Steve Blank

JANUARY 6, 2014

Agile is a tremendous advance in reducing time, money and wasted product development effort – and in having products better match customer needs. But businesses are finding that Continuous Deployment not only changes engineering but has ripple effects on the rest of its business model. Waterfall – The Customer View.

Continuous Deployment 331

Continuous Deployment Customer Agile Cloud 331

YoungUpstarts

MARCH 4, 2014

If there’s a sure sign that shows how interest in online flash sales have waned, it’s how many daily deal sites have either deadpooled or pivoted away from that particular business model. That pivot may have changed TheLuxeNomad ‘s fortunes - it has tripled its revenues in the short period of June to December 2013.

Flash 164

Flash Business Model Sales Singapore 164

YoungUpstarts

MAY 28, 2014

” Getting some revenue from at least 3 clients (proving that there’s value to what you’re doing) would be fantastic, but other types of traction and validation would help too. Focus on solving those problems and then it’s gravy if you can spin the business model to get their end customers involved.

Security 200

Security Incubator Technical Review Bootstrapping 200

YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

With more than 825,000 franchise establishments across 300 business lines, they employ nearly 18 million people and account for one eighth of the U.S. But before candidates can decide if franchising is the right move for them, they must weigh the benefits and costs of franchising against that of a traditional business model.

Small Business Administration 100

Small Business Administration SBA Business Model Small Business 100

Up and Running

DECEMBER 6, 2012

Lean Planning is a set of tools for discovering a business model that works, building an action plan to test your assumptions, creating financial models and a plan for a viable business, and tracking your performance so you can adjust your plan on the fly, quickly and easily.

Lean 147

Lean Silicon Valley Forecast Technical Review 147

Transformify

JUNE 6, 2019

For a startup, this will probably mean more funding rounds, longer go to market time and potentially unhappy customers and investors. From automated QA tests to seamless checkout process to standardized customer support, it will save time, cost and effort and keep your customers happy. 5S System.

Lean 56

Lean Management Technical Review Software Review 56

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 9, 2012

TLDR: Brant Cooper and Patrick Vlaskovits , authors of The Entrepreneur's Guide to Customer Development are back with a new book called The Lean Entrepreneur. It took the idea of Customer Development and made it accessible to a whole new audience. Market segments drive your business model. Illustrations by FAKEGRIMLOCK.

Entrepreneur 167

Entrepreneur Lean Southern California San Diego 167

The Next Web

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

His superiors weren’t all happy with this atypical approach to news and asked him to leave in September 2012. In December 2012 he met up with the founders of Momkai , a creative agency with clients such as Red Bull and Nike. Our custom-made CMS?—?called called Respondens?—?is

Netherlands 158

Netherlands Campaign Europe Advertising 158

David Cohen

AUGUST 22, 2012

.” In researching my answers for the WSJ reporter, I dug up some data on TechStars companies over the last several years that use the freemium model. It’s interesting that in 2009 there was a peak for our companies in use of the freemium model. Since 2009, people have consistently been pronouncing the model dead.

Vertical 110

Vertical Search Business Model Software Developers 110

Austin Startup

MAY 29, 2019

Yesterday I was having a discussion with one of our executives on the strength of network effects inherent in the data.world business model. This led to a far ranging strategic discussion that got us both really excited about the huge potential of our business. 8, which was released earlier this week. although the SaaS 3.0

Networking 48

Networking Fractional CTO CTO Hire B2C 48

leananalyticsbook.com

AUGUST 19, 2012

August 7, 2012 by Alistair. There are three criteria you can use to help choose your OMTM: the business you’re in; the stage of your startup’s growth; and your audience. First: what business are you in? For online businesses, most of them are transactional, collaborative, SaaS-based, media, game, or app-centric.

Metrics 58

Metrics Clickthrough Lean Analytics 58

Steve Blank

JUNE 11, 2012

We’ve taught two cohorts: 21 teams ending in December 2011 , and 24 teams ending in May 2012. In July 2012 we’ll teach 50 more teams, and another 50 in October. Few of the Principal Investigators or Entrepreneurial Leads had startup experience, and few of the mentors were familiar with Business Model design or Customer Development.

