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. Owners with the strongest commitment to their solution or cause never give up, and often break through obstacles to success that would kill the rest of us. Implement “lean startup” principles.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 30, 2021

Solve the rest later. The important thing is to gain experience with how fast-paced companies operate, the relationships you need to be successful, and all the different hats you’ll have to wear. Go lean with your planning. A startup is about execution and speed, so you need to start lean. Your startup becomes irrelevant.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Joe Felter , Raj Shah and I designed the class to examine the new military systems, operational concepts and doctrines that will emerge from 21st century technologies – Space, Cyber, AI & Machine Learning and Autonomy. Lean, MVPs and the DOD. And this idea of user-defined operating picture is with us today.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 11, 2022

compete more effectively through new operational concepts, organizations, and/or strategies. 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. Team Aurora. Original Problem Statement: How can the U.S.

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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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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 operations superstar. You need to have a technical genius on the team to get your startup product off the ground.

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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. A decade later, I began to teach the foundations of Lean, first at UC Berkeley (Customer Development) and then at Stanford using cases and business plans. experiential.

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

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 23, 2020

When it comes to changes I will be making in my business in the next year, I see us moving away from a traditional office space environment strategy we were operating under prior to the pandemic. 9- Focusing on lean operations. Photo Credit: Brandon Monaghan. Thanks to Lindsey Wander, WorldWise Tutoring LLC ! #9-

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 24, 2021

More and more companies lean toward adopting agile culture into their team through its principles and behaviors. Agile rests upon the three pillars of People, Processes, and Tools. Agile is all about trust in team and business operations generally. Stop Starting, Start Finishing with Agile. Trust and transparency.

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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. Or maybe you will want to extend your practice’s hours of operation. Your operations plan.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 13, 2024

What kind of content does it lean towards? Work better now provides outstanding talent from Latin America, hand matched to your business with over 40 roles across various industries, including marketing, there are a reliable partner for consistently finding the perfect fit for your business. Where's your audience?

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

I don’t know how it operates behind closed doors. 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. What about “leaning in”? And if I tried to find out?

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 18, 2022

was fighting Al-Qaeda and ISIS, China built new weapons and developed new operational concepts to negate U.S. What if our assumptions about the survivability of these naval platforms and the ability of our marines to operate, were based on incorrect assumption about our investments in material, operational concepts and mental models?

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 4, 2022

Being a long-term partner is important to us since doing business online necessitates ongoing website and online marketing maintenance and improvement. When we work with our customers, we become their business partners and assist them expand their companies over time. Photo Credit: Vishesh Raisinghani. Photo Credit: Adam Crossling.

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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 operations superstar. Yet every entrepreneur I meet wants to talk about the idea, and rarely mentions the team.

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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. While individual VC’s inside venture firms specialized in particular domains (PC’s, peripherals, semiconductors, test equipment, operating systems, applications, etc.,) Here’s why.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2021

"I just directly observed that the technology for doctors was really far from what they needed to operate at a high productivity level," he told me. His first instinct was that "somebody" should rethink how a doctor operates, how they communicate with the patient, and basically how the whole concept of care delivery works. EB : Yeah.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2011

Secondly, they had an owned & operated (O&O) website – Google.com – and Overture had shut down GoTo.com at the request of their very profitable and large distribution partners. Think YouTube vs. the rest. That gave Google a huge cost advantage. Bill’s a huge believer in MVP. I think this makes no sense.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

But if you’re writing a plan as an internal guide for strategic growth, you should consider a lighter version— a Lean Plan. A Lean Plan can also serve as an initial plan that helps you think through all the aspects of starting your business. Operations. Your problem and solution. Target market (intended customers).

