Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 14, 2014

My first advice for new entrepreneurs is to pick a domain that doesn’t have the sky-high up-front development costs, like online web sites and smart phone apps. This source is a major focus these days, due to government initiatives to incent research and development on alternative energy and other technologies.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 1, 2017

My first advice for new entrepreneurs is to pick a domain that doesn’t have the sky-high up-front development costs, like online web sites and smart phone apps. This source is a major focus these days, due to government initiatives to incent research and development on alternative energy and other technologies.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 3, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, July 3, 2009 Lean Startup fbFund wrap-up Last week I had a real blast meeting with the companies at the fbFund incubator at Palo Alto. The Lean Startup fbFund Edition View more documents from Eric Ries. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Without further ado.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

My first advice for new entrepreneurs is to pick a domain that doesn’t have the sky-high up-front development costs, like online web sites and smart phone apps. This source is a major focus these days, due to government initiatives to incent research and development on alternative energy and other technologies.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2018

My first advice for new entrepreneurs is to pick a domain, such as online web sites and smart phone apps, that doesn’t have the sky-high up-front development costs. This source is a major focus these days, due to government initiatives to incent research and development on alternative energy and other technologies.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

Last May, I shared the news that long-time Lean Startup advocates Brant Cooper and Patrick Vlaskovits were working on a new book called The Lean Entrepreneur featuring illustrations by FAKEGRIMLOCK. LitMotors approach to using Lean Startup to create a new vehicle category. That new book is about to hit bookstores everywhere.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 8, 2015

My first advice for new entrepreneurs is to pick a domain, such as online web sites and smart phone apps, that doesn’t have the sky-high up-front development costs. This source is a major focus these days, due to government initiatives to incent research and development on alternative energy and other technologies.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 19, 2019

We’ve spent a lot of time this past year running Lean Startup tests on our annual flagship conference to really nail down what you’re most interested in. Our goal—again, based on feedback—is to continue broadening the reach of Lean Startup and embracing the numerous ways people are using it.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

.” * I first wrote about the changes to the Venture Capital ecosystem 10 years ago and this still serves as a good primer of how we arrived at 2011, a decade on from the Web 1.0 dot-com bonanza. A seed round these days is $3–5 million or more! Seed has become an option factory for many.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 5, 2010

Consumer Internet investing seems to have split off from traditional Venture Capital, and is creating a new category of VC’s: Lean VC’s. The Rise of the “Lean VC’s” – Consumer Internet Gets Funded. I call them “ Lean VC’ s” to emphasize why they’re different. (In Lean VC’s are Different. Here’s why.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 8, 2016

VISA run rules change frequently so keep an eye on the latest government updates. Lean on locals. Martin Hunter took 12-months off work to travel the world with his wife Jinky in a journey which stretched into 5 years, founding a successful Philippines-based web design company from scratch. They founded Free Event Finder.

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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! How to Spot & Avoid Bad Web Hosting Companies | InstantShift – [link] crowdspring.co/YqAyHQ. Busting the Lean-Startup Myth – crowdspring.co/1ozOXHA. 1uDRaXg.

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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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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 26, 2009

What we call “community management&# is actually governance. It is our obligation to govern well, but – as history has repeatedly shown – this is incredibly hard. What we call “community management&# is actually governance. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Expo SF (May.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 26, 2013

It’s a model for a government program that’s gotten the balance between public/private partnerships just right. While a few of the I-Corps teams are in web/mobile/cloud, most are working on advanced technology projects that don’t make TechCrunch. government has built an accelerator for scientists and engineers.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 13, 2009

Customer Development/Lean Startups In hindsight startups and the venture capital community left out the most important first step any startup ought to be doing – hypothesis testing in front of customers- from day one. I have an idea for how to connect user social web conversations to 2-way search and contextual advertising.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 8, 2009

I got a powerful taste of datablindness recently, as I’ve started to work with various large companies as partners in setting up events, speeches, and other products to sell around the Lean Startup concept. For a lean startup , this lack of discipline is anathema. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 26, 2016

Join a select cross-disciplinary class that will put you hands-on with the masters of lean innovation to help bring rapid-fire innovative solutions to address threats to our national security. They are experts in leveraging Web 2.0 Targeting, assessments, technology, recipes, and tactics all flow at the speed of a Lean Startup.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

With Lean Impact , Ann Mei Chang takes us on her journey of trying to bring innovation and social good together. While Eric went on co-found another company and write The Lean Startup , I went on to Google. Thus, Lean Impac t was born. But, not surprisingly for a revolutionary product, we got as much wrong as we got right.

