Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 7, 2016

Guest post by Jennifer Maerz, contributing editor of Lean Startup Co. It’s been exciting to watch the Lean Startup movement grow from a practice utilized in the tech world to one implemented in a wide variety of sectors ranging from enterprise to education, religious organizations, nonprofits, and government groups.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

Over the last three years our Lean LaunchPad / NSF Innovation Corps classes have been teaching hundreds of entrepreneurial teams a year how to build their startups by getting out of the building and testing their hypotheses behind their business model. Filed under: Customer Development , Lean LaunchPad , Teaching.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 16, 2013

The techniques invented in what has become the Lean Startup movement are now more than ever applicable to reinventing the modern corporation. Large companies like GE, Intuit, Merck, Panasonic, and Qualcomm are leading the charge to adopt the lean approach to drive corporate innovation. Go read it. Then go do it.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 29, 2013

This post was written by Sarah Milstein, co-host of The Lean Startup Conference. We’re looking for speakers for the 2013 Lean Startup Conference. If you’re a Lean Startup veteran, feel free to skim the beginning, as this is mostly stuff you already know. Last week, we announced that our short application form was live.

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SoCal CTO

APRIL 2, 2013

What's Going to Go Wrong A lot of founders don't really understand Lean Startup principles. They look at the following high level definition of Lean: and they interpret that as write up an executive summary with your ideas and hand it to developers to build. This post will provide links to participants as well as to readers.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 6, 2012

Today, I want to introduce you to a new concept for starting and growing successful companies: Lean Planning™. Before I dive too deeply into the Lean Planning methodology, it makes sense to talk about its history and where it comes from. Lean Planning is born. At the time, we used Business Plan Pro and Basecamp for this.

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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. Investors and partners now look only for a framework of your business essentials, within the context of your opportunity, solution, and financials.

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Steve Blank

MAY 19, 2021

To help a large Defense organization wrestle with how to increase the velocity of innovation in their ranks Steve Blank and I spent the better part of last week with our heads together reviewing everything we learned in the five years since we merged the concepts of problem curation and Lean while launching the innovation pipeline.

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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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TechEmpower

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Some offer specialized skill sets like expertise in a particular programming language or framework, or specific domain knowledge. However, an overly attractive site could indicate a leaning towards design over development. You'll discover firms that are prolific in design/interface and light on development, and vice versa. Avoid them.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 16, 2013

The techniques invented in what has become the Lean Startup movement are now more than ever applicable to reinventing the modern corporation. Large companies like GE, Intuit, Merck, Panasonic, and Qualcomm are leading the charge to adopt the lean approach to drive corporate innovation. Go read it. Then go do it.

Technical Review 223

Technical Review Lean Venture Capital Customer Development 223

Steve Blank

JANUARY 30, 2013

I earnestly believe that large corporations should emulate Lean Startups (Business model design, Customer Development and Agile Engineering.) If I were starting a corporate innovation program today, I’d use the Lean LaunchPad classes as the starting framework. Developing a program to generate new ideas is the easy part.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Growth marketing borrows a concept from the lean startup methodology. Growth hacking is a term that emerged from the Silicon Valley tech community and the lean startup methodology. The post Growth Marketing: The Skills and Frameworks You Need appeared first on CXL. It isn’t about finding quick hacks to boost short-term revenue.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 26, 2015

—– Lean Innovation Management. In the last five years “ Lean Startup ” methodologies have enabled entrepreneurs to efficiently build a startup by searching for product/market fit rather than blindly trying to execute. The result will be: a new, Lean version of the Three Horizons of Innovation. Here’s how.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

Let’s set up a framework. ” Stay lean and only raise a big round if you DO find product / market fit and which point you want to loosen the belt quickly and raise the capital to do so. A Framework to Guide You: So putting it all together, you should always be mindful of your personal circumstances and market conditions.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 29, 2017

The Lean Startup.”. Modern frameworks and languages have many built in features for security, created on the assumption that every developer would take the time to look through the piles of documentation (or lack thereof). by Quan Heng Lim, Cyber-Operations Consultant at Horangi. Fail Fast, Pivot.”. Agile Methodology.”.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

This has caused a need for Agile professionals within the IT sector who understand the principles and methodology behind this concepts of Scaled Agile, Scrum, Kanban, and Lean. Scrum and Agile, when combined, is a framework and methodology that’s able to completely change how project management is handled in all businesses and industries.

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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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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

However the Customer Development Model and the Lean Startup work equally well for startups on the web. The first question to ask is: “Does your startup have market risk or is it dominated by technical risk?” Lean Startup /Customer Development is used to find answers to the unknowns about customers and markets.

