Steve Blank

MAY 10, 2017

I first heard about him when his driverless car won the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge. 3:30 Lean Startup (What is it? 8:30 Customer Discovery (What is the Lean Stack). 12:37 Small Businesses vs. Scalable Startups (Should I take Risk Capital). Sebastian is the embodiment of a renaissance person. What is it?).

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Austin Startup

MAY 11, 2017

Aligned Partners offers our portfolio companies world-class venture capital expertise while enabling founders to start lean and stay lean all the way through their growth. home Breaux Capital Breaux and Company is a creative agency and social justice startup incubator. Fueled by Gayle Jobyrne and Kathryn Finney.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 30, 2013

Though the notion of a “lean startup” that uses both Agile and Customer Development approaches is ostensibly strongly customer focused, the purpose of these methodologies is for the company to find an maximize its market, not specifically to optimize the user experience. The essay follows. I think he totally nails it.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 26, 2021

You’ll hear from Staples on the five positive emotions that are the most effective in content to get people to lean forward and share: happiness, awe, curiosity, empathy, and surprise. He then went on to found his own business and run marketing for a number of early-stage startups. Click here to listen to the episode.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

For others it feels like a two-speed economy, where rules apply to hot tech startups that don’t apply elsewhere. An obvious example is Google who may have gotten less market attention if there would have been 8 well-financed competitors during the 2001-2005 timeframe. If you are interested the Vimeo is here. That’s a fact.

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Altgate

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

We tried to provide a framework for startups to think about what activities should be outsourced and why. What kind of startup outsources everything? Well, you’re right, most don’t, but one example of a startup that does is PlentyOfFish. Also, most startup attorneys will do deferred payment plans.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 15, 2011

While the word lean might conjure up notions of cheap, it’s really about taking a scientific approach to innovating, measuring and responding in ways that stop companies from wasting time and money. The basis of the concept, as applied to startups, comes from the Lean manufacturing world popularized by Toyota.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 5, 2017

I joined Facebook in November 2005 and Twitter in November 2009. Let them know you’re a shoulder to lean and won’t make any drastic moves unless they, or someone else, are in danger. And how can we help lead them in the right direction?

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 26, 2014

Building a startup is tough, but building a startup in a vacuum is virtually impossible. There are amazing groups like Startup America and Lean Start Up that hold meet-ups for entrepreneurs to network at and collaborate. Plug into a community.

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Thanks to Alexandra Caffery, Fresh n’ Lean ! #8- When I started my company in 2005, I spent too many years working so much both IN and ON the business that I burned out. Thanks to Ande Lyons, Startup Life with Ande Lyons ! #18- I think a little fear is not necessarily bad. 8- Talk to people alot. Photo Credit: Danielle Berman.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 25, 2010

We did a full day entrepreneurial retreat called “ ADPrentice 2010.&# This is the second time we’ve done this – the last time was ADPrentice 2005. Several ADP alums, including Sameer Gandhi (Accel Partners), Mark Siegel (Menlo Ventures), and Eran Egozy (founder/CTO of Harmonix) came and participated.

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500hats.com

AUGUST 2, 2012

It’s no coincidence we designed 500 Startups with these evolutions in mind, altho none of the required strategies have been easy to execute and we are still refining our approach. In short, we were a lot more geeky than the previous generation of fund managers , and we started blogging a lot about tech startups and best practices.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 14, 2013

We built our product at Koral in 2005 with this design philosophy in mind. I have worked with teams who fully embraced the user testing espoused in the Lean Startup movement and they often build much better products by watching feedback earlier in the design cycle. Startup Advice' Find out for sure.

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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. Once you put a lot of money in, you're no longer lean and flexible and kinkin' and jivin' and trying to figure it out," he says.

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 12, 2011

Everyone wants to be an entrepreneur at the moment, and resources such as WorkInStartups , Founder2Be and Enternships have sprung up to help people locate co-founders and create or work in startups. Strikingly the vast majority of startup positions advertised are for technical co-founders such as CTO or Developer.

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genylabs.typepad.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Planning, Startups, Stories. Member since 01/2005. Wall Street Journal: With New Technology, Start-Ups Go Lean. SF Chronicle: Ultralight startups: little capital, just computer. Should You Hire People With Graduate Degrees for Your Startup? Small Business Blogs. Entrepreneur Magazine Blog. OReilly Radar.

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Up and Running

APRIL 1, 2015

It’s like the plot of a Hollywood movie: Three best friends, with no prior business experience, decide to band together and form a startup business. The startup takes off, raising venture capital funds faster than you can say “storybook ending.”. This was our first stab at a legitimate startup,” says David. “In says David.

