2000 Customer Development Engineer Startup 
Steve Blank
MAY 6, 2015
It’s time to update Build, Measure, Learn to what we now know is the best way to build Lean startups. Build a product, get it into the real world, measure customers’ reactions and behaviors, learn from this, and use what you’ve learned to build something better. Then came the Build-Measure-learn focus of the Lean Startup.
Steve Blank
MARCH 18, 2011
What are they, how do they differ and what can startup do to take advantage of them? Paths to Liquidity: a quick history of the four waves of startup investing. Dot.com Bubble ( 1995-2000): “ Anything goes” as public markets clamor for ideas, vague promises of future growth, and IPOs happen absent regard for history or profitability.
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Steve Blank
OCTOBER 3, 2016
In a startup, your ideas turn into reality really, really fast. A startup founder needs to never lose sight of the vision, but be extremely adaptable to pretty much everything else. In a startup, you don’t fight the system; you are the system. We were mostly selling our product to engineers. Most are hallucinations.
Steve Blank
OCTOBER 3, 2016
In a startup, your ideas turn into reality really, really fast. A startup founder needs to never lose sight of the vision, but be extremely adaptable to pretty much everything else. In a startup, you don’t fight the system; you are the system. We were mostly selling our product to engineers. Most are hallucinations.
Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 10, 2008
I am convinced one of Joel Spolskys lasting contributions to the field of managing software teams will turn out to be the Joel Test , a checklist of 12 essential practices that you could use to rate the effectiveness of a software product development team. He wrote it in 2000, and as far as I know has never updated it.
Steve Blank
OCTOBER 4, 2010
This one phrase became the theoretical underpinning of the out-of-control spending of startups during the dot-com bubble. Soon every other VC was using the phrase to justify the reckless “get big fast” strategies of dot-com startups during the Internet Bubble. First to develop or patent an idea. Fast Followers – a better idea.
Steve Blank
MAY 5, 2016
The show follows the journeys of founders who share what it takes to build a startup – from restaurants to rocket scientists, to online gifts to online groceries and more. There’s a Death Valley of startups trying to do business with schools and teachers. It gets you to a business faster. I’ve seen it before.
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