Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 7, 2016

Guest post by Jennifer Maerz, contributing editor of Lean Startup Co. It’s been exciting to watch the Lean Startup movement grow from a practice utilized in the tech world to one implemented in a wide variety of sectors ranging from enterprise to education, religious organizations, nonprofits, and government groups.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 1, 2014

Guest post by Lisa Regan, writer for The Lean Startup Conference The Lean Startup Conference is next week--and now that we can step back and see all the speakers and mentors, we have to say: Wow. Ben Horowitz ’s book The Hard Thing About Hard Things is driving the conversation around startup management this year.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 21, 2019

We hear about corporate employees, strangled by slow-moving bureaucracy, that are blocked from making transformative discoveries. In fact, a Wharton Business School study in this decade of the “Top 30 Innovations of the Last 30 Years,” concluded that only eight were first conceived by entrepreneurs, and twenty-two were conceived by employees.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 10, 2013

Many smaller companies that provide creative services struggle every day to manage their capacity and their overhead. Other months, when business is slow, managers are left trying to keep their employees occupied and struggle to make the books balance.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 11, 2017

Guest post by Jennifer Maerz, Program Chair of Lean Startup Co. For eight years, our flagship conference has focused on sharing stories and lessons of putting Lean Startup’s entrepreneurial methodology into practice. Lean Startup Week (Oct. 31 ( limited to the first 200 Gold Passholders.)

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 11, 2019

These days, it is almost impossible to find a small business where everything is done at the home location, by full-time employees. There are many books written on this subject, but this classic by Chris Ducker, “ Virtual Freedom ,” manages to pack a lot more practical guidance into a small space that many others I have seen.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

He nails the current key startup parameters, including the following: Crafting a lean business plan as your road map. Rounding out the team with employees and freelancers. Successful startup teams today have a mix of remote employees, freelancers, and contractors. Set milestones and manage to those targets.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 13, 2022

That often involves working long hours and keeping your costs lean. Think of it as an investment in your company — you’re dedicating resources (compensation) to highly skilled employees who will hopefully bring your business to the next level. When looking for new employees , experience and capability are always top of mind.

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Board Effect

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

A poorly managed crisis could cost your nonprofit its reputation, yet developing a solid PR crisis management plan could help maintain the public’s trust through the worst possible crisis. The risk of crises and how to handle them should be part of every nonprofit board’s risk management plan. What’s the Worst That Could Happen?

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 19, 2011

Jeff has been promoting the use of Lean UX as an effective method to spur greater innovation, quality and productivity in startups as well as within teams in larger organizations. Lean Startups need to make snap decisions, iterate quickly and pivot when needed. I’m happy to report the answer is “yes” as we’ve proven at TheLadders.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

He nails the current key startup parameters, including the following: Crafting a lean business plan as your road map. Rounding out the team with employees and freelancers. Successful startup teams today have a mix of remote employees, freelancers, and contractors. Set milestones and manage to those targets.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

At 11:45am I'll be honored to share the stage with two great entrepreneurs: Introducing The Lean Startup, by Eric Ries with case studies, Intuit’s Scott Cook and Instagram’s Kevin Systrom And in the evening, the book launch party is also part of Disrupt. Employees only. We'll be in the concourse from 5:30-7:30pm.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

In his Harvard Business Review article summing up his tenure, Immelt recalls that the two things that influenced him most were Marc Andreessen’s 2011 Wall Street Journal article “ Why Software Is Eating the World, ” and Eric Ries’s book The Lean Startup. Are lean innovation and the Startup Way a failure in large companies?

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 13, 2013

by Christine Comaford, author of “ SmartTribes: How Teams Become Brilliant Together “ Most leaders know that command & control is dead and that fear doesn’t motivate employees. From time to time we all say or do things that spark unconscious fears in our employees. Why might a meeting scare your employees?

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Up and Running

MAY 28, 2015

We recently had Tim Berry, Palo Alto Software founder and business planning expert, present our Bplans audience with his latest advice on lean business planning. Start your lean business plan today: Download our Free Lean Plan Template one-page-pitch-download.pdf. I’m going to start with what’s a lean business plan.

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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. Listen to Episode 9: Show notes: What is Lean Planning? Lean Business Planning by Tim Berry – (31:21). What’s the lean mean? – (:25).

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 12, 2012

When you’ve made it to the management level, it’s tempting to think that you’re in a comfortable position where you don’t have much room for improvement. But while you may be a great manager now, there is always the possibility of becoming a better one, if only you just know how. Better Managers Blog. Agile Management.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 9, 2023

In a recession, some businesses may lay off talented employees. 5- By embracing challenges Photo Credit: Ori Fruhauf Managing a business in the midst of economic instability is definitely challenging, but also a great opportunity. It definitely makes managing the company harder, but it’s also a great motivator.

