Steve Blank

OCTOBER 30, 2012

The Lean LaunchPad Class. You may have read my previous posts about the Lean LaunchPad entrepreneurship class. 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.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 24, 2013

Now is the time to review your 2013 budget, strategies, and tactics as you consider whether you did as well as you might of and how you should adjust your approach for next year. Make sure your user agreement and About Us pages are up-to-date and plan to work with your web developers to make sure everything is ship shape. Clean house.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 23, 2013

Lean Startups require cross-functional teams working closely together. What follows is an excerpt from Chapter 4 (Collaborative Design) of Lean UX: Applying lean principles to improve user experience by Jeff Gothelf and Josh Seiden The most effective way I’ve found to rally a team around a design direction is through collaboration.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 31, 2015

The following is a guest post by Kirsten Cluthe and Ritika Puri from The Lean Startup Conference team Wondering what’s new in the Lean Startup community? Every year, our team conducts more than 500 customer development calls to understand what challenges the community is facing. Here are some of our favorites: 1.

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Steve Blank

MAY 6, 2013

The Harvard Business Review is offering free reprints of the May 2013 cover article, “ Why the Lean Startup Changes Everything “ Available here.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 18, 2013

The Lean LaunchPad entrepreneurship curriculum has caught fire. 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 at Haas business school. It’s called the Lean Startup. Victor Hugo. In 2003 U.C.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

I feel like “conversion rate optimization” is in 2013 what “social media marketing” was in 2009. This is a customer development problem. So What is Customer Development? The core idea behind customer development is that the assumptions you make about a target market are only guesses. image source.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

NYU has adopted the Lean LaunchPad ® class as a standard entrepreneurship course across twelve different schools/colleges within the University. Over 1,000 students a year are learning lean startup concepts. The Educators Program is a 2½ day class that teaches faculty how to create and teach their own Lean LaunchPad class.)

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Steve Blank

MAY 6, 2013

The Harvard Business Review is offering free reprints of the May 2013 cover article, “ Why the Lean Startup Changes Everything “ Available here.

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wordsting.com

APRIL 4, 2013

April 1, 2013. Fat startup: Learn the lessons of my failed Lean Startup. by Word Sting in Lean Startup , Software copywriting , Copywriting for startups. Many software copywriters or developers dream of building their own company. Those that do will likely fall under the influence of the celebrated Lean Startup movement.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 31, 2019

He’ll be speaking at this year’s Lean Startup Conference , and also has a new book (for which I very happily wrote a short foreword) coming out next month: Secrets of Sand Hill Road: Venture Capital and How to Get It. But my experience has been that organizational/scaling challenges tend to be more relevant to success or failure.

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conversionxl.com

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

It’s Not a Conversion Problem, It’s a Customer Development Problem. I feel like “conversion rate optimization” is in 2013 what “social media marketing” was in 2009. This is a customer development problem. So What is Customer Development? The Problem With Traditional Product Development.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 18, 2013

The Lean LaunchPad entrepreneurship curriculum has caught fire. 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 at Haas business school. It’s called the Lean Startup. Victor Hugo. In 2003 U.C.

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

Lean Startup Circle Boston – Meetup dedicated to the lean startup and customer development methodology. Entrepreneurial Development Firms. Thoughtbot - Web application development and design. Raizlabs – Mobile Development. Intrepid – Mobile development. Great for recent grads or career switchers.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 15, 2013

Lean Business: Capacity Management, Overhead, and Your Business – [link]. Bad Customer Development Questions and How to Avoid My Mistakes – [link]. Bad Customer Development Questions and How to Avoid My Mistakes – [link]. Lean Business: Capacity Management, Overhead, and Your Business – [link].

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 4, 2013

We at the Apollo Research Institute see job growth ahead in 2013 – and in some surprising places. Women will increasingly lean on high-tech help to start businesses, enter STEM fields, and manage home-related tasks. by Dr. Tracey Wilen-Daugenti, Vice President and Managing Director of Apollo Research Institute.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

Guest post by Lisa Regan, writer for T he Lean Startup Conference. We’ve posted the full program for The Lean Startup Conference , and it includes more than three days of events for Gold pass holders and six days of events for VIP pass holders. On the evening of December 8, Ignite Lean Startup kicks off the conference.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

Last May, I shared the news that long-time Lean Startup advocates Brant Cooper and Patrick Vlaskovits were working on a new book called The Lean Entrepreneur featuring illustrations by FAKEGRIMLOCK. LitMotors approach to using Lean Startup to create a new vehicle category. That new book is about to hit bookstores everywhere.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 5, 2015

You may have also noticed that agile methodology — which was once thought to be only for software developers — is now being used just about everywhere, from construction to marketing, human resources, manufacturing, and even wedding planning. Frequent collaboration of stakeholders and developers.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 12, 2013

Lean Business: Pivot Point – [link]. Lean Business: Pivot Point – [link]. There are no x10 developers, but there are certainly 1/10 ones – [link]. The Lean Analytics Cycle: Metrics > Hypothesis > Experiment > Act – [link]. The video above is a fun look at home animals eat their food.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 21, 2012

I judged Lean Startup Machine Boulder yesterday afternoon. I’m a huge Eric Ries / Lean Startup fan and believe that the methodology can be quickly taught. It’s not a coding / hacking weekend – it’s an applied process of the Lean Startup Methodology.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 22, 2013

Lean Business: Office Space – A Meditation – [link]. Lean Business: Office Space – A Meditation – [link]. The tech industry doubles down on design in 2013 | Gigaom – [link]. Adria Richards fired by SendGrid for calling out developers on Twitter | VentureBeat – [link]. Kin – [link].

