Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

My good friend Alexander Osterwalder , the inventor of the business model canvas (one of foundations of the Lean Methodology) has written a playbook (along with his associate partner Tendayi Viki ,) From Innovation Theater to Growth Engine to explain how to build and implement repeatable innovation processes inside a company. .

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Hunter Walker

AUGUST 31, 2021

But I also wanted to suggest there’s a coming Gen 4 of SaaS leaning heavily into EQ instead of IQ because I truly believe the Future of Work involves understanding emotions not just data. So you had “Zoom Fatigue” and burnout and HRIS platforms designed for compliance not engagement. Because we’d invested in them.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 8, 2021

But the value that a strong patent portfolio can give your company is unmatched. As a general rule, the fewer patents covering a product, the easier it is to design a competing product around that protection. Startups constrained by tight budgets may lean toward economizing with a single patent for each product.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! The image above shows an example of what happens when a designer forgets about kerning. More great examples in the Logo Design section below. ” – crowdspring.co/1eVISp1.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 15, 2013

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Lean Business: Lessons from A-Rod – [link]. Lean Business: Lessons from A-Rod – [link]. Lean Business: Lessons from A-Rod – [link].

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SVPG

OCTOBER 13, 2011

I held off a little on this because he has been working on a book which has just recently been published, called “ The Lean Startup ” and in this article I’d like to discuss the key concepts in the book and provide that mapping. Portfolio Thinking = Portfolio Grooming. Value Capture = Monetization Strategy.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 22, 2012

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Lean Marketing Tips: Blogging to Build Audience and Drive Traffic – [link]. Lean Marketing Tips: Blogging to Build Audience and Drive Traffic – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2014

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! How top startups pay designers | Google Ventures – crowdspring.co/1pv7S5U. David vs. Goliath: Lean Startup Advantages | OpenView Blog – crowdspring.co/1x2JFtG.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 30, 2012

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Lean Marketing Tips: Hyperlocal Marketing Channels – [link]. Lean Marketing Tips: Hyperlocal Marketing Channels – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 28, 2013

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Head Designer of Mint on Why Great Design isn’t about Making Things Pretty – [link]. Lean Marketing Tips: Public Speaking – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 3, 2012

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Lean Marketing Tips: Increasing Lifetime Value With Email Campaigns – [link]. Lean Marketing Tips: Increasing Lifetime Value With Email Campaigns – [link].

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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. We have a portfolio of more than 500 brands and 4000 products and people invite us into their lives more 1.8 to create exponential growth. Innovation sounds easy. It never is.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 25, 2013

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Interview: Rand Fishkin CEO of Moz on Lean Marketing – [link]. 10 Worst Design Failures of All Time – [link]. Beautiful Packaging Design – [link].

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ConversionXL

MAY 6, 2021

Ultimately the CMS you choose will impact how quickly you can ship and test products, sales pages and design your site and content. If you’re a lean startup just starting, there’s much less inertia to overcome. Some website building tools think about design and apps first, then the blogging interface comes in as an afterthought.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 5, 2023

General Bucky Butow – Director of the Space Portfolio. We were integrating a lecture class with a heavy reading list with the best practices of hypothesis testing from Lean Launchpad/Hacking for Defense/I-Corps. For commercial tech integration and space, former Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) Director Mike Brown and B.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 10, 2013

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! crowdSPRING’s Small Business Spotlight: Red Poppy Floral Design – [link]. 25 Examples of Stylish and Creative Designed Wedding Invitations – [link].

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View from Seed

OCTOBER 14, 2021

We’ve come a long way these last ten years, and we wanted our new website design to honor that time; retracing our steps, while also walking forward in the direction of digital trends on the horizon. What story are you looking to tell with the new design? . Let’s design the future we want to live in, shall we?

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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. kaChing launched a virtual portfolio management game on Facebook in January 2008 and a similar version shortly thereafter on kaChing.com.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

However, in private markets, there is more room to optimize across all 11 steps of the investing process: firm management , marketing, fundraising , origination , manage relationships, due diligence, negotiation, monitoring, portfolio acceleration , reporting, and. It sounds simple; however, very few asset managers actually do it.”

