Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

For those of you who have been following the discussion, a Lean Startup is Eric Ries ’s description of the intersection of Customer Development , Agile Development and if available, open platforms and open source. Marketing demand creation programs (Search Engine Marketing, Public Relations, Advertising, Lead Generation, Trade Shows, etc.)

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Gust

SEPTEMBER 16, 2012

For the business leaders I know, these priorities almost always include the following: Business agility. Implicit in agility is increased productivity on change initiatives. In today’s world of distributed data, global reach, and powerful incursion technologies, how do I protect my data and my customers’ data? Data security.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 27, 2019

The speed and agility you want? Fully automated orchestration of both Software distribution and system management. With enhanced space, the cloud provides space and scale as your business demand grows and adjusts to changing business needs. Are you a single tenant or you would want others to be using the server space?

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Steve Blank

MAY 6, 2015

Best practices in software development started to move to agile development in the early 2000’s. With Agile you could end up satisfying every feature a customer asked for and still go out of business. Learning could be about product features, customer needs, the right pricing and distribution channel, etc.) Lessons Learned.

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David Teten

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

So here’s the solution I have recommended to some of my portfolio companies: “ agile budgeting ”, i.e., monitoring a few key variables while giving managers significant flexibility. Entrepreneur Jeff Magnusson provides a sample agile budgeting workbook. Regardless of whether you take a traditional or agile budgeting approach, Robert A.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 6, 2023

Even adding money won’t do it – you need to create a committed and engaged team and partners for marketing and sales, as well as production and distribution. Beware of the allure and demands of early adopters. Choose a business model that will win in the market. Don’t be afraid to pivot as you learn from the market.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Since that takes four months, we have to be able to predict the demand for technical support at least four months in advance, because we have to be hiring for that future demand right now. “The future is inherently unpredictable,” insists the small company, spurred on by Lean and Agile mindsets. Risk-mitigation.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

Lean manufacturing , agile software development , and Theory of Constraints are all examples of this idea in action. But notice how many hypotheses are baked into this supposedly simple scenario: we believe we have already solved the distribution problem for our product (or else how could customers try it?).

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 27, 2015

Maximum agility for required pivots. Startups need the agility to test various business models and positioning messages. Startups need the agility to test various business models and positioning messages. Partners and distribution channels will take you seriously. Build your audience and the product at the same time.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

For eBay, this is caused by the incredible network effects of their business (so-called demand-side increasing returns and supply-side increasing returns). How to get distribution advantage on the iPhone How to Usability Test your Site for Free The one line split-test, or how to A/B all the tim. This has led to exponential growth.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 9, 2020

It’s also an efficient way to build a library of on-demand onboarding and training recordings that can be used throughout the year for a repeatable way to get new employees up and running quickly. He has managed award winning, distributed, remote marketing teams spanning the globe for over 20 years.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 4, 2008

Boyd emphasized the importance of agility in combat: "the key to victory is to be able to create situations wherein one can make appropriate decisions more quickly than ones opponent." Agile software development. Agile allows companies to build higher quality software faster. This speeds up the Ideas-Code-Data feedback loop.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

One is explaining the world as it used to work: the importance of gatekeepers, the scarcity implied by limited distribution, and the resulting quality bar that the industry is so proud of. Mostly it is the time and expense required to create the means of distribution for that industry. It’s just taking some longer than others.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

If youre trying to design an architecture to maximize agility, how can that work if some people are working in TDD and others not? By delegating and training, we create a corps of leaders who could step in to provide CTO-like services on demand. But along the way, something strange happened. And what about if deployment takes forever?

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 13, 2020

Leonard Callejo, Director of Online Marketing at Cisco Webex, is a successful enterprise software digital marketing leader that has built agile, data-driven demand generation cultures that span start-up, high-growth, large enterprise and turnaround business situations.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 10, 2009

It’s important to note that system I’m about to explain evolved organically in response to new demands on the system and in response to post-mortems of failures. Our tests suite takes nine minutes to run (distributed across 30-40 machines). Heck, thats what it says right there in the agile manifesto. But it worked.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 11, 2015

These days, it’s not uncommon for companies large and small to be completely distributed, i.e., have a wholly remote workforce. That’s because today’s business world moves faster than ever, and organizations need to be agile in order to adapt to it quickly. Still, companies need access to capital in order to grow.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 25, 2010

A business model diagram also shows how the product gets distributed to your customers and how money flows back into your company. What’s the distribution channel. How do we create end user demand? How Does Customer Development, Agile Development and Lean Startups Fit? How do we price and position the product?