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Up and Running

JUNE 1, 2021

For example, it can be more difficult to maintain strict employee privacy. In a recent survey conducted by payroll services provider OnPay of more than 1,000 small businesses, business owners who run payroll manually said they spend an average of 18 hours a month paying employees. Appoint a payroll manager.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Being able to hire talented professionals remains a difficult proposition in the current job market, especially when sourcing experienced developers, designers, and project managers. It fine-tunes the processes needed to properly manage these teams and execute projects. Keep Employees Engaged When on The Bench.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 27, 2013

We write often about ways small business can reduce expense, increase productivity, and operate more efficiently through a lean approach to marketing, technology, and operations. First of all, every employee that a company hires represents not just a salary expense, but everything that goes along with it. Reduce, reduce, reduce.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 22, 2018

These days, it is almost impossible to find a small business where everything is done at the home location, by full-time employees. There are many books written on this subject, but this classic by Chris Ducker, “ Virtual Freedom ,” manages to pack a lot more practical guidance into a small space that many others I have seen.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Ask any business owner and he or she will tell you: managing a business is hard work. To keep burnout at bay, business owners need to manage a steady work pace by maintaining work-life balance. The post Mental Health Checklist: 7 Ways Business Owners Can Manage Stress appeared first on The Startup Magazine. Ask For Help.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 31, 2019

Start Lean. As tempting as it can be to do everything at once, be patient and start lean. . Building a lean business with lean products ensures you don’t pigeon-hole yourself into a situation where you’re unable to back your way out. The right employees don’t just have skills and experience. Most startups fail.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

With proper awareness about the SaaS product development process, your costs can be managed better. Follow lean product development strategy (MVP strategy). Lean product development strategy or MVP (Minimum Viable Product) refers to creating a product with core features and offering it to a specific audience to get feedback.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Aaron Dignan --who has described himself as "obsessed with organizational adaptivity" --is one of the speakers at this year’s Lean Startup Conference in Las Vegas , where he’ll be talking about How to Reinvent Your Organization. And so would legions of employees. I feel like I do Lean Startup when I'm picking toothpaste.

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Up and Running

JULY 3, 2015

True story: As my software business began to grow, as we went from two employees to five, then 10, I discovered how hard real management is with startups and small business that grow organically. In a startup, those first few people who join feel like friends, not employees. See Also An Overview of Lean Business Planning.

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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. Not quite….

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

(Almost) everything you need to know (but are afraid to ask) before you wistfully ask a product manager to coffee so they will help you find a job. TL;DR Product management is a unique and poorly understood discipline, especially as it applies to software and other tech-related companies.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 28, 2015

Guest post by Jennifer Maerz, Contributing Editor of Lean Startup Co. Really, there’s no better way to recharge and return to work inspired than spending a few days with the Lean Startup’s global network. A Lean Startup training kinda guy? It’s a big deal that only gets bigger with every year. That would be so boring.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 20, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, October 20, 2008 The engineering managers lament I was inspired to write The product managers lament while meeting with a startup struggling to figure out what had gone wrong with their product development process. This engineering manager is a smart guy, and very experienced.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 11, 2019

As a result, it is almost impossible for a CEO or an employee to become an expert in every area of business. If you lack leadership skills or poorly manage your company’s time and resources, it is likely your business will be left behind. Organizational and leadership management (Enhance your management capabilities).

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 18, 2014

These days, it is almost impossible to find a small business where everything is done at the home location, by full-time employees. There are many books written on this subject, but a recent one by Chris Ducker, “ Virtual Freedom ,” manages to pack a lot more practical guidance into a small space that many others I have seen.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 30, 2013

Employees had a different concern – they simply wanted more clarity on how to continue to be involved, since formal rules of engagement ended with the bootcamp. They could have helped us anticipate and solve organizational challenges and agree on how we planned to manage the risks. We needed a for a Proof of Concept center.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 28, 2013

In 2006, as a new employee of the Fortune 100 provider of wireless technology and services, San Diego’s Qualcomm , I volunteered to salvage a fledging idea management system (fancy term for an online suggestion box) by turning into a comprehensive corporate entrepreneurship program. ———-. The origin.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Adriana Rozo-Angulo is an expert resource in data and analytics, using software and systems to help managers keep track of time and resources, and using blended approaches to project management. Utilizing these experiences and the principles of a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt, she started MAS Connections in 2011.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 28, 2013

In 2006, as a new employee of the Fortune 100 provider of wireless technology and services, San Diego’s Qualcomm , I volunteered to salvage a fledging idea management system (fancy term for an online suggestion box) by turning into a comprehensive corporate entrepreneurship program. ———-. The origin.

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