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View from Seed

OCTOBER 14, 2021

We’ve come a long way these last ten years, and we wanted our new website design to honor that time; retracing our steps, while also walking forward in the direction of digital trends on the horizon. What story are you looking to tell with the new design? . Let’s design the future we want to live in, shall we?

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 17, 2015

We just love sharing articles about fonts, logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, economics and other interesting stuff! Meet Nava, A Startup That Wants To Fix The Government’s Crappy Design [link] crowdspring.co/1MbGeIk Launching a New Product?

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Brandanew

AUGUST 19, 2016

The first thing is to change the permalink structure to make your post’s URL look like “/web-design/wordpress-as-cms/”. This enables you to keep the sidebar and header from the portfolio page as well as the portfolio posts. Initial settings after having installed WordPress. Multiple widgets and sidebars.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 1, 2020

Bootstrapping inculcates the entrepreneurial discipline and financial responsibility to run a lean business. ? Along with the business plan, you must have a well-designed investor deck, which is a presentation of around 15 to 25 slides summarizing the business plan. Investors usually carry a portfolio of startups. Crowdfunding.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

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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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 17, 2013

Whether that means chasing down a technical co-founder, learning to code, or even building that “Lean MVP” – the conventional wisdom is that without tech abilities you’re nothing more than a dude (or dudette) with a Powerpoint. They started by contacting interior designers and building a physical list of those interested in extra work.

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

There is a wealth of resources that are unique to this town and a vibrant community of hackers, product designers, business people, and investors at various stages in their career. This guide is designed to help you hit the ground running and is a starting point for your entrepreneurial journey in Boston. Ruby specialists.

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The Equity Kicker

MARCH 13, 2014

On Tuesday night Michael Breidenbruecker , founder of Last.fm, RJDJ and all round nice guy gave a talk for around 50 of our friends and portfolio company staff (thanks again Michael). In his new startup Michael is rigorously applying lean principles. One of the interesting things about the Last.fm

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 18, 2022

But the portfolio of options available to Admiral Nimitz and President Roosevelt were not limited to battleships. If you look at the Navy force structure today and its plan for the next decade, at first glance you might say they have a diversified portfolio and a plan for more. woke up on Dec.

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View from Seed

JULY 24, 2015

The invite-only event was attended by 300 of the area’s best tech leaders, founders, product managers, designers, developers, investors, engineers, salesmen and women, and more, all of whom are hard at work in consumer tech. Half our portfolio is consumer. bijan : there’s a danger in leaning on pattern recognition.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 4, 2013

Guest post by Lisa Regan, writer for The Lean Startup Conference. With five days remaining before The Lean Startup Conference , we wanted to lay out what we’re offering that’s unlike any other entrepreneurship conference and explain the different levels of participation available to you.

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The Equity Kicker

DECEMBER 5, 2013

Good examples of things we like from our portfolio include: Hailo - a new way of booking taxis that people love because the product is a joy to use. We have a simple application process and our quick due diligence process is designed to add value even if we choose not to make an offer.

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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. The framework provides guidance at the enterprise team, program, value stream, and portfolio levels.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Creating and showing constant momentum through personal portfolio projects and volunteering is a powerful means of landing a new job as a product manager, especially if one has never officially held the professional title “Product Manager.” A PM basically sits at the center of UX, technology and business.

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Steve Blank

JULY 16, 2009

Meanwhile my partner was in heaven working with his newly hired group of game designers directing and producing our first games. Stop annoying our game designers and start working on selling and marketing the games.” However the VC’s are managing a portfolio while you, the entrepreneur are managing one company – yours.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

So I took a short poll of some of our portfolio CEOs at Remagine Ventur es and got some insightful quotes I’d like to share with you: Everything we build is a hypothesis until the users are using the feature (hands-on) and we have a tangible way to measure its impact. Or Briga, Co-founder and CEO of Novos.gg. Dofooding by Dilbert.

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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. In fact, many brands are leveraging crowdsourcing not just to deliver design assets or other collateral, but to engage their own customers or clients in the process.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 31, 2009

Finally, I’ll write about how Eric Ries and the Lean Startup concept provided the equivalent model for product development activities inside the building and neatly integrates customer and agile development. Venture portfolio companies don’t succeed because they used the Product Development model they succeeded in spite of using it.

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