Up and Running

OCTOBER 10, 2016

When it comes to business planning, unless an investor has asked you to provide a formal business plan, we recommend writing a Lean Plan instead—it’s faster, more flexible, and will remain relevant throughout the life of your business. All about Lean Planning. Why Lean Planning? Start writing your Lean Plan.

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Steve Blank

MAY 6, 2013

The Harvard Business Review is offering free reprints of the May 2013 cover article, “ Why the Lean Startup Changes Everything “ Available here.

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Steve Blank

JULY 13, 2021

This article first appeared in Poets and Quants. By the end of the 20th century, case studies and business plans had reached an evolutionary dead-end for entrepreneurs. The Rise of Business Schools – Management as an Occupation. In 1985 the University of Miami held the first national business plan competition.

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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

JUNE 30, 2019

According to my experience and a this Motley Fool article, the challenge is very real, with around half of all new businesses no longer existing after five years. 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.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 15, 2019

This article previously appeared in the Harvard Business Review. These processes reduce risk to an overall organization, but each layer of process reduces the ability to be agile and lean and – most importantly – responsive to new opportunities and threats. Process Versus Product.

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Steve Blank

MAY 6, 2013

The Harvard Business Review is offering free reprints of the May 2013 cover article, “ Why the Lean Startup Changes Everything “ Available here.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 28, 2013

The lean startup – as envisioned and explained by Steve Blank, serial entrepreneur, associate professor at Stanford University and ReadWrite contributor – is no longer just for startups. As Blank writes in HBR , “It’s already becoming clear that lean start-up practices are not just for young tech ventures.”

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Up and Running

APRIL 27, 2020

Current businesses are finding ways to pivot their business models, revisiting their budgets, and developing new forecasts to minimize their burn rate and maximize their available cash runway. They’re surviving and finding ways to thrive, but for those looking to start a business, now may be one of the best times to do so. .

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Up and Running

JANUARY 24, 2019

I understand that many of you are in startup mode or still contemplating whether to embark on the risky business of becoming an entrepreneur. My goal for the next few years is to encourage waverers to start their own business, and to mentor some of those who are on their way to become millionaires. Write a Lean Business Plan.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 14, 2014

The article summarized 10 key learnings from the Unicorn club. ” One of my students sent me the article and asked, “What does this mean?” Since the Pivot is one of the core concepts of the Lean Startup I was puzzled. The authors of the article didn’t understand what a Pivot was. Business Model.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

This article is part of our Business Startup Guide —a curated list of our articles that will get you up and running in no time! Starting up a business requires a lot of different steps. If you have a business idea, write a quick business plan—a Lean Plan. Passion is important, but so are the details.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Good news, this is the business to be in next year. As corporate giants reassess their business models, some current staff will jump into the consulting world. Marketing departments of the future will get very lean and depend upon quick-strike teams that can be assembled for specific initiatives and campaigns.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

However the Customer Development Model and the Lean Startup work equally well for startups on the web. Union Square Ventures The next morning I got to spend time with Brad Burnham , partner at Union Square Ventures talking about their investment strategy and insights about web-based businesses. End of theory.&#

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Steve Blank

JUNE 3, 2010

They start with an innovation, search for a repeatable business model, build the infrastructure for a company, then grow by efficiently executing the model. outpace an existing company’s business model. You want to start executing the business model. Companies have a fairly predictable life cycle.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 8, 2018

This article, which originally appeared on our LivePlan Blog , is part of our “Business Planning Guide” —a curated list of our articles that will help you with the planning process! Most people think that meetings are a waste of time. They’re right. This meeting is our monthly plan review meeting.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 5, 2017

Lean into social. As such, aggressive selling methods like retargeting ads, pop-ups, and clickbait articles will likely push potential shoppers away. Instead of capitalizing on causes, make caring a part of your business model. Millennials want to trust and respect the brands they buy from before they make a purchase.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

Platform selection and technical design - if your business strategy is to create a low-burn, highly iterative lean startup, youd better be using foundational tools that make that easy rather than hard. But I think in a lean startup, the development methodology is too important to be considered "just management." Great article!

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The Next Web

MARCH 24, 2013

I’ll admit it, the title of this article is downright curmudgeonly. Said McClure,”We worship at the altar of ‘ lean ‘ a little too much when really we should just be running our businesses. Make no mistake about it, this article IS a little curmudgeonly.

