Lean Startup is not easy. Now I''m a Lean Startup." Lean Startups Managing Entrepreneurship Minimum Viable Product MVP It sounds easy when you hear Eric talk. "I''ll I''ll put up a launchrock page! Sorry. it doesn''t work like that. MORE
Lean Planning is a concept that we introduced back in 2012 as an evolution in business planning. We proposed Lean Planning as the next step in business planning. But, where did Lean Planning come from? Here’s a quick history of how we developed Lean Planning. MORE
We tend to associate the government with words like bureaucracy rather than lean innovation. Department of Defense by adopting Lean Methodology inside their agency. The NGA has adopted Lean Innovation methods to make this happen. MORE
Filed under: Customer Development , Lean LaunchPad. Customer Development Lean LaunchPad MORE
Lean Analytics is the latest addition to the Lean Series. For intrapreneurs, this means applying Lean methods to new product development, rather than starting an entirely new company. You can order Lean Analytics today MORE
We just finished our Lean LaunchPad class at UC Berkeley’s engineering school where many of the teams embedded machine learning technology into their products. Machine Learning Meets Lean – Berkeley Lean LaunchPad Class. Filed under: Lean LaunchPad , Teaching. MORE
The Lean LaunchPad entrepreneurship curriculum has caught fire. It’s called the Lean Startup. So my book and Berkeley class turned into the Lean LaunchPad class in the Stanford Engineering school. They say, “We’re teaching the Lean Launchpad class as is. MORE
And on wednesday night I spoke to the NYC Lean Startup Meetup with the help of Giff who interviewed me. Eric and his fellow lean advocate Steve Blank have both written at length about the methodologies associated with the lean startup approach. But the most interesting part of the discussion on wednesday night for me was when Giff asked me about a comment I had made that "you need more than a lean methodology, you need a lean culture." MORE
—– Lean Innovation Management. In the last five years “ Lean Startup ” methodologies have enabled entrepreneurs to efficiently build a startup by searching for product/market fit rather than blindly trying to execute. The Lean Definition of the Three Horizons of Innovation. MORE
While the Lean LaunchPad class has been adopted by Universities and the National Science Foundation , the question we get is, “Can students in K-12 handle an experiential entrepreneurship class?” They both attended our latest Lean LaunchPad Educators Class. MORE
(Simen is the creator of Playing Lean, the board game about Lean Startup that is now live on Kickstarter. He’s the CEO of Iterate, a Norwegian consultancy that specialises in Lean Startup. I reached out to him to chat about his approach to teaching Lean. Lean Startups Managing Entrepreneurship board game educationYou can find him on Twitter and Linkedin.) Q: How […]. MORE
if you''re adopting lean, you need to understand this flow: Inspiration, Application, Practice. Human Resources Lean Startups adopting lean startup hype cycle It has another, more famous name, the hype cycle. MORE
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Lean is a methodology that can be applied to all disciplines of knowledge work to increase business efficiency, agility, and visibility. Due to its roots in manufacturing, Lean is often equated with the elimination of waste, but this view of Lean misses the mark on realizing its true value. MORE
I reached out to him to chat about his approach to implementing lean startup in large- and mid-size companies. You can find him on Twitter or LinkedIn) Q: What is the difference between running lean in a very large vs. […]. Lean Enterprise Managing Entrepreneurship Product Management Strategy lean startup in Lean Startups lean-enterprise MORE
Lean Enterprise Lean Startups Managing Entrepreneurship lean-enterpriseThe faster we can go around the Build-Measure-Learn loop, the faster we validate our business model. So how fast is fast enough? MORE
The lean start-up movement has been based on a single insight – which the purpose of a start-up is to discover a business model that works. In this article we explore the unique challenges of a lean start-up and how Outsourced Product Development (OPD) can be used to overcome them. MORE
Lean Startup + Enterprise = Lean Enterprise. Lean Enterprise Lean Startups innovation ecosystem lean ecosystem lean enterprise Comparing an enterprise to a startup is like comparing an ocean to a dolphin. They simply don’t equate. MORE
Today the National Institutes of Health announced they are offering my Lean LaunchPad class ( I-Corps @ NIH ) to commercialize Life Science. Filed under: Customer Development , Lean LaunchPad , Life Sciences , National Science Foundation. MORE
