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Amazing lean startup resources

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, January 12, 2010 Amazing lean startup resources A year ago, there was no lean startup movement. I continue to believe that the explosion of interest in the lean startup has very little to do with me. If you are attempting to apply lean startup ideas in your own business - you are not alone.

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Lessons Learned: What is customer development?

Startup Lessons Learned

This theory has become so influential that I have called it one of the three pillars of the lean startup - every bit as important as the changes in technology or the advent of agile development. Most likely, your business plan is loaded with opinions and guesses, sprinkled with a dash of vision and hope. Expo SF (May.

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Lessons Learned on Mashable today

Startup Lessons Learned

For the rest of us, there is an alternative: to create credibility by building a lean startup. My startup business (web development) is being shunned by virtually every other potential investor I approached thus far. The only folks who invested in me were the ones who barely understood the business plan. Expo SF (May.

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It's a startup, not a spreadsheet

Startup Lessons Learned

Certainly venture-backed startups don’t have this luxury – every business plan has a model in it. This model of joint accountability is at the heart of the lean startup, and is just as applicable to venture-backed, bootstrapped, and enterprise startups. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0.

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Waves of technology platforms

Startup Lessons Learned

Some combination of the dot-com crash and a just terrible business plan prevented us from having to take our scalability problems to the next level. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. for Harvard Business Revie. Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? Expo SF (May.

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The 11 Bad Habits Killing Innovation in Your Company

Steve Blank

The latter requires speed and agility. Bad Habit #3: Insisting on untested and detailed business plans. Most established companies require detailed business plans for new ideas. Business plans actually maximize the risk of failure because of the focus on executing an unproven idea rather than testing it.

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The 11 Bad Habits Killing Innovation in Your Company

Steve Blank

The latter requires speed and agility. Bad Habit #3: Insisting on untested and detailed business plans. Most established companies require detailed business plans for new ideas. Business plans actually maximize the risk of failure because of the focus on executing an unproven idea rather than testing it.