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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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. The result – Startup Weekend Next. Hands-On in 100’s of Cities.

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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? Product Hunt, an 18-month old startup, has evolved from a basic idea into a thriving online community. She wants to disrupt Hollywood with the Lean Startup method.

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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

JUNE 18, 2013

The Lean LaunchPad entrepreneurship curriculum has caught fire. Eric’s insight was that traditional product management and Waterfall development should be replaced by Agile Development. It’s called the Lean Startup. The sum of these parts is now the cover story of the May 2013 Harvard Business Review. Victor Hugo.

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Up and Running

MARCH 11, 2020

Every person, company, and product relies on transportation daily—creating a powerful demand. Create a lean business plan . Green products and services. Why businesses related to green products are trending. Growth projections for businesses selling green products and services. SAAS Business Startup Guide .

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Technical Review Green Silicon Valley Non-Compete 97

Steve Blank

JUNE 18, 2013

The Lean LaunchPad entrepreneurship curriculum has caught fire. Eric’s insight was that traditional product management and Waterfall development should be replaced by Agile Development. It’s called the Lean Startup. The sum of these parts is now the cover story of the May 2013 Harvard Business Review. Victor Hugo.

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Lean Agile Customer Development Business Model 178

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.

Software Review 167

Software Review Lean Hosting Ruby 167

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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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. workforce now telecommutes.

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

There is a wealth of resources that are unique to this town and a vibrant community of hackers, product designers, business people, and investors at various stages in their career. Lean Startup Circle Boston – Meetup dedicated to the lean startup and customer development methodology. Great for recent grads or career switchers.

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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]. Tie Your Ego to the Product, Not the Process | Cap Watkins – [link]. – [link].

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 95

crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2013

Lean vs. Mean – Small Business and Responsibility – [link]. How should one go about pricing their software product? How CEOs Stay So Productive | Fast Company – [link]. What is someone going to stop doing when they start using your product? The Value of Taking a Productive Pause – [link].

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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). Agile was created as a way to enable greater productivity and responsiveness in the software industry to changing customer demands. Harnessing change to improve product. Why it Works For Us.

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Agile SCRUM Nashville Software Developers 100

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. Simplify it.

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Entrepreneur Startup Balance Sheet Non-Compete 210

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].

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 105

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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The Next Web

DECEMBER 4, 2013

Along with building a product and a company, you need to build social momentum and buzz. As a startup, you’re working with limited resources and a lean business model. Product and culture . Particularly in the beta/pre-launch phase, the goal is to generate excitement for the product to-come.

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Social Media Media Viral Startup 158

crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2012

Deciding if a product feature is worth the effort – [link]. 7 tactics lean startups need to build great products | Gigaom – [link]. Deciding if a product feature is worth the effort – [link]. Dear silly web: 20 things to banish in 2013 | Econsultancy – [link]. – [link].

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Social Media Small Business Design Cofounder 107

YoungUpstarts

MAY 26, 2013

That’s what happens when you spend all day on a minor project and tell yourself that you’re being productive… never mind the major biannual report you’re “conveniently” neglecting because it’s so overwhelming! If he leans forward, you should lean forward too. The first step? If he speaks softly and slowly, so should you.

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Lean Global Security Product 176

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 woke up to a city-wide power outage, and Day Two of the conference had stopped before it started.

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Lean San Francisco Startup Cofounder 60

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. They need to learn to find answers to questions like: who are my customers, what product features match customer needs, how do I create demand and what metrics matter? On Fire With A Vision.

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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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Steve Blank

JANUARY 14, 2014

In late 2013 Cowboy Ventures did an analysis of U.S.-based Surprisingly one of the “learnings” said that, “… the “big pivot” after starting with a different initial product is an outlier. Nearly 90 percent of companies are working on their original product vision. A Pivot is not just changing the product.

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Business Model Lean Customer Development Channel 330

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.’

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Technical Review Artificial Inteligence Leadership Cofounder 174

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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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 21, 2013

Lean Business: Save Money, Save the Environment – [link]. Lean Business: Save Money, Save the Environment – [link]. New Web Design Trends: Try And Succeed in 2013 | DJDESIGNERLAB – [link]. Here are some of the links that I’ve liked and shared this past week! Forget the coasts.

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 93

ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

I feel like “conversion rate optimization” is in 2013 what “social media marketing” was in 2009. Not because they have a conversion problem but because they never really nail the product or how to market it. If your guesses are validated, what you’re building is might be a viable product.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

In 2001 companies IPO’d very quickly if they were working, by 2011 IPOs had slowed down to the point that in 2013 Aileen Lee of Cowboy Ventures astutely called billion-dollar outcomes “unicorns.” We can’t wait for customers to use the product for 12–18 months and do customer interviews or look at purchase cohorts.

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Pre-Money Valuation Valuation Venture Capital Early Stage 471

crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 5, 2013

Being Kind To Your Prospective Customers Is Good Business – (Lean Business: Do Unto Others) – [link]. “Products take off not just because of WHAT they do but HOW they make us feel.” Being Kind To Your Prospective Customers Is Good Business – (Lean Business: Do Unto Others) – [link].

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 92

crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 8, 2013

10 Things Sheryl Sandberg Gets Exactly Right In ‘Lean In’ | Forbes – [link]. Creative product designs #9 | Designskilz – [link]. Top 10 Web Designing Trends Which Will Rule 2013 | Dezine Robotics – [link]. Glaser-Harvard Business Review – [link]. What is 500 startups business model?

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 105

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

Growth hacking was the buzzword of 2013 and has been widely overused. Don’t be afraid of growth, just start lean. The Lean start-up model is not only very useful when starting your business; it is something you want to embrace in every step of growth. This is where our way of starting lean really paid off.

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SEM Lean PR Startup 244

crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 30, 2016

Both of those are cloud-based services, as are Dropbox , Slack , MailChimp , and many other useful products. Cloud-based products are also useful because you don’t need to make capital investments in the products. Previously, you would need to use many different products to solve for the same needs. Easier Integration.

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Cloud Small Business Product API 48

ConversionXL

JANUARY 8, 2021

Products that require a high degree of behavior change are doomed to fail. What does it take to build products your customers love to use? What separates a wildly successful product from one that fails to gain traction? Covering everything from strategy to productivity, it’s a must-read. Product-market fit?

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PPC Marketing Lean Differentiation 134

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 16, 2012

The business plan is a wonderful document for organizing and planning for existing companies to launch follow-on products. And they needed tools that recognized that most startups go from failure to failure as they searched for, and discovered, product/market fit. Business Plan vs. Business Model + Customer Development. Come join us.

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Business Model Customer Development Utah Business Plan 263

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 25, 2013

In 2013 it is expected to be around $35 billion. Compare the state of play in 2013 versus 15 years ago. 2013 = $25 billion of which Apples stage is more than $8 billion at > 90% gross margin. In my mind, the best VCs actually deliver outsized returns by “leaning on the scale” not by “deal sourcing.”

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