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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. Investors and partners now look only for a framework of your business essentials, within the context of your opportunity, solution, and financials.

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Intellectual Property Entrepreneur Angel Groups Social Media 261

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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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

It was a mobile app, so he ideally would find someone who had experience with mobile development or someone who could pick up a mobile framework. " and start leaning to prompt them to start walking with you. The size of his initial build was roughly 3 person months and it wasn't particular complex.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

A canonical Lean Innovation process inside a company or government agency would look something like this: Curation. The framework has the team talking not just to potential customers but also with regulators, and people responsible for legal, policy, finance, support. As the head of the U.S. Lessons Learned.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 19, 2024

The concept of “Thoughtfully Fit” is a framework designed to help individuals and teams enhance their performance and navigate challenges with greater agility. 04:12] Talk about how the framework helped navigate your personal life. [06:00] 03:01] What is the difference between being physically and thoughtfully fit? [04:12]

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Steve Blank

MAY 6, 2015

I am always surprised when critics complain that the Lean Startup’s Build, Measure, Learn approach is nothing more than “throwing incomplete products out of the building to see if they work.”. It’s time to update Build, Measure, Learn to what we now know is the best way to build Lean startups. Here’s how. Build-Measure-Learn.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

It’s close to de-facto adopting a Lean decision-making process and rapid clearances for things that minimally affect health. Apple added a new “Movement Disorder API” to its ResearchKit framework that supports movement and tremor detection. It’s how China approaches approvals and will allow U.S. What’s Not Working? Great idea.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 15, 2013

So it makes sense, that as Sheryl Sandberg points out in the much talked about book, “ Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead “, “many women are reluctant to make a focused effort to lead in the workplace” My advice? I think the message behind ” Lean In ” is good. Don’t get me wrong.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

Guest post by Lisa Regan, writer for T he Lean Startup Conference. We’ve posted the full program for The Lean Startup Conference , and it includes more than three days of events for Gold pass holders and six days of events for VIP pass holders. On the evening of December 8, Ignite Lean Startup kicks off the conference.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

It was a mobile app, so he ideally would find someone who had experience with mobile development or someone who could pick up a mobile framework. " and start leaning to prompt them to start walking with you. The size of his initial build was roughly 3 person months and it wasn't particular complex.

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Fractional CTO Southern California Startup Mobile 296

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

I was an early adopter in financial operations and software of lean operational and product development techniques that originated at Toyota, and then of agile as it was promulgated in the Manifesto. My team had already successfully adopted lean operational processes in a very large manufacturing-like process, as well as early agile ideas.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Together Pete, Joe Felter and I created Hacking for Defense , a nationwide program to teach university students how use Lean methodologies to solve defense and national security problems. The Lean Innovation process is a self-regulating, evidence-based innovation pipeline. Everything on that canvas is a hypothesis.

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Up and Running

MAY 28, 2015

We recently had Tim Berry, Palo Alto Software founder and business planning expert, present our Bplans audience with his latest advice on lean business planning. Start your lean business plan today: Download our Free Lean Plan Template one-page-pitch-download.pdf. I’m going to start with what’s a lean business plan.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 1, 2019

This is the second in a three-part series that aims to help you understand the Traction Gap Framework® – a step-by-step approach that startup teams can use to go from ideation to preparing to scale. Read on to find out what exactly the “gap” in the Traction Gap Framework is and why traversing that gap is so critical to your success.

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View from Seed

MARCH 11, 2020

They tend to have some sort of framework in their mind with a hierarchy of conviction and hierarchy of pain they are willing to put founders through. These are people who would vouch for you, but you only want to lean on for a small handful of high priority investors. Talking to your customers.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 26, 2021

Here are a few cost-saving rules all manufacturers need to follow today: Adopt lean manufacturing. Lean Startup Feedback Loop from lean.st. With this general framework in mind, your manufacturing business can stay afloat and hope to thrive in the future.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 3, 2015

It has replaced how to write a business plan with hands-on Lean Startup methods. To create great entrepreneurs, we had to give our students the experience of navigating the chaos and uncertainty of running a lean startup while providing the same kind of rigorous framework the business plan did in its day. Today the U.C.

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Hunter Walker

AUGUST 31, 2021

And my framework here also applies mostly to the US, with other part of the world ahead and behind the pacing I’ve suggested above. But I also wanted to suggest there’s a coming Gen 4 of SaaS leaning heavily into EQ instead of IQ because I truly believe the Future of Work involves understanding emotions not just data.

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