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

Steve Blank

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. Startups are in fact only temporary organizations, organized to search –not execute–for a scalable and repeatable business model.

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

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 22, 2008 The three drivers of growth for your business model. The AARRR model (hence pirates, get it?) He also has a discussion of how your choice of business model determines which of these metric areas you want to focus on. Choose one. Bring your questions.

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The Growth Marketing Process: How to Shake Your Growth Hack Addiction

ConversionXL

If you don’t have a validated product or business model yet, stop here. There are a lot of different ways to approach this, depending on your business model and your goals. To do that, we use prioritization frameworks. It Starts with the Product. before continuing. Hyper-Focused Growth Cycles.

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Lessons Learned: Validated learning about customers

Startup Lessons Learned

What matters is proving the viability of the company’s business model, what investors call “traction.&# Of course this is not at all true of many profitable small businesses, but they are not what I mean by startups.) Now that Im in a web based company Im finding a difficult match the framework, culturally.

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Lessons Learned: Don't launch

Startup Lessons Learned

You have to know your business model. Most startups launch before theyve figured out what business theyre in. Would have been nice to have this last year when I started my own business. A soft launch is a very good test to your business model, and allow you to fix bugs and optimize your products.

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Lessons Learned: When NOT to listen to your users; when NOT to.

Startup Lessons Learned

Whats needed is a disciplined methodology for understanding the needs of customers and how they combine to form a viable business model. For example, think of the phases of the synthesis framework: collecting feedback, processing and understanding it, choosing a new course of action. What can you do about it?

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Startup Tools

steveblank.com

interactions, widgets, effects Django – high-level Python framework Cappuccino – open source framework for app development Kodingen – cloud development environment, code editor, hosting service, collaboration platform. WebSequenceDiagrams - sketch sequence diagrams.