Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2010

We have structural employment issues : The official unemployment rate in the US is hovering just below 10% but “true” unemployment is much higher when you account for those that have stopped looking or taken part-time employment and in key states like California and Michigan we’re downright hurting.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

They communicated this to product management who looked at all of the internal requirements we had generated (e.g. and product management worked with me to decide what to build & when. The first application they ever launched was in the property management space. Back then it seemed foreign. But they went one step further.

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Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

I lived through the time when working in my first job in Ann Arbor Michigan we had to get out a map to find out that San Jose was not only in Puerto Rico but there was a city with that same name in California. A 20 th century VC was likely to have an MBA or finance background. We now have specific management tools to grow startups.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

signup, upgrade, trial pricing Zuora – online subscription management FeeFighters – find the cheapest credit card processors HealPay – Collections made easy Customer Support Tender – support, knowledgebase tool for your site GetSatisfaction - conversations between companies / customers.

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Steve Blank

JULY 13, 2009

Which at this stage of the company was marketing and financing. Our “Hollywood meets Silicon Valley” story played great in Silicon Valley, they ate it up in Hollywood, and the business press tripped over themselves to talk to us.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 28, 2019

Also, creating a quick lean financial forecast will help ensure your business idea is viable and financially sound. Because of its popularity, Delaware is also statistically a popular state for investors to finance businesses. An accountant with a mind for Strategic Advisory services can help with that, too. .

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

We could for example, find warning signs in popular literature about e.g. finance suggesting rapid maturation in bond trading. They built airplanes out of palm trees thinking if they did manna would come in airplanes again. I think that one of the good themes of this blog is that years != “dog years&# in deep industries. Warning sign?

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Steve Blank

JULY 27, 2009

Our small training department had been without a manager for months and finding a replacement didn’t seem to be high on the VP of Sales list. Then it hit me – no one else wanted to be manager – what was the worst that could happen? What’s the Worst that Can Happen? All I had to do was ask.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 26, 2019

As a boot-strapped founder aka our biggest investor, one of the things I leaned into uncovering was the unknown. Lean into it. If you’re a founder/product manager/business owner, I encourage you to find that out! And, while working to build the business we want, a competitor in California secured resources to far outpace us.

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Steve Blank

MAY 18, 2009

It’s our hood alignment station,” the plant manager said proudly. One day, I was at the Ford Wixom auto assembly plant training my replacement and I was at met at the door by an irate plant manager. the manager followed us still yelling. These damn models weren’t designed right so we’re fixing them on the line.”

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Lean Methodology Sources. Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. Part 3- Lean Cust. Task Management. Project Management Tools. Subscription Payments / Management. Managing APIs. Customer Relationship Management. Contractor Management. Steve Blank. SW Courses. Part 1- Intro.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Finance | Tuesdays. Leadership & Managing | Tuesdays. Financing a Small Business. Financing A Small Business. Personal Finance. LEADERSHIP & MANAGING. LEADERSHIP & MANAGING. Managing Creativity. Leadership and Managing >. Quality Manager Job Description. Start-up | Mondays.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 2, 2021

In February, Greylock kicked off “Iconversations,” a new speaker series featuring “icons” across tech, finance, media and culture. Dara manages Uber’s fast-growing business in 63 countries around the world and leads a global team of more than 22,000 employees. We had a management offsite plan. RH: Yeah, totally agree.

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 10, 2021

Governments use statistics in order to help them make decisions, they also use social science for research into communities, and this also leans heavily on statistics. Trading and finance. California, San Francisco. California, San Jose. They make the rules that govern everything we do day to day. Massachusetts, Boston.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 1, 2018

Because I’d made a name for myself as an innovative marketer in consumer financing, I was then recruited by GE, which still had a consumer finance brand at the time called GE Money. A power company wants to know whether they should be burning natural gas or taking power off of the solar grid because it's sunny in Southern California.

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www.mattbartus.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

People tend to underestimate how much record keeping is involved with managing employees and consultants, and this just adds an unacceptable extra burden. Sometimes the consultant has a reasonable basis to think this, since lean startups are programmed to get things for free and may call on the consultant from time to time for free advice.

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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. Davis , a German applied Laser research group, a California organic farm er who wanted to be an Earlyvangelist , four service partners and three weed/pest management consultants. Veritas turbines.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

Management. When youve bootstrapped a business where youre not drawing a salary and depleting whatever savings you have, thats one of the very difficult things to do," says Toby Stuart, a professor at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley. Harley Goes Lean to Build Hogs. California.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2020

And half our clubs were in the state of California in 2008, so was a very interesting time to be a CEO and learned a lot. And the truth is that's yesterday and you don't really have the ability to change what you did yesterday, but what you do have the ability today, is to lean into this. You're usually your own worst critic.

