Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 31, 2018

One of the speakers at this year’s Lean Startup Conference , which kicks off on November 14th in Las Vegas, is Giff Constable. He was most recently VP of product at Axial, a fintech startup that connected medium-sized businesses with capital providers and buyers, where he oversaw product management, engineering and design.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

In my years of advising startups and occasional investing, I’ve seen many great ideas start and fail, but the right team always seems to make good things happen, even without the ultimate idea. You need to have a technical genius on the team to get your startup product off the ground. Outsourcing your core competency does not work.

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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”). Lack of communication.

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Grasshopper Herder

JANUARY 29, 2018

Have you thought about using Lean Startup to improve your sales process? The founder of Shipitwise reveals how he used lean principles to improve B2B sales. The post B2B Sales: A Lean Startup Approach appeared first on GrasshopperHerder.com.

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Grasshopper Herder

OCTOBER 24, 2013

More enterprise scale companies are drinking the lean Kool Aid and starting to implement Lean Startup. Lean Enterprise Lean Startups Management Managing Entrepreneurship agile agile marketing lean enterprise lean startup in the enterprise leanux waterfall'

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Grasshopper Herder

MARCH 18, 2014

In a lean startup, team velocity proceeds measurable product progress. Lean Enterprise Lean Startups Managing Entrepreneurship adopting lean startup agile velocity metrics' Before there is velocity, no measurable progress can be seen on any metrics dashboard.

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Grasshopper Herder

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Every few weeks, someone asks me if there’s a template that they should use to define their lean startup experiments…and I say no. Lean Enterprise Lean Startups Managing Entrepreneurship experiment design metrics templates' I am a huge fan of having […].

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Steve Blank

MAY 6, 2013

The Harvard Business Review is offering free reprints of the May 2013 cover article, “ Why the Lean Startup Changes Everything “ Available here.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

Who would not want to join the unicorns (recent startups with a current valuation of over $1 billion)? Excellent detailed resources are everywhere, including a classic book, “ The Startup Checklist ,” by serial entrepreneur and founder of the New York Angels, David S. Fundraising through online platforms and crowdfunding.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 24, 2021

Creating a startup from scratch can be a daunting endeavor. it’s wise to create and implement some kind of business plan with a lean canvas approach as your guide. .), it’s wise to create and implement some kind of business plan with a lean canvas approach as your guide. Lean canvas vector illustration.

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Grasshopper Herder

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

Lean Startups Product/Market Fit Customer Development experiment design survey' After I read Four Steps to the Epiphany, there was only one: Get out of the building and talk to customers! At LUXr, Janice Fraser introduced me to a whole new host of tools to gain insight such […].

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 23, 2017

Startup companies are fragile. This is prevalent when you look at the numbers of success vs. failure rates among startups. According to Forbes, on average nine out of ten startups fail. As a result, we need to give our little startups as much chance as possible to grow into healthy product and service shipping machines.

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Grasshopper Herder

APRIL 10, 2018

The post Guest Post: Running Better Lean Startup Workshops appeared first on GrasshopperHerder.com. Five actionable tips on running better workshops.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 21, 2013

Creators of new products in environments of extreme uncertainty, startups face enormous risks. As a startup owner, what can you do to improve your chances? The Lean Startup’s core is represented by the Build-Measure-Learn feedback loop. There are principally three engines of growth in any startup.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Five years ago we brought evidence-based entrepreneurship to Life Sciences – teaching the first Lean Lean Launchpad class at UCSF, then the NIH and Imperial College. It’s a 4-month program to help biotech startups build their company and it comes with $250k in seed funding. 19:20: The origins of Lean and I-Corps.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 22, 2018

So much happened when the Lean Startup Community came together in Las Vegas last month for this year’s conference that I’m still processing it all. It was great to see so many of you there, and in particular to talk with so many different kinds of Lean Startup practitioners.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

As an advisor to many startups today, I still see that most of you entrepreneurs see yourselves as the sole driver of your new solution, and the key driver of your new business. As your business grows from a startup to a sustainable business, you too have to grow from an entrepreneur to a business leader.

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Grasshopper Herder

JUNE 17, 2014

Lean Startup + Enterprise = Lean Enterprise. Comparing an enterprise to a startup is like comparing an ocean to a dolphin. Lean Enterprise Lean Startups innovation ecosystem lean ecosystem lean enterprise' They simply don’t equate.

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Gust

JANUARY 19, 2023

But since these days everyone worships at the altar of the lean startup, it’s common knowledge that a business plan is “old school” and completely useless. The post Craft a Lean Business Plan to Serve as Your Venture’s Roadmap appeared first on Gust. All you need is a slide deck and a great team, right?

