Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

And there is so much money around being thrown at so many entrepreneurs that many firms don’t even care about board seats, governance rights or heaven forbid doing work with the company because that would eat into the VCs time needed to chase 5 more deals. And the truth is that several entrepreneurs prefer it this way.

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AUGUST 13, 2009

Customer Development/Lean Startups In hindsight startups and the venture capital community left out the most important first step any startup ought to be doing – hypothesis testing in front of customers- from day one. Interestingly this response almost always comes from first time entrepreneurs. I was an idiot.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 17, 2015

What follows is a guest post by Kirsten Cluthe, the new Editorial Director of The Lean Startup Conference. With a career that’s spanned from the music industry to General Electric to the Olympics, Kirsten brings deep event programming experience to the Lean Startup team. Now, we turn to you. That’s where you come in.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 22, 2020

When it became clear that waiting for government funding and support would take weeks, if not months, Lenore instead looked to her community for both, using her experience with the layoffs and her expertise as a small business owner to solve two of the massive problems crashing over our society. Here's my conversation with Lenore Estrada.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 16, 2013

A combination of government incentives and high oil prices have made projects like this one feasible and profitable for the companies that build them. Lean Business: Office Space – A Meditation. Lean Business: Do Unto Others*. Hundreds of gargantuan windmills line the fields in orderly rows almost to the horizon.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 14, 2009

Home Books for Startups Secret History-Bibliography Steve Blank Startup Resources Steve Blank Entries RSS | Comments RSS Categories Air Force (9) Ardent (9) Big Companies versus Startups: Durant versus Sloan (29) California Coastal Commission (3) Conservation (2) Convergent Technologies (1) Customer Development (98) Customer Development Manifesto (..)

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 16, 2013

A combination of government incentives and high oil prices have made projects like this one feasible and profitable for the companies that build them. Lean vs. Mean – Small Business and Responsibility. Lean Business: The Very Model of a Modern Spreadsheet.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 17, 2009

The university found government contracts profitable as the government reimbursed their overhead charges (their indirect costs.) Over a hundred government contractors reviewed Stanford’s work on tubes and systems. The lab would repeat the conference the following week for government agencies doing military work.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 15, 2020

11:59) Giving people trust and autonomy and opening lines of communication as a leader, and how Mark's leadership has evolved. (14:16) So talk a little bit about what you've seen and why you felt called to take on a leadership role. I think that's really a big part of how my leadership has evolved. Now I trust them.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 6, 2009

If you’re an entrepreneur, ESL is the most important company you’ve never heard of. The Arms Factories that Won the Cold War Were Semiconductor Factories Who was the government official pushing all of this? If you are a practitioner of Customer Development, ESL was doing it before most us were born.

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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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Steve Blank

AUGUST 25, 2015

I’ve spent this year working with corporations and government agencies that are adopting and adapting Lean Methodologies. Several pockets of innovation in his agency have begun to look to startups and have tried to adopt lean methods. —– What Have We Lost? Yet today at dinner his frustration just spilled out.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 6, 2012

Being an Entrepreneur. Leadership and What Makes a Great Founding Team. Leadership Lessons From the Shackleton Expedition (Koehn). Leadership Lessons From the Shackleton Expedition (Koehn). Entrepreneurial Leadership in Government. Reading: Alfred Kahn As A Case Study of A Political Entrepreneur (Weiser).

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genylabs.typepad.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

The Changing Face of Entrepreneurs. The Connected World of Entrepreneurs. Emergent Research works with corporate, government and non-profit clients. Entrepreneur Magazine Blog. They had a great managment team, A list VCs, great technology, excellent sales traction and market leadership in a very exciting space.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

To an entrepreneur or small business owner, achieving a project management certification may seem unnecessary. Lean Six Sigma. Whereas Six Sigma is focused on achieving consistent results, Lean Six Sigma aims to increase flow by reducing wastage and shortening cycle times. Governance themes. Transformational flow.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 6, 2015

Entrepreneurs today expect more than just capital from their investors. Teten: The new generation of entrepreneurs is asking more from their investors than just money. What do they offer entrepreneurs that independent VCs cannot, and how does that position them uniquely in the innovation economy?

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 3, 2009

The Cold War After World War II ended, our wartime ally the Soviet Union kept its army in Eastern Europe and forcibly installed Communist governments in its occupied territories. That same year China fell to the communists under Mao Zedong, and the Nationalist government retreated to Taiwan. Meanwhile the U.S.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 11, 2008

To an early observer, it would have seemed obvious that Route 128 had all the advantages: a head start, more government and military funding, and far more established companies. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0.

