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Amazing lean startup resources

Startup Lessons Learned

For the many entrepreneurs that send me cold emails asking for me to review a business plan or answer a strategic dilemma: Im much more likely to answer if youve already tried getting an answer on the mailing list. Rich also organized the first Lean Startup Meetup right here in San Francisco. Expo SF (May.

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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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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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Lessons Learned on Mashable today

Startup Lessons Learned

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. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. They just havd faith in me. Now why would investors shy away from that?

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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. Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Six streaming locations Interviews ► March (7) New conference website, speakers, agenda Two new scholarship programs for lean startups Speed up or slow down?

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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. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. We just had our app support a few tens of thousands of customers, and it did well. Looking back, that was a special moment. 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.