Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Two others – that each team member give their input independently and that the results be objectively aggregated – are also key parts of building a meritocracy. I already advocate cross-functional teams as part of the lean startup methodology. Diversity is not the only requirement for making good group decisions.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

This typically involves a CRM system or tool that helps automate and aggregate various customer touchpoints. However, with more and more small businesses leaning into more insightful customer relationship management, it’s becoming more of a necessity rather than a novelty. A CRM is a complex but worthwhile investment.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 21, 2011

The Stanford Lean LaunchPad class was an experiment with a new model of teaching startup entrepreneurship. Virtual channels include Dedicated e-commerce, Two-step e-distribution and Aggregators. Filed under: Lean LaunchPad , Teaching. With two weeks and two more updates to go, this post is part six. The Nine Teams Present.

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Venture Chronicles

MAY 26, 2010

Back in March, Ben Horowitz of Andreessen Horowitz wrote a post called The Case For The Fat Startup, where he outlined some of the reasons why a fledging company might want to consider taking a large amount of funding — a strategy that contrasts with the ‘lean startup’ model that has become common in Silicon Valley.

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www.subelsky.com

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

Mike Subelskys Blog Wednesday, November 11, 2009 Lean startup tools for Rails apps A few months ago I was invited to dinner with the Geeks on a Plane crew when they stopped in Washington, and had the opportunity to meet one of my heroes, Eric Ries , author of the Startup Lessons Learned blog. Email This BlogThis!

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Up and Running

AUGUST 24, 2020

Simply put, IoT is a combination of sensor and data analytics systems, helping businesses aggregate metrics to make more accurate decisions. Making lean decisions , testing minimum viable products (MVP), actively seeking feedback, and being willing to make continuous adjustments in pursuit of optimization.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

The startups in our Lean LaunchPad classes and the NSF I-Corps incubator use LaunchPad Central to collect a continuous stream of data across all the teams. Recently we ran a Lean LaunchPad for Life Sciences class with 26 teams of clinicians and researchers at UCSF. Investment Readiness Level (IRL) for Corporations and Investors.

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View from Seed

MARCH 1, 2016

Are you aggregating and leveraging a competitive dataset none will be able to reproduce? Because then, when you go back to the same capital market for your Series A, and say, “We are raising this A to do Y,” you’ll have a lot of folks leaning in. Are you bringing an army of algorithm authors to attack a sleep non-technical industry?

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

A Lean Startup methodology offers entrepreneurs a framework to focus on what’s important: Business Model Discovery. Teams use the Lean Startup toolkit: the Business Model Canvas + Customer Development process + Agile Engineering. Filed under: Customer Development , Customer Development Manifesto , Lean LaunchPad , Teaching.

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viniciusvacanti.com

APRIL 2, 2012

Soon after, I started attending the Lean Startup meetup in New York and reading Eric Reis’s writings. But, despite being all in on the Lean Startup movement, we didn’t do that. After we re-launched as a daily deal aggregator, we got exactly one email from a user saying they missed the sample sales. I was believer.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 16, 2013

can often save a company hundreds or thousands of dollars every year and, in aggregate, can have a meaningful impact on the collective energy footprint of the small business community. Lean Business: Office Space – A Meditation. Lean Business: Do Unto Others*. Promote remote. Photo: Charles Cook.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 12, 2016

And they also are great for sports events (I watch the Eagles pregame videos from fans aggregated in one place, for example). Snapchat is a “lean forward” technology. I have found no better platform in a national event like the Paris bombings to see what is happening on the ground by real people. Authenticity / Endemic.

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The Next Web

MARCH 24, 2013

Said McClure,”We worship at the altar of ‘ lean ‘ a little too much when really we should just be running our businesses. And yet when they started startups, they decided to build recipe sites, or aggregators for local events.” But what happens when a constructive conversation becomes a futile one?

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

As David Sacks from All in put it: On aggregate, a lot of funding was also deployed to startups in the application layer – investing in founders leveraging generative AI to either solve narrow tasks, or bring automation to tasks to reduce costs, increase accuracy, speed etc.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 18, 2010

Recently, he was bitten by the lean startup bug and has started writing about his experiences attempting to apply lean startup and customer development principles. Ive previously named his post Achieving Flow in a Lean Startup as one of my favorite blog posts of 2009.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

This type of service will aggregate data and help you to pay less for a good policy. If you want to keep your startup team lean and mean, utilizing outsourcing for certain tasks, such as accounting, might be a very smart move. The best way to do this is by using a quote service that compares insurance policy rates in your state.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2009

In an ecosystem, each participant acts according to its own imperatives, but these selfish actions have an aggregate effect. These concepts have important implications for any lean startup. In an ecosystem, each participant acts according to its own imperatives, but these selfish actions have an aggregate effect. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 5, 2009

It’s entirely possible for the startup to be a massive success without having large aggregate numbers, because the startup has succeeded in finding a passionate, but small, early adopter base that has tremendous per-customer behavior. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Expo SF (May. for Harvard Business Revie.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2009

