Up and Running

JULY 31, 2015

This week Peter and Jonathan talk to Tim Berry, founder of Palo Alto Software, about lean business planning, strategy, tactics, specifics (milestones), and the forecast. Listen to Episode 9: Show notes: What is Lean Planning? Lean Business Planning by Tim Berry – (31:21). What’s the lean mean?

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 10, 2013

But that same base of employees also represents expense in the form of overhead: salaries and benefits as well as capital expenditure in the form of computers, software, telephones, desks and chairs for each worker. Related posts: Lean Business Tips: Hiring Contractors for Fun and Profit(ability). Photo: Arnold Reinhold, Wikipedia.

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Steve Blank

MAY 6, 2015

I am always surprised when critics complain that the Lean Startup’s Build, Measure, Learn approach is nothing more than “throwing incomplete products out of the building to see if they work.”. It’s time to update Build, Measure, Learn to what we now know is the best way to build Lean startups. Here’s how. Build-Measure-Learn.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 9, 2013

I strongly recommend a dramatic departure from this model, called “planned iteration” or Lean Startup methodology, where you assume you won’t get it right the first time, so you launch with a minimum viable product (MVP). Find customers, partners and channels early. Get out there personally and find that first customer.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 22, 2014

Over the years Dino and I brainstormed about how Lean entrepreneurship would affect regional development. However, four critical advances over the past decade (cloud, accelerators, Lean, and Angels) not only changed the math for tech investing but made regional tech clusters possible. The result was too much money in too few deals.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Disruption today is more than just changes in technology, or channel, or competitors – it’s all of them, all at once. These processes reduce risk to an overall organization, but each layer of process reduces the ability to be agile and lean and – most importantly – responsive to new opportunities and threats.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

This philosophy comes from The Lean Startup methodology , which relies on testing hypotheses to better understand your customers’ pain points and goals. For example, in 2021 accounting software platform Bill.com acquired spend management tool Divvy in order to increase its market share. New channels. New customer segments.

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Up and Running

MAY 12, 2020

Your plan doesn’t need to be a lengthy document either, especially if you follow a Lean Planning methodology. Now if you’re looking for an active plan that you can edit and adjust over time, you may want to consider creating a lean plan. Important software: Business planning and management software. Antivirus software.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Now, since all of this happens organically, tracking referral purchases gets pretty difficult (if not impossible) without having referral marketing software in place. Our customer INGLOT Cosmetics Canada is a great example of creating an omnichannel network that extends not only to all online channels but also to their in-store experience.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

” She looked at bit puzzled, so I continued to explain… One of the virtues of using the Business Model Canvas as part of a Lean Startup is that it helps you frame each one of your nine critical hypotheses. Activities” is where you define the most important things your company must do to make the rest of your business model work.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Influencer Marketing defines it as: “…creating content that will be promoted through paid distribution channels like sponsored placements, advertisements, and pay-per-click campaigns. And while you can share content across your own social channels or in newsletters, promotion is handled by the source. What is the use case?

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Up and Running

JANUARY 15, 2018

Create a Lean Business Plan. Instead, you can create an alternative to a traditional business plan—a Lean Plan which is easier to adapt throughout the life of your business. You’ll also need business cards, stationery supplies, and software that’s specific to your design work. Insurance, taxes, and software.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

To create this first year in business checklist, I turned to our in-house experts here at Palo Alto Software: Sabrina Parsons, CEO; Noah Parsons, COO; Josh Cochrane, Vice President of Product Development; and Josh Fegles, Academic and Government Channel Sales Director, and founder of gluten-free cookie company Jude’s Foods.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 4, 2011

The Stanford Lean LaunchPad class was an experiment in a new model of teaching startup entrepreneurship. This week, our first team up was PersonalLibraries (the team that had software to help researchers manage, share and reference the thousands of papers in their personal libraries.) This post is part four. Syllabus is here.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2008

Maybe youd like to start with The lean startup , How to listen to customers , or What does a startup CTO actually do? ) Although Catalyst folded with the dot-com crash, Ries continued his entrepreneurial career as a Senior Software Engineer at There.com, leading efforts in agile software development and user-generated content.

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

It can augment, Lean, Design Thinking or Agile approaches. CPS is used extensively by companies like P&G, Clear Channel, and IBM. He’s lead entrepreneurial teams to success, in software, research, and consulting. Collaboration Tools: Even high function teams can improve by using new collaboration methods.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 5, 2010

Consumer Internet investing seems to have split off from traditional Venture Capital, and is creating a new category of VC’s: Lean VC’s. VC’s invested in things that ran on electrons: hardware, software and silicon. The Rise of the “Lean VC’s” – Consumer Internet Gets Funded. Lean VC’s are Different.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 18, 2010

This case presents a further complication: desktop software. Without being able transparently modify the software in situ, is it still possible to deploy on a continuous basis? Ive previously named his post Achieving Flow in a Lean Startup as one of my favorite blog posts of 2009. Read on to find out.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MAY 31, 2010

