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Steve Blank
JANUARY 6, 2021
Over the weekend I got asked the best way to teach students the principles of Lean via Zoom. Here’s what I suggested they offer their students: Lean in Context. The Harvard Business Review Article “Why the Lean Startup Changes Everything” ties the pieces together here.
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.
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YoungUpstarts
MAY 12, 2021
Growing a business the lean way requires purpose and intention. The post 4 Tips For Lean Business Growth appeared first on Young Upstarts. Others business growth Lean methodology lean startupHere are 4 tips to get things moving in a positive direction.
Steve Blank
JANUARY 19, 2022
The Summit brings together leading entrepreneurship educators who are putting Lean Innovation to work in their classrooms, accelerators, and students’ ventures. We look forward to gathering as a community to continue shaping the future of Lean Innovation Education.
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
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 In doing so, they are failing at the most basic level.
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.
Grasshopper Herder
JULY 2, 2015
Lean Enterprise Lean Startups interns internshipLearning how to coach startups, Learn how accelerators work and how to improve them, Interview thought leaders, Research and write case studies.
Steve Blank
SEPTEMBER 5, 2018
It’s the antithesis of the Lean Startup. The Rise of the Lean Startup. The idea of the Lean Startup was built on top of the rubble of the 2000 Dot-Com crash. Lean started from the observation that you cannot ask a question that you have no words for. Lean makes sense when capital is scarce and when you need to keep burn rates low. Lean was designed to inform the founders’ vision while they operated frugally at speed.
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
Grasshopper Herder
MARCH 25, 2014
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.
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.
Steve Blank
AUGUST 24, 2012
Filed under: Customer Development , Lean LaunchPad. Customer Development Lean LaunchPad
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.”. So my book and Berkeley class turned into the Lean LaunchPad class in the Stanford Engineering school, co-taught with two VC’s – Jon Feiber and Ann Miura-Ko. Then in the fall of 2011, the National Science Foundation read my blog posts on the Stanford version of the Lean LaunchPad class.
VC Cafe
JULY 26, 2020
” Steve Blank, “Is the lean startup dead?” ” The Lean Startup movement started out of necessity. Quibi didn’t stop to test the hypothesis with a lean startup approach. In conclusion, I believe most of the Lean Startup isn’t fully dead.
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
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. Each of our teams in this class followed the canonical Lean model: Articulate your hypotheses using the business model canvas. Filed under: Lean LaunchPad , Teaching. Lean LaunchPad Teaching
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. Each of our teams in this class followed the canonical Lean model: Articulate your hypotheses using the business model canvas. Filed under: Lean LaunchPad , Teaching. Lean LaunchPad Teaching
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.
Grasshopper Herder
JANUARY 29, 2018
Have you thought about using Lean Startup to improve your sales process? The founder of Shipitwise reveals how he used lean principles to improve B2B sales. The post B2B Sales: A Lean Startup Approach appeared first on GrasshopperHerder.com. Customer Development Lean Startup B2B Evaluative Market Experiment Startup Tool
Grasshopper Herder
FEBRUARY 5, 2018
We decided to run lean experiments on this tactic to see how it would work for the Kromatic team. The post Case Study: Lean Experiments with Radical Candor appeared first on GrasshopperHerder.com. Lean Startup Teamwork & Leadership Continuous Improvement Experiment Design & Template Hypothesis Driven Development lean startup teams
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. They often adopt concepts such as lean to move faster, but sometimes spiral into lean anti-patterns: More and more enterprise scale companies are drinking the lean Kool Aid and starting to implement Lean Startup methodology. Managing Entrepreneurship adopting lean startup anti-patterns lean-enterprise waterfall
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.
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 […].
Grasshopper Herder
MARCH 24, 2015
Far too many health systems have a limited view of Lean as just an improvement methodology. Lean success comes from adopting Lean as a culture. Managing Entrepreneurship healthcare lean healthcare
Grasshopper Herder
APRIL 10, 2018
The post Guest Post: Running Better Lean Startup Workshops appeared first on GrasshopperHerder.com. Lean Startup Teamwork & Leadership Facilitation WorkshopsFive actionable tips on running better workshops.
