Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

Excellent detailed resources are everywhere, including a classic book, “ The Startup Checklist ,” by serial entrepreneur and founder of the New York Angels, David S. He nails the current key startup parameters, including the following: Crafting a lean business plan as your road map.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

Will Price , October 11, 2010 Georgians Should Vote No - Force of Good: a blog by Lance Weatherby , October 28, 2010 Free Software for Managing a Lean Startup - Platforms and Networks , January 17, 2010 Purpose Driven Life - Journey of a Serial Entrepreneur , July 26, 2010 Two Decade-Defining Acquisitions?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Our guest this week on #TWiVC was Dana Settle , partner at Greycroft Partners , a venture capital firm with offices in New York and Los Angeles. We also talked about the emergence of New York City as the “hot” new area of entrepreneurship, VC and innovation driven by the quantification of the online advertising industry.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

I was in New York last week with my class at Columbia University and several events made me realize that the Customer Development model needs to better describe its fit with web-based businesses. However the Customer Development Model and the Lean Startup work equally well for startups on the web.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 11, 2017

Guest post by Jennifer Maerz, Program Chair of Lean Startup Co. For eight years, our flagship conference has focused on sharing stories and lessons of putting Lean Startup’s entrepreneurial methodology into practice. Lean Startup Week (Oct. Lean Startup Week (Oct. 31 ( limited to the first 200 Gold Passholders.)

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Steve Blank

JULY 7, 2015

My guests on Bay Area Ventures on Wharton Business Radio on Sirius XM Channel 111 were: Eric Ries , entrepreneur and author of the New York Times bestseller, The Lean Startup. Eric was the very first practitioner of my Customer Development methodology which became the core of the the Lean methodology.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

and China ” New York Times, Jan. Tim Harford, “ The CubeSat Revolution Changing the Way We See the World ” BBC News, July 17, 2019. Raymond said a focus for the Space Force is being lean and fast, innovative and unified. Thompson, “ Space as a War-Fighting Domain ” Air & Space Power Journal, Summer 2018.

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Technical Review Technology Russia United States 373

Steve Blank

JANUARY 21, 2015

I had a better one when I came back from New York. I was in New York last week teaching my annual 5-day version of the Lean LaunchPad class at the Columbia Business School. New York Startups. Michael Bloomberg has yet to get his due for engineering the New York entrepreneurial ecosystem.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 25, 2011

The Lean Startup movement has made tremendous progress in the past year. If you recall, around this time last year we were still fighting various myths , such as “ lean means cheap ” or that we don’t support having a big, world-changing vision. This year, the word pivot has become over-hyped ( even on TechCrunch ).

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 27, 2011

I think most people would agree you should be running as lean and nimble as possible in the beginning, but there is almost always one point that goes unmentioned, and that’s how important every single negotiation is at the start of your business. Their mobile app, “Background Check,” has been downloaded over 1 million times.

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Software Review New York City Cofounder Technical Review 241

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

Excellent detailed resources are everywhere, including a classic book, “ The Startup Checklist ,” by serial entrepreneur and founder of the New York Angels, David S. He nails the current key startup parameters, including the following: Crafting a lean business plan as your road map.

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Intellectual Property Entrepreneur Angel Groups Social Media 261

SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2010

Suggestions for Angel Investors - Feld Thoughts , June 2, 2010 I’m on an Acela train between Boston and New York (listening to Boston’s More Than A Feeling – how recursive) on my way to the TechStars Boston 2010 Investor / Demo day. Personally, I don't like weighty board packs and I do not wish to inflict slide preparation upon anyone.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 5, 2017

I reminded her that all the Lean tools she learned in class–Customer Discovery, business model and value proposition canvases– contained her answer. Evangelists are unabashed cheerleaders and salespeople for your product and, if you are creating a new market, for your company vision. How do I sort out what to do?”.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Lean Startup Machine is the brainchild of Trevor Owens, Josh Horn, and Ben Fisher, a hackathon-style competition where teams come together on a Friday evening and build a brand new startup – by Sunday. Lean Startup Machine came to San Francisco a few weeks ago, after successful debut runs in New York and Chicago.

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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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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Meet the New Enterprise Customer, He’s a Lot Like the Old Enterprise Customer - Ben's Blog , November 15, 2010 Meet the new boss. New York, California different toilet, same s#@t. To that point, I’d been talking about Lean Startup concepts only on a seldom-read blog and with people in my immediate network.

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Technical Review Technology Product CTO Hire 175

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Adam Grant, New York Times bestselling author of Originals , Give and Take , and OPTION B with Sheryl Sandberg Since The Startup Way came out on October 17th, I’ve had a great time traveling with the book, speaking to audiences, and meeting amazing people creating change in all types of organizations.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

Rameet Chawla is the founder of Fueled , an award winning development and design company based in New York and London, and the Fueled Collective , a co-working space in downtown Manhattan. Utilizing these tools and platforms is all about being lean. This post was originally published on his company’s blog.

