Up and Running

MAY 28, 2015

We recently had Tim Berry, Palo Alto Software founder and business planning expert, present our Bplans audience with his latest advice on lean business planning. Start your lean business plan today: Download our Free Lean Plan Template one-page-pitch-download.pdf. I’m going to start with what’s a lean business plan.

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Lean Business Plan Video Software Review 60

Steve Blank

AUGUST 21, 2013

We’re going to test this hypothesis by teaching a Lean LaunchPad class for Life Sciences and Health Care (therapeutics, diagnostics, devices and digital health) this October at UCSF with a team of veteran venture capitalists. The teams that took the Lean Launchpad class – get ready for this – had a 60% success rate.

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SBIR Technical Review Lean Startup 319

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Aaron Dignan --who has described himself as "obsessed with organizational adaptivity" --is one of the speakers at this year’s Lean Startup Conference in Las Vegas , where he’ll be talking about How to Reinvent Your Organization. I like to say that “best practices” are, by definition, average practices. What are my assumptions?

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

Over the last three years our Lean LaunchPad / NSF Innovation Corps classes have been teaching hundreds of entrepreneurial teams a year how to build their startups by getting out of the building and testing their hypotheses behind their business model. Filed under: Customer Development , Lean LaunchPad , Teaching.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 18, 2013

The Lean LaunchPad entrepreneurship curriculum has caught fire. For the last two decades there was no standard definition. Finally we had a definition of what it was startups were searching for. It’s called the Lean Startup. Then in July 2011, the National Science Foundation read my blog posts on the Lean LaunchPad class.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

The concepts in my Lean LaunchPad curriculum can be taught in a variety of classes–as an introduction to entrepreneurship all the way to a graduate level “ capstone class.”. Our Lean LaunchPad class requires student teams to get out of the building and talk to 10-15 customers a week while they’re building the product.

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Lean Customer Development Business Model Email 283

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 8, 2024

Through his extensive experience as a rebellious marketer and serial entrepreneur, Alan Dibb has spearheaded a revolutionary approach to marketing known as Lean Marketing. Questions I ask Allan Dib : [01:31] Why Lean Marketing instead of MORE Marketing? [04:12] Lean Marketing, more Leads, more Profit, less Marketing.

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SoCal CTO

APRIL 2, 2013

What's Going to Go Wrong A lot of founders don't really understand Lean Startup principles. They look at the following high level definition of Lean: and they interpret that as write up an executive summary with your ideas and hand it to developers to build. This post will provide links to participants as well as to readers.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

A sound requirement analysis and scope definition tend to improve quality planning and thereby reducing the cost and duration of a project. Follow lean product development strategy (MVP strategy). A requirement document defines the system’s purpose, functionality, interface, the scope of the product, and performance criteria.

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Cost Developer Azure Cloud 158

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 3, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, July 3, 2009 Lean Startup fbFund wrap-up Last week I had a real blast meeting with the companies at the fbFund incubator at Palo Alto. The Lean Startup fbFund Edition View more documents from Eric Ries. Yet, I think this definition is too important to leave out. Without further ado.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 18, 2013

The Lean LaunchPad entrepreneurship curriculum has caught fire. For the last two decades there was no standard definition. Finally we had a definition of what it was startups were searching for. It’s called the Lean Startup. Then in July 2011, the National Science Foundation read my blog posts on the Lean LaunchPad class.

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Lean Agile Customer Development Business Model 184

NZ Entrepreneur

JUNE 19, 2023

“Like many others in the New Zealand startup ecosystem, we see a definite role for government in helping accelerate the development of our collective entrepreneurial capital. I was definitely more aware of what I need to focus on as a founder as a result of the course.” Adam Townsend, Bike Matrix.

