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. While some venture firms have been around for awhile, perhaps the newer partners have a different model of what a successful founder looks like than their west coast peers. Correlation does not imply causation.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 5, 2017

The best founders operate with a key set of internal principles that allow them to break through all but the toughest business obstacles. He cites several studies, in addition to his own experience, that highlight the following key people drivers to business success: Founders need to be driven by impact rather than money.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

The idea of exploitation versus exploration was central in my own work in building the lean methodology for start-ups. So we built our own tools to enable founders to rapidly translate their vision into hypotheses and then into validated facts. Today, lean is the de facto method for building new start-ups.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2017

Guest Post by Misti Yang, Writer for Lean Startup Co. Editor’s Note: We wrapped up the 2017 Lean Startup Week in San Francisco just a few weeks ago, and we’re excited to share with you some of the best lessons learned in entrepreneurship and corporate innovation. Because these Lean Startup people, they do crazy stuff,” Alex joked. “So

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 9, 2012

TLDR: Brant Cooper and Patrick Vlaskovits , authors of The Entrepreneur's Guide to Customer Development are back with a new book called The Lean Entrepreneur. Since then, Brant and Patrick have been tireless advocates for the whole Lean Startup movement. Illustrations by FAKEGRIMLOCK. You can pre-order it starting today.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

Brands, who brings decades of experience implementing innovation as the founder of InnovationCoach®. Startup leadership and survival is all about execution. It forces one to step from existing assumptions and tools, and lean instead on creativity and thinking outside the box. Focus on customer needs rather than profits.

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Up and Running

JULY 19, 2017

Their study wasn’t specifically about entrepreneurship, but it stands to reason that women, especially millennial women, had some good reasons to lean toward forging their own path—essentially sidestepping inequalities by building their own companies. trillion in revenues.” Here are some suggestions. Be more human.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 13, 2019

Don’t just ‘lean in.’ Women need to take a posture of leadership and readiness, taking ownership of their own development and job advancement. Rene Banglesdorf is author of “ Stand Up: How to Flourish When the Odds Are Stacked Against You “ She is the founder and CEO of Charlie Bravo Aviation. You must Stand Up!

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 3, 2012

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Lean Marketing: Delivering Customer Service via Social Media - [link]. Lean Marketing: Delivering Customer Service via Social Media - [link].

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 27, 2015

—– In a recent workshop with a large company focused on the Innovation@50x process, I mentioned that founders and intraprenuers operate more like artists than accountants – on day one they see something no one else does. I wondered what lessons Pixar, an animation studio, could have for founders. Like a startup founder.)

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 26, 2021

You’ll hear from Staples on the five positive emotions that are the most effective in content to get people to lean forward and share: happiness, awe, curiosity, empathy, and surprise. Michael Margolis is the CEO and founder of Storied. Covey is the former CEO of the Covey Leadership Center, where he helped his father, Stephen R.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 16, 2015

At times I wanted the engineering team to produce features to support our sales efforts to I occasionally leaned on them a bit. But as your company grows and you bring in professional sales leadership you can no longer do this. But overriding sales leadership is as destructive as overriding product management. I did this.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 6, 2013

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! How to Turn Your Startup Into a Lean, Mean Marketing Machine – [link]. Lean Business: The Very Model of a Modern Spreadsheet – [link].

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 27, 2020

Brands, who brings decades of experience implementing innovation as the founder of InnovationCoach®. Startup leadership and survival is all about execution. It forces one to step from existing assumptions and tools, and lean instead on creativity and thinking outside the box. Focus on customer needs rather than profits.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 31, 2009

Finally, I’ll write about how Eric Ries and the Lean Startup concept provided the equivalent model for product development activities inside the building and neatly integrates customer and agile development. The responsibility for validating the founders original hypotheses is delegated to employees – the sales and marketing team.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 19, 2011

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Lean Marketing 101: Setting Goals – [link]. Traveling lean: tips for small businesses and entrepreneurs – [link]. Lean Marketing 101: Setting Goals – [link].

