Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

Beyond just those who will be hearing about the lean startup for the first time, Im expecting to shake a lot of hands and have a lot of interesting side conversations. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Im especially curious to gauge the reaction of the civilian and military representatives of our government.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

To create this first year in business checklist, I turned to our in-house experts here at Palo Alto Software: Sabrina Parsons, CEO; Noah Parsons, COO; Josh Cochrane, Vice President of Product Development; and Josh Fegles, Academic and Government Channel Sales Director, and founder of gluten-free cookie company Jude’s Foods.

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

Step 1: Start with a lean plan. Instead of sitting down to write a 40-page business plan, start with a one-page pitch. It’s the fastest way to get your idea onto paper, and it’s the very first step in the lean planning process, which is much easier and more iterative than traditional business planning methods.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 7, 2021

These are the four stages of a product we’ll be focusing on. . However, on a more granular graph, the introduction phase would be preceded by a product development stage. This stage is used to determine the viability of your product and confirm when it should go to market. It also gives you a product to market.

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Steve Blank

MAY 7, 2009

My two cents is that a business plan is the single place to collect your thinking about about your: business model, distribution channel, demand creation plan, financial assumptions, and customer and product development plan. If winning $5-10K is your goal, you’re not a scalable startup, just a small business.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 12, 2013

When Clarity and Culture are tied together as strategy, integration expands to include not only consistent branding elements, advertising messages, sales promotion, public relations but things like human resources, strategic relationships, customer service, and product development. The view of integration. If You Liked This Post.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 6, 2014

In the last few years Agile and “Continuous Deployment” has replaced Waterfall and transformed how companies big and small build products. Agile is a tremendous advance in reducing time, money and wasted product development effort – and in having products better match customer needs.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

The word kanban means “signboard” or “billboard” in Japanese, and it’s a concept most commonly applied to “lean” or “just in time” production. Kanban is a scheduling system for “just in time” production. See Also: 5 Ways to Keep Your Small Business Growing. Supply only what is needed when it is needed.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 11, 2019

This kind of holistic, high-level thinking is valuable and necessary to ensure that you don’t get lost chasing after details that don’t deliver the return on investment your business needs to survive. This perspective will allow you to lean into situations that your brand strengths will help you master.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 17, 2013

Related posts: Lean startups: Office space for the 21st Century. Lean vs. Mean – Small Business and Responsibility. Lean Marketing: Public Relations strategies for small businesses and startups. Determine your needs. Photo: An event at the crowdSPRING office.

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Up and Running

JULY 26, 2017

Before devoting resources to building a full version, consider launching an MVP (minimal viable product) first. Learn more about validating your business idea and product concept here.

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 5, 2010

The knowledge that you need 10,000 hours to master a subject, that certain trends become viral after the 412th person adopts it, or that you should make your product remarkable, is not going to help you launch. Nor will it save you a single minute during product development, or sell one more copy of your application.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 21, 2010

And because both small businesses and startups have a high mortality rate, sometimes these images lead us to believe that any small business is a startup. I emphasize this point because it is necessary to motivate large amounts of the theory of the lean startup. Wrong again. Wrong again.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 13, 2017

of the 25 million businesses in the US are small businesses plus 850,000 small businesses are created each year. 4 This is important and highly encouraged along every step of the way in your product development process. Keep pivoting until you have a product that works, then you can scale.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

The one side, I think it’s a really interesting point you bring up, which is does it immediately lean toward to creating new products and services? Joe Pulizzi: And it’s wonder, you know, looking at it from the small business side for just a moment. I’ll give you a small and a big example.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 10, 2018

You might develop a fairly simple business plan first as you start a small business, and that might be enough for you. This is an excellent use of the Lean Business Planning methodology , based on a simple Lean Plan combined with regular updates and revisions. A simple business plan example.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

5 Social Media Growth Hacks for Small Businesses by Forbes. And you need to understand the potential impact of product-economic fit so that you can be better prepared for it.”. Growth hacking is done best when it begins at the start of product development. Step 1: Product Development. …Really?

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 19, 2011

Without this information, it’s very difficult to raise funds, understand how much you can/should spend on product development and marketing, evaluate the success of your marketing efforts, etc. In the following video, I offer five suggestions that can help you define the size of a market for a startup business.

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Up and Running

JULY 26, 2016

1x hacker in charge of product/development. 1x hipster working with both product and growth. See Also: A Complete Guide to Forecasting Sales for Your Monthly Subscription (SaaS) Business. Lean marketing. Then, in 2015, this is who we added to the team: Jan-15: Head of Customer Success (growth team).

