Agile, Channel, Engineer and Lean

Hear how the Lean Startup began — and helped one company find success: Episode 2 on Sirius XM Channel 111: Eric Ries and Jon Sebastiani

Steve Blank

JULY 7, 2015

My guests on Bay Area Ventures on Wharton Business Radio on Sirius XM Channel 111 were: Eric Ries , entrepreneur and author of the New York Times bestseller, The Lean Startup. Eric was the very first practitioner of my Customer Development methodology which became the core of the the Lean methodology.

Lean

Lean Technical Cofounder Silicon Valley Channel

I-Corps @ NIH – Pivoting the Curriculum

Steve Blank

JUNE 26, 2014

We’ve pivoted our Lean LaunchPad / I-Corps curriculum. — 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 is now being taught in over 100 universities.

Intellectual Property

Intellectual Property Lean IP Open Source

The Planned Iteration Startup Launch Minimizes Risk

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 17, 2014

I strongly recommend a dramatic departure from this model, called “planned iteration” or Lean Startup methodology, where you assume you won’t get it right the first time, so you launch with a minimum viable product (MVP). With a minimum viable product, your startup remains much more agile. Find customers, partners and channels early.

Agile

Agile Startup Social Network Software Developers

The Planned Iteration Startup Launch Minimizes Risk

Gust

NOVEMBER 9, 2014

Eric Ries on Lean Startup methodology, via Wikipedia. I strongly recommend a dramatic departure from this model, called “planned iteration” or Lean Startup methodology, where you assume you won’t get it right the first time, so you launch with a minimum viable product (MVP). Find customers, partners and channels early.

Agile

Agile Startup Lean Social Network

Lean Innovation Management – Making Corporate Innovation Work

Steve Blank

JUNE 26, 2015

—– Lean Innovation Management. In the last five years “ Lean Startup ” methodologies have enabled entrepreneurs to efficiently build a startup by searching for product/market fit rather than blindly trying to execute. The result will be: a new, Lean version of the Three Horizons of Innovation. Here’s how.

Lean

Lean Management Business Model Incubator

Every Startup Should Assume Pivots Will Be Required

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 9, 2013

I strongly recommend a dramatic departure from this model, called “planned iteration” or Lean Startup methodology, where you assume you won’t get it right the first time, so you launch with a minimum viable product (MVP). With a minimum viable product, your startup remains much more agile. Find customers, partners and channels early.

Agile

Agile Startup Social Network Software Developers

Why Build, Measure, Learn – isn’t just throwing things against the wall to see if they work

Steve Blank

MAY 6, 2015

I am always surprised when critics complain that the Lean Startup’s Build, Measure, Learn approach is nothing more than “throwing incomplete products out of the building to see if they work.”. It’s time to update Build, Measure, Learn to what we now know is the best way to build Lean startups. Here’s how. Build-Measure-Learn.

Lean

Lean Agile Business Model Customer Development

Lessons Learned: Customer Development Engineering

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 7, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, September 7, 2008 Customer Development Engineering Yesterday, I had the opportunity to guest lecture again in Steve Blank s entrepreneurship class at the Berkeley-Columbia executive MBA program. Ive attempted to embed the relevant slides below. But I am confident that many of these ideas still apply.

Customer Development

Customer Development Engineer San Francisco Developer

A New Way to Teach Entrepreneurship – The Lean LaunchPad at Stanford: Class 1

Steve Blank

MARCH 8, 2011

In January, we introduced a new graduate course at Stanford called the " target="_blank">Lean LaunchPad. 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. OK, somehow we got them interested.

Lean

Lean Business Model Customer Development Guinea

How To Find the Right Co-Founders?

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

” She looked at bit puzzled, so I continued to explain… One of the virtues of using the Business Model Canvas as part of a Lean Startup is that it helps you frame each one of your nine critical hypotheses. Therefore the ideal medical device team might be a physician; engineer; operator; business development/financial analyst.