It’s clear that Lean Startup is shifting from startups to the enterprise. There’s still a lot to learn amongst early stage entrepreneurs, and a lot of discussion that’s needed around implementing Lean Startup, but attention has definitely shifted to applying the framework in large organizations. Alistair and I have been looking at how Lean Startup and Lean Analytics are working in the enterprise. And voila, Lean had infiltrated the organization. MORE
You may have read my previous posts about the Lean LaunchPad class taught at Stanford , Berkeley, Columbia , Caltech and for the National Science Foundation. He called it the “Lean Startup.”. Filed under: Business Model versus Business Plan , Customer Development , Lean LaunchPad. MORE
More enterprise scale companies are drinking the lean Kool Aid and starting to implement Lean Startup. Lean Enterprise Lean Startups Management Managing Entrepreneurship agile agile marketing lean enterprise lean startup in the enterprise leanux waterfall MORE
Lean Startup In the last couple weeks I’ve read a few great blog posts about product/market fit and the confusion that exists around what it really means. I’d say for many early stage startups, product/market fit is thought of as that point in time when you’ve finally built a product that people use and it’s time to […]. MORE
Product Management User Experience lean UX user experience We product managers have let ourselves be put into smaller product owner boxes. We''ve been focused on process when the biggest risks are about markets. MORE
Our Stanford and Berkeley Lean LaunchPad classes are over for this year, and as usual we learned as much from teaching the teams as the teams did from us. If you can’t see the presentation above, click here Filed under: Lean LaunchPad , Teaching. Lean LaunchPad Teaching MORE
Every few weeks, someone asks me if there’s a template that they should use to define their lean startup experiments…and I say no. Lean Enterprise Lean Startups Managing Entrepreneurship experiment design metrics templates I’m not a big fan of templates in the broad sense of a one size fits all template to define experiments regardless of the context. I am a huge fan of having […]. MORE
The enterprise adoption of lean startup principles is following much the same course as startup ecosystems adopting lean startup. It''s the Lean Hype Cycle. Lean Enterprise Lean Startups innovation ecosystem lean enterprise MORE
When Colonel Peter Newell headed up the Army’s Rapid Equipping Force (REF) he used lean methods on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan to provide immediate technology solutions to urgent problems. Filed under: Customer Development , Hacking For Defense , Lean LaunchPad. MORE
Unlike startups, large companies have many moving parts to manage when attempting to lean new ways for creating customer value. Managing Entrepreneurship adopting lean startup anti-patterns lean-enterprise waterfall MORE
We tend to associate the government with words like bureaucracy rather than lean innovation. Department of Defense by adopting Lean Methodology inside their agency. The NGA has adopted Lean Innovation methods to make this happen. MORE
I’m a big fan of Ash Maurya’s Lean Canvas. I was also very impressed with Steve Blank’s new initiative Lean Launch Lab , which combines a canvas business model tool and a blogging tool for startups to use and share information regularly with investors. MORE
We just finished our Lean LaunchPad class at UC Berkeley’s engineering school where many of the teams embedded machine learning technology into their products. Machine Learning Meets Lean – Berkeley Lean LaunchPad Class. Filed under: Lean LaunchPad , Teaching. MORE
The Harvard Business Review is offering free reprints of the May 2013 cover article, “ Why the Lean Startup Changes Everything “ Available here. MORE
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Now they are starting to use the Lean Innovation process (see here and here ) to turn ideas into solutions. Test if the Lean Innovation process actually accelerates technology adoption and an innovation ecosystem. Lean Innovation is a Process. MORE
This week the National Science Foundation goes Lean on education by providing $1.2 National Science Foundation adopted my Lean LaunchPad class. The Lean LaunchPad/I-Corps model may accelerate that process. Filed under: Lean LaunchPad , National Science Foundation , Teaching. MORE
I reached out to chat about his approach on Lean, startups and teamwork. Q: What are the differences between Agile Software Development and Lean Software Development? A: At the highest level, the difference between Agile and Lean software development is mainly […]. Lean Startup Teamwork & Leadership lean manufacturing lean product development lean startup MORE
In a lean startup, team velocity proceeds measurable product progress. Lean Enterprise Lean Startups Managing Entrepreneurship adopting lean startup agile velocity metrics Before there is velocity, no measurable progress can be seen on any metrics dashboard. MORE
