Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 1, 2018

Two weeks later, I was named the executive director of global marketing for GE at the corporate level, working for Beth Comstock. A power company wants to know whether they should be burning natural gas or taking power off of the solar grid because it's sunny in Southern California. And I said, “Is that supposed to be a trick question?”

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 1, 2009

automotive industry grew to become one of the drivers of the global economy. Sloan Foundation , the Sloan School of Management at MIT , the Sloan program at Stanford , and the Sloan/Kettering Memorial Cancer Center in New York. If you look around the United States it’s hard to avoid Sloan. There’s the Alfred P.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 22, 2020

She and Raylene Young, who you'll hear in a minute, have collaborated to form the USDR, The United States Digital Response, activating an entire network of government technologists, lean and agile practitioners, to bring them together with state and local governments solving problems of immediate need. So I'm lucky to have that.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 28, 2020

With the theme “Build Back Better” Jerry Engel , Pete Newell , Steve Weinstein and I co-hosted nearly 500 Lean Educators from 63 countries and 235 universities online for a three-hour session to share what we’ve learned about educators on how we can help our communities rebound, adjust, and recover. — Background.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2020

And half our clubs were in the state of California in 2008, so was a very interesting time to be a CEO and learned a lot. We have companies now who have every store, globally or in a whole country, shuttered. If you lean in and understand this is a brilliant time to play offense. You're usually your own worst critic.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 10, 2020

So, that was the first moment that we said, "This looks like it could be a thing in California." We weren't fully thinking about California or the country at that point. My first job was a Product Manager at Oracle, then I worked at a tech startup called meVC. It was really myself and my boss, who was our portfolio manager.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

Beyond just those who will be hearing about the lean startup for the first time, Im expecting to shake a lot of hands and have a lot of interesting side conversations. So heres my simple question: What do folks in Washington need to know about the global community of entrepreneurs? So what are good entrepreneur-friendly policies?

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Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2009

I learned a lot at Convergent, going from product marketing manager in a small startup to VP of Marketing of the Unix Division as it became a public company. emotional rather than technical) and a lot harder to manage than a startup. Thank you, global meltdown! Two of my role models for my career were in this company. (And

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 2, 2021

Khosrowshahi, who previously served as CEO of Expedia before taking the reins at Uber in 2017, sat down with Greylock general partner Reid Hoffman to discuss the past, present and future of the mobility and delivery business that now operates in 71 countries around the world and employs around 20,000 people globally. RH: Yeah, totally agree.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

To supplement this guide, I interviewed two experienced farm hands: Gregory Heilers, previously an assistant farm manager, and Dr. Cindy Jones, the owner of Colorado Aromatics, a small herb farm in Colorado. You would then have been able to choose to grow another product that was in demand, or start your farm in Southern California.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 26, 2019

As a boot-strapped founder aka our biggest investor, one of the things I leaned into uncovering was the unknown. Lean into it. If you’re a founder/product manager/business owner, I encourage you to find that out! And, while working to build the business we want, a competitor in California secured resources to far outpace us.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 2, 2019

However, they’ve managed to create a thriving business through the beauty of technology. I had the ambition to work at a traditional advertising agency, but a couple of things worked out when I secured an Agency role as an SEO Manager at the largest SEO Agency in North America managing XXXK in annual billings.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

Management. When youve bootstrapped a business where youre not drawing a salary and depleting whatever savings you have, thats one of the very difficult things to do," says Toby Stuart, a professor at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley. Harley Goes Lean to Build Hogs. California.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 17, 2020

From a mission and purpose standpoint, we have always been about access and quality, so that was a natural place for our team to lean in harder to the support that we knew would be needed across our communities. We looked at ourselves and we said, what are we best at? What is our super power? What were those first days like?

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Hunter Walker

JULY 14, 2016

We are proud that American innovation is the envy of the world, a source of widely-shared prosperity, and a hallmark of our global leadership. Brad Burnham, Managing Partner, Union Square Ventures. Stephen DeBerry, Founder/Managing Partner, Bronze Investments. Brad Feld, Managing Director, Foundry Group; Co-Founder, Techstars.

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Hunter Walker

JULY 14, 2016

We are proud that American innovation is the envy of the world, a source of widely-shared prosperity, and a hallmark of our global leadership. Brad Burnham, Managing Partner, Union Square Ventures. Stephen DeBerry, Founder/Managing Partner, Bronze Investments. Brad Feld, Managing Director, Foundry Group; Co-Founder, Techstars.

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Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

I lived through the time when working in my first job in Ann Arbor Michigan we had to get out a map to find out that San Jose was not only in Puerto Rico but there was a city with that same name in California. We now have specific management tools to grow startups. 39 years ago I got on that plane and never went back.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Lean Methodology Sources. Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. Part 3- Lean Cust. Task Management. Project Management Tools. Subscription Payments / Management. Managing APIs. Customer Relationship Management. Contractor Management. Scanning / Document Management. SW Courses.

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Easy question to answer, and free with Compete (remember, this is US visits only) or SimilarWeb (global traffic). I find this behavior to be a million times more useful than demographics or political leanings. Provide a list of target countries to your management team where new opportunities exist (as identified by your competitors).

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Occam's Razor

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

The employees at One Hacker Way have managed incredible growth, tried to out-innovate themselves out of jams that killed earlier networks, and have made tons of money. On Facebook Google manages ten (on a good day). There is a lean-in nature to content consumption, rather than lean-back. 2BR02B: Facebook for Businesses.

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pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

She is an award winning journalist and author of two critically acclaimed books, "Once Youre Lucky, Twice Youre Good: The Rebirth of Silicon Valley and the Rise of Web 2.0" (Gotham Books, May 2008) and "Brilliant, Crazy, Cocky: How the Top 1% of Entrepreneurs Profit from Global Chaos" (Wiley, February 2011). Open Sesame! (A November 29, 2012.

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