Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

One is explaining the world as it used to work: the importance of gatekeepers, the scarcity implied by limited distribution, and the resulting quality bar that the industry is so proud of. Mostly it is the time and expense required to create the means of distribution for that industry. It’s just taking some longer than others.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

I was in New York last week with my class at Columbia University and several events made me realize that the Customer Development model needs to better describe its fit with web-based businesses. Dancing Around the Question Union Square Ventures was kind enough to sponsor a meetup the night before my class.

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

Step 1: Start with a lean plan. 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. Introducing Lean Planning: How to Plan Less and Grow Faster. How to Write a Traditional Business Plan.

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Steve Blank

JULY 2, 2009

To an entrepreneur, being asked to join a venture firm with an Entrepreneur-in-Residence title means you have been tapped on the shoulder by the VC gods. The CDROM content business in the early 1990’s was one of the many of the long line of venture capital fads. We understood none of this. More detail in future posts.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2011

He came up to Bill after the event and said, “clever idea, we should do that with you.&# GoTo.com went on to ink huge distribution deals with Microsoft, AOL & Yahoo! When he tells his stories from the 1990′s your realize that he was probably the original “lean startup.&# Think YouTube vs. the rest.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 24, 2012

It’s rich contact management, event planning, notification services, and task management, but at the family level. It’s quite simple, which is when you had systems where you had limitations on distribution or transportation of products, it enabled you to operate with a certain cost structure. What would they say it is?

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 6, 2011

The Lean Startup Book is done. If you've been waiting for a comprehensive account of the Lean Startup and how it can help you achieve dramatically better business results, this is it. The Lean Startup is a new approach being adopted across the globe, changing the way companies are built and new products are launched.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 22, 2011

In any event, they had such scale advantages in providing this Internet infrastructure that to this day nobody in the industry has come close to matching them. This has particularly hurt the print media businesses that can no longer charge enough to pay for editorial, printing & distribution. Teams that have a “lean” mentality.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 3, 2013

I hope to be asked back for next year’s event. Obviously that barrier has been brought down with low-cost ability to capture, stream and distribute content over the Internet. Venture Capital. VC can’t don’t invest in these kinds of companies because they can’t get out (no liquidity event).

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Steve Blank

MAY 7, 2009

I finally understood how valuable these contests can be for students in cities or countries without a venture capital or entrepreneurial infrastructure. And even if you don’t win, participation in the event itself can open up your network and lead to possible future possibilities. to compete.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Venture Capital Cafe > Startup Resources (Updated Mar 2013). Lean Methodology Sources. Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. Part 3- Lean Cust. Event platforms. Steve Blank’s Lean Startup Resources. Lean Startup Circle â?? real-time event tracking. About VC Cafe. SW Courses.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

Lean Startups/Back to Basics (2000-2010): No IPO’s, limited VC cash, lack of confidence and funding fuels “lean startup” era with limited M&A and even less IPO activity. The reward for doing so was a liquidity event via an Initial Public Offering. 2001 – 2010: Back to Basics: The Lean Startup.

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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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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Dave Graham Business Venture Capital Private Equity GlobalLogic Inc. Venture Capital Firms. But Ive definitely had to lean on Dave. Of course, Arizona Bay is a consulting company, not a venture capital firm, and doing the work of both simultaneously can be time consuming. Email address: Home.

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Steve Blank

JULY 16, 2009

Go spend some time outside the building talking to potential distribution partners. Reply Cognitive Biases, Positive Black Swan Events and Startups | Market By Numbers | San Diego | Marketing Help , on January 3, 2010 at 9:13 am Said: [.] Don’t bother him; he knows what he’s doing.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 21, 2014

Given the number of funding resources available today, you shouldn’t have too much of a problem getting that initial start-up cash, especially if you focus on a lean business model or MVP route to market. Angel investment/venture capital funds. Order and distribute leaflets. You can do it even if you start from home.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

Do you organize events? Joe Reilly organized 50 events a year while serving as President of the Family Office Association. The food movement is one of the reasons for the rapid growth of Plated , a ff Venture Capital portfolio company which makes it easy and fast to prepare home-cooked meals. Sitting kills.

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www.women2.org

MARCH 8, 2012

WHATS HOT: EVENTS NEWS LEARN CAREER VIDEOS ESPAÑOL. I attended engineering-focused Meetups and networking events. I received an invitation to attend the event. At the FounderDating event, emphasis was put on pitching yourself and NOT the idea. The next Bay Area event is on August 23rd. female founders.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

The negativity either impacted investment funding (venture capital fell off a cliff in 2009) or the customers they were targeted as was the case for Untitled Partners who were building a platform for fractional art ownership. Posted in Analysis , Venture Capital. Don't Believe Venture Capital Firm Websites.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 27, 2009

This series of posts is a brief explanation of how we’ve evolved from Product Development to Customer Development to the Lean Startup. After that there’s a discussion of how the product will reach the customer and the potential distribution channel. The distribution discussion also leads to some assumptions about pricing.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 15, 2020

Ryan Sarver was a partner at venture capital firm Redpoint. And yeah, so I think I had the position of being able to see some of this stuff firsthand and just get a sense of this is going to be really big and really different than previous disaster events that have happened in my nursing career. It's pretty horrifying.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Navigating this crisis is not about cutting back: it’s about taking advantage of the opportunities while not leaning too far over your ski tips to avoid a catastrophic fall. In addition, entirely new software categories are being created in a record time, like virtual events, a market created by Hopin.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

The timing is perfect, there is more than a little overlap with Vivek Wadhwa’s guest post on venture capital earlier today. I too am looking for someone to work with that knows the manufacturing and distribution end of a solid product. Twitter is an excellent distribution channel for us. (B) Johnny Good post.

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