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 27, 2022

Hawkes, as the Founder of Growth River consulting, speaks from his experience helping to create high performance organizations around the world. Priorities must include both those for today and tomorrow, and the changes you are targeting to maintain business leadership from tomorrow through the future.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 7, 2013

In 2010 the co-Founders of Burbn , a check-in app for mobile phones built on HTML5, raised $500,00o in seed funding for a service that was designed for quick mobile sharing between users. The co-Founders had labored for over a year on their app but it was not gaining traction and they were unhappy with its functionality and performance.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 30, 2014

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! How much do Y Combinator founders earn? Agile UX vs Lean UX, which should you choose? Agile UX vs Lean UX, which should you choose? 80,000 Hours – crowdspring.co/1k0NMTU.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Inside the Mind of a Technical Founder | OpenView Blog by Larry Kim – crowdspring.co/1u7Fz1b. 5 Signs You’ve Got the Wrong Co-Founder – crowdspring.co/1u17ovZ.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2008

Maybe youd like to start with The lean startup , How to listen to customers , or What does a startup CTO actually do? ) In 2007, BusinessWeek named Ries one of the Best Young Entrepreneurs of Tech and in 2009 he was honored with a TechFellow award in the category of Engineering Leadership. Looking forward for your future posts.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

Cohen in his book, “ Just Ask Leadership: Why Great Managers Always Ask the Right Questions ,” as leaders advance, they tend to oblige by asking fewer questions and providing more answers. Cohen provides specific insights to seek in particular situations, while also explaining how to create a culture of question-based leadership.

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OnlyOnce

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Last week , I blogged a podcast riff I did about the biggest mistakes early stage founders make and what to do about them. Here’s a summary of part 2 of what I said about later stage founders. Misread it high, and founders end up dumping money into sales and marketing too soon. Throwing people at problems.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

Lean into your strengths, and don’t try to appeal to everyone. At a startup, this can be as simple as defining why the founder started the company in the first place. For established companies, a rebranding effort could involve discovering elements like the values your customers live by and what your leadership team believes in.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

Greater discipline during boom times offered more flexibility during lean years. And getting it right during the lean years, Bain reports , has a massive impact on companies’ growth rate after things improve: ( Image source ). As the recession wrapped up, they had to remind consumers of lean times. recession in 2009.”.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

So what does CTO mean, besides just "technical founder who really cant manage anyone?" 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. I always assumed I wouldnt manage anybody.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 20, 2013

Savvy founders don’t just focus on iterating their own products – they look to other industries and niches for inspiration and opportunity as well. To find out which industries tech founders should look to next, I asked a panel of 13 founders the following: What is one industry (or niche) tech founders should be exploring now, and why?

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2014

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! David vs. Goliath: Lean Startup Advantages | OpenView Blog – crowdspring.co/1x2JFtG. Why startups fail, according to their founders – crowdspring.co/1roF9DZ.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 5, 2014

Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos calls it the “Two-Pizza Rule” — a team should be no larger than can be fed by two pizzas. Lean and hungry. Consider the approach taken by Mike Sinyard, founder of Specialized Bicycles. Blow up your bureaucracy and replace it with teams of 8 to 12 people. This is not as radical as it sounds.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

They might be ideas they hatch internally (via a Foundry) or a founder who just left SpaceX and raises money to search for an idea. two founders in a garage?—?(HP The most connected and high-potential founders start with wads of cash. The legends of Silicon Valley?—?two HP Style) are dead.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

In new, hungry, often lean organizations, leaders are under tremendous pressure to deliver. This is leadership magnified — and it takes up a lot of mental bandwidth and energy. Natasha Wallace is founder and chief coach of Conscious Works , a coaching and leadership development company specializing in wellbeing.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 8, 2013

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! More founders reject VC money | Crain’s New York Business – [link]. 5 Things Founders Shouldn’t Skimp On – [link]. People First – [link].

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Jason is a Co-founder of Thriveal, a firm that helps entrepreneurial CPA firms connect, learn and grow. 15:59] What’s the first strategic sort of leadership hire that you think an agency needs? [17:07] He's a co-founder of Thriveal firm that helps entrepreneurial CPA firms connect, learn and grow. We just see tons of.

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

Founder Dialogues : Eric Paley plays talk show host on this recurring fireside chat style event that has featured Boston’s BEST founders. Mass TLC Unconference: Large annual conference put on by the MA Technology Leadership Council. Boston Hardware Startup Meetup – Meetup organized by the founders of BOLT. MIT Start Lab.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! The Founders Lie About Comfort Zones – [link]. Investors Need to Lose Their Egos and Founders Need to Gain Some Confidence – [link]. Dave McClure – [link].

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Steve Blank

MAY 29, 2019

Lean LaunchPad class developed for Stanford. And the Lean LaunchPad class I developed at Stanford was the first such class. I believe the analogy is identical for entrepreneurship.The capstone entrepreneurship classes like NSF I-Corps or a Lean LaunchPad class, are for those who have already decided they want to be entrepreneurs.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

Finally, I’ll write about how Eric Ries and the Lean Startup concept provided the equivalent model for product development activities inside the building and neatly integrates customer and agile development. Moreover, since the first CEO was likely to have been one of the founders, the trauma of CEO removal begins. innovation.

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