Steve Blank

JUNE 26, 2015

—– Lean Innovation Management. In the last five years “ Lean Startup ” methodologies have enabled entrepreneurs to efficiently build a startup by searching for product/market fit rather than blindly trying to execute. The result will be: a new, Lean version of the Three Horizons of Innovation. Here’s how.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 1, 2023

As an early-stage company that just closed our seed round at $8.1 So what does an early-stage company do to avoid the doom and gloom plaguing the world of startups? Be honest with yourself VCs are now going to be looking closer at margins, cost structures and true sales, and product market fit. That includes us.

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Early Stage Los Angeles Silicon Valley Cofounder 111

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 30, 2019

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. Consider licensing your product or intellectual property, and “white labeling.”

Intellectual Property 219

Intellectual Property Technical Review Startup Incubator 219

NZ Entrepreneur

JUNE 19, 2023

Douché, herself an experienced business founder and startup mentor before joining Callaghan Innovation, shed light on the educational challenges faced by early stage entrepreneurs.

New Zealand 98

New Zealand Technical Cofounder Early Stage Entrepreneur 98

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 good news is that he is all about helping early-stage startups. Early-stage startup. Every startup is early-stage to someone.

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The Startup Magazine

APRIL 14, 2022

While certain aspects of setting up a startup can be exhilarating, especially in the early stages of the business, there are also plenty of bumps along the road, big and small. You could have the best product on the market, but if no one knows about it, then no one will buy it. Image Source. Do market research. Conclusion.

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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. Early-stage startup.

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Early Stage Seed Stage Angel Investor Silicon Valley 231

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 14, 2014

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. Consider licensing your product or intellectual property, and “white labeling.”

Entrepreneur 283

Entrepreneur Intellectual Property Technical Review Incubator 283

Steve Blank

MARCH 8, 2011

In January, we introduced a new graduate course at Stanford called the " target="_blank">Lean LaunchPad. Startups, are not about executing a plan where the product, customers, channel are known. The Lean LaunchPad class was scheduled to meet for three hours once a week. OK, somehow we got them interested. The First Class.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 27, 2011

There are very few people in Silicon Valley who have such a precise grasp on what defines success of early-stage startup companies than Eric Ries. functional workgroups vs. product workgroups). Timecodes: 00:00 Welcome, our guest is Eric Ries, founder of the Lean Startup Movement. 43:20 The inception of Lean Startup.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 8, 2018

Too many meetings are run poorly, have no real objective, and waste employees’ time—which kills productivity. It only takes an hour each month, keeps the management team up to speed on everything that’s going on in the company, and helps us plan and manage in a lean and effective way. Did all product lines perform well?

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Software Review Business Plan Product Forecast 65

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2018

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. Consider licensing your product or intellectual property, and “white labeling.”

Intellectual Property 134

Intellectual Property Technical Review Startup Incubator 134

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. Consider licensing your product or intellectual property, and “white labeling.”

Intellectual Property 309

Intellectual Property Technical Review Venture Capital Startup 309

SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 6, 2011

" Today I had two conversations with early stage startups (see Free CTO Consulting ). " One was an enterprise software product. Would it take more work to sell the enterprise product than they could make on it? The other was a consumer play with possible viral growth. Neither felt like a slam dunk.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2011

I’m a very big proponent of the “lean startup movement&# as espoused by Steve Blank & Eric Ries. In the initial phases of any new market you’re developing a product (hopefully with a minimal set of features), getting feedback from customers, refining your product based on user feedback and then re-launching your product.

Development Team Review 374

Development Team Review Technical Review Lean Bulgaria 374

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 31, 2019

Start Lean. As tempting as it can be to do everything at once, be patient and start lean. . Building a lean business with lean products ensures you don’t pigeon-hole yourself into a situation where you’re unable to back your way out. Most startups fail. This is a fact. Putting it All Together.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

2023 will be one of the best VC seed vintages, but most institutional LP's are not leaning in. Supporting innovators in bringing cutting edge products, powered by technology, to solve society’s biggest needs. Kudos to all the emerging managers and early stage founders, who are out there and continue to grind against the odds.

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Venture Capital Technical Review LP Institutional Investors 215

View from Seed

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Hopefully, by bringing on strong partners early, you will get great advice and support to minimize your overall dilution down the road. They find weak pre-seed investors or angels who are almost predatory in their early stage pricing and add no value. Experienced founders: B2B.

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Dilution B2B Burn Rate Early Stage 149

ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 15, 2022

For example, Lean Startup offers many benefits to emerging organizations, especially considering its focus on crafting a minimum viable product (MVP). If necessary, it also helps determine the validity of a potential target market before too much money gets spent on promoting a substandard product.

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Incubator Startup Software Developers Software Development 188

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 good news is that he is all about helping early-stage startups. Early-stage startup. Every startup is early-stage to someone.

Early Stage 177

Early Stage Finance Seed Stage Entrepreneur 177

ReadWriteStart

JUNE 1, 2020

You must have a prototype or a minimum viable product (MVP). To fund the sudden spike in production, funds will be required for additional inventory and wages. It is going to cost a lot of money just to get the initial batch of products to test the market and would definitely require external funding. Inception stage.

