Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 11, 2016

Guest post by by Jennifer Maerz, contributing editor of Lean Startup Co. A big part of adopting Lean Startup in an established company involves fundamentally shifting the way organizations manage people and ideas. In thinking about the future of corporate agility and management, what modern practices are most vital to today’s leaders?

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Army’s Rapid Equipping Force on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan finding and deploying technology solutions against agile insurgents. Together Pete, Joe Felter and I created Hacking for Defense , a nationwide program to teach university students how use Lean methodologies to solve defense and national security problems.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Agile is widely using in software development and is especially suitable for projects where requirements are uncertain at the start. Lean Six Sigma. Whereas Six Sigma is focused on achieving consistent results, Lean Six Sigma aims to increase flow by reducing wastage and shortening cycle times.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 29, 2009

Agile Opportunism – Entrepreneurial DNA « Steve Blank (tags: startup) [.] Agile Opportunism – Entrepreneurial DNA. Steve Blank, Agile Opportunism – Entrepreneurial DNA: … entrepreneurs instinctualy realize that the best advocate for their careers is themselves [.] You’re Hired, You’re Fired. Reply Create.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Consider Agile or one of its variants for a flexible approach to building top-shelf mobile apps or interactive websites. For example, Lean Startup offers many benefits to emerging organizations, especially considering its focus on crafting a minimum viable product (MVP). Agencies Need Well-Defined Procedures for Startup Development.

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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. Process helps ensure that you can deliver solutions that scale without breaking other parts of the organization.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

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. Recognizing the need for ambidexterity and building an ambidextrous organization are tests of corporate leadership. Companies that survive do both.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 12, 2012

Agile Management. On this blog, you’ll read about great ideas for becoming a more agile manager. Follow Weekly Leader to find the latest in leadership news and best practices for improvement. The Agile Executive. This blog offers great advice for transforming yourself into a lean and mean manager. Weekly Leader.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

There are several lines of effort that we’re focusing on: We’re working to build the Space Force as a very Lean and Agile service. That’s the leadership team. It is trying to do things differently, building a lean and agile organization. We have to present those forces to a warfighting commander.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

It didn’t help that “innovation” was the new hot-button buzzword from senior leadership, and incubators were sprouting in every division of their company, it just made their job more unmanageable. A canonical Lean Innovation process inside a company or government agency would look something like this: Curation. Lessons Learned.

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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? Lean thinking begins with our vision. Fortunately, and perhaps luckily, failure is an acceptable and essential component of the lean methodology.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 29, 2016

We tend to associate the government with words like bureaucracy rather than lean innovation. Department of Defense by adopting Lean Methodology inside their agency. The good news for the country is that the leadership of the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency has decided to turn the ship now. The Innovation Insurgency.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 29, 2016

We tend to associate the government with words like bureaucracy rather than lean innovation. Department of Defense by adopting Lean Methodology inside their agency. The good news for the country is that the leadership of the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency has decided to turn the ship now. The Innovation Insurgency.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 9, 2023

We also run a lean business, with regular budgets and reviews of expenses. Scenario planning, strategic cost management, diversification, flexibility, and agility. When the unexpected happens we can maintain business as usual and don’t have to turn off key functions like marketing and PR.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 25, 2015

I’ve spent this year working with corporations and government agencies that are adopting and adapting Lean Methodologies. Several pockets of innovation in his agency have begun to look to startups and have tried to adopt lean methods. We were once a scrappy, agile and feared organization with a “can-do” attitude.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 16, 2023

You’ll need proven experience in these areas along with strong leadership skills because you’ll be expected not only develop but also execute effective marketing strategies. Fractional CMOS: An Agile Response To A Dynamic Marketplace In our rapidly changing digital world where consumers’ preferences evolve daily, agility is paramount.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 30, 2014

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Agile UX vs Lean UX, which should you choose? Agile UX vs Lean UX, which should you choose? Here are some of the links that I’ve liked and shared this past week!

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 27, 2022

Priorities must include both those for today and tomorrow, and the changes you are targeting to maintain business leadership from tomorrow through the future. Of course, implementation also requires the resources to test, iterate, and prototype solutions, in a lean and agile fashion, dictated by the needs of the marketplace.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 19, 2019

Leadership consultancy Zenger Folkman recently surveyed over 300,000 managers and found that problem solving was the second most important competency, regardless of function or level. While we all solve problems, managers and consultants are professionals — they’re hired and paid to do so. He is the co-author of “ Cracked it!:

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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.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 14, 2014

As companies strive to stay agile and innovative, they’ve discovered that units of 8 to 12 people work best as the natural size of high-performance teams. This is the magic number for leadership teams, product teams, research teams, design teams, and more. Remember, lean and hungry is always better than fat and comfortable.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2008

Maybe youd like to start with The lean startup , How to listen to customers , or What does a startup CTO actually do? ) In 2007, BusinessWeek named Ries one of the Best Young Entrepreneurs of Tech and in 2009 he was honored with a TechFellow award in the category of Engineering Leadership. Looking forward for your future posts.

