Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

In July 2020, 400+ educators gathered online to discuss and share best practices for Lean education in the virtual environment. Join me, Jerry Engel, Pete Newell, and Steve Weinstein for the 3rd edition of Lean Innovation Educators Summit on December 16th, 1 – 4pm EST , 6 – 9pm UTC. We learned a ton.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 14, 2020

SAVE THE DATE for the 3rd edition of Lean Innovation Educators Summit. In July 2020, 400+ educators gathered online to discuss and share best practices for Lean education in the virtual environment. In these sessions you and your peers can discuss and share best practices with Lean educators from around the world.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2020

Is your small business equipped to weather the storm of 2020? Our aim with this post is to share a handful of management strategies that you can lean on to not only help you through this recession but also to assist you in thriving at any time. Here are 8 business management strategies to consider this year.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

According to Blissfully’s report, overall spend per company on SaaS has increased by 50% in 2020 as compared to 2018. Follow lean product development strategy (MVP strategy). In the last decade, SaaS (Software as a Service) has become a very popular model for new software product development.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

2023 will be one of the best VC seed vintages, but most institutional LP's are not leaning in. Maybe surprisingly, but emerging managers in particular, outperformed ‘blue chip’ funds from 2004 to 2020. It’s time to build, and take venture back to basics: helping founders build large sustainable companies. Support emerging managers.

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Eric Friedman

MAY 1, 2023

I haven’t talked about this publicly before, possibly because of embarrassment or shame, but I was one of the unlucky ones laid off in 2020. I am someone that people lean on when they are at critical junctions in their careers, are at a crossroad in their life, or are otherwise thinking about what is next.

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Board Effect

OCTOBER 13, 2022

After the volatile year in 2020, changes related to the pandemic and other external forces pushed her team to work together and rise to the occasion, resulting in 100% of her team members hitting their goals. Her proudest moment as a leader is not her own, but when she recently saw her team overcome adversity to succeed.

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Steve Blank

JULY 9, 2020

SAVE THE DATE for the Lean Innovation Educators Summit : Lessons from Teaching in the Pandemic. So save the date for the Lean Innovation Educators Summit on July 24th, 2020. We look forward to gathering as a community of educators to shape the future of Lean Innovation Education in the COVID-19 era. .

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VC Cafe

JULY 26, 2020

.” Steve Blank, “Is the lean startup dead?” ” The Lean Startup movement started out of necessity. Most principles of Lean Startup remain true, as described by Steve Blank in The Lean Startup Changes Everything : Business Plans are dead: Startups a series of hypothesis that need to be tested.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 22, 2020

However, I need to add the 2020 disclaimer – I have no idea what 2021 will bring, and anyone who claims they do is delusional, lying, or just guessing. Marketing departments of the future will get very lean and depend upon quick-strike teams that can be assembled for specific initiatives and campaigns.

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Steve Blank

MAY 24, 2021

In 2020 over 1,000 educators joined us online to learn and share how to teach during the pandemic. What is the “new normal” for Lean Education? We look forward to gathering as a community of educators to shape the future of Lean Innovation Education. Register Here. Will using video to “get out of the building” still play a role?

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 21, 2020

In June of 2019, the SEC adopted Regulation Best Interest (or Reg BI), which went into effect as of June 30, 2020. Rather than worry about how a changing landscape can upend traditional or comfortable models, it’s crucial to lean into change and learn how to benefit from it. We’re approaching one such time right now.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 3, 2020

If you’re looking for a good new year’s resolution, here you go: work on boosting your relationship IQ by focusing on these nine attitudes and skills in 2020. (Contrast this to the hundreds of “surface” online connections people seem obsessed with racking up.). Generosity.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

2020 transformed the world of commerce. "Années Folles" — Web Smith (@web) December 27, 2020. "Années Folles" — Web Smith (@web) December 27, 2020. The takeaway here is simple: lean into your neighborhood. The trick here is to lean into the things that already work for your brand.

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VC Adventure

MARCH 19, 2020

Many companies had been leaning into growth – and spending at a very rapid rate to support that. Now is the time to be careful about your cash reserves and spending.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Guest post by Lisa Regan, writer for The Lean Startup Conference. Entrepreneurs beyond Silicon Valley, including those working abroad, often have to retool Lean Startup methods to apply them in places with very different business cultures. On September 24 in the U.S. Here’s what they had to say.

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Transformify

APRIL 13, 2020

DHL ESSs use an evolutionary lean process that enables team members to improve in all aspects – from cross-functional collaboration and organization, through the development process and enhancement of the DevOps pipeline, e.g. with containerization. The system operates in France, and from the beginning of 2020, also in Turkey.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 23, 2020

9- Focusing on lean operations. In 2020, my organization pivoted from orchestrating in-person events with hundreds of people to hosting virtual workshops. Going to 2021, I am concentrating on growing our team due to our brand’s significant growth in 2020. There’s no argument that 2020 has been an unusual year.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 23, 2021

