VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

That was a 65% drop from the year-earlier quarter and the lowest fourth-quarter amount since 2013 Fundraising slowdown: LPs invested in 226 VC funds in Q4. 2023 will be one of the best VC seed vintages, but most institutional LP's are not leaning in. Support emerging managers.

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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? Over Thanksgiving weekend in 2013, right after launching his email list experiment, he built Product Hunt’s first website mockup with his team.

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Lean United States Fractional CTO Startup 60

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 30, 2012

The Lean LaunchPad Class. You may have read my previous posts about the Lean LaunchPad entrepreneurship class. And in the thirty days since we’ve put the Lean LaunchPad class online at Udacity – 50,000 students have been taking it. Your pre-class reading is to watch the Lean LaunchPad initial lectures on Udacity).

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 28, 2013

We’re excited to announce the 2013 Lean Startup Conference , December 9 - 11 in San Francisco. As the Lean Startup movement grows and matures, the conference does, too, this year expanding and changing in a number of ways—based almost entirely on things that our attendees have asked for.

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Lean San Francisco Startup Early Stage 167

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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Lean Venture Capital Customer Development Startup 330

Steve Blank

JUNE 18, 2013

The Lean LaunchPad entrepreneurship curriculum has caught fire. It’s called the Lean Startup. The sum of these parts is now the cover story of the May 2013 Harvard Business Review. So my book and Berkeley class turned into the Lean LaunchPad class in the Stanford Engineering school. Victor Hugo.

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Lean Agile Customer Development Business Model 286

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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Lean New York City New York Customer Development 269

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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Lean Venture Capital Customer Development Startup 222

Steve Blank

JUNE 18, 2013

The Lean LaunchPad entrepreneurship curriculum has caught fire. It’s called the Lean Startup. The sum of these parts is now the cover story of the May 2013 Harvard Business Review. So my book and Berkeley class turned into the Lean LaunchPad class in the Stanford Engineering school. Victor Hugo.

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Lean Agile Customer Development Business Model 178

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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Social Network Social Media Lean Leadership 185

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 23, 2013

———– What’s striking about Fast Company’s 2013 list of the world’s 50 most innovative companies is the relative absence of large, established firms. Here’s Ron’s blog post. As someone who teaches entrepreneurship not only in universities but also to U.S.

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Business Model Technical Review Business Plan Search 332

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

This post co-written by Sarah Milstein and Eric Ries, co-hosts of The Lean Startup Conference. Our goal in hosting The Lean Startup Conference —which starts in just over two weeks—is to help entrepreneurs learn absolutely useful things from each other. We believe most conference hosts aim to create a great atmosphere for learning.

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Software Review Lean Hosting Ruby 167

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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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 11, 2014

Guest post by Sarah Milstein , CEO of Lean Startup Productions The 2013 Lean Startup Conference was a hit on several levels, with many people telling us it was the most valuable business conference they’d ever attended. Quick Consulting , an evening event on March 27 in San Francisco. Quick Consulting.

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Lean San Francisco Startup Distribution 166

Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

Lean Startup Circle Boston – Meetup dedicated to the lean startup and customer development methodology. General Assembly – Boston branch of tech classes and workshops started in NYC. Startup Institute – Practical training program to prepare you to join a startup. Great for recent grads or career switchers.

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Boston Technical Review Community Cofounder 71

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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Lean Los Angeles San Francisco Netherlands 136

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 14, 2015

billion – masks how sagging performance from its PC business wiped out the momentum Lenovo had generated since 2013 and has forced Lenovo to reset its profit and revenue growth expectations for its enterprise and mobile device businesses. Lenovo’s modest overall revenue growth in calendar 2Q15 – 3.1% year-to-year to $10.7 year-to-year to $7.3

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Revenue Technical Review Lean Mobile 100

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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Seed Stage Venture Capital Audience New York 166

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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Lean New York City Startup San Francisco 164

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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Continuous Deployment Norway Lean Analytics 162

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 23, 2013

———– What’s striking about Fast Company’s 2013 list of the world’s 50 most innovative companies is the relative absence of large, established firms. Here’s Ron’s blog post. As someone who teaches entrepreneurship not only in universities but also to U.S.

Business Model 224

Business Model Business Plan Technical Review Search 224

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 28, 2014

Post written by Sarah Milstein & Eric Ries, co-hosts for The Lean Startup Conference We’re seeking speakers we don’t already know for this year’s Lean Startup Conference , December 10 -11 in San Francisco. We readily acknowledge that one of our best speakers in 2012 and 2013 was Sarah’s brother.

Lean 167

Lean San Francisco Startup Hosting 167

Up and Running

MARCH 11, 2020

Create a lean business plan . 50 percent of consumer packaged goods growth from 2013-2018 came from sustainability-marketed products. Some businesses are even building fully remote workforces to avoid the high costs of living and working in the highly saturated Bay Area. . Resources for starting a tech business. Health and Medical.

Technical Review 97

Technical Review Green Silicon Valley Non-Compete 97

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]. How much various creative occupations make – figures form the 2013 Creative Employment Snapshot – [link]. Kin – [link].

Social Media 105

Social Media Small Business Design Media 105

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. ” Nicole started her healthy food and mindfulness training business in 2013, though she worked in ad sales and marketing before that. trillion in revenues.”

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Cofounder United States Leadership Audience 142

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.

Entrepreneur 210

Entrepreneur Startup Balance Sheet Non-Compete 210

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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San Francisco Harvest Lean Small Business 87

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].

Social Media 95

Social Media Small Business Design Media 95

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.

Social Media 107

Social Media Small Business Design Media 107

YoungUpstarts

MARCH 5, 2015

Many project management frameworks are rooted in agile, such as scrum, kanban, lean, and extreme programming (XP). It’s more productive: A 2013 State of Agile report noted that 73 percent of developers say that agile helps them complete projects faster, and 87 percent say it increases their productivity.

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Agile SCRUM Nashville Software Developers 100

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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Lean Cleveland Balance Sheet Ohio 284

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 22, 2015

A massive rain storm blew through San Francisco in the middle of last year’s Lean Startup Conference. Why You Should Join Us in 2015 Since 2011, The Lean Startup has helped countless ventures transform ideas into thriving businesses. We attended in 2013, and we enjoyed it so much that we attended again in 2014.

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Lean San Francisco Startup Cofounder 60

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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Lean Customer Development Business Model Channel 251

Austin Startup

JANUARY 31, 2018

First, frustration that video viewing on OTT, IPTV, TV and even VR were lean back alone experiences and not together with your friends who are separated by distance. In 2013, this inspired Watch Together and our journey began. That we look at video watching as a group/together experience rather than a lean back “on your own” activity.

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Startup Germany Poland Argentina 48

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 16, 2014

A 2013 study published by Carl Frey and Michael Osborne of the University of Oxford shows 66 percent of the nation’s workforce has a medium to high risk of being displaced due to technology advances in coming decades. As this sea change takes place, many men will need to quiet their egos and learn to ‘lean out.’

Technical Review 174

Technical Review Artificial Inteligence Leadership Cofounder 174

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.

Business Model 330

Business Model Lean Customer Development Channel 330

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]. Dear silly web: 20 things to banish in 2013 | Econsultancy – [link]. F**k You, Startup Yoda | Learn To Duck - [link]. Sorry, No Calls (by @ dharmesh ) - [link].

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Social Media Small Business Design Cofounder 107