OnlyOnce

AUGUST 12, 2013

Book Short: Is CX the new UX? A few years ago, people started talking a lot more about User Experience (UX) as a new crossover discipline between design and engineering, and our experience at Return Path has been that UX is an incredibly powerful tool in our arsenal to build great technical products via lean/agile methods.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

And there is so much money around being thrown at so many entrepreneurs that many firms don’t even care about board seats, governance rights or heaven forbid doing work with the company because that would eat into the VCs time needed to chase 5 more deals. A seed round these days is $3–5 million or more! Secrets of Sand Hill Road.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

As Alistair Croll and Benjamin Yoskovitz detail in their book, Lean Analytics, cohort analysis has special relevance for the customer lifecycle, enabling marketers. As Alistair Croll and Benjamin Yoskovitz detail in their book, Lean Analytics, cohort analysis has special relevance for the customer lifecycle, enabling marketers.

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Up and Running

APRIL 2, 2015

One exception to the rule is that the federal Small Business Administration (SBA) has programs that guarantee some portion of startup costs for new businesses so banks can lend them money with the government, reducing the banks’ risk. See Also Introducing Lean Planning: How to Plan Less and Grow Faster. Copies of past returns.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Singapore is by far the most developed behind those big three markets with government schemes attracting over a dozen early stage firms to set up shop here (e.g. the large government-linked corporations setting up their own venture arms (e.g. Valuations are based more on typical later-stage type of metrics.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 30, 2017

There are a number of ways you can do this, including performing general Google searches, speaking to people already working in your target industry, reading books by people from your industry, researching key people, reading relevant news sites and industry magazines and taking a class or two (if this is possible). Milestones and Metrics.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 25, 2015

Since many have already sold out, we’ve added a few new ones: a special reward for Kickstarter creators including a mini digital book and a call with our campaign team, as well as a package called “I want everything” which includes many of the most highly-requested rewards in one package. Our vanity metrics are strong.

Silicon Valley 60

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Steve Blank

MAY 3, 2011

The Stanford Lean LaunchPad class was an experiment in a new model of teaching startup entrepreneurship. to find out what books they’d recommend for prospective students. Within the week they were #6 in Google search results for “Stanford Admission Books.”. What are the key financials metrics for costs in your business model?

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Pete Newell and I have spent a lot of time bringing continuous innovation to government organizations. Together Pete, Joe Felter and I created Hacking for Defense , a nationwide program to teach university students how use Lean methodologies to solve defense and national security problems. Newell ran the U.S.

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Jeff Hilimire

MARCH 24, 2020

We’ve already been seeing this in the US, with new announcements from companies and government officials coming in by the hour. Leaning in to working remotely. By leaning in, I mean that we are trying to not just ‘get by’ but thrive during this time of remote work. A key factor of that model is open-book management.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

I promised to post the slides for my highly abbreviated version of the lean startup presentation, so here they are. 2009 09 08 The Lean Startup Gov 2.0 Every bit as true for government as for enterprise - and even the two guys in a garage. dhinchcliffe : Lean startups go faster. dhinchcliffe : Lean startups go faster.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

But at least if you’re working on an eCommerce site, you have clear metrics to hit. Government agencies. But many times, they’re dealing with non-financial metrics or competing online goals. A government agency could exist to provide accurate information to individuals trying to find voting locations or their local DMV.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 17, 2020

But particularly when you’re running lean and mean, you may not have native expertise in every aspect of managing a startup. You might ask a marketing firm to write and design your pitch book, which is pretty much the cost of admission to an angel’s office. Linking to government and academic websites can be an effective SEO tactic.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 11, 2008

I think the absolute best reading on this subject is a book called Regional Advantage: Culture and Competition in Silicon Valley and Route 128 by AnnaLee Saxenian. To an early observer, it would have seemed obvious that Route 128 had all the advantages: a head start, more government and military funding, and far more established companies.

Silicon Valley 68

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 19, 2013

Guest post by Lisa Regan, writer for The Lean Startup Conference. As we’ve mentioned before , this year’s Lean Startup Conference features a lot of speakers who have incredible expertise to share but are new to our event. This is a violation of the "give before you take" principle that governs social interactions.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 21, 2014

Every time I think about the topic of ‘starting a business’, I recall a book I read years ago: “Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway”. If you’re not sure where to get started in terms of reading, take a look at our list of business blogs you should be reading but probably aren’t and the list of books we encourage you to start working through.