Cofounder

Cofounder Founder Intellectual Property Business Model

How To Start and Grow Your SEO Business — 2021 Guide

Up and Running

MAY 3, 2021

For those not in the know, SEO refers to search engine optimization. This is the practice of helping a website appear higher in search engine results pages (SERPs) for keywords related to their specific product, service, or niche. An SEO business, then, is one that offers this practice as a service.

SEO

SEO Vertical Metadata Forecast

The Class That Changed the Way Entrepreneurship is Taught

Steve Blank

JULY 13, 2021

Business plans presume that building a startup is a series of predictable steps requiring execution of a plan which assumes a series of known facts: known customers, known features, known pricing, known distribution channel. Let’s Teach Lean Via Experiential Learning. In a new venture none of these things are truly known. experiential.

Lean

Lean Agile Business Model Business Plan

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

ReadWriteStart

APRIL 8, 2023

Omnichannel: Diversity and Inclusion Every successful organization uses multiple channels to communicate with potential customers and advertise its products. Search engine optimization, paid search, social media channels, online stores, and even pop-up spots are examples of practical omnichannel usage.

eCommerce

eCommerce Technical Review Software Review Analytics

Momentum — Team Effectiveness Training

Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Imagine someone pouring crazy glue into your car engine, that’s how a bad team can affect an organization. It can augment, Lean, Design Thinking or Agile approaches. CPS is used extensively by companies like P&G, Clear Channel, and IBM. R&D or Engineering teams. Candidate Teams for Momentum.

Agile

Agile Software Review Lean Technical Review

Learning Through Reflection

Steve Blank

MARCH 11, 2016

We just finished the 6 th annual Lean LaunchPad class. For the last 6 years I’ve taught the Lean LaunchPad class at Stanford and Berkeley. Therefore, we developed the 8-week Lean LaunchPad class to teach students how to think about all the parts of building a business, not just the product. Pivot stories. Demo of final MVP.

Lean

Lean Incubator Business Model Channel

Lessons Learned: Lean hiring tips

Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 19, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, January 19, 2009 Lean hiring tips In preparing for the strategy series panel this week, I have been doing some thinking about costs. Fundamentally, lean startups do more with less, because they systematically find and eliminate waste that slows down value creation. Another terrific post, Eric.

Lean

Lean Hiring San Francisco Continuous Deployment

Stanford 2012 Lean LaunchPad Presentations – part 1 of 2

Steve Blank

MARCH 7, 2012

Today, the first half of the Stanford Engineering Lean LaunchPad Class gave their final presentations. It’s hard to believe it’s only been a year since we taught the first 10 teams in the Stanford Lean LaunchPad class. We’ll teach over 175 NSF Innovation Corps teams in the Lean LaunchPad course in 2012. Team ColorWheels.

Lean

Lean Business Model Agile United States

Lessons Learned: About the author

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2008

Maybe youd like to start with The lean startup , How to listen to customers , or What does a startup CTO actually do? ) In 2007, BusinessWeek named Ries one of the Best Young Entrepreneurs of Tech and in 2009 he was honored with a TechFellow award in the category of Engineering Leadership. Looking forward for your future posts.

San Francisco

San Francisco Technical Cofounder Fractional CTO CTO

[Interview] Bo Zou, Toronto-Based Digital User Experience Specialist And Thought Leader

YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 31, 2018

In many respects, it’s the leanness, flexibility and agility of startups that help them become successful,” he says. Further, he notes, opportunities for innovation are virtually unlimited as digital channels grow. They’re the ones doing the disrupting, and their innovations are making waves.”.

United Kingdom

United Kingdom Technical Review Design Operations

The Customer Development Manifesto: Reasons for the Revolution.

Steve Blank

AUGUST 31, 2009

Yet startup companies have traditionally used this model to manage and pace not only engineering but also non-engineering activities. The flaw in this thinking is that “first customer ship&# is simply the date when engineering thinks they “finished” the 1.0 Product Development Diagram 1. Where Are the Customers?