What if a huge company with a hundred software developers and a million dollars in marketing budget decides to copy my idea? First, take a deep breath and remember that every little software company on Earth in under this threat. Answer: You're dead! No small company has ever survived competition with a large one! Do what they cannot.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 21, 2016

These topics were the focus of interviews with the latest guests on Entrepreneurs are Everywhere , my radio show on SiriusXM Channel 111 (airing weekly Thursdays at 1 pm Pacific, 4 pm Eastern). Instead, I went the Software as a Service route and tried to charge for what was a commodity product. . … Clay : Yeah.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 31, 2018

It also showcases how getting it right can transform startups into players: Pokemon Go caused software startup Niantic’s revenues to skyrocket by $600 million within just three months of its mid-2016 launch. In many respects, it’s the leanness, flexibility and agility of startups that help them become successful,” he says.

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ConversionXL

MAY 6, 2021

If you’re a lean startup just starting, there’s much less inertia to overcome. As founder Haradhan shares : “[WordPress is free and open-source software, and also every WordPress developer already make some functional themes and plugin which things make our some works effortless.”. Image source ).

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Steve Blank

MARCH 19, 2009

They sold their product through the computer retail channel, something I knew nothing about. They had an existing distribution channel and their dealers and customers thought they knew who the company was and what it stood for. The first step was to recruit a new management team. They sold to a set of customers I knew nothing about.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 31, 2015

As robots and software-driven automated systems take a larger role in our digital and physical lives, the argument goes, they will displace more and more workers. Some jobs that require mastery of a defined body of knowledge, such as law, accounting, journalism, and medicine, can now be partially handled by software robots.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Most importantly, you need to make sure that your future headquarters location offers a well-developed tech startup ecosystem to lean on, as well as access to resources startups require to succeed, be it funding opportunities or vast talent pools. Learn more about new business approaches and management software. Manage your growth.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 2, 2022

This cycle of solutions delivered and value received has been a staple for us since our inception and we expect to lean on this approach for the foreseeable future. . So, I solved the problem when I decided to take the initiative and develop a new HR document management software for the team. Thanks to Neil John, One Computer Guy ! #16-

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Steve Blank

JULY 14, 2015

My guests on Bay Area Ventures on Wharton Business Radio on Sirius XM Channel 111 were: Alexander Osterwalder – inventor of the Business Model Canvas. Alexander Osterwalder co-founded Strategyzer , a software company specializing in tools and content for strategic management and innovation.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 7, 2008

In addition to presenting the IMVU case, we tried for the first time to do an overview of a software engineering methodology that integrates practices from agile software development with Steves method of Customer Development. Can this methodology be used for startups that are not exclusively about software? Expo SF (May.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 4, 2013

As a startup, you’re working with limited resources and a lean business model. Now, the startup and its software solutions are both household names. Ignore these pioneering risk-takers, and say goodbye to social channels of conversion. Prioritize social networks. Startup Example: Cloudera. Strategy Adopted: Blogger Outreach.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2010

If you’ve read any of my previous posts, you know I believe that: 1) a product is just a part of a startup, but understanding customers, channel, pricing, etc. Their company can focus in any area– software, hardware, medical device or a service of any kind. How does it differ on the web versus other channels?

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 31, 2010

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. The Lean Startup Cohort program. Teaching Lean Startup concepts in a fixed order really didn't work, since all active companies face different challenges at different times.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 23, 2013

Guest post by Lisa Regan, writer for The Lean Startup Conference. Analytics spark more questions and discussion than almost any other aspect of the Lean Startup method. Alistair and Ben, co-authors of the book Lean Analytics, will help you sort it out in our next webcast, Lean Analytics for Non-tech Companies.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 17, 2013

It’s Lean, it’s fast, it works and it’s unlike anything else ever done. Welcome to the Lean LaunchPad for Life Sciences and Healthcare (part of the National Science Foundation I-Corps ). This post is part of our series on the Lean Startup in Life Science and Health Care. Part 6: Distribution channels in Life Sciences.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 19, 2013

This post is part of our series on the National Science Foundation I-Corps Lean LaunchPad class in Life Science and Health Care at UCSF. Part 6: Distribution channels in Life Sciences. Our Lean LaunchPad for Life Science class talked to 2,355 customers, tested 947 hypotheses and invalidated 423 of them.

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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. I started UpKeep after seeing and using traditional enterprise software. Use your knowledge of an industry to solve a problem. “I

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Steve Blank

APRIL 29, 2010

Customer Development was a process to quickly search for a profitable business model when customer needs (features, pricing, channel, etc.) The case says he decides to charge $50,000 for his beta software and is now worrying whether anyone will buy it. I need some enterprise software and hardware company cases. are unknown.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 31, 2009

Finally, I’ll write about 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. BPM vendor (every software vendor!) Steve Blank and Eric Ries writings should be mandatory for software developers in the BPM [.]

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