Steve Blank

JULY 7, 2015

My guests on Bay Area Ventures on Wharton Business Radio on Sirius XM Channel 111 were: Eric Ries , entrepreneur and author of the New York Times bestseller, The Lean Startup. Eric was the very first practitioner of my Customer Development methodology which became the core of the the Lean methodology. Origins of the Lean Startup.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 5, 2023

Government agencies to provide context and perspective on commercial technologies and national security. Secretary of Defense James Mattis and the CIA’s CTO and COO Nand Mulchandani and Andy Makridis. Final Problem Statement: How should the US manage China’s dominance in solar panels? Most rise way above the occasion.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 8, 2008 The lean startup Ive been thinking for some time about a term that could encapsulate trends that are changing the startup landscape. After some trial and error, Ive settled on the Lean Startup. I like the term because of two connotations: Lean in the sense of low-burn.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 31, 2015

The following is a guest post by Kirsten Cluthe and Ritika Puri from The Lean Startup Conference team Wondering what’s new in the Lean Startup community? She wants to disrupt Hollywood with the Lean Startup method. It's Lean Startup storytelling for the Snapchat generation. Do you have a cool Lean Startup story to share?

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 28, 2015

Guest post by Jennifer Maerz, Contributing Editor of Lean Startup Co. Really, there’s no better way to recharge and return to work inspired than spending a few days with the Lean Startup’s global network. A Lean Startup training kinda guy? Join us Nov. But wait — there’s more. Get smart, fast Our Ignite talks are back!

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blog.chrisomeara.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Chris OMeara Main | Probing Code Quality » 01/31/2010 Startup CTO: Could It Work? A CEO friend of mine recently asked my opinion about Tony Karrers Startup CTO or Developer article. I think the part time CTO could work. If you think thats person you need, the question becomes "what else do you expect a CTO to contribute?"

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 28, 2014

VCs and Angel investors like to see a startup that is running lean and mean, with no more than three or four of the conventional C-level or VP titles. The most common ones I see and salute are CEO, CFO, and CTO. Chief Sales Officer (VP Sales). Chief Brand Officer. Chief Legal Officer.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 20, 2011

In July I got a call from Errol Arkilic , a program manager at the National Science Foundation (NSF), the $6.8-billion We’ve been reading your blog about your Lean Launchpad class.” We want to make a bet that your Lean Launchpad class can apply the scientific method to market-opportunity identification. Your Country Needs You.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 22, 2013

VCs and Angel investors like to see a startup that is running lean and mean, with no more than three or four of the conventional C-level or VP titles. The most common ones I see and salute are CEO, CFO, and CTO. Chief Sales Officer (VP Sales). Chief Brand Officer. Chief Legal Officer.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 16, 2020

Being relatively a new service trend in today’s tech-driven world, CTO-as-a-Service (CaaS) is notably gaining its momentum. Though CTO as a traditional full-time position exists for decades, some companies do not feel they need a technology executive. Ideal scenario assumes there’s a CTO in house. By referring to ?TO-as-a-Service

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 24, 2017

An important reminder: Lean Startup Week is in San Francisco October 30 - November 5 The Lean Startup Week team has been working around the clock to put together a program that will suit the needs of any entrepreneur in any organization, all themed around The Startup Way.

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Hunter Walker

JUNE 7, 2014

Party rounds blew up on a number of startups who found it difficult to get ongoing operational support from investors who didn’t have time or inclination to lean in. Now the employees carry your technology into the enterprise via their own phone and cloud services. The individuals and team managers have more sway.

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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? ) He previously co-founded and served as Chief Technology Officer of IMVU. But I managed a few "good learning experiences" before throwing myself full-bore into IMVU. So much for timing.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 28, 2010

kaChing has been very active in the Lean Startup movement. With case studies like this, we aim to illustrate specific Lean Startup techniques through the stories of current practitioners. To shed some light, I talked with kaChing , a destination that enables individual investors to find outstanding money managers to manage their money.

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Gust

APRIL 20, 2014

VCs and Angel investors like to see a startup that is running lean and mean, with no more than three or four of the conventional C-level or VP titles. The most common ones I see and salute are CEO, CFO, and CTO. Chief Sales Officer (VP Sales). Chief Brand Officer. Chief Legal Officer.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 22, 2012

“Lean” is great in the early days but if you discover an attractive market opportunity you need to get “fat” really quickly or somebody else will. I’ve seen this happen before where companies seems to be struggling with traction and one technology change at an industry level suddenly propelled them more rapidly.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 16, 2015

Here is where I see this really play out: Product Management. At times I wanted the engineering team to produce features to support our sales efforts to I occasionally leaned on them a bit. Allocation planning in product management in ingenious and helps a lot with CEO meddling. Senior management feels undermined.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 1, 2010

VCs and angel investors like to see a startup that is running lean and mean, with no more than three or four of the conventional C-level or VP titles. The most common ones I see and salute are CEO, CFO, and CTO. Chief Sales Officer (VP Sales). Chief Brand Officer. Chief Legal Officer.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2017