Lean 256

Lean Incubator Business Model Georgia 256

Steve Blank

JANUARY 22, 2013

In cohort one, 25 teams chosen from a field of 100+, worked fulltime for eight weeks to take their ideas from a “cocktail napkin” business idea to a viable, scalable business model. We held the first cohort of 25 teams in Oct 2012. Amazingly by the end of the program’s eighth week, 8 of the 25 teams had customer revenue.

Colombia 324

Colombia Lean Silicon Valley Coder 324

David Teten

JULY 12, 2013

I emphasize that the best PR you can build is through satisfied customers with high Net Promoter scores. There’s a world of difference between PR success and actual business success. Run an Indiegogo campaign, e.g., Interaxon used to raise $287,472 and also identify early customers. both ff VC companies).

PR 114

PR Public Relations Startup Technical Review 114

VC Cafe

JUNE 18, 2012

Innovate Israel 2012 aims to connect Israeli web, mobile & digital entrepreneurs & businesses with their UK & European counterparts. Check out the 28 Israeli startups coming to London next week to showcase at the Innovate Israel 2012 portfolio. Now your SD content can be turned into True HD.

Securities and Exchange Commission 133

Securities and Exchange Commission Technical Review Software Review 133

Lightspeed Venture Partners

DECEMBER 10, 2012

Although Sharktank has been running reruns on Fridays the last few weeks, the show ran a Sharktank 2012 Holiday special on Tuesday night. Revenue is driven by children’s parties, which cost $600-$4,000 for a two hour party for 15 kids, which apparently is the market price for kids parties in LA.

Covenant 162

Covenant Warrant Southern California Los Angeles 162

www.pakman.com

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

26 September 2012. To build the online media giants of tomorrow, companies need models where the costs of both content and distribution are near zero. At that scale, you can reach billions of dollars in revenue. 26 September 2012 at 10:10 am. #. 26 September 2012 at 10:35 am. #. 27 September 2012 at 1:55 am. #.

Social Media 47

Social Media Vertical Advertising Distribution 47

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 9, 2018

Understand the economics of your business. Entrepreneurs should design their business model around one customer and then build out from there. Then, how much money will I make from one customer? And finally, how much money will I spend to keep that one customer happy? Clearly articulate your vision.

CPA 140

CPA Business Model Employee Founder 140

Steve Blank

JANUARY 22, 2013

In cohort one, 25 teams chosen from a field of 100+, worked fulltime for eight weeks to take their ideas from a “cocktail napkin” business idea to a viable, scalable business model. We held the first cohort of 25 teams in Oct 2012. Amazingly by the end of the program’s eighth week, 8 of the 25 teams had customer revenue.

Colombia 285

Colombia Lean Silicon Valley Coder 285

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

In 2012 I got together with Alexander Osterwalder , Henry Chesbrough and Andre Marquis to think about the Lean and the future of corporate innovation. What CEOs, management teams and shareholders care about is growth —revenue growth, greater user adoption, increased market share, bigger margins, etc. in developing these new models.

Lean 329

Lean Nepal Cofounder Customer Development 329

Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 16, 2012

TripAdvisor may be one of the most fascinating companies I know and so I was excited to dig into their business model as part of my series on scaling. TripAdvisor is more of a classic consumer Internet success story, but with even more powerful network effects and an amazing business model. Henry Harteveldt, Forrester.

Part-Time VPE 54

Part-Time VPE Software Review Costa Rica Technical Review 54

Lightspeed Venture Partners

OCTOBER 7, 2012

The two founders invested $40k in the business, and plan to license it rather than manufacture it because manufacturing seems too hard. They won a design award at a trade show, but have no revenue and no orders. in 2012 sales and $2M in income. So the $2M in 2012 profitability is far from in -the-bag.

Technical Review 110

Technical Review Technical Cofounder Valuation Pre-Money Valuation 110

Up and Running

APRIL 27, 2015

Ronald Johnson: Know your customers, or face losing them. The company saw its revenue drop by 25% in 2012, and Johnson was unceremoniously ousted from his position in April 2013. One of his biggest mistakes since starting his business came in 1994, in the form of Virgin Cola.

Technical Review 60

Technical Review Mexico Cofounder Angel Investor 60

crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 14, 2013

Fishof is a long time rock industry promoter and, along with the veteran ghost-writer Levin, he has created a wonderful and timely guide to creating longevity for business, building customer loyalty and leveraging the power of partnerships and bartering to overcome business obstacles. All that plus Ringo Starr anecdotes?

