Customer Development Lean Small Business Venture Capital 
Up and Running
MAY 18, 2016
The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don’t Work and What to Do About It. There are many assumptions that can get in the way of starting and running a business. Why David Rose recommends it: “It lays out in explicitly stark terms the difference between ‘small business ownership’ and ‘entrepreneurship.’
Steve Blank
JANUARY 20, 2014
When Customer Development and the Lean Startup were just a sketch on the napkin, Dino Vendetti, a VC at Bay Partners, was one of the first venture capitalists I shared my ideas with. Over the years we brainstormed about how Lean entrepreneurship would affect regional development. Founders Pad.
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Steve Blank
JUNE 4, 2012
As the morning fog burns off the California coast, I am working with Steve Blank, preparing for the Lean LaunchPad Faculty Development Program we are running this August at U.C. The reality is that the United States is still a nation of small businesses. of the ~6 million companies in the U.S.
Steve Blank
APRIL 10, 2009
Customer Development ) to help you quickly recognize and reverse any incorrect decisions. Customer Development) to help you quickly recognize and reverse any incorrect decisions.&# Too often, CEOs and small business managers suffer from analysis paralysis. That’s why startups are agile. And nice site.
Up and Running
MAY 23, 2016
Step 1: Start with a lean plan. Instead of sitting down to write a 40-page business plan, start with a one-page pitch. It’s the fastest way to get your idea onto paper, and it’s the very first step in the lean planning process, which is much easier and more iterative than traditional business planning methods.
Steve Blank
JUNE 11, 2013
If you don’t have scale as a goal then you shouldn’t be raising money from angel or venture investors, you should be getting a commercial or government small business loan.). • Search. These types of startups are better suited to raising money from friends, family, commercial and government small business loans, etc.
steveblank.com
JULY 8, 2011
AgileZen – project management visually see and interact with your work Kanbanery – Simple online team or personal kanban board LeanKit Kanban – Great for visualizing work of product development Kanban Pad – “Nice and lean” and free online Kanban tool Banana Scrum – A tool simple as Scrum itself.
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