Steve Blank

AUGUST 29, 2016

We tend to associate the government with words like bureaucracy rather than lean innovation. Department of Defense by adopting Lean Methodology inside their agency. The NGA has adopted Lean Innovation methods to make this happen. Their goal is to integrate these techniques into their own Lean innovation processes.

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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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The Next Web

JANUARY 26, 2014

Ohad Frankfurt is the cofounder and CEO of Swayy , a personalized content curation and management platform. We had built an impressive technology and a really cool product in less than three months, and we tried keeping it “lean” in every way we could.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 1, 2023

Lean” doesn’t come to mind when you think of a business that needs trucks, warehouses, cross-docks, and thousands of employees to run efficiently. Hire versatile players and lean into your team The SVB collapse reminded us that staffing matters. Working creatively Our company sits at the center of the logistics and freight industry.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 28, 2018

A Lean Business Plan might be a better fit if you simply need to think through all the different aspects of your business. A Lean Plan will be shorter, and it lends itself to quick revisions, but both types follow the same general outline. Team: Who is on your management team? They tend to be lengthier and more detailed.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

I have been able to curate a list of free online courses, videos, webinars, and other useful resources that should give you the confidence boost to get out there and get started. It’s the lean format of the business plan—the format that will allow you to adapt fastest as you progress through the startup phase. Partners and resources.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 15, 2012

We write often about small businesses and startups and lean approaches to marketing and other business functions. Careful planning and good management of the process can mitigate the risks, but it is crucial that managers understand some of the issues and challenges involved as well as best practices for successful crowdsourcing.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

If you’re building a startup, the Startup Tools tab on the top of this page has curated links to hundreds of startup resources. The Lean LaunchPad course online. I teach potential founders a hands-on, experiential class called the Lean LaunchPad at Berkeley, Stanford, Columbia and Caltech. The Lean LaunchPad Educators Course.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 14, 2016

Guest post by Jennifer Maerz, Contributing Editor of Lean Startup Co. Gone is the Lean Startup Conference as you know it. Welcome instead Lean Startup Week , October 31 - November 6, 2016. And what is this Lean Startup Week? We’re inviting the big names in entrepreneurship to help curate workshops and activities.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2017

It combines the same Lean Startup Methodology used by the National Science Foundation to commercialize science, with the rapid problem sourcing and curation methodology developed on the battlefields in Afghanistan and Iraq by Colonel Pete Newell and the US Army’s Rapid Equipping Force. Their sponsors agreed. Sign up here.

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 1, 2015

It also makes sense to include in this category companies that help to educate ( Udacity , Coursera , Kaggle etc), or that manage code bases and projects (e.g. There will surely be inexpensive toys that are adaptive and responsive (like Paro the therapeutic seal robot, but for play), although I haven’t managed to find any yet.

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Steve Blank

MAY 29, 2019

Lean LaunchPad class developed for Stanford. And the Lean LaunchPad class I developed at Stanford was the first such class. I believe the analogy is identical for entrepreneurship.The capstone entrepreneurship classes like NSF I-Corps or a Lean LaunchPad class, are for those who have already decided they want to be entrepreneurs.

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Brandanew

JULY 6, 2015

As usual, here’s a round up of all the content we shared with our partners in the last month. a) How to hire social media marketing staff for your Startup is a question that’s not easy for a lean organization. b) How to manage your social media during summer holidays considering the always-on nature of these networks.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 30, 2017

This article is part of our “ Business Startup Guide ”—a curated list of our articles that will get you up and running in no time! Rather than thinking of a business plan as a hefty document that you’ll only use once (perhaps to obtain a loan from a bank), think of it as tool to manage how your business grows and achieves its goals.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 10, 2018

This article is part of our Business Planning Guide —a curated list of our articles that will help you with the planning process! This is an excellent use of the Lean Business Planning methodology , based on a simple Lean Plan combined with regular updates and revisions. Try using a Lean Plan template to get you started.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 12, 2016

We just held our final week of the Hacking for Diplomacy class, teaching students entrepreneurship and “Lean Startup” principles while they engaged in national public service applying advanced technologies to solve global challenges. Getting Lean. Each of the teams used the Lean Startup methodology. And what a journey it’s been.

