YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

This has caused a need for Agile professionals within the IT sector who understand the principles and methodology behind this concepts of Scaled Agile, Scrum, Kanban, and Lean. Scrum and Agile, when combined, is a framework and methodology that’s able to completely change how project management is handled in all businesses and industries.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 29, 2013

This post was written by Sarah Milstein, co-host of The Lean Startup Conference. We’re looking for speakers for the 2013 Lean Startup Conference. If you’re a Lean Startup veteran, feel free to skim the beginning, as this is mostly stuff you already know. Last week, we announced that our short application form was live.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 29, 2019

The question is, how do you keep your growing business lean? Many companies today realize the importance of being lean. Unfortunately, many businesses struggle to stay lean – or operate only with what they need. Here’s a look at what this framework entails and how you can make the most of it for your business.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Array your development operation in pursuit of a simple proposition: efficiently bringing a minimum viable product to market. A minimum viable product is market-ready, not a prototype. Acknowledgment of legal or regulatory requirements wherever you plan to take your product to market. Stay Lean and Low.

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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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The Startup Magazine

JULY 26, 2021

Here are a few cost-saving rules all manufacturers need to follow today: Adopt lean manufacturing. Lean Startup Feedback Loop from lean.st. Bigger manufacturers usually have a wide array of products available on the market which keeps them present across different niches.

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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. And what the market needed would, of course, be exactly what we had envisioned.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

An article on growth and marketing in the middle of a crisis—the current one or any other—can seem tone deaf. This post surveys what people have done in the past—and what marketing leaders are doing now—to make it through tough times and thrive in the post-crisis era. Frameworks for businesses during a crisis.

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Board Effect

OCTOBER 15, 2023

The Benefits of Generative AI for Nonprofits Nonprofit organizations and associations typically run on tight budgets and lean staff numbers. Marketing and communications team members can use AI to create tailored content for donors and other audiences, including social media posts or newsletter copy.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 8, 2011

In January, we introduced a new graduate course at Stanford called the " target="_blank">Lean LaunchPad. While we were going to teach theory and frameworks, these students were going to get a hands-on experience in how to start a new company. The Lean LaunchPad class was scheduled to meet for three hours once a week.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 26, 2021

The Top 10 Duct Tape Marketing Podcast Episodes for 2020 written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Even though 2020 immediately conjures words like “challenge,” “hardship” and “crisis,” there are many lessons learned that will impact and shape the future of business and small business marketing moving forward.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 23, 2020

While there’s agreement that companies need to adapt to changing markets, rapidly find new markets, new customers and new revenue models, the question is how ? In these examples CEOs instinctually figured out, 1) their core , and 2) market needs where their competencies/abilities could be used.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 8, 2023

Keeping up with trends is the reality show of the e-commerce world, which is constantly developing, gaining a significant market share, and driving online sales. The story behind its substantial growth in the market is simple: people love to shop in the most convenient way possible, and a smartphone is a perfect way to do it.

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ConversionXL

JULY 16, 2019

You’re a marketer, and you’ve just launched a marketing campaign that you spent weeks or months building. Taking lessons from agile project management (specifically: sprints), I’ll show you how to build more effective, less assumptive, marketing campaigns. Adapting sprints for marketing. Imagine this scenario.

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Steve Blank

MAY 6, 2015

I am always surprised when critics complain that the Lean Startup’s Build, Measure, Learn approach is nothing more than “throwing incomplete products out of the building to see if they work.”. It’s time to update Build, Measure, Learn to what we now know is the best way to build Lean startups. Here’s how. Build-Measure-Learn.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Yet, this was a successful growth marketing campaign. In this article, you will learn how growth marketing compares to traditional marketing and its key components. You’ll also learn how to apply growth marketing to five key channels and how to plan and execute experimentation. What is growth marketing?

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Steve Blank

MARCH 3, 2015

It has replaced how to write a business plan with hands-on Lean Startup methods. To create great entrepreneurs, we had to give our students the experience of navigating the chaos and uncertainty of running a lean startup while providing the same kind of rigorous framework the business plan did in its day. Today the U.C.

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Eric Friedman

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

With the right kind of experience and help, advisors can be a welcomed addition to the extended team, be a great group to lean on, and help the business. An example here is Shaq taking 1% of Ring and doing major endorsement deals and marketing. Since 2016 I have had people lean on me and my blog post for the talk.

