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Is the Lean Startup Dead?

Steve Blank

It’s the antithesis of the Lean Startup. The Rise of the Lean Startup. The idea of the Lean Startup was built on top of the rubble of the 2000 Dot-Com crash. Lean started from the observation that you cannot ask a question that you have no words for. But NewTV doesn’t plan on testing these hypotheses. And it may work.

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Hear how the Lean Startup began — and helped one company find success: Episode 2 on Sirius XM Channel 111: Eric Ries and Jon Sebastiani

Steve Blank

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. Origins of the Lean Startup.

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How’s Venture Capital Changing in 2023

VC Cafe

2023 will be one of the best VC seed vintages, but most institutional LP's are not leaning in. Maybe surprisingly, but emerging managers in particular, outperformed ‘blue chip’ funds from 2004 to 2020. It’s time to build, and take venture back to basics: helping founders build large sustainable companies. Support emerging managers.

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The Lean LaunchPad Educators Class

Steve Blank

The Lean LaunchPad entrepreneurship curriculum has caught fire. In 2004 I funded IMVU, a startup by Will Harvey and Eric Ries. It’s called the Lean Startup. So my book and Berkeley class turned into the Lean LaunchPad class in the Stanford Engineering school. Victor Hugo. Teaching “Search versus Execution”. In 2003 U.C.

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Customer Development in Japan: a History Lesson

Steve Blank

To celebrate the debut of the Japan edition of “The Startup Owner’s Manual” and to express great thanks to Steve and his co-author Bob Dorf, I would like to reflect back what first drew me to this book and offer Steve’s worldwide readers a look at the progress of Customer Development and the Lean LaunchPad class in Japan.

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The Lean LaunchPad Educators Class

Steve Blank

The Lean LaunchPad entrepreneurship curriculum has caught fire. In 2004 I funded IMVU, a startup by Will Harvey and Eric Ries. It’s called the Lean Startup. So my book and Berkeley class turned into the Lean LaunchPad class in the Stanford Engineering school. Victor Hugo. Teaching “Search versus Execution”. In 2003 U.C.

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The Search For the Fountain of Youth – Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the Enterprise

Steve Blank

Customer and Agile Development (and the Lean Startup ) may be the emerging methodologies large companies need to build innovative new products. The Ambidextrous Organization, Charles O’Reilly / Michael Tushman : April 2004. Darwin and the Demon: Innovating Within Established Enterprises, Geoffrey Moore : July/August 2004.

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