Steve Blank

JUNE 1, 2011

As customer and agile development reinvent the Startup, it’s time to ask why startup board governance has not kept up with the pace of innovation. Board meetings that guide startups haven’t changed since the early 1900’s. In the age of the Internet why do we need to get together in one room on a fixed schedule? Jonathan Swift.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 9, 2018

The design thinking process may have originated with designers, but the business world has started to take notice because of the agility, speed, and innovation that it promises. Thank god for the internet, because twenty years ago, I could not have started this business! Amalie Beauty is now an in-demand, six-figure beauty business.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 1, 2011

As customer and agile development reinvent the Startup, it’s time to ask why startup board governance has not kept up with the pace of innovation. Board meetings that guide startups haven’t changed since the early 1900’s. In the age of the Internet why do we need to get together in one room on a fixed schedule? Jonathan Swift.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

In an early-stage startup especially, revenue is not an important goal in and of itself. Let’s start with a simple question: why do early-stage startups want revenue? Go on an agile diet quickly. With a product development team that is not shipping, any agile methodology will surface major problems quickly.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 30, 2009

A discounted price is available for early stage entrepreneurs and students. In 2002 I became exposed to the idea of “agile software development&# and subsequently was a first round investor in Rally Software which is now the market leader in Agile application lifecycle management software. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 14, 2008

The people who are the lifeblood of an early-stage startup are earlyvangelists. If youre just getting negativity from someone, they are more likely a internet troll - not an earlyvangelist. They just dont need another authority figure in their life. Dont confuse passion with volume. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 2, 2009

Unfortunately, they are disinterested in doing the hard work to help early stage entrepreneurs and companies. 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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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 9, 2009

In fact, early stage companies shouldnt be able to get time from anyone else - who else would be crazy enough to try an truly innovative new product? christinelu : if youre building a disruptive innovation.the only people who you want to talk to are early adopters. Brilliant insight. Expo SF (May.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Stay agile so you can respond intelligently to your company’s needs. Brent is also an Entrepreneur-In-Residence at Crosscut Ventures , a venture capital firm based in Los Angeles, where he advises on customer acquisition, digital marketing, and consumer internet investments.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 13, 2011

As customer and agile development reinvent the startup, it's time to ask why startup board governance has not kept up with the pace of innovation. Board meetings that guide startups haven't changed since the early 1900's. In the age of the Internet why do we need to get together in one room on a fixed schedule? Rockefeller.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

Telecom O2 learning to move at the speed of the internet 500 Startups and their accelerated feedback loops on what works, and what doesn't work in early-stage investing. BetaBrand building apparel MVPs and testing them quickly with targeted customer communities. The result: a new idea I called The Lean Startup. It's a big tent.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 4, 2009

It connects to the internet to automatically download the necessary codes. This is important, especially if you are a very early stage company. Combining agile development with customer developm. One of my favorite gadgets at home is the Harmony Universal Remote. They want to do activities. Expo SF (May.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 17, 2016

With the right customer service app, you can consolidate all your customer conversations and interactions—across website, phone, email and social media channels—into one centralised place enabling fast, efficient and agile responses.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 5, 2009

One way to conceive of our goal in an early-stage venture is to incrementally “fill in the blanks&# for the business model that we think will one day power our startup. In other words, we want to use the spreadsheet to quantify our progress using the most important unit: validated learning about customers. Expo SF (May.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 23, 2010

Everyone is so focused on search that they’re going to miss the bigger opportunity, which I think is making meaning out of the massive amount of information on the internet, not just searching it. There is a common complaint heard from local entrepreneurs that AV doesn’t invest in early stage companies anymore.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 26, 2012

Bullpen is one of a growing number of early-stage funds - or, perhaps more accurately, "earlier-stage," since even his is no longer the first out of the gate. Risk to the company's business model in the early stages is reduced by adopting this app store "template" that customers worldwide have already embraced.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 8, 2009

But in the early stages of a startup you are still trying to hone in on what exactly the problem is. 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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SoCal CTO

APRIL 28, 2014

If your developers have a better machine, screen, internet connection, or chair at home than they do in the office, then there’s a problem. Generally I say that developers should be doing significant developer level testing, but in early-stage startups, testing falls back on the founders. Poor machine, screen, connection, chair.