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 13, 2021

Throughout the different phases of the pandemic, we have spent even more time with our existing customers and actively sought out their advice on how we can make our platform and services better as this distributed work environment continues. 8-Stay agile. Thanks to Ablorde Ashigbi, 4Degrees ! #3- Photo Credit: Jimmy Chebat.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 26, 2009

We combined three tactics: extensive use of free software, an open platform for user-generated content, and leveraged distribution channels. Leveraged distribution channels. Its now possible to gain massive distribution for almost any product without asking anyone for permission or signing a complex contract.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

But the bubble mantra of get “big fast” and “first mover advantage” demanded tens of millions more to create a “brand.” Customer Development , Agile Engineering and the Lean methodology enforced a process of incremental and iterative development. That requires building a company using Agile and Customer Development. Visibility.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 30, 2009

SuperMac sold our graphic boards for the Macintosh through multiple distribution channels: direct sales to major accounts, national chains, independent rep firms, etc. We had been outsourcing an important part of our demand creation strategy – packaging – to an outside agency without having the expertise to judge or manage the results.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 7, 2020

The classes are built on the Lean Startup methodology: Customer Discovery, Agile Engineering and the Business/Mission Model Canvas. Finally to have a better chance of a viable enterprise, they need to test all the other hypotheses in their business/mission model (pricing, demand creation, revenue, costs, etc.). Are they the same now?

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 26, 2022

With more of us working from home and placing more demands on our bandwidths, faster internet with increased capacity for file sharing and uninterrupted Zoom conversations is the natural next step. Think of the agility that comes with CAI, etc. Similarly, the United States has put a lot of effort into the area. Keep an eye on this.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Even with advantages that independent startups can never hope to match, including brand recognition, customers, financial capital, and distribution, I don’t often see the entrepreneurial passion for innovation, agility, and team perseverance exhibited by new startups.

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Steve Blank

JULY 13, 2021

These explosions in company size and scale created a demand for professional managers. Business plans presume that building a startup is a series of predictable steps requiring execution of a plan which assumes a series of known facts: known customers, known features, known pricing, known distribution channel. experiential.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 11, 2010

This includes how the product gets distributed to your customers and how money flows back into your company. Distribution, Demand Creation and Partnerships. Did they describe demand creation and assign acquisition costs? Did they describe distribution channel and assign channel costs? What is a business model?

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Steve Blank

MAY 22, 2009

While one could argue that a trade show is just another demand creation activity akin to advertising or PR, trade shows are the closest eyeball-to-eyeball contact you’re company is going to have with customers, competitors and partners. Everyone should be articulate and agile in describing and demoing the products.)

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 27, 2010

For the business leaders I know, these priorities almost always include the following: Business agility. Implicit in agility is increased productivity on change initiatives. In today’s world of distributed data, global reach, and powerful incursion technologies, how do I protect my data and my customers’ data? Data security.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 27, 2021

7- Increased demand for more sustainable products. Seeing a bigger increase in demand for more sustainable products is what we see for 2021, and we’re glad that we are part of those efforts. Being agile, nimble, and quick. Thanks to Dr. Robert Applebaum. #7- Photo credit: Derin Oyekan. 8- Permanent remote workforce. #12-

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

JULY 18, 2024

Increased Profit Margins By eliminating intermediaries, businesses adopting a Direct-to-Consumer model can significantly reduce the costs associated with distribution. Savings achieved from reduced distribution costs can be reinvested into the business or passed on to customers through lower prices.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 8, 2019

A recent high-profile one, Theranos , the blood-testing company, had no trouble getting customers, but promised more than their technology could deliver, Another, Shyp , an early on-demand delivery platform, blamed their demise on premature scaling. Demand continuous innovation to keep up with change. Capitalize on what already exists.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 28, 2020

This tactical approach is required to gain knowledge and given the pace of change businesses need to be agile when putting insight into action. Digital content strategies go beyond websites, ads and SEO — businesses also need a solid social media distribution plan. Ask about their business. What has changed? What’s important now?

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

MAY 3, 2024

The Role of Sustainability As environmental awareness grows, so does the demand for sustainable and eco-friendly packaging. Material selection, manufacturing processes, and distribution logistics all factor into the overall cost. This includes design trends, technological advancements, and changes in consumer behaviors.

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Board Effect

MARCH 17, 2021

When your email inbox is so overloaded with new emails, it’s tough to sort out the ones that demand immediate attention. Create board books online quickly and easily and distribute them electronically. Has your board considered how the right digital tools can help your board to work more efficiently ?

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

DECEMBER 10, 2014

We had seen Lightspeed portfolio company Nicira disrupt networking layers 2-3 with an architecture that consisted of highly distributed scale out software elements coupled with centralized control, culminating in an acquisition by VMWare for $1.25B in the summer of 2012.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 8, 2020

Leonard Callejo, Director of Online Marketing at Cisco Webex, is a successful enterprise software digital marketing leader that has built agile, data-driven demand generation cultures that span start-up, high-growth, large enterprise and turnaround business situations.

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