Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 25, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, March 25, 2009 The Lean Startup at Agile Vancouver April 21st A surprising number of respondents in the latest Lessons Learned survey hail from one of the flourishing startup hubs in Canada. This workshop brings together leading thinkers from Lean Production and Lean software.

Agile 60

Agile Lean San Francisco Continuous Deployment 60

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. Hacking for Defense has its origins in the Lean LaunchPad class I first taught at Stanford in 2011. Our goal was to teach both theory and practice.

Oakland 312

Oakland Asia Lean Video 312

Steve Blank

AUGUST 31, 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. The Focus on Execution Versus Agility The product development diagram has a linear flow from left to right.

Customer Development 243

Customer Development Developer Customer Silicon Valley 243

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. Instead, we do everything possible to validate the founders belief. We dont just abandon the vision of the company at every turn.

Customer Development 168

Customer Development Developer San Francisco Customer 168

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 5, 2010

I have personally sold many copies of his book, and continue to recommend it as one of the most important books a startup founder can read. While the customer development framework of Four Steps is universally relevant, The Entrepreneur’s Guide updates its practices for modern startups.

Customer Development 166

Customer Development Developer San Francisco Customer 166

Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

APRIL 20, 2021

For organizations, MCPS is a foundational framework for building a culture of constant creative improvisation in order to innovate. MCPS perfectly complements innovation frameworks like Design Thinking, Agile, and Lean, and quality frameworks like Six Sigma. MCPS is Improvisational within a simple structure.

Framework 118

Framework Michigan Agile Lean 118

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

It should be even more important to the founders themselves, because it demonstrates that their business hypothesis is grounded in reality. These founders have not managed, to borrow a phrase from Steve Blank , to create a scalable and repeatable sales process. Go on an agile diet quickly. More on that in a moment.

Customer 167

Customer San Francisco Lean Hockey Stick 167

Steve Blank

JUNE 7, 2019

Our keynote speaker was Palmer Luckey , founder of Oculus and the designer of the Oculus Rift. He’s now the CEO/founder of the AI-focussed defense contractor Anduril Industries. Hacking for Defense has its origins in the Lean LaunchPad class I first taught at Stanford in 2011. Presentation Format. Team: Panacea.

Oakland 277

Oakland Lean SBIR Afghanistan 277

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

is an elegant way to model any service-oriented business: Acquisition Activation Retention Referral Revenue We used a very similar scheme at IMVU, although we werent lucky enough to have started with this framework, and so had to derive a lot of it ourselves via trial and error. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0.

San Francisco 167

San Francisco CPA SEM CTO Hire 167

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

I know plenty of people who prefer more advanced source control system, but my belief is that many agile practices diminish the importance of advanced features like branching. Its not that the idea behind them is wrong, but I think agile team-building practices make scheduling per se much less important. Youd better.

Software Review 144

Software Review Technical Review San Francisco Continuous Deployment 144

Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 15, 2010

This whole framework breaks down when teams confront entrepreneurial situations in which theyre trying to build something new under conditions of extreme uncertainty. This whole framework breaks down when teams confront entrepreneurial situations in which theyre trying to build something new under conditions of extreme uncertainty.

Hockey Stick 105

Hockey Stick San Francisco Entrepreneur Lean 105

Where to Play

APRIL 8, 2018

The post 5 Steps to Strengthen your Lean Startup Experimentations appeared first on Where to Play. Before you ‘get out of the building’: How to adopt a top-down orientation to improve your lean startup experimentations. Lean Startup , by Steve Blank and Eric Ries , is a great bottom-up approach.

Lean 73

Lean Startup Artificial Inteligence Search 73

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 22, 2019

The vast majority of recent innovation research has focused on entrepreneurs: why are they more innovative and agile than larger organizations? We have formalized the entrepreneurial approach into frameworks like “lean start-up” or “design thinking” with the goal of implementing it beyond start-ups. Organizations. .

Switzerland 113

Switzerland Germany Agile Lean 113

Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 29, 2010

Traveling the past year, I have heard loud and clear that its time for the Lean Startup movement to enter its next phase. Tactics were discussed out of context, and there wasnt an overarching framework for figuring out what works for what kinds of companies, industries, and stages of growth. Is design important to lean startups?

San Francisco 120

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment DC 120

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. The processes used to organize and implement the search for the business model are Customer Development and Agile Development. Organization. Instructional Strategy.

Search 324

Search Business Model Customer Development Agile 324

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 8, 2009

This simple three-part framework underlies almost all discussions about technical design today, and it was clearly on display in the recent debates over technical debt. Lean methods present a third option: to invest in our process so that our design gets more feedback sooner and is more adaptable to changes in purpose. Expo SF (May.

Software Review 87

Software Review Design Software San Francisco 87

Where to Play

APRIL 8, 2018

The post 5 Steps to Strengthen your Lean Startup Experimentations appeared first on Where to Play. Before you ‘get out of the building’: How to adopt a top-down orientation to improve your lean startup experimentations. Lean Startup , by Steve Blank and Eric Ries , is a great bottom-up approach.

Lean 48

Lean Startup Artificial Inteligence Search 48

Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

AUGUST 22, 2018

Poor knowledge of innovation process, approaches and frameworks. Yes, you can train people in creative thinking, Front-End-of-Innovation (FEI) frameworks, problem solving, and meeting facilitation. Knowledge of frameworks like Lean, Agile, CPS and Design Thinking are essential.

Framework 55

Framework Agile Lean America 55

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 259

Lean Silicon Valley Startup RSS 259

Steve Blank

JULY 2, 2015

Takashi Tsutsumi and Masato Iino , founders of Learning Entrepreneur’s Lab in Japan. military can work together – for access to advanced technology and to learn how to move with agility, speed and urgency. The focus of our first segment is how Silicon Valley and the U.S. He connects the Lab with the defense user community.

