Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

But NewTV doesn’t plan on testing these hypotheses. With fewer than 10 employees but almost $2-billion dollars in the bank, they plan on jumping right in. It’s the antithesis of the Lean Startup. Startups wrote business plans, generated expansive 5-year forecasts and executed (hired, spent and built) to the plan.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

The last couple of years has also seen the huge initial success of Ycombinator, the Lean Startup and many other product driven approaches to going to market. In an era of “launch and learn&# is there a need for a business plan? I have seen really great product people espouse the death of the business plan.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 12, 2020

Whether or not the pandemic ends within a month or a year, small business owners need to be ready to buckle down, reassess, and even make changes to their business strategy in order to weather the storm (and beyond). Here are seven best pieces of advice for anyone running their own business right now.

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Up and Running

APRIL 30, 2020

Each scenario combines the key numbers in the hypothetical case and explores the impact on the bottom line, and helps you define your cash burn rate and runway. You can revisit the analysis at any time and make adjustments based on your updated budgets and revenue numbers, as well as the changing economic landscape.

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VC Cafe

JULY 26, 2020

In fact, they were screaming at them to dramatically reduce their burn rates. ” Steve Blank, “Is the lean startup dead?” ” The Lean Startup movement started out of necessity. Quibi didn’t stop to test the hypothesis with a lean startup approach.

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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. Lets see why.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 15, 2014

Entrepreneurs who plan to complete a business plan the first month, find an investor the second, and roll out a product the third month are just kidding themselves. Count on several months of effort and costly assistance to court investors, with less than a 10% success rate.

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