Up and Running

AUGUST 30, 2021

Solve the rest later. It can be a small and nimble startup like Origin, or a company with 50 employees and hiring more every quarter. Go lean with your planning. A startup is about execution and speed, so you need to start lean. It doesn’t help your business grow by hiring someone who doesn’t have the necessary skills.

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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. We particularly like this post, Hiring Executives: If You’ve Never Done the Job, How Do You Hire Somebody Good? ,

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Who can I hire later? ” She looked at bit puzzled, so I continued to explain… One of the virtues of using the Business Model Canvas as part of a Lean Startup is that it helps you frame each one of your nine critical hypotheses. But what about for us, a consumer hardware hardware company? And what can I outsource?”

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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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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 13, 2024

I need to hire people. What kind of content does it lean towards? When you're looking to hire and source talent for the business, it gives you a much more affordable resource to find that talent. Simply tell them what you need and they'll handle the rest hassle-free. I don't have processes. Where's your audience?

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Up and Running

MAY 12, 2020

Your plan doesn’t need to be a lengthy document either, especially if you follow a Lean Planning methodology. Now if you’re looking for an active plan that you can edit and adjust over time, you may want to consider creating a lean plan. Like the rest of your business plan, your exit strategy does not need to be set in stone.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 24, 2019

Would I regret it for the rest of my life? Write a Lean Business Plan. Your business plan can be a Lean Plan , meaning that it doesn’t need to be lengthy. If you’ve heard of a Business Model Canvas, a Lean Plan is a much more useful alternative. Hire the best people. Never look backward , look forward.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Maybe hire an employee for $30 per hour and re-bill them at $60. Suppose you hire an employee at $60,000/year. After all, if you expect to hire and retain great people, they need time to keep learning, stay in front of the latest technology, and just have fun. Easy money, right? Double is nothing. Isn’t that better?

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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. Ryan was the most talented technologist we had hired at BuildOnline. We hired Ryan at a really young age and without a tremendous amount of prior experience. One example was Ryan Lissack.

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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. The rest can come from early hires (with stock options to assure commitment), equity investors, or even strategic partners.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 30, 2016

Once you’ve hired your employees, that’s not your team-building mission complete. That said, even if you find yourself a client base you’re satisfied with, don’t rest on your laurels. You can also hire instead of buying outright. The practice of lean management began in manufacturing but has since spread far and wide.

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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. The rest can come from early hires (with stock options to assure commitment), equity investors, or even strategic partners.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 30, 2022

Hire a bunch of new staff? . You’re lean, agile, and responsive to external changes, ready to test a new idea or head in a new direction. Your most sustainable source of funding is your customers: Please them and the rest will follow. One in particular from a famous VC in Silicon Valley. I turned them down. Pimp out my office?

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

If there was any doubt among the teams about the value of what they’re learning, Blinken put it to rest with a compelling overview of how so many of today’s complex global problems – from stopping Ebola to monitoring cease-fires and improving food security – demand innovative, tech-based solutions. Christos Makridis, a Ph.D

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

If there was any doubt among the teams about the value of what they’re learning, Blinken put it to rest with a compelling overview of how so many of today’s complex global problems – from stopping Ebola to monitoring cease-fires and improving food security – demand innovative, tech-based solutions. Christos Makridis, a Ph.D

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 21, 2013

Lean Analytics is the latest addition to the Lean Series. For intrapreneurs, this means applying Lean methods to new product development, rather than starting an entirely new company. While it’s easy to be myopic about your work—and disdainful of what the rest of the company is doing—the two are one and the same.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 11, 2014

Guest post by Sarah Milstein , CEO of Lean Startup Productions The 2013 Lean Startup Conference was a hit on several levels, with many people telling us it was the most valuable business conference they’d ever attended. Quick Consulting , an evening event on March 27 in San Francisco. Quick Consulting.

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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. Techniques from lean manufacturing can be part of a startups innovation culture. Read the rest of The Five Whys for Start-Ups.

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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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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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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 4, 2017

By which they mean: Without stupid rules that assume employees are dumb or evil, without everything taking ten times longer than it should, without wall-to-wall meetings, without resorting to hiring anything less than the top 1% of the talent pool, and so on. It’s a big reason why they move quickly.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

And the rest is history: Google Maps was a huge success. After all, how would Craig Newmark’s life (and the rest of ours, too) be different today if he had waited to build something with a high-quality design before starting his famous list? I won’t apologize for this aspect of the Lean Startup methodology.

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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. The rest can come from early hires (with stock options to assure commitment), equity investors, or even strategic partners.

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konamoxt.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

January 21, 2009 Why Your Startup Can’t Afford To NOT Hire a CTO As I mentioned in my last post, one of the many things I do as an entrepreneur is to advise other start up companies. Unfortunately in many cases, the choice to hire a CTO is the worst choice a CEO or management team could make. This is critical!

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 19, 2009

I would discover that there was a more effective alternative in building a marketing department than hiring traditional marketers with MBA’s. I chose to hire engineers from within each of our target markets and set up “Steve’s one month MBA course for engineers.” These hires were definitely not your standard marketing types.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 28, 2018

A Lean Business Plan might be a better fit if you simply need to think through all the different aspects of your business. A Lean Plan will be shorter, and it lends itself to quick revisions, but both types follow the same general outline. Now, the rest of your plan will focus on how to take advantage of that opportunity.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 5, 2010

You can easily take from it whatever makes sense for your business, and leave the rest. Ill give them the last word: You are already skeptical of Customer Development and Lean Startups and the slew of emerging buzzwords and supple-to-the-point-of-meaningless terms. I found these to be particularly interesting and worthwhile.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 22, 2010

Luckily for the rest of us, he was able to find his path to a green card, and now employs 24 Americans in West Lafayette, Indiana. Read the rest of The New Startup Arms Race at Huffington Post. Luckily for the rest of us, he was able to find his path to a green card, and now employs 24 Americans in West Lafayette, Indiana.

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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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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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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 1, 2009

One of the most common questions I get about the lean startup methodology is, "but what about Steve Jobs ?" So how do you reconcile his success with the lean startup, which seems to suggest the opposite?" Plus, the premise of the question misunderstands the lean startup, too. And he doesnt shy away from big-bang launch events.

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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. Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? Expo SF (May.

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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

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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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

I had hired the VP of marketing from a potential software partner who was responsible to get all this 3 rd party software on our computer. The rest of the progress report sounded just like this. In reality we hadn’t gotten any closer to our goal than the day we hired him. Oh, and we had no installed customer base.

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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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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. Blame it On Marketing In the next 3-6 months, a new VP of Sales is hired. innovation.

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