SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

My 1,000th Post on This Blog - Tim Berry's Blog - Planning Startups Stories , July 21, 2010 HTML5 video markup, compatibility and playback - Niall Kennedy's Weblog , February 8, 2010 Your Product Needs a Soul - ArcticStartup , February 12, 2010 Product Friday: Monetizing Content is a Product Problem - This is going to be BIG.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

I asked Tsutsumi-san to write a guest post for my blog to describe his experience with Customer Development in Japan. Since then, I have been teaching Customer Development and running Lean LaunchPad style classes at variety of universities, national research laboratories, incubators, and startup communities throughout Japan.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 20, 2011

“We’ve been reading your blog about your Lean Launchpad class.” We want to make a bet that your Lean Launchpad class can apply the scientific method to market-opportunity identification. The Innovation Corps – Using the Lean LaunchPad as an Incubator for Scientists and Engineers. Our country needs you.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Getting a fixed price bid works for well-defined short-term projects, like blogging or programming. With modern technology, and worldwide reach, it should be seen as an important tool for building an efficient, lean, and competitive business, optimized to give you more time for strategic focus.

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Cost Philippines Bandwidth Cofounder 346

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 20, 2020

I’ve long been an advocate of using Lean Startup principles to advance non-profits and philanthropic organizations, whose work is so urgently needed at this moment in history. In this blog post, I want to share the story of a lean pop-up organization called HelpKitchen. SF New Deal and Frontline Foods were early leaders.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2021

The trick is we use the same Lean LaunchPad / I-Corps curriculum — and the same class structure – experiential, hands-on– driven this time by a mission -model not a business model. Hacking for Defense has its origins in the Lean LaunchPad class I first taught at Stanford in 2011. Goals for the Hacking for Defense Class.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 4, 2013

I recommend you read Fred Wilson’s recent blog post about the need for a well articulated business strategy before pushing a particular business model. I found myself in violent agreement with Fred’s blog post(s). LEAN STARTUP MOVEMENT. ” is Eric Ries who wrote the must own, “ The Lean Startup ” *.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Getting a fixed price bid works for well-defined short-term projects, like blogging or programming. With modern technology, and worldwide reach, it should be seen as an important tool for building an efficient, lean, and competitive business, optimized to give you more time for strategic focus.

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Entrepreneur Philippines Bandwidth Cofounder 303

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

He nails the current key startup parameters, including the following: Crafting a lean business plan as your road map. Building your public image and presence should start even before product development, through your website, logo, and blogging. Establishing your brand with interactive social media.

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Intellectual Property Startup Angel Groups Social Media 404

TechEmpower

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Our blog post 53 Questions Developers Should Ask Innovators has a list of questions any good development team would ask. However, an overly attractive site could indicate a leaning towards design over development. Inquisitiveness: Prior to starting the project, you should receive an estimate of the work effort. Avoid them.

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Software Developers Software Development Software Review Software 297

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 23, 2013

My friend Ron Ashkenas interviewed me for his blog on the Harvard Business Review. Here’s Ron’s blog post. To get some perspective on this question, I recently talked with Steve Blank , a serial entrepreneur, co-author of The Start-Up Owner’s Manual, and father of the “lean start-up” movement.

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Business Model Technical Review Business Plan Search 334

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 17, 2014

Just back from vacation and also some work travel and want to get back to blogging so expect a few posts over the next couple weeks. I’ll try to do a future blog post on some of my insights in watching Nanea enter the role and how the founders enabled her success. Qualitative data – user interviews, focus groups.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 30, 2019

But, there’s plenty that you can do… if you embrace lean marketing principles. Lean marketing is a philosophy that emphasizes executing campaigns quickly, getting feedback from your audience, analyzing the results, and optimizing the campaign – all in rapid succession. National television campaigns are definitely out.

