YoungUpstarts

JUNE 1, 2019

by Bruce Cleveland, Founding Partner at Wildcat Venture Partners and author of “ Traversing the Traction Gap “. This is the second in a three-part series that aims to help you understand the Traction Gap Framework® – a step-by-step approach that startup teams can use to go from ideation to preparing to scale. Go-to-Product.

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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.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

I was an early adopter in financial operations and software of lean operational and product development techniques that originated at Toyota, and then of agile as it was promulgated in the Manifesto. My team had already successfully adopted lean operational processes in a very large manufacturing-like process, as well as early agile ideas.

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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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Lean Business Model Customer Development Guinea 300

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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View from Seed

MARCH 11, 2020

Due diligence may seem like a drag, but partnering with an investor is a serious commitment, and you want to make sure that whoever you work with has built real conviction about you and your company. These are people who would vouch for you, but you only want to lean on for a small handful of high priority investors.

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Technical Review Due Diligence Term Sheet Seed Stage 279

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Hacking for Diplomacy takes the Lean Startup methodology and applies it to problems sourced from the State Department. Each team continues to capture its work on a Mission Model Canvas – a modified version of the Business Model Canvas that’s at the heart of the Lean Startup methodology.

Silicon Valley 120

Silicon Valley Washington United Kingdom Lean 120

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Hacking for Diplomacy takes the Lean Startup methodology and applies it to problems sourced from the State Department. Each team continues to capture its work on a Mission Model Canvas – a modified version of the Business Model Canvas that’s at the heart of the Lean Startup methodology.

Silicon Valley 120

Silicon Valley Washington United Kingdom Lean 120

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2016

He nails the current key startup parameters, including the following: Crafting a lean business plan as your road map. Investors and partners now look only for a framework of your business essentials, within the context of your opportunity, solution, and financials. Incorporating a business entity early through online services.

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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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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. What is (C)lean Messaging? The (C)lean Messaging framework is the first step. (C)lean The (C)lean Message. The big idea. An unparalleled innovation.

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Steve Blank

MAY 18, 2020

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. This class combines theory with a ton of hands-on practice.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

Guest post by Lisa Regan, writer for T he Lean Startup Conference. We’ve posted the full program for The Lean Startup Conference , and it includes more than three days of events for Gold pass holders and six days of events for VIP pass holders. On the evening of December 8, Ignite Lean Startup kicks off the conference.

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Steve Blank

MAY 30, 2016

the teams spent the last two weeks learning what activities, resources and partners they would need to actually deliver their solution. Using the Lean LaunchPad methodology our teams do much more than just build a product or understand customer problems/needs. The canvas illustrates the search for the unknowns that new ventures face.

Silicon Valley 120

Silicon Valley San Diego Technical Review Incubator 120

Up and Running

JANUARY 24, 2019

Write a Lean Business Plan. You can use your plan as a framework for making a risk assessment against every business goal. Your business plan can be a Lean Plan , meaning that it doesn’t need to be lengthy. If you’ve heard of a Business Model Canvas, a Lean Plan is a much more useful alternative.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 16, 2015

So operating at a higher level, helping to set the framework for decision making and then sitting down and watching the game be played, is certainly the way to go.” In practice it can be a fine line between sparring partner / coach and stepping over the line to brute-force persuasion. ” Of course I agree with this.

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Brandanew

MARCH 1, 2023

After a near 20-year career in marketing, strategy, and communications, I’m leaning at doing things that create more meaning in my life. With many months of deliberation, I’m stepping in to lead a social organization committed to children’s storytelling leaning heavily on South-Asian stories as base frameworks.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2014

Sometimes this needs to happen with an employee, sometimes with a partner, sometimes with a certain customer, and sometimes with your overall marketing or business strategy. It can be hard to cut through the fog of personal bias, sunny optimism, deeply held hopes, and one’s very dreams, but it is absolutely imperative that it be done.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 5, 2010

While the customer development framework of Four Steps is universally relevant, The Entrepreneur’s Guide updates its practices for modern startups. Ill give them the last word: You are already skeptical of Customer Development and Lean Startups and the slew of emerging buzzwords and supple-to-the-point-of-meaningless terms.

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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 ). Frameworks for businesses during a crisis. ” So how do you figure out which tools you’ll need?

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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. Union Square Ventures The next morning I got to spend time with Brad Burnham , partner at Union Square Ventures talking about their investment strategy and insights about web-based businesses. It’s an impressive portfolio.