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Where to Play

MAY 28, 2019

The post How to Stop Playing “Target Market Roulette”: A new addition to the Lean toolset appeared first on Where to Play. It provides a wide-lens perspective to find different potential market domains for your innovation, before you zoom in and design the business model or test your minimal viable products.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 31, 2009

And how thinking of a solution to this commonly used model’s failures led to a new model – the Customer Development Model – that offers a new way to approach startup activities outside the building. Startups don’t fail because they lack a product; they fail because they lack customers and a profitable business model.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 1, 2020

In very few specific cases, depending on the nature of the business, the business model might demand a considerable gestation period or extensive research and development. For these businesses, it is imperative to get funding from the start without which the company cannot be set up. Crowdfunding.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 19, 2017

The lean start-up movement has been based on a single insight – which the purpose of a start-up is to discover a business model that works. In this article we explore the unique challenges of a lean start-up and how Outsourced Product Development (OPD) can be used to overcome them. The Lean Start-Up Environment.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 21, 2018

This article is part of our Business Planning Guide —a curated list of our articles that will help you with the planning process! Today, I want to introduce a new approach to business planning: Lean Planning. Lean Planning is simpler and faster than writing a traditional business plan. Test the plan.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Editor’s note: This article was updated in November of 2017. Even if you already know what a SWOT analysis is and what it’s used for, it can be tough to translate that information and examine your own business with a critical eye. See Also: The Complete UPer Crust Pies Business Plan. Customer testimonials.

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The Equity Kicker

MAY 12, 2015

I just read two articles which beautifully illustrate the brilliance and challenges with the Lean Startup methodology. They were part of Steve Blanks Launchpad class at Stanford and followed lean principles to great effect. Second up was Dan Kaplan’s critique of Peter Thiel’s critique of lean.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Young Upstarts has some outstanding articles for brainstorming which online business you might want to pursue: Top 7 Best Marketing Tactics In 2020. 15 Proven Business Ideas To Make Money Online. Even after you’ve decided which business model to pursue, there’s still a long road rife with “landmines” and other traps ahead.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2009

Our business model changed as we realized that to become a large company, we needed to automate more than just a few marketers. We had validated our new assumptions by a set of orders, and we had pivoted on our business model. This is the pivot, a crucial tactical maneuver for the lean startup [.]

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 29, 2009

I hope to show why lean and agile techniques actually reduce the negative impacts of technical debt and increase our ability to take advantage of its positive effects. For example, IMVU’s early business model was made possible by Paypal’s easy self-serve and open access payment system.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 28, 2019

If you’ve decided to incorporate as a C corporation, S corporation, or B corporation entity, this article will outline all the steps you’ll need to take. It’s common to feel a bit lost or overwhelmed at this stage, but with this guide, you’ll gain confidence in your ability to create your new business entity and get back to the work you love.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

By the end of this article, you should have a better understanding of how to develop new products or tweak your existing offerings by working with existing or prospective customers to incorporate their feedback to create viable solutions to their problems, and clearly communicate their value. sustainable business.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 2, 2022

In this article, we’ll look at both disciplines, explaining what they are and when they’re best used. How you approach ABM depends on your business model and ideal accounts, as well as how you plan to expand campaigns. Use the median numbers as a guide for which program to lean towards. What makes you different?

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ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

“Rare is the business that has a formal disaster plan, let alone one that covers a global Black Swan event.” An article on growth and marketing in the middle of a crisis—the current one or any other—can seem tone deaf. Greater discipline during boom times offered more flexibility during lean years. Tim Stewart, trsdigital.

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Up and Running

JULY 16, 2018

There’s really not a lot of difference between a “ one-page business plan” a Lean Plan, and a good executive summary. A Lean Plan can be slightly longer but still uses summaries and bullet points, while traditional executive summary can extend to two or three pages—and it will usually use full sentences rather than bullets.

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Up and Running

MAY 3, 2012

From a young person’s perspective, with tight labour markets, decreasing barriers to entry, low capital-intensive business models and immediate free access to a global market, the appeal is also compelling. Eric Ries , author of The Lean Start-up , puts it best: ‘ The grim reality is that most start-ups fail.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 23, 2016

These resulting business models made them look incredibly profitable. They knew how to execute the current business model. ARM, a competitor, not only had a better, much lower power processor, but a better business model – they licensed their architecture to other companies that designed their own products.

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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. For example, say that your business model calls for a 4% conversion rate – as ours did initially at IMVU. An excellent article and responses.

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