Steve Blank

JANUARY 22, 2014

Over the years Dino and I brainstormed about how Lean entrepreneurship would affect regional development. Success depends on finding startups that have identified acute customer pains in large markets where conditions are ripe for a new entrant. I visited Bend last year and caught up with his progress. Tech investing is risky.

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Early Stage Silicon Valley Oregon Technical Review 292

Up and Running

JULY 31, 2015

This week Peter and Jonathan talk to Tim Berry, founder of Palo Alto Software, about lean business planning, strategy, tactics, specifics (milestones), and the forecast. Listen to Episode 9: Show notes: What is Lean Planning? Lean Business Planning by Tim Berry – (31:21). What’s the lean mean? – (:25).

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Lean Business Plan Forecast Software Review 60

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

A startup is not just about the idea, it’s about testing and then implementing the idea. Dave was building a mobile app for matching college students who needed to move within a local area with potential local movers. This startup was broken at multiple levels. In fact, it wasn’t even a startup. Book of Five Rings.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 4, 2021

Waste in a startup is any activity that burns resources, but creates no value or competitive advantage in the eyes of customers. Much has been written about this subject in the world of manufacturing, stemming primarily from the 1990’s work by Taiichi Ohno, called the Toyota Production System (“Lean”). Bottlenecks to team productivity.

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Mucker Lab

MAY 28, 2020

Like a teenager with a million-dollar allowance and an identity crisis, a startup with too much capital and no product-market fit will become capable of making larger mistakes. As an investor, I root for startups. Before you indulge in marketing, sales and blinged-out offices, find product-market fit. It’s an art.

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Startup Cofounder Burn Rate Technical Review 78

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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Lean Business Plan Video Software Review 60

View from Seed

MARCH 19, 2015

If you’re in the tech startup industry today, you get the sense that every one of your peers wants to take on the entire world. Engineers and even marketers proudly claim to be “full stack.” ” Startups launched around seemingly mundane, insular problems glow about their abilities to change the world.

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Product Technical Review Marketing Lean 120

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 25, 2015

These approaches allow your startup to grow more rapidly, save costs, but costly mistakes can lead to business failure. Labor rates are lower in some countries, but culture and language match are the real keys to productivity. But trying to use it on call centers, affiliate marketing, or even data entry probably won’t be effective.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 22, 2018

These approaches allow your startup to grow more rapidly, save costs, but costly mistakes can lead to business failure. Labor rates are lower in some countries, but culture and language match are the real keys to productivity. But trying to use it on call centers, affiliate marketing, or even data entry probably won’t be effective.

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Philippines Bandwidth Cofounder Affiliate 181

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. Tim Stewart, trsdigital. But nothing gets better if we stand still.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 18, 2014

These approaches allow your startup to grow more rapidly, save costs, but costly mistakes can lead to business failure. Labor rates are lower in some countries, but culture and language match are the real keys to productivity. But trying to use it on call centers, affiliate marketing, or even data entry probably won’t be effective.

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Entrepreneur Philippines Bandwidth Cofounder 231

Steve Blank

JULY 30, 2014

Startups are not smaller versions of large companies, but interestingly we see that companies are not larger versions of startups. I’ve been spending some time with large companies that are interested in using Lean methods. Whoever says, “Failure feels OK in startups has clearly never run a startup.).

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

How do you figure out what’s the right mix of skills for the co-founders of your startup? I was having breakfast with Radhika, an ex-grad student of mine who wanted to share her Customer Discovery progress for her consumer hardware startup. I told Radhika this is a perennial question for startups. ——-.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 17, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, March 17, 2009 Join the Lean Startup discussion at Web 2.0 Expo for free Im honored to announce that my Lean Startup session at the Web 2.0 Everyone else can register to come to both sessions for free, including the Lean Startup talk in the main conference.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 4, 2013

If you’re running a startup, working for one, or just considering turning an idea into a company, calling your work life “busy” is a severe understatement. Here are five essential, efficient ways to eliminate guesswork and make your startup a success on social media. Startup Example: Zappos. Startup Example: Cloudera.

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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.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

This post describes how following the traditional product development can lead to a “startup death spiral.&# In the next posts that follow, I’ll describe how this model’s failures led to the Customer Development Model – offering a new way to approach startup sales and marketing activities.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 9, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, June 9, 2009 The Lean Startup Tokyo edition I had a blast speaking at Startonomics Tokyo , which was organized to foster ties between the startup cultures in Japan and Silicon Valley. ericnakagawa : Show of hands how many in startup here? I am now decompressing with a guinness.

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Steve Blank

JULY 13, 2021

By the early 1920s a new dean changed the curriculum – shifting it from an industry orientation (steel, railroads, etc.) – to a functional one (marketing, factory and employment management (HR), etc.). The case method and business plans are the antithesis of how entrepreneurs create startups. First Case Study-General Shoe.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 17, 2020

Before a business plan has any validity, some work is required to validate that your technology works, a real market exists, and your assumptions for cost and price are reasonable. Market research techniques for trying to predict the market’s response to a new venture can be costly and are often unreliable.

