Steve Blank

APRIL 29, 2010

Berkeley’s Haas Business School since the fall of 2004 and in a joint MBA with Columbia since 2005. The rubble was still bouncing from the dot-com collapse and my goal was to teach students that there might be another way to think about how to build a startup. We needed to teach both Customer Development and Agile methodologies.

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mashable.com

MAY 9, 2011

I asked a panel of successful young entrepreneurs what fledging tech startups should be looking for in a CTO hire to ensure founders get the right person for the job. It will be important that your CTO can execute on big projects, too, hacking away to build an amazing product that is agile. Experience with Startups!

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Steve Blank

JUNE 29, 2009

Steve Job’s 2005 Stanford commencement speech still says it best - Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish. Agile Opportunism – Entrepreneurial DNA « Steve Blank (tags: startup) [.] Agile Opportunism – Entrepreneurial DNA. Thoroughly enjoy each one of your posts. Reply What did I learn today? Reply Create.

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Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. Salesforce.com is a startup with 76,000 subscribers (over 2.1M I also joke with Reid Hoffman that this was back in the days before he was “Reid” Reid’s an incredible entrepreneur, startup investor, and human being. How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC. May 26, 2011.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 3, 2017

After years of being at startups where you get to do 100 different things and are forever looking for ways to be more innovative, I somehow found myself at this miserable little consulting company who was very into conformity and liked to put each of us into little boxes. I started my company in 2005 as a full-service marketing agency.

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Agile VC

APRIL 17, 2011

AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. round closed Feb 2005. How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC Syndicate 10 July 2012, 5:13 pm What A VC Orders for Breakfast Says 27 June 2012, 10:16 am To Leave or Not to Leave as Your Startup Grows 12 June 2012, 12:21 pm. How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC. Cliff Notes S-1: Kayak.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 15, 2011

The basis of the concept, as applied to startups, comes from the Lean manufacturing world popularized by Toyota. My guest for this week’s episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast is Eric Ries , entrepreneur in residence at Harvard and author of The Lean Startup.

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Agile VC

MARCH 13, 2012

AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. I have some limited experience in dealing with patents though, both from my time as a VC and also back in my own startup days. It was filed in 2005 and issued in 2010 which means there was a good deal of prior art around SNS before Yahoo filed. How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC.

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SVPG

DECEMBER 29, 2013

Much has been written about waste at startups. I started writing about this as far back as 2005 (see Startup Product Management ), and this concept is at the core of the Lean Startup movement. But the purpose of this article is not to complain about waste in government, or yet more about waste in startups.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 26, 2012

For a technology startup company to launch an initial product and survive long enough to gauge its success, requires two-orders-of-magnitude less money today than at the start of the previous decade. You're at a constant level of anxiety, and it makes you more agile and responsive - a lot of good things happen.".

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2020

So now I'm home-based in Austin, Texas and I'm spending a lot of time with a lot of startups and a lot of CEOs that are trying to scale their companies. So we went back, got our agile teams engaged and in 48 hours, we could put up aerial of people's homes. Be very outcome-driven in the world we're going to. Let's go."

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 9, 2015

To prepare the discussion, I worked with my colleague Pia d'Iribarne on a short memo summarizing a few elements that could be addresses in the labor law to reduce complexity and increase the agility of start-ups. PS: many thanks to Pia who joined us recently for her contribution to this post.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 20, 2009

This wave of 1950′s/’60′s startups (Watkins-Johnson, Varian, Huggins Labs, MEC, Stewart Engineering, etc.) military by other new startups; Sylvania Electronics Defense Laboratory, Granger Associates, Philco, Dalmo Victor, ESL and Argosystems. You never heard of them because their work was secret.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 5, 2008

You can find the 2005 version here. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? No departments The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business R. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Startup Lessons Learned - the Conference (April 23. Expo SF (May. .

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 17, 2019

And if you had a blog back in 2005 2006 you probably were blogging on blogger.com on Blogspot. So one of the big things I hear often from the startups I advise, they’ll come to me, they’ll say, “Hey, we just launched a new campaign on Twitter I and it’s not seeing any sales and we are totally bombed.”

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Agile VC

APRIL 13, 2012

AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. Urbanization of Startups. I spent some time with some startups in San Francisco proper, as opposed to the heart of Silicon Valley (see Note 1). Also all the big anchor companies that a startup might want to partner with at that time (eBay, Google, Oracle, Yahoo!, April 13, 2012.

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mashable.com

MAY 5, 2011

In April, “stealth” social media startup Kohort announced its upcoming launch. In the startup world, this itself perhaps isn’t uncommon, but what made Kohort’s story unique is the fact that those thousands of users had no idea what Kohort was when they signed up. Here are four tricks startups have used to make it happen.

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Where to Play

OCTOBER 26, 2017

Marc Gruber, helps business leaders to quickly identify, evaluate, and focus on the opportunities that offer the most value for their innovations, while keeping them agile enough to respond to unforeseen changes. Design Your Agile Focus Strategy. Agile Focus Dartboard. Implications of the Agile Focus Strategy.

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Agile VC

OCTOBER 5, 2012

I’m always thrilled to speak with undergraduates who are interested in startups. <3 years) company that began as a startup. Joining Microsoft in 1987 or Yahoo in 1997 or Google in 2005 or Facebook today still gives someone new to the professional world a lot of the exposure to the “startup” world.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

“ Steve Jobs, Stanford University commencement speech, 2005. What we suggest to teams in the classroom is the same as I suggest to teams in real world startups – after customers and experienced people are telling you it won’t work –. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. Are You Crazy Enough ?

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

“ Steve Jobs, Stanford University commencement speech, 2005. What we suggest to teams in the classroom is the same as I suggest to teams in real world startups – after customers and experienced people are telling you it won’t work –. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. Are You Crazy Enough ?

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 22, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, March 22, 2010 The new startup arms race (for Huffington Post) The Huffington Post published an op-ed on the Startup Visa movement that Ive been working on for some time. The New Startup Arms Race Americas future prosperity depends on our ability to maintain this lead.

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mashable.com

MAY 24, 2011

Discovery by social and webapp html5 is more agile and less icon-find-item-search. Have an account?

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

You become so steeped in tools and techniques that have absolutely no relevance outside of.NET that you are actually less valuable to a startup than had you just taken a long nap. Two things: If you ever want to work in a startup, avoid.NET. But what they do is very, very rarely startups. It does you no favors.

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mashable.com

JUNE 11, 2013

16 Common Mistakes Young Startups Make. Are you working on a startup? In fact, recent research shows that 75% of startups fail (based on a study of 2,000 startups that received VC funding from 2004 to 2010). Some startups are destined for failure. Whats This? By Lauren Drell 2013-06-10 14:46:07 UTC. Hiring Poorly.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 12, 2009

Since then, PHP (as part of the LAMP stack ) has really been the dominant development platform, at least in the free software and startup worlds. And yet I keep returning to PHP as a development platform, as have most of my fellow startup CTOs. Given that startups depend on superstars to survive, why stick with PHP?

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Startup Resources (Updated Mar 2013). Venture Capital Cafe > Startup Resources (Updated Mar 2013). VC & Startup Resources. Seed Startups. VC Cafe covers early stage Israeli and European tech & mobile startups. Hundreds of startups featured since 2005, will yours be next? About VC Cafe.

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