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New Zealand Technical Cofounder Early Stage Entrepreneur 98

Steve Blank

MAY 6, 2015

I am always surprised when critics complain that the Lean Startup’s Build, Measure, Learn approach is nothing more than “throwing incomplete products out of the building to see if they work.”. It’s time to update Build, Measure, Learn to what we now know is the best way to build Lean startups. Here’s how. Build-Measure-Learn.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 27, 2020

The perfect strategy doesn’t exist, so keep it lean. In my view, a good strategy—a lean business plan —should set a direct and achievable marker for the year(s) ahead, with specific milestones to check progress. Your strategic lean plan should be simple, straight-forward, and be grounded in honesty and reality.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 9, 2023

5- By embracing challenges Photo Credit: Ori Fruhauf Managing a business in the midst of economic instability is definitely challenging, but also a great opportunity. It definitely makes managing the company harder, but it’s also a great motivator. We also run a lean business, with regular budgets and reviews of expenses.

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Entrepreneur North America Employee Retention 122

Steve Blank

MAY 23, 2016

This unorthodox idea has become a movement …called The Lean Startup – and has led to entirely new ways to start companies, commercialize science, and think about innovation. By the way, the engineering definition of serendipity is, that life is too unpredictable to pre-compute. How did this happen?

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Lean Technical Review Vietnam Engineer 223

Steve Blank

APRIL 28, 2012

We’ve taught our Lean LaunchPad entrepreneurship class at Stanford, Berkeley, Columbia and the National Science Foundation in 8 week, 10 week and 12 week versions. We decided to find out what was the Minimum Viable Product for our Lean LaunchPad class. We were going to teach the Lean LaunchPad class in 5-days.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 14, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, May 14, 2009 The Lean Startup Workshop - now an OReilly Master Class My rate of posting has been much lower lately, and this is mostly due to preparations for the upcoming Lean Startup Workshop on May 29. I have a lot of good news to report on this front. You can click here to learn more.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 13, 2019

So naturally, when I started my company in the aviation sector in 2008, I knew being a woman would definitely come into play and cause obstacles. The last 11 years have definitely been some of the most challenging of my life. Don’t just ‘lean in.’ What I never realized was just how much of an obstacle this would be in my career.

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Entrepreneur Lean Leadership Founder 172

Steve Blank

JANUARY 21, 2015

I was in New York last week teaching my annual 5-day version of the Lean LaunchPad class at the Columbia Business School. This last point is definitely not a data-driven survey. Filed under: Family/Career/Culture , Lean LaunchPad , Venture Capital. Family/Career/Culture Lean LaunchPad Venture Capital'

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 30, 2013

By definition, before they had a chance to fully buy into the idea and the team). I earnestly believe that large corporations should emulate Lean Startups (Business model design, Customer Development and Agile Engineering.) We now have the tools to build successful corporate entrepreneurship programs.

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Programming Technical Review Incubator Intellectual Property 270

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

AUGUST 9, 2010

You repeat these mantras at Lean Startup Meetings but you're not doing it.? By definition, if you're a startup founder you're explicitly not your customer. Repeat after me: You are not your customer." — Eric Ries , Lean Startup leader (repeating a conversation with a startup founder). But you're still not listening.

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Software Review Part-Time VPE Houston Cofounder 312

The Equity Kicker

AUGUST 6, 2018

In it he argues that lean thinking has been overdone and that startup CEOs should be more aggressive raising capital and investing in building value in their companies. Running lean means going slower, increasing the chances that another company takes that coveted number one spot. Most of our investments are pre-product market fit.

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Lean Portfolio Revenue Valuation 68

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 9, 2010

And that narrow definition of entrepreneurship doesn’t count all of the managers inside established companies who are effectively engaged in the same process of building an internal startup (see What is a startup? for my more expansive definition). for my more expansive definition). What motivates all these entrepreneurs?

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San Francisco Management Founder Lean 161

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 28, 2014

VCs and Angel investors like to see a startup that is running lean and mean, with no more than three or four of the conventional C-level or VP titles. Diversity is generally only an issue in large organizations, and if your startup is that large, investors will definitely be nervous. Chief Diversity Officer. Chief Information Officer.

