The Next Web

AUGUST 6, 2013

There is a lot of talk about the lean startup and whether it works or not. But the lean startup model, when you boil it down, simply says that when you launch any new business or product you do so based on validated learning, experimentation and frequent releases which allow you to measure and gain valuable customer feedback.

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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 ). As the recession wrapped up, they had to remind consumers of lean times. recession in 2009.”.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 5, 2014

Lean and hungry. He has been a regular panelist on television’s Forbes on FOX since the show’s inception in 2001. Work your way to the smallest number, then subtract one. This advice has been borne out by numerous business leaders. The “minus one” philosophy forces the remaining team members to be creative. That’s where you start.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

An obvious example is Google who may have gotten less market attention if there would have been 8 well-financed competitors during the 2001-2005 timeframe. I’m looking for ones that understand that in order to build huge, meaningful companies they’ll need to likely build through these boom years and some lean ones.

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Mucker Lab

OCTOBER 12, 2016

Combined with the usual summer slowdown, some are already raising the spectre of 2001 or 2008. To make it through these downturns, entrepreneurs can make sure they have capital efficient business models and lean operations to get to, or close to, profitability between stages. The “venture recession” of 2016 is in full swing.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 16, 2010

The VC industry grew dramatically as a result of the Internet bubble - Before the Internet bubble the people who invested in VC funds (called LPs or Limited Partners) put about $50 billion into the industry and by 2001 this had grown precipitously to around $250 billion. Staying “lean&# is not an option.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

Lean Startups/Back to Basics (2000-2010): No IPO’s, limited VC cash, lack of confidence and funding fuels “lean startup” era with limited M&A and even less IPO activity. 2001 – 2010: Back to Basics: The Lean Startup. During the the Lean Startup era, the advice was clear; focus on building the company and avoid hype.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 8, 2021

Published in early 2001, Positioning remains as relevant and actionable now as it was then. The Lean Startup by Eric Ries (2011). The Lean Startup explores the scientific process of creating products and services your customers love—without spending months or years walking toward a dead end. – Al Ries. – Eric Ries.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

If someone is able to make everything digital, backed up, and secure, that person will completely eliminate the paper workload and the storage space it requires, meaning a lean and spare work-space is all one would need to get started. Founded in 2001, eFileCabinet, Inc.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

My experience of 2001-2004 is very remote from what you are describing. The mantra was as follows: “no one is coming to save us, we are going to make it on our own&#.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 18, 2013

Related posts: Lean Business: Do Unto Others*. Lean business practices Marketing and branding Small business Social media Strategy Uncategorized loyalty marketing neuroscience retention small business smallbiz startups surprise word of mouth' Surprise is more effective than other forms of retention-based marketing. image: wtiphotos.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 9, 2016

After leaving Razorfish in 2001, Craig spent a year immersed in food, including a stint as a prep cook at Babbo, Mario Batali’s flagship restaurant. Customer input shaped Amper’s product: One of the things that was really important to us was using Lean methodology. ” If you can’t hear the clip, click here.

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Campus Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 18, 2012

— sound like its time for the Lean University. State funding declined as a share of these universities’ budgets from 28 percent in 2001 to 19 percent in 2009. Good piece covering NSF’s new “ Science and Engineering Indicators ” and its data on the funding of research universities in the U.S.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 1, 2018

In 2001, I moved from Citibank to become the CMO of Morgan Stanley’s brokerage business, where I was tasked with modernizing and reviving the brokerage business there. So we decided we needed to go and attack head on how to do innovation from a cultural perspective, which turned out to be the Lean Startup methodology.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 26, 2012

stock market: The change led by NASDAQ in early 2001 to valuing stocks in increments from one-eighth of a dollar down to one cent. Once you put a lot of money in, you're no longer lean and flexible and kinkin' and jivin' and trying to figure it out," he says. Everything's better with the lean model.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 12, 2014

They use lean teams. He has been a regular panelist on television’s Forbes on FOX since the show’s inception in 2001. They are fanatics about execution. But this hard-nosed company also excels at the soft edge. They’ve built high levels of employee and customer trust. They are always learning.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 26, 2022

I will say the one thing we tell all our portfolio companies is to get fit and lean in. So the “get fit” part of it is whatever your circumstances are today, lean inwards a little bit, do some introspection, and figure out which part of the house requires some cleaning up. I like the get fit and lean in. Jonathan Siddharth .

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

Are you in the “lean&# phase? I’m a very big believer in the “Lean Startup&# principles as espoused by Steve Blank and Eric Ries. As anyone raising money in April 2000, September 2001 or September 2008 can tell you that. So here’s my framework. Fund raising can be black-and-white.