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This is going to be BIG.

JULY 25, 2022

For example, you may decide that a small business needs a widget like yours (hypothesis) so you outbound to 100 of them (goals) with a vaporware deck to see if you could sell some pre-orders. Very quickly, those bullets turn into a few things: One or more hypotheses. Goals for early efforts to prove or disprove your hypotheses.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

It’s Easy to Be Great…It’s Hard to Be Consistent - Software By Rob , November 4, 2010 No link from TechCrunch, write-up on Mashable, mention by Leo Laporte, or Tweet by Ashton Kucher is going to make your business. love to find great products and services made by entrepreneurs who are trying to change the world. Corelli and Laura D.

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Up and Running

JULY 24, 2015

Product development. If you need a little help with your product development and getting it on store shelves, you can check out Edison Nation. They can help with development and licensing, too. Small Business Administration Loan Programs. MoneySmart for Small Businesses. Edison Nation.

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Up and Running

JULY 19, 2016

” Here’s an example of that template in action for a social media consulting service, with the components separated: “For [small business owners who want social media marketing but don’t have time to do it themselves], our social media services [do it for them without taking their time and effort].

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Small Business Tips: 5 More Great Online Tools (Have I Mentioned These Before?) – crowdspring.co/1y6EixS. Busting the Lean-Startup Myth – crowdspring.co/1ozOXHA.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

So, if you’re anything like me, your first startup will need to be self-funded and operated with a very lean budget. Instead, I had to scrape and claw my way through the pre-launch, startup process, and scale of my business. Current and new customers care a lot more about product or service quality, and the value of your item.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 13, 2016

In some situations the product or service itself can accomplish these goals, but often it is great brand identity that can make the difference between your first customer or a lost lead. Though most startups know the importance of brand identity, it can often take the back seat to more pressing matters such as product development or finances.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 11, 2014

Edwin: Small to medium, so I have people that have teams of five people in their company, 20 people in their company up to 200. Jason: For example, like in America, small business is up to 150. I do think that most of my customers are small/medium businesses. Jason: Okay. I’m just clarifying. Edwin: Yes.

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Steve Blank

MAY 18, 2009

Next, you have to deal with the daily crisis of product development and acquiring early customers. And here’s where life gets really interesting, as the reality of product development and customer input collide, the facts change so rapidly that the original well-thought-out business plan becomes irrelevant.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

He should then bootstrap his product development by using the consulting fees. David should use his credibility in capacity planning and convince a dozen customers to pay him consulting fees to solve their capacity planning problems.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

He should then bootstrap his product development by using the consulting fees. David should use his credibility in capacity planning and convince a dozen customers to pay him consulting fees to solve their capacity planning problems.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 21, 2013

Lean Analytics is the latest addition to the Lean Series. Business growth comes from improving one of these five “knobs”: More stuff means adding products or services, preferably those you know your customers want so you don’t waste time building things they won’t use or buy. You can order Lean Analytics today.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Lean Methodology Sources. Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. Part 3- Lean Cust. Steve Blank’s Lean Startup Resources. Small Business tools list. Lean Startup Circle â?? small business CRM. Great for visualizing work of product development. Codeacademy.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 10, 2012

Start Small Finish Big: Fifteen Key Lessons to Start and Run Your Own Successful Business. Author Fred DeLuca shares his experience as the young founder of the Subway restaurant chain, highlighting the most important principles for starting a small business. Running Lean: Iterate from Plan A to a Plan That Works.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

Find Questions, Topics and People Add Question Add Question Team Configuration 500 Startups Guerilla Marketing Organizations Entrepreneurship Startup Founders & Entrepreneurs Startups Startup Incubators and Seed Programs Seedcamp Y Combinator TechStars Lean Startups What is the perfect startup team?

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

How to stay lean and iterate quickly while you’re building a two sided marketplace, especially when “network effect” and “critical mass” are the two main focuses? Near shoring development with your team (ex: your team is based in Canada / India) is cool, but not outsourcing. Looking forward to Metabridge.

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Transformify

JUNE 6, 2019

Called the Toyota Production System, it is one of the success stories about the lean manufacturing process. Lean manufacturing simply aims to minimize waste as much as possible because in this industry, and other manufacturing-related industries, it is very easy to accumulate it. How to apply it to your business?

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Small Business Force

MARCH 22, 2013

Keep it simple to start with, and know that every product, no matter how innovative, has "holes" and "warts." Use "Lean Start-up" principles Every product designer should embrace "Lean Start-up" principles with earlier and iterative product releases to shorten product development cycles, measure progress, and gain valuable customer feedback.

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