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CTO Hire Fractional CTO Angel Investor Public Relations 252

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 30, 2017

Written by Misti Yang, Contributor for Lean Startup Co. He knew next to nothing about the engine but a good bit about entrepreneurial management, and GE Chairman and CEO Jeffrey Immelt and Vice Chair Beth Comstock thought the insights he’d developed in The Lean Startup could ensure that the plan would succeed. 5) this fall.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

These surfacing organizations are flexible, lean , and determined and will continue to shape the industry on a global scale moving forward. They wanted their mHealth app to enable physicians to record their endoscopic examinations with high definition photos and/or video data and digitally share or store this data. dollars in 2022.

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Technical Review Operations Technology Artificial Inteligence 135

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

Guest post by Lisa Regan, writer for The Lean Startup Conference. We were excited by the response at last year’s Lean Startup Conference to Diane Tavenner’s eye-opening talk on her experience implementing Lean Startup methods at Summit Public Schools, the California charter for which she is CEO and co-founder.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Being an outsider, I also wanted to lean heavily on the actual research available on the subject, as well as the voices of women both in the tech space and who have successfully received venture funding. What about “leaning in”? There is an argument that women need to “ lean in ” (thanks, Sheryl Sandburg).

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Venture Capital Lean Cofounder Technical Review 82

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 22, 2013

VCs and Angel investors like to see a startup that is running lean and mean, with no more than three or four of the conventional C-level or VP titles. Diversity is generally only an issue in large organizations, and if your startup is that large, investors will definitely be nervous. Chief Diversity Officer. Chief Information Officer.

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CTO Hire Fractional CTO Startup Angel Investor 244

www.subelsky.com

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

Mike Subelskys Blog Wednesday, November 11, 2009 Lean startup tools for Rails apps A few months ago I was invited to dinner with the Geeks on a Plane crew when they stopped in Washington, and had the opportunity to meet one of my heroes, Eric Ries , author of the Startup Lessons Learned blog. Email This BlogThis!

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Lean Baltimore Ruby Maryland 41

Up and Running

MAY 18, 2016

The Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses. ” Lean Business Planning: Get What You Want From Your Business. Why David Rose recommends it: “This guide takes the lean theories and shows you how to put them into practice.”. B y Eric Ries. B y Tim Berry.

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Startup Venture Capital Angel Investor Lean 80

The Equity Kicker

MAY 8, 2013

There is a good post up today on Segment.io describing how they used Kickstarter as a lean startup tool to validate demand. By definition, a successful Kickstarter campaign has a ton of people who’ve already put their money where their mouth is. First the background: Kickstarter is the perfect way to validate an idea.

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Demand Campaign Web Development Lean 156

Up and Running

MARCH 26, 2015

And also, what real business owners want—lean business plans for better management. All businesses start with a lean plan. So, every business is better off with a lean plan. Sometimes it also includes a definition of success. Make this the lean plan and add a regular process of review and revision to keep it fresh.

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Business Plan Lean Forecast Balance Sheet 60

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

We lack a consistent and clear definition of the job. Platform selection and technical design - if your business strategy is to create a low-burn, highly iterative lean startup, youd better be using foundational tools that make that easy rather than hard. Ive been looking for a good definition (if that makes any sense) for a CTO.

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CTO Fractional CTO CTO Hire Technical Review 168

Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 15, 2009

Of all the tactics I have advocated as part of the lean startup , none has provoked as many extreme reactions as continuous deployment , a process that allows companies to release software in minutes instead of days, weeks, or months. First, continuous deployment separates out two different definitions of the terms “release.&#

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Continuous Deployment Software Review San Francisco Lean 167

Hearpreneur

JULY 3, 2020

Some entrepreneurs will say the future is definitely bright but to others, some of these changes are meant to work against their expansion and business operations. Complex global supply chains built on lean manufacturing principles were especially vulnerable. Thanks to Eckhard Ortwein, Lean Case ! #18-

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Technical Review Entrepreneur Software Review Artificial Inteligence 143