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Startup Entrepreneur Elevator Pitch Seed Stage 150

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Two conditions that do matter to your startup’s out-year viability are the cost and length of its product development cycle. These five strategies are proven to work for early-stage companies in a variety of industries — including, perhaps, yours. Focus on Your Minimum Viable Product. Stay Lean and Low.

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SVPG

OCTOBER 13, 2011

A while ago I posted an article on people that I think have something really valuable to say to product leaders. I also promised that I’d share a glossary to map the nomenclature and concepts he uses with the terminology I use in my writing and my work with product teams.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 3, 2015

It has replaced how to write a business plan with hands-on Lean Startup methods. Over my career as a serial entrepreneur I observed that since the late 1990s, no early-stage Silicon Valley investor had used business plans to screen investments. That has changed in the last few years. Today the U.C. Seeing Is Believing.

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Business Plan Silicon Valley Saudi Arabia Lean 120

View from Seed

MARCH 11, 2020

Seed stage companies will mostly face questions around the team and market. More mature companies will have to answer more detailed questions around their tech, product, and business. Reach out to founders or execs that they are close to that might have a POV on your product or business. Talking to your customers.

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Technical Review Due Diligence Term Sheet Seed Stage 279

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 1, 2019

Go-to-Product. In the go-to-product phase, you can get help from a plethora of incubators, accelerators and angel investors. In the go-to-product phase, you can get help from a plethora of incubators, accelerators and angel investors. As you develop your product, you must concurrently invest in market-engineering tasks.

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Cleveland Marketing Framework Early Stage 127

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 8, 2015

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. Consider licensing your product or intellectual property, and “white labeling.”

Entrepreneur 120

Entrepreneur Intellectual Property Technical Review Incubator 120

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 30, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, July 30, 2009 Techstars brings The Lean Startup to Boulder Im very excited to announce a pair of events that will kick off a very busy fall speaking tour. The event will include a talk from Eric on The Lean Startup over dinner, followed by moderated table discussion and then final Q&A with Eric.

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Lean San Francisco Continuous Deployment DC 68

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

We’re teaching a Lean LaunchPad class for Life Sciences and Health Care (therapeutics, diagnostics, devices and digital health) at UCSF with a team of veteran venture capitalists. This weeks topic was distribution channels ; how your product gets from your company to your potential customer segments. million/year. Lessons Learned.

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Distribution Channel Lean Intellectual Property 224

Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 9, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, June 9, 2009 The Lean Startup Tokyo edition I had a blast speaking at Startonomics Tokyo , which was organized to foster ties between the startup cultures in Japan and Silicon Valley. benjaminjoffe : early adopters of buggy product are visionary customers, sometimes smarter than founders!

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Mucker Lab

MAY 28, 2020

Like a teenager with a million-dollar allowance and an identity crisis, a startup with too much capital and no product-market fit will become capable of making larger mistakes. These lost startups land higher valuations, have larger teams, outsource more product development and spend more money on customer acquisition than their peers.

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Startup Cofounder Burn Rate Technical Review 78

Up and Running

APRIL 1, 2021

But, if you’re truly determined, believe in your product and service, and you’ve taken the time to understand your target audience , you might be ready to take the plunge and dive into working full-time on your very own independent venture. To understand if you’re ready to take the next step, you’ll have to navigate periods of uncertainty.

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.Net Technical Review Early Stage Finance 123

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

We back very early stage companies and work alongside executive teams as their build their teams, launch their products, announce their companies and raise their first downstream capital rounds. The biggest change for us in early-stage investing is that we now need to commit earlier.

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Pre-Money Valuation Valuation Venture Capital Early Stage 471

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Greycroft is an early-stage VC. Another topic we debated early in the program was “lean startup” vs. “ fat startup ” where we both took the obvious hedge and said “it depends.” If I were a number 3-5 players I’d be looking to exit early while there’s still a lot of enthusiasm for this hot market.

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Partner New York City Cofounder Syndicate 240

Steve Blank

MARCH 7, 2012

Today, the first half of the Stanford Engineering Lean LaunchPad Class gave their final presentations. It’s hard to believe it’s only been a year since we taught the first 10 teams in the Stanford Lean LaunchPad class. We’ll teach over 175 NSF Innovation Corps teams in the Lean LaunchPad course in 2012. Here are the first five.

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Lean Business Model Agile United States 256

Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 16, 2018

Ann Mei Chang is the Executive Director of Lean Impact, the social good division of the Lean Startup Company. Lean Impact: How to Innovate for Radically Greater Social Good is going to be an amazing resource for so many people from innovators to funders and everyone in between. It was incredibly energizing!

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 1, 2010

And while I’m at it, a great post by Steve Blank No Accounting For Startups looking at early stage score keeping. StartupList — a new way to reach angels - Venture Hacks , February 3, 2010 AngelList is a curated list of angel investors, representing $80M going into early-stage startups this year.

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