Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

You may have read my previous posts about the Lean LaunchPad class taught at Stanford , Berkeley, Columbia , Caltech and for the National Science Foundation. I wondered if business plans and 5-year forecasts were the right way to plan a startup. He called it the “Lean Startup.”. Now you too can take this course. Sign up here.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 27, 2020

Overemphasizing culture alone is pointless; if founders and leaders aren’t guiding business growth with a series of stretch but SMART goals —measurable milestones, there won’t be a business culture to manage. . The perfect strategy doesn’t exist, so keep it lean. Richard Branson’s commitment is one of empathy and fun.

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

Step 1: Start with a lean plan. It’s the fastest way to get your idea onto paper, and it’s the very first step in the lean planning process, which is much easier and more iterative than traditional business planning methods. Later you will want to come back and create a proper sales forecast, cash flow forecast, and expense budget.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

To create this first year in business checklist, I turned to our in-house experts here at Palo Alto Software: Sabrina Parsons, CEO; Noah Parsons, COO; Josh Cochrane, Vice President of Product Development; and Josh Fegles, Academic and Government Channel Sales Director, and founder of gluten-free cookie company Jude’s Foods. Business planning.

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Up and Running

JULY 6, 2016

I get involved in detail when the group is looking at startups in software, web, mobile apps, or financial forecasting. When a business plan involves expertise in software, the web, apps, and technologies related to financial forecasting, I’m curious, and I’ll look for an appendix with interesting details.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Another topic we debated early in the program was “lean startup” vs. “ fat startup ” where we both took the obvious hedge and said “it depends.” But truthfully both Dana and I are more aligned with the lean startup principles and believe you only go FAT when you’ve really proved out your product / market fit.

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Up and Running

JULY 1, 2020

Businesses start when their founders see a need for a product or service that they can provide. Quickly scratch out a business plan, even employing a lean planning model , for your expansion like it’s a new business. Financial projections: You’ll need to forecast how the expansion will improve future profitability.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

First-time entrepreneurs and small business founders often feel anxious when they think about all the factors that play into getting their idea off the ground. Tim Berry, the founder of Palo Alto Software and Bplans, says there is no better starting point than looking in the mirror. But where to begin?

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 11, 2020

by Nemanja Zunic, founder and CEO of IdeaBuddy. Start with a segment that is most valuable for your business financial stability that includes: Sales forecast. Pro Tip: Lean Startup Format. To explain or start your business quickly, you can consider a Lean startup business plan format. Cash flow statement.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 27, 2022

Hawkes, as the Founder of Growth River consulting, speaks from his experience helping to create high performance organizations around the world. Here you need not only project management resources, but also skills in forecasting, budgeting, and resource tracking. Provide resources to implement initiatives.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 26, 2018

Sometimes it can help to hear from small business founders who were able to breathe life into their business idea and make it go. These four founders shared their success stories with our LivePlan team over the past year. Allison Reitz, founder of Good Elephant. Joanna Stanford, founder of Trots Dogs. Put a milestone.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 12, 2015

I am here to talk about LivePlan and give you some big picture information on business planning, forecasting, how to really kick your business off in the best possible way. You need to think of business planning from a lean perspective, and it’s just enough to get you to the right place. It is lean. Good morning.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Tim Berry, founder of Palo Alto Software and Bplans, asked, “What’s the best way for entrepreneurs to demonstrate that they’ve thought through the essential aspects of their business, especially the financials?”. It’s not uncommon for many business owners to rely on informal plans or Lean Planning to map out the future of their business.

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Up and Running

JULY 3, 2015

Maybe it was the ex-hippie in me, but I think it happens to most founders, in most startups, and most small businesses. See Also An Overview of Lean Business Planning. It starts with a lean business plan. Start with a simple lean business plan: 1. That’s a sales forecast, spending budget, and cash flow plan.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Jason is a Co-founder of Thriveal, a firm that helps entrepreneurial CPA firms connect, learn and grow. Does that muddy up the forecasting, the models, or the accounting? [12:31] He's a co-founder of Thriveal firm that helps entrepreneurial CPA firms connect, learn and grow. Marketing Podcast with Jason Blumer.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 13, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, July 13, 2009 The Principles of Product Development Flow If youve ever wondered why agile or lean development techniques work, The Principles of Product Development Flow: Second Generation Lean Product Development by Donald G. For example, take the lean dictum of working in small batches.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 6, 2011

The Lean Startup Book is done. The finished book will come out on September 13, featuring an amazing cover designed by my IMVU co-founder Marcus Gosling and refined and tested by so many of you. Most of our management tools, like planning and forecasting, require a long and stable operating history. Finally, really, truly, done.