Implementing the Lean Startup in any company is hard. Now compound that level of effort with trying to put a Lean Startup culture in place in Japan. And weak leadership leads to a reluctance to change and the inability to mandate Lean as an innovation process. They list four actionable steps for implementing Lean in Japanese corporations. All the culture and incentives are designed for execution. Innovation at times seems like you’re swimming up hill. MORE
Year One Labs is a Lean Startup accelerator. I believe it’s one of the first of its kind, with a very heavy focus on customer development and a rigorous Lean Startup process. We’ve learned a lot launching a startup accelerator, and particularly one focused on a Lean Startup methodology. MORE
Lean Startup is about experimentation and learning. Over the last few years as Lean Startup has grown in popularity, many startups went to raise money with the mantra, “We’re lean!” Lean was (and is) a breath of fresh air for startups and investors, shining light on the harsh realities of building companies. Lean Startup got watered down and pivot got bastardized. That’s where Lean comes in. MORE
Lean Startup takes our biggest business risk and reduces it. The post Demo Day Fundraising and The Lean Startup appeared first on GrasshopperHerder.com. Accelerators & Incubators Lean Startup FundraisingIf our biggest risk is that our demo day fundraising pitch will fail, we can test that. MORE
2) All video from the SXSW Lean Startup track is now available for free. Second, it was the day after the first SXSW Lean Startup track, and I was exhausted. Later that day, Todd Park presented a keynote at the SXSW Lean Startup track. Todd's presentation talked about real-life specific examples of times and places they have put Lean Startup principles into action inside the world's largest bureaucracy. MORE
Lean Related Topics Grasshopper Herder
JUNE 17, 2014
Lean Startup + Enterprise = Lean Enterprise. Lean Enterprise Lean Startups innovation ecosystem lean ecosystem lean enterprise Comparing an enterprise to a startup is like comparing an ocean to a dolphin. They simply don’t equate.
Grasshopper Herder
OCTOBER 24, 2013
More enterprise scale companies are drinking the lean Kool Aid and starting to implement Lean Startup. Lean Enterprise Lean Startups Management Managing Entrepreneurship agile agile marketing lean enterprise lean startup in the enterprise leanux waterfall
A VC : Venture Capital and Technology
SEPTEMBER 16, 2011
And on wednesday night I spoke to the NYC Lean Startup Meetup with the help of Giff who interviewed me. Eric and his fellow lean advocate Steve Blank have both written at length about the methodologies associated with the lean startup approach. But the most interesting part of the discussion on wednesday night for me was when Giff asked me about a comment I had made that "you need more than a lean methodology, you need a lean culture."
Grasshopper Herder
JUNE 19, 2014
The enterprise adoption of lean startup principles is following much the same course as startup ecosystems adopting lean startup. It''s the Lean Hype Cycle. Lean Enterprise Lean Startups innovation ecosystem lean enterprise
Steve Blank
NOVEMBER 18, 2016
We just finished our Lean LaunchPad class at UC Berkeley’s engineering school where many of the teams embedded machine learning technology into their products. Machine Learning Meets Lean – Berkeley Lean LaunchPad Class. Filed under: Lean LaunchPad , Teaching.
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. He called it the “Lean Startup.”. Filed under: Business Model versus Business Plan , Customer Development , Lean LaunchPad.
Grasshopper Herder
JULY 21, 2015
Lean Enterprise Lean Startups Managing Entrepreneurship lean-enterpriseThe faster we can go around the Build-Measure-Learn loop, the faster we validate our business model. So how fast is fast enough?
Instigator Blog
FEBRUARY 2, 2015
Lean Startup In the last couple weeks I’ve read a few great blog posts about product/market fit and the confusion that exists around what it really means. I’d say for many early stage startups, product/market fit is thought of as that point in time when you’ve finally built a product that people use and it’s time to […].
Steve Blank
OCTOBER 10, 2017
Now they are starting to use the Lean Innovation process (see here and here ) to turn ideas into solutions. Test if the Lean Innovation process actually accelerates technology adoption and an innovation ecosystem. Lean Innovation is a Process.
Grasshopper Herder
OCTOBER 2, 2013
Lean Startup is not easy. Now I''m a Lean Startup." Lean Startups Managing Entrepreneurship Minimum Viable Product MVP It sounds easy when you hear Eric talk. "I''ll I''ll put up a launchrock page! Sorry. it doesn''t work like that.
