Steve Blank

APRIL 10, 2009

Reply Lots of low cost experiments « Open Ambition , on April 22, 2009 at 8:58 am Said: [.] Reply Killing Innovation with Corner Cases and Consensus « Steve Blank , on April 22, 2009 at 5:04 am Said: [.] “Speed and Tempo&# – Fearless Decision Making for Startups [.]

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 15, 2022

It provides the freedom to partner with entrepreneurs and reduce the costs of agency work in exchange for equity in their startup. For example, Lean Startup offers many benefits to emerging organizations, especially considering its focus on crafting a minimum viable product (MVP). It also helps bootstrap new startup businesses.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

We have to design our forces to be able to operate in a contested environment and to reduce duplication of effort, enhance our speed and reduce costs. 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.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 6, 2013

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! How to Turn Your Startup Into a Lean, Mean Marketing Machine – [link]. 7 Tips On How Your Small Business Or Startup Can Hire A Good Lawyer And Control Legal Costs – [link].

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 11, 2019

If you lack leadership skills or poorly manage your company’s time and resources, it is likely your business will be left behind. Organizational and leadership management (Enhance your management capabilities). To ensure you create a successful, profitable and long-lasting brand, read the six biggest challenges businesses face today.

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SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2010

The sunk costs trap. had two occasions recently to review products which had clear market leadership. think many of the fundamentals behind the lean startup are things you likely have been practicing for a while. &# This exercise is meant to counter a number of common cognitive biases, such as: 1.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 31, 2013

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! 7 Tips On How Your Small Business Or Startup Can Hire A Good Lawyer And Control Legal Costs – [link]. Here are some of the links that I’ve liked and shared this past week!

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Steve Blank

APRIL 9, 2009

It will cost you your job.” his next article on SuperMac, “Building the Killer Team – Mission, Intent, and Values&# , Steve further pounds the table on some principles of leadership that I think are [.] But do not walk into my office the day something was due and give me an excuse. That kind of accountable.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Very few people turn up with a strong sense of “what we should be doing” or ready to lean into a productive conversation The financials were prepared by the VP of Finance / CFO. In town board members also only scan it because they, too, have morning meetings before the board meeting starts.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 28, 2013

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Empower Your Small Business – NEW edition: marketing, lean business, paid search, #1 mistake – [link]. Lean Business: Freelancers for ALL My Friends! – [link].

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 9, 2023

In a recession, advertising costs can go down as fewer companies invest in marketing. We also run a lean business, with regular budgets and reviews of expenses. 11- By maintaining a workplace culture Photo Credit: Vincent Nair In times of economic uncertainty, it’s common for businesses to cut costs in order to weather the storm.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 24, 2011

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Lean Marketing 101: Giving good interview, or how to get a reporter to eat from your hand – [link]. Here are some of the links that I’ve liked and shared this past week!

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Steve Blank

MAY 28, 2009

be prepared to be the most lean business in the sector (which is only possible where economy of scale does not create huge entry barriers). In this situation one must make a choice: 1. find a different business (seriously) or 2. In particular, you will likely have to do without venture funding becuase it is costly.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 19, 2009

Waiting for images to move around the screen were not only driving them crazy, but costing them money. The good news was that the Spif strategy was working; the bad news is that it was costing the company our entire profit. And by more than anything, I mean that the word performance came up time and again from these professionals.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 8, 2013

I know that women are a minority in leadership positions in government and business. So, when I found myself sitting at the Harvard Club in Boston listening to Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg talking about her new book Lean In , I told myself that I know what she is talking about. Female accomplishment comes at a cost.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 7, 2008

This is one of the bedrock practices of any lean startup , and so its a common piece of advice I give out. Without requiring a lot of meetings, it changes the perspective of the team (and its leadership) from fire-fighting to prevention. Thats the ultimate task for the companys technology leadership. Sure, it seems efficient.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2012

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! As Pay-Per-Click Ad Costs Rise, Small Businesses Search for Alternatives - [link]. Lean Marketing: How to Run Your Marketing Team Like a Startup – [link]. Show them WHY.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 30, 2016

As the leader of a team, the key skill you need to head a strong team is leadership. If it doesn’t come quite as naturally to you, study different leadership styles and techniques. However, you can reduce some of your costs by being willing to go for used plant machinery. Anyone in the industry knows that this is not cheap.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 15, 2013

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Lean Business: Lessons from A-Rod – [link]. Lean Business: Lessons from A-Rod – [link]. Lean Business: Lessons from A-Rod – [link]. Don’t Blame the Tool.

