Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

How to do this right is illustrated well in a classic book, “ Matter: Move Beyond the Competition, Create More Value, and Become the Obvious Choice ,” by Peter Sheahan and Julie Williamson, PhD. Seek out only the best potential partners and customer leaders. Build trusted and open partner relationships, with aligned incentives.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 30, 2021

For Alex at Origin , a scheduling and booking platform for outdoor guiding companies, he soon realized that for the company to grow exponentially, they’d need thousands of customers because of how fragmented the market is. Go lean with your planning. A startup is about execution and speed, so you need to start lean.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 23, 2013

Ron is a managing partner of Schaffer Consulting , and is currently serving as an Executive-in-Residence at the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley. His latest book is Simply Effective. My friend Ron Ashkenas interviewed me for his blog on the Harvard Business Review.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 18, 2018

Thus I was happily surprised when I found the classic book, “ The Tech Entrepreneur’s Survival Guide ,” by Bernd Schoner, PhD, and cofounder of ThingMagic, which leans heavily on the people side of the equation. The operations superstar. If one of your cofounders has the necessary skills, your team will make the tradeoffs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 20, 2020

How to do this right is illustrated well in a classic book, “ Matter: Move Beyond the Competition, Create More Value, and Become the Obvious Choice ,” by Peter Sheahan and Julie Williamson, PhD. Seek out only the best potential partners and customer leaders. Build trusted and open partner relationships, with aligned incentives.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 26, 2022

How to Scale Unicorns With Partner David Zhang, TVC. Joining us for this episode is our partner David Zhang, Partner at TCV (( Technology Crossover Ventures ). I’m a partner at TCV, which we founded in 1996. So, think of the typical two founders with a pitch book in a garage. I like the get fit and lean in.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 11, 2014

Thus I was happy to see a new book, “ The Tech Entrepreneur’s Survival Guide ,” by Bernd Schoner, PhD, and cofounder of ThingMagic, which leans heavily on the people side of the equation. The operations superstar. Yet every entrepreneur I meet wants to talk about the idea, and rarely mentions the team.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 22, 2012

The constraint between good ideas and growth operates in both directions. “Lean” is great in the early days but if you discover an attractive market opportunity you need to get “fat” really quickly or somebody else will. “Why do founders want to take the VCs’ money? Growth, again. Not Google.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 23, 2013

Ron is a managing partner of Schaffer Consulting , and is currently serving as an Executive-in-Residence at the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley. His latest book is Simply Effective. My friend Ron Ashkenas interviewed me for his blog on the Harvard Business Review.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Within a few weeks, the Great Lakes Brewing team transitioned their operations to meet the needs of their community by offering free delivery on orders over $50. The takeaway here is simple: lean into your neighborhood. The trick here is to lean into the things that already work for your brand. Thus came another resilient pivot.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

I had come from a world where I was nearly a partner at Accenture before starting my first company. million and we seemed likely to raise another $40 million within the first 18 months of operations. I learned everything I know about startups in these lean years: 2001-2004. Our first big institutional round of VC was $16.5

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 23, 2020

It’s a proven methodology, and I am rapidly acquiring the skills I need to ensure I book as many quality events as possible going into next year. 9- Focusing on lean operations. No matter what type of business you run, cutting costs and operating more efficiently should be a top priority. Photo Credit: Arash Fayz.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 28, 2020

My new book with Ian Hathaway, The Startup Community Way , is officially out. Writing a book is extremely hard. My next one, which I’ve been working on for a year with Dave Jilk (my first business partner), combined entrepreneurship and philosophy. This was analogous to what happened with Startup Communities.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 31, 2010

Sure, when entrepreneurs create startups that grow up into mature companies, they become part of an established industry, with its own ecosystem, norms, partners and best practices. My belief is that the lean startup is that theory. Lean Startup Meetups are now in more than 75 cities, with more than 12,000 combined members.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2015

Thus I was happy to see a recent book, “ The Tech Entrepreneur’s Survival Guide ,” by Bernd Schoner, PhD, and cofounder of ThingMagic, which leans heavily on the people side of the equation. The operations superstar. Yet every entrepreneur I meet wants to talk about the idea, and rarely mentions the team.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

John Jantsch (06:24): Well, so you make a good point because you know, a lot of people hire accountants and they feel like, yeah, that's my, you know, I'm getting my books done. And so a lot of times we're teaching them how to do that, what that means, why you want your books, you know, showing revenue only in the that you earned it.

