Up and Running
JULY 31, 2015
This week Peter and Jonathan talk to Tim Berry, founder of Palo Alto Software, about lean business planning, strategy, tactics, specifics (milestones), and the forecast. Send us an email: Bcast@Bplans.com. Listen to Episode 9: Show notes: What is Lean Planning? Listen to Episode 9: Show notes: What is Lean Planning?
YoungUpstarts
FEBRUARY 8, 2013
It’s official: Email, texting, and social media are no longer just helpful supplemental business tools. Now, people are reluctant to do something as simple as picking up the phone, preferring to shoot off an email instead. We accomplish so much more when we become more than ‘just’ an email address or a disembodied voice to one another!
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ConversionXL
FEBRUARY 10, 2021
The takeaway here is simple: lean into your neighborhood. Alexandra Waldman, Co-Founder and CEO of Universal Standard told me about this non-traditional approach: “ We wanted to create a much more personal experience. The trick here is to lean into the things that already work for your brand. Image source ). Image source ).
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 ). Email habits change. As the recession wrapped up, they had to remind consumers of lean times.
Up and Running
JULY 10, 2017
In our example, it’s 20K non-paying customers. It’s critical to understand the metrics in terms of dollars per additional user, as you’ll have to spend this amount to serve thousands of your non-paying customers. Your non-paying customers don’t value the product as much as paying users do. How is your startup funded?
View from Seed
MARCH 1, 2016
She became a prolific writer—12 books, while you and I struggle with one email or one blog post! Who better to advocate for the capability of the disabled than Keller, who not only triumphed and demonstrated communication competency, but a mastery of all forms of communication? She became a lecturer. Helen Keller was a hero.
Startup Lessons Learned
OCTOBER 28, 2008
Its different from selling a product, because it is not part of our regular business practice, is not something that relates to our core competence, and tends not to happen in a repeatable and scalable way. Ill exclude those non- lean startups who basically exist for the purpose of raising bigger and bigger sums of money.
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