Steve Blank

JUNE 18, 2013

I wondered if business plans and 5-year forecasts were the right way to plan a startup. It dawned on me that the plans were a symptom of a larger problem: we were executing business plans when we should first be searching for business models. We were putting the plan before the planning.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 18, 2013

I wondered if business plans and 5-year forecasts were the right way to plan a startup. It dawned on me that the plans were a symptom of a larger problem: we were executing business plans when we should first be searching for business models. We were putting the plan before the planning.

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Steve Blank

MAY 29, 2019

Philip Bouchard : You’ve started teaching at Berkeley since 2002, Columbia in 2003 and at Stanford since 2011. Steve Blank: When I first starting teaching, the capstone entrepreneurship class was how to write a business plan. But years ago, we had no alternative – how to write a business plan was it.

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www.xconomy.com

JUNE 9, 2012

Ministry of Supply Puts MIT Engineering Cred Into Dress Shirts. Q&A: Group Commerce Plans Hires, European Growth with $21M Funding. of Computer Science and Engineering, Univ. Subscribe for Free. Xconomy San Diego. Our Cities ▾ Boston ›. View More in Boston ›. Sakti3 Founder Sastry to Step Down From U-M. New York ›.

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www.frozennorth.org

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

Sunday - September 28, 2003 at 03:37 AM in. To all those entrepreneurs with innovative, unique business ideas who want to capitalize on them before someone else does, I have one piece of advice: Get over it. Good venture capitalists understand this, and many will refuse to sign an NDA before looking at a business plan.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 22, 2017

When my father had his business plan all set up, he brought it to the rabbi and got a benediction for a successful business. When he left the neighborhood, he decided that because he got a benediction from the rabbi in Crown Heights, he’d name his business (CrownTV’s parent company) Crown Heights.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

I wondered if business plans and 5-year forecasts were the right way to plan a startup. Experienced entrepreneurs kept finding that no business plan survived first contact with customers. We were putting the plan before the planning. So what would a search process for a business model look like?

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