Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

Guest post by Lisa Regan, writer for The Lean Startup Conference. Our fall webcast series concluded on a high note with three extraordinary conversations about the origins and implications of Lean Startup. Our final webcast of the season was organized in response to intense interest from our community around Lean Startup in education.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 20, 2018

This article is part of our “ Business Planning Guide “ —a curated list of our articles that will help you with the planning process! Most of us need just a Lean Business Plan, for internal use, with just bullet point lists and important projections. Good businesses always keep their Lean Plan up to date.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 21, 2022

I selected curate because it represents that I am the director of my museum which is my life and my business. Interesting to note that curate is based in the Latin word cura which means care. Curate served me in 2021 as a year that was full of unknown, anxiety, and stress. Thanks to Shokouh Hatch, everlur ! #3-

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 16, 2011

Lean Marketing: Customer service strategies for small businesses and startups – [link]. Top 5 myths about the lean startup – [link]. Lean Marketing: Customer service strategies for small businesses and startups – [link]. Entrepreneurs Need to Find the Best ‘Curators’ – [link]. – [link].

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 3, 2017

This article is part of our “Business Planning Guide” —a curated list of our articles that will help you with the planning process! If you don’t have a specific immediate need to show a formal business plan to a banker or investor, then you are probably better off doing just a lean business plan , for your internal use only.

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Steve Blank

MAY 7, 2019

Lean Methodology consists of three tools designed for entrepreneurs building new ventures: The Business Model Canvas – to write down all the hypotheses about a new business; Customer Development – a process for testing those hypotheses outside the building; Agile Engineering – to rapidly build minimal viable products to test product/market fit.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 26, 2014

Ohad Frankfurt is the cofounder and CEO of Swayy , a personalized content curation and management platform. We had built an impressive technology and a really cool product in less than three months, and we tried keeping it “lean” in every way we could.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 15, 2012

We write often about small businesses and startups and lean approaches to marketing and other business functions. The role of the project manager is to act as gatekeeper, curator, editor, and leader and this guidance is vital to the project’s success.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2014

Now you can watch Part 2 “ The Lean Approach “ This group of six videos provides an overview of how to successfully do Customer Discovery. These videos are not only great tutorials for founders but also provide educators with another source of well produced and curated resources. Module 1, The Lean Method.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 27, 2010

Can User Experience Designers be Lean? Curating A Conference: Inside @TechCocktail Startup Mixology – [link]. Review of Popular Web Font Embedding Services – [link]. Understanding Visual Hierarchy in Web Design – [link]. Showcase: Funky And Experimental Websites – [link]. – [link]. – [link].

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 28, 2014

These videos are not only great tutorials for founders but also provide educators another source of well produced and curated resources. Module 3, The Lean Method. Filed under: Customer Development , Lean LaunchPad , Teaching. Customer Development Lean LaunchPad Teaching' And you get a tour of my living room….

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Lots of new box companies have trouble ironing out the kinks in their process: their customer can’t easily unsubscribe, their boxes just aren’t exciting or well-curated, and more. But if you’re writing a plan as an internal guide for strategic growth, you should consider a lighter version— a Lean Plan. Any of these can lead to failure.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

If you’re building a startup, the Startup Tools tab on the top of this page has curated links to hundreds of startup resources. The Lean LaunchPad course online. I teach potential founders a hands-on, experiential class called the Lean LaunchPad at Berkeley, Stanford, Columbia and Caltech. The Lean LaunchPad Educators Course.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

This article is part of our Business Startup Guide —a curated list of our articles that will get you up and running in no time! If you have a business idea, write a quick business plan—a Lean Plan. If you’ve heard of the business model canvas idea, Lean Planning is similar but ultimately more useful.

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Up and Running

MAY 3, 2012

Eric Ries , author of The Lean Start-up , puts it best: ‘ The grim reality is that most start-ups fail. For technology entrepreneurs, we need to encourage them to understand the lean startup methodology, as a means to help them validate their assumptions. Most products are not successful. Collectively, we need to do better.

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Brandanew

JULY 18, 2017

This curation process has so many possibilities! Imagine were curating on-demand content your readers who are interested in various topics. Hopefully, for the actual curation, they have a technology that reads meta tags to select content and sends it automatically. Simple, well thought out and perfect for a lean organization.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, October 5, 2010 The Lean Startup Bundle People often ask me if they can buy "Lean Startup in a box" from me. People want to get started with Lean Startup but arent exactly how. Its called the " The Lean Startup Bundle " and it is available this week only. Dont panic.

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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 NGA has adopted Lean Innovation methods to make this happen. Their goal is to integrate these techniques into their own Lean innovation processes.

