ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

The term “frugal innovation” was coined by Navi Radjou and Jaideep Prabhu in their 2012 book Jugaad Innovation: Think Frugal, Be Flexible, Generate Breakthrough Growth. In the book, the authors explore how frugal innovation can be used to create value in low-resource contexts. A frugal tap in Ghana. Image Credit: Amuzujoe.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 31, 2009

After 20 years of working in startups, I decided to take a step back and look at the product development model I had been following and see why it usually failed to provide useful guidance in activities outside the building – sales, marketing and business development. So what’s wrong the product development model?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 1, 2013

Product development is stuck at that 90% mark, a key person leaves, and customers are talking but not buying. In his book Reality Check , Guy Kawasaki summarizes some of the key issues. Or the economy has taken a sudden turn for the worse, so your high-end product no longer has a market.

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 5, 2010

You own a wall of books, or perhaps a Kindle or iPad bulging at the edge of its hard disk with non-fiction you’ve earmarked for future reading. You own a wall of books, or perhaps a Kindle or iPad bulging at the edge of its hard disk with non-fiction you’ve earmarked for future reading. Also a student of reading.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 3, 2017

From product development to market research, many startups are one-person operations in their early days. Even as their teams grow, entrepreneurs often feel that they must tend to every aspect of the business, including low-level tasks that distract from revenue-generating activity. The result? Wearing Your Many Hats With Style.

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Technical Review Management Arizona Software Review 113

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 24, 2012

Product development is stuck at that 90% mark, a key person leaves, and customers are talking but not buying. In his book Reality Check , Guy Kawasaki summarizes some of the key issues. Or the economy has taken a sudden turn for the worse, so your high-end product no longer has a market.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 6, 2011

Product development is stuck at that 90% mark, a key person leaves, and customers are talking but not buying. In his book Reality Check , Guy Kawasaki summarizes some of the key issues. Or the economy has taken a sudden turn for the worse, so your high-end product no longer has a market.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2016

Excellent detailed resources are everywhere, including a new book, “ The Startup Checklist ,” by serial entrepreneur and founder of the New York Angels, David S. He nails the current key startup parameters, including the following: Crafting a lean business plan as your road map. The cost of social media done well is low.

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Intellectual Property Startup Angel Groups Social Media 120

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 3, 2016

In that spirit, I offer my perspective on ten common startup failure sources that rarely get admitted by entrepreneurs: Choose to skip the written business plan. A business plan is for you first, not investors. The real secrets of any business domain are not intuitively obvious, nor available in books.

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Intellectual Property Startup Angel Investor Viral 120

Up and Running

JULY 3, 2014

Below is an extract from Laurel Delaney’s book “Exporting: The Definitive Guide to Selling Abroad Profitably.” This book was published in December 2013 and is available for purchase online. If you would like to find out more about the author, the book, or about exporting in general, Laurel’s blog is an excellent source of information.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 30, 2022

According to one study a decade ago, only 45% of founders plan to exit after stage one, and my guess is that less than half the remainder survive the next stage in their own company. In his classic book, “ Second Stage Entrepreneurship ,” Daniel J. Most entrepreneurs are mavericks, and their passion drove their new business.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

It should go without saying that this post is not advice, nor is it recommendation of what you should do, it’s simply my observation of how companies using Customer Development positioned themselves to successfully raise money from venture investors. Is there a profitable business model? What are Early Stage VC’s Really Asking?

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 1, 2015

In that spirit, I offer my perspective on ten common startup failure sources that rarely get admitted by entrepreneurs: Choose to skip the written business plan. A business plan is for you first, not investors. The real secrets of any business domain are not intuitively obvious, nor available in books.

Intellectual Property 120

Intellectual Property Angel Investor Viral Distribution 120

YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 25, 2012

There are numerous great books out there on business, entrepreneurship, leadership, and other topics of interest to MBA students that can be immensely valuable to anyone looking to build their knowledge and prepare for a career in business. Business Basics. Psychology and business have more in common than you think.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 25, 2022

Businesses that clearly define their short-term and long-term goals tend to achieve their goals faster and more efficiently than those without any plan. Besides the general focus on customer and product development, an entrepreneur should foresee the next moves that will serve to guide him on the right path.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 18, 2015

I’ve spent a lot of years as theoretically being my own boss, including more than 10 years as sole proprietor business planning consultant, working on my own with clients; and more than 10 years building a company, as founder and owner, working with employees. In a business, the health of the business is your boss.

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OnlyOnce

MAY 13, 2013

Book Short: Getting to MVP. But in my line of work, that acronym has come to mean something entirely different: Minimum Viable Product. The new way of doing a business plan is a really short series of hypotheses on a single page, then the time is spent de-risking the plan by systematically testing each element of it out.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 6, 2022

20:21] Where can people find out more about your programs and your book? His book — Surviving a Startup: Practical Strategies for Starting a Business, Overcoming Obstacles, and Coming Out on Top. But I, what I wanna do in the a book is tell entrepreneurs, you can't just dive into it. I have a number of other books.

