Steve Blank

JUNE 4, 2012

As the morning fog burns off the California coast, I am working with Steve Blank, preparing for the Lean LaunchPad Faculty Development Program we are running this August at U.C. million) of the 15 million net new jobs created between 1993 and 2009. The reality is that the United States is still a nation of small businesses.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

Consider: in about 1993, Apple released the Apple Newton. This brings us to our last cliché which is essentially the answer to this question: you use the business plan as the filter, but you do not use the BIG, wordy, old-school business plan, you use the lean business plan. The best approach is in fact the LEAN business plan.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 1, 2018

This was in 1993, and I was the chief marketing officer at Frito-Lay North America. So we decided we needed to go and attack head on how to do innovation from a cultural perspective, which turned out to be the Lean Startup methodology. Your first big innovation was also a huge cultural moment. What was it, and how did it come about?

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Agile VC

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

This seems like a no-brainer but Ballmer and the MSFT board might lean towards a less risky path. Remember Lou Gerstner ran American Express before taking the helm at IBM in 1993. The path to being awesome in something would look roughly like this. 1) Hire transformative CEO to replace Ballmer.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 22, 2009

IBM had a near death experience in 1993, and moved from a product-centric hardware company to selling a complete set of solutions and services. Intel was founded in 1968 to make memory chips ( bipolar RAM ) but 17 years later they got out of the memory business and become the leading microprocessor company.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 28, 2018

In the Lean world, “green” means project details are on track. We’ve been around since 1993 (we’re a dinosaur compared to the technology startups of the 2000’s – another play on the alligator – but we’ve experienced great success, and our name helps us stand out from our competitors.

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

should have leaned on them a lot more, but I didn't, or at least not in the right ways. California Milk Processor Board) – 1993. Fresh out of college and a summer internship at a VC firm, I thought I knew what I was doing. Coming up with a memorable tagline can present an even greater challenge. Make it unique.

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