Customer Development

Customer Development Developer Customer Silicon Valley

Lessons Learned: The three drivers of growth for your business.

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

I break the answer to that question down into three engines: Viral - this is the business model identified in the presentation as "Get Users." Thats why eBay advertises on search engines, and Facebook doesnt. Labels: search engine marketing 0comments: New comments are not allowed. Thats where Id like to pick up the discussion.

San Francisco

San Francisco CPA SEM CTO Hire

Lessons Learned: Using AdWords to assess demand for your new.

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

Labels: customer development , search engine marketing 13comments: Jim Lindstrom said. They would make commercials about a new book series, and then run the commercials at times when the TV rates were low (late night, UHF channels, etc) If they got enough orders, they then decided to print the series. Expo SF (May.

Demand

Demand San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment

The Evolution of Entrepreneurial Education and Corporate Innovation

Steve Blank

MAY 29, 2019

Lean LaunchPad class developed for Stanford. And the Lean LaunchPad class I developed at Stanford was the first such class. I believe the analogy is identical for entrepreneurship.The capstone entrepreneurship classes like NSF I-Corps or a Lean LaunchPad class, are for those who have already decided they want to be entrepreneurs.

Incubator

Incubator Lean Programming Government

6 Ways to Make Sure Your Tech Startup Will Succeed in 2018

Up and Running

OCTOBER 4, 2017

That’s why it’s smarter to embrace the agile approach and constantly test your idea on the market to learn about the needs and desires of your target. Reputation will be as important as ever in 2018—only now, it’s more about your brand identity spread through digital channels. Choose the right location.

Startup

Startup Estonia Poland Silicon Valley

The Lean LaunchPad – Teaching Entrepreneurship as a Management Science

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2010

I’ve introduced a new class at Stanford to teach engineers, scientists and other professionals how startups really get built. There are few courses which teach aspiring entrepreneurs the skills (business models, customer and agile development, design thinking, etc.) ——————– Engineering 245.

Wiki

Wiki Lean Management Business Model

Teaching Customer Development and the Lean Startup – Topological Homeomorphism

Steve Blank

APRIL 29, 2010

Customer Development was a process to quickly search for a profitable business model when customer needs (features, pricing, channel, etc.) Ironically it was because one of my students, Eric Ries who solved the problem of how engineering would actually build products in companies with a Customer Development process. are unknown.

Customer Development

Customer Development Lean Developer Customer

Search versus Execute

Steve Blank

MARCH 5, 2012

One of the issues that came up is whether the new lexicon of entrepreneurial ideas – Customer Development, Business Model Design , Lean , Lean LaunchPad class, etc. Once your business model (market, customers, features, channels, pricing, Get/Keep/Grow strategy, etc.) (And I even found time to go to the Spy Museum.).

Search

Search Business Model Customer Development Agile

SuperMac War Story 6: Building The Killer Team – Mission, Intent.

Steve Blank

APRIL 9, 2009

But what I wanted was an agile marketing team capable of operating independently without day-to-day direction. To do that we will create end-user demand and drive it into the sales channel, educate the channel and customers about why our products are superior, and help Engineering understand customer needs and desires.

Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley Technical Review RSS PR

Marching through quicksand

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

Mass blasts of information are ineffective, because the broadcast channels are suffering from information overload (even in social media). Test-marketing is now easier than ever before, thanks to leveraged distribution channels like AdWords and Facebook. There are too many products clamoring for attention. 12comments: Dougvs said.

San Francisco

San Francisco Lean Technical Review Distribution

Customer Discovery In the Time Of the Covid-19 Virus

Steve Blank

APRIL 7, 2020

The classes are built on the Lean Startup methodology: Customer Discovery, Agile Engineering and the Business/Mission Model Canvas. With in-person classes canceled, we’re about to start our online versions of Hacking for Defense and Hacking for Oceans (and here ). What will the world look like after?”

