Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 22, 2018

So much happened when the Lean Startup Community came together in Las Vegas last month for this year’s conference that I’m still processing it all. It was great to see so many of you there, and in particular to talk with so many different kinds of Lean Startup practitioners.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

According to Blissfully’s report, overall spend per company on SaaS has increased by 50% in 2020 as compared to 2018. Follow lean product development strategy (MVP strategy). In the last decade, SaaS (Software as a Service) has become a very popular model for new software product development.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 2, 2019

Build a lean team to complement your strengths. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 12/20/2018. I see this happening all the time, and in reality it may be a necessary stage, while funding and other resources are in short supply. Your skill in collaboration with the team, and creating systems and processes, becomes critical.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 5, 2023

The return of strategic competition between great powers became a centerpiece of the 2017 National Security Strategy and 2018 National Defense Strategy. We were integrating a lecture class with a heavy reading list with the best practices of hypothesis testing from Lean Launchpad/Hacking for Defense/I-Corps. Why This Class?

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Ragen Chastain, our Inclusion and Accessibility Manager for this year's Lean Startup Conference , spoke recently with Liz Jackson , an advocate and consultant and founder of The Disabled List , who will be presenting at the conference on Designing with Disability. Lean Startup made this easy on me. Thank you Lean Startup!

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Up and Running

MARCH 11, 2020

The ride-sharing market is expected to achieve a growth rate of more than 20 percent between 2018-2025. Create a lean business plan . 50 percent of consumer packaged goods growth from 2013-2018 came from sustainability-marketed products. Transportation industry projected growth. How to Stand Out. SAAS Business Startup Guide .

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VC Cafe

JULY 26, 2020

.” Steve Blank, “Is the lean startup dead?” ” The Lean Startup movement started out of necessity. Most principles of Lean Startup remain true, as described by Steve Blank in The Lean Startup Changes Everything : Business Plans are dead: Startups a series of hypothesis that need to be tested.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 4, 2019

But by 2018, more than 1.3 For example, in 2018 they gave a VPS (value per share) of $2.58 Being shareable is all about making people lean in rather than click off or swipe past. With so much content available at everyone’s fingertips, the world became a very noisy place. on Tumblr, $2.14 on Facebook, $1.67 on Twitter, $0.91

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 16, 2018

The successful sales teams of the future will lean on these to win more deals: Personalized mobile apps. It’s 2018, and the office is now mobile. No more spending two-thirds of the day entering data and researching leads — with machines on the case, salespeople can spend their time talking to prospects and closing deals.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 31, 2018

The Forrest Four-Cast: January 30, 2018 At the 2018 SXSW Accelerator Pitch Event , 50 finalists from around the world will make their pitches before a panel of judges. 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.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Later, half of these come back to admit that their day job was not all that bad, less stressful, the work predictable, with others to lean on for hard decisions. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 09/11/2018. Current job income keeps family and creditors satisfied. Your happiness and legacy depend on it.

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

In September 2018, David and I stepped out of STRV to work on this 100%. ” – The Lean Startup by Eric Ries. David brought 2 of his co-founders, our CTO and Head of Design along with. How did you come up with your business name? No one else can stop you from building your dream. Take extreme ownership of your success.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 31, 2018

They contacted the city to help and Paper Census , a collaboration between ATA and the City of Austin, launched in January 2018. We’re super lean and agile,” says Ortiz Shields, who works with two researchers in the city’s Office of Design & Delivery. This piece was originally published in GovLoop on August 21, 2018.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

The recognition that the United States is engaged in long-term strategic competition with the Peoples Republic of China and Russia became a centerpiece of the 2017 National Security Strategy and 2018 National Defense Strategy.

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 7, 2024

So if your campaign strongly leans towards social issues, Causes brings an exciting opportunity to leverage the power of passionate supporters. Acquired by GoFundMe in 2018, YouCaring attracts individuals and non-profits looking to raise funds for medical expenses, memorials, education costs amongst others.

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For Entrepreneurs

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

I presented on two topics at WebSummit 2018 in Lisbon on November 6th. The videos are provided courtesy of WebSummit: 9 Secrets for Startup Success, A roadmap for B2B Founders Lean Startup taught the world how to find product/market fit, but in the. The slides and videos of those two presentations can be found below.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 12, 2020

The key is to run as lean as possible without sacrificing quality. If you can temporarily reduce your burn rate to zero (or near zero) it may make the most sense for you to look at other areas to make money (freelancing for example) and then lean back into your business when the timing is right.

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Seeing Both Sides

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

experimental design, lean startup, design thinking), as well as decades of established governance modeled, are being effectively blown up by Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs). These became canons for entrepreneurs around the world as they embarked on the journey for product-market fit.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 17, 2018

February: Put together a Lean Plan : a quick, one-page business plan. If this is the route you’ll take, do a bandwidth check and create a rough timeline to help you stay on track. For example, your timeline might look like this: January: Meet with five successful entrepreneurs in the industry or find a mentor.