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genylabs.typepad.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

The best start-up I ever invested in went bankrupt in 2001. Wall Street Journal: With New Technology, Start-Ups Go Lean. Ive had the good fortune to both work for and invest in successful tech start-ups. Ive also invested in a number of start-up failures. They looked like a sure winner. Subscribe To Small Biz Labs.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 8, 2019

It can be as simple as a short, Lean Business Plan that serves as a strategic roadmap for your business, or as comprehensive as a formal business plan that instills confidence in bank lenders and investors. Remember, if you just need a Lean Business Plan, not a formal business plan, shorter is better.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 15, 2016

The impaired cognitive function study goes even further to describe some of the other serious issues that they found with overtime: Long working hours are common worldwide; for example, in the European Union member states, 12%–17% of employees worked overtime in 2001 (1). Lean Marketing tips: business card as selling tool.

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 3, 2012

The Lean Start-Up movement, as exemplified in Eric Ries' book The Lean Start-Up, has appropriately focused a great deal of attention on the hard decisions and techniques required to create a company from nothing. Despite the Internet bubble bursting, the company was able to generate over $160 million in revenue in 2001.

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Steve Blank

JULY 11, 2016

Jessica ran things as lean as she could for the next few months while figuring out what to do. Especially difficult were the days after the Internet bubble burst: 2001 was a staggering blow to technology. I talked it over with some friends that night, and decided the next morning we’d have to cut all of our costs. .

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500hats.com

AUGUST 2, 2012

While a flood of new VCs came into existence during the late 90’s internet boom, many had difficulty raising new funds after the crashes of 2000-2001 and 2008 , and as a result significantly fewer fund managers exist now compared to a decade ago. In the past ten years there have been several dramatic changes in venture capital.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 11, 2019

Ann will be speaking at this year’s Lean Startup Conference in October about all of this and more. The first time was just for a couple years, from 2001-2003, before I went to grad school. We talked with her about her teaching position at Stanford, how she thinks about the future, and how she makes investment decisions.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 17, 2016

We were also arrogant in the sense of we have this idea of how the thing should work and we built it … This was a little bit before Lean Startup was very popular, so we just built this thing that we thought would work and lo and behold, it didn’t work. ” This was around 2001.

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Mike Michalowicz

OCTOBER 22, 2019

We teach them to grow with lean and mighty teams. To give you a sense of how severe this situation is, in 2016, the National Association of Home Builders asked 2001 young adults between the ages of 18 and 25 what they wanted to do for a living. This has a significant impact on improving the profitability of a business.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 10, 2013

Of course, Excite also went bankrupt in 2001, so maybe five is a terrible number? Shoulder – not to cry on, but to lean on. After being part of a team of five that co-founded a fairly successful company and still have the original team together after half a decade, here’s what I learned about having cofounders.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 14, 2014

Remember, lean and hungry is always better than fat and comfortable. He has been a regular panelist on television’s Forbes on FOX since the show’s inception in 2001. He is also the publisher of Forbes magazine, where he writes a column, Innovation Rules, known for its witty assessment of business and leadership issues.

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View from Seed

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Aggregate VC investment in 2009 hits a low of roughly $20B, a figure last seen in 2003 in the wake of the bursting of the dotcom and telecom bubble and 2001 recession. But there is also opportunity in lean times. Companies are retrenching, VC firms are going through their own upheavals, and IPOs are non-existent.

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Eric Friedman

AUGUST 18, 2021

On Deciens’ Lean Operation. Dan Kimerling: I love 2001: a Space Odyssey. I don’t think those things are contradictory, but I think you want to start this relationship acknowledging the statistical reality and trying to do everything to bend the curve in your favor. In my mind, you are effectively a one person show.

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Agile VC

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Aggregate VC investment in 2009 hits a low of roughly $20B, a figure last seen in 2003 in the wake of the bursting of the dotcom and telecom bubble and 2001 recession. But there is also opportunity in lean times. Companies are retrenching, VC firms are going through their own upheavals, and IPOs are non-existent.

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Mike Michalowicz

OCTOBER 5, 2015

Despite those lean times, the new firm thrived from the start. She started her first business, a handmade jewelry company, in 2001, where she learned that an MBA doesn’t even begin to prepare you for life as an entrepreneur. Despite those lean times, the new firm thrived from the start. In 2003, he founded MJS Executive Search.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 5, 2014

Story can create legends that an entire workplace culture can build upon, grow with, and lean on. He has been a regular panelist on television’s Forbes on FOX since the show’s inception in 2001. It can be used to connect employees to a strategy by providing understanding, belief, and motivation.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 9, 2013

Consider that NYT.com readers are on average 44 years old, have an average income of just under $75,000, over 50% are college educated, and over 25% work in some professional or managerial position – it makes sense that awe or anger inducing, opinionated articles perform the best on the left-leaning news site.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 2, 2012

The image to the left shows the Lord Howe stick insect, Dryocecelus australis , which was presumed extinct by 1960 but found again in 2001 on Ball’s Pyramid, the remains of an old volcano that emerged from the sea 7 million years ago. Kickstart Your Lean Startup With Effective Feedback – [link].

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Simpler plans— Lean Plans that can fit on a single page —get updated more frequently and are more helpful to these companies because they can review their strategy at a glance. I recommend starting with a Lean Plan. From there, iterate, gather feedback, and adjust your plan as needed. Journal of Management Studies, 47(3), 391-415.

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