But aggregated across many schools, there are thousands or tens of thousands of them. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Startup Visa update ► February (5) Kiwi lean startup + Australia next Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business) Beware of Vanity Metrics (for Harvard Business Rev. Expo SF (May.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

DECEMBER 8, 2010

The aggregation of such high-intent traffic is what makes Google a formidable force on the Internet. There have been several unsuccessful attempts to bring the web to TV, but the user experience hasn’t matched the lean-back, simple remote controlled TV watching. Social Media based Discovery Traffic Breaks Out.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 4, 2009

Using memcacheds multiget, which allows the fetching of many keys in parallel, I have written code to aggregate all the shard lookups for a given page and prefetch them, reducing the overhead even further. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science?

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 28, 2011

Many NFPs operate in ways that would not be considered ‘business-like,’ AND these organizations, like their small, for-profit cousins, can benefit by leveraging the ideas and tools that we often discuss in the Lean Marketing series. But one of the tenets os lean marketing is to define short-term and intermediate goals.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

First of all, it means that most aggregate measures of success, like total revenue, are not very useful. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Startup Visa update ► February (5) Kiwi lean startup + Australia next Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business) Beware of Vanity Metrics (for Harvard Business Rev.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 16, 2013

can often save a company hundreds or thousands of dollars every year and, in aggregate, can have a meaningful impact on the collective energy footprint of the small business community. Lean vs. Mean – Small Business and Responsibility. Lean Business: The Very Model of a Modern Spreadsheet. Promote remote.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

Just like in the world of startups, we can start to use micro-scale pilot programs, executed in lean fashion, to gather real facts for making ROI decisions about new project investment. If they don’t, there are a new breed of lean startups who understand this deep in the bones ready to take their place. 12comments: Dougvs said.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 2, 2016

As a place to start, I recommend that you model your business after one of the following archetypes, understanding the pros and cons, rather than defining a new one with a large inherent learning curve: The aggregator – one-stop shop. Aggregators delight customers by offering a vast array of products or services under the same experience.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 30, 2008

In order to get optimal results from a group-based effort, you need three things: diversity, Independence , and an objective method for aggregating results. Aggregate results carefully. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? Expo SF (May.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 20, 2013

We’re going to test this hypothesis by teaching a Lean LaunchPad class for Life Sciences and Healthcare (therapeutics, diagnostics, devices and digital health) this October at UCSF with a team of veteran venture capitalists. Filed under: Customer Development , Lean LaunchPad , Science and Industrial Policy , Teaching.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 8, 2017

The daily program encourages a balanced eating plan of fruit, vegetables, lean protein, and complex carbohydrates while monitoring portion sizes. Physical activity recommendations gradually guide our members from simple walking, on to vigorous strength and cardiovascular training that helps replace excess fat with lean muscle.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 12, 2016

We just held our final week of the Hacking for Diplomacy class, teaching students entrepreneurship and “Lean Startup” principles while they engaged in national public service applying advanced technologies to solve global challenges. Getting Lean. Each of the teams used the Lean Startup methodology. Lessons Learned.

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View from Seed

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Aggregate VC investment in 2009 hits a low of roughly $20B, a figure last seen in 2003 in the wake of the bursting of the dotcom and telecom bubble and 2001 recession. But there is also opportunity in lean times. VC funding for startups is drying up quickly. Survival is the order of the day.

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Hunter Walker

OCTOBER 25, 2020

The “absolutely yes” category was dominated by creators who had branched beyond their initial piece of content and created some persistent space for the community to aggregate. Lean Luxe (business of commerce and brands) has a newsletter and Slack group. Most typically in Slack, Facebook, WhatsApp or Discord. Notes and More.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 17, 2018

One study ( 1) published in 2010 aggregated research on the business growth of 11,046 companies and found that planning improved business performance. Simpler plans— Lean Plans that can fit on a single page —get updated more frequently and are more helpful to these companies because they can review their strategy at a glance.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Each team of three to five students is being asked not only to become an expert on these complex topics in 10 short weeks, but also to learn and apply Lean LaunchPad methodology to put forth a solution. The teams live and die by the Lean Startup credo: “There are no facts inside the building so get the hell outside.”

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Each team of three to five students is being asked not only to become an expert on these complex topics in 10 short weeks, but also to learn and apply Lean LaunchPad methodology to put forth a solution. The teams live and die by the Lean Startup credo: “There are no facts inside the building so get the hell outside.”

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The Equity Kicker

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

To start with they were aggregators in the same way as cable companies were aggregators and they competed with traditional TV companies for content – a happy world for content producers like Disney. That points to a significant part of the market going on a pay-per-view model.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 15, 2011

Our new Stanford Lean LaunchPad class was an experiment in a new model of teaching startup entrepreneurship. We graded them on a scale of 1-5, posted our grades and comments to a shared Google doc, and had our Teaching Assistant aggregate the grades and feedback to pass on to the teams.). This post is part two. Part one is here.

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