Up and Running
DECEMBER 5, 2016
Lean Planning is a concept that we introduced back in 2012 as an evolution in business planning. We proposed Lean Planning as the next step in business planning. But, where did Lean Planning come from? Here’s a quick history of how we developed Lean Planning.
Grasshopper Herder
APRIL 2, 2015
Unlike startups, large companies have many moving parts to manage when attempting to lean new ways for creating customer value. Managing Entrepreneurship adopting lean startup anti-patterns lean-enterprise waterfall
Grasshopper Herder
FEBRUARY 17, 2015
I reached out to him to chat about his approach to implementing lean startup in large- and mid-size companies. You can find him on Twitter or LinkedIn) Q: What is the difference between running lean in a very large vs. […]. Lean Enterprise Managing Entrepreneurship Product Management Strategy lean startup in Lean Startups lean-enterprise
Grasshopper Herder
MARCH 18, 2014
In a lean startup, team velocity proceeds measurable product progress. Lean Enterprise Lean Startups Managing Entrepreneurship adopting lean startup agile velocity metrics Before there is velocity, no measurable progress can be seen on any metrics dashboard.
VC Cafe
MAY 12, 2013
Eric Reis John Mullins Lean Market Research Lean Startup Lean Startups Marc Andreessen Market Research Product-market-fit Steve Blank 5 forces 7 domains john mullins Market research Market Sizing product-market-fit steve blank swot
Grasshopper Herder
SEPTEMBER 30, 2014
Lean Startups Product/Market Fit Customer Development experiment design survey When I was studying marketing I had an arms length list of research techniques like conjoint analysis, surveys, and focus groups.
Steve Blank
JUNE 26, 2015
—– Lean Innovation Management. In the last five years “ Lean Startup ” methodologies have enabled entrepreneurs to efficiently build a startup by searching for product/market fit rather than blindly trying to execute. The Lean Definition of the Three Horizons of Innovation.
Steve Blank
NOVEMBER 18, 2016
We just finished our Lean LaunchPad class at UC Berkeley’s engineering school where many of the teams embedded machine learning technology into their products. Machine Learning Meets Lean – Berkeley Lean LaunchPad Class. Filed under: Lean LaunchPad , Teaching.
Steve Blank
NOVEMBER 17, 2015
Implementing the Lean Startup in any company is hard. Now compound that level of effort with trying to put a Lean Startup culture in place in Japan. And weak leadership leads to a reluctance to change and the inability to mandate Lean as an innovation process. They list four actionable steps for implementing Lean in Japanese corporations. All the culture and incentives are designed for execution. Innovation at times seems like you’re swimming up hill.
YoungUpstarts
OCTOBER 19, 2017
The lean start-up movement has been based on a single insight – which the purpose of a start-up is to discover a business model that works. In this article we explore the unique challenges of a lean start-up and how Outsourced Product Development (OPD) can be used to overcome them.
YoungUpstarts
MAY 9, 2017
Lean is a methodology that can be applied to all disciplines of knowledge work to increase business efficiency, agility, and visibility. Due to its roots in manufacturing, Lean is often equated with the elimination of waste, but this view of Lean misses the mark on realizing its true value.
Steve Blank
AUGUST 29, 2016
We tend to associate the government with words like bureaucracy rather than lean innovation. Department of Defense by adopting Lean Methodology inside their agency. The NGA has adopted Lean Innovation methods to make this happen.
Steve Blank
MAY 6, 2013
The Harvard Business Review is offering free reprints of the May 2013 cover article, “ Why the Lean Startup Changes Everything “ Available here.
Steve Blank
AUGUST 24, 2012
Filed under: Customer Development , Lean LaunchPad. Customer Development Lean LaunchPad
Instigator Blog
MAY 26, 2011
I’m a big fan of Ash Maurya’s Lean Canvas. I was also very impressed with Steve Blank’s new initiative Lean Launch Lab , which combines a canvas business model tool and a blogging tool for startups to use and share information regularly with investors.