Channel 120

Channel Japan Bosnia Silicon Valley 120

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 26, 2009

Its a key lean startup concept. Personally, the framework Ive found most helpful is MTVs "create, share, validate" feedback loop. For example, I recently created a customer validation exercise around the Lean Startup Workshop. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Expo SF (May. for Harvard Business Revie.

Product Development 88

Product Development Developer San Francisco Product 88

YoungUpstarts

MAY 29, 2017

The Lean Startup.”. Agile Methodology.”. Modern frameworks and languages have many built in features for security, created on the assumption that every developer would take the time to look through the piles of documentation (or lack thereof). Is agile & secure development a mismatch? Fail Fast, Pivot.”.

Security 206

Security Software Review Technical Review Agile 206

Altgate

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

We tried to provide a framework for startups to think about what activities should be outsourced and why. But did you know that founder Markus Frind has just 3 employees for his $10MM+ revenue business? The best early PR is a product that people actually love plus a genuine story to tell from the founder. Start a blog.

Software Review 65

Software Review Offshore Startup Boston 65

Where to Play

MARCH 14, 2018

In the following blog, Co-founder and CEO Saar Yoskovitz describes how they chose their first market opportunity, with the help of a newly designed business tool. We followed the Lean Startup approach to test our assumptions on each of these market opportunities. Using the right business tools.

Artificial Inteligence 91

Artificial Inteligence Marketing Vertical Startup 91

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 1, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, May 1, 2009 Lean Startup webcast post-game Wow, what an incredible turnout for webcast this morning, right on the heels of a phenomenal crowd at startup2startup last night. Its been a great twelve hours for the lean startup! wogsland : Still not understanding the "lean" aspect. What a thrill.

Lean 60

Lean San Francisco Startup Continuous Deployment 60

Steve Blank

JUNE 2, 2011

A revolution has taken hold as customer development and agile engineering reinvent the Startup process. We suggest that the founders/CEO invest 1 hour a week providing advisors and investors with “Continuous Information Access” by blogging and discussing their progress online in their startup’s search for a business model.

Silicon Valley 288

Silicon Valley Business Model Early Stage Venture Capital 288

Ben's Blog

MAY 15, 2020

In normal times, every company operates against some hypothetical growth model—a data-driven framework that describes how your product grows and how you acquire new users. In normal times, every company operates against some hypothetical growth model—a data-driven framework that describes how your product grows and how you acquire new users.

Founder 36

Founder Conversion Technical Review Cash Position 36

blog.simeonov.com

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

I have been thinking a lot recently about how to apply agile development principles to investing and key aspects of startup development such as team building. Both stem from the agile principle of delaying decisions until the last responsible moment. The first post is about agile startup fundraising. Urban legends.

Founder 44

Founder Vesting Agile Startup 44

Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 22, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, June 22, 2009 Pivot, dont jump to a new vision In a lean startup , instead of being organized around traditional functional departments, we use a cross-functional problem team and solution team. Each has its own iterative process: customer development and agile development respectively.

San Francisco 167

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment Agile 167

Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 11, 2009

Having had a number of years to try and answer this question at cocktail parties and social gatherings of all kinds, I thought Id try and expand on his framework a little, and then try and use these answers to help make suggestions for those who are trying to get people to buy virtual goods. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0.

San Francisco 102

San Francisco Continuous Deployment Lean DC 102

Steve Blank

MAY 10, 2011

The Stanford Lean LaunchPad class was an experiment in a new model of teaching startup entrepreneurship. So our goal was to teach something actually useful in the lives of founders. The Lean LaunchPad was designed to fill that void. E245, the Lean LaunchPad will be offered again next Winter. Syllabus is here.

Lean 284

Lean Business Model Agile Customer Development 284

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 5, 2009

In other words, a principled way to combine agility with stability. In this framework, we’ll tend to either invest in the proposed prevention or do nothing. In other words, you can always invest in process, batch size reduction, and agility as an alternative to preventing a specific problem. But there is another way.

San Francisco 133

San Francisco Architecture Lean Continuous Deployment 133

Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 13, 2009

Founders push for it. In some ways, founders are even worse. My experience is that many founders actually have a deep anxiety that maybe they are not succeeding. You create an entire framework of understanding and action based on your product/idea that sets it in motion in a self-sustaining way. Expo SF (May.

San Francisco 168

San Francisco PR Lean Early Stage 168

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 1, 2009

One of the most common questions I get about the lean startup methodology is, "but what about Steve Jobs ?" So how do you reconcile his success with the lean startup, which seems to suggest the opposite?" Plus, the premise of the question misunderstands the lean startup, too. And he doesnt shy away from big-bang launch events.

San Francisco 166

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment DC 166

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Lean Methodology consists of three tools designed for entrepreneurs building new ventures: The Business Model Canvas – to write down all the hypotheses about a new business; Customer Development – a process for testing those hypotheses outside the building; Agile Engineering – to rapidly build minimal viable products to test product/market fit.

Customer 424

Customer Marketing Lean Vertical 424

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 6, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, October 6, 2008 When NOT to listen to your users; when NOT to rely on split-tests There are three legs to the lean startup concept: agile product development , low-cost (fast to market) platforms , and rapid-iteration customer development. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0.

San Francisco 128

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment Agile 128

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

A Lean Startup methodology offers entrepreneurs a framework to focus on what’s important: Business Model Discovery. Teams use the Lean Startup toolkit: the Business Model Canvas + Customer Development process + Agile Engineering. Or the founder, or the product, or the market – no metrics can measure those intangibles.

Oakland 329

Oakland Incubator Lean Metrics 329