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 18, 2020

This new industry and community-driven version is the outcome of ample research and development work conducted globally across the Information Technology and service management industries. To begin with, you should never take the importance of IT service management for modern business too lightly. What is ITIL?

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2021

Ultimately, the company partnered with the City of Los Angeles , and as Eren recalls, "seven days after the original handshake and launch into a scheduling website, we helped launch Dodger Stadium, which was the single largest mass vaccination site in the country." They pivoted to monitoring patients for COVID, then testing. EB : Yeah.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

Richard De Silva is based in Menlo Park with three other partners, there and 5 partners in Boston. Richard’s email address is public but it is hard to manage all the inbound cold emails. The second phase will be who can get the right combination lean back, lean forward, interaction, enhanced data, and make it fun.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

The results: 13 Universities will offer the course in the next year, government sponsors committed to keep sending hard problems to the course, the Department of Defense is expanding their use of H4D to include a classified version, and corporate partners are expanding their efforts to support the course and to create their own internal H4D courses.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 19, 2017

With nine out of ten start-ups failing within the first year or even earlier, the lean business model is proving hugely popular, allowing entrepreneurs to get the most for their money when it comes to business development and success. Outsourcing.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 12, 2016

We just held our final week of the Hacking for Diplomacy class, teaching students entrepreneurship and “Lean Startup” principles while they engaged in national public service applying advanced technologies to solve global challenges. Getting Lean. Each of the teams used the Lean Startup methodology. And what a journey it’s been.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

I am a huge advocate for the lean way of starting and running a business. Each month, a subscriber receives a carefully curated package of products, without knowing what brands, nor which combination of items will arrive. Product curation and searching for products. Added value is a must. Customer service.

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OnlyOnce

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

They stress out about big expensive new executive hires when sometimes they just need to level-up an existing manager or “try before they buy.” to leaning in to our board (hit or miss, inefficient). Their CEOs spend a ton of time hiring and coaching their leaders and shaping the complexion and direction of the team.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

The results: 13 Universities will offer the course in the next year, government sponsors committed to keep sending hard problems to the course, the Department of Defense is expanding their use of H4D to include a classified version, and corporate partners are expanding their efforts to support the course and to create their own internal H4D courses.

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OnlyOnce

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

They stress out about big expensive new executive hires when sometimes they just need to level-up an existing manager or “try before they buy.” to leaning in to our board (hit or miss, inefficient). Their CEOs spend a ton of time hiring and coaching their leaders and shaping the complexion and direction of the team.

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Up and Running

MARCH 1, 2016

Boris Wertz, founding partner of Version One Ventures, believes that if you’ve worked in an industry you’re passionate about for a long time, you may know something about the market that nobody else knows. You can do this on your own too using the lean planning methodology. See Also: A Curated List of Our Favorite 20 Marketing Tools.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

How to stay lean and iterate quickly while you’re building a two sided marketplace, especially when “network effect” and “critical mass” are the two main focuses? “How What is the best advice you can give for finding a business partner? Don’t quickly choose any business partner. Hope that helps.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

Entrepreneur’s Jeff Boss writes : A coach serves as an accountability partner who challenges you to strategize and develop your goals while aligning your efforts toward achieving them. We’ve curated a list of 7 exceptional small business coaches sharing some of their best advice. 1) Brad Sugars.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

Entrepreneur’s Jeff Boss writes : A coach serves as an accountability partner who challenges you to strategize and develop your goals while aligning your efforts toward achieving them. We’ve curated a list of 7 exceptional small business coaches sharing some of their best advice. 1) Brad Sugars.

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Occam's Razor

JULY 13, 2017

I’ve curated sixteen extremely diverse visualization examples to do that. Bloomberg managed to make it as simple as possible, with valuable built-in context. But, I really do want you to lean into this one. Our partner and co-workers will take over our lives from then on through our 50s. Cyprus and Ireland.

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abovethecrowd.com

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Bill is a general partner at Benchmark, one of Silicon Valley’s really legendary venture capital firms. They all struggle with how do you lean against the American healthcare system? That podcast is included here along with a transcript. I am Ezra Klein and my guest this week is Bill Gurley. Bill Gurley : Absolutely.

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