Steve Blank

OCTOBER 15, 2019

These processes reduce risk to an overall organization, but each layer of process reduces the ability to be agile and lean and – most importantly – responsive to new opportunities and threats. Product people are often messy, hate paperwork and prefer to spend their time creating stuff rather than documenting it.

Government 322

Government Technical Review Acquisition Metrics 322

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

Over the last three years our Lean LaunchPad / NSF Innovation Corps classes have been teaching hundreds of entrepreneurial teams a year how to build their startups by getting out of the building and testing their hypotheses behind their business model. Filed under: Customer Development , Lean LaunchPad , Teaching.

Lean 322

Lean Customer Development Sales Cycle Business Model 322

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

What you’re holding in your hand is a revolutionary document. The idea of exploitation versus exploration was central in my own work in building the lean methodology for start-ups. Today, lean is the de facto method for building new start-ups. Their book Lead and Disrupt describes how others can learn how to do so.

Incubator 419

Incubator Lean Agile Business Model 419

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 6, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, July 6, 2009 Lean Startup fbFund slides and video As a follow-up to my previous post on my talk for fbFund at Facebook , there was enough interest in watching video of the talk that I have finally uploaded it using Apples MobileMe. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Expo SF (May.

Lean 115

Lean Video San Francisco Continuous Deployment 115

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 3, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, July 3, 2009 Lean Startup fbFund wrap-up Last week I had a real blast meeting with the companies at the fbFund incubator at Palo Alto. The Lean Startup fbFund Edition View more documents from Eric Ries. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Without further ado.

Lean 60

Lean San Francisco Continuous Deployment Cofounder 60

Up and Running

AUGUST 8, 2018

It only takes an hour each month, keeps the management team up to speed on everything that’s going on in the company, and helps us plan and manage in a lean and effective way. We treat planning not as a document, but as a management tool that helps guide decisions and strategy. This meeting is our monthly plan review meeting.

Software Review 65

Software Review Business Plan Product Forecast 65

Steve Blank

APRIL 21, 2011

The Stanford Lean LaunchPad class was an experiment with a new model of teaching startup entrepreneurship. All the teams were showing us what agile looked like, but this week several would remind us what focused and relentless really meant. Should they look at the Document Management market? Week 6 of the class.

Channel 234

Channel Artificial Inteligence San Francisco Business Model 234

Up and Running

JANUARY 25, 2018

Digital businesses need to be agile and reactive too. Start simple and create a simple spreadsheet, documenting any staffing or freelance needs. Document your milestones. If you’re looking for more details on how to write a simple business plan, consider using Bplans’ free downloadable Lean Plan template.

eCommerce 96

eCommerce Business Plan Audience Lean 96

Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

Last May, I shared the news that long-time Lean Startup advocates Brant Cooper and Patrick Vlaskovits were working on a new book called The Lean Entrepreneur featuring illustrations by FAKEGRIMLOCK. LitMotors approach to using Lean Startup to create a new vehicle category. That new book is about to hit bookstores everywhere.

Lean 167

Lean Entrepreneur Agile San Francisco 167

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.

San Francisco 133

San Francisco Lean Technical Review Software Review 133

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. Besides training, how does documentation/Help keep up? June 18, 2009 1:05 AM Anonymoussaid.

Continuous Deployment 167

Continuous Deployment Software Review San Francisco Lean 167

Steve Blank

AUGUST 31, 2009

At their best, these processes provide detailed plans, checkpoints and milestones for every step in getting a product out the door: sizing markets, estimating sales, developing marketing requirements documents, prioritizing product features. Yet at the end of the day even with all these processes 9 out of 10 of new products are failures.

Customer Development 245

Customer Development Developer Customer Silicon Valley 245

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

Guest post by Lisa Regan, writer for The Lean Startup Conference. Our fall webcast series concluded on a high note with three extraordinary conversations about the origins and implications of Lean Startup. Eric’s chat with Kent Beck was among our most entertaining webcasts ( video ; iTunes ; SoundCloud ). I find that very motivating."