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Up and Running

MARCH 11, 2015

Eric Ries of The Lean Startup has called Andrew Chen’s blog “one of the best entrepreneurship blogs of all time.” This is the home of Jason Cohen, software startup founder, bootstrapper, investor, and mentor. His blog is full of personal stories, gentle advice, and guidance that will be useful to any startup founder.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

So what does CTO mean, besides just "technical founder who really cant manage anyone?" Platform selection and technical design - if your business strategy is to create a low-burn, highly iterative lean startup, youd better be using foundational tools that make that easy rather than hard. I always assumed I wouldnt manage anybody.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 1, 2013

The 7 Myths of Lean and How Analytics Can Help – [link]. Startups, Throw Out Your Financial Models: The Argument For Lean Modeling | Forbes – [link]. More founders reject VC money | Crain’s New York Business – [link]. The Truth About Founder Burnout – [link]. Can’t Focus at Work?

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

Because five whys kept turning up a few key metrics that were hard to set static thresholds for, we even had a dynamic prediction algorithm that would make forecasts based on past data, and fire alerts if the metric ever went out of its normal bounds. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Expo SF (May.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

by Jon Leighton, Director of digital agency iResources and founder of neatly.io. I spoke to a founder recently about a pivot; they offered an ad tech solution to enterprise clients and had just spent six months on a new feature. According to the Lean Startup , there are 10 different types of Pivot.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 5, 2012

One of the issues that came up is whether the new lexicon of entrepreneurial ideas – Customer Development, Business Model Design , Lean , Lean LaunchPad class, etc. It’s at this point the business needs an operating plan, financial forecasts and other well-understood management tools. Then it moves into execution mode.

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Up and Running

MAY 3, 2012

Eric Ries , author of The Lean Start-up , puts it best: ‘ The grim reality is that most start-ups fail. For technology entrepreneurs, we need to encourage them to understand the lean startup methodology, as a means to help them validate their assumptions. Most products are not successful. Collectively, we need to do better.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

However the Customer Development Model and the Lean Startup work equally well for startups on the web. The first question to ask is: “Does your startup have market risk or is it dominated by technical risk?” Lean Startup /Customer Development is used to find answers to the unknowns about customers and markets.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Judah Phillips, the co-founder and CTO of Vizadata and founder of SmartCurrent , explained: We already live in a world of “real-time” predictive analytics. Leaning on natural language processing and predictive analytics, the program analyzed conversations, forecasted trends, and trained more than 13,000 volunteers.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

Our LivePlan customers are entrepreneurs, our founder and staff have run and sold companies, the Bplans readers are aspiring entrepreneurs (or actual entrepreneurs), and as I sell my own handmade jewelry, I like to think I have a very small claim to the title. At Palo Alto Software, I am surrounded by entrepreneurs.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 5, 2009

Companies that reliably fail to make their forecasted numbers are exceptionally prone to “management retooling.&# 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. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 30, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, October 30, 2008 John Doerrs 10 lean startup tips I just saw video of John Doerrs talk yesterday at VentureBeat’s “How to manage your start-up in the downturn&# roundtable event. Get 18 months or more of cash (runway) in the business against a conservative forecast. Use Google Apps.

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Steve Blank

JULY 22, 2013

Knowing this means farms can make better forecasts of how much their fields will produce, whether they should treat specific areas for pests, and put fertilizer and water only where it was needed. Lean is Not an Engineering Process. Great founders keep their eye on the prize. They left thinking about how to redefine their MVP.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

SBDC advisors tend to be serial entrepreneurs—people who have experience starting their own businesses and really want to help other founders. Many centers also offer access to LivePlan , a business planning software with budgeting, forecasting, and benchmarking capabilities. Our founder, Tim Berry, attended the very first one.

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Up and Running

JULY 1, 2019

Want to get expert advice from top SaaS founders? Start by listening to this episode to learn how Christian Owens, founder of Paddle , went from failure to $10 million ARR. Lost & Founder: A Painfully Honest Field Guide to the Startup World. You’re in luck with over 200 interviews recorded on The SaaS Podcast.

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 16, 2012

As we have seen with the recent speed bumps at highfliers like Groupon and Zynga, taking “lean startups” from foundation to creating sustainable, scalable, profitable business models is a very rare and special task. TripAdvisor, in effect, was a model lean start-up with an engineering-driven, product-focused founder.

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Up and Running

APRIL 22, 2019

When you build out your SaaS company’s business plan , spend some time modeling different subscription-based sales forecast scenarios so you can see how reducing churn (the number of canceled subscribers) and other variables can affect your path to profitability. What if you’re a non-technical founder? Just start.

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Eric Friedman

JANUARY 23, 2022

Running accelerator programs, investing in startups, and working directly with founders is exactly what I want to be doing with my time. The best part is that I have had countless follow up conversations and DMs getting to know founders. Lean on these people and make sure they know their role in your world – people appreciate it.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 20, 2021

It is so important that not a week goes by without a successful investor/founder extolling the benefits of moving quickly. I had to throw out my desire to build a perfect strategy and forecast for the business. They deploy this principle intending to create a lean, high-performing startup. 2021 instead of 2022.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

Ilya Pozin is the founder of Open Me and Ciplex. Far too many companies are failing for reasons I think are strictly preventable,” said Eric Ries in a recent interview, entrepreneur and author of The Lean Startup. He’s also a columnist for Inc, Forbes, and LinkedIn. The chances of your startup failing are perilously high.

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