Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2022

For the rest of us, the following suggestions will help you survive the valley of death: Accumulate some resources before you start. Of course, we all realize that this approach will take longer, and could jeopardize both roles if not managed effectively. It always reduces risk to plan your business first. Set expectations accordingly.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 6, 2013

Guest post by Lisa Regan On August 20, Eric will sit down with developer and Hut8Labs co-founder Dan Milstein for a webcast you can join to discuss “Getting Engineers Into the Lean Startup Cycle.” This conversation will be a great opportunity for engineers and engineering managers to learn more about implementing Lean Startup ideas.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 6, 2019

For the rest of us, the following suggestions will help you survive the valley of death: Accumulate some resources before you start. Of course, we all realize that this approach will take longer, and could jeopardize both roles if not managed effectively. It always reduces risk to plan your business first. Set expectations accordingly.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 13, 2022

That often involves working long hours and keeping your costs lean. This typically includes reviewing financial reports, overseeing budgets, managing overall financial planning, and more. Just don’t forget about the rest of your organization. When looking for new employees , experience and capability are always top of mind.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Levine was an early proponent of agile and is a veteran of systems change and technology management. I’ve spent my career doing large-scale high impact technology management for major US institutions. Before I wrote my first book I spent a few weeks at a University of Michigan seminar on lean product development.

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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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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

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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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

He was using 3 rd parties to build his app but he had no expertise on how to manage external developers. As the miles sped by I explained to Dave that he had understood only two of the three parts of what makes a Lean Startup successful. His inability to attract a co-founder who could code was a troubling sign.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 5, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, October 5, 2008 The product managers lament Life is not easy when youre working in an old-fashioned waterfall development process, no matter what role you play. The product manager was clearly struggling to get results from the rest of the team. Lets start with what the product manager does.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 30, 2019

For the rest of us, the following suggestions will help you survive the valley of death: Accumulate some resources before you start. Of course, we all realize that this approach will take longer, and could jeopardize both roles if not managed effectively. It always reduces risk to plan your business first. Set expectations accordingly.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 7, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, January 7, 2010 Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? My explicit goal in working with HBR is to foster a dialog between entrepreneurs and more traditional general managers. Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? - Read the rest at The Conversation - Harvard Business Review.

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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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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 20, 2011

In July I got a call from Errol Arkilic , a program manager at the National Science Foundation (NSF), the $6.8-billion We’ve been reading your blog about your Lean Launchpad class.” We want to make a bet that your Lean Launchpad class can apply the scientific method to market-opportunity identification. Your Country Needs You.

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Steve Blank

JULY 13, 2021

The Rise of Business Schools – Management as an Occupation. These explosions in company size and scale created a demand for professional managers. Its purpose was to educate management on best practices to run existing companies. Here’s why and what we did about it. that took place in the last quarter of the 19th century.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 23, 2017

This is where keeping your startup lean comes in. A lean startup only spends money on things it absolutely needs. I recently spoke with a friend of mine who runs a successful chain of Toronto Massage Companies who credits keeping her startup lean with much of her early success. It cross trains employees to keep the ship small.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, September 11, 2009 The cardinal sin of community management Once you have a product launched, you will the face the joys – and the despair – of a community that grows up around it. Nothing worked, until we finally had one of our community managers start talking to real customers on the phone.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 30, 2021

It’s difficult to be an entrepreneur — whether you’re a recent college graduate or have managed multiple companies. Solve the rest later. Go lean with your planning. A startup is about execution and speed, so you need to start lean. Don’t start a company right out of college. Your startup becomes irrelevant.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 2, 2013

While the Lean LaunchPad class has been adopted by Universities and the National Science Foundation , the question we get is, “Can students in K-12 handle an experiential entrepreneurship class?” They both attended our latest Lean LaunchPad Educators Class. Summary for the Lean LaunchPad in K-12 Education.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 14, 2014

For the rest of us, the following suggestions will help you survive the valley of death: Accumulate some resources before you start. Of course, we all realize that this approach will take longer, and could jeopardize both roles if not managed effectively. It always reduces risk to plan your business first. Set expectations accordingly.