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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 NGA has adopted Lean Innovation methods to make this happen. Their goal is to integrate these techniques into their own Lean innovation processes.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 24, 2012

Dan: Jason, we’re certainly leaning more towards what you said. Meaning I’ve got a direct relationship with my customers and I send them daily curated things that I know they’re going to enjoy and like or that they have self- selected. And Mark, that’s why I’ve reached out to you.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 24, 2020

Whether it’s better service, streamlined applications, or greater job curation, there are plenty of ways to disrupt this emerging service. Making lean decisions , testing minimum viable products (MVP), actively seeking feedback, and being willing to make continuous adjustments in pursuit of optimization. Artificial Intelligence.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 28, 2019

Want to learn lean marketing tips for your small business? This blog curates quality content for entrepreneurs of all kinds. Duct Tape Marketing is a blog for small business owners who feel that they don’t have the time or resources to focus on marketing. And, they write with that audience in mind. Look no further.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 8, 2018

This article, which originally appeared on our LivePlan Blog , is part of our “Business Planning Guide” —a curated list of our articles that will help you with the planning process! Most people think that meetings are a waste of time. They’re right. But, here at Palo Alto Software, we’ve found one meeting that is simply indispensable.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 6, 2012

43:15 John demonstrates how users can curate their own Klout feed. 37:30 I think there’s an opportunity to train people in several month to be entrepreneurial leaders. 39:15 Why did you invest in Klout? What did you see in them? 46:45 Comment from the chat: Are you familiar with Upstart.com?

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

I have been able to curate a list of free online courses, videos, webinars, and other useful resources that should give you the confidence boost to get out there and get started. It’s the lean format of the business plan—the format that will allow you to adapt fastest as you progress through the startup phase. Census Bureau website.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 29, 2020

To recover from making less profit, we leaned out the processes and verified new clients for profitability for taking on board. We’re a curated site with 100% handmade items made by creatives located in the US. Thanks to Gareth Seagull, Raptor Translations ! #8- 8- Hiring a friend’s spouse.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 30, 2017

This article is part of our “ Business Startup Guide ”—a curated list of our articles that will get you up and running in no time! People often ask us for a list of steps they can use to start their own business. From business type to business model to physical location, there are so many variables!

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Occam's Razor

APRIL 8, 2013

This thought was in my mind as I was reading Lean Analytics a new book by my friend Alistair Croll and his collaborator Benjamin Yoskovitz. In this post, we’ll look at each of the four steps in the Lean Analytics Cycle in more detail. In the Lean Startup world, this is called customer development. But it is not routine.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 2, 2022

ABM teams then began curating content and tagging it by use case, industry, and persona. Snowflake used content marketing platform Uberflip to curate and tailor content for specific accounts, using a variety of marketing tactics, including ads, email marketing, direct mail, and sponsored content.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Here’s the view for service teams: And for sales teams: The next section leans a little more on social proof. They achieve this by displaying products in curated spaces and by leveraging the Instagram profiles of their real-life customers (doubling as social proof). They do this by using a simple toggle device.

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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. They tend to be lengthier and more detailed. Who needs the services you provide.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

The second phase will be who can get the right combination lean back, lean forward, interaction, enhanced data, and make it fun. They aggregate other people’s content and curate it into categories. The curated approach gives advertisers and publishers more comfort in knowing the quality of content they will be amongst.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 17, 2014

The phrase “lean startup” comes up a lot in conversations about entrepreneurship. I’ve been to several panel discussions on the topic, had it taught to me in a business school classroom, and read a book dedicated to lean startup methodology. In lean startup speak, this was called a minimum viable product, or MVP.

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Steve Blank

MAY 29, 2019

Lean LaunchPad class developed for Stanford. And the Lean LaunchPad class I developed at Stanford was the first such class. I believe the analogy is identical for entrepreneurship.The capstone entrepreneurship classes like NSF I-Corps or a Lean LaunchPad class, are for those who have already decided they want to be entrepreneurs.

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View from Seed

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Today, o ur new blog houses curated collections and easy-to-find content filters, allowing you easier access to the posts we’ve written over the years, for years and years to come. Over the past ten years, the partners have published some truly incredible pieces, and my goal was to create a blog page that did this content justice.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Google is also leaning in on AI Agents. The latest curated mapping of the AI Agent landscape was published by Menlo Ventures on September 26 2024. Agentforce , a customisable AI agent builder by Salesforce is the world’s first and only platform deeply integrated with your data and apps.

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 12, 2011

Serendip Media is a new social music discovery and streaming service that allows the people you follow on Twitter to curate your personal internet radio station. Upon joining, I added all the people I follow on Twitter as potential DJs and completed a short quiz about my musical leanings. Guest post by Maxim Mai.

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