crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

Start With a Business Model, Not a Business Plan | WSJ – [link]. The problem with a Lean Startup: the Minimum Viable Product | Paul Kortman – [link]. In Silicon Valley, Technology Talent Gap Threatens G.O.P. In Silicon Valley, Technology Talent Gap Threatens G.O.P.

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Steve Blank

JULY 25, 2011

Scientists and engineers as founders and startup CEOs is one of the least celebrated contributions of Silicon Valley. ESL, the first company I worked for in Silicon Valley , was founded by a PhD in Math and six other scientists and engineers. Why It’s “Silicon” Valley. It might be its most important.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 22, 2013

My co-author and business Partner Bob Dorf spends much of his time traveling the world teaching countries and companies how to run the Lean LaunchPad program. The hands-on Lean LaunchPad program offers the most intense support of all. The first 8-week Lean LaunchPad Colombia program. in saying Viva Colombia!”.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 22, 2013

My co-author and business Partner Bob Dorf spends much of his time traveling the world teaching countries and companies how to run the Lean LaunchPad program. The hands-on Lean LaunchPad program offers the most intense support of all. The first 8-week Lean LaunchPad Colombia program. in saying Viva Colombia!”.

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Steve Blank

JULY 27, 2009

OK, done.) “Steve, I would really appreciate it if you could review my business plan and forward it to Mike Maples at Maples Investments. Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. Reply David Binetti , on July 27, 2009 at 11:11 pm Said: (Consequences of ‘no’: zero. Now In Print!

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

For those of you who have been following the discussion, a Lean Startup is Eric Ries ’s description of the intersection of Customer Development , Agile Development and if available, open platforms and open source. Over its lifetime a Lean Startup may spend less money than a traditional startup.

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Up and Running

MARCH 27, 2014

Have you ever heard of the book The Lean Startup by Eric Ries? It’s an incredible guide to rethinking how you develop your business, whether you’re just starting out or launching a new product or into a new market. I think it’s such a perfect example, and I echo Matt’s feelings about The Lean Startup.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 21, 2018

This article is part of our Business Planning Guide —a curated list of our articles that will help you with the planning process! Today, I want to introduce a new approach to business planning: Lean Planning. Lean Planning is simpler and faster than writing a traditional business plan.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 2, 2011

Silicon Valley, New York). Startups now understand what they should be doing in their early formative days is search for a business model. The result – an instant technology cluster – with equity at a fraction of Silicon Valley prices. It might be possible to create Virtual Valley Ventures.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

The signals are loud and clear : seed and late stage valuations are getting frothy and wacky, and hiring talent in Silicon Valley is the toughest it has been since the dot.com bubble. Software companies had to buy specialized computers and license expensive software. 2001 – 2010: Back to Basics: The Lean Startup.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 10, 2013

crowdSPRING’s Small Business Spotlight: Red Poppy Floral Design – [link]. Defending the Brash Arrogance of Silicon Valley | by Mike Greenfield – [link]. It’s difficult to fake corporate culture | Business Insider – [link]. The Business Plan. – [link]. Redux – [link].

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 8, 2008

For software, we have many - you can enjoy a nice long list on Wikipedia. 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. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0.

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

Since the term “cloud computing” was coined in 1996—at least as we have come to understand its meaning—the software as a service industry has exploded. Step 1: Start with a lean plan. Instead of sitting down to write a 40-page business plan, start with a one-page pitch. How to Write a Traditional Business Plan.

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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. Combined with product costs, an engineering budget, and schedules, this results in a spreadsheet that faintly resembles the first financial plan in the company’s business plan.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 16, 2012

If you are new to the entrepreneurial world of startups, you are likely confused by the terminology of seed-stage, lean startups, micro-VCs, and Super Angels. For angel investors, early-stage means there is a good business plan and maybe a prototype, but no customer revenue. Lean startup.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2011

If you are new to the entrepreneurial world of startups, you are likely confused by the terminology of seed-stage, lean startups, micro-VCs, and Super Angels. For angel investors, early-stage means there is a good business plan and maybe a prototype, but no customer revenue. Lean startup.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 6, 2012

Today, I want to introduce you to a new concept for starting and growing successful companies: Lean Planning™. Before I dive too deeply into the Lean Planning methodology, it makes sense to talk about its history and where it comes from. It starts with “Plan-As-You-Go” instead of detailed, formal business plans.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2009

Customer Development by Vertical - Click to Enlarge (As a reminder, the Customer Development process says your business plan is just a series of untested hypothesis (unless you’re a domain expert.) How does product development differ in communications hardware versus enterprise software, etc. Waterfall, Agile, Lean?

