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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Up and Running

MAY 8, 2015

A lean business plan does what every business owner and aspiring startup needs to manage strategy, tactics, execution, and essential business numbers. It stays lean and simple with just bullet points for essentials and a collection of lists and tables. Why lean ? Because lean means strong with muscle but no fat.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Labor rates are lower in some countries, but culture and language match are the real keys to productivity. With modern technology, and worldwide reach, it should be seen as an important tool for building an efficient, lean, and competitive business, optimized to give you more time for strategic focus.

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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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Steve Blank

JANUARY 22, 2014

Over the years Dino and I brainstormed about how Lean entrepreneurship would affect regional development. However, four critical advances over the past decade (cloud, accelerators, Lean, and Angels) not only changed the math for tech investing but made regional tech clusters possible. Build $10-30M funds. Look for $20-100M exits.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 25, 2012

The Lean Startup movement provides a wonderful template, and Ross wrote a great post in which he discussed how managers can use these principles in their own marketing campaigns. Related posts: Lean Marketing tips: not-for-profit edition. Lean Marketing: Facebook advertising for newbies. Photo: Howard Lake.

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Transformify

JUNE 6, 2019

Called the Toyota Production System, it is one of the success stories about the lean manufacturing process. Lean manufacturing simply aims to minimize waste as much as possible because in this industry, and other manufacturing-related industries, it is very easy to accumulate it.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 9, 2013

As our Lean LaunchPad for Life Sciences class winds down, a good number of the 26 teams are trying to figure out whether they should go forward to turn their class project into a business. You need to decide what your personal goal is and how it matches what you think this business can grow into.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Aaron Dignan --who has described himself as "obsessed with organizational adaptivity" --is one of the speakers at this year’s Lean Startup Conference in Las Vegas , where he’ll be talking about How to Reinvent Your Organization. I feel like I do Lean Startup when I'm picking toothpaste. What are my assumptions? Is it chaotic?

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Steve Blank

JUNE 12, 2020

And the trick is we use the same Lean LaunchPad / I-Corps curriculum — and kept the same class structure – experiential, hands-on, driven this time by a mission -model not a business model. Hacking for Defense has its origins in the Lean LaunchPad class I first taught at Stanford in 2011. Goals for the Hacking for Defense Class.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

Dave was building a mobile app for matching college students who needed to move within a local area with potential local movers. As the miles sped by I explained to Dave that he had understood only two of the three parts of what makes a Lean Startup successful. This by itself should have been a red flag to Dave.)

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Gust

NOVEMBER 9, 2014

Eric Ries on Lean Startup methodology, via Wikipedia. I strongly recommend a dramatic departure from this model, called “planned iteration” or Lean Startup methodology, where you assume you won’t get it right the first time, so you launch with a minimum viable product (MVP). Invested Interests agile entrepreneur lean startup pivot'

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Up and Running

JANUARY 8, 2019

It can be as simple as a short, Lean Business Plan that serves as a strategic roadmap for your business, or as comprehensive as a formal business plan that instills confidence in bank lenders and investors. Mistake 1: Looking for a sample plan that’s an exact match. It really doesn’t matter if it’s an exact match in this case.

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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. Each year we learn how to move more of the Lean LaunchPad class logistics outside our classroom so teams have more time for in-class learning. Lean LaunchPad Teaching'

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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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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

Last week one of our mentors abruptly resigned from coaching one of the Lean LaunchPad student teams after claiming the students were ignoring his practical advice and years of expertise in the field. A match made in heaven? They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary. Not exactly.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 22, 2018

Labor rates are lower in some countries, but culture and language match are the real keys to productivity. With modern technology, and worldwide reach, it should be seen as an important tool for building an efficient, lean, and competitive business, optimized to give you more time for strategic focus.

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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. What does this mean for you?

