Up and Running

FEBRUARY 12, 2022

A long-term business plan like this is different from a traditional business plan in that it’s lighter on the details and more focused on your strategic direction. It has less focus on financial forecasting and a greater focus on the big picture. You’ll review your financial forecast, your milestones, and your overall strategy.

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Business Plan Lean Forecast Exit Strategy 83

Steve Blank

JANUARY 10, 2011

In a startup “Good news needs to travel fast, but bad news needs to travel faster.”. Yet for a startup a cover-up culture is death. In a startup founders and the board need to do exact the opposite of a large company – failures need to be shared, discussed and dissected to extract “lessons learned” so a new direction can be set.

Forecast 264

Forecast Agile Revenue Founder 264

Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

Last May, I shared the news that long-time Lean Startup advocates Brant Cooper and Patrick Vlaskovits were working on a new book called The Lean Entrepreneur featuring illustrations by FAKEGRIMLOCK. LitMotors approach to using Lean Startup to create a new vehicle category. Startup blogging was hardly "cool" back then.

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Lean Entrepreneur Agile San Francisco 167

Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

To give you a better idea of what entrepreneurs in this industry are thinking about during each phase of the startup process, I interviewed SaaS entrepreneurs from all over the world, including our own COO Noah Parsons. Noah has been a key figure in the making of LivePlan, our own SaaS product. The business model.

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Software Review Software Delaware Forecast 74

Tim Keane

JUNE 13, 2006

Startups and angels: Along the way to success. In other words, if you are forecasting 100 orders in the next quarter, at $10,000 each, I’d ask how many potential orders there are in the market, whether there is any existing competitive experience, and how you derived your timing. This takes a lot of risk out of the business process.

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Wisconsin Entrepreneur Startup Angel Investor 60

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 9, 2009

In the summer of 1999, I started working on a startup from my college dorm. And the great ideas that became todays successful tech startups dwarf anything that had been done to that point. Nonetheless, my first startup was a tool for college students from elite colleges to create resumes and help them find jobs. And Google?

San Francisco 94

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment DC 94

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

billion Iridium was one of the largest, boldest and audacious startup bets ever made. It crashed back down to earth as one of the largest startup failures on record. They made other assumptions about the type of sales channel, partnerships and revenue model they would need. The result was a classic startup failure writ large.

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Business Plan Customer Business Model Customer Development 335

Up and Running

OCTOBER 8, 2015

Instead, we built a product first (that’s expensive!) and then started hunting around for the right target market (that’s usually the cheap part of product development). Detailed market research isn’t necessary for all businesses. What Is a Market Forecast? We neglected to do our market research.

Marketing 60

Marketing Forecast CTO Hire Finder 60

Steve Blank

JANUARY 21, 2010

The startup founder who gets fired just as his/her company is growing into large company could be a cliché – if it wasn’t so true – and painful. Scalable Startups at Adolescence. In our previous post we posited that Scalable Startups are designed to become large companies. Let’s take a look at why.

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Agile Development Team Review Leadership Merger 120

Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

When I was seeking a co-founder for my startup, each time I’d dive deep into a discussion about commitment with potential partners, they’d bring up venture capitalists and fundraising. as if it’s a requirement of doing a tech startup. See Also: The Best Places Worldwide to Start Your High-Growth Startup. Product development.

Early Stage 60

Early Stage Startup Forecast Channel 60

Steve Blank

MAY 7, 2009

Almost every university, region and car wash now has a business plan competition; the rules, who can participate, how large the prizes and who are the judges vary by school. Over scrambled eggs and diet coke, I listened to this seasoned startup veteran describe the excitement of his students who came to the U.S. to compete.

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Business Plan Silicon Valley RSS Venture Capital 140

Transformify

JUNE 6, 2019

One of the reasons why Toyota is cited as a best practice so often is that the quality of their products does not deteriorate over time. How to apply it to your business? Running a technology startup is always a challenge, especially in the early days when the brand is unknown and it is hard to attract top talent.

Lean 56

Lean Management Technical Review Software Review 56

YoungUpstarts

MAY 13, 2016

However, as a successful entrepreneur who has built one of the largest IoT hardware supply chain platforms, I know first-hand that the philosophy of “democracy for all” rarely makes its way into the business world.  Analysts forecast that 6.4 No matter how you slice it, startups are driving the IoT device revolution.

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Artificial Inteligence China Incubator Startup 100