Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

Guest post by Lisa Regan, writer for The Lean Startup Conference. We’re dedicated to making The Lean Startup Conference unlike other entrepreneurship conferences. Early-stage entrepreneurs; people participating in startrup incubator or accelerator programs; and bootstrappers. Here are the details for each group.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 3, 2012

Lean Marketing: Delivering Customer Service via Social Media - [link]. Lean Marketing: Delivering Customer Service via Social Media - [link]. The dirty secret behind the incubator boom - [link]. The 11 Harsh Realities Of Being An Entrepreneur - [link]. Ever see a golden retriever dance the Merengue?

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 94

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 16, 2012

If you are new to the entrepreneurial world of startups, you are likely confused by the terminology of seed-stage, lean startups, micro-VCs, and Super Angels. The hard part for entrepreneurs is figuring out what it takes to play. Lean startup. This should be a wake-up call for traditional entrepreneurs and investors alike.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 30, 2014

Our Lean Launchpad® for Life Sciences is one of them. The Lean Launchpad® for Life Sciences (the I-Corps @ NIH ) uses the Lean Startup Model to discover and validate the business model. The Lean Launchpad® for Life Sciences (the I-Corps @ NIH ) uses the Lean Startup Model to discover and validate the business model.

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Austin Startup

MAY 11, 2017

Aspect Ventures | Aligned VC We believe that the interests of investors and entrepreneurs can and should be aligned. Aligned Partners offers our portfolio companies world-class venture capital expertise while enabling founders to start lean and stay lean all the way through their growth.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Guest post by Lisa Regan, writer for The Lean Startup Conference. Entrepreneurs beyond Silicon Valley, including those working abroad, often have to retool Lean Startup methods to apply them in places with very different business cultures. government fund and as Entrepreneur-In-Residence for the National Science Foundation.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2009

But theres no denying the level of support for entrepreneurs that we enjoy. Ive written a little bit about the origins of Silicon Valley because I think its important for us to understand how we got here in order to make sure we preserve what is best about our community. Traveling to Boulder I had the feeling of stepping back in time.

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San Francisco Silicon Valley Startup Lean 113

Steve Blank

AUGUST 5, 2010

Consumer Internet investing seems to have split off from traditional Venture Capital, and is creating a new category of VC’s: Lean VC’s. The fact that serious money could be made in companies investing in life sciences wasn’t lost on the venture community. The Rise of the “Lean VC’s” – Consumer Internet Gets Funded.

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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. The focus is on case studies and real entrepreneurs. When I was a practicing entrepreneur, startup events usually made me crazy. I want to say a few words about why I am so excited about this event.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 22, 2013

My co-author and business Partner Bob Dorf spends much of his time traveling the world teaching countries and companies how to run the Lean LaunchPad program. Lean LaunchPad Colombia starts again today in Bogota with 25 more teams of tech entrepreneurs and at 25 mentors from the country’s universities, incubators, and chambers of commerce.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 22, 2013

My co-author and business Partner Bob Dorf spends much of his time traveling the world teaching countries and companies how to run the Lean LaunchPad program. Lean LaunchPad Colombia starts again today in Bogota with 25 more teams of tech entrepreneurs and at 25 mentors from the country’s universities, incubators, and chambers of commerce.

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Colombia Lean Silicon Valley Coder 285

Gust

JULY 8, 2012

If you are new to the entrepreneurial world of startups, you are likely confused by the terminology of seed-stage, lean startups, micro-VCs, and Super Angels. The hard part for entrepreneurs is figuring out what it takes to play. Lean startup. This should be a wake-up call for traditional entrepreneurs and investors alike.

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Early Stage Finance Seed Stage Entrepreneur 177

This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 27, 2010

The local tech community is figuring this out, not surprisingly, way before the academic institutions are—and where it is being discovered by academia, it’s being done on a one-off basis by educational revolutionaries in the innovation space who aren’t stopping to ask their schools for permission or to change curricula.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 19, 2023

By offering guidance and expertise, mentors provide valuable insights into the unique challenges these startups face as they share their social sector knowledge, enabling entrepreneurs to navigate complex landscapes more effectively. Incubator programs are a great way to provide these mentorship opportunities to startups.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 7, 2011

Business School, met with the entrepreneurship center in the Business School , Entrepreneurs ; presented to MPowered the University of Michigan student Entrepreneurship Organization, the Ann Arbor New Tech Meetup and A2Geeks , the regional startup network (talk here.). A Lack of a Startup Culture in the Community. Not My Problem.

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Steve Blank

JULY 2, 2015

He connects the Lab with the defense user community. His responsibilities include establishing the partnership frameworks between government, private sector, and academia needed to deliver end-use solutions to national security challenges (cybersecurity, undersea warfare, communications, etc.). .

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2011

If you are new to the entrepreneurial world of startups, you are likely confused by the terminology of seed-stage, lean startups, micro-VCs, and Super Angels. The good news is that he is all about helping early-stage startups, the hard part for entrepreneurs is figuring out what it takes to play. Lean startup. Marty Zwilling.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Many Asian entrepreneurs tell me that they want to raise funds from Silicon Valley firms because they perceive the valuations to be higher. As I touched on before, China and India have the most mature VC communities. SingTel Inno8 ), as well as one of the marquee cross-regional startup incubators, JFDI.

