Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 1, 2017

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 8, 2015

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers.

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Steve Blank

JULY 1, 2014

a language corporate innovation groups can use to communicate to business units and finance. Teams can prove their competence and validate their ideas by showing investors evidence that there’s a repeatable and scalable business model. data that investors, accelerators and incubators can use to inform selection. But the ‘ah-hah!’

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 18, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, April 18, 2010 Four myths about the Lean Startup Myth: Lean means cheap. Lean startups try to spend as little money as possible. Truth: The Lean Startup method is not about cost, it is about speed. Myth: The Lean Startup methodology is only for Web 2.0/internet/consumer

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 21, 2013

Jim Hornthal splits his time between venture capital, entrepreneurship and education. Berkeley, joined me in launching the National Science Foundation Innovation Corps class and now has been teaching his own Lean LaunchPad class at Princeton. These notes were derived (read: stolen) from the Lean LaunchPad Educator’s guide.

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genylabs.typepad.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

When we reference organizations that have provided us funding in the last year we will note it. Even the best venture capital firms have a lot of failures and few successes. While Ive made at least my share of mistakes taking equity in lieu of pay, I continue to see this as a key part of my business model.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Now they are starting to use the Lean Innovation process (see here and here ) to turn ideas into solutions. He wanted to build an innovation pipeline that would allow the Navy to: Create “dual-use” products (build solutions that could be used for the military but also sold commercially, and attract venture capital investments.)

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 26, 2012

In an interview with ReadWriteWeb, Davidson explains how the latest industry to receive the disruption treatment has been the venture capital business itself, with the epicenter of the quake right around San Francisco. When you keep it lean, everybody has better options, and a better outcome when all the dust settles.".

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 3, 2013

But while universities are developing online content they are not fundamentally disrupting leaning because the method of delivery is not a new business model. But “on capital employed” encourages companies to push more off balance sheet and thus into offshore & outsourced situations. Venture Capital.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

Endianness” refers to the byte order of data stored in external memory. You know you have achieved product/market fit when you start getting orders (or users, eyeballs or whatever your criteria for success was in your business model.) Is our solution compelling enough that they want to buy it or use it today? Then WHAT it IS?

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 21, 2014

‘Starting a business’ really only comes down to figuring out your business idea ; doing your paperwork; and sorting out the money. Given the number of funding resources available today, you shouldn’t have too much of a problem getting that initial start-up cash, especially if you focus on a lean business model or MVP route to market.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

And thanks to Ann Miura-Ko of Floodgate (my first Lean LaunchPad co-instructor) for her suggestions. Keep in mind that there is no “one way” to raise money Different investors will almost certainly have different models, and different regions may have different math. Team, Product, Traction, Business Model and Market.

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Steve Blank

MAY 26, 2009

So I’d still rather refer to “industries&# and “markets&#. Vertical Markets 1: Bad Advice – All Startups are the Same In the past entrepreneurship was viewed (and taught) as a single process, with a single approach to creating a business [.] [.] The verticallity of a particular market refers to its height in the tree.

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Austin Startup

MAY 3, 2017

The University of Texas at Austin’s Longhorn Startup Demo Day AND Texas Venture Labs are underway and given the incredible and increasing impact Texas is having on entrepreneurship and innovation, I thought we should talk about cattle. Marketing is the distinguishing, unique function of the business.” was not as attractive.

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Up and Running

JULY 3, 2015

Check out Tim Berry’s book, Lean Business Planning , coming soon. Check out Lara Galloway’s new book, Moms Mean Business. Well that’s where the lean planning comes in. Well that’s where the lean planning comes in. That’s where maybe the lean startup mode comes in. How minimum?

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

AgileZen – project management visually see and interact with your work Kanbanery – Simple online team or personal kanban board LeanKit Kanban – Great for visualizing work of product development Kanban Pad – “Nice and lean” and free online Kanban tool Banana Scrum – A tool simple as Scrum itself.

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