Mobile 147

Agile VC

MAY 22, 2014

in revenue in 2013 from its retail marketplaces on $248B in GMV. The makeup of the revenue is different too (see #4 below). 3) Alibaba Monetizes at a Far Lower Rate than eBay – eBay generated about $8.3B in revenue from its marketplaces last year (excludes revenue from PayPal and eBay Enterprise) on $76.4B So Alibaba captured only 2.6

China 159

China Revenue Flash Affiliate 159

crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 4, 2013

Five Linking Myths That Need To Go Away In 2013 – [link]. Five Linking Myths That Need To Go Away In 2013 – [link]. 8 Major Tech Predictions for 2013 | Business Insider – [link]. Will 2013 Be Harder For Startups Than 2012? (by Will 2013 be the year of conversion optimisation?

Social Media 100

Social Media Small Business Design Media 100

Steve Blank

MAY 15, 2013

You don’t get grades for resiliency, curiosity, agility, resourcefulness, pattern recognition and tenacity. By the way, every year I remind my students that great grades and successful entrepreneurs have at best a zero correlation – and anecdotal evidence suggests that the correlation may actually be negative. You just get successful.

Minnesota 227

Minnesota Silicon Valley America Engineer 227

Agile VC

JANUARY 13, 2016

Many of the current crop of unicorns raised capital in 2013 and 2014, so the investor and entrepreneur ecosystem was seduced by growth for 2+ years. For reference, Aileen Lee’s original article on TechCrunch which helped bring “unicorn” into the parlance of our times was published in Nov 2013.

Technical Review 157

Technical Review .Net Revenue Software Review 157

YoungUpstarts

JULY 30, 2015

They enjoy the same advantages as other SMEs, such as the agility to respond quickly to market changes, a collaborative DNA that fosters innovation, and the absence of the institutional inertia that often plagues larger organizations [7]. 16] FedEx GCR, 2014 & 2013 & FedEx APAC 2014. [17] 3] Varian, H., 5] FedEx GCR 2014. [6]

Dominican Republic 100

Dominican Republic Global San Francisco Arizona 100

Hearpreneur

JANUARY 29, 2017

Getting things done well takes considerable testing and hinges on agile changes; striving for perfection is the opposite mentality. In September of 2013, I landed myself into one of the coveted spots on ABC’s Shark Tank. So, Im convinced that perfection is a pernicious barrier to success. Steve Jobs. Image Credit: Lori Cheek.

Entrepreneur 48

Entrepreneur LLC Cofounder Montana 48

Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 23, 2019

After my mother in law passed in 2013 without any life insurance, we started our final expense agency to protect other families. Entrepreneurship makes you agile, able to view the world more clearly and truly live it to its fullest potential. Thanks to Kerry Mellin, Mellin Works LLC, EazyHold ! #15- 15- Leaving it better.

Entrepreneur 69

Entrepreneur Employee Community LLC 69

YoungUpstarts

MARCH 21, 2013

According to the recent 2013 Small Business Disaster Survey carried out by Alibaba, Vendio and Auctiva in December 2012, 74-percent of small business owners don’t have a disaster recovery plan for their business. Bob Boyd, president and chief executive officer of Agility Recovery , a U.S.-based

Agile 230

Agile Small Business Partner Operations 230