article thumbnail

6 Sources Of Purpose To Drive Business Success Today

Startup Professionals Musings

For Logan Green of Lyft, his international travel purpose helped inspire him to the creation and growth of an industry-altering business. By finding new perspectives, he was able to redefine business models and satisfy customer needs in new and ingenious ways. People need to see you as a person.

article thumbnail

Lean Meets Wicked Problems

Steve Blank

This meant the class was team-based, Lean-driven (hypothesis testing/business model/customer development/agile engineering) and experiential – where the students, rather than being presented with all of the essential information, must discover that information rapidly for themselves.

Lean 295
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

We crowdfunded $1.7 million for a new online news publication. This is our story so far.

The Next Web

former leader of the Green Party Femke Halsema and documentary journalist Jelle Brandt Corstius?—?accompanied Therefore, Momkai has joined us as a partner, so it’s ‘ resting inside the news company’. Two of them?—?former accompanied Rob to the television show and witnessed how, within an hour, 5,000 people invested €60 or more.

article thumbnail

What is a Social Enterprise?

Up and Running

The Social Enterprise Alliance offers this definition: “In its early days, the social enterprise movement was identified mainly with nonprofits that used business models and earned income strategies to pursue their mission. What about the rest of us? In terms of legal structure, social enterprises have many options.

article thumbnail

4 Order Fulfillment Tips for eCommerce Stores and Online Retailers

Women Entrepreneurs Can

However, just because this business model has a low entry barrier doesn’t mean it doesn’t have its unique challenges. An eCommerce store that shows that it’s committed to a green and eco-friendly world by using biodegradable packaging materials will make a good impression. Use Fulfilment Warehouses.

article thumbnail

Stanford 2012 Lean LaunchPad Presentations – part 1 of 2

Steve Blank

Startups are in fact only temporary organizations, organized to search –not execute–for a scalable and repeatable business model. We trying to teach students a methodology that combines customer development, agile development, business models and pivots. —– The rest of the teams present next week.

Lean 260
article thumbnail

Marketing and Growth Lessons for Uncertain Times

ConversionXL

The best drivers apply the brakes just ahead of the curve (they take out excess costs), turn hard toward the apex of the curve (identify the short list of projects that will form the next business model), and accelerate hard out of the curve (spend and hire before markets have rebounded). Progressive. Image source ).

Marketing 121