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Startup Business Plan Lean Matching 359

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.)

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Programming Technical Review Incubator Intellectual Property 270

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 10, 2023

Before a business plan has any validity, some work is required to validate that your technology works, a real market exists, and your assumptions for cost and price are reasonable. Market research techniques for trying to predict the market’s response to a new venture can be costly and are often unreliable.

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Business Plan Lean Matching Cost 357

Eric Friedman

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Advisor helping a startup – Midjourney. 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. I think there are 3 types of advisors to startups; Level 1 (.05%-.25%): What is an early stage advisor?

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

AUGUST 29, 2011

In fact, it will strengthen your pitch because it will match their expectations and therefore mitigate any worry that you don’t ‘get it.’&#. The following week she sent me this email (my emphasis): Ever since accidentally stumbling upon lean startup 1+ years ago, I’ve struggled to implement the principles correctly.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 17, 2020

The startup world is a perfect microcosm for these strange times — even in normal circumstances, a startup is always on a tightrope, one step away from unicorn status or financial ruin. As startups pivot to meet the changing landscape, here are four things to consider: 1. Evaluate and Reallocate Budget.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 4, 2011

The Stanford Lean LaunchPad class was an experiment in a new model of teaching startup entrepreneurship. Many of them had heard the phrase “product/market fit” before, but now they were living it. Agora was in a classic two-sided market (having both buyers and sellers. This post is part four. Syllabus is here.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JUNE 13, 2011

Modern Lean Startup theory blares out from the red-tiled rooftops of Stanford: Seek the Data and Ye Shall Find! But as much as I respect and follow Lean Startup theory, objective measurements aren’t the only things that matter. I was embarrassed when referring you guys to friends.&#. But hold on.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 11, 2021

Take This Week in Startups , for example. Their podcast is all about discussing the startup news that matters. All companies that This Week in Startups’ audience of entrepreneurs, company founders, and marketers would be interested in. This will help sponsors quickly identify if your audience matches their target market.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 13, 2024

The Power of Verified Reviews: Why Agencies Thrive with Clutch written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing The Duct Tape Marketing Podcast with John Jantsch In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast, I interviewed Katie Hollar, the marketing lead at Clutch , a leading global marketplace for business service providers.

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Technical Review Software Review B2B Demand 53

Steve Blank

AUGUST 4, 2016

State Department and asks students to use Lean Methods to test their understanding of the problem and deliver rapid-fire innovative solutions to pressing diplomacy, development and foreign policy challenges. Rapidly iterate technology solutions while searching for product-market fit. State Department and other civilian agencies.

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Lean Government Agile Africa 165

The Startup Magazine

MAY 27, 2023

Social media can not only provide you with a free marketing platform that connects you to a whole host of audiences and allows you to embed videos and other links, but your social media pages can function as a temporary substitute for your website while that’s still a distant prospect. appeared first on The Startup Magazine.

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Social Media Business Plan Software Review Audience 116

Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

It’s one that’s a good fit for you personally, for your target market, and for your location. Test your business idea and do market research*. We use the lean planning methodology to figure this out. Define your target market. What’s your market size? How long will it take to get to market?

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Elevator Pitch Startup Balance Sheet Forecast 60

Steve Blank

MARCH 25, 2009

Was SuperMac attempting to introduce radically new products and create a new market ? Was the company attempting to be a low cost provider by introducing cheaper products to an existing market? Was the company attempting to introduce faster and better products to an existing market? No, not really.

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Silicon Valley Marketing RSS California 157

Steve Blank

AUGUST 4, 2016

State Department and asks students to use Lean Methods to test their understanding of the problem and deliver rapid-fire innovative solutions to pressing diplomacy, development and foreign policy challenges. Rapidly iterate technology solutions while searching for product-market fit. State Department and other civilian agencies.

Lean 120

Lean Government Agile Africa 120

OnlyOnce

JULY 9, 2013

Startup CEO (OnlyOnce – the book!), My book, Startup CEO: A Field Guide to Scaling Up Your Business , is now available for pre-order on Amazon in multiple formats ( Print , Kindle ), which is an exciting milestone in this project! Part III – Pre-Order Now. questions”. Writing a book is a LOT harder than I expected!

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Startup Advisory Board Elevator Pitch Forecast 95

Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 14, 2016

Guest post by Jennifer Maerz, Contributing Editor of Lean Startup Co. Gone is the Lean Startup Conference as you know it. Welcome instead Lean Startup Week , October 31 - November 6, 2016. And what is this Lean Startup Week? That’s right.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 17, 2010

Startups are companies. Startups aspire to become big companies. Therefore, startups should have departments. Each of these benefits also exists in startups, which is why most startups are also organized in departments. I once worked at a startup with an exceptional functional department system.

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Technical Review San Francisco Lean Software Review 164