Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2017

Guest Post by Misti Yang, Writer for Lean Startup Co. Editor’s Note: We wrapped up the 2017 Lean Startup Week in San Francisco just a few weeks ago, and we’re excited to share with you some of the best lessons learned in entrepreneurship and corporate innovation. Because these Lean Startup people, they do crazy stuff,” Alex joked. “So

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

If youre trying to design an architecture to maximize agility, how can that work if some people are working in TDD and others not? Platform selection and technical design - if your business strategy is to create a low-burn, highly iterative lean startup, youd better be using foundational tools that make that easy rather than hard.

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JUNE 11, 2009

Agile – you may find the real opportunities for your company was somewhere else. This means you still need to have a resilient personality, and be agile. And you’ll still need to have a resilient and agile personality, as new customer and product opportunities will appear and change your work. How quickly will you recover?

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 23, 2020

For us at CEO Blog Nation, we get it. As a leadership coach, going into 2021, I intend to shift how I acquire new clients to support in their leadership journey as an aspiring or first-time leader. 9- Focusing on lean operations. The first event has already started – Agile and Management 3.0

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 7, 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. on Cafepress, but is now literally priceless since the copyright owner put it on his blog.) Absolutely priceless.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 11, 2012

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Lean Marketing: Delivering Customer Service via Social Media – [link]. Better Agile Than Smart – [link]. Better Agile Than Smart – [link]. – [link].

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2009

We also learned that law is code , and that leadership was needed to build thriving communities in a digital age. If you find it worthwhile, we'd appreciate a post on the blog to help us spread the word. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Can I send you a review copy? Expo SF (May. for Harvard Business Revie.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 2, 2009

The major thesis will be no surprise to those of you whove been following this blog for a few months. For the rest of us, there is an alternative: to create credibility by building a lean startup. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. January 2, 2009 11:54 AM Daniel Davie said. Thanks for the article. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

Is it too self-referential to post a blog entry about someone elses blog entry about how often to write a blog entry ? His post is ostensibly about how often to release new work (whether youre a blog writer, movie star, software team.) The leadership art is to balance the needs of the present with the needs of the future.

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OnlyOnce

MARCH 16, 2020

Several years ago, I blogged about the training program we created for entry-level employees at Return Path, including an embedded presentation that we used to use (which I hope still works on the blog after all these years). I came up with the attached, and thought it might make for a good blog post on Only Once. 3) Be lean.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

For those of you who have been following the discussion, a Lean Startup is Eric Ries ’s description of the intersection of Customer Development , Agile Development and if available, open platforms and open source. Over its lifetime a Lean Startup may spend less money than a traditional startup.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 27, 2009

And in hindsight, we seemed a bit more agile and innovative in WWII.) Yet decades later the military lacked the agility to write a spec in two years, let alone get 10′s of thousands of new systems deployed on aircraft as Terman had done. How was this possible? invention of electronic warfare, part I and [.] Reply Benjamin A.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 9, 2009

But what I wanted was an agile marketing team capable of operating independently without day-to-day direction. on April 10, 2009 at 6:58 am Said: Amazing blog. Reply Process for the Enterprise » Blog Archive » People, Staffing, and Steve Blank’s SuperMac Series , on April 17, 2009 at 11:40 am Said: [.]

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 20, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, August 20, 2009 The Promise of the Lean Startup Im honored to have a guest post on GigaOm to introduce the concept of the lean startup to their audience. The ultimate goal of a lean startup is to identify where its vision intersects with what reality can accommodate.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 29, 2009

Agile Opportunism – Entrepreneurial DNA « Steve Blank (tags: startup) [.] Reply SVJ , on June 30, 2009 at 3:21 am Said: Hi Steve: I have become a recent regular reader of your blog. Agile Opportunism – Entrepreneurial DNA. No internet, no blogs, no books [.] You’re Hired, You’re Fired. Reply Create.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 26, 2010

(The best entrepreneurs pivot on each hallucination until they get it right – then we call them practitioners of the Lean Startup.). It was an all day event devoted to the theory and practice of Lean Startups and Customer Development. This conference and the Lean Startup was the work of one amazing individual – Eric Ries.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 14, 2019

According to the Workplace 2025 study released in 2017 by Randstad US, by 2025 a majority of the workforce will be employed in an agile capacity, as a consultant, contractor, temporary, or freelance employee. In fact, the report predicted that as early as this year, as much as 50 percent of the workforce will be comprised of agile workers.

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

JANUARY 24, 2019

Just kidding, Design Thinking can be a good choice, as can Agile, or Lean, or your own blended system. This blog post was co-written with Kathleen Curtis Wolfe of The Purpose Partners. Which is best? Can I blend frameworks? If everyone else is jumping off the Design Thinking bridge shouldn’t we?

