Steve Blank

JANUARY 21, 2010

The startup founder who gets fired just as his/her company is growing into large company could be a cliché – if it wasn’t so true – and painful. I’ve been the founder who got fired, I’ve been on the board as my friends got fired and I’ve been the board member who fired the founders.

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Software By Rob

APRIL 7, 2010

Agile Development, meet Agile Business. But the number one question you need to think about when going after this Agile Business approach: At what point is it worth spending the time to truly automate this? Im a serial web entrepreneur here to share what Ive learned in my 11 years as a self-funded startup founder.

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Given the common challenges encountered by founders as they navigate through this hiring decision, I thought I’d outline some of my thoughts below that can hopefully serve as a simple framework when it comes to making the first Analytics hire at your startup. Many founders confuse the two as they both involve lots of numbers.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

by Jon Leighton, Director of digital agency iResources and founder of neatly.io. I spoke to a founder recently about a pivot; they offered an ad tech solution to enterprise clients and had just spent six months on a new feature. He is also the founder of neatly.io Pivoting’ is spoken about a lot in the tech world.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 5, 2012

It’s at this point the business needs an operating plan, financial forecasts and other well-understood management tools. The processes used to organize and implement the search for the business model are Customer Development and Agile Development. Execution requires operating plans and financial forecasts. Organization.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 13, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, July 13, 2009 The Principles of Product Development Flow If youve ever wondered why agile or lean development techniques work, The Principles of Product Development Flow: Second Generation Lean Product Development by Donald G. Reinertsen is the book for you. Expo SF (May.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

I wondered if business plans and 5-year forecasts were the right way to plan a startup. Eric’s insight was that traditional product management and Waterfall development should be replaced by Agile Development. So business model design + customer and agile development is the process that startups use to search for a business model.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 23, 2018

It provides many features from expense tracking to invoicing, so that companies can get a complete overview of their budgets and forecasts. You will, of course, need to continue to innovate and strive to remain agile and responsive to market conditions and consumer demands alike for continued success. Don’t Be Afraid to Ask For Advice.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 18, 2017

They listen intently to wave forecasts coming from special radios they carry with them at all times. Master Reinvention Agility. Judo originated in 1880, when its founder, Jigorō Kanō, was motivated to stop bullying at a local school. We call this strategy Reinvention Agility. Be the Disruptor, Not the Disrupted.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 3, 2019

Go beyond standard sources of voice of customer data ; better options are: Interview founders (the original “customers”); Thank-you page surveys; Usertesting.com; Mine sales calls; Mine support tickets; Mine Facebook comments ; Mine online reviews. Founder interviews can find the story, the value proposition , and the big idea.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2020

We can't make a 5-year plan or a 10-year forecast right now, but we know there are investments we can make today that will set ourselves up for success in the future. So we went back, got our agile teams engaged and in 48 hours, we could put up aerial of people's homes. Be very outcome-driven in the world we're going to. Let's go."

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

Because five whys kept turning up a few key metrics that were hard to set static thresholds for, we even had a dynamic prediction algorithm that would make forecasts based on past data, and fire alerts if the metric ever went out of its normal bounds. Wed never heard of five whys, and we had plenty of "agile skeptics" on the team.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

So what does CTO mean, besides just "technical founder who really cant manage anyone?" If youre trying to design an architecture to maximize agility, how can that work if some people are working in TDD and others not? Ive forecasted the issues you have spoken of without entertaining the thoughts of solutions like you have.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 10, 2011

In a startup founders and the board need to do exact the opposite of a large company – failures need to be shared, discussed and dissected to extract “lessons learned” so a new direction can be set. As a founder I quickly learned how open I could be with my board. Founders lead by example in sharing Lessons Learned.

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Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

Many assume it was a cakewalk, based on the success LinkedIn has enjoyed over time and the current stature of our founder/CEO Reid Hoffman (now Chairman). Yes… he was a very successful PayPal exec and previously co-founder & VP Product of SocialNet. But keep in mind at this point Reid’s a first-time CEO. Thanks Lee.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

Ilya Pozin is the founder of Open Me and Ciplex. The problem is that scientific management puts a heavy focus on forecasting, which is great as long as you have the stability to make accurate forecasts. At Ciplex , we have a very flat and team-based organizational structure which helps us be more agile as a whole.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 26, 2014

In the age of Google, true smartness means the ability to see and recognize patterns—and constitutes the difference between forecasting a likely future and simply following the conventional wisdom. Nest Labs founder Tony Fadell said, “If you don’t have an emotionally engaging design, no one will care.”. It’s how companies become agile.

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Growthink Blog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2016

CCS Insights forecasts that 411 million smart wearable devices, worth a staggering $34 billion, will be sold in 2020 (up from 274 million this year). In his words, he focuses on the intersection of “Mobile + Digital + Apps + IoT + Wearables + UX + Cloud + Enterprise + Monetization + Government + Agile.”

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 5, 2009

Companies that reliably fail to make their forecasted numbers are exceptionally prone to “management retooling.&# ► August (2) SXSW Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium ► July (4) Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot Some IPO speculation Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# th. Expo SF (May.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 1, 2014

” For Lindsay Nelson, CEO and co-founder of Theme Dragon, Inc that opportunity was founding a tech company. And this isn’t just for your business, but as many startup founders know, your personal finances can matter just as much (especially if you aren’t profitable yet). How do you balance it all? Be hyper-focused.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 30, 2008

Get 18 months or more of cash (runway) in the business against a conservative forecast. ► August (2) SXSW Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium ► July (4) Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot Some IPO speculation Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# th. Act now, act with speed. Use Google Apps.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 6, 2011

The finished book will come out on September 13, featuring an amazing cover designed by my IMVU co-founder Marcus Gosling and refined and tested by so many of you. Most of our management tools, like planning and forecasting, require a long and stable operating history. them back to my publisher. I am incredibly proud of the result.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 9, 2009

In fact, I remember sending him and his obscure-to-me co-founder (aka Reid Hoffman ) a bug report early-on, instead of taking them up on their offer of an in-person meeting. I managed to be envious of dozens of other companies, founders, and colleagues who seemed to be having tremendous success but later turned out to be a mirage.

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