From 1990 to 2020, just 30 years, we went from only wealthy computer nerds having dial-up internet access to almost the entire nation’s population having high-speed internet on dozens of devices. Our current balance leans in favor of the optimists. The Pattern Chart.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Some of the readings for this week included: CRS Report on Space Force , Summary of the Defense Space Strategy , Space Force’s Capstone Doctrine “Space Power” , State of the Space Industrial Base 2020 , Space as a Warfighting Domain , Russia gears up for electronic warfare in space , Chief of Space Operations Planning Guidance.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

In 2020, there were 8,000 martech solutions. This philosophy comes from The Lean Startup methodology , which relies on testing hypotheses to better understand your customers’ pain points and goals. In 2020, Clubhouse established a market for an audio-only social platform. Failing fast is different from failing often.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 28, 2020

This was his sequel to The Lean Startup , which created the phrase “lean startup” and the lean startup movement. At the beginning of 2020, I sent Eric a copy of the draft and asked him if he’d write the Foreword. Eric Ries Author The Lean Startup April 2020.

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Transformify

APRIL 13, 2020

DHL ESSs use an evolutionary lean process that enables team members to improve in all aspects – from cross-functional collaboration and organization, through the development process and enhancement of the DevOps pipeline, e.g. with containerization. The system operates in France, and from the beginning of 2020, also in Turkey.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 2, 2022

This cycle of solutions delivered and value received has been a staple for us since our inception and we expect to lean on this approach for the foreseeable future. . Thanks to Brian Donovan, Timeshatter ! #11- 11- Opened first flagship store. Photo Credit: James Ross. Through a difficult time, hard work can still pay off.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 14, 2020

With your review of the previous year complete, you can turn to the year ahead, and map out some plans to try and lean into the successes from last year and cushion the failures. With plans pencilled in and goals set, you should be able to face 2020 with confidence! Map Out the Year Ahead.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 15, 2021

15:24] How has 2020 changed your work? [17:55] So how has 2020 changed or, or maybe you've hinted that it hasn't that much has, has 2020 changed the way you work? I mean, I love Greg, McCowen's the title of his book essentialism, and that was my word for 2020. 20:09] Where can people find out more about you and your work?

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 27, 2019

I’m excited that we have a robust business platform that will allow us to help more people and grow my business exponentially in 2020! Inclusive, I had to remain focused on achieving my goals in 2019 by weeding out distracting people, places, and things since what I would accomplish in 2019 would catapult me in 2020, a new decade.

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Mike Michalowicz

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Fast forward to 2020 . We kicked in 2020 with outstanding sales. Our company goal for 2020 was set at $4.1 We finished well ahead of our lean Quickbooks budget!) . Fast forward to December 31, 2020 – I stayed on course. How can this be in this pandemic crazy world of 2020? .

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 17, 2020

While the outlook may seem bleak, especially for startups counting on 2020 fundraising rounds, there are actually more opportunities for growth in a time of crisis than ever. People still spend money in the lean times — in fact they are much more likely to spend money on small luxury items when they are holding off on big purchases.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 8, 2021

pic.twitter.com/LKVk6gx1d5 — Pe:p Laja (@peeplaja) December 18, 2020. The Lean Startup by Eric Ries (2011). The Lean Startup explores the scientific process of creating products and services your customers love—without spending months or years walking toward a dead end. — Pe:p Laja (@peeplaja) December 29, 2020.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 29, 2020

2020 is a turning point for me: I’m going to focus more on my products and less on client work, until I will no longer need to work for clients in the future (well, I will probably still work for one or two clients that I really like, but the long-term goal is to make client work no more than 20% of my monthly income.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Young Upstarts has some outstanding articles for brainstorming which online business you might want to pursue: Top 7 Best Marketing Tactics In 2020. As shrouded in mystery as this industry often is, it’s absolutely possible with dedication and hard work. 15 Proven Business Ideas To Make Money Online.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 11, 2021

Lean on your professional networks too. RailsConf does this with stats from its 2020 virtual event to give prospects an insight into the size of the audience they can reach. Zendesk maintains a Ruby on Rails API client, making it relevant to the conference as a company and potential employer for Ruby on Rails developers.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Refine titles, thumbnails, and content to increase those metrics — Eric Bandholz (@bandholz) November 24, 2020. I lean on these YouTube channels for info on the YouTube algorithm: Little Monster Media Co ; Derral Eves ; Roberto Blake ; Tim Schmoyer. Key metrics: Average View Duration, Click Through Rate, & Views 3.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 4, 2021

So, in August of 2020, I and a mostly menopausal team of experts turned my plant-based gluten-free recipe into delicious and nutritious female formulated energy bars that help women navigate the menopause years with confidence and ease. But I also leaned that is actually ok.

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Up and Running

JUNE 4, 2018

The proportion of US workers earning a living on a “freelance” basis was 34 percent in 2016, and the gig economy is expected to grow enough to cause that number to rise to 43 percent by 2020. As such, there’s solid sense in getting one step ahead while you’re still studying.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 20, 2021

So that’s why we are excited about 2020 because there will be more and more entrepreneurs and businesses. Though 2020 has been a disaster of a year in innumerable ways, it has taught us a number of valuable lessons. Mobile is more important than ever now that COVID is the new reality, and you have to lean into it.

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