The Startup Magazine

APRIL 14, 2022

It is what separates successful entrepreneurs from the rest. Startups that are named after their founders sometimes do not succeed. As a startup founder, you should be concerned about whether your product or service will be a success or not. Develop a business mindset. Choose a unique brand name. Do market research. Conclusion.

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View from Seed

MARCH 1, 2016

Generating excitement in others solely rests on you and the power of your story. Well, the un-adapted/un-adaptable industry fights the only way they can (litigating) while the rest of us cheaply and happily zip from place to place, and the tech-Kudzu that is Uber is valued in the tens of billions. Be the Kudzu. then go do X.

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Founder Technical Review Cofounder Non-Compete 120

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. That’s a lean business plan.

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Lean Business Plan Video Software Review 60

Up and Running

AUGUST 30, 2021

Solve the rest later. Entrepreneurs have to get really comfortable with rejection, especially as a first-time founder. This is what most founders do. Go lean with your planning. A startup is about execution and speed, so you need to start lean. Instead, focus on the problem you want to solve.

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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.

Technical Review 152

Technical Review Stealth Lean Social Media 152

Steve Blank

JUNE 11, 2009

Posted on June 11, 2009 by steveblank When my students ask me about whether they should be a founder or cofounder of a startup I ask them to take a walk around the block and ask themselves: Are you comfortable with: Chaos – startups are disorganized Uncertainty – startups never go per plan Are you: Resilient – at times you will fail – badly.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

NYU has adopted the Lean LaunchPad ® class as a standard entrepreneurship course across twelve different schools/colleges within the University. Over 1,000 students a year are learning lean startup concepts. But what NYU did with the rest of their grant dollars was simply brilliant. Spread it Widely. Student Impact.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 28, 2014

Post by Sarah Milstein & Eric Ries, co-hosts for The Lean Startup Conference At this year’s Lean Startup Conference , we seek to answer the difficult questions you face as an entrepreneur. To see these speakers and a slew of other entrepreneurs with incredible lesson to share, register today for The Lean Startup Conference.

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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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Steve Blank

JULY 13, 2021

By 1923, 2/3rds of the courses at Harvard were taught with the case method, and the pattern was set for business education for the rest of the 20th century. Cases and plans are useful for teaching managers of process, not founders. Let’s Teach Lean Via Experiential Learning. experiential. The Syllabus.

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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. According to Fortune , in 2006, female founders were involved in only 2.95 percent of venture capital deals, and received.33

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 18, 2018

Thus I was happily surprised when I found the classic book, “ The Tech Entrepreneur’s Survival Guide ,” by Bernd Schoner, PhD, and cofounder of ThingMagic, which leans heavily on the people side of the equation. A sales fanatic on the founder team helps to contain that risk. The financial suit.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 11, 2014

Thus I was happy to see a new book, “ The Tech Entrepreneur’s Survival Guide ,” by Bernd Schoner, PhD, and cofounder of ThingMagic, which leans heavily on the people side of the equation. A sales fanatic on the founder team helps to contain that risk. The financial suit. You need a trained CFO to fill the financial gaps on your team.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 25, 2011

The Lean Startup movement has made tremendous progress in the past year. If you recall, around this time last year we were still fighting various myths , such as “ lean means cheap ” or that we don’t support having a big, world-changing vision. And, of course, Steve Blank electrified the crowd with “ Accountants don’t run startups. ”

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Up and Running

JULY 6, 2016

We want to see those for sure, and we expect good summaries as part of the business plan discussion of product-market mix, or company background (in either section, whichever seems better to the founders). For business owners, I recommend a lean business plan as a dashboard and GPS. It’s just big enough to steer the business.

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Technical Review Software Review Business Plan Development Team Review 72

Steve Blank

JANUARY 21, 2016

If you’re a technical startup founder, one of the painful lessons is that it’s not enough just to build a great product. You must also understand the value the product provides customers (along with the rest of your business model.). Clay Hebert , founder of Crowdfunding Hacks. Clay Hebert.

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Detroit Baltimore Entrepreneur Cofounder 120

Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 2, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, June 2, 2010 The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business Review) I continue my series for Harvard Business Review with the Lean Startup technique called Five Whys. As start-ups scale, this agility will be lost unless the founders maintain a consistent investment in that discipline.

Technical Review 132

Technical Review San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment 132

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2015

Thus I was happy to see a recent book, “ The Tech Entrepreneur’s Survival Guide ,” by Bernd Schoner, PhD, and cofounder of ThingMagic, which leans heavily on the people side of the equation. A sales fanatic on the founder team helps to contain that risk. The financial suit. Hard work and attention to detail are the key.

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Technical Cofounder Cofounder Advisory Board Stock Options 120

Steve Blank

APRIL 7, 2020

The classes are built on the Lean Startup methodology: Customer Discovery, Agile Engineering and the Business/Mission Model Canvas. Talking to customers seems like a simple idea, but most founders find it’s one of the hardest things they have to do. The rest of the canvas might be validated with pricelists, spreadsheets, etc.

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Customer Business Model Restful Video 418

ConversionXL

MAY 6, 2021

As a marketer, you want to choose a CMS that is not only easy to use but plays nicely with the rest of your team as well. If you’re a lean startup just starting, there’s much less inertia to overcome. While WordPress does offer support, leaning on the community is often your best bet. Why choosing the right CMS is so important.