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keen.io

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

I recently left my job as a technical consulting manager and joined my best friends and my fiancé, Kyle, at Keen.io (I wrote about that here ). To begin answering this question, I started on a quest to understand startup financing. Kirk was leaning towards a high-risk, high-equity option, and Micah was somewhere between Kirk and me.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Meanwhile on the West Coast – “The Group” 1950’s When Ampex was raising its money, in 1952, an employee of Fireman’s Fund in San Francisco, Reid Dennis , managed to put $20,000 in the deal. It would charge its investors annual “management fees” to pay for the firm’s salaries, building, etc. More on this in the next post.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 1, 2009

Sloan Foundation , the Sloan School of Management at MIT , the Sloan program at Stanford , and the Sloan/Kettering Memorial Cancer Center in New York. Sloan realized that the traditional centralized management structures (like General Motors had in 1920) were poor fits for the management of GM’s already diverse product lines.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 3, 2016

George Hedley, a CSP based in California, is known as “The Business Builder” and has worked in the construction industry since 1977. Job costs are specific to each job your firm is working on, from labor and equipment to project management and worker’s comp. Use good years to buffer lean years. But those aren’t targets.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 2, 2019

However, they’ve managed to create a thriving business through the beauty of technology. I had a falling out with an angel-backed startup where I assumed an executive technology role, and my former colleague, Artur, was our executive finance member. Now, they will be meeting in July for the first time. I didn’t.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Corporate Finance One of the ironies in Silicon Valley is that the two companies which gave birth to its entire semiconductor industry weren’t funded by venture capital. Several wealthy families in the U.S. set up companies to do just that – find and formalize investments in new and emerging industries.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

In future posts I’ll describe how Eric Ries and the Lean Startup concept provided the equivalent model for product development activities inside the building and neatly integrates customer and agile development. The Experience is the Product | Better product management and products , on September 23, 2010 at 12:17 pm Said: [.]

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Steve Blank

MAY 4, 2009

In other companies it may be that manufacturing or finance is the sharp end of the stick. In an IP licensing business, legal and finance are the sharp end of the stick. I’ve encountered finance organizations with budget processes designed to simplify their lives, but not the rest of the company’s.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 21, 2019

Risk Aversion & Finances Your level of risk tolerance is different from that of your co-founder (if you have one), your team and anyone else involved. Great read on honing habits and managing time from a bunch of founders profiled by First Round And finally, how bad do you want it? Bonus read? —? the findings were pretty sizeable.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

So let’s be very specific: let’s assume your dream job is product manager at Google, working on the Analytics product. New York, California different toilet, same s#@t. Finance, IT, Legal). What about establishing how to measure progress and performance, setting it down, and then tracking it, so you can optimize your management?

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 23, 2015

By being both agile and lean in development and management, we can weed out all the frustration that exists in larger companies. So I decided to found a fencing club and in 2013 established “Academy of Fencing Masters” in Campbell, California. We don’t waste time building decks just meant to satisfy or convince someone.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 11, 2008

Among those: plentiful financing and nerds , a culture that celebrates both failure and success, and an ethos of openness and sharing. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? Expo SF (May. for Harvard Business Revie.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

You could actually be scouting new clients in Bogota while doing work with most of your clients in California. We’ve talked a little bit about planning, and lean management, and even some of the Kanban principles that we talked about a few episodes ago. You literally could be anywhere. Jonathan: Kanban.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

To supplement this guide, I interviewed two experienced farm hands: Gregory Heilers, previously an assistant farm manager, and Dr. Cindy Jones, the owner of Colorado Aromatics, a small herb farm in Colorado. Step 3: Get financed. Farm manager Greg Heilers says, “Meet your neighbors. Step 3: Getting financed.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 10, 2020

So, that was the first moment that we said, "This looks like it could be a thing in California." We weren't fully thinking about California or the country at that point. My first job was a Product Manager at Oracle, then I worked at a tech startup called meVC. But then by my second year, I had a real interest in finance.

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pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

The round, which was participated in by Growth Capital, Goldman Sachs, and Accolade Partners, among others, brings the company’s total financing to date to $68.5 The Burlington, Massachusetts-based startup provides Drupal-based content management systems. Source: The Next Web ]. - November 29, 2012. November 28, 2012.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

Moneyball was a story about a mediocre, under-funded baseball team achieving great things when managed by looking at the data. How did he finally manage? Are you familiar with the Lean Startup methodology? They call it Lean Startup, but it’s also essentially conversion optimization. Barack Obama. Jeremy Lin.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 10, 2021

She wants to figure out how to finance the billions of dollars in much-needed NYCHA repairs. So no matter what my political leanings might be, I have a minimum bar for experience that I’m requiring for my vote—especially when the devil is really in the details. She wants to field complaints about flooded streets. Bike lanes.

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