Viral 93

Viral Small Business Social Media Technical Review 93

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

In 2012, in partnership with Stanford University , U.C. The class was designed to teach educators (and the adjunct entrepreneurs that support them) the Lean LaunchPad approach (Business Model Design, Customer Development and Agile Engineering) for teaching entrepreneurship.

Delaware 302

Delaware Lean Entrepreneur Advisory Board 302

wordsting.com

APRIL 4, 2013

It helps customers create program strategies, plan change, monitor outcomes, and visualize impact.” Iterate and irritate Our first customer, a Canadian social services department, was led by a Deputy Minister with a fondness for a wall chart showing the logic models under his charge. This mobile app mystified our customers.

Lean 61

Lean Startup Software Review San Francisco 61

Steve Blank

JUNE 24, 2013

This got me thinking about the legal obstacles that face innovators with new business models. Rent seekers are individuals or organizations that have succeeded with existing business models and look to the government and regulators as their first line of defense against innovative competition. Rent Seekers.

North Carolina 335

North Carolina New Jersey New York Government 335

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 5, 2013

In 2012, total entrepreneurial activity in the United States hit its highest level since their survey started in 1999, according to Babson College. This means building a revenue stream, and tuning your business model to produce margins in the 50% range or above. It’s a jungle out there. If you want to survive.

Intellectual Property 249

Intellectual Property Startup United States Framework 249

David Teten

JULY 12, 2013

I emphasize that the best PR you can build is through satisfied customers with high Net Promoter scores. There’s a world of difference between PR success and actual business success. Run an Indiegogo campaign, e.g., Interaxon used to raise $287,472 and also identify early customers. both ff VC companies).

PR 60

PR Public Relations Startup Technical Review 60

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

Without users, business owners aren’t going to waste time promoting and marketing their content to your users. In order for local businesses to buy in, they need to a) reach a large percentage of their customer demographic, b) save them time on their existing marketing efforts, and c) not duplicate any of their existing efforts.

Finder 210

Finder Curation Seattle Community 210

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 28, 2013

Based on the latest Startup Environment Index from the Kauffman Foundation and LegalZoom, personal money, or bootstrapping, continued to be the primary startup funding in 2012. At least wait until later, when you ready to scale, and have some “leverage” based on a proven business model, some real customers, and real revenue.

Startup 264

Startup Burn Rate Bootstrapping Valuation 264

Up and Running

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Lean Planning is a concept that we introduced back in 2012 as an evolution in business planning. The traditional business plan just wasn’t fitting the needs of modern, fast-moving companies and it was time to bring more of a scientific approach to business planning. Can the Business Model Canvas replace the business plan?

Lean 60

Lean Silicon Valley Business Model Forecast 60

The Startup Magazine

JULY 16, 2018

In 2012, retailer J.C. The decision-makers expected sales to rise, thinking customers would seek out those consistently low prices. Customers actually responded more favorably to “last-minute deals”, flash sale concept than they did to “everyday low prices”. Sales dropped 25 percent that year. Ecommerce Flash Sales: The Basics.

Flash 68

Flash eCommerce Sales Bandwidth 68

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 1, 2012

Business model doesn’t make money. Even a non-profit has to generate revenue (or donations) to offset operating costs. You may have the solution to the world hunger problem, but if your customers have no money, your business won’t last long. Don’t quit your day job until new revenue is flowing.

Intellectual Property 274

Intellectual Property Entrepreneur Viral Early Stage 274

Tim Keane

MARCH 9, 2011

Business success is the ultimate goal. But, what constitutes success for the parties involved – investors, entrepreneurs, employees, and customers – can vary dramatically.   If even less cash flow but with the desire to retain the business: Friends and family money on junior debt terms.  five years.). . 

Finance 83

Finance Bootstrapping Startup Equity 83

Up and Running

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Where in your area will you find land or a building with the right zoning, size, facilities, and access for bringing in raw materials, attracting customers, and/or shipping out finished beer for distribution? Breweries don’t really win customers with one beer, but they can lose customers with one beer.”. Relationships.

Oregon 60

Oregon Jordan SBA Cofounder 60

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

In 2012, in partnership with Stanford University , U.C. The class was designed to teach educators (and the adjunct entrepreneurs that support them) the Lean LaunchPad approach (Business Model Design, Customer Development and Agile Engineering) for teaching entrepreneurship.

Delaware 194

Delaware Lean Entrepreneur Advisory Board 194