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Gust

JULY 8, 2012

If you are new to the entrepreneurial world of startups, you are likely confused by the terminology of seed-stage, lean startups, micro-VCs, and Super Angels. For angel investors, early-stage means there is a good business plan and maybe a prototype, but no customer revenue. Lean startup.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 3, 2009

For example, in the semiconductor business engineers spend enormous time, money and effort on simulation , the process of actually building the chip in software and running tests to see how well it will perform – well before they ever get to first silicon. This approach works for software. To Order Outside of the U.S.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 4, 2014

How do you know if you have a good idea for a business? One of my biggest challenges at Palo Alto Software is figuring out which ideas to pursue and which ideas to put on the back burner. No matter who you are or how big you hope to grow your business, figuring out what product to build and what services to offer is a huge challenge.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 7, 2012

Here at Palo Alto Software , we’ve added a major new feature to our business planning app , LivePlan, that I think you’re going to love. The mythology of startup planning. The startup mythology is that entrepreneurs don’t actually plan. Now: A better way to document your business model.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Five Reasons You Haven’t Launched - Software By Rob , November 10, 2010 Photo by stevendepolo. It’s Easy to Be Great…It’s Hard to Be Consistent - Software By Rob , November 4, 2010 No link from TechCrunch, write-up on Mashable, mention by Leo Laporte, or Tweet by Ashton Kucher is going to make your business. call to arms.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 10, 2011

This week, the startup tribe from Harvard Business School is making their annual trek to Silicon Valley. It’s a common refrain around Silicon Valley to disparage the role of MBA’s in entrepreneurship. It’s a common refrain around Silicon Valley to disparage the role of MBA’s in entrepreneurship.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Lean Planning is a concept that we introduced back in 2012 as an evolution in business planning. The traditional business plan just wasn’t fitting the needs of modern, fast-moving companies and it was time to bring more of a scientific approach to business planning.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 13, 2009

In some businesses, especially in certain industries like traditional enterprise software, you simply cannot bring a new product to market on your own. Figuring this out takes time, and few entrepreneurs have the patience to wait it out, because the business plan does such a good job of explaining what customers are going to think.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 10, 2020

And then you fast forward a couple of weeks, I live here in Santa Clara County in Silicon Valley, which actually I think had one of the first cases or one of the- Eric Ries : Of community spread, yeah. Could they make businesses out of it? So, I ended up after business school, working as an analyst at a very small hedge fund.

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Steve Blank

MAY 26, 2009

The guidelines I had originally proposed to my students worked for enterprise software or Web 2.0 You kids have to learn to do it the old fashioned way they did it before they new economy and Silicon Valley. Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. Yeah, I said. Bootstrap for years! Now In Print!

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

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? The only problem is I haven’t found a problem or an industry – web, enterprise software, green tech, etc – where I feel passionate.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 22, 2009

What did the company do when we heard customer input that contradicted our business plan and assumptions? Reply Alan Commike , on October 22, 2009 at 5:20 pm Said: In the early 90′s I was at Landmark Graphics – a company building software for the Oil & Gas industry; one of Ardent’s markets.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

You can find some of the monthly ones in the following: Top 57 Online Startups Meets Technology Meets Product Posts for November 2010 Top 30 Startup Technology and Product Posts for September 2010 Top 40 Startup Posts for August 2010 Top 30 Startup Posts for July 2010 Top 30 Startup Posts in June 2010 Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010 Startup CTO Top 30 (..)

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Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

I’ve watched the Valley go from Microwave Valley – to Defense Valley – to Silicon Valley to Internet Valley. And I’ve been lucky enough to watch innovation happen not only in hardware and software but in Life Sciences – in Therapeutics, Medical Devices, Diagnostics and now Digital Health.

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JULY 8, 2011

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Scalable Startup

MAY 16, 2015

“Boom and bust is our lot and we must follow the ancient advice.that Joseph gave to the Pharaoh: Put away your surplus during the years of great plenty so you will be ready for the lean years which are sure to follow.”. Governor Jerry Brown, State of the State speech, January 2014. percent over the past year, three times the national average.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Lean Methodology Sources. Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. Part 3- Lean Cust. Steve Blank’s Lean Startup Resources. Small Business tools list. Lean Startup Circle â?? free/cheap web customer relationship mgmt software. small business CRM. marketing automation software.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 13, 2015

This is what we do here at Palo Alto Software as we develop a persona, which I think we’ve talked about a little bit in the past. Peter: A lot of times, that’s really much more of a business goal. This is really where this whole exercise boils down to more of a business plan component, rather than a fun thought exercise.

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