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Steve Blank

JULY 28, 2011

government agency that supports research in all the non-medical fields of science and engineering - is changing the startup landscape for scientists and engineers. And Stanford’s Lean LaunchPad class could do just that. See the NSF web page here. Filed under: Lean LaunchPad , Teaching , Venture Capital.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 29, 2013

Todd Branchflower was one of my Lean LaunchPad students entrepreneurial enough to convince the Air Force send him to Stanford to get his graduate engineering degree. First, I got to meet the faculty in both electrical/computer engineering and management and share what I’ve learned about Lean and the Lean LaunchPad class.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Singapore is by far the most developed behind those big three markets with government schemes attracting over a dozen early stage firms to set up shop here (e.g. the large government-linked corporations setting up their own venture arms (e.g. Golden Gate Ventures , Jungle Ventures , etc.),

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Steve Blank

APRIL 29, 2013

Todd Branchflower was one of my Lean LaunchPad students entrepreneurial enough to convince the Air Force send him to Stanford to get his graduate engineering degree. First, I got to meet the faculty in both electrical/computer engineering and management and share what I’ve learned about Lean and the Lean LaunchPad class.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

We met a number of policy makers from the White House and State Department, and had a solid Startup2Startup all about government policy and entrepreneurship. In a previous post , I asked readers for suggested topics that the US government needs to know about startups and entrepreneurs, and got some really interesting responses.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 12, 2019

One of the things that Cynthia points out is that you have to have people you can lean on as you build a life and a company. Lean on your team and let them be responsible. I have known Cynthia Johnson for about ten years and wanted you ( the reader) to be able to follow her journey of excellence. Speaking events.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 29, 2011

I am holding in my hand one of the very first print editions of The Lean Startup. Over the weekend, The Lean Startup hit #1 on Barnes & Noble overall (it's still there as I'm writing this, wow). I imagine Lean Startup principles applied to government programs, to healthcare, and to solving the world's great problems.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 29, 2016

government is discovering that Lean innovation can help them serve the country better and faster. The Small Business Administration and the digital services agency 18F are trying to help entrepreneurs build successful companies and the 21st century digital government. And some of it could be in development.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 21, 2010

It also causes them to miss the numerous other kinds of startups that appear in less-glamorous settings: inside enterprises, non-profits, and even governments. This is equally true of a packaged good in a grocery store, an ecommerce website, a non-profit social service or a variety of government programs. Wrong again. Wrong again.

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Start Up Blog

AUGUST 23, 2013

If you’d just arrived from mars you would think that the only type of startups on earth were web related. He asked me what I did, and I went straight into startup mode and told about my ‘web’ stuff. (I’m Anyway – for me it just makes me proud that we’ve got more than web startups happening.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 6, 2012

Our goal will be to put this up on the web as well to provide content (and potentially interaction) to a much wider community. I’m looking for two types of feedback: (1) comments on the syllabus and (2) suggestions for web services to use to package this content up for broader distribution. Building and Scaling A Business.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 6, 2010

Our trip was bipartisan, bicameral, and bi-branches-of-government. And, on an unrelated note, we also had an entertaining night at the DC Lean Startup Meetup featuring me and Dave McClure, in what was billed as a "Lean Geek SMACKdown." Our trip was bipartisan, bicameral, and bi-branches-of-government. Expo SF (May.

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Steve Blank

MAY 3, 2011

The Stanford Lean LaunchPad class was an experiment in a new model of teaching startup entrepreneurship. Veritas needs three types of partners: installers (to reduce their overhead,) certification authorities (who would provide credibility) and government and research labs (for testing facilities). Veritas turbines.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

I promised to post the slides for my highly abbreviated version of the lean startup presentation, so here they are. 2009 09 08 The Lean Startup Gov 2.0 Every bit as true for government as for enterprise - and even the two guys in a garage. dhinchcliffe : Lean startups go faster. dhinchcliffe : Lean startups go faster.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 17, 2020

But particularly when you’re running lean and mean, you may not have native expertise in every aspect of managing a startup. Linking to government and academic websites can be an effective SEO tactic. Web hosting. The very first tech service you’ll need to buy before you launch a website is web hosting. It’s that simple.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 6, 2020

The institutions that governed our lives before are under extreme stress, and the cracks and gaps in the system are becoming rifts and fault lines. I think once we lean on the community, the community really has uplifted us to an even more promising stage. I am Eric Ries. Eric Ries : What were those initial submissions like?

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genylabs.typepad.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Emergent Research works with corporate, government and non-profit clients. Wall Street Journal: With New Technology, Start-Ups Go Lean. government policy. Intuit Future of Small Business Resources. The Changing Face of Entrepreneurs. The Connected World of Entrepreneurs. Disclosure Policy. Subscribe To Small Biz Labs.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 5, 2013

It’s been fun watching a 20th Century entrepreneur learn new tricks as he builds his next startup, FindTheBest using Lean Methodology. Lean Start-up Connection: Business Model Canvas. What if you could think like an expert on any topic in a matter of minutes, instead of after hours of inefficient web browsing? Validation.

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