Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

To celebrate the debut of the Japan edition of “The Startup Owner’s Manual” and to express great thanks to Steve and his co-author Bob Dorf, I would like to reflect back what first drew me to this book and offer Steve’s worldwide readers a look at the progress of Customer Development and the Lean LaunchPad class in Japan.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2016

If you’re moving slowly or have yet to implement search engine optimization (SEO) strategies as part of your overall marketing efforts, you’re falling behind your competitors. You can learn more about setting goals in our post on Lean Marketing 101: Setting Goals. Define Conversions Properly. That’s a dangerous assumption.

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SEO Search Engineer Small Business 48

Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 19, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, January 19, 2009 Lean hiring tips In preparing for the strategy series panel this week, I have been doing some thinking about costs. Fundamentally, lean startups do more with less, because they systematically find and eliminate waste that slows down value creation. Another terrific post, Eric.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Growth marketing borrows a concept from the lean startup methodology. Growth hacking is a term that emerged from the Silicon Valley tech community and the lean startup methodology. In another example, let’s say most of your acquisition comes through organic search, but conversion rate to signups is lower than you’d expect.

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Framework Marketing Acquisition Retention 102

Up and Running

DECEMBER 17, 2020

But particularly when you’re running lean and mean, you may not have native expertise in every aspect of managing a startup. Inbound marketing is about creating a welcoming home for your customers through platforms such as your website and social media communities like Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter. Marketing is one such function.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 5, 2013

It’s been fun watching a 20th Century entrepreneur learn new tricks as he builds his next startup, FindTheBest using Lean Methodology. Lean Start-up Connection: Business Model Canvas. By leaning on our technology, we knew we could build cheaply, we just didn’t know how cheaply. Lean Start-up Connection: Agile Development.

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Lean Agile Customer Development SEO 298

Up and Running

JUNE 25, 2020

It can be as simple as opening a business profile and beginning to grow a community of customers. Support your community. Giving back to your community and being socially responsible is a great way to grow your brand and showcase your business values. Diving into social media can be daunting.

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Small Business Hosting Social Media Community 180

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 4, 2013

But the search for product / market fit has been around in various form for a long time. Shallow and superficial and racing from segment to segment in search of some take up has never been a strong strategic plan for me. LEAN STARTUP MOVEMENT. In Steve’s case it is “going in search of a business model.”

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Technical Review Startup Business Model Non-Compete 401

ConversionXL

MAY 6, 2021

If you’re a lean startup just starting, there’s much less inertia to overcome. Because they have been around for over two decades, they have an incredibly engaged community, and many developers and tools build their applications with WordPress in mind. . Image source ). Image source ) .

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Software Review Technical Review Hosting SEO 91

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

In 2012 I got together with Alexander Osterwalder , Henry Chesbrough and Andre Marquis to think about the Lean and the future of corporate innovation. It didn’t take us very long to connect the dots between exponential growth, business model innovation and the “Lean Startup” movement. And why wouldn’t it be?

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 4, 2016

State Department and asks students to use Lean Methods to test their understanding of the problem and deliver rapid-fire innovative solutions to pressing diplomacy, development and foreign policy challenges. Rapidly iterate technology solutions while searching for product-market fit. State Department and other civilian agencies.

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Lean Government Agile Africa 164

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 14, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, May 14, 2009 The Lean Startup Workshop - now an OReilly Master Class My rate of posting has been much lower lately, and this is mostly due to preparations for the upcoming Lean Startup Workshop on May 29. I have a lot of good news to report on this front. You can click here to learn more.

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Eric Friedman

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

With the right kind of experience and help, advisors can be a welcomed addition to the extended team, be a great group to lean on, and help the business. Since 2016 I have had people lean on me and my blog post for the talk. What are answers you are searching for this week/month? What is an early stage advisor? Who are they?).

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 24, 2021

Companies like iHeartMedia, SiriusXM, and Spotify are investing in and leading the evolution of audio, focused on music streaming (on-demand and lean-back modalities), podcasting and content production. Products that were previously not inherently social, will embrace community, stories and sharing to increase stickiness and drive revenue.

Technical Review 207

Technical Review Audio Forecast Social Media 207

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

Your questions determine the path people will follow and focus their search for answers. Celebrate victories and a spirit of community. Smart leaders find and create occasions to bring people together to publicly celebrate accomplishments and build community. People listen to what you say, but they follow what you do.

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Leadership Startup Lean Community 334

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 3, 2017

Guest post by Melissa Moore & Jennifer Maerz of Lean Startup Co. Over the last eight years, we’ve learned that our Lean Startup community members are constantly searching for better ways to build and scale products. You won’t just hear inspirational and motivational talks (though we’ll have plenty of that!).

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

When it feels like you’re trapped facing an unsolvable dilemma, and wrestling with a seemingly intractable problem, remember that “getting out of your head” is the personal equivalent of the Lean Startup mantra “get out of the building.”. Learning this was a big step in making me a more effective entrepreneur. That was a barrier to many.

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Customer Lean Entrepreneur Internet 402

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Guest post by Lisa Regan, writer for The Lean Startup Conference. Entrepreneurs beyond Silicon Valley, including those working abroad, often have to retool Lean Startup methods to apply them in places with very different business cultures. People search differently in different cultures. On September 24 in the U.S.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 4, 2016

State Department and asks students to use Lean Methods to test their understanding of the problem and deliver rapid-fire innovative solutions to pressing diplomacy, development and foreign policy challenges. Rapidly iterate technology solutions while searching for product-market fit. State Department and other civilian agencies.