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Software Review Technical Review HTML Hosting 131

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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Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2009

Frank Serpico was the first police officer in the history of the New York police department to step forward to report and subsequently testify openly about widespread, systemic corruption payoffs amounting to millions of dollars.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 22, 2011

We'll have slides and video from our Lean Startup track posted soon. Don't forget to vote to help choose a Lean Startup SXSW Challenge winner. Next week, I travel to New York, where I'm especially excited to see the entrepreneurial renaissance that is in progress, first hand. SXSW was amazing and exhausting.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 5, 2009

A Phone Call After I left MIPS Computers I was in New York tagging along with a friend (a computer architect whose products at Apple a decade later would change the shape of personal computing) who was consulting for a voice recognition startup. Reply Karma in the Lean Startup Era , on January 28, 2010 at 5:26 pm Said: [.]

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North Carolina Silicon Valley Fractional VPE Part-Time VPE 133

crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 15, 2013

Lean Business: Capacity Management, Overhead, and Your Business – [link]. Lean Business: Capacity Management, Overhead, and Your Business – [link]. Marc Andreessen: Not every startup should be a Lean Startup or embrace the pivot | Gigaom – [link]. Crowdsourced Workforces Rising | Xconomy – [link].

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

In 2012 I got together with Alexander Osterwalder , Henry Chesbrough and Andre Marquis to think about the Lean and the future of corporate innovation. It didn’t take us very long to connect the dots between exponential growth, business model innovation and the “Lean Startup” movement.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 28, 2012

We’ve taught our Lean LaunchPad entrepreneurship class at Stanford, Berkeley, Columbia and the National Science Foundation in 8 week, 10 week and 12 week versions. We decided to find out what was the Minimum Viable Product for our Lean LaunchPad class. We were going to teach the Lean LaunchPad class in 5-days.

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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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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 18, 2012

Or, on low-tech days, pick up one of her videos or New York Times bestselling books covering the same ground as her microblog. Not to be confused with the previously listed Lifehacker, of course, particularly when it comes to leaning. Julie Morgenstern. Lifehack.org. Unclutterer.

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Product Houston Technical Review Social Media 173

K9 Ventures

JUNE 22, 2011

The first few years of Refocus were spent operating as a very lean company with a team of four ( Ren Ng , Colvin Pitts , Tim Knight and Alex Fishman ) focused primarily on research and development and on learning about the market. New York Time, Steve Lohr. Wall Street Jo urnal: Start-Up’s Camera Allows Photos to Be Refocused.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 20, 2012

For the next month or so I'll be on the road, starting in Washington DC and then proceeding to New Haven, New York, and Boston. In case you haven't noticed my hundreds of messages about it, there's a Lean Startup Conference coming up on December 3-4 in San Francisco.

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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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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 2, 2017

“Mission critical reading.” -- Reid Hoffman, co-founder of LinkedIn and co-author of the #1 New York Times bestsellers The Alliance and The Startup of You In just a few weeks, my new book, The Startup Way , will be available in print, digital, and audio formats.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2016

Excellent detailed resources are everywhere, including a new book, “ The Startup Checklist ,” by serial entrepreneur and founder of the New York Angels, David S. He nails the current key startup parameters, including the following: Crafting a lean business plan as your road map.

Intellectual Property 120

Intellectual Property Startup Angel Groups Social Media 120

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 3, 2017

Guest post by Melissa Moore & Jennifer Maerz of Lean Startup Co. Over the last eight years, we’ve learned that our Lean Startup community members are constantly searching for better ways to build and scale products. senior faculty member Jonathan Bertfield The importance of creating islands of freedom, with Lean Startup Co.

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New York Lean Cofounder Silicon Valley 108

Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

To draw titular inspiration from a New York Magazine article entitled Ellen Pao and the Sexism You Can’t Quite Prove (we’ll talk more about Pao later on), I entered into this topic less with the desire to try to “prove” a specific point, but rather to explore an issue that continues to rise to the top of conversation in the entrepreneurial space.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 21, 2013

Lean Business: Save Money, Save the Environment – [link]. Lean Business: Save Money, Save the Environment – [link]. New York Magazine – [link]. Here are some of the links that I’ve liked and shared this past week! Four Ways Small Businesses Can Benefit From Crowdsourcing – [link].

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 93

Up and Running

JANUARY 23, 2019

While areas such as Las Vegas, San Francisco, and New York bring in the most tourists a year, know that high-mileage areas are already saturated with hotels and come with a more expensive up-front cost. You can download a free Lean Plan template to help you get started. Write a business plan.

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Software Review Las Vegas Technical Review San Francisco 83

crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 8, 2013

More founders reject VC money | Crain’s New York Business – [link]. 10 Things Sheryl Sandberg Gets Exactly Right In ‘Lean In’ | Forbes – [link]. The Law on Fonts and Typefaces: Frequently Asked Questions (read the comments too) – [link]. People First – [link]. Answer: [link].

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