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Agile VC

JULY 19, 2012

billion fund (CRV XI), though the firm’s roots were modest (Rick Burnes started CRV back in 1970 with a $4M first fund) and until then CRV had mostly stuck to its knitting of early-stage investing with small-mid sized funds. Like many leading firms CRV used this opportunity to raise a huge $1.2

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Seeing Both Sides

NOVEMBER 7, 2012

My first job after business school was serving as a product manager for an Internet commerce software company (Open Market, IPO'96). The art and science of product management has changed radically in the years since, with agile and lean methodologies replacing the more centralized, older methods.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 17, 2010

Three premier early-stage venture investors have joined forces to sponsor the event: Baseline , Floodgate , and First Round Capital. Three premier early-stage venture investors have joined forces to sponsor the event: Baseline , Floodgate , and First Round Capital. Expo SF (May. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Unfortunately in early stage startups the drive for financing hijacks the corporate DNA and becomes the raison d’etre of the company. What are Early Stage VC’s Really Asking? They will realize that you have built a startup that’s agile, resilient and customer-centric. Of course not.

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Ben's Blog

MAY 15, 2020

Finally, we’ll zoom out and assess the big picture: how various categories of company may be impacted long-term, how this crisis compares to 2008 (and what that means for early-stage founders), and the industries and business models that are now prime for growth. And do you think those differences are beneficial to founders?

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

I liked the flattering Venture Hacks commentary so much Ill just quote it: Many founders believe that early stage startups are endeavors of execution. He believes that many early stage startups are labors of learning. The customer is known, the product is known, and all we have to do is act. Expo SF (May.

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Agile VC

JULY 11, 2012

And while the internet created both tremendous reward and tremendous investment carnage leading up to and after the 2000 tech bubble, it’s created long run disruption of broad sectors of media, advertising, business software & computing, and retail commerce and VCs that missed this shift have faced real struggles.

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Agile VC

MARCH 8, 2012

But even during the macroeconomic boom of 2004 to early 2008 (inflated by various credit bubbles – housing, sovereign debt, LBOs) tech IPOs were extremely rare and then the global economic crisis of late 2008 – 2010 only further dampened hopes for a recovery. What’s the impact for early-stage startups?

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 13, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, March 13, 2009 Dont launch Heres a common question I get from startups, especially in the early stages: when should we launch? This is the usual reason given for a marketing launch, but for most early stage startups, its a failure. Combining agile development with customer developm.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 12, 2009

However, this financial bar has had the effect of excluding one segment of potential customers that Id really like to see there - early stage entrepreneurs who have all the intelligence and vision of their later stage counterparts, but simply cannot afford the cash flow to attend. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 19, 2008

What all these teachers had in common were two things: they were technology early adopters that were willing to take a chance on a new software product, and they all had similar problems organizing their classes and students. Stevey's Blog Rants: Good Agile, Bad Agile Learning from Obama: maneuver warfare on the campa.

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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. I see a lot of early-stage entrepreneurs waste too much time chasing money rather than figuring this out first.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 24, 2014

We boast the world’s second highest fixed broadband Internet subscription rate only an inch behind Sweden. Ninety-four percent of households are equipped with a computer and have Internet access (the others are still playing 8-bit Nintendo). We are used to punching well above our weight on the international stage.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 20, 2009

For short stories - I think it is always good to introduce some practical problem (you might have heard from entrepreneur at early stage) and how the lean startup method helped solved that. August 20, 2009 6:44 AM Prashant Sachdev said. Expo SF (May. Conference streaming, sponsors, discounted tickets.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 9, 2009

Id been on the internet since I was playing MUDs as a kid, but by 1999 I felt Id already missed the boat. We were focused on revenue, but we didnt understand that revenue is not important for its own sake in an early stage company. I pretty much missed all the trends. Expo SF (May. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

So bowing to popular demand the 2009 blog posts are now available on Amazon on a portable device which provides instant and random access to any post and does not require power or an internet connection. After I retired, I began teaching Customer Development , a theory of how to reduce early stage risk in entrepreneurial ventures.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

VC Cafe covers early stage Israeli and European tech & mobile startups. 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.

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