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San Francisco Technical Review Incubator Silicon Valley 97

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

These blogs began as an attempt to explain why a “book” I wrote wasn’t a book. And now they’re a book of their own. After I retired, I began teaching Customer Development , a theory of how to reduce early stage risk in entrepreneurial ventures. Two years later, Eric Ries mentioned that I could list the book on Amazon.

Silicon Valley 209

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

The Customer Development process says preserve your cash by not hiring anyone in sales and marketing until the founders turn hypotheses into facts and you have found product/market fit. This “get out of the building” activity is the Customer Discovery step of the Customer Development Model.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 6, 2011

I am no longer writing a book. The Lean Startup Book is done. 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. The book contains tons of case studies. But the book is much more than just stories.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 11, 2010

Product development is stuck at that 90% mark, a key person leaves, and customers are talking but not buying. In his book Reality Check , Guy Kawasaki summarizes some of the key issues. Or the economy has taken a sudden turn for the worse, so your high-end product no longer has a market.

Software Developers 122

Software Developers Software Development Business Model Design 122

Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

and there were no books, blogs or YouTube videos about entrepreneurship. The second thing that’s changed is that we’re now Compressing the Product Development Cycle. Not kind of wrong but going out of business wrong. This would continue for months, as customers weren’t behaving as per the business plan.

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Steve Blank

MAY 14, 2012

The excerpts, which appeared first at Inc.com , highlight the Customer Development process, best practices, tips and instructions contained in our book. ———– Whether your venture is a new pizza parlor or the hottest new software product, beware: These nine flawed assumptions are toxic.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

According to one study a while back, only 45% of founders plan to exit after stage one, and my guess is that less than half the remainder survive the next stage in their own company. In his classic book, “ Second Stage Entrepreneurship ,” Daniel J. Most entrepreneurs are mavericks, and their passion drove their new business.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 8, 2008

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. You can learn about customer development, and quite a bit more, in Steves book The Four Steps to the Epiphany. Heres the catch.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 14, 2020

Little did I know I’d be stuck here running a virtual speed dating show because a global epidemic would emerge and dismantle all of my plans. I love dating apps and everything they entail: psychology, branding, messaging, product, etc., My flight was booked?—?I so when I was invited to join The Round, I was pumped.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 16, 2018

Schramm, author of “ Burn the Business Plan: What Great Entrepreneurs Really Do “ If I asked you to describe the prototypical successful entrepreneur, you may share a story mythologized in our culture of a brilliant young man with an idea so good and so disruptive that he just can’t waste any time finishing college.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 6, 2018

Creating a Business Plan. Don’t create your business plan entirely from scratch. Once you’re in, huddle with mentors to refine your plan. Product Development. You need someone to keep watch on your books, and that person should probably know what they’re doing. They’re essential, in fact.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 31, 2016

I am a licensed Realtor with a business plan that will catapult my business. I have created a business plan to achieve those goals. next year I am looking forward to a real estate business that produces consistent income. 5 years ago, I started my business from just my laptop!

Entrepreneur 71

Entrepreneur Software Review New Zealand Mobile 71

Steve Blank

AUGUST 27, 2009

This series of posts is a brief explanation of how we’ve evolved from Product Development to Customer Development to the Lean Startup. The Product Development Diagram Emerging early in the twentieth century, this product-centric model described a process that evolved in manufacturing industries.

Silicon Valley 263

Silicon Valley Product Startup Product Development 263

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

This post describes how the traditional product development model distorts startup sales, marketing and business development. While these objectives provide an illusion of progress, in reality they do little to validate the business plan hypotheses about customers and what they will buy.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 10, 2012

We’ve compiled this list to share what we believe to be some of the most important books for startups of any kind. If you’re stuck in a corporate job you hate, Pamela Slim’s book offers some encouragement for breaking free and creating your own startup. Escape from Cubicle Nation: From Corporate Prisoner to Thriving Entrepreneur.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

automatic links to generated images Rietveld - asynchronous code reviews on changesets Tech*if*er0*urs – blog on roadmap for learning rails Best free programming books Project Management Basecamp - web-based project management and collaboration tool. WebSequenceDiagrams - sketch sequence diagrams. Keep up the great work!

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Hearpreneur

JULY 10, 2017

Prior to starting Ozmo both Ming and I worked in a design house creating new and better products. Throughout my five years of experience in product development, I realized that most of product launch failure could have been avoided by getting the product right earlier on, or understanding the limit of the maker.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

According to one study a while back, only 45% of founders plan to exit after stage one, and my guess is that less than half the remainder survive the next stage in their own company. In his classic book, “ Second Stage Entrepreneurship ,” Daniel J. Most entrepreneurs are mavericks, and their passion drove their new business.

Mezzanine 141

Mezzanine Private Equity Startup Bandwidth 141

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 6, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, October 6, 2008 When NOT to listen to your users; when NOT to rely on split-tests There are three legs to the lean startup concept: agile product development , low-cost (fast to market) platforms , and rapid-iteration customer development. I think Drucker said it best.

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