Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Space Force continues to develop, what changes in strategy and/or addition to its portfolio of responsibilities would you recommend? Raymond said a focus for the Space Force is being lean and fast, innovative and unified. Describe America’s space assets and the role of the U.S. Space Force in protecting and employing those assets.

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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. The Bend Experience. Build $10-30M funds.

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SVPG

OCTOBER 13, 2011

I held off a little on this because he has been working on a book which has just recently been published, called “ The Lean Startup ” and in this article I’d like to discuss the key concepts in the book and provide that mapping. Portfolio Thinking = Portfolio Grooming. Value Capture = Monetization Strategy.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

My good friend Alexander Osterwalder , the inventor of the business model canvas (one of foundations of the Lean Methodology) has written a playbook (along with his associate partner Tendayi Viki ,) From Innovation Theater to Growth Engine to explain how to build and implement repeatable innovation processes inside a company. .

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 28, 2010

kaChing has been very active in the Lean Startup movement. With case studies like this, we aim to illustrate specific Lean Startup techniques through the stories of current practitioners. kaChing launched a virtual portfolio management game on Facebook in January 2008 and a similar version shortly thereafter on kaChing.com.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2017

Guest Post by Misti Yang, Writer for Lean Startup Co. Editor’s Note: We wrapped up the 2017 Lean Startup Week in San Francisco just a few weeks ago, and we’re excited to share with you some of the best lessons learned in entrepreneurship and corporate innovation. Because these Lean Startup people, they do crazy stuff,” Alex joked. “So

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 5, 2023

General Bucky Butow – Director of the Space Portfolio. 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. For commercial tech integration and space, former Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) Director Mike Brown and B.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

This is why many VCs are waiting and letting deals mature a bit before leaning into rounds. You can see this trend in the excellent data from Cendana below where the number of seed extension rounds has gone up dramatically in their portfolio and the time from seed to A has extended. What Does This All Mean for Seed Investing?

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Up and Running

JANUARY 15, 2018

Create a Lean Business Plan. Instead, you can create an alternative to a traditional business plan—a Lean Plan which is easier to adapt throughout the life of your business. Your portfolio website is undoubtedly one of your most important assets when it comes to promoting your services. Showcase your work.

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The Equity Kicker

AUGUST 6, 2018

In it he argues that lean thinking has been overdone and that startup CEOs should be more aggressive raising capital and investing in building value in their companies. Running lean means going slower, increasing the chances that another company takes that coveted number one spot. Most of our investments are pre-product market fit.

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View from Seed

MARCH 11, 2020

This includes things like: Making intros to portfolio companies that are potential customers. These are people who would vouch for you, but you only want to lean on for a small handful of high priority investors. Only at this point do they start to do things that should incur real cost to the company. Talking to your customers.

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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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VC Cafe

MARCH 6, 2024

We’re fast and lean in our decision making and support companies beyond the money with our strong network in the media, entertainment and gaming space. Whether you’re creating immersive virtual worlds, developing cutting-edge AI technologies, or advancing the gaming industry, we’re ready to learn about your vision.

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View from Seed

OCTOBER 14, 2021

It showcases our personality, while simultaneously showcasing the accomplishments of our portfolio. It’s easy to focus on the accolades and accomplishments of today, but what did the NextView portfolio companies look like when they first started their journeys with us? Which new site features are you most excited about? .

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

That’s what every VC is telling their portfolio companies these days. I would figure out a way to default to breakeven while holding on to at least 2-3 real attempts at finding a growth hack that could change your story—one you could lean into hard if it worked. “Extend your runway.” Every idea is on the table. No idea is too crazy.”

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 1, 2020

Bootstrapping inculcates the entrepreneurial discipline and financial responsibility to run a lean business. ? Investors usually carry a portfolio of startups. So, it is natural for them to fund companies that are complementary to the startups already in their portfolio. Crowdfunding. Investors tend to invest in a hot trend.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 21, 2020

But it diversifies a sales portfolio, and it’s more appealing to the consumer. Rather than worry about how a changing landscape can upend traditional or comfortable models, it’s crucial to lean into change and learn how to benefit from it. The trend is gathering speed, especially for consumers. Technology is a great example.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

I have too many portfolio companies without exits and I want to see some returns before I put too much more money into this category.&#. When the cards align and your odds of winning increase you “lean&# on your investment and take a more bullish stance. And these are people with deep pockets. avoid being diluted).

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Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

The post is a great one, and it raises something I've been thinking a bit about lately, which is whether the lean start-up approach to building start-ups can be applied to industries beyond Internet/software. The case studies will go beyond Internet/software start-ups in exploring how other sectors can apply lean start-up theory.