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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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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 1, 2017

For the rest of us, the following suggestions will help you survive the valley of death: Accumulate some resources before you start. Of course, we all realize that this approach will take longer, and could jeopardize both roles if not managed effectively. It always reduces risk to plan your business first. Set expectations accordingly.

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Up and Running

JULY 6, 2016

On the other hand, as a writer, manager, and user of business plans as tools for steering a business, I believe you should discuss your technology in the plan for any business. Most business plans are intended to optimize management and allow business owners and management teams to better steer the business.

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The Startup Toolkit

DECEMBER 12, 2012

Slides from “ Lean startup intro (with no buzzwords) ” by robfitz. Lean gets bogged down in tactics & tools. This presentation is about what are, in my opinion, the big principles behind lean startup. Lean begins from there and helps us make it better. A few tools from lean startup.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 5, 2023

Final Problem Statement: How should the US manage China’s dominance in solar panels? We were integrating a lecture class with a heavy reading list with the best practices of hypothesis testing from Lean Launchpad/Hacking for Defense/I-Corps. If you can’t see the presentation click here. We knew we were asking a lot from our students.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 24, 2017

More importantly, a subscription business model enables you to manage the cash flow, upgrade your business planning and optimize metrics such as churn rates, the lifetime value of a customer, expansion, and more. And rest assured that any young entrepreneur with a vision will not miss that opportunity. It is a bootstrappable model.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

For the rest of us, the following suggestions will help you survive the valley of death: Accumulate some resources before you start. Of course, we all realize that this approach will take longer, and could jeopardize both roles if not managed effectively. It always reduces risk to plan your business first. Set expectations accordingly.

Intellectual Property 309

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

” 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. Activities” is where you define the most important things your company must do to make the rest of your business model work.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 4, 2016

Hacking for Diplomacy is a new course from the Management Science and Engineering department in Stanford’s Engineering school and Stanford’s International Policy Studies program that will be first offered in the Fall of 2016. The management of all these relationships is called diplomacy. The rest of the week is equally busy.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 3, 2017

If you don’t have a specific immediate need to show a formal business plan to a banker or investor, then you are probably better off doing just a lean business plan , for your internal use only. Company and management summary. Listen to Tim Berry discuss lean business planning: Click here to subscribe to The Bcast on iTunes ».

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2018

For the rest of us, the following suggestions will help you survive the valley of death: Accumulate some resources before you start. Of course, we all realize that this approach will take longer, and could jeopardize both roles if not managed effectively. It always reduces risk to plan your business first. Set expectations accordingly.

Intellectual Property 134

Intellectual Property Technical Review Startup Incubator 134

ReadWriteStart

APRIL 24, 2021

The competitive, oversaturated market pushes companies to seek better ways to manage workload and optimize the working process to strive for continuous improvement and client satisfaction. More and more companies lean toward adopting agile culture into their team through its principles and behaviors. Know how you spend your time.

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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

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

One of the sayings I hear from talented managers in product development is, “good enough never is.&# Especially in teams that are managing by objectives (or OKRs), the pressure to deliver is intense. Good managers work hard to create an environment where this courage thrives. Ship it.&# I certainly have.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 2, 2013

While the Lean LaunchPad class has been adopted by Universities and the National Science Foundation , the question we get is, “Can students in K-12 handle an experiential entrepreneurship class?” They both attended our latest Lean LaunchPad Educators Class. Summary for the Lean LaunchPad in K-12 Education.

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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.

Technical Cofounder 144

Technical Cofounder Cofounder Advisory Board Startup 144

YoungUpstarts

MAY 29, 2017

The Lean Startup.”. Principles such as security of data in transit and at rest and knowledge of the common vulnerabilities in the market today help bring awareness to developers, allowing security to be built into the development process. by Quan Heng Lim, Cyber-Operations Consultant at Horangi. Fail Fast, Pivot.”. Agile Methodology.”.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 30, 2022

As the proud father of a two-year-old boy, I hope one day to teach him how to manage money so he needn’t worry as much about it as I did when I first started earning. . Today, as the proud owner of a startup, you’re probably much better at managing your money. Ever wished your teachers had taught you money skills? Will you be ready?

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