Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

With fewer than 10 employees but almost $2-billion dollars in the bank, they plan on jumping right in. It’s the antithesis of the Lean Startup. Most entrepreneurs today don’t remember the Dot-Com bubble of 1995 or the Dot-Com crash that followed in 2000. The Rise of the Lean Startup. And it may work. Dot Com Boom to Bust.

Lean 335

Lean Burn Rate Startup IPO 335

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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Lean Agile Business Model Customer Development 120

Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

The Golden Age (1970 – 1995): Build a growing business with a consistently profitable track record (after at least 5 quarters,) and go public when it’s time. Dot.com Bubble ( 1995-2000): “ Anything goes” as public markets clamor for ideas, vague promises of future growth, and IPOs happen absent regard for history or profitability.

Internet 334

Internet IPO Silicon Valley Agile 334

Up and Running

MAY 16, 2016

percent in 2000 to 19.6 Step 1: Formulate your business plan. Home health care is unique in many ways, but the one thing it has in common with every other new business venture is that a lack of adequate planning and forecasting is a sure way to undercut its potential success. population. percent by 2030.

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North America United States Technical Review America 95

www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Writing A Business Plan. Running A Home-Based Business. Naming a Business. Financing a Small Business. Buying a Small Business. RUNNING A BUSINESS. Jumpstart was one of Grahams first clients; it signed on shortly after he founded Arizona Bay, in 2000. But Ive definitely had to lean on Dave.

Arizona 40

Arizona Equity Iowa Venture Capital 40

maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

How to stay lean and iterate quickly while you’re building a two sided marketplace, especially when “network effect” and “critical mass” are the two main focuses? No investor cares about a business plan. Warning: Typos, run-on sentences, and crappy formatting. I may iterate 3 times in one day.

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Technical Review Startup Cofounder Software Review 44