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Steve Blank

JULY 19, 2017

Soldier, Scholar, Entrepreneur. That’s because Joe brings a wealth of real-world experience and leadership to the role. I learned he’d gone to Harvard to get his MPA at the Kennedy School of Government in conflict resolution. government where their traditional academic path and business career would never take them. (I

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 11, 2020

6:56) A look at how many biotech companies and non-biotech entrepreneurs have pivoted to work exclusively on COVID-19. (7:35) Sam was one of the first people I saw in the tech world jumping up and taking the leadership position related to COVID-19. SA : I think this is the kind of thing the government's supposed to be good at.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 5, 2018

In some companies and government agencies, innovators even have informal groups, i.e. an Innovators Alliance, where they can exchange best practices and workarounds to the system. Innovators vs. Entrepreneurs. the best presenter and flashiest demo usually win. Think of this as the innovator’s support group.) Team-based Innovation.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 2, 2021

He also shared his perspective on M&A (including Uber’s recent acquisitions of Postmates and Drizly), autonomous vehicles, the complexities of working in highly regulated industries, and how his personal and professional background shaped the way he approaches leadership today. EPISODE TRANSCRIPT. We still want to have fun.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 24, 2009

His wife, about my age, could have been a poster child for the stereotypical California hippie surfer, with politics that matched her style – antiwar, anti government, antiestablishment. But it was a bit incongruous to hear her get wound up and rail against our government and the very people we were all working for.

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Steve Blank

JULY 2, 2009

Entrepreneur-in-Residence After SuperMac I had been approached by one of our venture investors to be an entrepreneur in residence (EIR), a Silicon Valley phrase which says one thing but means another. I offered to introduce him to the firm whose Entrepreneur-in-Residence offer I had just accepted.

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Eric Friedman

AUGUST 18, 2021

In 2007, he was named the Anne Armstrong Leadership Fellow, a position given annually to the most promising young foreign policy professional. It is the entrepreneurs that are singing their heart out, playing the instruments, et cetera. Personally, I love Brian Armstrong ; he’s an incredible entrepreneur. Dan has a B.A.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Small Business Newsletter: 7 habits of successful entrepreneurs, lean marketing and more – [link]. How Bad Leadership Spurs Entrepreneurship – [link].

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David Teten

OCTOBER 1, 2015

I’ve seen a range of options for supporting entrepreneurs, which I can rank from least to most involvement in companies by investors: financier VCs, e.g., Correlation Ventures. I was fortunate to get some thoughtful input from the leadership of DarwinApps , Casual Corp , Coventure , HappyFunCorp , OAB Studies , and World Accelerator.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 10, 2010

These posts and videos are about design, startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! The 2-Minute Opportunity Checklist for Entrepreneurs – [link]. What Lean Startups are NOT – [link]. Government embraces crowdsourcing – [link]. Some thoughts – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 21, 2010

These posts and videos are about design, startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! 3 Rules for Building Features in a Lean Startup – [link]. An entrepreneur’s guide to crowdsourcing – [link]. Government releases open source code – [link].

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Steve Blank

MAY 26, 2009

Government Regulations I turned to the class and said, “The rest of you can keep building your company and shipping your product because you don’t need to worry about government regulations. Entrepreneurs who have experience in the vertical market they’re entering do this analysis automatically.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 7, 2009

But what I remind them is that great grades and successful founders/technology entrepreneurs have at best a zero correlation (and anecdotal evidence suggests that the correlation may actually be negative.) Nothing makes me happier then to see my students getting great grades (and as they can tell you I make them very work hard for them.)

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Austin Startup

JUNE 26, 2019

I recruited a top-flight engineer and serial entrepreneur to build our MVP, on equity?—?and As a boot-strapped founder aka our biggest investor, one of the things I leaned into uncovering was the unknown. Lean into it. and every other team member the same way. Our Monthly Active Users was 53%?—?(people people were coming back (!)

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Reid Hoffman

JUNE 8, 2021

What’s some of the ways that that kind of informs your leadership? We can either try to step forward and be progressive and really try to lean forward, or we can get dragged in the future. Most boards have an audit committee, a nominating governance committee and a comp committee. So what do you mean by stakeholder capitalism?

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konamoxt.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

January 21, 2009 Why Your Startup Can’t Afford To NOT Hire a CTO As I mentioned in my last post, one of the many things I do as an entrepreneur is to advise other start up companies. If your “engineering leadership&# lacks street cred, then you can be certain that they won’t get far with your team. Konamoxt, Inc.

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Reid Hoffman

JUNE 8, 2021

What’s some of the ways that that kind of informs your leadership? We can either try to step forward and be progressive and really try to lean forward, or we can get dragged in the future. Most boards have an audit committee, a nominating governance committee and a comp committee. So what do you mean by stakeholder capitalism?

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 29, 2009

to spur innovation was a new government agency to fund new companies. government would invest three (up to $300,000.) And for the first time, private companies like Continental Capital, Pitch Johnson & Bill Draper and Sutter Hill were formed to take advantage of the government largesse from the SBA.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 5, 2014

And Stoddard notes that at NetApp they use proper governance to facilitate faster learning: “We use an enterprise executive architecture committee, with all the leaders of every NetApp function — marketing, sales, HR, operations, finance, and so on. Professionalisms leadership management Rich Karlgaard teamwork workplace culture'

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