Lean 165

Lean San Francisco Cofounder Programming 165

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 20, 2008

When I first encountered agile software techniques, in the form of extreme programming , I thought I had found the answer. I explained it to people this way: agile lets you make the trade-offs visible to whole company, so that they can make informed choices. Even worse, agile wasnt really helping me ship higher quality software.

Software Review 164

Software Review Engineer Management Technical Review 164

Up and Running

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Start documenting—don’t create. Creating instead of documenting has killed a lot of businesses that had awesome ideas. I recommend that businesses ”document” instead of focusing on creating. I learned resiliency in business through multiple failures, and I matured quickly. Here’s what I learned along the way.

Acquisition 93

Acquisition Startup Engineer Metrics 93

Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 17, 2010

But according to the theory, this should have been covered by the various specs and documentation we were rigorous about producing. Instead, we spent time making sure the exact behavior of the tools were well documented – by engineers, naturally. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Expo SF (May.

Technical Review 164

Technical Review San Francisco Lean Software Review 164

The Next Web

NOVEMBER 17, 2013

Furthermore, they are less agile and have longer product cycles that require more documentation and usage assumptions, which still requires an in-house tech to properly manage. In-house development gives you more day-to-day control, and lean software development is far more feasible.

Developer 145

Developer Hiring Startup LLC 145

Up and Running

JULY 11, 2012

My monthly column at Entrepreneur.com, Lean Startups Need Business Plans Too , came out yesterday: But here’s my beef in a nutshell: When Ries and Blank criticize the business plan, they are talking about a now-obsolete approach: the formal written business plan. A real business plan should grow organically, just like a lean startup.

Lean 91

Lean Business Plan Startup Agile 91

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

How about documentation that nobody reads? Labels: agile , listening to customers 3comments: hauteroute said. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? the data on a regular basis. Reports that go unnoticed? Expo SF (May.

San Francisco 142

San Francisco Continuous Deployment Lean DC 142

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MAY 31, 2010

It was the little precambrian warm-blooded agile (oh sorry, now we're saying "lean") rodents who adapted by getting "outside the nest" to discover how to eat cockroaches, because we all know that cockroaches are the one form of life that can survive anything. Don't fear the dinosaur, fear the quivering warm-blooded tree-shrew.

Software Review 243

Software Review Development Team Review Technical Review Software Developers 243

Where to Play

APRIL 8, 2018

The post 5 Steps to Strengthen your Lean Startup Experimentations appeared first on Where to Play. Before you ‘get out of the building’: How to adopt a top-down orientation to improve your lean startup experimentations. Lean Startup , by Steve Blank and Eric Ries , is a great bottom-up approach.

Lean 73

Lean Startup Artificial Inteligence Search 73

Steve Blank

MARCH 5, 2012

One of the issues that came up is whether the new lexicon of entrepreneurial ideas – Customer Development, Business Model Design , Lean , Lean LaunchPad class, etc. The processes used to organize and implement the search for the business model are Customer Development and Agile Development. Organization. Lessons Learned.

Search 326

Search Business Model Customer Development Agile 326

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 16, 2013

Guest post by Lisa Regan, writer for The Lean Startup Conference. As Lean Startup methods have been used now for a number of years, we’ve become increasingly interested in how companies use them to sustain growth. One good example is the way in which we''ve adjusted the length of different phases of our agile sprints.

Lean 167

Lean Startup Software Engineering Agile 167

Austin Startup

DECEMBER 31, 2018

This document directed city staff to identify smart initiatives to solve local challenges and improve city services. We’re super lean and agile,” says Ortiz Shields, who works with two researchers in the city’s Office of Design & Delivery. Where do you start when you decide to become a smart city ?

Government 48

Government Technical Review Austin Community 48

Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2009

That data is completely consonant with the people I know who are successful technologists today, and similar patterns are documented in each recent wave of technology innovation. I documented the lesson plans etc on [link] March 4, 2009 5:25 AM Eric said. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Expo SF (May.

Programming 143

Programming San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment 143

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. And he gave them all early access to our prototypes for reaction. Back then it seemed foreign.

