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). Find customers, partners and channels early. Get out there personally and find that first customer.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 2, 2014

This post is part of our series on the National Science Foundation I-Corps Lean LaunchPad class in Life Science and Health Care at UCSF. We kept track of all this data by instrumenting the teams with LaunchPad Central software.). Jason Crane - PhD UCSF Manager Scientific Software Development. Then reality hit.

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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. Or can we outsource these activities to Partners?” Filed under: Customer Development.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 30, 2021

Go lean with your planning. A startup is about execution and speed, so you need to start lean. It took Alex a long time to find an engineer to partner with without the network gained from working at a startup first. Finally, in startup culture, few care about your 40-page business plan they made you create in business school.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 30, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, July 30, 2009 Techstars brings The Lean Startup to Boulder Im very excited to announce a pair of events that will kick off a very busy fall speaking tour. The event will include a talk from Eric on The Lean Startup over dinner, followed by moderated table discussion and then final Q&A with Eric.

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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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SoCal CTO

MARCH 12, 2012

"I'm looking for a partner / cofounder who can not only head the technical aspects and build a working model of the site, but someone with the connections to put a great development team together when we need it. Make sure you go through the 32 Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

These days, many agencies start as a lean operation. Inversely, if you’re using the agency model to fund another startup or product, you should probably keep things lean. Because we wanted to document every aspect of the process before partnering with new freelance writers. Why—or why not—pivot your agency service offering?

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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.

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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.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 27, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, May 27, 2009 Austin: the Lean Startup tour continues Next week I head to Austin, TX for my first visit ever. The Lean Startup is a practical approach for creating and managing a new breed of company that excels in low-cost experimentation, rapid iteration, and true customer insight.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 12, 2014

You charge your limited partners this, but you have to pay it back before you start taking a cut of the profits. You''re running pretty lean when you''re on your first fund. I hear that partners can make $300,000 on up to a million dollars at a big fund, and that''s before their cut of the upside. That''s a big help.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

The last couple of years has also seen the huge initial success of Ycombinator, the Lean Startup and many other product driven approaches to going to market. That died with waterfall software development. Ditto for enterprise software companies. Usually in a tech / software startup 70-80% of your costs will be people.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Successful Innovation Outposts typically develop over a period of time through three stages. In the first stage the Outpost focusses on networking and partnering in the Innovation Cluster in which it is based (i.e. Stage 1: Networking and Partnering – the Technology Connectors. In what order? Silicon Valley, Boston).

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 16, 2020

However, small companies and startups with lean budgets are more than likely to skip this option. Research vendors providing cost-efficient software development services, as they have a rich pool of people with diverse backgrounds and expertise. Where to find a skilled CTO? Locally, if financially stable with long-term goals.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 8, 2013

Partner with champions. There is no better person to lean on while wading through uncharted waters than a guide who knows each bend and what it has to offer. That is who you want to partner with. These people will be your champions when their teammates are in opposition. Those with influence, influence.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 7, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, September 7, 2008 Customer Development Engineering Yesterday, I had the opportunity to guest lecture again in Steve Blank s entrepreneurship class at the Berkeley-Columbia executive MBA program. Can this methodology be used for startups that are not exclusively about software? Expo SF (May.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 24, 2015

Software Developer: From “App developer” to “We provide technology solutions to take your headaches away”. However, the author advises that a more generous commission scheme for affiliates may work better in attracting higher quality partners. #3 Nuts and Bolts. Partnerships such as affiliate programmes may also work.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 12, 2010

Brian is an independent software developer, entrepreneur and proud Longhorn. I am a software developer by trade, so learning how to manage a rapidly expanding company with no formal business training was, to put it mildly, a trial by fire. Each person gets weekly coaching sessions one-on-one with a Ranch partner.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 31, 2009

And how thinking of a solution to this commonly used model’s failures led to a new model – the Customer Development Model – that offers a new way to approach startup activities outside the building. Product Development Diagram 1. Or at times an even more honest answer, “My senior partners say this is the only way to do it.”

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 18, 2013

Empower Your Small Business: trust & loyalty, marketing insight, lean business – [link]. Using the Crowd as an Innovation Partner | Harvard Business Review – [link]. Lean UX: Getting Out Of The Deliverables Business | Smashing UX Design – [link]. Why I Love My Angriest Customers – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 18, 2011

Coming from the financial world to the software world taught us a lot about bootstrapping and finding valuable outsourcing tools. 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. What made you use crowdSPRING?

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 29, 2012

Crowdfunding works for creative projects - apps, consumer products, software - that resonate with average, everyday people. Brian Fargo, who created Wasteland 2 and [crowdfunded] nearly $3 million, said, “Our software development company all but stopped for three weeks so we could get our ducks in a row.”

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 5, 2013

Being Kind To Your Prospective Customers Is Good Business – (Lean Business: Do Unto Others) – [link]. Being Kind To Your Prospective Customers Is Good Business – (Lean Business: Do Unto Others) – [link]. SEO Guidelines for Sponsored Content and Partner Links | Adam Sherk – [link].

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 7, 2008

This is one of the bedrock practices of any lean startup , and so its a common piece of advice I give out. At the end of the day, the product development team of a startup (large or small) is a service organization. In school I was being pounded day and night with anything that has to do with agile software development.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 4, 2021

In my entrepreneurship journey, I’ve made incredible retail partners from many countries, and eventually landed my own show on HSN for 19 years. But I also leaned that is actually ok. So I packed in my day job – as a software developer – and devoted more time monetizing the blog and website.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 17, 2024

I like working with software developers. Think of an attorney who before they make partner, has to do their own research, has to do their own outreach, who has to do their own marketing? (15:17): Phil (18:32): Don't partner too soon. And then you have lean times and then the IRS loves you and they'll call you every day.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 18, 2012

Providing a legitimate alternative: A user resorting to using ad-blocking software cannot be blamed – most often he simply has no other choice. By detecting ad-blocking usage live and serving alternative ads that are beyond the blocking software’s scope, ClarityRay enables publishers to regain their lost inventory.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 25, 2013

Is Flipboard a partner or a competitor for publishers and content creators? Interview: Rand Fishkin CEO of Moz on Lean Marketing – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. Yes — GigaOM – [link].

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

TL;DR Product management is a unique and poorly understood discipline, especially as it applies to software and other tech-related companies. family of brands), I was there to source the absolute best talent for the Product Management summer internship program in order to continue to push HomeAway’s agenda to develop a Tier 1 workforce.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2020

In order to do that, they decided three things were crucial: teaching people to code, creating a sense of place around the tech industry, and proving it's possible to build and ship world-class software from places like Fresno. It just so happens that my disposition will always lean toward the health of human beings, it is part of who I am.

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rob.by

MARCH 8, 2012

He argued that software engineers don’t finish what they start, and that you’re better off paying a technical person than partnering with one. Michael’s second problem comes from holding software engineers to an unprecedented standard of business savviness: Most software engineers aren’t business people.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

This literally the dumbest, most ignorant piece that I’ve ever read about software development and/or hiring programmers. ” I’m quite sure with this article you alienated not only few potential customers or partners but also some existing ones. Look what happened to Gawker. March 25, 2011 at 3:23 pm.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

How to stay lean and iterate quickly while you’re building a two sided marketplace, especially when “network effect” and “critical mass” are the two main focuses? “How What is the best advice you can give for finding a business partner? Don’t quickly choose any business partner.

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