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The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Core Tactics of Risk Management Companies To navigate the turbulences of the finance industry, institutions increasingly lean on risk management companies. This ability to stand tall not only helps in maintaining their reputation but also highlights their unwavering reliability to stakeholders and partners.

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Security Management Forecast Finance 136

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

The Lean Startup is a process for turning ideas into commercial ventures. While the Lean Startup gave us a process for turning ideas into businesses – what’s left unanswered was, “Where do the ideas come from? Its premise is that startups begin with a series of untested hypotheses. How do you get them?”

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

His goal was to find a programmer who would come in as an early partner and work as an Equity-Only Developer. It was a mobile app, so he ideally would find someone who had experience with mobile development or someone who could pick up a mobile framework. " and start leaning to prompt them to start walking with you.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 10, 2012

I was working in manufacturing studying lean principals on the factory floor when I came up with the idea for Coffee Joulies and asked Dave if he would help me. The second is that we strictly enforced a framework that we called 'Original Vision' early on. There were two things that made this idea different. Second: Web design.

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Up and Running

MAY 9, 2022

Instead, you can stick with a simple internal business plan model that keeps your document lean and easy to communicate. It’s a document that can easily be distributed across multiple communications channels, encourages employee engagement, and leans into uncovering issues and competitive advantages for your business.

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Business Plan Forecast Lean Channel 160

SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

His goal was to find a programmer who would come in as an early partner and work as an Equity-Only Developer. It was a mobile app, so he ideally would find someone who had experience with mobile development or someone who could pick up a mobile framework. " and start leaning to prompt them to start walking with you.

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Fractional CTO Southern California Startup Mobile 296

Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Zak about his framework for transforming nearly any situation from ordinary to extraordinary. 11:30] Is there a way to use this framework to create better digital experiences or automated experiences? [13:07] Once you've been in love a couple times, you can really be a much better say spouse or romantic partner. Dr. Paul J.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 31, 2009

Finally, I’ll write about how Eric Ries and the Lean Startup concept provided the equivalent model for product development activities inside the building and neatly integrates customer and agile development. Or at times an even more honest answer, “My senior partners say this is the only way to do it.” Product Development Diagram 1.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 28, 2020

My next one, which I’ve been working on for a year with Dave Jilk (my first business partner), combined entrepreneurship and philosophy. This was his sequel to The Lean Startup , which created the phrase “lean startup” and the lean startup movement. Eric Ries Author The Lean Startup April 2020.

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

JANUARY 24, 2019

Do Purpose First, Select a Framework, Then Do Projects. In the innovation space there is endless discussion about frameworks. Can I blend frameworks? Just kidding, Design Thinking can be a good choice, as can Agile, or Lean, or your own blended system. Using a structured innovation framework is a project success factor.

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The Startup Toolkit

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

Lean Startup punts on the question of how to choose an idea by claiming that first, the founder “has a vision”. Which companies take you seriously enough that they might partner? Tools & frameworks' But where does it come from? And what makes a good vision as opposed to a bad one?

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Steve Blank

JULY 2, 2015

My guests this past week on Bay Area Ventures on Wharton Business Radio on Sirius XM Channel 111 were: Pete Newell , managing partner of BMNT Partners. John Kuhn , who works at BMNT Partners. Pete is managing partner for BMNT Partners and serves on the Board of Directors for Solace Power and Savonix.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 18, 2011

than it is to explain how the 1999 UETA and 2000 ESIGN Acts and our https framework help keep us secure. There is so much to manage for an enterprising small business that it makes sense to lean on experts like the one’s crowdSPRING provides for the things like graphic work.

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View from Seed

JULY 21, 2022

For creatives, we’re a premium, value-aligned partner to help grow their networks and portfolios, and monetize their passions. We’re hoping to walk away with a dynamic set of frameworks that we can continue to apply to our learnings and ideas, as well as a long-lasting relationship with our thought partners, Melody and Jack.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

In this after-show, Kat Hu , from our Chief of Staff team, and I, Jonathan Siddharth , CEO, and Founder of Turing, discuss the main takeaways from our most recent TDLS episode with David Zhang, Partner at TCV. One was this is the time to “lean in and get fit” for most companies. . You may enjoy watching this After-Show episode here.

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 18, 2020

The framework helps in achieving the service goals effectively and efficiently. ITIL 4 is the latest iteration of the ITIL framework. Levels of ITIL Certification within the ITIL 4 Certification Scheme: ITIL V4 Foundation: You will be introduced to the ITIL® 4 framework in the ITIL® V4 Foundation module. What is ITIL 4?

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