Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

He nails the current key startup parameters, including the following: Crafting a lean business plan as your road map. Investors and partners now look only for a framework of your business essentials, within the context of your opportunity, solution, and financials.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

This has caused a need for Agile professionals within the IT sector who understand the principles and methodology behind this concepts of Scaled Agile, Scrum, Kanban, and Lean. Scrum and Agile, when combined, is a framework and methodology that’s able to completely change how project management is handled in all businesses and industries.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 29, 2013

This post was written by Sarah Milstein, co-host of The Lean Startup Conference. We’re looking for speakers for the 2013 Lean Startup Conference. If you’re a Lean Startup veteran, feel free to skim the beginning, as this is mostly stuff you already know. Last week, we announced that our short application form was live.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 29, 2019

The question is, how do you keep your growing business lean? Many companies today realize the importance of being lean. Unfortunately, many businesses struggle to stay lean – or operate only with what they need. Here’s a look at what this framework entails and how you can make the most of it for your business.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2021

The trick is we use the same Lean LaunchPad / I-Corps curriculum — and the same class structure – experiential, hands-on– driven this time by a mission -model not a business model. Hacking for Defense has its origins in the Lean LaunchPad class I first taught at Stanford in 2011. Goals for the Hacking for Defense Class.

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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. I’m going to start with what’s a lean business plan.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 8, 2011

In January, we introduced a new graduate course at Stanford called the " target="_blank">Lean LaunchPad. While we were going to teach theory and frameworks, these students were going to get a hands-on experience in how to start a new company. The Lean LaunchPad class was scheduled to meet for three hours once a week.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 16, 2013

The techniques invented in what has become the Lean Startup movement are now more than ever applicable to reinventing the modern corporation. Large companies like GE, Intuit, Merck, Panasonic, and Qualcomm are leading the charge to adopt the lean approach to drive corporate innovation. Go read it. Then go do it.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

I was an early adopter in financial operations and software of lean operational and product development techniques that originated at Toyota, and then of agile as it was promulgated in the Manifesto. My team had already successfully adopted lean operational processes in a very large manufacturing-like process, as well as early agile ideas.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

MARCH 2, 2023

Interestingly, this weight loss journey is similar to the entrepreneur’s strategy for building and growing a lean business. So, What Exactly Is the Lean Method? Lean thinking begins with our vision. Fortunately, and perhaps luckily, failure is an acceptable and essential component of the lean methodology.

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Steve Blank

MAY 7, 2019

Lean Methodology consists of three tools designed for entrepreneurs building new ventures: The Business Model Canvas – to write down all the hypotheses about a new business; Customer Development – a process for testing those hypotheses outside the building; Agile Engineering – to rapidly build minimal viable products to test product/market fit.

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Board Effect

OCTOBER 15, 2023

The Benefits of Generative AI for Nonprofits Nonprofit organizations and associations typically run on tight budgets and lean staff numbers. Elements of an AI Governance Framework An AI governance framework is essential to ensure responsible and ethical use of AI technologies by nonprofit organizations.

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SoCal CTO

APRIL 2, 2013

What's Going to Go Wrong A lot of founders don't really understand Lean Startup principles. They look at the following high level definition of Lean: and they interpret that as write up an executive summary with your ideas and hand it to developers to build. This post will provide links to participants as well as to readers.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 26, 2021

Here are a few cost-saving rules all manufacturers need to follow today: Adopt lean manufacturing. Lean Startup Feedback Loop from lean.st. With this general framework in mind, your manufacturing business can stay afloat and hope to thrive in the future.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

Over the last three years our Lean LaunchPad / NSF Innovation Corps classes have been teaching hundreds of entrepreneurial teams a year how to build their startups by getting out of the building and testing their hypotheses behind their business model. Filed under: Customer Development , Lean LaunchPad , Teaching.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 1, 2019

This is the second in a three-part series that aims to help you understand the Traction Gap Framework® – a step-by-step approach that startup teams can use to go from ideation to preparing to scale. Read on to find out what exactly the “gap” in the Traction Gap Framework is and why traversing that gap is so critical to your success.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 12, 2020

And the trick is we use the same Lean LaunchPad / I-Corps curriculum — and kept the same class structure – experiential, hands-on, driven this time by a mission -model not a business model. Hacking for Defense has its origins in the Lean LaunchPad class I first taught at Stanford in 2011. Goals for the Hacking for Defense Class.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 16, 2013

The techniques invented in what has become the Lean Startup movement are now more than ever applicable to reinventing the modern corporation. Large companies like GE, Intuit, Merck, Panasonic, and Qualcomm are leading the charge to adopt the lean approach to drive corporate innovation. Go read it. Then go do it.

