Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

It’s the antithesis of the Lean Startup. The mantra of “ first mover advantage ,” the idea that winners are the ones who are the first entrants in their market, became the conventional wisdom of investors in Silicon Valley.“ The Rise of the Lean Startup. But NewTV doesn’t plan on testing these hypotheses. And it may work.

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Lean Burn Rate Startup IPO 335

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. Origins of the Lean Startup.

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Lean Technical Cofounder Silicon Valley Channel 120

VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

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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Venture Capital Technical Review LP Institutional Investors 215

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

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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Japan Customer Development Developer Customer 300

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

What this meant for entrepreneurs and VCs was a bit more complex– the IPO market was all but closed (with the Google IPO in 2004 as a brilliant exception), but it was possible find a buyer for your company. My experience of 2001-2004 is very remote from what you are describing. Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice.

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Silicon Valley IPO Technical Review Venture Capital 230

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 19, 2011

He tells the story of how he was out of cash, stressed out, nobody in LA or Silicon Valley would give him money, he had finally found an investor in Minneapolis but his venture bank was going to shut him down for breaking a “covenant&# in their agreement by not having enough cash in the bank. .

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Acquisition Warrant Customer Term Sheet 304

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

It was fall 2004, and the presidential election was in full swing. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Six streaming locations Interviews ► March (7) New conference website, speakers, agenda Two new scholarship programs for lean startups Speed up or slow down?

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Demand San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment 167