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Brandanew

AUGUST 19, 2016

This enables you to keep the sidebar and header from the portfolio page as well as the portfolio posts. He believes in sharing his strong knowledge base with leaned concentration on entrepreneurship and business. This process determines specific templates for different posts on the basis of categories’ IDs.

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The Equity Kicker

MARCH 13, 2014

On Tuesday night Michael Breidenbruecker , founder of Last.fm, RJDJ and all round nice guy gave a talk for around 50 of our friends and portfolio company staff (thanks again Michael). In his new startup Michael is rigorously applying lean principles. One of the interesting things about the Last.fm

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Austin Startup

MAY 11, 2017

Aligned Partners offers our portfolio companies world-class venture capital expertise while enabling founders to start lean and stay lean all the way through their growth. All of us have built great careers and portfolios along with amazing relationships with entrepreneurs and executives.

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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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Business Model Business Plan Technical Review Search 225

ConversionXL

MAY 6, 2021

If you’re a lean startup just starting, there’s much less inertia to overcome. While WordPress does offer support, leaning on the community is often your best bet. So Webflow is great for portfolios, agency websites, restaurants etc; sites with little functionality.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 16, 2010

You’ll notice that Harvard lost 30% of the entire value of its portfolio. He then profiled his portfolio company FourSquare who started with a very small investment. Staying “lean&# is not an option. They’ll need to focus on getting portfolio companies funded. Fred Wilson wrote a great piece on this.

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View from Seed

OCTOBER 14, 2021

It showcases our personality, while simultaneously showcasing the accomplishments of our portfolio. It’s easy to focus on the accolades and accomplishments of today, but what did the NextView portfolio companies look like when they first started their journeys with us? Which new site features are you most excited about? .

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Seed Stage Portfolio Curation Vertical 194

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 29, 2019

The question is, how do you keep your growing business lean? Many companies today realize the importance of being lean. Unfortunately, many businesses struggle to stay lean – or operate only with what they need. The framework provides guidance at the enterprise team, program, value stream, and portfolio levels.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 24, 2021

Companies like iHeartMedia, SiriusXM, and Spotify are investing in and leading the evolution of audio, focused on music streaming (on-demand and lean-back modalities), podcasting and content production. Disclaimer: we have three portfolio companies in the consumer mobile space, still in stealth). credit App Annie. social media.

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Technical Review Audio Forecast Social Media 207

Hunter Walker

JUNE 7, 2014

And my sense is the trend carries outside of our portfolio these days. Party rounds blew up on a number of startups who found it difficult to get ongoing operational support from investors who didn’t have time or inclination to lean in. What’s changed?

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

Lean Startup Circle Boston – Meetup dedicated to the lean startup and customer development methodology. Custommade – Marketplace for Customer Products (NextView Portfolio Company). GrabCAD – 3D Community and Collaboration (NextView Portfolio Company). Plastiq – Payments (NextView Portfolio Company).

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

portfolios. 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. Unfortunately this was reinforced by the many conferences that rushed to espouse the benefits of Web 2.0 Cisco and others went out to fill out their Web 2.0

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Hunter Walker

MAY 13, 2023

And during our first few years we leaned in to help teams find the right home when it didn’t work out for them as an independent company. If over the course of the next year you see any Homebrew portfolio company try this out, I’ll let you know! And now I’m telling you the world is different. Very different.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 31, 2009

Finally, I’ll write about how Eric Ries and the Lean Startup concept provided the equivalent model for product development activities inside the building and neatly integrates customer and agile development. Venture portfolio companies don’t succeed because they used the Product Development model they succeeded in spite of using it.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 18, 2022

But the portfolio of options available to Admiral Nimitz and President Roosevelt were not limited to battleships. If you look at the Navy force structure today and its plan for the next decade, at first glance you might say they have a diversified portfolio and a plan for more. woke up on Dec.

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Mucker Lab

OCTOBER 12, 2016

As a result, any public market downturn will immediately impact unrealized returns of the fund they are managing due to the late and growth stage companies in their portfolio. Financially, they have to reserve capital to support large portfolio companies that account for big portions of the portfolio and thus make less early stage investment.

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The Equity Kicker

DECEMBER 5, 2013

Good examples of things we like from our portfolio include: Hailo - a new way of booking taxis that people love because the product is a joy to use. We think about ecommerce in the widest sense, including innovative product companies that sell direct and businesses building new ways to buy things online.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 6, 2015

Her work included heading Nokia’s location-based services business and app portfolio for emerging markets, which she built from a back-of-a-napkin idea to a 100-person organization with over 10 million users. They act in the interest of their portfolio companies like any investor would.

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