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

MAY 1, 2018

Invest in Frameworks, But First, Establish a Culture Where Innovation Thrives. More structure is needed as fundamentals take hold, and that means an innovation process framework. More structure is needed as fundamentals take hold, and that means an innovation process framework. Innovation Fundamentals for Leaders.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 30, 2013

Doing so meant they would have to take risks for IP acquisition and customer/market risks outside their experience or comfort zone. I earnestly believe that large corporations should emulate Lean Startups (Business model design, Customer Development and Agile Engineering.) Developing a program to generate new ideas is the easy part.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 22, 2013

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Marketing and Selling to Squirrels (tips on how to deal with people’s short attention spans online) – [link]. Lean Business: Office Space – A Meditation – [link].

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Steve Blank

MARCH 11, 2016

We just finished the 6 th annual Lean LaunchPad class. For the last 6 years I’ve taught the Lean LaunchPad class at Stanford and Berkeley. business plans are fine for large companies where there is an existing market, existing product and existing customers, but they are useless in a startup where most often none of these are known.

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Where to Play

MAY 28, 2019

The post How to Stop Playing “Target Market Roulette”: A new addition to the Lean toolset appeared first on Where to Play. These tools tell you how to rapidly find product/market fit inside a market, and how to pivot when your hypotheses are incorrect. A new tool – the Market Opportunity Navigator – helps do just that.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

Let’s set up a framework. by Michael Woolf that is worth any startup founder reading to get a sense of perspective on the reality warp that is startup world during a frothy market such as 1997-1999, 2005-2007 or 2012-2014. We’re going to start aggressively spend money on marketing our product.

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View from Seed

MARCH 11, 2020

Seed stage companies will mostly face questions around the team and market. They tend to have some sort of framework in their mind with a hierarchy of conviction and hierarchy of pain they are willing to put founders through. This could look somewhat different depending on the maturity of the business. Talking to your customers.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 25, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, March 25, 2009 The Lean Startup at Agile Vancouver April 21st A surprising number of respondents in the latest Lessons Learned survey hail from one of the flourishing startup hubs in Canada. This workshop brings together leading thinkers from Lean Production and Lean software.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 5, 2015

You may have also noticed that agile methodology — which was once thought to be only for software developers — is now being used just about everywhere, from construction to marketing, human resources, manufacturing, and even wedding planning. The “customer” in some cases can also be a collective market environment.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 18, 2019

by Scott Brown, Executive Director at UpRamp and author of “ (C)lean Messaging “ Every aspiring entrepreneur lives in pursuit of that lightbulb moment. Their problem isn’t market fit; it’s framing. What is (C)lean Messaging? The (C)lean Messaging framework is the first step. (C)lean The big idea.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 23, 2019

For example, consider these franchise pros and cons: Pros: Established marketing materials such as ad campaigns, website, and reputation. Take advantage of this—but be sure to also do your own market research , especially if you’re planning to rebrand or target a new demographic when you buy the business. Recognizable branding.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

Guest post by Lisa Regan, writer for The Lean Startup Conference. Lean Startup techniques have been taking off in the social-mission sector, helping people solve problems more effectively, and earning the name Lean Impact. We asked Christie to give a sense of how she sees the relationship between Lean Impact and Lean Startup.

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The Equity Kicker

MARCH 26, 2018

Let me use the Jobs To Be Done (JTBD) framework for product development to explain why. Reams have been written about the JTBD framework. Part of the art of using the JBTD framework well is picking the right level of detail to work at. The work I’ve described so far is a desk exercise. An example from Photobox.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

The Startup Way is all about how to use Lean Startup at scale across every function of your organization. Where The Lean Startup covered how to get started with the build-measure-learn loop in order to find product/market fit, The Startup Way provides a framework to guide your company for the long run.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 5, 2022

How To Use Immersion To Create Amazing Experiences written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Dr. Paul J. In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Dr. Paul J. Zak about his framework for transforming nearly any situation from ordinary to extraordinary.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 11, 2020

That doesn’t mean you need to stick to the exact business plan framework. . Look at the Opportunity chapter of your business plan as a place where plans meet market needs. What market needs your product or service fills? . What is your target market? Execution chapter includes: Marketing and Sales plan.

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Steve Blank

MAY 18, 2020

Do you have a startup idea or new technology that you’d like to learn how to bring to market in the post-pandemic economy? Or perhaps you would like to join a team creating a new business, or reinventing an existing business, and learn the lean startup techniques that will be critical to our recovery. Stanford’s Lean LaunchPad.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! How To Choose A Market For Your Startup Or Small Business – [link]. How To Choose A Market For Your Startup Or Small Business – [link]. Brilliant analysis. Ghost Town?

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 8, 2021

We put together a (non-comprehensive) list of some of the best marketing books, both new and old, to help you become a better marketer—and a better person. In Hooked , Eyal explores the “Hook Model” framework, a four-step process used by some of the most well-known companies and products today. We can help.

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