Steve Blank

JUNE 26, 2015

I’ve been working with large companies and the U.S. government to help them innovate faster– not just kind of fast, but 10x the number of initiatives in 1/5 the time. A 50x speedup kind of fast. Here’s how. —– 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.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 26, 2015

by Edward D. Hess, author of “ Learn or Die: Using Science to Build a Leading-Edge Learning Organization “. Not so long ago, our culture really (really) admired people with big egos. We called them rugged individualists, fearless leaders, MVPs, visionaries, and go-getters. We respected these confident and successful folks for (seemingly) having all the answers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 26, 2015

Few investors these days have the time or patience to read a full business plan, so a better way to catch their eye is with a tightly written and well formatted two-page executive summary. As a model, think high-quality marketing collateral, with text and graphics in columns and sidebars, but focused on the value of your business, rather than selling your product.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 26, 2015

Providing great customer service is one of the most important parts of the business equation. If you want to ensure that your customers keep coming back to you with their business, you need to make sure that they can find help when they need it, that they are left alone when they want to be, and that your sales team is able to anticipate their needs so that they will feel exceedingly well attended to.

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Speaker: Nick Noreña, Innovation Coach and Advisor, Kromatic

Every startup and innovation project exists within an ecosystem that either helps or hurts that project. As innovation managers, we need to keep a pulse of that ecosystem and make sure we're helping those innovation projects we're managing every step of the way. In this webinar, Nick Noreña will walk through an Innovation Ecosystem Model that he and his team at Kromatic have developed to help investors, heads of product, teachers, and executives understand how they can best support innovation in

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 26, 2015

We love dreams. We love childhood memories. We love stop motion animation. Vera Van Wolferen ‘s How to Catch a Bird pulls it all together in a wonderfully creative and evocative way. Now wake up! Once again, it’s time for our weekly Roundup! Take a little trip through this week’s set of links and articles that we shared with you over the past week on our crowdSPRING Twitter account (as well as my own Twitter account ) is keyboard perfection!

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YFS Magazine

JUNE 26, 2015

If you are running a business, chances are you will need the services of a software consultant at some point.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 26, 2015

By Jacqueline Whitmore, author of “ Poised for Success: Mastering the Four Qualities That Distinguish Outstanding Professionals ”. We all know that getting ahead in your career requires many things: industry knowledge and expertise, experience, a proven track record, being liked by your colleagues and customers, having a good reputation and more. But one of the most common things holding back many people from reaching the success they deserve is the fear of failure.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 26, 2015

This weekend you can catch up on Halt and Catch Fire , Mr. Robot , or the talk I gave at Big Omaha in May. I tell stories about my favorite investment (Harmonix), an investment we clearly missed and why (Twitter), and my worst and most heartbreaking investment (Interliant), along with lawsuits and eating babies. I then go on a riff on Startup Communities and Fundraising, where the phrase “Any rich people around here?

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Up and Running

JUNE 26, 2015

Image credit: Yvonne Martinez. Congratulations! You have a great idea. You and this idea, you’ve got plans. It started with a tiny nugget you were bouncing around, and it grew up in a marketing meeting. You brainstormed, you took this little idea and ran it up the flagpole, you sent it through the pipeline, passed it to the higher-ups. It’s growing, and that’s exciting, but it’s almost a little unwieldy now.

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The Equity Kicker

JUNE 26, 2015

This chart shows where audiences are accumulating by number of users and average amount of time spent. Multiply the two together and you have total number of hours spent by property, which is a rough proxy for the size of the advertising opportunity. New advertising platforms are best for startups when they are growing from big to very big. When they become huge traditional brands move in driving prices up and they become less useful.

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The Next Web

JUNE 26, 2015

Writing a post-mortem when your startup reaches the end of the road is a critical way of understanding what went wrong and determining how to best adjust your strategy to prevent the same fate from occurring in your future business. But even for the most experienced founders, it can be difficult to face the ugly truth and admit the shortcomings that ultimately caused your failure.

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YFS Magazine

JUNE 26, 2015

"Youth is wasted on the young," as George Bernard Shaw once said. If you have a business idea, take advantage of it.

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SiliconHills

JUNE 26, 2015

By LAURA LOREK Reporter with Silicon Hills News Dell spent $4 billion on goods and services from small, minority and women owned businesses last year. And the computer giant wants to increase that number and further diversify its supplier network, said Mark Pringle, vice president of procurement for Dell. “Diversity is tremendously important to Dell,” […] The post Dell Supports Women Owned Businesses appeared first on SiliconHills.

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YFS Magazine

JUNE 26, 2015

It is important for investors to understand the characteristics of an LLC to determine the best practice in structuring each investment.

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Up and Running

JUNE 26, 2015

This week, we talk to Cameron about our LivePlan YouTube ad. Who is Cameron? Well, he hates our YouTube ad. We also chat with our eCommerce expert, John Procopio, about what to do when you get negative customer feedback. Listen to Episode 6: Show notes: The Backstory (with John Procopio) – (:37). Watch our LivePlan YouTube ad. We Talk to Cameron (with Cameron Reilly) – (9:26).

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 26, 2015

This week, the Lean Startup took over the blog on Intuit Labs with original stories centered around experimentation as a method for investigating all parts of a business or product idea. The week’s posts included case studies, tips, Q&As, startup stories, and more. We started on Monday with a conversation between me and Intuit’s own Ben Blank. Ben and I talk about spotting next-generation leaders, how there are no tricks or tools for innovators, and giving corporate innovation teams permissi

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Hunter Walker

JUNE 26, 2015

For a founder, the first few million dollars you raise are likely to be the messiest in the history of your company. For some they come in a single round, meant to last you 12, 18, 24 months – a straight trajectory towards the milestones you’ll use to raise a Series A. But for most it’s a lumpy mixture of bootstrapping, friends and family, hackathon prizes, angels, incubators/accelerators and venture capital which combine over a period of months or years.

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