Customer

Customer Business Model Restful Video

Lessons Learned: Validated learning about customers

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

This is an incredible skill, one that most engineers overlook. Because they have no presence in the market, they have to find distribution channels to bring in customers. Go on an agile diet quickly. With a product development team that is not shipping, any agile methodology will surface major problems quickly.

Customer

Customer San Francisco Lean Hockey Stick

Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 10: Reetu Gupta and Mandela Schumacher-Hodge

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

Successful founders have a laser-like focus and commitment; a keen understanding of customers’ needs; and a tenacious spirit, said the latest guests on Entrepreneurs are Everywhere , my radio show on Sirius XM Channel 111. Tune in Thursday at 1 pm PT, 4 pm ET on Sirius XM Channel 111. Reetu Gupta. Mandela Schumacher-Hodge.

Cofounder

Cofounder India Entrepreneur Maryland

Lesson Learned in Medical Devices

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 20, 2013

This post is part of our series on the National Science Foundation I-Corps Lean LaunchPad class in Life Science and Health Care at UCSF. It’s Lean, it’s fast, it works and it’s unlike anything else ever done. Part 6: Distribution channels in Life Sciences. Customer Development Lean LaunchPad Life Sciences Teaching'

Lean

Lean Customer Development IP Agile

Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases non-events

Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 18, 2010

Recently, he was bitten by the lean startup bug and has started writing about his experiences attempting to apply lean startup and customer development principles. Ive previously named his post Achieving Flow in a Lean Startup as one of my favorite blog posts of 2009. I am not advocating adding no features at all.

Continuous Deployment

Continuous Deployment San Francisco Lean Wiki

It's a startup, not a spreadsheet

Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 5, 2009

I think this idea is particularly appealing to those of us from an engineering background. She has a separate team, with its own culture and office, and a mandate straight from top management to innovate without regard to the company’s historic products, channels, or supply chain. So far, so good. Expo SF (May.

San Francisco

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment Startup

Hacking for Defense @ Stanford – Making the World a Safer Place

Steve Blank

JANUARY 26, 2016

Hacking for Defense is a new course at Stanford’s Engineering School in the Spring of 2016. Join a select cross-disciplinary class that will put you hands-on with the masters of lean innovation to help bring rapid-fire innovative solutions to address threats to our national security. We’re Our Own Worst Enemy.

Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley North Korea Agile Lean

Lessons Learned: Product development leverage

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 26, 2009

Its a key lean startup concept. We combined three tactics: extensive use of free software, an open platform for user-generated content, and leveraged distribution channels. That engine of creativity has led to a catalog of something like 2 million virtual goods authored by a hundred thousand developers.

Product Development

Product Development Developer San Francisco Product

Don’t let process distract you from finding the strategy

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

The latest “aha” moment for me when I was at Columbia University teaching an intensive 5-day version of the Lean LaunchPad/I-Corps class. The goal of the class is to expose students to the basics of the Lean Methodology – Business Model Design , Customer Development and Agile Engineering. But hey, no problem.

Lean

Lean Customer Development Business Model Agile

Lo, my 2295 subscribers, who are you?

Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 4, 2009

Today, Id like to spend some time on two techniques: the problem presentation and learning what channels of information reach customers. In particular, Ive focused on the two channels of communication that were most commonly suggested in the first survey: conferences and books. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0.

San Francisco

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment DC

Lean Startups aren't Cheap Startups

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

For those of you who have been following the discussion, a Lean Startup is Eric Ries ’s description of the intersection of Customer Development , Agile Development and if available, open platforms and open source. Over its lifetime a Lean Startup may spend less money than a traditional startup.

