ReadWriteStart

JUNE 8, 2021

After launching a new startup, you’ll be interested in growing the business as quickly as possible, thus generating more revenue, securing more stability, and improving your reputation as well. What Makes Employees Productive in a New Startup? So what is it that makes employees productive in a new startup? Uncertainty.

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Employee Product Startup Software Review 127

Up and Running

AUGUST 8, 2018

This article, which originally appeared on our LivePlan Blog , is part of our “Business Planning Guide” —a curated list of our articles that will help you with the planning process! For us, business planning isn’t just a one-time or annual event. Most people think that meetings are a waste of time. They’re right.

Software Review 65

Software Review Business Plan Product Forecast 65

Steve Blank

APRIL 16, 2013

In my 21 years as an entrepreneur, I would come up for air once a month to religiously read the Harvard Business Review. It was not only my secret weapon in thinking about new startup strategies, it also gave me a view of the management issues my customers were dealing with. Today, we’ve come full circle as Lean goes mainstream.

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Technical Review Lean Venture Capital Customer Development 327

The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 9, 2024

Here are some effective strategies to upscale your business and help you stay competitive. Develop agility and adaptability Image credit Having agility in decision-making is a vital aspect of achieving business success. It is important to understand that no plan will remain unchanged, and it should not.

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Programming Agile Advertising Lead Generation 123

The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Attracting talent in the startup world requires a keen sense of judgment, an appreciation of company needs, and an eye toward its future. The Strategist In the startup world, a strategist is the master of maneuvering through the complexities of business planning and market analysis.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 27, 2011

The most visible step was the first International Business Model Competition , hosted by the BYU Rollins Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology. What’s A Startup? Therefore the very foundations of teaching entrepreneurship should start with how to search for a business model. Business Model Versus Business Plan.

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Business Model Utah Intellectual Property Agile 275

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 11, 2014

by Taffy Williams, author of “ Think Agile: How Smart Entrepreneurs Adapt in Order to Succeed “ The New Year brings new events that may positively or negatively affect your business. Known events are possible to plan for in advance. Many plans require adjustments to make them work. Execute & Adjust.

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Agile Small Business Charlotte Business Plan 260

Steve Blank

APRIL 16, 2013

In my 21 years as an entrepreneur, I would come up for air once a month to religiously read the Harvard Business Review. It was not only my secret weapon in thinking about new startup strategies, it also gave me a view of the management issues my customers were dealing with. Today, we’ve come full circle as Lean goes mainstream.

Technical Review 219

Technical Review Lean Venture Capital Customer Development 219

Steve Blank

JULY 13, 2021

By the end of the 20th century, case studies and business plans had reached an evolutionary dead-end for entrepreneurs. The Rise of Business Schools – Management as an Occupation. The business school was invented in the first decade of the 20th century in response to a massive economic transformation in the U.S.

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Lean Agile Business Model Business Plan 433

Steve Blank

MAY 6, 2015

It’s time to update Build, Measure, Learn to what we now know is the best way to build Lean startups. Only after shipping and attempting to sell the product would a startup hear any substantive feedback from customers. Best practices in software development started to move to agile development in the early 2000’s.

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The Equity Kicker

MAY 7, 2013

As much as I seek to empower our portfolio companies to do what they think is right and to avoid over-planning I sympathise with these ‘traditional managers’ in the sense that when you switch from operating with a detailed operating plan to operating without one it feels like you are flying blind. Startup general interest'

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Development Team Review Business Plan Agile Operations 94

ReadWriteStart

MARCH 7, 2022

The problem is even more exacerbated for certain industries and niches; for example, startup SEO is becoming more difficult at a faster rate than marketing for more established companies. Only the most adaptable companies survive. Stay agile to avoid competition. But why is this the case? What are the root causes?

