YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 29, 2019

The question is, how do you keep your growing business lean? Many companies today realize the importance of being lean. Unfortunately, many businesses struggle to stay lean – or operate only with what they need. Here’s a look at what this framework entails and how you can make the most of it for your business.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 29, 2013

This post was written by Sarah Milstein, co-host of The Lean Startup Conference. We’re looking for speakers for the 2013 Lean Startup Conference. If you’re a Lean Startup veteran, feel free to skim the beginning, as this is mostly stuff you already know. Last week, we announced that our short application form was live.

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Steve Blank

MAY 7, 2019

Lean Methodology consists of three tools designed for entrepreneurs building new ventures: The Business Model Canvas – to write down all the hypotheses about a new business; Customer Development – a process for testing those hypotheses outside the building; Agile Engineering – to rapidly build minimal viable products to test product/market fit.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 8, 2011

In January, we introduced a new graduate course at Stanford called the " target="_blank">Lean LaunchPad. It was designed to bring together many of the new approaches to building a successful startup – customer development, agile development, business model generation and pivots. (The to get hard-earned information.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

Over the last three years our Lean LaunchPad / NSF Innovation Corps classes have been teaching hundreds of entrepreneurial teams a year how to build their startups by getting out of the building and testing their hypotheses behind their business model. Filed under: Customer Development , Lean LaunchPad , Teaching.

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Board Effect

OCTOBER 15, 2023

The Benefits of Generative AI for Nonprofits Nonprofit organizations and associations typically run on tight budgets and lean staff numbers. Elements of an AI Governance Framework An AI governance framework is essential to ensure responsible and ethical use of AI technologies by nonprofit organizations.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

MARCH 2, 2023

Interestingly, this weight loss journey is similar to the entrepreneur’s strategy for building and growing a lean business. So, What Exactly Is the Lean Method? Lean thinking begins with our vision. Fortunately, and perhaps luckily, failure is an acceptable and essential component of the lean methodology.

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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. Marketers can use this framework to evaluate the risks associated with different growth strategies. Design a marketing growth strategy that increases market share and revenue.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 16, 2013

” It defined a startup as a “temporary organization designed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model.” The techniques invented in what has become the Lean Startup movement are now more than ever applicable to reinventing the modern corporation. Today, we’ve come full circle as Lean goes mainstream.

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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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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 22, 2013

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Lean Business: Office Space – A Meditation – [link]. Lean Business: Office Space – A Meditation – [link]. Look for the other photos in the Other section below.

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Innovation Session Designs Don’t Engage. Facilitators need to adopt experiential learning tools in their sessions designs. Innovation Session Designs Need More Variety. When you design innovation sessions: Use a variety of experiences. Scaffolding and Experiential Learning Tools Are Innovation Framework Neutral.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 8, 2023

Another trend born in the omnichannel framework is the customer data platform (CDM). Here is a list of my favorite publications worth following: Practical E-commerce and Digital Commerce 360 provide an overview of the e-commerce industry and its direction, whether in marketing, design, or analytics.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 30, 2013

2) We should have had buy-in about the value of disruptive new business models, design and open innovation thinking. I earnestly believe that large corporations should emulate Lean Startups (Business model design, Customer Development and Agile Engineering.) Venture Fest was not integral to their success.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Brand-faithful design and layout. Institute an orderly, scalable process for filtering product changes through your design and manufacturing operations — and, once your product goes to market, your sales, marketing, and fulfillment operations too. Stay Lean and Low. Full treatment of product components and functions.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 8, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, August 8, 2009 Revisiting the Software Design Manifesto (and whats changed since then) My recent article on technical debt and its positive uses generated a fair bit of controversy. The argument itself got me thinking a lot about design and its role in building products.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Apple’s Problem: Google Is Getting Better At Design | Business Insider – [link]. 25 Illustration Based Business Card Designs – [link].

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

MAY 1, 2018

Invest in Frameworks, But First, Establish a Culture Where Innovation Thrives. More structure is needed as fundamentals take hold, and that means an innovation process framework. More structure is needed as fundamentals take hold, and that means an innovation process framework. Innovation Fundamentals for Leaders.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 3, 2015

It has replaced how to write a business plan with hands-on Lean Startup methods. To create great entrepreneurs, we had to give our students the experience of navigating the chaos and uncertainty of running a lean startup while providing the same kind of rigorous framework the business plan did in its day. Today the U.C.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 11, 2016

We just finished the 6 th annual Lean LaunchPad class. For the last 6 years I’ve taught the Lean LaunchPad class at Stanford and Berkeley. Therefore, we developed the 8-week Lean LaunchPad class to teach students how to think about all the parts of building a business, not just the product. See all the presentations here.

