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The Lean LaunchPad Educators Class

Steve Blank

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. So what would a search process for a business model look like? In 2003 U.C. That is until Alexander Osterwalder wrote Business Model Generation.

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The Lean LaunchPad Educators Class

Steve Blank

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. So what would a search process for a business model look like? In 2003 U.C. That is until Alexander Osterwalder wrote Business Model Generation.

Lean 178
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The Evolution of Entrepreneurial Education and Corporate Innovation

Steve Blank

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. And as part of that we’ve developed a set of tools that could be used to search for business models.

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EMC buys portfolio company Greenplum - more behind the story

BeyondVC

We also leveraged the open source database platform PostgreSQL as the initial foundation for our technology. We bought that company in 2003 and invested some more capital. When we sold GoToMyPC to Citrix, we also restarted the company from the initial business model that we had and did a complete 180 degree change.

Portfolio 109
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EMC buys portfolio company Greenplum – more behind the story

BeyondVC

We also leveraged the open source database platform PostgreSQL as the initial foundation for our technology. We bought that company in 2003 and invested some more capital. When we sold GoToMyPC to Citrix, we also restarted the company from the initial business model that we had and did a complete 180 degree change.

Portfolio 109
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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

also, like i said, pre-launch, the business guy doesn’t provide much value. after launch, however, having a good business guy becomes very important. also, just to clarify, the first idea we worked on that we called “meebo&# back in 2003 was my idea. Hopefully your idea of business model isn’t “ad revenue based”.

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BizMe2 is Looking to Disrupt Conferences with Turnkey Solution (Interview)

VC Cafe

Yair Margolin: I was a member of the core team at Peerapp in 2003, a supplier of caching solutions for ISPs. Content created by users and exhibitors for a specific event is an excellent source of SEO. what’s BizMe2′s business model?). VC Cafe: You have a pretty long track record in startups.