Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 7, 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. Isso sem mencionar que, dependendo do problema, em alguns casos fica bastante difícil “voltar atrás&#.

Customer Development 233

Customer Development Developer Customer Silicon Valley 233

Steve Blank

MAY 15, 2009

The Curse of a New Building At some point in my career as I began to ponder how/why startups morph from agile, “can do&# companies to [.] [.] I think there’s a size and scale where regardless of your intentions lean and agile won’t work (looking like a grandmother in a miniskirt.) A VERY nice office.

Silicon Valley 233

Silicon Valley RSS Lean Agile 233

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 20, 2019

Startups tend to put a premium on being “agile,” but that doesn’t always work – and certainly won’t replace the effective collaboration a business needs to grow. While additional personnel is crucial to scale the product, misaligned hires will increase burn rate without a concurrent jump in productivity and meaningful growth.

Technical Cofounder 113

Technical Cofounder Burn Rate Seed Stage Cofounder 113

Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 27, 2009

The full formula works like this: runway = cash on hand / burn rate # iterations = runway / speed of each iteration Very few successful companies ended up in the same exact business that the founders thought theyd be in (see Founders at Work for dozens of examples). Combining agile development with customer developm.

San Francisco 117

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment DC 117

Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 13, 2009

And even worse, wed cranked up the burn rate in order to be ready to handle all those millions of mainstream customers we anticipated. Combining agile development with customer developm. Worse, we tricked ourselves into thinking that what the press said about our success was actually true. Expo SF (May.

San Francisco 168

San Francisco PR Lean Early Stage 168

This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 1, 2010

There are user groups, gaming meetups, meetups in security or agile development—lots of places entrepreneurs rarely tread. If you want to build your startup in the middle of nowhere and optimize purely for low burn rate, then sure, I’m sure you could work more cheaply elsewhere. How about doing what Gilt Groupe did?

New York City 115

New York City New York Startup Burn Rate 115

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

Simultaneously the engineering team is using an Agile Development methodology to iteratively and incrementally build the Minimum Feature Set to test the product or service that make up the Value Proposition. Instead keep the burn rate low during Customer Discovery and Validation while you are searching for a business model.”

Burn Rate 252

Burn Rate Management Business Model Customer Development 252

Steve Blank

JUNE 1, 2011

As customer and agile development reinvent the Startup, it’s time to ask why startup board governance has not kept up with the pace of innovation. The only numbers in those documents that are important in the first year of a startup’s life are burn rate and cash balance. There are none so blind as those who will not see.

Silicon Valley 300

Silicon Valley Business Model Venture Capital Balance Sheet 300

Steve Blank

JUNE 1, 2011

As customer and agile development reinvent the Startup, it’s time to ask why startup board governance has not kept up with the pace of innovation. The only numbers in those documents that are important in the first year of a startup’s life are burn rate and cash balance. There are none so blind as those who will not see.

Silicon Valley 273

Silicon Valley Business Model Venture Capital Balance Sheet 273

Steve Blank

AUGUST 27, 2012

Tossing their agile development process and at times their entire business model in the air, the company would go into fire-drill mode and engineering would start working on whatever his latest insight was. Other weeks Yuri would be buffeted by the realities of his burn rate, declining bank account and depressing comments from customers.

Founder 323

Founder Cofounder Advisory Board Burn Rate 323

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

In future posts I’ll describe how Eric Ries and the Lean Startup concept provide the equivalent model for product development activities inside the building and neatly integrates customer and agile development. A few successful ones do all these things. But if you have a web based product the right answer may be 300-500. Thank you, Steve.

Customer Development 255

Customer Development Developer Customer Silicon Valley 255

YoungUpstarts

MAY 20, 2015

Burn rate: Seeing company grow fast is both exciting and overwhelming experience. Even though the growth is rapidly increasing, the burn rate can equally increase too so its essential to plan advance and evaluate the options based on that. Scale With Agility. ” – Muneeb Mushtaq, AskforTask.

Colombia 100

Colombia Burn Rate Startup Agile 100

ReadWriteStart

JUNE 13, 2011

As customer and agile development reinvent the startup, it's time to ask why startup board governance has not kept up with the pace of innovation. The only numbers in those documents that are important in the first year of a startup's life are burn rate and cash balance.

Silicon Valley 117

Silicon Valley Balance Sheet Metrics Early Stage 117

Eric Friedman

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

In the world of web startups, you can hire individuals and try to make the team hum, or you can buy an agile group that you know can perform. Hire 2 people per month ~ $100K/month/per person across 12 months is 24 people at a $2.4MM burn rate. Hiring Option. You get a stellar group that takes approx. 2 months per person.

Burn Rate 90

Burn Rate Agile Equity Hiring 90

Up and Running

OCTOBER 1, 2014

Nelson has some tips: Know your burn rate. If not, be agile enough to change direction and re-focus,” Nelson advises. When you’re starting a business to build your own luck, you don’t often have a lot of start up capital. How do you balance it all?

Bootstrapping 107

Bootstrapping Cofounder Portland Burn Rate 107

Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 30, 2009

This is why agility is such a prized quality in product development. The passionate early adopters who flocked to the product at its launch could not sustain this outsized burn rate. Labels: agile , customer development 5comments: William Pietri said. Even a great architecture becomes inflexible. We can skip the chasm.

San Francisco 150

San Francisco Lean Agile Continuous Deployment 150