Technical Review 219

Technical Review Lean Venture Capital Customer Development 219

Steve Blank

MAY 6, 2015

I am always surprised when critics complain that the Lean Startup’s Build, Measure, Learn approach is nothing more than “throwing incomplete products out of the building to see if they work.”. It’s time to update Build, Measure, Learn to what we now know is the best way to build Lean startups. Here’s how. Build-Measure-Learn.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

This philosophy comes from The Lean Startup methodology , which relies on testing hypotheses to better understand your customers’ pain points and goals. Marketers can use this framework to evaluate the risks associated with different growth strategies. Think about the touchpoints at each stage of the AARRR framework.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 28, 2013

The lean startup – as envisioned and explained by Steve Blank, serial entrepreneur, associate professor at Stanford University and ReadWrite contributor – is no longer just for startups. As Blank writes in HBR , “It’s already becoming clear that lean start-up practices are not just for young tech ventures.”

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Steve Blank

MARCH 3, 2015

It has replaced how to write a business plan with hands-on Lean Startup methods. To create great entrepreneurs, we had to give our students the experience of navigating the chaos and uncertainty of running a lean startup while providing the same kind of rigorous framework the business plan did in its day. Today the U.C.

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Eric Friedman

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

With the right kind of experience and help, advisors can be a welcomed addition to the extended team, be a great group to lean on, and help the business. Since 2016 I have had people lean on me and my blog post for the talk. What is an early stage advisor? How do you have the “ok lets talk about equity” talk?

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Scaffolding and Experiential Learning Tools Are Innovation Framework Neutral. Design Thinking, Agile, CPS/Osborn-Parnes, Lean, TRIZ and other innovation frameworks all have some scaffolding built-in. A framework is a scaffold. Frameworks become a competitive advantage when you use them in more creative ways.

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

MAY 1, 2018

Invest in Frameworks, But First, Establish a Culture Where Innovation Thrives. More structure is needed as fundamentals take hold, and that means an innovation process framework. More structure is needed as fundamentals take hold, and that means an innovation process framework. Innovation Fundamentals for Leaders.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 8, 2023

Another trend born in the omnichannel framework is the customer data platform (CDM). You can find the latest news in the form of newsletters in Lean Luxe , 2 PM , Chips + Dips , Retail Brew , The Hustle , and Vogue Business. In the meantime, Glossy reveals beauty brand trends, and Modern Retail unveils omnichannel trends.

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ConversionXL

JULY 16, 2019

For businesses aligned with the whole “ lean startup ” movement, the sprint offers a formula to quickly build, launch, and test products before committing too much time and effort to something that might not resonate in the market. Here’s where a decision-making framework like DACI comes in handy. Adapting sprints for marketing.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Stay Lean and Low. Institute a process efficiency discipline like Lean or Six Sigma (or Lean Six Sigma ), a standardized management framework like EOS, or both. Engineering simulations can dramatically reduce the time it takes you to develop a minimum viable product — and iterate beyond it.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 25, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, March 25, 2009 The Lean Startup at Agile Vancouver April 21st A surprising number of respondents in the latest Lessons Learned survey hail from one of the flourishing startup hubs in Canada. This workshop brings together leading thinkers from Lean Production and Lean software.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 30, 2013

I earnestly believe that large corporations should emulate Lean Startups (Business model design, Customer Development and Agile Engineering.) If I were starting a corporate innovation program today, I’d use the Lean LaunchPad classes as the starting framework. Developing a program to generate new ideas is the easy part.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 11, 2016

We just finished the 6 th annual Lean LaunchPad class. For the last 6 years I’ve taught the Lean LaunchPad class at Stanford and Berkeley. Therefore, we developed the 8-week Lean LaunchPad class to teach students how to think about all the parts of building a business, not just the product. See all the presentations here.

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View from Seed

MARCH 11, 2020

They tend to have some sort of framework in their mind with a hierarchy of conviction and hierarchy of pain they are willing to put founders through. These are people who would vouch for you, but you only want to lean on for a small handful of high priority investors. Talking to your customers.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 18, 2019

by Scott Brown, Executive Director at UpRamp and author of “ (C)lean Messaging “ Every aspiring entrepreneur lives in pursuit of that lightbulb moment. What is (C)lean Messaging? The (C)lean Messaging framework is the first step. (C)lean The (C)lean Message. The big idea. An unparalleled innovation.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

Guest post by Lisa Regan, writer for T he Lean Startup Conference. We’ve posted the full program for The Lean Startup Conference , and it includes more than three days of events for Gold pass holders and six days of events for VIP pass holders. On the evening of December 8, Ignite Lean Startup kicks off the conference.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

Guest post by Lisa Regan, writer for The Lean Startup Conference. Lean Startup techniques have been taking off in the social-mission sector, helping people solve problems more effectively, and earning the name Lean Impact. We asked Christie to give a sense of how she sees the relationship between Lean Impact and Lean Startup.

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The Equity Kicker

MARCH 26, 2018

Let me use the Jobs To Be Done (JTBD) framework for product development to explain why. Reams have been written about the JTBD framework. Part of the art of using the JBTD framework well is picking the right level of detail to work at. The work I’ve described so far is a desk exercise. An example from Photobox.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 16, 2017

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