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 17, 2014

I strongly recommend a dramatic departure from this model, called “planned iteration” or Lean Startup methodology, where you assume you won’t get it right the first time, so you launch with a minimum viable product (MVP). Big bang product launches are the domain of big enterprises, and you can never match their clout and budget.

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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. For one, it doesnt match my experience having worked with some true visionaries at all. Expo SF (May.

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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. Deliver minimum viable products that match State Department needs in an extremely short time. Lessons Learned.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

Most small businesses operate on lean budgets. Use similar style images, graphics from stock (use illustrations or stock photos from a small selection of contributors) that match the look of the website. Tactics like this can be used as a starting point to have a matching palette for the website. and for blogging.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 5, 2023

Department of Defense match or beat the speed of great power competitors in acquiring and integrating critical technologies? We were integrating a lecture class with a heavy reading list with the best practices of hypothesis testing from Lean Launchpad/Hacking for Defense/I-Corps. ” Team 3: Acquisition.

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Steve Blank

JULY 13, 2021

I began formulating the key ideas around what became the Lean Startup – that startups and existing companies were distinctly different – companies execute business models while startups search for them. Let’s Teach Lean Via Experiential Learning. Lean-driven (hypothesis testing/business model/customer development/agile engineering).

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 3, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, August 3, 2009 Minimum Viable Product: a guide One of the most important lean startup techniques is called the minimum viable product. Its power is matched only by the amount of confusion that it causes, because its actually quite hard to do. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 30, 2013

I earnestly believe that large corporations should emulate Lean Startups (Business model design, Customer Development and Agile Engineering.) However, they need to match a top-level (board, CEO, exec staff) agreement on strategy and structure. We now have the tools to build successful corporate entrepreneurship programs.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

.” She looked at bit puzzled, so I continued to explain… One of the virtues of using the Business Model Canvas as part of a Lean Startup is that it helps you frame each one of your nine critical hypotheses.

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Up and Running

APRIL 29, 2019

If a marketing tactic doesn’t match your overall branding or sales goal, put it on the back burner for another time. A useful framework for this type of planning is a Lean Plan —a shorter form version of a business plan. If you’ve heard of a business model canvas, a Lean Plan is a better alternative to that.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 9, 2013

I strongly recommend a dramatic departure from this model, called “planned iteration” or Lean Startup methodology, where you assume you won’t get it right the first time, so you launch with a minimum viable product (MVP). Big bang product launches are the domain of big enterprises, and you can never match their clout and budget.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 18, 2014

Labor rates are lower in some countries, but culture and language match are the real keys to productivity. With modern technology, and worldwide reach, it should be seen as an important tool for building an efficient, lean, and competitive business, optimized to give you more time for strategic focus.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

These surfacing organizations are flexible, lean , and determined and will continue to shape the industry on a global scale moving forward. The company’s platform leverages data science to swiftly match an employee to the right specialist that’s in their network. dollars in 2022.

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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. Since 2016 I have had people lean on me and my blog post for the talk. If any of these match what you are going through, you have come to the right place.

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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. Deliver minimum viable products that match State Department needs in an extremely short time. Lessons Learned.

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

In the trade show industry, you can find indications of this already in the one-on-one consultations many exhibitors prize at shows, as well as events that use data and AI to match buyers and sellers. There will be an emphasis on sustainability & social responsibility, as consumer preferences lean towards ethically conscious businesses.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 23, 2013

To get some perspective on this question, I recently talked with Steve Blank , a serial entrepreneur, co-author of The Start-Up Owner’s Manual, and father of the “lean start-up” movement. As someone who teaches entrepreneurship not only in universities but also to U.S.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 4, 2021

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”). More features and inventory added early will be wasted as you will need to pivot to match the real market. Gray, titled “ Business Techniques for Growth.”

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Steve Blank

JULY 30, 2014

I’ve been spending some time with large companies that are interested in using Lean methods. Two methods, Design Thinking and Customer Development (the core of the Lean Startup) provide the tactical day-to-day process of how to turn ideas into products. . Lessons Learned.

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