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Lean Small Business Software Review Marketing 91

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

When the cards align and your odds of winning increase you “lean&# on your investment and take a more bullish stance. leaning on your best deals – The second scenario is the one we’ve already discussed – the ability to “lean” on deals that are doing well. avoid being diluted).

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Cap Table Angel Investor Liquidation Preference Dilution 283

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 9, 2013

I strongly recommend a dramatic departure from this model, called “planned iteration” or Lean Startup methodology, where you assume you won’t get it right the first time, so you launch with a minimum viable product (MVP). Spend your time finding renewable sources of customers and iterate. Use social networking to start the wave.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 28, 2019

Here, in no particular order, are the top 16 small business marketing blogs you should read in 2019. crowdspring Marketing Blog. Hubspot Marketing Blog. GoDaddy Garage Blog. Neil Patel’s Blog. The blog covers entrepreneurship, business management, and business strategy. Crowdspring Marketing Blog.

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Small Business Marketing Social Media SEO 106

Steve Blank

JUNE 12, 2020

And the trick is we use the same Lean LaunchPad / I-Corps curriculum — and kept the same class structure – experiential, hands-on, driven this time by a mission -model not a business model. Hacking for Defense has its origins in the Lean LaunchPad class I first taught at Stanford in 2011. Goals for the Hacking for Defense Class.

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Oakland Asia Lean Video 315

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 17, 2014

I strongly recommend a dramatic departure from this model, called “planned iteration” or Lean Startup methodology, where you assume you won’t get it right the first time, so you launch with a minimum viable product (MVP). Spend your time finding renewable sources of customers and iterate. Use social networking to start the wave.

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Agile Startup Social Network Software Developers 253

Gust

NOVEMBER 9, 2014

Eric Ries on Lean Startup methodology, via Wikipedia. I strongly recommend a dramatic departure from this model, called “planned iteration” or Lean Startup methodology, where you assume you won’t get it right the first time, so you launch with a minimum viable product (MVP). Invested Interests agile entrepreneur lean startup pivot'

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 18, 2014

Getting a fixed price bid works for well-defined short-term projects, like blogging or programming. With modern technology, and worldwide reach, it should be seen as an important tool for building an efficient, lean, and competitive business, optimized to give you more time for strategic focus.

Entrepreneur 231

Entrepreneur Philippines Bandwidth Cofounder 231

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 28, 2014

Post by Sarah Milstein & Eric Ries, co-hosts for The Lean Startup Conference At this year’s Lean Startup Conference , we seek to answer the difficult questions you face as an entrepreneur. In his book and on his blog, Ben tackles that question. Seppo Helava, Nonsense Industry. Prices go up on Monday night!

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Part-Time VPE Sales Lean Cofounder 160

YoungUpstarts

JULY 27, 2011

Like most of you, I have read a ton of blogs about technology and venture capital and what it takes to run a start-up. Truth is, if you are running a start-up and haven’t had days where you were ready to give up, then you still have a long way to go towards being successful.

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Software Review New York City Cofounder Technical Review 241

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JUNE 13, 2011

Modern Lean Startup theory blares out from the red-tiled rooftops of Stanford: Seek the Data and Ye Shall Find! But as much as I respect and follow Lean Startup theory, objective measurements aren’t the only things that matter. she also authors a terrific blog aimed at the solo entrepreneur.). But hold on. But hold on.

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Design Lean Cofounder Database 253

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

You may have read my previous posts about the Lean LaunchPad class taught at Stanford , Berkeley, Columbia , Caltech and for the National Science Foundation. He called it the “Lean Startup.”. Then in the fall of 2011, the National Science Foundation read my blog posts on the Stanford version of the Lean LaunchPad class.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

He nails the current key startup parameters, including the following: Crafting a lean business plan as your road map. Building your public image and presence should start even before product development, through your website, logo, and blogging. Establishing your brand with interactive social media.

