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Is the Lean Startup Dead?

Steve Blank

Tech IPO prices exploded and subsequent trading prices rose to dizzying heights as the stock prices became disconnected from the traditional metrics of revenue and profits. Startups wrote business plans, generated expansive 5-year forecasts and executed (hired, spent and built) to the plan.

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Ecommerce Trendwatching: How To Find, Follow, and Set Trends

ReadWriteStart

As for Metaverse — businesses should keep an eye on it as it is not clear yet whether this is hype or a trend. million people and generate monthly revenue. In the meantime, influencers can increase brand awareness for your business by publishing a review of your product on social media.

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Rising out of the Crisis: Where to Find New Markets and Customers

Steve Blank

The pandemic has upended the business models of most startups and existing companies. Suppliers are going out of business or requiring cash-up-front terms. Revenue models and forecasts are no longer valid. In sum, whatever business model you had at the beginning of the year may be obsolete.

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Solving the Innovator’s Dilemma – Customer Development in a Big Company

Steve Blank

Followers of the Customer Development process know that you can’t start selling until you have transformed product, customer and other hypotheses into a validated business model and sales roadmap. Short-circuiting that process is a major “foul” that often leads to premature business models and suboptimal sales results.).

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Introducing Lean Planning: How to plan less and grow faster

Up and Running

Lean Planning is a set of tools for discovering a business model that works, building an action plan to test your assumptions, creating financial models and a plan for a viable business, and tracking your performance so you can adjust your plan on the fly, quickly and easily. Do startups have a manual?

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How to Run a Productive Monthly Business Plan Review Meeting

Up and Running

How did we do last month compared to our forecast? We always spend time drilling into the numbers, beyond the top-line revenue and expenses to better understand what the drivers were behind our performance. What does our cash flow forecast look like for the next few months? Let’s do the numbers. Did we collect money as planned?

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The Ultimate Guide to Starting a Software Company

Up and Running

In fact, SaaS industry revenue is projected to grow from $49 billion in 2015 to $67 billion in 2018, a compound annual growth rate of approximately eight percent. The one-page pitch format is also more suitable for SaaS businesses that are constantly testing new ideas. The business model.