crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 4, 2013

“your business plan cannot be secret anymore.” Revenue is the new black | Gigaom – [link]. Dear Silicon Valley, Ads Are the Hard Part | Digiday – [link]. Revenue Doesn’t Matter – [link]. Dear Silicon Valley, Ads Are the Hard Part | Digiday – [link].

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 25, 2010

In your startup’s business model, the boxes will have specific details of your company’s strategy. Alexander Osterwalder's Business Model Template. (At At Stanford, Ann Miura-Ko and I have been working on a simplified Silicon Valley version of this model. Business Plan Versus Business Model.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

The signals are loud and clear : seed and late stage valuations are getting frothy and wacky, and hiring talent in Silicon Valley is the toughest it has been since the dot.com bubble. The Business Plan (Concept- Alpha-Beta - FCS ) became the playbook for startups. Carpe Diem. We’re now in the second Internet bubble.

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Steve Blank

JULY 28, 2011

Silicon Valley was born in an era of applied experimentation driven by scientists and engineers. This approach would shape Silicon Valley’s entrepreneurial ethos: In startups, failure was treated as experience (until you ran out of money). Yet this system isn’t perfect. – seems like another planet.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Lean Planning is a concept that we introduced back in 2012 as an evolution in business planning. The traditional business plan just wasn’t fitting the needs of modern, fast-moving companies and it was time to bring more of a scientific approach to business planning. It starts with “Plan-As-You-Go”.

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

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. Step 1: Start with a lean plan. Instead of sitting down to write a 40-page business plan, start with a one-page pitch. How to Write a Traditional Business Plan.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

Finally, I’ll write about how Eric Ries and the Lean Startup concept provided the equivalent model for product development activities inside the building and neatly integrates customer and agile development. Once the product begins to ship, startup sales execs use orders and revenue as its marker of progress in understanding customers.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 8, 2008

This theory has become so influential that I have called it one of the three pillars of the lean startup - every bit as important as the changes in technology or the advent of agile development. Most likely, your business plan is loaded with opinions and guesses, sprinkled with a dash of vision and hope. Expo SF (May.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2009

Customer Development by Vertical - Click to Enlarge (As a reminder, the Customer Development process says your business plan is just a series of untested hypothesis (unless you’re a domain expert.) Some of these are questions that would be addressed in a business plan. Others you need to know when you execute the plan.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 1, 2011

Silicon Valley was born in an era of applied experimentation driven by scientists and engineers. This approach would shape Silicon Valley's entrepreneurial ethos: In startups, failure was treated as experience (until you ran out of money). Yet this system isn't perfect.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

No Business Plan Survives First Contact With A Customer – The 5.2 The Proof Is In The Revenue. Build Your Own Silicon Valley? Online Video on Lies About Business Planning - Up and Running , November 19, 2010 Business plans are a waste of time? billion dollar mistake. Don’t bother?

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