Up and Running

JULY 25, 2014

Being a Michigan native myself, the documentary gave me a heavy dose of nostalgia for my state’s late ’80s and early ’90s glory. So, of course I moved right on to watch another “30 for 30” documentary: “The Fab Five,” a chronicle of the University of Michigan’s most notable men’s basketball team.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 11, 2018

The Chrysler’s ATL (Above the Line), “Eminem commercial” — that cost around 12 million $— is a perfect example of a well-focused, mass marketing campaign. It honors the state of Michigan and the city of Detroit, cradle of many worldwide talents, including the multi platinum rapper and the multinational car brand.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 18, 2019

Developers make their profit off the difference between the cost of the land and the net profit on the houses. On my first day of school in Michigan I met Michael Krzys, who one day would be the best man at my wedding. And in California if you can build 1,500 houses on a 400-acre farm, that might be worth a billion dollars.

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Brandanew

DECEMBER 4, 2017

At a recently held creative round-table in Walled lake, Michigan, we entered into a good conversation around design and creativity. Here are some basic issues that many small businesses or Startups face. Often short-term cost savings tend to be more expensive in the long run. Who is your real customer? Is your team aware of it?

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Haystack

MAY 4, 2019

As an investor in startups, there is considerable conventional wisdom around the idea of investing only in the Bay Area. ” chants will come from the Twitter Peanut Gallery, and many VCs do — there are outcomes like Duo in Michigan, Qualtrics in Utah, or Atlassian in Australia.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 11, 2012

Some mentors may become an active participant in a startup that comes out of the class. In an incubator, the Lean LaunchPad develops angel or venture-funded startups. A successful outcome is a startup or a patent or technology license to a U.S. Given that most of them didn’t know what a startup was coming in.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 17, 2009

The university found government contracts profitable as the government reimbursed their overhead charges (their indirect costs.) Other universities doing classified ELINT and Electronic Warfare work attended including University of Michigan, Georgia Institute of Technology and Cornell.

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Brandanew

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

We’ve had a little change at Brandanew , and have a new office now in Ann Arbor, Michigan, in the United States. From managing a baby Startup to the most effective content marketing strategies, read through further… Say hello to the new office! hello #annarbor #smallbiz #startup #remoteworking pic.twitter.com/zDXWvSd1I8.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Ideally, your business planning process coincides with your startup process, but even if you’ve been in business for a while, it’s never too late to create a plan for your cannabis business. Think through potential costs you might incur. Each of these options has costs and benefits that must be explored. Sample Your Product.

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 15, 2016

But as I tried to find my own path in this, it became clear that there are MANY resources for small startups in Ann Arbor, and today throughout Michigan. I got helped with talent search, boot camp for small startups, microloan…the list goes on and on. There are many more, just in the state of Michigan.

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Up and Running

APRIL 9, 2013

Though I’m back in Michigan now, I still work with CFI, five years later. Here are some free and low-cost ways to make sure people can find your business: 1) Social media: Facebook pages show up in searches, and searching for a business or organization through Facebook is something I frequently do. Get more info about that here.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 15, 2011

Our new Stanford Lean LaunchPad class was an experiment in a new model of teaching startup entrepreneurship. Their hypotheses when they first left the campus were: Value Proposition : Labor costs in mowing and weeding applications are significant, and autonomous implementation would solve the problem. This post is part two.

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Up and Running

JULY 4, 2016

See Also: 7 Startup Lessons from an Inspiring Entrepreneur. While he notes that many people have recommended he move production overseas to save on costs, he feels a sense of “pride in the fact that we can be a small part of providing some of those opportunities for the American worker.” The capsules are proudly made in the U.S.,

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 4, 2011

I invested in a company whose goal is to bring low-cost computing to inner-city schools in America. How about a policy that they could be guaranteed to stay if they moved to high unemployment zones and created startups there? We need more high-caliber people in Ohio, Michigan and other mid-Western states. Why bother?

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 1, 2009

Sloan put in place GM’s management accounting system (borrowed from DuPont) that for the first time allowed the company to: 1) produce an annual operating forecast that compared each division’s forecast (revenue, costs, capital requirements and return on investment) with the company’s financial goals.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

I knew it was an easy fix, so I really didn’t want to pay for a tow truck in addition to the cost of the repair. It struck me that had the technology existed, travelers could have taken advantage of our empty aircraft to get back to London and then the aircraft could be dropped in Oxford, with minimal additional cost.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 19, 2016

Somehow I figured out how to apply to school in Michigan. Pre-infinite information on the Internet about colleges, I picked Michigan because I saw them play football on TV, but I ended up applying to the wrong school in Michigan – my first time around I ended up in Michigan State not the University of Michigan.

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Steve Blank

MAY 18, 2009

It’s why all of you operated so well in the unpredictable environment that all startups face.” What makes an individual a great startup founder (versus an employee) has been something I had been thinking about since I retired. I couldn’t figure out if I was more perturbed about how casual the comment was or how insightful it was.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 19, 2016

Somehow I figured out how to apply to school in Michigan. Pre-infinite information on the Internet about colleges, I picked Michigan because I saw them play football on TV, but I ended up applying to the wrong school in Michigan – my first time around I ended up in Michigan State not the University of Michigan.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 12, 2019

We’re proud to share that our members, startups, entrepreneurs and Innovation Council partners submitted a total of 17 proposals to the SXSW PanelPicker this year! This panel will show how having a validation pipeline can reduce costs and increase insight while making digital transformation faster.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 30, 2023

Our Michigan operations weren't shut down quite as badly. And the banter channel is just where people put silly jokes or funny things like it's just random banter and it's, it keeps people laughing and engaged, costs nothing. And when we first were mandated the like Canadian mandates were really harsh. It's playful and positive.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 1, 2012

One of the most important things we do with The Lean Startup Conference is make a livestream of the plenary talks available for free to groups around the world, supporting entrepreneurship communities everywhere. Most simulcasts are free, although some charge a small fee to cover their costs.

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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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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 6, 2018

It was my pleasure to talk with Henry about what he and Heimans have learned about how power structures are changing, how people can get started making the shift from old to new power, how the principles of new power are related to the principles of lean startup, and the responsibilities that come with all the amazing energy being channeled.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 15, 2020

I love startups and starting things. So pretty much if I have a good idea, if I don't trip down the stairs one day, I'm like, ooh, maybe I should have a startup for that. And we joke all the time that if Sydney weren't a nurse practitioner she would be a startup CEO because she's so clear headed and optimistic.

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Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

I’ve spent my life in innovation, eight startups in 21 years, and the last 15 years in academia teaching it. 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.

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