Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

Since the term “cloud computing” was coined in 1996—at least as we have come to understand its meaning—the software as a service industry has exploded. Step 1: Start with a lean plan. I started UpKeep after seeing and using traditional enterprise software. Introducing Lean Planning: How to Plan Less and Grow Faster.

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Up and Running

MAY 28, 2015

We recently had Tim Berry, Palo Alto Software founder and business planning expert, present our Bplans audience with his latest advice on lean business planning. Start your lean business plan today: Download our Free Lean Plan Template one-page-pitch-download.pdf. That’s a lean business plan.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 14, 2014

Exchanging your services for services is possible with legal counsel, accountants, engineers, and even sales people. Software apps that once required a 10-person team can now be done with the Lean Development methodology by two people in a couple of months. Joint venture with distributor or beneficiary.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 1, 2017

Exchanging your services for services is possible with legal counsel, accountants, engineers, and even sales people. Software apps that once required a 10-person team can now be done with the Lean Development methodology by two people in a couple of months. Joint venture with distributor or beneficiary.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

Exchanging your services for services is possible with legal counsel, accountants, engineers, and even sales people. Software apps that once required a 10-person team can now be done with the Lean Development methodology by two people in a couple of months. Joint venture with distributor or beneficiary.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2018

Exchanging your services for services is possible with legal counsel, accountants, engineers, and even sales people. Software apps that once required a 10-person team can now be done with the Lean Development methodology by two people in a couple of months. Joint venture with distributor or beneficiary.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 8, 2015

Exchanging your services for services is possible with legal counsel, accountants, engineers, and even sales people. Software apps that once required a 10-person team can now be done with the Lean Development methodology by two people in a couple of months. Joint venture with distributor or beneficiary.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Rose of Gust, roughly 1,500 startups get funded by venture capitalists, and 50,000 by angel investors in the United States each year. Learn more about new business approaches and management software. Use scheduling software for social media and be consistent. According to David S. Surround yourself with talent.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 20, 2014

When Customer Development and the Lean Startup were just a sketch on the napkin, Dino Vendetti, a VC at Bay Partners, was one of the first venture capitalists I shared my ideas with. Dino and I kept in touch as he moved up to Bend, Oregon on a mission to engineer Bend into a regional technology cluster. Startups in Bend.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

. ————– We’ve spent the last 3 years building a methodology, classes, an accelerator and software tools and we’ve tested them on ~500 startups teams. A Lean Startup methodology offers entrepreneurs a framework to focus on what’s important: Business Model Discovery. Experiments – Here’s What We Did.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

How to Turn Your Startup Into a Lean, Mean Marketing Machine – entm.ag/11mJBHi. How to Turn Your Startup Into a Lean, Mean Marketing Machine – entm.ag/11mJBHi. My First 9 Months as an Angel Investor – crowdspring.co/18n5adQ. How to Turn Your Startup Into a Lean, Mean Marketing Machine – entm.ag/11mJBHi.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 10, 2011

We still have some collective scar tissue: the idea conjures up the hordes of dot-com hopefuls that descended on VC’s and angel investors with little more than a business plan. One tweet read, “well, if HBS is investing in the lean startup we know it has jumped the shark.” The class debuts in a few weeks.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Jeff’s presentation is from the point of a view of “What Investors Want” (see resources here ) while Mar’s takes it from a founder trying to figure out the funding landscape. And thanks to Ann Miura-Ko of Floodgate (my first Lean LaunchPad co-instructor) for her suggestions. At the high-end pre-seed angel funds might invest.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

Home Books for Startups Guide Secret History-Bibliography Steve Blank Startup Tools Steve Blank Entries RSS | Comments RSS Email Subscription Get Steve Blank via your RSS Feed RSS - Posts RSS - Comments Categories Air Force (12) Ardent (10) Audubon (1) Big Companies versus Startups: Durant versus Sloan (39) Business Model versus Business Plan (..)

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

His most recent company, Filtrbox, participated in the inaugural Techstars class (Techstars Boulder 2007) and was a win for all parties involved; Filtrbox was acquired in 2010 by Jive Software (NASDAQ: JIVE). While that is true, if you rely on outside capital to reach escape velocity, keep the cockpit talking to the engine room.

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

Lean Startup Circle Boston – Meetup dedicated to the lean startup and customer development methodology. Extension Engine - Software engineering and design. Bill Warner – Avid, Techstars, Angel investor (@billwarner). General Assembly – Boston branch of tech classes and workshops started in NYC.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 18, 2012

I come from a high-tech software background, and only a few years ago, it would cost at least a million dollars ($1M) for a team of professionals to produce any commercial software product. Now, with open source software components, and low-cost development tools, the same job can be done by one good hacker for a few thousand dollars.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

I come from a high-tech software background, and only a few years ago, it would cost at least a million dollars ($1M) for a team of professionals to produce any commercial software product. Now, with open source software components, and low-cost development tools, the same job can be done by one good hacker for a few thousand dollars.

