Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

I was in New York last week with my class at Columbia University and several events made me realize that the Customer Development model needs to better describe its fit with web-based businesses. However the Customer Development Model and the Lean Startup work equally well for startups on the web.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

To draw titular inspiration from a New York Magazine article entitled Ellen Pao and the Sexism You Can’t Quite Prove (we’ll talk more about Pao later on), I entered into this topic less with the desire to try to “prove” a specific point, but rather to explore an issue that continues to rise to the top of conversation in the entrepreneurial space.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

Guest post by Lisa Regan, writer for The Lean Startup Conference. In building the program for this year’s Lean Startup Conference , we’ve tried to strike a balance. To give you a sense of these practitioners, we asked some our new speakers to talk about how they use Lean Startup methods. government’s first public website.

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View from Seed

OCTOBER 11, 2022

I spent time talking to many mentors and friends, investors and founders alike, about what drives them, what makes an effective partnership, the evolution of early-stage investing, and what’s possible for the future of our industry. I’m inspired by our shared ambitions for the firm and the founders we support.

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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. He is also a New York Times and #1 Wall Street Journal bestselling author himself. Click here to listen to the episode.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

Another advantage of the early stages is that most dont have to juggle too many competing priorities. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. The new startup arms race (for Huffington Post) For Startups, How Much Process Is Too Much? Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science?

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 30, 2014

New approaches to translational medicine have emerged. Our Lean Launchpad® for Life Sciences is one of them. But a new class of life science/healthcare co-working and collaboration space is another. In New York there’s Blueprint Health and Startup Health , in Denver there’s Stride and Princeton has Tiger Labs.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

In an early-stage startup especially, revenue is not an important goal in and of itself. Let’s start with a simple question: why do early-stage startups want revenue? If youre still very early stage, then you need to know what a true early adopter looks like. But all things are never equal.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 20, 2014

When Customer Development and the Lean Startup were just a sketch on the napkin, Dino Vendetti, a VC at Bay Partners, was one of the first venture capitalists I shared my ideas with. Over the years we brainstormed about how Lean entrepreneurship would affect regional development. Part 2: Early-stage Regional Venture Funds.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2014

David vs. Goliath: Lean Startup Advantages | OpenView Blog – crowdspring.co/1x2JFtG. 10 Top Financial Tips for Early-Stage Startups | StartupCollective – crowdspring.co/1qWvaC4. Creative Game of Thrones ad in the New York Times. Before the Startup – crowdspring.co/1rGYDDQ. crowdspring.co/1oFJLlI.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 14, 2008

The people who are the lifeblood of an early-stage startup are earlyvangelists. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. The new startup arms race (for Huffington Post) For Startups, How Much Process Is Too Much? Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 8, 2009

Lean methods present a third option: to invest in our process so that our design gets more feedback sooner and is more adaptable to changes in purpose. Labels: product development 5comments: new york web development company said. SBCE feels like it should fit into the lean startup nicely, but I can't quite figure out how.

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Hunter Walker

MARCH 7, 2015

Fast forward 15 years and I’m happily married to a third-wave feminist who works at Twitter while I hustle to get Homebrew, my early stage venture fund, off the ground. Or Daddy indulges his tendency to sometimes disappear from the house early weekend mornings to read a little of the Sunday New York Times.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 2, 2009

For the rest of us, there is an alternative: to create credibility by building a lean startup. At IMVU, we were terrified by how early we shipped (and charged for) our first product. Unfortunately, they are disinterested in doing the hard work to help early stage entrepreneurs and companies. Expo SF (May.

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View from Seed

JULY 24, 2015

We have companies in Chicago, San Francisco (and elsewhere in Silicon Valley), Omaha, and New York. Over the past few years, the tech community has absolutely exploded locally (and if you’re new here or just want to take it all in, here’s our Hitchhiker’s Guide to Boston Tech microsite). .”

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 5, 2009

A Phone Call After I left MIPS Computers I was in New York tagging along with a friend (a computer architect whose products at Apple a decade later would change the shape of personal computing) who was consulting for a voice recognition startup. Reply Karma in the Lean Startup Era , on January 28, 2010 at 5:26 pm Said: [.]

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 5, 2009

One way to conceive of our goal in an early-stage venture is to incrementally “fill in the blanks&# for the business model that we think will one day power our startup. This model of joint accountability is at the heart of the lean startup, and is just as applicable to venture-backed, bootstrapped, and enterprise startups.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

This post was co-written by Sarah Milstein & Eric Ries, co-hosts of The Lean Startup Conference. We’ve just published the program for this year’s Lean Startup Conference , December 9 to 11 in San Francisco, and we can say without hesitation that it’s completely unlike any other entrepreneurship conference in existence.