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Up and Running

JULY 28, 2020

These loans and funds are set aside specifically for small businesses and entrepreneurs. Some only allow funding for a limited time, some require you to meet your goal to receive any funds and others serve as long-term community sites. It encourages lean operations and can help you avoid taking out too much funding early on.

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market-by-numbers.com

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

Without any more evidence than my personal experience—working alongside hundreds of mentors and entrepreneurs around the globe, including such far off places as Brussels, Moscow, and Kuala Lumpur—I’m willing to bet […]. Economy Lean Entrepreneur San Diego Startup Community accelerator incubator mentor mentor program'

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Steve Blank

JUNE 3, 2016

First was to teach students to develop the mindset, reflexes, agility and resilience an entrepreneur needs to make decisions at speed and with urgency in a chaotic and uncertain world. Few consider opportunities to make the world safer with the Department of Defense, Intelligence Community or other government agencies.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

Resilience – the ability to bounce back from adversity – is one of the key attributes of entrepreneurs and was the focus of my first weekly radio show, Entrepreneurs are Everywhere , on Sirius XM Radio Channel 111. On the alumni side, we set up an incubator downtown, called the Columbia Startup Lab. …

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 10, 2011

There are incubators to help you out on the financing side, too. The success of YCombinator and Techstars has spawned countless new incubators. New York will feature five this summer alone--Techstars, DreamIt, Startl and the NYC Seed/EDC Media and Finance incubators. Why isn't it growing its own yet?

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500hats.com

AUGUST 2, 2012

One of the earliest and most well-known of the Micro-VC funds was First Round Capital , founded in 2004 by Josh Kopelman , a former entrepreneur who sold Half.com to eBay in 2000. Rise of Y Combinator, 1st Branded Entrepreneur Guild. and no, we didn’t. but the food was awesome, & the PR wasn’t bad either).

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 6, 2015

In either case, corporations have to set up their investment vehicles so that the venture capital community sees them as serious players. Entrepreneurs today expect more than just capital from their investors. Teten: The new generation of entrepreneurs is asking more from their investors than just money.

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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 15, 2020

They're going to look to see what impact you had in your community. 11:59) Giving people trust and autonomy and opening lines of communication as a leader, and how Mark's leadership has evolved. (14:16) 22:13) The way companies treat employees and customers and impact their communities now will them for decades to come.

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Dallas Employee Government Social Media 68

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 8, 2012

How to build regional entrepreneurial communities has just gotten it’s first “here’s how to do it” book. Feld’s thesis is that unlike the common wisdom, it is entrepreneurs that lead a startup community while everyone else feeds the community. These events are a good proxy for the health and depth of a startup community.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2020

Our fundamental thesis is that people of color, women, communities of concentrated poverty, have immense talent to contribute to the technology industry," Jake explained to me. "In It just so happens that my disposition will always lean toward the health of human beings, it is part of who I am. We can be deliberate about these things.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 14, 2013

– cupcake trucks and boutique farms, gourmet this and sous vide that – “food accelerators” are setting up to put them through tech-style incubator programs and turn their early-stage ideas into fully baked businesses. Zajonc reminds Local Food Lab startups that they can get from concept to product in very lean fashion.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 6, 2013

The Telefonica-backed Wayra London incubator officially opened its doors last year, but its current intake of startups have only called it home for around seven months. In finding that solution, his team created iHelp – a community driven emergency network. Apps Entrepreneur Insider News Roundups'

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Austin Startup

MARCH 25, 2011

I look for founders with somewhat of a “built to last&# attitude because starting a company, and indeed even being an entrepreneur is not a destination but a journey. After our summer program, the company went into the Austin Technology Incubator where they continued to learn, iterate, and grow. Some of them will.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 4, 2013

NEXT by Startup Weekend is a wonderful next step for entrepreneurs looking for feedback on their idea or early business, while heavily leveraging the Lean methodology. Below are the words of Ken Hoff, an up-and-coming leader in the Boulder startup community. NEXT can give aspiring entrepreneurs three major tools: 1.

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www.usatoday.com

JULY 16, 2012

After years of the San Francisco Bay Area dominating the tech start-up scene, with huge smashes such as Facebook, Google and Twitter, entrepreneurs are finding they can go elsewhere to grow and prosper. It takes awhile for the financial people to catch up with the entrepreneurs." Want 300 days of sun a year?" Google says.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 5, 2018

Is your organization full of Hackathons, Shark Tanks, Incubators and other innovation programs, but none have changed the trajectory of your company/agency? federal science agencies and in the Department of Defense and Intelligence Community. Innovators vs. Entrepreneurs. More detail can be found here.).

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

By definition, the capital investment needs to be relatively low such that the investors and the entrepreneurs all make a healthy return on investment. Chak has been able to get a couple of distributors in Singapore to buy his greeting cards designed by a community of artists, but is struggling to find a steady, repeatable model.

Marketing 52

Marketing Bootstrapping Incubator Angel Investor 52

www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

By definition, the capital investment needs to be relatively low such that the investors and the entrepreneurs all make a healthy return on investment. Chak has been able to get a couple of distributors in Singapore to buy his greeting cards designed by a community of artists, but is struggling to find a steady, repeatable model.

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Marketing Bootstrapping Incubator Angel Investor 52