Lean

Lean Silicon Valley Startup RSS

The Mission Model Canvas – An Adapted Business Model Canvas for Mission-Driven Organizations

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

The Lean Startup is the way most innovators build startups and innovate inside of existing companies. Channel is changed to Deployment. Distribution Channel changes to Deployment. In the commercial world we ask, “What type of distribution channel (direct sales, app store, system integrator, etc.)

Business Model

Business Model Revenue Channel Community

Lessons Learned: The Lean Startup workshop coming soon

Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 31, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, March 31, 2009 The Lean Startup workshop coming soon I am currently gearing up for my talk tomorrow at the Web 2.0 As you can tell from recent posts, Ive been experimenting with different formats and channels to try and find the best way to help. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0.

Lean

Lean San Francisco Continuous Deployment DC

Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 16, 2010

First, SlideShare is a fantastic product (that I use on a regular basis) and an impressive company example of Lean Startup practices in action. Second, their story illustrates a key Lean Startup idea: proving the business in micro-scale. Early this year, SlideShare launched custom channels. Did you find this post useful?

San Francisco

San Francisco Lean Analytics Continuous Deployment

Out of the Crisis #3, Jen Pahlka and Raylene Yung on creating the U.S. Digital Response

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 22, 2020

She was an engineering and product executive at Stripe and Facebook. They've brought together a group of passionate volunteers across engineering, data science, content strategy, design, logistics and supply chain and disaster response to assist with open source solutions. How to channel your efforts and energy and stay informed. (

New Jersey

New Jersey Government CTO America

Hear how the Lean Startup began — and helped one company find success: Episode 2 on Sirius XM Channel 111: Eric Ries and Jon Sebastiani

I-Corps @ NIH – Pivoting the Curriculum

Trending Sources

The Planned Iteration Startup Launch Minimizes Risk

The Planned Iteration Startup Launch Minimizes Risk

Lean Innovation Management – Making Corporate Innovation Work

Every Startup Should Assume Pivots Will Be Required

Why Build, Measure, Learn – isn’t just throwing things against the wall to see if they work

Lessons Learned: Customer Development Engineering

A New Way to Teach Entrepreneurship – The Lean LaunchPad at Stanford: Class 1

How To Find the Right Co-Founders?

How To Start and Grow Your SEO Business — 2021 Guide

The Class That Changed the Way Entrepreneurship is Taught

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

Momentum — Team Effectiveness Training

Learning Through Reflection

Lessons Learned: Lean hiring tips

Stanford 2012 Lean LaunchPad Presentations – part 1 of 2

Lessons Learned: About the author

[Interview] Bo Zou, Toronto-Based Digital User Experience Specialist And Thought Leader

The Customer Development Manifesto: Reasons for the Revolution.

Lessons Learned: The three drivers of growth for your business.

Lessons Learned: Using AdWords to assess demand for your new.

The Evolution of Entrepreneurial Education and Corporate Innovation

6 Ways to Make Sure Your Tech Startup Will Succeed in 2018

The Lean LaunchPad – Teaching Entrepreneurship as a Management Science

Teaching Customer Development and the Lean Startup – Topological Homeomorphism

Search versus Execute

SuperMac War Story 6: Building The Killer Team – Mission, Intent.

Marching through quicksand

Customer Discovery In the Time Of the Covid-19 Virus

Lessons Learned: Validated learning about customers

Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 10: Reetu Gupta and Mandela Schumacher-Hodge

Lesson Learned in Medical Devices

Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases non-events

It's a startup, not a spreadsheet

Hacking for Defense @ Stanford – Making the World a Safer Place

Lessons Learned: Product development leverage

Don’t let process distract you from finding the strategy

Lo, my 2295 subscribers, who are you?

Lean Startups aren't Cheap Startups

The Mission Model Canvas – An Adapted Business Model Canvas for Mission-Driven Organizations

Lessons Learned: The Lean Startup workshop coming soon

Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium

Out of the Crisis #3, Jen Pahlka and Raylene Yung on creating the U.S. Digital Response

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