Up and Running

OCTOBER 13, 2022

That often involves working long hours and keeping your costs lean. This typically includes reviewing financial reports, overseeing budgets, managing overall financial planning, and more. Just don’t forget about the rest of your organization. Think about what your business needs to grow and start there.

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ConversionXL

MAY 6, 2021

As a marketer, you want to choose a CMS that is not only easy to use but plays nicely with the rest of your team as well. On the other hand, if your team is familiar and comfortable using no-code tools, Webflow might be a great option. If you’re a lean startup just starting, there’s much less inertia to overcome. Image source ).

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 30, 2019

For the rest of us, the following suggestions will help you survive the valley of death: Accumulate some resources before you start. This source is a major focus these days, due to government initiatives to incent research and development on alternative energy and other technologies. It always reduces risk to plan your business first.

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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. That’s a lean business plan.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 25, 2010

for Harvard Business Review) Over at Harvard Business Review, Ive been building up a series designed to introduce the Lean Startup methodology to a business-focused audience. Defective prototype code was as often thrown out (because customers didnt want it) as it was fixed (when customers did).

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Up and Running

JULY 24, 2017

With business plans for internal use and Lean Plans, nobody expects one. Others will read the summary first to decide whether or not they read the rest of the plan. So, a good summary grabs your reader’s attention and lets them know what it is you do and why they should read the rest of your business plan or proposal.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 30, 2021

Solve the rest later. Go lean with your planning. A startup is about execution and speed, so you need to start lean. Alex understood he knew next to nothing about software development and engineering, so he searched for an engineer. One of the top reasons startups fail is due to their team. It’s not just startups.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 5, 2023

These policy memos were reviewed by Tarun Chhabra, the Senior Director for Technology and National Security at the National Security Council.). Then, students began rapidly building minimal viable solutions (policy, software, hardware …) as a way to test and validate their understanding of both the problem and what it would take to solve it.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 14, 2014

For the rest of us, the following suggestions will help you survive the valley of death: Accumulate some resources before you start. This source is a major focus these days, due to government initiatives to incent research and development on alternative energy and other technologies. It always reduces risk to plan your business first.

Entrepreneur 283

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 1, 2017

For the rest of us, the following suggestions will help you survive the valley of death: Accumulate some resources before you start. This source is a major focus these days, due to government initiatives to incent research and development on alternative energy and other technologies. It always reduces risk to plan your business first.

Product Development 177

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 15, 2009

Of all the tactics I have advocated as part of the lean startup , none has provoked as many extreme reactions as continuous deployment , a process that allows companies to release software in minutes instead of days, weeks, or months. When a developer wants to check-in code, this is a very scary moment.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 11, 2022

Then, students began rapidly building minimal viable solutions (policy, software, hardware …) as a way to test and validate their understanding of both the problem and what it would take to solve it. They will be the ones to determine what the world-order will look like for the rest of the century and beyond. Team Drone.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

For the rest of us, the following suggestions will help you survive the valley of death: Accumulate some resources before you start. This source is a major focus these days, due to government initiatives to incent research and development on alternative energy and other technologies. It always reduces risk to plan your business first.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2018

For the rest of us, the following suggestions will help you survive the valley of death: Accumulate some resources before you start. This source is a major focus these days, due to government initiatives to incent research and development on alternative energy and other technologies. It always reduces risk to plan your business first.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 13, 2024

Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! Connect with John Jantsch on LinkedIn This episode of The Duct Tape Marketing Podcast is brought to you by Work Better Now Visit WorkBetterNow.com mention the referral code DTM Podcast and get $150 off for your first 3 months. What kind of content does it lean towards?

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 5, 2008

The product manager was clearly struggling to get results from the rest of the team. Each specialist takes up his part of the spec (UI, middleware, backend) and cranks out code. So the product manager winds up actually having to use the software, by hand, updating the spec and helping create a new test plan.

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Software By Rob

OCTOBER 14, 2010

And after talking about this subject at length, I found myself again evangelizing it last week at the Business of Software conference. And these days with how easy it is to build an application, your code isn’t worth much, either. Ideas (and in many cases the code itself) are not worth as much as we think.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 6, 2020

The days of creating amazing content, paying for advertisement, and then leaning back on your chair to get great results are essentially over. To succeed with eBooks, you don’t have to offer something completely revolutionary, try to create content that sets you apart from the rest. Address and zip code. Email address.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Whether you’re starting a home-based business due to financial considerations or for another reason, you can use this checklist to help you figure out firstly whether or not it’s the right option for you, and if so what you need to do to get set up officially, including creating a great working environment! Antivirus software.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