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Software Review Technical Review Hosting SEO 91

Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 25, 2010

for Harvard Business Review) Over at Harvard Business Review, Ive been building up a series designed to introduce the Lean Startup methodology to a business-focused audience. Read the rest of The Startups Rules of Speed - The Conversation - Harvard Business Review. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Expo SF (May.

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Software Review San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment 141

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 5, 2010

I have personally sold many copies of his book, and continue to recommend it as one of the most important books a startup founder can read. You can easily take from it whatever makes sense for your business, and leave the rest. You can easily take from it whatever makes sense for your business, and leave the rest.

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Customer Development Developer San Francisco Customer 166

View from Seed

OCTOBER 11, 2022

At the seed stage and as companies scale, helping the founders I work with identify and reach their goals, personally and professionally, gives me energy and purpose. As I hit the ground running, I’m cognizant that this is a time of uncertainty and turbulence for founders and investors alike.

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North America San Francisco Cap Table Cofounder 156

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

I’ll talk in a separate post about dealing with B or C players, the rest of this post focuses on your star performers. Admittedly annual pay increases weren’t as much as we would have wanted because these were the lean post dot com days but we at least tried to have Ryan top the range. One example was Ryan Lissack.

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San Francisco South Africa CTO Hire Fractional CTO 322

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 2, 2008

but rest assured they would be. Its to everyones advantage to let the world think the founders thought of everything. I say this as a founder: the contribution of founders is always overestimated. And funding delays are a big distraction for founders, who ought to be working on their company, not worrying about investors.

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San Francisco Software Review Technical Review Continuous Deployment 125

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2008

So if youre new, consider not paying any attention to the rest of this post, and just diving into the archives, if you havent already. Maybe youd like to start with The lean startup , How to listen to customers , or What does a startup CTO actually do? ) Eventually, I came to summarize these themes with the phrase " the lean startup."

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 8, 2008

This theory has become so influential that I have called it one of the three pillars of the lean startup - every bit as important as the changes in technology or the advent of agile development. Instead, we do everything possible to validate the founders belief. We dont just abandon the vision of the company at every turn.

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Customer Development Developer San Francisco Customer 168

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 31, 2010

Expo Intensive rocked, the mainstream media has started writing about the Lean Startup, and - most of all - the movement continues to grow and evolve. I went to the conference thinking that I was well grounded in the basics of the Lean Startup approach and that attendance would hone the edges of that understanding.

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San Francisco Lean Technical Review Software Review 133

Occam's Razor

APRIL 8, 2013

This thought was in my mind as I was reading Lean Analytics a new book by my friend Alistair Croll and his collaborator Benjamin Yoskovitz. In this post, we’ll look at each of the four steps in the Lean Analytics Cycle in more detail. What makes your most loyal customers different from the rest? But it is not routine.

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Metrics Analytics Lean Churn Rate 156

crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 22, 2013

Lean Business: Office Space – A Meditation – [link]. Find The Thing You’re Most Passionate About, Then Do It On Nights And Weekends For The Rest Of Your Life – [link]. Lean Business: Office Space – A Meditation – [link]. Lean Business: Office Space – A Meditation – [link]. – [link].

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 105

The Next Web

MARCH 24, 2013

Investor and 500 Startups founder Dave McClure offered TNW a few of his thoughts. Said McClure,”We worship at the altar of ‘ lean ‘ a little too much when really we should just be running our businesses. Get rid of the rest, because they’re dragging you down. To an extent, all of this is true.

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Startup SCRUM Cofounder Aggregator 130

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

The Lean LaunchPad course online. I teach potential founders a hands-on, experiential class called the Lean LaunchPad at Berkeley, Stanford, Columbia and Caltech. Online Guide to How to Build a Startup: The Lean LaunchPad. So for the rest of us I put together this Visitors Guide to Silicon Valley. Sign up here.

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Open Source Silicon Valley Lean Customer Development 335

Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 7, 2010

Read the rest at The Conversation - Harvard Business Review. Read the rest at The Conversation - Harvard Business Review. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? Expo SF (May.

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San Francisco Management Continuous Deployment Lean 119

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. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. So new conflicts appear. Then the fun part begins.

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Continuous Deployment Software Review San Francisco Lean 167

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 5, 2008

The product manager was clearly struggling to get results from the rest of the team. Great to read posts about introducing lean approaches into more teams. Im currently introducing lean to my new team. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. These are smart people trying hard to all row in the same direction.

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San Francisco Management Software Review Product 158

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

If we don't get a certain amount of signups on that splash page, we don't develop the rest of the site becuase they will not have any customer. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? Principles of Lean Startups, presentation for Mapl.

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Demand San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment 167

Steve Blank

JUNE 4, 2012

As the morning fog burns off the California coast, I am working with Steve Blank, preparing for the Lean LaunchPad Faculty Development Program we are running this August at U.C. So he had adopted Steve’s Lean LaunchPad class and was using The Startup Owner’s Manual as his core text. Serendipity. His name is Alex Lawrence.

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Silicon Valley Lean Utah Customer Development 310