Guest Post by Misti Yang, Writer for Lean Startup Co. Editor’s Note: We wrapped up the 2017 Lean Startup Week in San Francisco just a few weeks ago, and we’re excited to share with you some of the best lessons learned in entrepreneurship and corporate innovation. Because these Lean Startup people, they do crazy stuff,” Alex joked. “So

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

There are several lines of effort that we’re focusing on: We’re working to build the Space Force as a very Lean and Agile service. I want folks managing their programs, not managing the Pentagon bureaucracy. It is trying to do things differently, building a lean and agile organization.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 14, 2011

They are leveraging the same kinds of new technology, management thinking, and big data to improve lives that we routinely use here in Silicon Valley. There's never been a better time to innovate" United States CTO Aneesh Chopra kicked off the event by saying: "there's never been a better time to innovate." But some have.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 1, 2010

My experiments in lean pricing - Venture Hacks , February 16, 2010 Ash Maurya, a lean entrepreneur who runs a bootstrapped startup called CloudFire, discusses pricing issues for first versions (Minimum Viable Product – MVP). This post looks at the implementation details of HTML 5 video. " The emotions around sunk costs run deep.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 2, 2017

I can't wait to get out on the road with The Startup Way and talk to you about the methods and principles of modern management. Some of the most inspiring conversations I’ve had about my work have happened at book events, and I’m looking forward to more of them. Here’s the current list of my planned stops. thestartupway to see the videos.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 8, 2017

Todd McGuire is the Chief Technology Officer and co-founder of startup incentaHEALTH and we had to the opportunity to hear from him about starting business, the future of the company and what entrepreneurship means to him. I am the co-founder and CTO of the digital health care company incentaHEALTH. Hi, I’m Todd.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

Yes, there are Lean Startups even in the United States federal government. For my take on how this is possible, you can see my previous post on Lean Government here. Office of Personnel Management, in connection with the General Services Administration and the U.S.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

Guest post by Lisa Regan, writer for The Lean Startup Conference. Our fall webcast series concluded on a high note with three extraordinary conversations about the origins and implications of Lean Startup. Eric’s chat with Kent Beck was among our most entertaining webcasts ( video ; iTunes ; SoundCloud ). “But

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Steve Blank

JUNE 6, 2016

Evangelos Simoudis’ is the founder and managing director of Synapse Partners. — Ashok has taken a Lean approach to innovation at Verizon: Within a couple of weeks of joining Verizon, they said, “Before you learn a lot about the company, write down what you think we should do.” If you can’t hear the clip, click here.

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

The further we got into this side passion project we realized how fragmented the market truly is, that there nothing that meets our standards for technology, and that these platforms are not only charging thousands of dollars for the technology but also are taking a cut from all donations. ” – The Lean Startup by Eric Ries.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 19, 2017

by Steve Owens, Founder and CTO of Finish Line Product Development Services. The lean start-up movement has been based on a single insight – which the purpose of a start-up is to discover a business model that works. The Lean Start-Up Environment. A technology start-up is very different. Extending the runway.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) Subscribe via email Blog Archive ► 2010 (48) ► October (3) Case Study: Rapid iteration with hardware The Lean Startup Bundle Stop lying on stage ► September (4) Good enough never is (or is it?) The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 15, 2008 The one line split-test, or how to A/B all the time Split-testing is a core lean startup discipline, and its one of those rare topics that comes up just as often in a technical context as in a business-oriented one when Im talking to startups. Expo SF (May. for Harvard Business Revie.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Instead, the product manager should keep iterating on the press release until they’ve come up with benefits that actually sound like benefits. Great product launches manage those expectations; failed ones let them run wild. Suspense piques potential customers’ interest while also managing expectations. Test launch tiny products.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 7, 2008

One major theory that has influenced the way I think about processes comes from Lean Manufacturing , where they use these same techniques to build cars. 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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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

I am convinced one of Joel Spolskys lasting contributions to the field of managing software teams will turn out to be the Joel Test , a checklist of 12 essential practices that you could use to rate the effectiveness of a software product development team. Please leave feedback!) Joels Painless Bug Tracking is still the gold standard.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. ► April (11) Video update on the Startup Visa Act Lean Enterprise Institute webinar, April 28 Four myths about the Lean Startup Sneak preview, KISSmetrics (and more) Sneak preview, Grockit The Lean Startup Intensive at Web 2.0 Expo SF (May.

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

link] – Not a meetup, but a great mentorship program started by serial CTO Sean Lindsay. Lean Startup Circle Boston – Meetup dedicated to the lean startup and customer development methodology. Belmont Technologies – CAD in the Cloud (backed by Northbridge and NEA). No agenda, just come by and talk tech at Voltage.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

October 17, 2009 10:34 AM Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) Subscribe via email Blog Archive ► 2010 (48) ► October (3) Case Study: Rapid iteration with hardware The Lean Startup Bundle Stop lying on stage ► September (4) Good enough never is (or is it?) Expo SF (May.

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