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Marketing Advertising Metrics Technical Review 198

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 29, 2019

Amazon is famous for their Two-Pizza.Teams (no bigger than two pizzas will feed), allowing an entrepreneurial mindset more autonomy, agility, and accountability. The business owner must be the leader of the team, written specs are required, and the team must be populated only with A+ people. Master the magic of small autonomous teams.

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Artificial Inteligence Agile Technical Review Demand 222

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

After many years in business, working in large companies as well as startups, I’m no longer surprised at why mature and successful companies struggle with introducing innovative new ventures as the market and environment changes. A documented business plan for the new venture is critical here.

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Advisory Board Incubator Dilution Agile 359

Steve Blank

JUNE 26, 2014

. — Over the last three years the Lean LaunchPad class has started to replace the last century’s “how to write a business plan” classes as the foundation for entrepreneurial education. The Lean LaunchPad class uses the three “ Lean Startup ” principles: Alexander Osterwalders “ business model canvas ” to frame hypotheses.

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Intellectual Property Lean IP Open Source 281

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Then we saw the great alignment between the Customer Development Model and the Agile software development methodologies so we decided to create the course IIC3515 “Workshop of Entrepreneurship with Software” that applies both models to develop real software products with customers from the startup ideas of the students.

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Chile Silicon Valley Lean Agile 235

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 5, 2021

John Bradberry, in his classic book “ 6 Secrets To Startup Success ” explores many of these attributes, especially passion, and defines some useful principles to help enthusiastic entrepreneurs squeeze the most out of their passion, while not being trapped by it. To succeed, a new venture needs both iteration and agility.

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Agile .Net Founder Entrepreneur 363

YoungUpstarts

MAY 9, 2017

Lean is a methodology that can be applied to all disciplines of knowledge work to increase business efficiency, agility, and visibility. Research shows that 95% of organizations do not start as Lean organizations – they implement Lean after identifying a need for better agility, visibility, and efficiency. 9 Reduced Costs.

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Lean Agile Technical Review Dilution 124

Steve Blank

MARCH 8, 2011

It was designed to bring together many of the new approaches to building a successful startup – customer development, agile development, business model generation and pivots. We were positing that 20 years of teaching “how to write a business plan” might be obsolete. – not just web-based startups.

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Lean Business Model Customer Development Guinea 298

Steve Blank

MARCH 4, 2014

In the last few years we’ve recognized that a startup is not a smaller version of a large company. We’re now learning that companies are not larger versions of startups. But paradoxically, in spite of all their seemingly endless resources, innovation inside of an existing company is much harder than inside a startup.

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IRR Startup Business Model Agile 335

Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2021

While all the teams used the Mission Model Canvas , (videos here ), Customer Development and Agile Engineering to build Minimal Viable Products, each of their journeys was unique. I observed that teaching case studies and/or how to write a business plan as a capstone entrepreneurship class didn’t match the hands-on chaos of a startup.

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Lean Security Asia SBIR 385

Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 12, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, January 12, 2010 Amazing lean startup resources A year ago, there was no lean startup movement. I continue to believe that the explosion of interest in the lean startup has very little to do with me. If you are attempting to apply lean startup ideas in your own business - you are not alone.

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Up and Running

JULY 11, 2012

My monthly column at Entrepreneur.com, Lean Startups Need Business Plans Too , came out yesterday: But here’s my beef in a nutshell: When Ries and Blank criticize the business plan, they are talking about a now-obsolete approach: the formal written business plan. Plan your business.

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Lean Business Plan Startup Agile 91

OnlyOnce

MARCH 2, 2016

I’ve written a bunch on this blog and in Startup CEO , about Agile Development and the Lean Canvas and Lean Startups in general (see a really old post on Agile Development from 10 years ago when we first adopted it here , and one on Agile Marketing here ). check in frequently on progress.

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Agile Lean Software Operations 48

Up and Running

JULY 2, 2020

Especially now, as the COVID-19 pandemic is claiming millions of jobs and endangering small businesses from coast to coast. You don’t have to be confronting a pandemic, however, to feel a sense of letdown and uncertainty after launching your startup. Eight out of ten startups fail within the first 18 months. Be strategic.

