Up and Running

MARCH 26, 2015

We get this question a lot, mainly because there are so many different things labelled as business plans: strategic plans, annual plans, operational plans, feasibility plans, and, of course, what most people think of, business plans for startups seeking investment. All businesses start with a lean plan. Manage cash flow. Startup plan.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 6, 2015

Teten: For a large corporate, what are the advantages and disadvantages of a dedicated fund (possibly with external investors) vs. a 100% on-balance sheet investor? A lot of venture investing is done on the balance sheet, meaning there is no dedicated fund and investing is done more opportunistically.

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Up and Running

MAY 14, 2015

Business plans go by many names: Strategic plans, operational plans, internal plans, and many others. Lately, I’ve been focusing on lean business plans. In this article I will cover: The lean business plan that every business ought to have. Feasibility plans, internal plans, operations plan, annual plans, and strategic plans.

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Up and Running

JULY 24, 2017

With business plans for internal use and Lean Plans, nobody expects one. Executive summaries for internal plans, operations plans, or strategic plans. As I mentioned above, a true Lean Plan doesn’t need any summary. Not all plans need summaries. Before we continue, let’s get this straight.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

It happened recently when a group of educators came to the ranch to learn how to teach Lean entrepreneurship to K-12 students. Learning how to keep track of inventory and cash flow and creating an income statement and a balance sheet are great skills to learn for managing existing businesses. On Fire With A Vision.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 28, 2018

A Lean Business Plan might be a better fit if you simply need to think through all the different aspects of your business. A Lean Plan will be shorter, and it lends itself to quick revisions, but both types follow the same general outline. Or maybe you will want to extend your practice’s hours of operation. Your operations plan.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2020

13:58) Advice for companies who think it's too late to start looking for new ways to operate, including some examples from Austin, Texas. (15:55) And the truth is that's yesterday and you don't really have the ability to change what you did yesterday, but what you do have the ability today, is to lean into this. Carl Liebert : Yeah.

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Steve Blank

MAY 29, 2019

Lean LaunchPad class developed for Stanford. Other classes were on how to prep for VC pitches or develop the five year income statements, balance sheets and cash flows or read case studies. And the Lean LaunchPad class I developed at Stanford was the first such class. Worth a read. Mission-Driven Entrepreneurship.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 3, 2018

If you want to put together a strategic plan to map out your business’s growth potential, you might consider a Lean Business Plan. But know that a Lean Plan shares all of the same components of a traditional business plan—it’s just shorter. Your operations plan. Operations. Strategic partnerships or alliances.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 23, 2016

It’s a lot easier to get these numbers to look great by outsourcing everything, getting assets off the balance sheet and only investing in things that pay off fast. In contrast, startups operate with speed and urgency, making decisions with incomplete information. Startups are unencumbered by the status quo.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 16, 2015

Operations should focus relentlessly on the latter.”. Lean Analytics recommends this set of metrics for some of the major categories of startups: Create a management dashboard. Vanity metrics do not inform, guide or improve the business; they are not actionable. . The best CEOs run their companies by their metrics.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 26, 2019

We just finished the 8 th annual Lean LaunchPad class at Stanford. So in 2011, with support from the Stanford Technology Ventures Program (the entrepreneurship center in the Stanford Engineering School), we created a new capstone entrepreneurship class – the Lean LaunchPad. It’s the same, but different. I-Corps @ NIH ).

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Up and Running

MARCH 17, 2020

The one page business plan is a simplified version of traditional operational plans that focuses on the core aspects of your business. There’s really not a lot of difference between a single-page business plan, a Lean Business Plan, and a good executive summary. . You can always share broader financial information if requested.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 4, 2014

A consequence of using these corporate finance metrics like RONA and IRR is that it ‘s a lot easier to get these numbers to look great by 1) outsourcing everything, 2) getting assets off the balance sheet and 3) only investing in things that pay off fast. It needs the tools and processes pioneered in Lean Startups.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Here’s what they discovered: They found firms that quickly institute formal mechanisms such as operation budgets, cash budgets, and financial monitoring systems (tools that measure profitability, customer acquisition costs, variance from actual budget, and so forth) had higher growth rates in terms of revenues and headcount.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 25, 2012

We got a chance to look deep into the company's balance sheet and see exactly how it managed its cash flow over the past five years. There are going to be lean years as you build your business and ramp up your operations. Backblaze, a leader in cloud storage, just celebrated its fifth anniversary.

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VC Adventure

MARCH 19, 2020

Many companies had been leaning into growth – and spending at a very rapid rate to support that. Stress test your operating plan. And hard to balance being fair to those you’re letting go and preserving cash to continue to operate your business with the employees who are staying at the business.

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Up and Running

APRIL 2, 2020

Instead, start with the quick and easy lean business plan , to help you map out your business and financing activities over the next few months. Building your balance sheet. If you don’t, now is the perfect time to set up a business plan and forecast. H ow to do a sales forecast. How to build a profit and loss .

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Mike Michalowicz

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

If you’re not taking a salary you are making a loan to the company and need to get paid back in the future; include any salary payments you miss as a loan on your balance sheet and keep track of just how much you’ve lent the company. It’s important to be lean in this day and age, but you cannot save yourself into success.

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Up and Running

APRIL 23, 2019

If I could change one thing about our society’s view on service-based business models related to healthcare, it would be the notion that private healthcare practices operating as successful and profitable businesses runs contrary to their mission. Writing a business plan —even a Lean Business Plan that’s short and easy to update—will help.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 12, 2014

Value means the stock is priced modestly compared to the strength of its balance sheet and cash flow. You can have the best operations. They use lean teams. Two factors determine a value stock, he explains. One is an attractive price. The other is the quality of the company. You don’t have to be Warren Buffett.

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Agile VC

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

This seems like a no-brainer but Ballmer and the MSFT board might lean towards a less risky path. Microsoft doesn’t need the cash… despite limited growth and paying a substantial dividend, MSFT still generates good cashflow and has >$70B on it’s balance sheet.

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Eric Friedman

AUGUST 18, 2021

People talk about businesses that are obviously lending businesses as if they take no balance sheet risk or have no credit exposure. On Deciens’ Lean Operation. How do you think about the balance between those offerings, but also how you spend the time and how you go up against what’s out there?

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Up and Running

MAY 15, 2019

While Dan heads up operations, his brother Stephen is head brewer, and their team also includes directors of finance and brand, respectively. The more complex the operating structure of a business , the more information and time required.”. The ColdFire Brewing team meets to plan marketing. Watch your finances.

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Reid Hoffman

JUNE 8, 2021

The company had a wild year, from the initial crisis management that came in the form of restructuring the company and refunding millions of dollars off their own balance sheet, to lobbying Congress, to provide support to hosts, [and] launching initiatives to provide housing for frontline healthcare workers.

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Reid Hoffman

JUNE 8, 2021

The company had a wild year, from the initial crisis management that came in the form of restructuring the company and refunding millions of dollars off their own balance sheet, to lobbying Congress, to provide support to hosts, [and] launching initiatives to provide housing for frontline healthcare workers.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2010

Personal balance sheets are still stretched: The problem in the US starts & ends with “consumerism” that was fueled by artificially high real estate prices, which drove up spending and the stock market. Additionally, those who run lean operations and raised money from supportive investor bases will be best positioned.

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