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Introducing Lean Planning: How to plan less and grow faster

Up and Running

Today, I want to introduce you to a new concept for starting and growing successful companies: Lean Planning™. Before I dive too deeply into the Lean Planning methodology, it makes sense to talk about its history and where it comes from. It starts with “Plan-As-You-Go” instead of detailed, formal business plans.

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Lean LaunchPad – For Deep Science and Technology

Steve Blank

We just finished the 11th annual Lean LaunchPad class at Stanford — our first version focused on deep science and technology. This allowed us to emphasize how to differentiate a technical spec from a value proposition and expand on the parts of the business model that are unique for science and engineering startups.

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Lean Management: 3 Things Your Business Can Learn from Toyota

Transformify

Called the Toyota Production System, it is one of the success stories about the lean manufacturing process. Lean manufacturing simply aims to minimize waste as much as possible because in this industry, and other manufacturing-related industries, it is very easy to accumulate it.

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Fat startup: Learn the lessons of my failed Lean Startup

wordsting.com

Fat startup: Learn the lessons of my failed Lean Startup. by Word Sting in Lean Startup , Software copywriting , Copywriting for startups. Those that do will likely fall under the influence of the celebrated Lean Startup movement. Yet the company failed -- more of a fat startup than a lean startup.

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Tesla and Adobe: Why Continuous Deployment May Mean Continuous Customer Disappointment

Steve Blank

But businesses are finding that Continuous Deployment not only changes engineering but has ripple effects on the rest of its business model. skip this part of you’re conversant in Waterfall and Lean.). Cloud based products has offered companies an opportunity to rethink how new business models would work.

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The 7 Key Components of a Perfect Elevator Pitch [With Video]

Up and Running

If your product or service doesn’t solve a problem that potential customers have, you don’t have a viable business model. That’s great if you are tackling such a problem, but for most businesses, that’s not the reality. What’s more important is that you understand your business model. Simple as that.

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Address These 3 Critical Risks Before You Start an Assisted Living Home

Up and Running

It’s a completely different business model. In fact, as these companies form, merge, or sell, the first action is usually to separate or spin off the service aspect of the business (caretaking, meals, and so on) from the underlying real estate. See Also: Funding a Business Guide. Gumshoe investigating.