YoungUpstarts
APRIL 21, 2013
Enter “ The Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses “, a New York Times bestseller by founder of IMVU (creator of 3D avatars) Eric Ries. Borrowing heavily from lean manufacturing pioneered by Toyota as well as his own entrepreneurial experiences in IMVU, ” The Lean Startup ” proposes that companies can be a lot more capital efficient without hampering human creativity.
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. Then in July 2011, the National Science Foundation read my blog posts on the Lean LaunchPad class. They said scientists had already made a career out of hypotheses testing, and the Lean LaunchPad was simply a scientific method for entrepreneurship.
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 […].
Grasshopper Herder
AUGUST 13, 2019
The post Lean Tools: How TenTune Harnessed the Power of the Pencil appeared first on GrasshopperHerder.com. Lean Startup User Experience & Research Evaluative Market Experiment Generative Market Research Minimum Viable Product Product Management Product/Market FitA case study on how two entrepreneurs went from idea to MVP without writing a single line of code.
The Startup Magazine
JUNE 24, 2021
it’s wise to create and implement some kind of business plan with a lean canvas approach as your guide. Rather than getting stuck too deep into the nitty-gritty of the future, the lean canvas approach was designed as a basic snapshot of your current ideas.
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.
Grasshopper Herder
NOVEMBER 2, 2015
(Andy Cars, founder of Seedcap and Lean Ventures, helps startups with strategy, business development, lean startup and fundraising, and large companies create and execute on their innovation strategies. There’s also plenty of resources available […] The post Guest Post: Pitching to Investors: A Lean Startup Perspective appeared first on GrasshopperHerder.com. Lean Startup investors pitching
Grasshopper Herder
OCTOBER 24, 2011
Customer Development Entrepreneurship Investment Lean startup Pitching anti-patterns lean startup pivot pivotSometimes pivoting describes how entrepreneurs adapt to customer feedback. Sometimes it's an annoying buzzword, grating to the ears.
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 first time a few brave corporate innovators tried to overlay the Lean tools and techniques that work in early-stage startups in an existing corporation, the result was chaos, confusion, frustration and ultimately, failure.
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. Filed under: Big Companies versus Startups: Durant versus Sloan , Business Model versus Business Plan , Customer Development , Customer Development Manifesto , Lean LaunchPad , Teaching , Venture Capital.
Feld Thoughts
MAY 21, 2012
I judged Lean Startup Machine Boulder yesterday afternoon. I didn’t really know what I was getting myself into and usually protect my weekends pretty aggressively from stuff like this so I can spend time with Amy and recover / catch up from the week but for some reason Trevor Owens (Lean Startup Machine CEO) and Ray Wu convinced me to come out and play. I’m a huge Eric Ries / Lean Startup fan and believe that the methodology can be quickly taught.
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. Lean is more about aligning your organization’s skills, talents, resources, processes, and strategy with the needs of your customers. Lean Transformations.
YoungUpstarts
APRIL 22, 2012
Many people tend to neglect the execution aspect, and Eric Rie’s “ The Lean Startup ” provides a starting point to this by fleshing out the principles of building a profitable company. Indeed, Eric Ries’s book has become so popular that ‘ The Lean Startup Methodology ’ has become somewhat of a doctrine in Silicon Valley circles, so much so that certain terms in the book such as ‘pivot’ and ‘minimum variable product’ have become part of startup lexicon.
Steve Blank
MARCH 2, 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. Part one was about Hawken School’s experience using the Lean LaunchPad curriculum for high school seniors, this post is what happened when they used it for 6 th- to 8 th -graders. Lean LaunchPad Teaching
Grasshopper Herder
NOVEMBER 17, 2011
There is an ongoing misconception that creating a company under a lean startup approach is incompatible with a big entrepreneurial vision. Customer Development Entrepreneurship Lean startup startup vision
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. After I read Four Steps to the Epiphany, there was only one: Get out of the building and talk to customers! At LUXr, Janice Fraser introduced me to a whole new host of tools to gain insight such […].
Steve Blank
MARCH 28, 2017
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. Customer Development Hacking For Defense Lean LaunchPad
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