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www.startuplessonslearned.com

MAY 4, 2012

They assume that the tasks that they are performing during the early stage of startup development are the same tasks that will be performed during the next and very different stages. Lean Startup Book. Lean Startup Book - How Todays Entrenpreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successfull Businesses.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 12, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, June 12, 2009 Lean Startup Workshop scholarship program I havent had much time to write lately, and so havent been able to share much about the Lean Startup Workshop series I have been producing with OReilly in their Master Class division. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 4, 2009

This is important, especially if you are a very early stage company. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. The new startup arms race (for Huffington Post) For Startups, How Much Process Is Too Much? Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? Expo SF (May.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 2, 2011

Silicon Valley, New York). Startups now understand what they should be doing in their early formative days is search for a business model. Yet even with all these tools, early stage startups still need to physically meet with advisors and investors. Here’s how. A Hypothesis – The Boardroom As Bits.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 20, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, August 20, 2009 The Promise of the Lean Startup Im honored to have a guest post on GigaOm to introduce the concept of the lean startup to their audience. Such a combination of new technology and new understanding is unlocking new opportunities. It is a truly fun place to work.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, February 24, 2009 The lean startup at UC Berkeley Haas School of Business Image by Jessica_Mah via Flickr Last week I had the opportunity to lecture again in Steve Blank s entrepreneurship class at Haas, which is always a great learning experience - for me at least! Eric takes a different approach.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 17, 2010

Three premier early-stage venture investors have joined forces to sponsor the event: Baseline , Floodgate , and First Round Capital. Three premier early-stage venture investors have joined forces to sponsor the event: Baseline , Floodgate , and First Round Capital. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

While there are dozens of lessons I could take away from these entrepreneurs’ experiences, I want to highlight three common mistakes founders make in the early stages of a startup. There is no doubt that starting a new business is hard work. During these times, the impact of those first decisions is evident.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

He is also an adjunct professor of entrepreneurship at Columbia Business School , and an angel investor hailed as one of New York City’s top 100 early-stage investors. What’s more, as the Lean Startup revolution has gone mainstream, Dave said, it has started to change the trajectory of our economy.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

Guest post by Jennifer Maerz, contributing editor of Lean Startup Co. The Lean Startup team has been hard at work finalizing the details of this year’s Lean Startup Week. Welcome to Lean Startup Week 2016 TL;DR: Before you dive into the details, here’s a quick look at what you can expect during your week with us: On Oct.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 13, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, March 13, 2009 Dont launch Heres a common question I get from startups, especially in the early stages: when should we launch? This is the usual reason given for a marketing launch, but for most early stage startups, its a failure. New York Times, Wall Street Journal, CNN, the works.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 28, 2023

And it's the same thing for individuals because at that early stage of a business, when you don't yet have a product, even sometimes when you don't yet have customers, you don't yet have traction and sales, how are you going to judge it? These are the kind of decisions we wanted to help people with at that early stage.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 19, 2023

And it's the same thing for individuals because at that early stage of a business, when you don't yet have a product, even sometimes when you don't yet have, um, customers, you don't yet have traction in sales, how are you gonna judge it? These are the kind of decisions we wanted to help people with at that early stage.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 19, 2008

What all these teachers had in common were two things: they were technology early adopters that were willing to take a chance on a new software product, and they all had similar problems organizing their classes and students. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Principles of Lean Startups, presentation for Mapl.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 9, 2009

We were focused on revenue, but we didnt understand that revenue is not important for its own sake in an early stage company. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. The new startup arms race (for Huffington Post) For Startups, How Much Process Is Too Much? Expo SF (May. for Harvard Business Revie.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

A Lean Startup methodology offers entrepreneurs a framework to focus on what’s important: Business Model Discovery. Teams use the Lean Startup toolkit: the Business Model Canvas + Customer Development process + Agile Engineering. Filed under: Customer Development , Customer Development Manifesto , Lean LaunchPad , Teaching.

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David Teten

OCTOBER 1, 2015

incubators, e.g., the many options in New York. intrapreneurs, e.g., the employee of GE who is tasked with launching a new business. I recently joined CoVenture , an early-stage venture capital firm that develops products and invests cash in exchange for equity. And it’s not just early-stage founders who notice.

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trada.com

APRIL 7, 2010

He noted that Chris Dixon ( @cdixon ) of Hunch tweeted, “New early-stage start up trend: get big quietly, so you don’t tip off potential competitors.&# and we've been leaning towards remaining in stealth mode a bit longer. Great to hear a well thought out argument for that approach.

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Up and Running

APRIL 1, 2015

If you look in Los Angeles, you look in New York, you’re looking at different items that are local to those florists with their name and pictures,” says David. Though the trio was hopeful that this move would help propel them to success, BloomNation was still very much in its early stages. “[We]

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