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ConversionXL

JULY 16, 2019

Brands like 23andme and Slack have adopted the Google Venture design sprint because it works. For businesses aligned with the whole “ lean startup ” movement, the sprint offers a formula to quickly build, launch, and test products before committing too much time and effort to something that might not resonate in the market.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

Guest post by Lisa Regan, writer for T he Lean Startup Conference. We’ve posted the full program for The Lean Startup Conference , and it includes more than three days of events for Gold pass holders and six days of events for VIP pass holders. On the evening of December 8, Ignite Lean Startup kicks off the conference.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 5, 2015

It’s not a project management framework, as many mistakenly think, but rather a development philosophy centered on cross-functional, self-organizing teams. Many project management frameworks are rooted in agile, such as scrum, kanban, lean, and extreme programming (XP). .

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Steve Blank

JUNE 23, 2020

While the Lean Startup was built with Business Model Canvas, Customer Development and Agile Engineering, there’s an additional tool — the Market Opportunity Navigator — that can help entrepreneurs discover new opportunities. Prioritize market opportunities smartly to set the boundaries for your lean experimentations.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Here’s her story of the Lean innovation accelerator she’s built for the Marines. To achieve this mission, we established a framework that leveraged Marine Corps tenacity, agility, and adaptability to create a persistent culture of innovation. Within the MCISRE we have two frameworks that engage Marines.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Here’s her story of the Lean innovation accelerator she’s built for the Marines. To achieve this mission, we established a framework that leveraged Marine Corps tenacity, agility, and adaptability to create a persistent culture of innovation. Within the MCISRE we have two frameworks that engage Marines.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 25, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, March 25, 2009 The Lean Startup at Agile Vancouver April 21st A surprising number of respondents in the latest Lessons Learned survey hail from one of the flourishing startup hubs in Canada. This workshop brings together leading thinkers from Lean Production and Lean software.

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

The “CPS” model is a straightforward and creative framework (aka Osborn-Parnes) that gets teams on the same page and solving complex problems methodically. It can augment, Lean, Design Thinking or Agile approaches. Gregg Fraley has designed and lead team training workshops for two decades.

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The Equity Kicker

MARCH 26, 2018

Let me use the Jobs To Be Done (JTBD) framework for product development to explain why. Reams have been written about the JTBD framework. Part of the art of using the JBTD framework well is picking the right level of detail to work at. The work I’ve described so far is a desk exercise. An example from Photobox.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 18, 2019

by Scott Brown, Executive Director at UpRamp and author of “ (C)lean Messaging “ Every aspiring entrepreneur lives in pursuit of that lightbulb moment. What is (C)lean Messaging? The (C)lean Messaging framework is the first step. (C)lean The (C)lean Message. The big idea. An unparalleled innovation.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Growth marketing borrows a concept from the lean startup methodology. Marketers following this practice start with a hypothesis, design and run an experiment, and interpret results to fuel future experiments. Growth hacking is a term that emerged from the Silicon Valley tech community and the lean startup methodology.

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Where to Play

MAY 28, 2019

The post How to Stop Playing “Target Market Roulette”: A new addition to the Lean toolset appeared first on Where to Play. It provides a wide-lens perspective to find different potential market domains for your innovation, before you zoom in and design the business model or test your minimal viable products.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 16, 2015

So operating at a higher level, helping to set the framework for decision making and then sitting down and watching the game be played, is certainly the way to go.” At times I wanted the engineering team to produce features to support our sales efforts to I occasionally leaned on them a bit. ” Of course I agree with this.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

Greater discipline during boom times offered more flexibility during lean years. And getting it right during the lean years, Bain reports , has a massive impact on companies’ growth rate after things improve: ( Image source ). Frameworks for businesses during a crisis. Survey design. Where do your consumers fall?

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Argona

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Growth Masters is a curated collection of hacks, resources, tools, and insights designed exclusively for visionaries like you! In this newsletter, we'll share actionable strategies to fuel your business growth, enhance scalability, and elevate your growth readiness. We're thrilled to present this edition of Growth Masters !

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Steve Blank

JULY 1, 2014

When I first read about the Investment Readiness Level (IRL) on Steve’s blog, I was excited by Steve’s attempt to bridge the capital-efficient Lean Startup process for founders with the capital-raising process for funders. Since I began incorporating the Investment Readiness Level framework I’ve made three observations.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 26, 2021

You’ll hear from Staples on the five positive emotions that are the most effective in content to get people to lean forward and share: happiness, awe, curiosity, empathy, and surprise. His book, The Speed of Trust , is designed to help leaders build a collaborative team and environment on the basis of trust. Hall, Ph.D.,

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