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

MAY 1, 2018

Frameworks assume: engaged leadership, talent on the team, day to day creativity, curiosity, and domain knowledge. You will fail with: Lean, Agile, Design Thinking, TRIZ, Stage-Gate, Osborn-Parnes CPS, KILN’s FuseTrail, or a homegrown/blended framework. An authentic desire to improve or invent.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 2, 2013

Guest post by Lisa Regan, writer for The Lean Startup Conference. On October 8 at 10a PT, we’ll be talking about bringing Lean Startup methods to established companies, precisely the kinds of businesses that are most resistant to experimentation, even as they desperately need it. That''s hard. That’s Eric Ries’s job.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 29, 2021

It's important to keep business agile. This model needs to focus on creating a positive company culture and healthy executive leadership for the long haul. #8- Being prepared for the unexpected. Photo Credit: Sean Kelly. If the pandemic taught us anything, it is certain that we should be prepared for the unexpected.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 10, 2009

That’s why startups are agile. Startups that are agile have mastered one other trick – and that’s Tempo – the ability to make quick decisions consistently over extended periods of time. Reply Why Startups are Agile and Opportunistic -- Pivoting the Business Model , on April 14, 2010 at 6:32 am Said: [.]

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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? Platform selection and technical design - if your business strategy is to create a low-burn, highly iterative lean startup, youd better be using foundational tools that make that easy rather than hard.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 11, 2012

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Lean Marketing: Delivering Customer Service via Social Media – [link]. Better Agile Than Smart – [link]. Better Agile Than Smart – [link]. – [link].

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Steve Blank

JUNE 11, 2009

Agile – you may find the real opportunities for your company was somewhere else. This means you still need to have a resilient personality, and be agile. And you’ll still need to have a resilient and agile personality, as new customer and product opportunities will appear and change your work. How quickly will you recover?

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 1, 2009

One of the most common questions I get about the lean startup methodology is, "but what about Steve Jobs ?" So how do you reconcile his success with the lean startup, which seems to suggest the opposite?" Plus, the premise of the question misunderstands the lean startup, too. And he doesnt shy away from big-bang launch events.

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Get this alignment and mandate, or, risk projects stopping dead in their tracks due to lack of top leadership support, or, watch projects fail because of incomplete understanding of need states and technical possibilities. Digital tech related ideation presents unique challenges to innovation project leaders and facilitators.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2020

39:34) Humility in leadership and learning from the mistakes. (42:07) One of the special obligations of leadership in a crisis like this is both to take the long-term view, but also to recognize we have an obligation to take action now. If you lean in and understand this is a brilliant time to play offense. Carl Liebert : Yeah.

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Steve Blank

MAY 15, 2009

Stay hungry, stay lean. I don’t want to be hungry and lean (nor do I want to be full and fat). It was an odd feeling at that time, we thought we have made it and fail to stay lean and hungry. Is it a given that the “lean, hungry&# culture can actually be maintained forever? Don’t let it happen to you.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 12, 2009

After these slides, these VC’s recognized that this company had dramatically reduced risk and built a startup that was agile, resilient and customer-centric. The presentation didn’t have a single word about Lean Startups or Customer Development. We’ve been inspired by Steve Blank and the Customer Development / lean startup model.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 22, 2019

The vast majority of recent innovation research has focused on entrepreneurs: why are they more innovative and agile than larger organizations? We have formalized the entrepreneurial approach into frameworks like “lean start-up” or “design thinking” with the goal of implementing it beyond start-ups. Organizations. . Conclusion.

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Leaning on smart subordinates means that you can take advantage of their superior skills to build success for your company. Combining your leadership skills with brainpower means that your company will be set up for prosperity. Leadership Ability. Growth-Minded Leadership. Respect Different Skill Sets. Problem-Solving.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 23, 2020

As a leadership coach, going into 2021, I intend to shift how I acquire new clients to support in their leadership journey as an aspiring or first-time leader. 9- Focusing on lean operations. The first event has already started – Agile and Management 3.0 Photo Credit: Edward Gorbis. Photo Credit: Alexandra Zamolo.

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