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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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

NYU has adopted the Lean LaunchPad ® class as a standard entrepreneurship course across twelve different schools/colleges within the University. Over 1,000 students a year are learning lean startup concepts. The Educators Program is a 2½ day class that teaches faculty how to create and teach their own Lean LaunchPad class.)

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Steve Blank

JULY 23, 2014

This week the National Science Foundation goes Lean on education by providing $1.2 National Science Foundation adopted my Lean LaunchPad class. Their goal was to train University scientists and researchers to use Lean Startup methods (business model design, customer development and agile engineering) to commercialize their science.

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

It might remind you of Lean. It should, it borrows concepts from Lean, but it’s Not Lean. Lean is strategic and long term. Lean requires learning Lean. And, it can foreshadow and inform a more formal systemic effort, so, it’s a good step to prepare for 2015.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 31, 2019

He’ll be speaking at this year’s Lean Startup Conference , and also has a new book (for which I very happily wrote a short foreword) coming out next month: Secrets of Sand Hill Road: Venture Capital and How to Get It.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 14, 2015

A faltering PC business complicates Lenovo’s strategy to lean on this segment – and the operating profit it generates – to fuel growth in its mobile and enterprise segments that drives overall revenue and profit gains. year-to-year to $7.3 and Europe. year-to-year revenue growth in calendar 3Q15 to $10.9

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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. This approach takes a lot of work, so it’s worth taking a lean approach when starting. Why—or why not—pivot your agency service offering? Image source ).

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2016

The number of startups rose in 2015 for the first time in five years, with the largest year-over-year increase in two decades. He nails the current key startup parameters, including the following: Crafting a lean business plan as your road map. Over 500,000 new businesses were created last year, or about one per minute of every day.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 4, 2019

The year was 2015 and my company, Shareability, had already been behind some of the biggest viral hits of the past few years. From around 2008 until 2015, as the internet gained users by the hundreds of millions, viral videos were all the rage. Being shareable is all about making people lean in rather than click off or swipe past.

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David Teten

MARCH 5, 2021

Research from BCG, Harvard Business Review, First Round Capital, the Kauffman Foundation, and Illuminate Ventures shows that investors in diverse teams get better returns: Paul Graham , cofounder of Y Combinator (2015): “Many suspect that venture capital firms are biased against female founders. However, there is still work to be done.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Lean Startups aren’t Cheap Startups – [link]. By 2015 ebooks will triple to $3 billion industry – [link]. Employee Equity: Restricted Stock and RSUs on #mbamondays – [link]. Useful comparison of Amazon vs. Rackspace clouds & why Mixpanel is moving to EC2 – [link]. Your Worst Enemy Is Yourself – [link].

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Up and Running

MAY 15, 2019

ColdFire Brewing , a 10-barrel brewery, came online in December 2015, founded by Dan Hughes and his brother Stephen. Even if you’re not seeking funding, it’s still a really good idea to create a Lean Business Plan that you can use to help navigate your business as challenges and opportunities arise. Step 1: Planning a brewery.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 1, 2020

Bootstrapping inculcates the entrepreneurial discipline and financial responsibility to run a lean business. ? If you remember, Flipkart was valued at 15 Billion dollars in June 2015, but Morgan Stanley slashed its valuation to 5.37 Bootstrapping is when you put your own money or borrow from friends and family to set up your business.

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

In fact, SaaS industry revenue is projected to grow from $49 billion in 2015 to $67 billion in 2018, a compound annual growth rate of approximately eight percent. Step 1: Start with a lean plan. Introducing Lean Planning: How to Plan Less and Grow Faster. In step one, you created a lean plan, or a one-page pitch.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

See Also: 15 Videos To Inspire You in 2015. It’s the lean format of the business plan—the format that will allow you to adapt fastest as you progress through the startup phase. If you want to know what businesses are hot in 2015, Bplans did the research. The things you need to know before you start a business: 1.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 5, 2015

We’ve preached and practiced the lean approach to business and, while I still strongly believe in it, I have come to the conclusion that we haven’t done a good job connecting with and engaging our customers. Lean Marketing: Public Relations strategies for small businesses and startups. Why is that?

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Steve Blank

JUNE 7, 2019

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. Team: Embargo NK.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 22, 2015

A massive rain storm blew through San Francisco in the middle of last year’s Lean Startup Conference. These community-led experiences were so much fun -- and became a source of such serendipitous, fruitful connections -- that we’ve decided to iterate on the idea for the 2015 conference and make it a core part of our program.