Grasshopper Herder
AUGUST 11, 2015
I reached out to chat about his approach on Lean, startups and teamwork. Q: What are the differences between Agile Software Development and Lean Software Development? A: At the highest level, the difference between Agile and Lean software development is mainly […]. Lean Startup Teamwork & Leadership lean manufacturing lean product development lean startup
Startup Lessons Learned
MARCH 21, 2013
Lean Analytics is the latest addition to the Lean Series. For intrapreneurs, this means applying Lean methods to new product development, rather than starting an entirely new company. You can order Lean Analytics today
Grasshopper Herder
SEPTEMBER 23, 2014
Product Management User Experience lean UX user experience We product managers have let ourselves be put into smaller product owner boxes. We''ve been focused on process when the biggest risks are about markets.
Instigator Blog
JUNE 24, 2013
Lean Startup is about experimentation and learning. Over the last few years as Lean Startup has grown in popularity, many startups went to raise money with the mantra, “We’re lean!” Lean was (and is) a breath of fresh air for startups and investors, shining light on the harsh realities of building companies. Lean Startup got watered down and pivot got bastardized. That’s where Lean comes in.
Instigator Blog
JUNE 6, 2011
Year One Labs is a Lean Startup accelerator. I believe it’s one of the first of its kind, with a very heavy focus on customer development and a rigorous Lean Startup process. We’ve learned a lot launching a startup accelerator, and particularly one focused on a Lean Startup methodology.
Grasshopper Herder
SEPTEMBER 16, 2014
Every few weeks, someone asks me if there’s a template that they should use to define their lean startup experiments…and I say no. Lean Enterprise Lean Startups Managing Entrepreneurship experiment design metrics templates I’m not a big fan of templates in the broad sense of a one size fits all template to define experiments regardless of the context. I am a huge fan of having […].
Steve Blank
JUNE 18, 2013
The Lean LaunchPad entrepreneurship curriculum has caught fire. It’s called the Lean Startup. So my book and Berkeley class turned into the Lean LaunchPad class in the Stanford Engineering school. They say, “We’re teaching the Lean Launchpad class as is.
Grasshopper Herder
OCTOBER 19, 2015
Lean Startup takes our biggest business risk and reduces it. The post Demo Day Fundraising and The Lean Startup appeared first on GrasshopperHerder.com. Accelerators & Incubators Lean Startup FundraisingIf our biggest risk is that our demo day fundraising pitch will fail, we can test that.
Startup Lessons Learned
MAY 30, 2012
2) All video from the SXSW Lean Startup track is now available for free. Second, it was the day after the first SXSW Lean Startup track, and I was exhausted. Later that day, Todd Park presented a keynote at the SXSW Lean Startup track. Todd's presentation talked about real-life specific examples of times and places they have put Lean Startup principles into action inside the world's largest bureaucracy.
Steve Blank
APRIL 15, 2014
Our Stanford and Berkeley Lean LaunchPad classes are over for this year, and as usual we learned as much from teaching the teams as the teams did from us. If you can’t see the presentation above, click here Filed under: Lean LaunchPad , Teaching. Lean LaunchPad Teaching
Steve Blank
JUNE 19, 2014
Today the National Institutes of Health announced they are offering my Lean LaunchPad class ( I-Corps @ NIH ) to commercialize Life Science. Filed under: Customer Development , Lean LaunchPad , Life Sciences , National Science Foundation.
Grasshopper Herder
MAY 20, 2015
(Simen is the creator of Playing Lean, the board game about Lean Startup that is now live on Kickstarter. He’s the CEO of Iterate, a Norwegian consultancy that specialises in Lean Startup. I reached out to him to chat about his approach to teaching Lean. Lean Startups Managing Entrepreneurship board game educationYou can find him on Twitter and Linkedin.) Q: How […].
Steve Blank
FEBRUARY 28, 2013
While the Lean LaunchPad class has been adopted by Universities and the National Science Foundation , the question we get is, “Can students in K-12 handle an experiential entrepreneurship class?” They both attended our latest Lean LaunchPad Educators Class.
Steve Blank
AUGUST 29, 2016
We tend to associate the government with words like bureaucracy rather than lean innovation. Department of Defense by adopting Lean Methodology inside their agency. The NGA has adopted Lean Innovation methods to make this happen.
Steve Blank
JULY 23, 2014
This week the National Science Foundation goes Lean on education by providing $1.2 National Science Foundation adopted my Lean LaunchPad class. The Lean LaunchPad/I-Corps model may accelerate that process. Filed under: Lean LaunchPad , National Science Foundation , Teaching.
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