Elevator Pitch 166

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 8, 2012

How to build regional entrepreneurial communities has just gotten it’s first “here’s how to do it” book. There’s probably no one more qualified to write this book then Brad Field (startup founder, co founder of two VC firms – Mobius and Foundry, and founder of TechStars.). Role of Government. Incubators and Accelerators.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

His groups whole-heartedly adopted and adapted Lean. 14 different innovation teams were going through a 3-month I-Corps/Lean LaunchPad program to validate product/market fit. My CEO has been reading all the Lean Innovation books and wants to fix this and is ready to bring in a big consulting firm to redo all our business processes.”.

Finance 253

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 2, 2021

This is a company that when they were founded, it wasn’t just that they were competing against other companies, but they were competing against industries and regulations and governments that wanted to essentially regulate them out of existence. Here’s my new rule book and we’re all going to follow my new lead. RH: Yeah, totally agree.

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Up and Running

MAY 15, 2019

It is a constantly coordinated, ongoing set of relationships with customers, government officials, craftspeople, and your internal people. Here is Patrick’s overall advice for startups to make sure they’re not only brewing quality beer, but keeping solid books: 1. Metrics: Know your numbers. Find trusted advisors.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 30, 2020

In the early days of the crisis, conflicting reports downplayed the potential severity of the disease, offered changing and contradictory instructions for protection, treatment, and best practices, and generally produced insufficient responses from leadership in practically every government and corporate office alike.

Leadership 223

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

Written By Dan Martell on February 2nd, 2012 | Category: Hiring LeanStartup Marketing Metrics Startup Life | 6 Comments. 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? Why do I do it?

Technical Review 44

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Steve Blank

MAY 26, 2009

Government Regulations I turned to the class and said, “The rest of you can keep building your company and shipping your product because you don’t need to worry about government regulations. Don’t share the details of your manufacturing process with customers until you’ve locked up your intellectual property.”

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Reid Hoffman

JUNE 8, 2021

We can either try to step forward and be progressive and really try to lean forward, or we can get dragged in the future. The burden [should] just be that we care; that if we learn something, we improve it, and that we don’t only use single output metrics and its growth at all costs. And I also think about regulation.

Silicon Valley 69

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Reid Hoffman

JUNE 8, 2021

We can either try to step forward and be progressive and really try to lean forward, or we can get dragged in the future. The burden [should] just be that we care; that if we learn something, we improve it, and that we don’t only use single output metrics and its growth at all costs. And I also think about regulation.

Silicon Valley 36

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Mike Michalowicz

JANUARY 24, 2018

This is great provided you already have in place a strategic thinking business plan where you have clearly identified your ideal customers; know your market and have established key metrics. Thanks to Dahlia Roth , Free Government Auctions At GovernmentBargains.com. Thanks to Kristen Carney , Cubit Planning. Avoid National Expansion.

Viral 126

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

He is the founder of the Value Builder System , a company that helps business owners improve the value of their company, and he’s also the author of the bestselling book, Built to Sell: Creating a Business That Can Thrive Without You. John Jantsch: Yeah, and you actually wrote a book about that. John Jantsch: I’m sorry.

Entrepreneur 48

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 5, 2014

It’s the third side of the triangle — the oft-neglected, misunderstood, and underfunded soft edge — that constitutes my book. I describe the soft edge culture in terms of five pillars — Trust, Smarts, Teamwork, Taste, and Story — and my book “ The Soft Edge “, packed with real-world examples, unfolds around them.

Algorithm 174

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Mike Michalowicz

JANUARY 10, 2013

This is great provided you already have in place a strategic thinking business plan where you have clearly identified your ideal customers; know your market and have established key metrics. Thanks to Dahlia Roth , Free Government Auctions At GovernmentBargains.com. Thanks to Kristen Carney , Cubit Planning. Avoid National Expansion.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 17, 2015

Meet Nava, A Startup That Wants To Fix The Government’s Crappy Design [link] crowdspring.co/1MbGeIk Content Marketing Metrics You Aren’t Measuring | SEJ [link] crowdspring.co/1KPRXNZ Lean Business Tips: Marketing Channels on the Cheap | crowdSPRING Blog – [link] crowdspring.co/1L8yVm3 Launching a New Product?

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

NET (and Java) experience are big bright red-flags in my book. Just as.NET is both a lock-in and very restricting, and Java violates both “lean cuisine class hierarchy” and “objects if necessary, but not necessarily objects”, the “we’ll just use XML” mantra deserves to die. CEO Friday?

Java 107

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

And then, once that curve is low enough, governments can dance, testing and tracking cases until the virus is eradicated or we develop a working vaccine. They didn't have experience buying bulk from the government things like masks or ventilators." And in fact, The Lean Startup is very much that.

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