APRIL 5, 2010

We're "lean" but we're not stirring hearts. I'm as excited as everyone else about Lean principles gaining traction, and sure most companies are erring on the side of too little objective feedback rather than too much. Code Historian was my first product. It was always a high point in product reviews. Here's its story.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 28, 2018

A Lean Business Plan might be a better fit if you simply need to think through all the different aspects of your business. A Lean Plan will be shorter, and it lends itself to quick revisions, but both types follow the same general outline. Now, the rest of your plan will focus on how to take advantage of that opportunity.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 23, 2020

I’ve always thought that the more hours or I put in the more work I’d achieve but I realize now that the most effective way to get the best results is by making sure that you aren’t too stressed and overworked, and how much a rested mind and body contribute to a more positive mindset. 9- Focusing on lean operations.

Entrepreneur 123

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 8, 2015

For the rest of us, the following suggestions will help you survive the valley of death: Accumulate some resources before you start. This source is a major focus these days, due to government initiatives to incent research and development on alternative energy and other technologies. It always reduces risk to plan your business first.

Entrepreneur 120

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 2, 2008

but rest assured they would be. Your natural tendency when an investor says yes will be to relax and go back to writing code. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? Expo SF (May. Conference streaming, sponsors, discounted tickets.

San Francisco 125

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 31, 2010

Expo Intensive rocked, the mainstream media has started writing about the Lean Startup, and - most of all - the movement continues to grow and evolve. I went to the conference thinking that I was well grounded in the basics of the Lean Startup approach and that attendance would hone the edges of that understanding.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

I know that this all seems obvious now with the movements started by Steven Blank ( Four Steps of Epiphany ) with the whole Customer Development processes / Lean Startup movements also popularized by people like Eric Ries. I know that their are independent software companies now focused on this like UserVoice and Get Satisfaction.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 27, 2013

I couldn’t write a single line of code, and I didn’t have any clue how to start a business. Four books helped me out a lot over the last few years: Four Steps to the Epiphany by Steve Blank, Running Lean by Ash Maurya, The Four Hour Workweek by Timothy Ferris and Rework by Jason Fried & David Heinemeier Hansson. Learn to code.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 7, 2009

Getting features and fixes into hands of users was the greatest priority - a test environment would just get in the way and slow down the validation coming from having code running in production. The rest of the post, which you can read here , discusses the application of these principles to other contexts. I recommend you take a look.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

And the rest is history: Google Maps was a huge success. Over time, such teams either explode due to irreconcilable differences or dramatically slow down. Lean manufacturing , agile software development , and Theory of Constraints are all examples of this idea in action. Ship it.&# The latter is actually more dangerous.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 2, 2022

For example, recently I was in the market for some transcription software. I headed to Google to search for “best transcription software” and read some blog posts that reviewed the best options. ABM is resource-heavy and requires significant investment in software and infrastructure to support sales and post-sales activities.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Being an outsider, I also wanted to lean heavily on the actual research available on the subject, as well as the voices of women both in the tech space and who have successfully received venture funding. What about “leaning in”? There is an argument that women need to “ lean in ” (thanks, Sheryl Sandburg).

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

This required convincing software vendors to move their applications to our unique machine architecture. I had hired the VP of marketing from a potential software partner who was responsible to get all this 3 rd party software on our computer. The rest of the progress report sounded just like this. Me: How about Dyna 3D

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 16, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, February 16, 2009 Continuous deployment with downloads One of my goals in writing posts about topics like continuous deployment is the hope that people will take those ideas and apply them to new situations - and then share what they learn with the rest of us.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 5, 2010

When I wrote a review of Four Steps on this blog in November, 2008, I did my best to be candid and warn of a few shortcomings: And Steve is the first to admit that its a "turgid" read, without a great deal of narrative flow. You can easily take from it whatever makes sense for your business, and leave the rest.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2009

See Paul Grahams Why Nerds are Unpopular to learn more) Take a look at this article on a programming Q&A site: How old are you, and how old were you when you started coding? We also learned that law is code , and that leadership was needed to build thriving communities in a digital age. Can I send you a review copy?

Programming 143

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

As Alistair Croll and Benjamin Yoskovitz detail in their book, Lean Analytics, cohort analysis has special relevance for the customer lifecycle, enabling marketers. The exact coupon code that converted people speaks volumes about the kind of promotions that influence their decision to buy. buyers during a holiday promotion).

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Keeping 3-6 projects going year-round is a full-time job in itself — a job resting on your shoulders. These are generally bigger, more dysfunctional companies with 25-page Master Service Agreements and complex, ever-changing requirements (though no acceptance of “agile&# or “lean&# ). It’s always hard.

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