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Brandanew

JULY 6, 2015

a) How to hire social media marketing staff for your Startup is a question that’s not easy for a lean organization. Our tips on solving the content puzzle and getting up and running with industry content include: > Scale content curation- Here’s your ultimate guide to content curation as a lean Startup. >

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 17, 2015

What follows is a guest post by Kirsten Cluthe, the new Editorial Director of The Lean Startup Conference. With a career that’s spanned from the music industry to General Electric to the Olympics, Kirsten brings deep event programming experience to the Lean Startup team. What is your Lean Startup story? Now, we turn to you.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 19, 2015

Lean Marketing: Customer service strategies for small businesses and startups. Lean business practices Small business crowdspring customer service entrepreneur entrepreneurship leadership marketing small business smallbiz start-up startup startups Strategy' Photo, DeviantArt: i wanna hold your hand , by miamojolene.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Freedom from renting an office space can save you thousands of dollars during those early lean years. billion in venture funding in 2015. If you’ve got a cell phone, an email address, and access to the internet, you are in business. This money can be wisely spent on prospecting and growing your book of business.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

I got to know many of the people who endorsed me for this role and others through Techstars’ Startup Weekend , 3 Day Startup , and Lean Startup Machine events, as well as at conferences I made the effort to attend annually such as SXSW , LAUNCH and 500 Startups’ unSexy Conference. So you say you want to be a Product Manager …?

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Up and Running

MARCH 28, 2016

Forty-six percent of viewers for the 2015 NFL championship game were women, which equals 46 million female fans. Globally, the incomes of women are predicted to reach an impressive $18 trillion by 2018, and women are expected to control the reins of almost 75 percent of discretionary spending by 2028. Moving beyond stereotypes.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 31, 2018

First, frustration that video viewing on OTT, IPTV, TV and even VR were lean back alone experiences and not together with your friends who are separated by distance. That we look at video watching as a group/together experience rather than a lean back “on your own” activity. What inspired you to create Watch Together? Two things.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2018

Our primary goal was to teach students Lean Innovation while they engaged in a national public service. Hacking for Defense has its origins in the Lean LaunchPad class I first taught at Stanford in 2011. It was adopted by the National Institutes of Health as I-Corps at NIH in 2014 and at the National Security Agency in 2015.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 27, 2016

With this period of reflection, it’s a good idea to take a look at what worked—and what didn’t—for your business in 2015. I asked the entrepreneurs of the YEC to share with me their biggest takeaways for their businesses from 2015, and what lessons they learned. What lesson did you learn about starting or running your business in 2015?

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Up and Running

MAY 16, 2016

From 2010 through 2015, the industry saw a moderate but steady four percent growth. Start with a lean plan if you’re eager to get up and running fast or if you’re simply interested in validating your idea. The state of the home health care industry around the world: . This growth is due, in large part, to an aging U.S. population.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 9, 2015

On March 16, I''ve promised to talk about " Everything Eric Ries Has Learned Since 2011 " - the ways the Lean Startup movement has grown and transformed since I published The Lean Startup. If you''re in Austin, I hope you''ll join the Official Lean Startup SXSW Party as we celebrate the kickoff of my Kickstarter campaign.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 11, 2017

When I returned as CEO in late 2015, I realized that our executive team was missing one important thing: folks that had gone through the same startup struggles that our customers go through. And while not more important than the other lines of our credo, I love when we put our minds to “be lean, be agile, and small teams kick ass.

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abovethecrowd.com

DECEMBER 18, 2017

In their marvelous book, Lean Solutions , James Womack and Daniel Jones unpack what it means to apply the discipline of lean manufacturing to service industries. In 2015, 46 percent of workers were enrolled in a plan with an annual deductible of $1,000 or more, up from 38 percent in 2013 and 22 percent in 2009.

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Up and Running

JULY 26, 2016

Between January 2015 and January 2016, we grew our platform Slidebean from $1K to $20K in monthly recurring revenue. This is what our hiring landscape looked like over the past year: Pre-2015, we hired three founders: 1x hustler in charge of strategic growth hacking. Lean marketing. 1x hacker in charge of product/development.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2016

Invoca had grown steadily and consistently since 2009 and by 2015 SaaS companies with scale had become hot – trading at a median of 7.3x Every VC who’s been the business for a long time realized first hand that the VC markets were changing rapidly as early as Q3 of 2015. 2015 turned to 2016. Fall turned to winter.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 20, 2016

Guest post by Kirsten Cluthe, editorial director of Lean Startup Co. Speaking at Lean Startup Week offers renowned and emerging industry leaders the opportunity to share their stories with our global community. If you’re interested in presenting at our flagship conference during Lean Startup Week Oct.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 14, 2016

Guest post by Jennifer Maerz, Contributing Editor of Lean Startup Co. Gone is the Lean Startup Conference as you know it. Welcome instead Lean Startup Week , October 31 - November 6, 2016. And what is this Lean Startup Week? That’s right. For example, Techstars is leading a two-day MVP bootcamp, a.k.a

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 25, 2019

Back in March of 2015, I launched a Kickstarter campaign with these words: “Hi, my name is Eric Ries. I’m an entrepreneur and the author of The Lean Startup. Since writing The Lean Startup, I’ve traveled around the world, helping companies of every size adopt the Lean Startup approach.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 26, 2017

Not since the ‘lean revolution’ of the 1970s, often dubbed the ‘third industrial revolution’, have such radical changes been made to the way production is designed, monitored and executed, and the repercussions of this sea-change are being felt all the way down the value chain right into the hands of the end-customer. What about lean?

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