Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Chasing funding versus chasing customers and a repeatable and scalable business model, is one reason startups fail. Entrepreneurs put together their funding presentation by extracting the key ideas from their business plan, putting them on PowerPoint/Keynote and pitching the company – until they get funded or exhausted.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 31, 2009

Finally, I’ll write about how Eric Ries and the Lean Startup concept provided the equivalent model for product development activities inside the building and neatly integrates customer and agile development. To begin with, the product development model completely ignores a fundamental truth about startups and new products.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 5, 2022

I’ve been planning for years to “Go Green,” and, finally, I’m implementing it. I’ve devised a sustainable business model where we will contribute to the ecological welfare of our environment. It's important to keep business agile. My business plans for 2022 is to go for growth.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 13, 2009

Figuring this out takes time, and few entrepreneurs have the patience to wait it out, because the business plan does such a good job of explaining what customers are going to think. The problem is that customers dont read your business plan. You have to know your business model. Great article.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

You can check out part one of this series here: Part 1: Which Is The Best Business Model For Your Startup – B2B Or B2C? B2B” – means that you are selling a product or service to other businesses. B2B” service-based companies tend to be more agile than “B2B” product-based companies. What Is “B2B&# ?

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

Step 1: Start with a lean plan. Instead of sitting down to write a 40-page business plan, start with a one-page pitch. It’s the fastest way to get your idea onto paper, and it’s the very first step in the lean planning process, which is much easier and more iterative than traditional business planning methods.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

Github - Free public repositories, collaborator management, issue tracking, wikis, downloads, code review, graphs Pivotal Tracker – Agile project management tool that enables real time collaboration. I hewar via thew grapevine that you’re thinking about a ‘Business Model Competition’ Interesting.

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wordsting.com

APRIL 4, 2013

We applied Lean Startup doctrines faithfully over two years as we built a software product that simplified how nonprofits plan and measure their social and environmental impact. Our chosen problem was logic models , which are the non-profit equivalent of business plans. Second, impose strict development discipline.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 5, 2009

And yet, it’s not really fair to ask that the company’s money be spent without anyone bothering to build a financial model that can be used to judge success. Certainly venture-backed startups don’t have this luxury – every business plan has a model in it. An excellent article and responses.

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Steve Blank

MAY 18, 2009

We agreed that all her founding CEOs seemed to have the same set of personality traits – tenacious, passionate, relentless, resilient, agile, and comfortable operating in chaos. I coach agile teams for a living, and I do most of my work with start-ups. With that in mind, I really enjoyed this article.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 26, 2010

It wasn’t until Eric Ries sat in my class and had the insight – that to actually implement Customer Development engineers needed to couple it with an agile methodology – that the theory turned into practice. Business Plans Versus Business Models at 14:08. Berkeley classroom.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Agile project management tool that enables real time collaboration. Agile project management. agile product management. agile product management and Scrum tool. Agile project management tool collaborative product life-cycle. Automates Agile / Scrum development. Agile eLearning. business planning.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

No Business Plan Survives First Contact With A Customer – The 5.2 few years ago I also started following Alexander Osterwalder in his blog about his Business Model Generation -mantra. Online Video on Lies About Business Planning - Up and Running , November 19, 2010 Business plans are a waste of time?

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