2001 Lean Marketing Operations 
Steve Blank
SEPTEMBER 5, 2018
Reading the NY Times article “ Jeffrey Katzenberg Raises $1 Billion for Short-Form Video Venture, ” I realized it was time for a new startup heuristic: the amount of customer discovery and product-market fit you need to find is inversely proportional to the amount and availability of risk capital. It’s the antithesis of the Lean Startup.
Steve Blank
NOVEMBER 1, 2017
In his Harvard Business Review article summing up his tenure, Immelt recalls that the two things that influenced him most were Marc Andreessen’s 2011 Wall Street Journal article “ Why Software Is Eating the World, ” and Eric Ries’s book The Lean Startup. So is John Rice, the head of Global Operations along with CFO Jeffrey Bornstein.
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ConversionXL
MARCH 19, 2020
An article on growth and marketing in the middle of a crisis—the current one or any other—can seem tone deaf. This post surveys what people have done in the past—and what marketing leaders are doing now—to make it through tough times and thrive in the post-crisis era. Tim Stewart, trsdigital. But nothing gets better if we stand still.
Up and Running
APRIL 1, 2021
Whether it’s a disappointing setback, the lean, barely-profitable weeks that plague any fledgling business, or a simple oversight. Finance, strategy, marketing, human resources, technology, and operations are all fundamental aspects of any business. It’s a steep bar for entry but a necessary one.
Both Sides of the Table
SEPTEMBER 10, 2021
With the enormous changes to our economies and financial markets?—?how how on Earth could the venture capital market stand still? One of the most common questions I’m asked by people intrigued by but also scared by venture capital and technology markets is some variant of, “Aren’t technology markets way overvalued?
Both Sides of the Table
NOVEMBER 29, 2010
million and we seemed likely to raise another $40 million within the first 18 months of operations. I changed that quickly when the market shifted and I had to lay off more than 80 people – many of whom were friends. I learned everything I know about startups in these lean years: 2001-2004.
Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 22, 2011
They have seen one side of a market where many of us have seen the ebb and flow multiple times. Still, market amnesia by ordinarily rational actors always surprises me. I believe a bubble occurs when a market is willing to pay greater than intrinsic value for an asset class. I spoke about a lot of things during the keynote.
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