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Steve Blank

MAY 11, 2009

In less than a month they designed a low-cost video-capture board that plugged into the Mac and allowed you to connect a video camera and VCR. A month or two before the QuickTime public announcement in May, the SuperMac hardware engineers (who had a great relationship with the QuickTime team at Apple) started a “ skunk works ” project.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 25, 2009

Was the company attempting to be a low cost provider by introducing cheaper products to an existing market? Therefore, no, we weren’t really equipped to be the low cost provider. Was SuperMac attempting to introduce radically new products and create a new market ? No, not really. And we lost money when we did so.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 26, 2013

For instance, maybe your leadership is consistently undermined because you avoid confronting insubordinate team members. With this information, you can acknowledge that your critter brain wants to avoid a fight at all costs. If he leans forward, you should lean forward too. If he speaks softly and slowly, so should you.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2013

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Lean vs. Mean – Small Business and Responsibility – [link]. Before You Add That Feature, Do You Know The Real Cost? The link is in the Other section below. – [link].

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ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

Yet in expansionary periods, successful leaders spent significantly less on [selling, general, and administrative costs] than did their former peers. Greater discipline during boom times offered more flexibility during lean years. A focus on cost cutting—every decision is viewed through a loss-minimization lens. Promotion.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 27, 2019

The only way to undercut their efforts is to exercise strategies of cost leadership or differentiation, which translates to slashing the prices or offering something more innovative. So, the costs will have to be paid while the business is not bringing in any income, thus, creating a major cash flow management problem.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 6, 2009

Gorbachev, now the Soviet Premier, had to grapple with the spiraling cost of military systems that weren’t amortized by consumer purchases. Cold War strategy had gone from a “let’s be friends” to a “yes we can win” strategy. By the mid 1980s Ronald Reagan was cranking U.S. defense spending even higher. Arms control with the U.S.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 25, 2009

Computer hardware companies were faced with their customers asking for low-cost (relatively) desktop computers they had no experience in building. This was just before the IBM PC hit the desktop so there were no “standard” operating systems or applications for desktop platforms.

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Steve Blank

MAY 26, 2009

Different market opportunities present radically different startup risks and costs. Vertical markets are a risk and cost reduction strategy. But as I learned from my students this “one-size-fits-all” approach does not work for all startups. You will sum them going into the horizontal market, so spread them out.

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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. Keeping it accessible, there will be no cost options, individual low fee entry points and of course, the VIP All Access Badge. 9- Focusing on lean operations.

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Steve Blank

JULY 30, 2009

Some are r esegmenting an existing market– directed at a niche that an incumbent isn’t satisfying (like Dell and Compaq when they were startups) or providing a low cost alternative to an existing supplier (like Southwest Airlines when it first started.)

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Steve Blank

APRIL 27, 2009

And now am leading a startup of my own ( [link] ) where we’re students of you and Eric Ries’ lean startup principles. In all the Germans had over 7,500 radars dedicated to tracking and killing the allied bombers. Each allied bombing mission lost 2-20% of their planes. Bomber crews had to fly 25 missions to go home.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

Transcript of How to Turn Marketing Costs Into Profit written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. That’s not really true, but in this episode of The Duct Tape Marketing podcast I do speak with Joe Pulizzi and Robert Rose, authors of Killing Marketing: How Innovative Businesses are Turning Marketing Costs into Profit.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 8, 2018

As a segment of the training market, however, marketing lags behind the stalwarts of the industry—sales and leadership training: Search volume for “marketing training” has consistently trailed other disciplines. Source: Google Trends. For every marketer, there’s need. For every facet of marketing, there’s training. Few executives know.

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Up and Running

JULY 11, 2017

Even if you lean too hard on expecting a breakthrough at the bleeding-edge and realize the breakthrough is not coming, all is not lost. Stryker believed that the savings inherent in purchasing over Hill-Rom’s exorbitant rental costs would present a value proposition to hospital customers would be infinitely compelling.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Marketing departments of the future will get very lean and depend upon quick-strike teams that can be assembled for specific initiatives and campaigns. This fall, I wrote my latest book, The Ultimate Marketing Engine (HarperCollins Leadership Sept 2021), entirely in Google Docs. 2) More and more firms crowdsource talent.

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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 end result is often that change can happen but it is going to come at the cost of disruption and difficulty.”. The NGA, an organization within the U.S.

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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 end result is often that change can happen but it is going to come at the cost of disruption and difficulty.”. The NGA, an organization within the U.S.

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