Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 23, 2013

———– What’s striking about Fast Company’s 2013 list of the world’s 50 most innovative companies is the relative absence of large, established firms. Here’s Ron’s blog post. As someone who teaches entrepreneurship not only in universities but also to U.S.

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

Lean Startup Circle Boston – Meetup dedicated to the lean startup and customer development methodology. Dog Patch Labs – Shared workspace operated by Polaris Ventures. Great for recent grads or career switchers. Boston Hardware Startup Meetup – Meetup organized by the founders of BOLT. Coworking Spaces and Accelerators.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

Last May, I shared the news that long-time Lean Startup advocates Brant Cooper and Patrick Vlaskovits were working on a new book called The Lean Entrepreneur featuring illustrations by FAKEGRIMLOCK. LitMotors approach to using Lean Startup to create a new vehicle category. That new book is about to hit bookstores everywhere.

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Genuine VC

JANUARY 3, 2013

Happy New Year and welcome to 2013. It is for those same reasons that it is capital efficient to start a software bits-based company that it is also now just as capital efficient to operate a software bits-based company.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

Guest post by Lisa Regan, writer for The Lean Startup Conference. We were excited by the response at last year’s Lean Startup Conference to Diane Tavenner’s eye-opening talk on her experience implementing Lean Startup methods at Summit Public Schools, the California charter for which she is CEO and co-founder.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

It happened recently when a group of educators came to the ranch to learn how to teach Lean entrepreneurship to K-12 students. The Lean LaunchPad/I-Corps class is the canonical model of such a class, with versions now taught in hundreds of colleges and universities.). On Fire With A Vision.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 31, 2018

First, frustration that video viewing on OTT, IPTV, TV and even VR were lean back alone experiences and not together with your friends who are separated by distance. In 2013, this inspired Watch Together and our journey began. That we look at video watching as a group/together experience rather than a lean back “on your own” activity.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

We operate at scale and speed unprecedented in human history.” * I first wrote about the changes to the Venture Capital ecosystem 10 years ago and this still serves as a good primer of how we arrived at 2011, a decade on from the Web 1.0 dot-com bonanza. How little we all knew how ironic that term would become but has nonetheless endured.

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Steve Blank

JULY 2, 2015

military and are now helping government agencies operate with the speed and urgency of Silicon Valley. Pete Newell retired from the US Army in 2013 as the director of the Rapid Equipping Force (REF), responsible for rapidly understanding problems of soldiers in combat and rapidly providing solutions.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 18, 2013

This post was written by Sarah Milstein, co-host of The Lean Startup Conference. Exciting news: we’ve nailed down dates for The Lean Startup Conference 2013. We know Lean Startup methods are being applied by people around the globe, in startups and established organizations alike, and in sectors of every stripe.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

In 2013, everything changed. To survive in a crowded marketplace, businesses had to pool their resources, so they could operate more efficiently and capture more of the market share. We price competitively, and we keep our operations as lean as possible. Sustainable growth is hugely important to us. It wasn’t personal.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

I feel like “conversion rate optimization” is in 2013 what “social media marketing” was in 2009. The most common mistake startups make is assuming they can operate the same way big companies do, and expect success with little to no feedback from potential customers. Most startups fail. sustainable business.

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Up and Running

MAY 16, 2016

In 2013, North America accounted for just over 40 percent of the global home health care revenue. Start with a lean plan if you’re eager to get up and running fast or if you’re simply interested in validating your idea. The home care license and operation requirements and standards will vary from state to state.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 10, 2015

Joining me at the Lean Startup Conference in San Francisco were: Liz Powers , co-founder of ArtLifting , a for-profit online art gallery that features the work of homeless and disabled artists. She started ArtLifting with her brother, Spencer, in 2013, and acknowledges her youth and enthusiasm have been assets. Liz Powers.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 25, 2013

In 2013 it is expected to be around $35 billion. Compare the state of play in 2013 versus 15 years ago. 2013 = $25 billion of which Apples stage is more than $8 billion at > 90% gross margin. In my mind, the best VCs actually deliver outsized returns by “leaning on the scale” not by “deal sourcing.”

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 31, 2019

Scott Kupor is the managing partner at Andreessen Horowitz, where he’s responsible for all operational aspects of running the firm. Coming from an operating role in a company, that can feel odd - that doing nothing is in fact accomplishing your objective - so that takes some getting used to.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 14, 2019

A franchise is a type of business that is owned and operated by an individual (franchisee) but that is branded and overseen by a much larger—usually national or multinational—company (the franchisor). The operations manual. Are you an operations person? Editor’s note: This article was originally published in 2013.

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The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 6, 2018

Image via Flickr by 401(K) 2013. Fortunately, this cost is less than $100 annually in every country where Amway operates. Some people confuse Amway with a pyramid scheme, but that’s not how the company operates. How Much Does It Cost to Sign Up? Source: Flickr. Is Amway a Pyramid Scheme?