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Board Effect

APRIL 14, 2021

Leadership succession planning. It takes a skilled, results-oriented board that’s agile and adaptable to changing conditions and is committed to leveraging the right digital tools to make their vision come to life. Board members are insistent on avoiding risks and operating too leanly to be successful as a result. Adaptability.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 6, 2009

Forty years before Agile Development methodologies became popular, ESL had analysts from its &# customer&# sitting side-by-side with ESL engineers designing new equipment together. Blog at WordPress.com. These would be the heart of ESL’s business. A-12 OXCART CIA Spyplane ESL found other ways to stay very close to its customers.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

A shorter version of this post first appeared on the HBR blog. It didn’t help that “innovation” was the new hot-button buzzword from senior leadership, and incubators were sprouting in every division of their company, it just made their job more unmanageable. There’s a much better way. As the head of the U.S. Lessons Learned.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 30, 2009

Hopefully you and your co-founders are experts in one or two parts (agile development, SEO/SEM, etc.) Blog at WordPress.com. Initially your job is to understand each of the parts of your business model before you hire someone to do it. so at least some parts are being run by people who know what they are doing.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 25, 2009

Blog at WordPress.com. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

In future posts I’ll describe how Eric Ries and the Lean Startup concept provide the equivalent model for product development activities inside the building and neatly integrates customer and agile development. AKPC_IDS += "1115,"; (No Ratings Yet) Loading … Posted in Leadership | Tagged [.] carry on reading.

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Steve Blank

MAY 22, 2009

Everyone should be articulate and agile in describing and demoing the products.) Blog at WordPress.com. For bigger booths a good rule of thumb is to have two to four staffers for every 100 square feet of exhibit space. Even for the smallest trade show, no one shows up without booth training. Messages, themes, demo’s.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2020

39:34) Humility in leadership and learning from the mistakes. (42:07) One of the special obligations of leadership in a crisis like this is both to take the long-term view, but also to recognize we have an obligation to take action now. If you lean in and understand this is a brilliant time to play offense. Carl Liebert : Yeah.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 22, 2020

35:20) Inspiring acts of leadership and working hard. (35:50) She has been an advocate for a more responsive, a more resilient, more agile government. Talk a little bit about some of the people who have inspired you or just the acts of leadership and getting into it, how that's affected your experience of the crisis.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 3, 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. Blog at WordPress.com. Freemium models have their own scorekeeping.) Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 22, 2009

The original Hewlett Packard which made test and measurement products was spun-out and renamed Agilent. Agilent is a $5.8 Technology changes, culture changes, customer needs change, more agile competitors emerge, etc. AKPC_IDS += "376,"; (No Ratings Yet) Loading … Posted in Leadership | Tagged Amp, [.]

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Steve Blank

JULY 1, 2009

Filed under: Secret History of Silicon Valley « Agile Opportunism – Entrepreneurial DNA Rocket Science 2: Drinking the Kool-Aid » 2 Responses Ben , on July 1, 2009 at 2:31 pm Said: Great post Steve. Blog at WordPress.com. It’s interesting that the NY Times obituary makes no mention of Ted Hall.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 11, 2008

While both Stanford and MIT encouraged commercially oriented research and courted federal research contracts in the postwar years, MITs leadership focused on building relations with government agencies and seeking financial support from established electronics producers. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 18, 2009

On December 10, well have the third Lean Startup workshop with OReilly, also in NYC. The Thought Leadership talks are awesome. I encourage every entrepreneur to not only learn more about the lean startup, but to also find ways to immediately take small steps to put these plans into action in your company. Unconferences?

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2009

Waterfall, Agile, Lean? Blog at WordPress.com. Intellectual Property/Patents – Strategic or Tactical, timing? Regulatory Issues – What are they? Time to Market – How long? Product Development – How do you engineer it? Manufacturing – How do you build it? Seed and Follow-on Financing – How do your finance it? Liquidity – How?

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

In future posts I’ll describe 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. Blog at WordPress.com. é o processo de geração de oportunidades de negócio (leads) do seu produto?

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

They will realize that you have built a startup that’s agile, resilient and customer-centric. Your presentation doesn’t have a single word about Lean Startups or Customer Development. Your blog is on my must read list in Google Reader, and it’s always a great read. I just started a blog here: [link].

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 1, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, August 1, 2009 The Steve Jobs method Image via CrunchBase Its been a long time since I did a post that was primarily a link to another blog with commentary, but I came across something today that I really want to share. Plus, the premise of the question misunderstands the lean startup, too.

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Ben's Blog

MAY 15, 2020

You typically have to have the more directive leadership style, versus curating things from the bottom up, in order to move quickly. In a lot of the startup conversations I’ve been having, if you lean too far that way, it doesn’t resonate with people. It’s not a great look, from the leadership standpoint.

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