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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. It’s an impressive portfolio.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Here’s what they discovered: They found firms that quickly institute formal mechanisms such as operation budgets, cash budgets, and financial monitoring systems (tools that measure profitability, customer acquisition costs, variance from actual budget, and so forth) had higher growth rates in terms of revenues and headcount. Be compliant.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 10, 2012

I was working in manufacturing studying lean principals on the factory floor when I came up with the idea for Coffee Joulies and asked Dave if he would help me. Very similar analogy to Eric's 'driving the car' from his book. This proved to be the smarter approach overall and to this day we operate in this model.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 5, 2022

21:08] Where can people learn more about your work and pick up a copy of your book? His book — Immersion: The Science of the Extraordinary and the Source of Happiness. I forgot to mention, of course, we're gonna talk about your book. And is there kind of a checklist of ways people could up their game in more mass settings? [17:38]

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OnlyOnce

OCTOBER 17, 2013

Lean In, Part II. My post about Sheryl Sandberg’s Lean In a couple months ago created some great dialog internally at Return Path. It also yielded a personal email from Sheryl the day after it went up encouraging me to continue “talking about it,” as the book says, especially as a male leader. On our Board, we have no women.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

In India, the leading firms are slightly more concentrated with Sequoia India , Accel Partners , and Nexus Venture Partners being a cut above the rest. Thus, one can say the concept of a “ lean startup ” existed in Asia far longer than in the Valley – it’s just that no one ever wrote a book about it.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 28, 2019

Write that stuff down in a special book. Ideally, you will interview a few candidates and pick the partners you feel comfortable working with for a long time. Also, creating a quick lean financial forecast will help ensure your business idea is viable and financially sound. Create a corporate record book.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 25, 2019

With that context, I was pleased to see a new book, “ Entrepreneurial Negotiation ,” by Samuel Dinnar and Lawrence Susskind, consultants and negotiation experts from Harvard and MIT. As a business owner, you survive by lean operations, and value your independent spirit. Don’t ever sacrifice base principles or integrity.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 30, 2017

How will these affect day-to-day operations? Instead, your plan can follow a Lean Planning process that involves creating a pitch , forecasting your key business numbers, outlining key milestones you hope to achieve, and regular progress checks where you review and revise your plan. What are your strengths? What are your weaknesses?

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Steve Blank

JULY 2, 2015

My guests this past week on Bay Area Ventures on Wharton Business Radio on Sirius XM Channel 111 were: Pete Newell , managing partner of BMNT Partners. John Kuhn , who works at BMNT Partners. military and are now helping government agencies operate with the speed and urgency of Silicon Valley.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

Guest Post by Jennifer Maerz, Contributing Editor of Lean Startup Co., Here’s the thing about The Lean Startup methodology. At The Lean Startup Conference on Nov. The Lean Startup method helped Rocio and her co-founder get their idea off the ground, and to continue to grow this important business.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

When money changed hands, it was in person – I had no way to take commission or charge for the booking service through the original platform. To survive in a crowded marketplace, businesses had to pool their resources, so they could operate more efficiently and capture more of the market share. Pick the right business partner.

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

A network of friends and partners can also serve as a great assurance and reminder that you’re not walking. Thanks to Alexandra Caffery, Fresh n’ Lean ! #8- I was doing my own admin, sales and marketing while doing operations (delivering what I was selling). Thanks to Jane Tower, Tower Books ! #11- 11- My mom.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Each VC firm/partner has a different spin on what to weigh more.) These types seem dangerous, yet are often the ones needed on board to get the fund to invest in the first place, seeing that the younger partners naturally have less pull during the Monday round-ups. I find the same still going on with a few firms and partners.&#

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

We operate at scale and speed unprecedented in human history.” * I first wrote about the changes to the Venture Capital ecosystem 10 years ago and this still serves as a good primer of how we arrived at 2011, a decade on from the Web 1.0 He also wrote this excellent book on the Venture Capital industry that I highly recommend ?

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View from Seed

MARCH 1, 2016

As an adult, I know the world operates on story first and logic second. She became a prolific writer—12 books, while you and I struggle with one email or one blog post! Tiny Speck decided to sunset Glitch and began winding down its operations. As a child, I believed logical arguments were enough to convince anyone of anything.

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View from Seed

JULY 24, 2015

Still others point to the collective sensibility and logic of New Englanders as an operating philosophy. We pulled together a lineup of A-list speakers, healined by TripAdvisor CEO Steve Kaufer, Wayfair CEO Niraj Shah, and Spark Capital founder and partner Bijan Sabet, among other very talented entrepreneurs and thinkers.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 11, 2019

You’ve got to develop a higher-level understanding of your business and the context in which it operates. It was created by Kenneth Andrews, William Book, C. Roland Christansen and Edmund Learned in their book Business Policy: Text and Cases. That’s where a SWOT analysis can help. Opportunities.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 4, 2021

No more 60 hour weeks at a job where the owners apparently were unable to run a successful operation. In my entrepreneurship journey, I’ve made incredible retail partners from many countries, and eventually landed my own show on HSN for 19 years. But I also leaned that is actually ok. No hassles. No regrets.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 31, 2018

First, frustration that video viewing on OTT, IPTV, TV and even VR were lean back alone experiences and not together with your friends who are separated by distance. That we look at video watching as a group/together experience rather than a lean back “on your own” activity. What inspired you to create Watch Together? Two things.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 29, 2018

In totality, these posts are at least as long as most business books. If I was an aspiring entrepreneur, I would take a vacation during RISE week and attend as many sessions as I could (author’s update note: sadly, RISE is no longer operational). For example, you get on the phone with a business partner and they kiss up to you.

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