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rob.by

MARCH 8, 2012

He argued that software engineers don’t finish what they start, and that you’re better off paying a technical person than partnering with one. He picked engineers who were technically-driven but not entrepreneurially-driven. He picked engineers who weren’t comfortable taking risks as great as he wanted to take.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Lean Methodology Sources. Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. Part 3- Lean Cust. Firebase : Are all your developers front-end engineers? Google Custom Search Engine. Google App Engine. Steve Blank’s Lean Startup Resources. Lean Startup Circle â?? Search Engine Optimization Tools.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Investors are also mining for leads such sources as: – product crowdfunding sites ( Indiegogo *); – tech communities ( Producthunt ); – angel group platforms ( Gust ); – expert networks (e.g., – angel investor networks ( AngelList , FundersClub , OurCrowd , Republic *, SeedInvest ). .

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Steve Blank

JUNE 2, 2011

A revolution has taken hold as customer development and agile engineering reinvent the Startup process. When the boardroom is bits, angel-funded startups can get experienced advice – independent of geography. An angel investor or VC can multiply their reach and/or depth. Victor Hugo. When The Boardroom is Bits.

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Silicon Valley Business Model Early Stage Venture Capital 289

Gust

JUNE 10, 2012

I come from a high-tech software background, and only a few years ago, it would cost at least a million dollars ($1M) for a team of professionals to produce any commercial software product. Now, with open source software components, and low-cost development tools, the same job can be done by one good hacker for a few thousand dollars.

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500hats.com

AUGUST 2, 2012

Or, as my friend Marc Andreessen might say, Software Eats the Private Equity World. Micro-VC: The Artist Formerly Known as “Super Angel” The “Micro-VC” funds (also known by the misnomer “Super Angel funds”), started as far back as the mid-90s with Ron Conway and earlier incarnations of his SV Angel fund.

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Silicon Valley Early Stage Venture Capital Valuation 74

Up and Running

MARCH 11, 2015

” Our featured speaker was Caroline Cummings, the VP of Business Development at Palo Alto Software. Not only because it’s a product that Bplans and Palo Alto software makes, but because before I joined the company, I used LivePlan to pitch and raise my investment capital. You want to find a good mix, so start there.

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Technical Review Software Review Due Diligence Exit Strategy 60

Up and Running

AUGUST 12, 2015

Recently, Palo Alto Software CEO Sabrina Parsons hosted a webinar for our Bcast members on how to use LivePlan to create a better business plan, pitch your idea to investors, and track your business. You need to think of business planning from a lean perspective, and it’s just enough to get you to the right place.

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pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

I’ve been hearing about the so-called Series A Crunch for at least six months, and in recent weeks, I’ve spoken with more than 20 venture capitalists, angel investors, incubator heads, lawyers, and other necessary cogs in the ecosystem trying to get some details about it. On November 28, 2012. November 29, 2012.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

Computer Software. How well a failed entrepreneur has managed his company, and how well he worked with his previous investors, makes a difference in his ability to persuade U.S. The 20-year venture capitalist is an "angel" investor in Mr. Dreymanns new start-up, Mowingo Inc., Harley Goes Lean to Build Hogs.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 15, 2011

Geography : When the boardroom is bits, angel-funded startups can get experienced advice - independent of geography. An angel investor or VC can multiply their reach and/or depth. More than 700 startups signed up for the LeanLaunchLab software the day it was first demo'd.) We Ran the Experiment.

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Silicon Valley Startup Early Stage Business Model 118

SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Who better to answer than the company's engineering lead. Five Reasons You Haven’t Launched - Software By Rob , November 10, 2010 Photo by stevendepolo. have focused this as advice to entrepreneurs building enterprise software ventures today. Ask a question and get an answer - that is, after all, what all Q&A sites offer.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

This literally the dumbest, most ignorant piece that I’ve ever read about software development and/or hiring programmers. NET and PHP, I can tell you the average.NET guy knows far more about good software design than the average PHP guy. In every population there are some that are both brilliant and malicious. Sjoerd Franken.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

If getting VC or angel money is one of the ways that will help you avoid failure, why not check out the free Funding Recommendation Engine here ? #20 By way of crude example, if your building innovative trading software for Wall Street, be where you customers are and where you can best network. During this year they.

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Cofounder Startup Technical Cofounder CTO Hire 89

techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

The best composition is probably one engineer whose passion lies in the pixels on the screen and another engineer whose passion is making bits fly really fast through servers. is it really that the only people who can build great startups are engineers? Engineers don’t always have the best business ideas.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Jason Cohen of Smart Bear Software does a nice job articulating this issue stating : The fact that you are learning only from success is a deeper problem than you imagine…drawing conclusions only from data that is available or convenient and thus systematically biasing your results. However, this survivorship bias is problematic.

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Software Review Startup Technical Review Vesting 79

maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

How to stay lean and iterate quickly while you’re building a two sided marketplace, especially when “network effect” and “critical mass” are the two main focuses? If you’re looking for a designer, engineer, or biz marketing guy – go to meetups / conferences that those people would go to. Then launch.

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Technical Review Startup Cofounder Software Review 44

crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Helping clients with software and/or hardware issues. basic infrastructural costs like phone and internet service, scheduling and invoicing software, etc… marketing and advertising costs. Passive income can be handy for bolstering your bottom line and an important safety net for lean seasons. Communications consulting.

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Small Business Administration Small Business Social Media Elevator Pitch 86

SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

Many of our job postings for Engineering positions describe the company as a place “where the word ‘millions’ is used frequently and in many contexts&#. SaaS 101: 7 Simple Lessons From Inside HubSpot - OnStartups , July 19, 2010 It’s been a little over 4 years since I officially launched my internet marketing software company , HubSpot.

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