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Up and Running

JULY 16, 2018

There’s really not a lot of difference between a “ one-page business plan” a Lean Plan, and a good executive summary. A Lean Plan can be slightly longer but still uses summaries and bullet points, while traditional executive summary can extend to two or three pages—and it will usually use full sentences rather than bullets.

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VC Cafe

MAY 24, 2023

Back in 2018, they didn’t think about LLMs. The best thing students can do to adjust to an AI powered workforce is to ‘lean in’ on the technology. He only moved to a full time role at OpenAI in 2019. He’s not sure how much or how would it work but he sees it as a question of 1) law and 2) morals.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 16, 2018

Nearly 80 percent of customers say they are more loyal to purpose-driven brands than traditional brands and nearly three-quarters are more willing to defend them, or even pay a premium, according to the 2018 Cone/Porter Novelli Purpose Study. Marty Zwilling First published on CayenneConsulting on 06/28/2018.

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Hippoland

MARCH 30, 2018

The fundraising landscape in 2018 for pre-seed and seed-stage companies has changed a lot even in just the first few months of this year. This is what I wrote in Q1 2018 about the fundraising landscape. These days, many investors are very much leaning towards funding protocols with potential strong tech over apps.

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Hippoland

MARCH 30, 2018

The fundraising landscape in 2018 for pre-seed and seed-stage companies has changed a lot even in just the first few months of this year. This is what I wrote in Q1 2018 about the fundraising landscape. These days, many investors are very much leaning towards funding protocols with potential strong tech over apps.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Other than that we’ve adopted a “barbell strategy” where we may choose to avoid the high-priced, less-proven A & B rounds but we have raised 3 Growth Funds that then can lean in when there is more quantitative evidence of growth and market leadership and we can underwrite a $10–20 million round from a separate vehicle.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

You can actually put together a Lean Plan in less than 30 minutes. Here’s a free downloadable Lean Plan Template to help. As we said earlier, the simplest Lean Plan is just bullet point lists and tables, a few pages, plus essential projections. It was revised in 2018. Cash flow casualness. Fear and dread.

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Jeff Hilimire

JANUARY 7, 2019

The notes are random and I put no thought to connecting them through any logical sequence – they’re just my notes ;) I also wrote a brief book review back in February 2018 if you’d like to check that out. — Companies routinely refer to people as their most important assets.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 4, 2018

Scaling your business means you’ll be able to keep your budget lean while increasing your revenue at the same time. In 2018, SEO requires more than just keyword stuffing , and if you don’t know what that means, you should definitely leave it to the experts who do. Here are the steps to do it. Look for mentors.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 31, 2018

One of the speakers at this year’s Lean Startup Conference , which kicks off on November 14th in Las Vegas, is Giff Constable. To do lean startup well, you need to understand your own makeup and challenge your weaknesses. before it was acquired by Pivotal.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 10, 2018

This is an excellent use of the Lean Business Planning methodology , based on a simple Lean Plan combined with regular updates and revisions. And you can do a simple Lean Business Plan in less than an hour. Try using a Lean Plan template to get you started. It was updated in 2018. A simple business plan example.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 9, 2018

You must define what success means to you, so you don’t end up climbing the proverbial ladder of success, only to discover that it is leaning against the wrong wall. He is a class 2018 MBA student at ESUT Business School. I knew what I wanted. Yes, success is relative. After defining what success means to me, I put a time frame to it.

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Up and Running

MAY 7, 2018

If we could learn how to fly people to the moon in the 1960s, we can all learn how to create a successful business in 2018. Indeed, we are blessed in 2018 with more resources and access to more tools, courses, mentors, books , and applications that help us build a business than ever. I don’t have the time.”. The math is basic.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

So, jump-start your small business’s holiday marketing strategy with these holiday marketing suggestions for 2018. 2018 Holiday Marketing Ideas. But, that doesn’t stop many businesses from leaning into that Rockwellian interpretation of idyllic holiday coziness. But, don’t let that get you down.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Brendan Sterne , who unearthed the above articles on Amazon’s process, notes that Amazon differs from the model advocated in Lean Startup, which “aims to put a concrete prototype in front of consumers to validate the product.”. Before their launch in 2018, Woodhead faced a challenge. Test launch tiny products. His solution?

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Thanks to Alexandra Caffery, Fresh n’ Lean ! #8- I’ve worked so hard to make her proud, and although she passed away in June 2018, I have a picture of her on my desk to remind me to keep going when things get tough. I think a little fear is not necessarily bad. 8- Talk to people alot. Photo Credit: Danielle Berman.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 8, 2017

Lean how and why Artificial Intelligence is the tech industry’s next big revolution from the Executive Vice President and General Manager at Intel. And, mark your calendar for Monday, June 26 , which is the day that we begin accepting speaking proposals for SXSW 2018. Diane Bryant. Brooklyn Decker.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 31, 2019

He’ll be speaking at this year’s Lean Startup Conference , and also has a new book (for which I very happily wrote a short foreword) coming out next month: Secrets of Sand Hill Road: Venture Capital and How to Get It. The other evolution we’ve seen - and I alluded to it in the previous question - is the nature of funding rounds.

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