Steve Blank

MARCH 3, 2015

Berkeley Haas Business School is a leader in entrepreneurship education. It has replaced how to write a business plan with hands-on Lean Startup methods. The final deliverable for that class was a 30-page business plan. We had multiple business plan competitions. The Business Plan is Dead.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Their idea is that consumers will want a subscription service for short form entertainment (10-minute programs) for mobile rather than full length movies. Most entrepreneurs today don’t remember the Dot-Com bubble of 1995 or the Dot-Com crash that followed in 2000. He just hired Meg Whitman. the ex-CEO of HP and eBay, as CEO of NewTV.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 21, 2012

Programming Your Culture | TechCrunch - [link]. Good read about how Aviary changed its business model | The Verge - [link]. “your business plan cannot be secret anymore.” This is what the internet looked like in 1995. Hire For Cultural Fit Over Competence - [link]. Don’t Think Big.

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 100

thebarefootvc

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

When I was in high school, a classmate and I started a peer mentoring program for our middle school which has grown and flourished. Yes I was gifted with talents but so are EACH of us, including the millions, billions of others who were just unlucky to be born in different circumstances.

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Another sign of how little the initial idea is worth is the numberof startups that change their plan en route. Microsofts originalplan was to make money selling programming languages, of all things.Their current business model didnt occur to them until IBM droppedit in their lap five years later. Thats nonsense.

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