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Now you’re certain you want to (and can legally) operate a business out of your home, it’s time to knuckle down and get your business registered with the appropriate authorities. Your plan doesn’t need to be a lengthy document either, especially if you follow a Lean Planning methodology. Legitimize your business operations.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

In India, the leading firms are slightly more concentrated with Sequoia India , Accel Partners , and Nexus Venture Partners being a cut above the rest. The rest of Asia is still developing with far more angel and early-stage investors than mid-to-later stage folks. Finally, don’t over-optimize on valuation.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

Greater discipline during boom times offered more flexibility during lean years. And getting it right during the lean years, Bain reports , has a massive impact on companies’ growth rate after things improve: ( Image source ). He continues: It’s OK to continue to operate. Image source ). Why brand matters more than ever.

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View from Seed

MARCH 1, 2016

As an adult, I know the world operates on story first and logic second. Generating excitement in others solely rests on you and the power of your story. Tiny Speck decided to sunset Glitch and began winding down its operations. As a child, I believed logical arguments were enough to convince anyone of anything. Enter the Kudzu.

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

A network of friends and partners can also serve as a great assurance and reminder that you’re not walking. The future of the company rests on me and it motivates me to work as hard as I can to show them how much it all means to me…and how much they all mean to me. Thanks to Alexandra Caffery, Fresh n’ Lean ! #8-

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

Six months ago Upfront Ventures announced its first Partner hire since 2007 – Greg Bettinelli. It’s been a really exciting time for me personally to be able to see a partner come in with the energy, enthusiasm and new ideas that remind me of myself 6 years ago. Congrats to my partner Greg and the entire team at Deliv.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

However the Customer Development Model and the Lean Startup work equally well for startups on the web. Union Square Ventures The next morning I got to spend time with Brad Burnham , partner at Union Square Ventures talking about their investment strategy and insights about web-based businesses. It’s an impressive portfolio.

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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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Up and Running

OCTOBER 3, 2018

If you want to put together a strategic plan to map out your business’s growth potential, you might consider a Lean Business Plan. But know that a Lean Plan shares all of the same components of a traditional business plan—it’s just shorter. Your operations plan. Operations. So make sure to put effort into it.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 11, 2024

A lot of entrepreneurs, I've read thousands of books, certainly when I was getting started, I leaned very heavily on people like Peter Drucker and Seth Godin, who's become a good friend, and I always tell people that they were mentors to me. 08:47): They might obsess about operations and efficiency when they really should be focused on sales.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2010

Business schools teach aspiring executives a variety of courses around the execution of known business models, (accounting, organizational behavior, managerial skills, marketing, operations, etc.). Each week will be new adventure as you test each part of your business model and then share the hard earned knowledge with the rest of the class.

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OnlyOnce

OCTOBER 17, 2013

Lean In, Part II. My post about Sheryl Sandberg’s Lean In a couple months ago created some great dialog internally at Return Path. We partnered with the National Center for Women & IT to provide training to our entire organization on unconscious bias. On our Operating Committee, we have 8 of 25.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 2, 2021

Khosrowshahi, who previously served as CEO of Expedia before taking the reins at Uber in 2017, sat down with Greylock general partner Reid Hoffman to discuss the past, present and future of the mobility and delivery business that now operates in 71 countries around the world and employs around 20,000 people globally.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

I remind my students that I’m teaching them a methodology they can use the rest of their careers, not running an incubator. Hershey just bought Krave Jerky, a team in our 2011 Berkeley Lean LaunchPad class, for >$200 million. Hershey plans to operate Krave as a standalone business within its Hershey North America division.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Find partners or investors. Branding provides a reassuring level of professionalism that very small operations may struggle to establish. See section 9 below to learn how to find a partner or investors.). But, your operating costs are only a starting point. Then practice putting those concerns to rest.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 4, 2021

No more 60 hour weeks at a job where the owners apparently were unable to run a successful operation. In my entrepreneurship journey, I’ve made incredible retail partners from many countries, and eventually landed my own show on HSN for 19 years. But I also leaned that is actually ok. No hassles. No regrets.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 2, 2022

Marketing and sales worked to define an ideal customer profile (ICP) , with several defining factors including: Currently using a data warehouse solution; Has a defined strategy to move to cloud-based operations; Has existing cloud-based solutions from competitor companies. Typical deal sizes for Programmatic ABM are $50K to $250K.

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