Steve Blank

JULY 7, 2015

My guests on Bay Area Ventures on Wharton Business Radio on Sirius XM Channel 111 were: Eric Ries , entrepreneur and author of the New York Times bestseller, The Lean Startup. Eric was the very first practitioner of my Customer Development methodology which became the core of the the Lean methodology. Taking My Class.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

It helped that in the nuclear winter that followed the crash, 2001 – 2004, startups and VCs were extremely risk averse and amenable to new ideas that reduced risk. As mobile devices offer a platform of several billion eyeballs, potential customers which were previously small niche markets now include everyone on the planet.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 29, 2010

I’ve been teaching Customer Development at U.C. Berkeley’s Haas Business School since the fall of 2004 and in a joint MBA with Columbia since 2005. Back in 2004, Jerry Engel the head of the Entreprenuership program at Haas Business School at U.C. A lot has happened since I first authored and taught the class. Four Steps.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

It was fall 2004, and the presidential election was in full swing. One day, we became convinced that a killer app for IMVU would be to sell a presidential debate bundle, where our customers could put on a Bush or Kerry avatar, and then engage in mock debates with each other. What is customer development?

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Steve Blank

APRIL 15, 2016

In 2004, he launched Folio Fine Wine Partners with his wife Isabel and their children, Rob, Jr. You had to convince the wholesalers and the distribution channel, but you also had to convince the end users, right? Tune in Thursday at 1 pm PT, 4 pm ET on Sirius XM Channel 111. Steve : It seems like there was a multisided market.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 15, 2016

In 2004, he launched Folio Fine Wine Partners with his wife Isabel and their children, Rob, Jr. You had to convince the wholesalers and the distribution channel, but you also had to convince the end users, right? Tune in Thursday at 1 pm PT, 4 pm ET on Sirius XM Channel 111. Steve : It seems like there was a multisided market.

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