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Grasshopper Herder

JUNE 24, 2014

Don''t read posts with titles like "The Ultimate Guide to Running a Lean Startup.". Lean Startups' Do not click this link or read this post. Build Measure Learn is a process, not a bumper sticker.

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Steve Blank

MAY 6, 2013

The Harvard Business Review is offering free reprints of the May 2013 cover article, “ Why the Lean Startup Changes Everything “ Available here.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 12, 2014

While the Lean LaunchPad class has been adopted by Universities and the National Science Foundation, the question we get is, “Can students in K-12 handle an experiential entrepreneurship class?” Our students first worked with two local startups who agreed to be their clients, on real-problems. Hawken School has now given us an answer.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

MARCH 2, 2023

Interestingly, this weight loss journey is similar to the entrepreneur’s strategy for building and growing a lean business. So, What Exactly Is the Lean Method? Fortunately, and perhaps luckily, failure is an acceptable and essential component of the lean methodology. So, How Do We Lean Up Our Business Waistlines?

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Guest post by Lean Startup Co. This October marks the 10th anniversary of the Lean Startup Conference. Our team was deeply invested in the process and as Hisham Ibrahim , Senior Faculty at Lean Startup Co. Our team was deeply invested in the process and as Hisham Ibrahim , Senior Faculty at Lean Startup Co.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Implementing the Lean Startup in any company is hard. Now compound that level of effort with trying to put a Lean Startup culture in place in Japan. And weak leadership leads to a reluctance to change and the inability to mandate Lean as an innovation process. I think they’re relevant for all companies.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 30, 2017

Written by Misti Yang, Contributor for Lean Startup Co. In the opening paragraphs of Eric Ries’s upcoming book The Startup Way , Eric sets the scene: He arrived at GE in the summer of 2012 amidst a multi-hundred-million-dollar, five-year plan to develop a new diesel and natural gas engine. And the plan did succeed. 5) this fall.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 25, 2019

I’m excited to share the news that this year’s Lean Startup Conference has a time and place: October 23-25 at San Francisco’s Palace of Fine Arts. I always get so much from from spending time with Lean Startup practitioners of every kind, and I love how the conference has grown from its early days.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Startup studios continue to grow in popularity as incubators for new businesses. Rather than simply launching one startup, the startup studio model creates an organization whose business is launching startups. These can then be repeated and improved on with each successive startup.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

As part of our Lean LaunchPad classes at Stanford, Berkeley, Columbia and for the National Science Foundation, students build a startup in 8 weeks using Business Model Design + Customer Development. How To Build a Web Startup – The Lean LaunchPad Edition. Craft Your Company Hypotheses (use the Lean LaunchLab ).

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

That’s why it’s important to decide the incorporation status that is most relevant for you and then follow these 7 steps to get a lean business model: No Copying. You need to understand your customer in order to build a lean business model. This will ensure your lean business model remains lean and profits remain as high as possible.

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Steve Blank

MAY 7, 2019

Modern entrepreneurship began at the turn of this century with the observation that startups aren’t smaller versions of large companies – large companies at their core execute known business models, while startups search for scalable business models. Different Playgrounds mean different Rules of the Game.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 7, 2016

Guest post by Jennifer Maerz, contributing editor of Lean Startup Co. It’s been exciting to watch the Lean Startup movement grow from a practice utilized in the tech world to one implemented in a wide variety of sectors ranging from enterprise to education, religious organizations, nonprofits, and government groups.

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VC Cafe

MAY 12, 2013

Most startups will fail in their first two years of operation and only one percent of the startups that pitch to VCs will end up receiving funding. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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Grasshopper Herder

JUNE 19, 2014

The enterprise adoption of lean startup principles is following much the same course as startup ecosystems adopting lean startup. It''s the Lean Hype Cycle. Lean Enterprise Lean Startups innovation ecosystem lean enterprise'

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 12, 2021

Growing a business the lean way requires purpose and intention. The post 4 Tips For Lean Business Growth appeared first on Young Upstarts. Here are 4 tips to get things moving in a positive direction.

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Grasshopper Herder

MARCH 25, 2014

if you''re adopting lean, you need to understand this flow: Inspiration, Application, Practice. Human Resources Lean Startups adopting lean startup hype cycle' It has another, more famous name, the hype cycle.

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Grasshopper Herder

MARCH 6, 2012

I was at Lean Startup Machine in New York last weekend and I was so impressed by a post by Cindy Alvarez that Trevor distributed, 10 Things I’ve Learned, that I decided to blatantly copy her and create my own top ten list. Unfortunately I’m a terrible editor. So here are 21 things: …and the [.].

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