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Startup Forecast Agile Demand 190

Steve Blank

JANUARY 25, 2010

Everyone knows what a startup is for – don’t they? In this post we’re going to offer a new definition of why startups exist : a startup is an organization formed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model. A Business Model. Ok, but what is a business model ? Business Plan Versus Business Model.

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Agile Startup Silicon Valley Business Model 335

Steve Blank

JANUARY 30, 2013

I earnestly believe that large corporations should emulate Lean Startups (Business model design, Customer Development and Agile Engineering.) It gets really tough when these projects are launched and have to fight for survival against current corporate business models.

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Programming Technical Review Incubator Intellectual Property 265

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 6, 2023

Many of the business plans I have seen as an investor, like trying to integrate all the social media features of Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn into a new platform, don’t do it. In many business domains today, the market seems to change about every ninety days. It’s tough for an elephant to be agile.

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Startup Bandwidth Distribution Agile 287

The Startup Magazine

JULY 7, 2023

Validating your business idea will help you identify any potential roadblocks or adjustments needed before investing significant time and resources. Step 3: Create A Solid Business Plan A well-crafted business plan is a roadmap for success.

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Entrepreneur Angel Investor Audience Business Plan 115

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 14, 2017

by Amanda Setili, author of “ Fearless Growth: The New Rules to Stay Competitive, Foster Innovation, and Dominate Your Markets “ Polarization is a common problem for companies trying to make smart and agile strategic decisions. In our age of disruption, you must be agile and courageous. Hint: That should be all companies.)

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Agile Malaysia Technical Review Metrics 113

Steve Blank

MAY 23, 2016

In every startup I did, every new course I created, and everything I’ve taught, the phrase “make every day count” took on new meaning when I knew how many were left. When I retired after 21 years working in 8 startups, I was invited to be a guest lecturer at the business school at the University of California Berkeley.

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Lean Technical Review Vietnam Engineer 221

Steve Blank

JUNE 12, 2020

All the teams used the Mission Model Canvas , (videos here ) Customer Development and Agile Engineering to build Minimal Viable Products, but all of their journeys were unique. I observed that teaching case studies and/or how to write a business plan as a capstone entrepreneurship class didn’t match the hands-on chaos of a startup.

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Oakland Asia Lean Video 301

Steve Blank

MARCH 11, 2016

To be honest I built the class out of frustration watching schools teach aspiring entrepreneurs that all they need to know is how to write a business plan or how to sit in an incubator building a product. entrepreneurship is experiential and requires theory and a ton of practice.

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Lean Incubator Business Model Channel 120

Steve Blank

AUGUST 31, 2009

After 20 years of working in startups, I decided to take a step back and look at the product development model I had been following and see why it usually failed to provide useful guidance in activities outside the building – sales, marketing and business development. Product Development Diagram 1. Where Are the Customers?

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Customer Development Developer Customer Silicon Valley 238

Steve Blank

MARCH 29, 2010

The key things I want students to take from the class are: Understand that a startup is a temporary organization designed to search for a profitable business model. Learn how to put together a business model , not a business plan. Tags: Durant versus Sloan: Startups Verus Companies.

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Business Model Silicon Valley California Engineer 226

Up and Running

MARCH 14, 2017

In the Lean Startup methodology, one of the most important elements is getting out of the building. In this article, I’ll give a quick overview of the best practices for validating your business idea in use today. In this article, I’ll give a quick overview of the best practices for validating your business idea in use today.

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Business Plan PPC Lean Campaign 94

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

In previous posts I’ve talked about what the combination of Business Model Design, Customer Development and Agile Methodologies mean to startups and intrapreneurs in large companies; it’s the beginning of entrepreneurship as a science with its own rules and methodologies. She posted her notes from the talk here.)

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