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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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Up and Running

MAY 7, 2018

In his popular book “ The Lean Startup ,” Eric Ries tells fledgling business to fail fast. By 2005, GoPro had $150,000 in revenue. It’s time to change your mindset on this one and accept that failure will happen, but that failure is a teacher that shows us how not to do something.

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The Equity Kicker

JULY 8, 2019

Over the last twenty years both of these features of the startup financing world have changed dramatically flipping the balance of power from investor to entrepreneur. . As the number of startups has exploded over the last 30-40 years best practices have been developed that can be shared from one early stage company to the next.

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Bryce Dot VC

NOVEMBER 19, 2012

When we set out to raise our first fund in 2005, we began a nearly two year journey involving enormous amounts of educating the market on what a seed fund was and why we felt there was such a compelling opportunity to build a new firm solely focused on this breed of cash efficient startups that make our model work.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 12, 2011

Creating Customer Bliss Accelerate Your Startup The Trend Towards Lean Startups Are You Making Evil Plans? You can listen to the show by subscribing the feed in iTunes or a variety of other free services such as Google Listen (Use this RSS feed ) or you can buy the Duct Tape Marketing iPhone app. 5 Practical Tips for Gett. :

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 27, 2011

The Trend Towards Lean Startups How to Get an MBA for Less Than $20 Has Social Media Changed Customer Service? You can listen to the show by subscribing the feed in iTunes or a variety of other free services such as Google Listen (Use this RSS feed ) or you can buy the Duct Tape Marketing iPhone app. 5 Practical Tips for Gett. :

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 8, 2015

Last week LinkedIn reminded me that it’s been 9 years since I started VC Cafe (Dec 2005). I summarized the list of tools I used to collect information about startups in the Ultimate Startup Intelligence Tools List and also crowdsourced the list of tools on hackpad (which was since acquired by Dropbox).

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Altgate

OCTOBER 18, 2010

@altgate Startups, Venture Capital & Everything In Between Skip to content Home Furqan Nazeeri (fn@altgate.com) ← Startup Executive Compensation Scorecard Pre-Money Valuation vs Number of Founders → No one wants to tell you your baby is ugly Posted on October 18, 2010 by admin No one wants to tell you your baby is ugly.

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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. And the truth is that's yesterday and you don't really have the ability to change what you did yesterday, but what you do have the ability today, is to lean into this.

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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.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 11, 2010

(I am often asked to explain how to apply Lean Startup approaches to domains beyond software. The key to understanding Lean Startup is to recognize two things: Lean Startup techniques confer maximum benefit in the upper-right quadrant, namely high market uncertainty coupled with fast cycle time.

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K9 Ventures

JUNE 22, 2011

This is how I remember it: It’s September 2005, and I was sitting in my office at Stanford in Gates 382. In walks Ren Ng , introduces himself and says something along the lines of “I hear you do startups, could we chat?” ” Ren, now Dr. Ren Ng, was a fellow PhD student with me at Stanford.

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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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Steve Blank

JULY 19, 2017

In 2005, he returned to West Point (where he earned his undergrad degree) and ran the Combating Terrorism Center. By the middle of this year Hacking For Defense started to feel like it had the same momentum as when my Lean LaunchPad class at Stanford got adopted by the National Science Foundation and became the Innovation Corps (I-Corps).

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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) [.] Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. Thoroughly enjoy each one of your posts. This one particularly resonates with me. Now In Print!

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

If you’ve been searching for the perfect business for you, you’ve probably considered many factors such as time commitment, initial startup costs, and competition. The startup investment is minimal. Freedom from renting an office space can save you thousands of dollars during those early lean years.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 11, 2011

I started focusing on design as an actual professional service around 2004-2005, after a lot of practice and study. If you lean more toward context, purpose, and artistry, will you be able to make a living at it full-time? If the ups outweigh the downs, then go for it. Find your niche. Find what inspires you about design.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Not all startups need outside investment to grow. What most founders don’t realize is: Every stage of a startup requires a different set of metrics and milestones and founder skills. And thanks to Ann Miura-Ko of Floodgate (my first Lean LaunchPad co-instructor) for her suggestions. The Startup Investment Landscape.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 6, 2015

When I counsel startup entrepreneurs I give them my blunt dose of reality, “If you can’t easily identify target leads who have a problem you can solve then hang up your cleats – you’re not going to succeed.” I think that’s where many startups and even VC funds go wrong. Why Buy Anything ?

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

The year was 2005, and the real estate was booming. When we launched Traindom, we knew nothing about lean startup methodology or customer development. I learned a ton about startup marketing, figuring out your target users, and the importance of getting the product right. It all started in Dubai. I was 25 years old.

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