Customer 280

Customer Technical Review Software Review Mexico 280

Steve Blank

JANUARY 6, 2014

In the last few years Agile and “Continuous Deployment” has replaced Waterfall and transformed how companies big and small build products. Agile is a tremendous advance in reducing time, money and wasted product development effort – and in having products better match customer needs. The Old Days – Waterfall Product Development.

Continuous Deployment 332

Continuous Deployment Customer Agile Cloud 332

Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

Lean Startups/Back to Basics (2000-2010): No IPO’s, limited VC cash, lack of confidence and funding fuels “lean startup” era with limited M&A and even less IPO activity. The IPO offering document became the playbook for startups. 2001 – 2010: Back to Basics: The Lean Startup. Rules For the New Bubble: 2011 -2014.

Internet 335

Internet IPO Silicon Valley Agile 335

Where to Play

APRIL 8, 2018

The post 5 Steps to Strengthen your Lean Startup Experimentations appeared first on Where to Play. Before you ‘get out of the building’: How to adopt a top-down orientation to improve your lean startup experimentations. Lean Startup , by Steve Blank and Eric Ries , is a great bottom-up approach.

Lean 48

Lean Startup Artificial Inteligence Search 48

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 13, 2016

The latter requires speed and agility. This results in carefully crafted and thought-through documents with detailed spreadsheets and a great focus on how an idea will be implemented. Steve Blank, father of the Lean Startup movement, stresses that you will never know enough about your customers if you are holed up inside a boardroom.

Non-Compete 332

Non-Compete Agile Business Model San Francisco 332

Steve Blank

JANUARY 26, 2016

Join a select cross-disciplinary class that will put you hands-on with the masters of lean innovation to help bring rapid-fire innovative solutions to address threats to our national security. Targeting, assessments, technology, recipes, and tactics all flow at the speed of a Lean Startup. Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, CIA, NSA.

Silicon Valley 120

Silicon Valley North Korea Agile Lean 120

Steve Blank

AUGUST 1, 2016

So I was astonished how ready and eager students were for a class that combines the toughest problems in national security, with learning Lean Innovation methods. We had more applicants (70+) for the 32 seats in this class than we usually get in our Lean LaunchPad entrepreneurship class. Result: Hell yes.

Silicon Valley 131

Silicon Valley Southern California San Diego Lean 131

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 8, 2009

We owe a lot to this seminal document. Lean methods present a third option: to invest in our process so that our design gets more feedback sooner and is more adaptable to changes in purpose. SBCE feels like it should fit into the lean startup nicely, but I can't quite figure out how. August 8, 2009 6:08 AM Phil Winkler said.

Software Review 87

Software Review Design Software San Francisco 87

Steve Blank

AUGUST 1, 2016

So I was astonished how ready and eager students were for a class that combines the toughest problems in national security, with learning Lean Innovation methods. We had more applicants (70+) for the 32 seats in this class than we usually get in our Lean LaunchPad entrepreneurship class. Result: Hell yes.

Silicon Valley 120

Silicon Valley Southern California San Diego Lean 120

YoungUpstarts

MARCH 28, 2012

by Mike Richardson , author of “ Wheel$pin: The Agile Executive’s Manifesto “ Technology is constantly speeding up the pace of business: Decisions once delayed for weeks are now made in seconds thanks to internet communication. Here are some tips for developing agile meetings with traction: Map your meeting.

San Diego 199

San Diego Agile Framework Lean 199

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 29, 2020

Meetings aren’t always adequately documented. Before Voltage Control, Douglas held CTO positions at numerous Austin startups, where he led product and engineering teams using Agile, Lean, and human-centered design principles. You conclude with a handful of action items and people have tasks they need to do after.

Startup 147

Startup Austin Agile Design 147

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

. … I (also) wish I would have just understood how this industry works a little bit better,” before jumping in, just so my expectations would be equal to what the circumstances would require of me, like constantly learning and iterating and being super agile. I don’t think I had ever had to be that way in my other career paths.

Cofounder 120

Cofounder Entrepreneur India Maryland 120