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Is the Lean Startup concept of MVP dead?

VC Cafe

.” 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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18 Entrepreneurs Reveal How They Deal With Economic Uncertainty

Hearpreneur

In a recession, advertising costs can go down as fewer companies invest in marketing. We also run a lean business, with regular budgets and reviews of expenses. 11- By maintaining a workplace culture Photo Credit: Vincent Nair In times of economic uncertainty, it’s common for businesses to cut costs in order to weather the storm.

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

Steve Blank

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.

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Does your startup really need to hire in-house developers?

The Next Web

Outsourcing technical development brings the benefits of expertise, reduced recruitment costs and concentrated focus executing on deliverables. In-house teams cost more. Having a team in-house means a quicker response time, but higher costs. Agencies are low cost. Andrew Howlett , Rain. . Doreen Bloch , Poshly Inc. .

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Lean Startup fbFund wrap-up

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, July 3, 2009 Lean Startup fbFund wrap-up Last week I had a real blast meeting with the companies at the fbFund incubator at Palo Alto. The Lean Startup fbFund Edition View more documents from Eric Ries. As usual, Id like to post the slides and then offer some additional commentary.

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Lessons Learned: Validated learning about customers

Startup Lessons Learned

They know how much it costs to bring in a customer and they know how much money they can expect to make on each one. Products can find sources of validation with impressive stats along a number of dimensions, such as high engagement, viral coefficient, or long-term retention. Go on an agile diet quickly. Great post!

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Startup Tools

steveblank.com

Github - Free public repositories, collaborator management, issue tracking, wikis, downloads, code review, graphs Pivotal Tracker – Agile project management tool that enables real time collaboration. WebSequenceDiagrams - sketch sequence diagrams. Lighthouse – Issue Tracking Tool.