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 28, 2012

To help, here is a 5-step checklist to help you successfully manage the transition to 2013 for your startup’s IT needs: 1. You need to show that you’re running as lean an operation as possible. Yet it’s nearly impossible to be lean when you don’t know what’s already in place. Plan your expenditures for 2013.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 29, 2018

This lesson was first shared at Lucky7 on May 17, 2013. If I was an aspiring entrepreneur, I would take a vacation during RISE week and attend as many sessions as I could (author’s update note: sadly, RISE is no longer operational). I truly hope it helps you achieve your dreams in 2019 and beyond.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 2, 2016

A family-owned and operated shop on historic Route 6 in Troy, Pennsylvania, Mill Street Treats sells a variety of flavored popcorns, roasted peanuts, ice cream, and more. Though he worked as a shop teacher until his retirement in 2013, he had previous experience as a business owner. “I Choose partners you can lean on.

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Up and Running

MARCH 18, 2013

Entrepreneur Zack Price is guest blogging his experience on the 2013 StartupBus as it makes its way from Chicago to SXSW in Austin. And then, when Scobleizer brought up the tricky sponsorship question, I simply passed the baton to Chris Courtney who clonked them over the head with some lean methodology, just as he did earlier that day.

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Up and Running

JULY 16, 2015

In addition to law, Stuart was involved in various business ventures, including building subdivisions, as well as owning or operating restaurants, a grocery store, and a farm. In order to operate according to their vision, Red Wagon had to comply with every regulation, from permits to labeling and more. The cash behind the cones.

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Hunter Walker

JANUARY 23, 2015

Although the way we spend our days are different than the teams we’ve backed, Homebrew started in Jan 2013 with the goal of feeling like a startup, just one which writes checks instead of code. Get Homebrew operations up and running. To lean in and help them get to the right answer faster on anything they considered urgent.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 16, 2014

Finally, that this was not the first highly successful tech IPO in Australia in 2013 with OzForex raising AUD $439.4 The firm now has 600+ employees with Facebook vice-president Jay Parikh and former Symantec chief executive Enrique Salem on its board as of August 2013. BigCommerce. It’s not hard to see why. Halfbrick Studios.

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mobile.smashingmagazine.com

JANUARY 16, 2013

January 14th, 2013. A mobile-optimized structure, however, leans towards a “taller” arrangement in addition to hierarchies. January 14th, 2013 6:40 am. January 14th, 2013 8:50 am. January 14th, 2013 11:06 am. January 14th, 2013 5:16 pm. January 15th, 2013 3:16 am. UI Design. E-Commerce.

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MAY 22, 2020

Deputy Chief Technology Officer in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy from 2013–2014, where she founded the United States Digital Service. We're no longer operating at the speed of government. We're operating at the speed of need in this because people are there to just do it. She served as the U.S.

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conversionxl.com

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

I feel like “conversion rate optimization” is in 2013 what “social media marketing” was in 2009. The most common mistake startups make is assuming they can operate the same way big companies do, and expect success with little to no feedback from potential customers. Sep 06, 2013 @ 12:24:13. 6 Comments.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 29, 2017

I’m a big believer of lean startup. As an e-commerce entrepreneur, this quote resonates with me greatly and it is has guided many aspects of my business operations, especially the user experience design of my website. In September of 2013, I landed myself into one of the coveted spots on ABC’s Shark Tank. Steve Jobs.

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Hunter Walker

DECEMBER 19, 2013

Since raising our fund earlier this year, we’ve invested in a number of strong teams but this isn’t an easy business and we’re committed to bringing an operators mentality to what we do: measure and improve, every day, week, month. As 2013 winds down, I’m finding it exhilarating to build our new fund.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 2, 2021

Khosrowshahi, who previously served as CEO of Expedia before taking the reins at Uber in 2017, sat down with Greylock general partner Reid Hoffman to discuss the past, present and future of the mobility and delivery business that now operates in 71 countries around the world and employs around 20,000 people globally.

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abovethecrowd.com

DECEMBER 18, 2017

In their marvelous book, Lean Solutions , James Womack and Daniel Jones unpack what it means to apply the discipline of lean manufacturing to service industries. healthcare system does not operate as a free marketplace with the type of open-competition that we often associate with capitalism. Who Is the Actual Customer?

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 21, 2015

” These were by far the worst interviews of my life and it was so bad … that some guy leaned across the desk and said, “I’ve got an idea for you. . … I’m a terrible liar, so I would say things like, “Well … I have an economics degree, we have a lot in common, right?”

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View from Seed

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

But there is also opportunity in lean times. Facebook goes public in 2012 and Twitter in 2013. Two of the three have gross margins <50% (AMZN is 40%, AAPL 38%, MSFT 67%) and one has operating profit margins <5% (AMZN 4%, AAPL 22%, MSFT 34%). Survival is the order of the day. 2012-2016: The Era of Blitzscaling.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Talk to the farm down the street about how they’re using their hilly, forested land to plan for a future logging operation. This number was updated from its previous cap of $250,000 in 2013. Operating a successful farming operation will happen a lot more easily if you have a good relationship with your neighbors.

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Eric Friedman

AUGUST 18, 2021

Previously, he was the COO of digital gift card start-up Giftly from its inception in 2010 to its acquisition by Giftcards.com in 2013. On Deciens’ Lean Operation. He is also co-founder and Managing Partner of Deciens Capital, an early stage investment fund. In my mind, you are effectively a one person show.

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Up and Running

JULY 20, 2020

The trick is sticking with what’s necessary to operate effectively while minimizing any additional costs. Create a list of all items your business needs to start and operate, including things like computer equipment, POS systems, office supplies, furniture, and salaries. And to do that you need to develop your business plan.

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