Sheridan Hall on Thriving in Startup Chaos by Founder
Sheridan Hall, founder of Operation Hired, offers thoughtful and practical advice on thriving in startup chaos.
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Elise Zhu on How Founders can Design Around Stress
The following is a guest post by Elise Zhu on the important topic of how founders can identify and manage stress, especially facing important decisions under conditions of high uncertainty. Deciding Under Fire: What Stress Does to a Founder’s Brain (and How to Design Around It)
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Lean, Agile, and Agility are All About a Learning Mindset
A learning mindset allows founders to explore the unknown, persevere through setbacks, and gain traction.
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Using AI to Make Smarter Bets: Forecasting & Decision-Making
Innovation always feels like a gamble—especially when you’re bootstrapping. The difference between a good bet and a bad one can mean the life or death of your business. Yet too many founders rely on gut instinct. This video shows how AI can help small business owners make smarter, leaner decisions without losing flexibility. Tristan Kromer
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Startup Viability Toolkit: 6 Viability Worksheets to Test and Validate Your Business Idea
We developed a set of business viability worksheets that help startup entrepreneurs think clearly and make informed decisions.
Sales KPIs for Startups
For salespeople, KPIs must be connected to revenue like the number of leads generated and how those leads convert through the sales funnel.
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Newsletter March 2025: Sensemaking for Entrepreneurs
Sensemaking is a critical skill for entrepreneurs, allowing them to navigate uncertainty and adapt to unexpected challenges.
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Jeff Allison: How to Drive Innovation and Meet Commitments
Innovation requires experimentation that allows for the possibility of failure but the whole point of creating a program commitment process is to avoid failure.
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From Desk to Founder: How to Transition Into B2B Entrepreneurship in 2025
Étienne Garbugli teaches professionals and consultants how to become B2B founders.
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10 Best Practices for Agile Hardware Product Development
Mike Keer discusses the concept of agile hardware, which involves cycles of innovation and testing requirements throughout the prototyping phases. He emphasizes the importance of learning from each cycle and making necessary adjustments to meet specifications and performance goals. He also highlights the need for flexibility and the ability to pivot in response to unexpected
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Paul Orlando – How to Quantify if a Market is Ripe for Your Product
Timing plays a significant role in the success of startups. It’s about recognizing the right moment to launch a product or service that aligns with emerging trends, consumer demand, and market conditions.
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Time to Market Podcast S01 E01 – B2B? But Why?
Welcome to “Time to Market,” a brand new podcast by SKMurphy and LeanB2B. In this very first episode, we discuss why we like B2B markets.
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Entrepreneurship’s Ups and Downs
Michael Risich – Entrepreneur turned technologist, turned technology founder with an exciting journey building a SaaS business scaling to 10M in ARR with an exit to a PE firm!
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2023 – This year’s experiment
Every year we design experiments – new things we try. Our 2023 experiment was doing short 2 minute videos – chalk talks. Below is a roundup of some of our favorites.
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Clear in Hindsight: April 2022 ended a Minsky boom for startups
A Minsky boom is a period of economic growth characterized by increasing instability and speculation, ending in startup funding constricting.
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Mike Krupit on Network Density and Fluidity
In the video below, Mike Krupit, founder of Trajectify, shares some interesting insights on density and fluidity your network. Mike Krupit on Network Density and Fluidity An edited transcript for readers: Mike Krupit on the importance of your network The other thing I will say is having a network. When we’re starting a business, we’re
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John Nash on “Make Something that People Want”
Video and an edited transcript from the “Make Something that People Want”” briefing by John Nash at the Aug-24-2022 Lean Culture meetup.
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Kristin Zhivago: How to put yourself in your customers shoes
Video and transcript from the “How to put yourself in your customers shoes” briefing by Kristin Zhivago at the March 2022 Lean Culture meetup. She highlights the importance of putting yourself in your customers’ shoes in order to develop a more effective marketing strategy and ultimately drive revenue growth.
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Peer Advice and Support for Startup Founders
Entrepreneurs benefit from peer advice that provides knowledgeable perspectives, highlights blind spots, and lifts them out of ruts.
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A Random Walk Down San Fernando by Jack Estill
Recently, we had a chat with Jack Estill, retired business owner and Lecturer Emeritus at San Jose State University, about the economics of entrepreneurship and Austrian economics.
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