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Up and Running

MARCH 11, 2020

Create a lean business plan . GoodRx , a telemedicine platform, for example, developed their business model after recognizing the burden high prescription drug costs place on individuals. 50 percent of consumer packaged goods growth from 2013-2018 came from sustainability-marketed products. SAAS Business Startup Guide .

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

Guest post by Lisa Regan, writer for The Lean Startup Conference. We were excited by the response at last year’s Lean Startup Conference to Diane Tavenner’s eye-opening talk on her experience implementing Lean Startup methods at Summit Public Schools, the California charter for which she is CEO and co-founder.

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Up and Running

JULY 19, 2017

In 2013, a Pew Research Center study revealed some sobering insights into the reasons why 34 percent of millennial women weren’t interested in becoming a boss or top manager. A vlogger and author of beauty tutorials, she developed a subscription service that sends out personalized beauty goods to millions of women monthly.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 15, 2013

Lean Business: Lessons from A-Rod – [link]. Lean Business: Lessons from A-Rod – [link]. Lean Business: Lessons from A-Rod – [link]. Photoshop Tutorials & Text Effect Tutorials 2013 – [link]. Creative Advertising Posters 2013 | Graphic Design Magazine – [link].

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Genuine VC

JANUARY 3, 2013

Happy New Year and welcome to 2013. But a ramification of the Lean Startup movement which has been espoused and adopted is that you directly serve customer’s needs, even though the opportunity to do so might not in the end be large or high-growth.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 6, 2013

How to Turn Your Startup Into a Lean, Mean Marketing Machine – [link]. Lean Business: The Very Model of a Modern Spreadsheet – [link]. How to Turn Your Startup Into a Lean, Mean Marketing Machine – [link]. Lean Business: The Very Model of a Modern Spreadsheet – [link].

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 21, 2014

In 2013 the funding landscape changed with the JOBS act. Tightly defined budgets, small teams, and offices in “the cloud” may seem like a weakness, but these are also these are the attributes that can drive us to success through being “lean and mean;” more efficient and more maneuverable. Maintain a 95%/5% focus ratio.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2014

Same goes with marketing strategy and tactics; one of the tenets of lean marketing is to set specific goals and test your efforts in small batches, harvesting and analyzing the data as you go. Small Business and Startups: End-of-Year Mishegoss, 2013! Related posts: Small business and startup tips: training day! The Business Plan.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

It happened recently when a group of educators came to the ranch to learn how to teach Lean entrepreneurship to K-12 students. The Lean LaunchPad/I-Corps class is the canonical model of such a class, with versions now taught in hundreds of colleges and universities.). On Fire With A Vision.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2013

Lean vs. Mean – Small Business and Responsibility – [link]. 30+ Adobe Illustrator Tutorials Released in January 2013 | DezineGuide – [link]. Typography and Handwritting Inspirations 2013 – [link]. 75+ Acrylic New Nail Art Designs 2013 – [link]. The link is in the Other section below.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 17, 2013

It’s Lean, it’s fast, it works and it’s unlike anything else ever done. Welcome to the Lean LaunchPad for Life Sciences and Healthcare (part of the National Science Foundation I-Corps ). This post is part of our series on the Lean Startup in Life Science and Health Care. Gastro.org 2013 Education Meeting.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2012

7 tactics lean startups need to build great products | Gigaom – [link]. Dear silly web: 20 things to banish in 2013 | Econsultancy – [link]. 35 Free Icons Packs for Designers and Developers | PSDreview – [link]. 20 Web Development Tutorials Important For All Novices – [link].

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 14, 2014

In late 2013 Cowboy Ventures did an analysis of U.S.-based Since the Pivot is one of the core concepts of the Lean Startup I was puzzled. A pivot is a fundamental insight of the Lean Startup. The Business Model Canvas is one of the three components of the Lean Startup. Led Zeppelin – Stairway to Heaven.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 1, 2013

The 7 Myths of Lean and How Analytics Can Help – [link]. Startups, Throw Out Your Financial Models: The Argument For Lean Modeling | Forbes – [link]. 18 Meta Tags Every Webpage Should Have in 2013 | iAcquire Blog – [link]. 55 Brand New Adobe Photoshop Actions for 2013 – [link].

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mobile.smashingmagazine.com

JANUARY 16, 2013

January 14th, 2013. A mobile-optimized structure, however, leans towards a “taller” arrangement in addition to hierarchies. January 14th, 2013 6:40 am. January 14th, 2013 8:50 am. January 14th, 2013 11:06 am. January 14th, 2013 5:16 pm. January 15th, 2013 3:16 am. UI Design. E-Commerce.

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