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Lean Government Agile Africa 120

Hunter Walker

JUNE 7, 2014

YC companies use Hacker News to post jobs and have strong community groups, as does 500 Startups. And search engines like sourcing.io help you build a specific list based on skills you’re seeking. Founders are building small, focused teams based on people they worked with previously and referrals from their networks.

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Technical Review CTO Hire Finance Stealth 117

crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 15, 2013

The chart above shows age distribution within major social networks and online communities. Lean Business: Capacity Management, Overhead, and Your Business – [link]. Paid Search: Are You Wasting Your Money? Paid Search: Are You Wasting Your Money? Paid Search: Are You Wasting Your Money? – [link].

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 105

The Next Web

MARCH 3, 2014

Launch into an existing community, or piggyback one. Instagram launched into a community of influential design oriented Twitter users, which allowed it to generate 25K downloads on launch day as it reveal in this excellent video. ASO (Appstore Search Optimization) for apps plays a similar role to SEO for websites.

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Brazil Technical Review PR Development Team Review 158

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Whereas a blog post needs just a computer to type, a video requires an understanding of lighting, audio, storytelling, editing, and community building. If you’re creating videos only for your own content, then it might make sense to host it on Vimeo and drive people to a landing page (or product pages), and not try to build a community.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 13, 2009

Customer Development/Lean Startups In hindsight startups and the venture capital community left out the most important first step any startup ought to be doing – hypothesis testing in front of customers- from day one. I have an idea for how to connect user social web conversations to 2-way search and contextual advertising.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 13, 2011

Mark is a serial entrepreneur who is now active in the venture capital community for early-stage startups. He brings a strong technology base to the table, as a former CTO, and creator of the Lean Startup methodology. He definitely has experience on both sides of the ‘entrepreneur versus investor’ table. Lessons Learned , by Eric Ries.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Before you begin using tactics to hit your goals, tap into your analytics and search data. Which terms are people using to search for your products? Except it does it without relying on organic search engine optimization to make an impact. They’ve also leaned on short, benefit-driven copy. Which actions do visitors take?

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Advertising Cost Customer PR 131

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 26, 2009

And, as you can see in my previous post on “ The cardinal sin of community management &# the feedback could be all over the map. But we had some super-active customers who would act as editors, collecting feedback from all over the community and synthesizing it into a report of the top issues. It was absolutely worth it.

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SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2010

think many of the fundamentals behind the lean startup are things you likely have been practicing for a while. They start with an innovation, search for a repeatable business model, build the infrastructure for a company, then grow by efficiently executing the model. Charles Darwin. Companies have a fairly predictable life cycle.

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Cofounder Technical Cofounder Term Sheet Startup 175

Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 12, 2009

The number one reason I keep coming back to PHP is that it has overwhelming community support. Ive written elsewhere that success in creating a platform is "becoming a function not of the size and resources of the company that builds it, but of the size of the community that supports it." Lets start with some circular reasoning.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2009

Ive written a little bit about the origins of Silicon Valley because I think its important for us to understand how we got here in order to make sure we preserve what is best about our community. The companies I spoke to all agreed that the community there was extremely supportive, especially in the critical ulta-early-stage.

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San Francisco Silicon Valley Startup Lean 113

Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

Step 1: Start with a lean plan. It’s the fastest way to get your idea onto paper, and it’s the very first step in the lean planning process, which is much easier and more iterative than traditional business planning methods. Introducing Lean Planning: How to Plan Less and Grow Faster. How to Write a Traditional Business Plan.

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Software Review Software Delaware Forecast 74

Steve Blank

MAY 29, 2019

Lean LaunchPad class developed for Stanford. Today the capstone class is most often experiential, team-based, hands on, focused around the search for a repeatable and scalable business model. And the Lean LaunchPad class I developed at Stanford was the first such class. Worth a read. Teaching basic entrepreneurial appreciation.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 28, 2020

Over time, I realized that was wrong – large companies executed known business models, while startups searched for them. Customer Development became one of the three parts of the Lean Startup as Eric Ries and Alexander Osterwalder provided the other two components (Agile Engineering and the business model canvas.)

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Lean Business Model Government Agile 430

crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 25, 2018

SEO (search engine optimization) is the practice of building web pages that are clearly visible to search engines. Search engines used complex algorithms to determine what web pages appear when a user types in a search query. The good news is that there are many financially lean marketing techniques to choose from.

Small Business 63

Small Business Marketing Social Media Lead Generation 63

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 22, 2015

A massive rain storm blew through San Francisco in the middle of last year’s Lean Startup Conference. These community-led experiences were so much fun -- and became a source of such serendipitous, fruitful connections -- that we’ve decided to iterate on the idea for the 2015 conference and make it a core part of our program.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 24, 2013

We are huge believers in a lean approach to marketing and business and one of the precepts is small batch testing: stick with what works and get rid of what doesn’t. Take the time to make sure your site is performing well and is optimized for the best results in search. How successful was your overall strategy?

Small Business 92

Small Business Software Review Startup Lean 92

ConversionXL

JUNE 30, 2019

To find out who your top competitors are: Run a Google search; Check Google Trends, SimilarWeb, Compete, or Alexa. If your company doesn’t show up in search results or get clicked, you’ve got work to do. The lean, aggressive ones do. Then, I perform my own search, going through at least two pages of PPC ads and organic results.

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