Intellectual Property 261

Intellectual Property Entrepreneur Angel Groups Social Media 261

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 23, 2013

My friend Ron Ashkenas interviewed me for his blog on the Harvard Business Review. Here’s Ron’s blog post. To get some perspective on this question, I recently talked with Steve Blank , a serial entrepreneur, co-author of The Start-Up Owner’s Manual, and father of the “lean start-up” movement.

Business Model 226

Business Model Business Plan Technical Review Search 226

Steve Blank

APRIL 4, 2011

The Stanford Lean LaunchPad class was an experiment in a new model of teaching startup entrepreneurship. For the teaching team one of the most important ways to track the teams progress was through the weekly blogs we made each team keep. This post is part four. Part one is here , two is here and three is here. Syllabus is here.

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Customer Business Model Nebraska Cloud 241

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 22, 2018

Getting a fixed price bid works for well-defined short-term projects, like blogging or programming. With modern technology, and worldwide reach, it should be seen as an important tool for building an efficient, lean, and competitive business, optimized to give you more time for strategic focus.

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Philippines Bandwidth Cofounder Affiliate 181

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 31, 2015

The following is a guest post by Kirsten Cluthe and Ritika Puri from The Lean Startup Conference team Wondering what’s new in the Lean Startup community? She wants to disrupt Hollywood with the Lean Startup method. It's Lean Startup storytelling for the Snapchat generation. Do you have a cool Lean Startup story to share?

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Lean United States Fractional CTO Startup 60

Steve Blank

JUNE 18, 2013

The Lean LaunchPad entrepreneurship curriculum has caught fire. It’s called the Lean Startup. So my book and Berkeley class turned into the Lean LaunchPad class in the Stanford Engineering school. Then in July 2011, the National Science Foundation read my blog posts on the Lean LaunchPad class. Victor Hugo.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 2, 2013

While the Lean LaunchPad class has been adopted by Universities and the National Science Foundation , the question we get is, “Can students in K-12 handle an experiential entrepreneurship class?” They both attended our latest Lean LaunchPad Educators Class. Summary for the Lean LaunchPad in K-12 Education.

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Lean SCRUM Ohio Cleveland 312

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

NYU has adopted the Lean LaunchPad ® class as a standard entrepreneurship course across twelve different schools/colleges within the University. Over 1,000 students a year are learning lean startup concepts. The Educators Program is a 2½ day class that teaches faculty how to create and teach their own Lean LaunchPad class.)

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Lean New York City New York Customer Development 277

Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

In this blog, we are going to discuss some of the important practices to optimize product development and remove unnecessary startup expenses. Follow lean product development strategy (MVP strategy). This can lead to overspending early on that may make it difficult to achieve profitability and help your business grow effectively.

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Steve Blank

MAY 10, 2011

The Stanford Lean LaunchPad class was an experiment in a new model of teaching startup entrepreneurship. The Lean LaunchPad was designed to fill that void. The Lean LaunchPad class was built around the business model / customer development / agile development solution stack. Much more on this in subsequent blog posts.).

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Lean Business Model Agile Customer Development 288

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Justyn Howard, founder of Sprout Social has a blog post that he’s written about his experiences of migrating from scrappy tools to more efficient ones (i.e. I learned everything I know about startups in these lean years: 2001-2004. Using Balsamiq instead of SnagIt, Website Optimizer over just Google Analytics and FTP).

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Steve Blank

MARCH 7, 2012

Today, the first half of the Stanford Engineering Lean LaunchPad Class gave their final presentations. It’s hard to believe it’s only been a year since we taught the first 10 teams in the Stanford Lean LaunchPad class. We’ll teach over 175 NSF Innovation Corps teams in the Lean LaunchPad course in 2012. Here are the first five.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

Guest post by Jennifer Maerz, contributing editor of Lean Startup Co. The Lean Startup team has been hard at work finalizing the details of this year’s Lean Startup Week. Welcome to Lean Startup Week 2016 TL;DR: Before you dive into the details, here’s a quick look at what you can expect during your week with us: On Oct.

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