Cofounder Customer Development Lean Portfolio 
Steve Blank
SEPTEMBER 5, 2018
Jeff Katzenberg has a great track record – head of the studio at Paramount, chairman of Disney Studios, co-founder of DreamWorks and now chairman of NewTV. It’s the antithesis of the Lean Startup. Massive liquidity awaited the first movers to the IPO’s, and that’s how they managed their portfolios.
Steve Blank
JULY 25, 2023
I just spent a month and a half at Imperial College London co-teaching a “Wicked” Entrepreneurship class. Co mpanies also face Wicked problems. As Wicked and Lean seem to be mutually exclusive, this was a pretty audacious undertaking. This five-week class was going to be our MVP. Here’s what happened.
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Startup Lessons Learned
JULY 28, 2010
kaChing has been very active in the Lean Startup movement. With case studies like this, we aim to illustrate specific Lean Startup techniques through the stories of current practitioners. kaChing launched a virtual portfolio management game on Facebook in January 2008 and a similar version shortly thereafter on kaChing.com.
Rob Go
SEPTEMBER 9, 2013
Founder Dialogues : Eric Paley plays talk show host on this recurring fireside chat style event that has featured Boston’s BEST founders. OnStartups: One of the largest online startup communities founded by HubSpot founder Dharmesh Shah. Boston Hardware Startup Meetup – Meetup organized by the founders of BOLT.
David Teten
SEPTEMBER 6, 2015
Previously she was Co-Founder and CEO of SNAZZ, a cloud-based event management platform. Her work included heading Nokia’s location-based services business and app portfolio for emerging markets, which she built from a back-of-a-napkin idea to a 100-person organization with over 10 million users.
Startup Lessons Learned
NOVEMBER 17, 2008
Talking to potential customers and competitors customers. Managers in this area have to take a portfolio approach, promoting ideas that work and might make good candidates for further investment. Some companies and founders refuse to serve existing customers, and are always lurching from one great idea to the next.
View from Seed
JANUARY 28, 2016
As a founder, you and your team are building value every day, but there are certain step-function moments where the value creation significantly increases. Regardless of check size, the reality is that the earlier a company is in its lifecycle, the more time we tend to spend with founders. We tend to agree here.
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