Steve Blank

JULY 13, 2021

By the end of the 20th century, case studies and business plans had reached an evolutionary dead-end for entrepreneurs. The Rise of Business Schools – Management as an Occupation. The business school was invented in the first decade of the 20th century in response to a massive economic transformation in the U.S.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 13, 2010

But to give you a sense of how fast they are moving, it’s only been a week since I posted the syllabus for our new Stanford entrepreneurship class Engr245 ( The Lean Launchpad.) Here’s the course announcement from Professor Vergara (in English): Customer Development Course in Chile – Lean Launchpad. Filed under: Teaching.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 18, 2013

The Lean LaunchPad entrepreneurship curriculum has caught fire. I wondered if business plans and 5-year forecasts were the right way to plan a startup. I wondered if business plans and 5-year forecasts were the right way to plan a startup. We were putting the plan before the planning.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

AgileZen – project management visually see and interact with your work Kanbanery – Simple online team or personal kanban board LeanKit Kanban – Great for visualizing work of product development Kanban Pad – “Nice and lean” and free online Kanban tool Banana Scrum – A tool simple as Scrum itself.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 30, 2012

2) All video from the SXSW Lean Startup track is now available for free. At SXSW in 2011, I had a really unusual breakfast meeting. Second, it was the day after the first SXSW Lean Startup track, and I was exhausted. Later that day, Todd Park presented a keynote at the SXSW Lean Startup track.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Lean Marketing Strategies for Small Businesses and Startups – [link]. Ten Crowdsourcing Trends for 2011 – [link]. What crowdsourcing can do for small business – [link]. Seven Ways to Incorporate Crowdsourcing Into Your Business (from Entrepreneur) – [link]. – [link]. – [link].

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Up and Running

MARCH 27, 2014

Have you ever heard of the book The Lean Startup by Eric Ries? It’s an incredible guide to rethinking how you develop your business, whether you’re just starting out or launching a new product or into a new market. I think it’s such a perfect example, and I echo Matt’s feelings about The Lean Startup.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 6, 2011

The Lean Startup Book is done. If you've been waiting for a comprehensive account of the Lean Startup and how it can help you achieve dramatically better business results, this is it. The Lean Startup is a new approach being adopted across the globe, changing the way companies are built and new products are launched.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 7, 2019

And the trick is we use the same Lean LaunchPad / I-Corps curriculum — and kept the same class structure – experiential, hands-on, driven this time by a mission -model not a business model. Hacking for Defense has its origins in the Lean LaunchPad class I first taught at Stanford in 2011. Team: IntelliSense.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 15, 2011

Our new Stanford Lean LaunchPad class was an experiment in a new model of teaching startup entrepreneurship. Autonomow team members: Jorge Heraud (MS Management, 2011) Business Unit Director, Agriculture, Trimble Navigation, Director of Engineering, Trimble Navigation, MS&E (Stanford), MSEE (Stanford), BSEE (PUCP, Peru).

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Steve Blank

MAY 29, 2019

Lean LaunchPad class developed for Stanford. Philip Bouchard : You’ve started teaching at Berkeley since 2002, Columbia in 2003 and at Stanford since 2011. Steve Blank: When I first starting teaching, the capstone entrepreneurship class was how to write a business plan. Worth a read. Mission-Driven Entrepreneurship.

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Up and Running

MARCH 9, 2015

Over the past few months, with the help of my friend Jeff, from the University of Oregon, I’ve been looking at academic research on business planning—the actual science around planning and how it impacts both startups and existing businesses. See Also Introducing Lean Planning: How to Plan Less and Grow Faster.

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www.startuplessonslearned.com

MAY 4, 2012

At the company level, founders learn about the flaws in their initial plans and adjust the startup’s strategy, business plan,and business model. percent) of new firm founders indicated that their business ideas [had] changed between the time they first identified them and the time when they were surveyed about them.”

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

Business Model Design meets Customer Development. Lean Launchpad. Both Stanford and Berkeley have been extremely generous in letting me test these ideas in their engineering and business schools. the Lean Launchpad, the first hands-on class utilizing the entire business model/customer development / agile development stack.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

Lean Startups/Back to Basics (2000-2010): No IPO’s, limited VC cash, lack of confidence and funding fuels “lean startup” era with limited M&A and even less IPO activity. The New Bubble : (2011 – 2014): Here we go again…. (If The Business Plan (Concept- Alpha-Beta - FCS ) became the playbook for startups.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

March 25, 2011 at 7:00 am. March 25, 2011 at 12:58 pm. March 25, 2011 at 12:59 pm. March 25, 2011 at 1:04 pm. March 25, 2011 at 1:12 pm. March 25, 2011 at 1:13 pm. March 25, 2011 at 1:29 pm. If you want to build your business based on the edge cases of success, go right along. Very good post.

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blog.launchbit.com

MARCH 8, 2012

March 10, 2011. Our vision for LaunchBit centers around helping people get their web business ideas off the ground. While the reponses for both leaned toward more important, both had a significant number of people saying it wasnt such a big deal. Mar 10, 2011. Mar 10, 2011. Mar 10, 2011. Mar 10, 2011.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Lean Methodology Sources. Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. Part 3- Lean Cust. Steve Blank’s Lean Startup Resources. Small Business tools list. Lean Startup Circle â?? Lean project management. BPS : Business Plan Servicesâ?? business planning. Codeacademy.

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Hunter Walker

JANUARY 11, 2021

Traditional venture capital models lean into what’s called ‘power laws.’ But I will absolutely acknowledge that companies which take any outside capital implicitly and explicitly incorporate the needs and expectations of that capital into their business planning. So when a founder pitches me a business (and please do!

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Steve Blank

JULY 20, 2015

Errol Arkilic was the lead program director for the National Science Foundation I-Corps , which uses my Lean LaunchPad curriculum to teach scientists and engineers how to take their technology out of the lab and into the marketplace. The Lean LaunchPad class. But nothing else like [The Lean LaunchPad class] was being taught. .

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grasshopperherder.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

Unless your name is Eric Ries and it’s called “ lean startup.&# (Seriously, you’d be surprised how often this comes up.) …and lastly Don’t Negotiate with Me I’m sure that there are a lot of people who will disagree with me on this because it’s largely a question of corporate culture. Totally agree.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Writing A Business Plan. Running A Home-Based Business. Naming a Business. Financing a Small Business. Buying a Small Business. RUNNING A BUSINESS. The 2011 Inc. The 2011 Top Lists. Strategy and Planning >. But Ive definitely had to lean on Dave. Business Owners Council.

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blog.startupsquare.com

APRIL 13, 2010

2 Comments Tags: Customer Development , lean startup , pivot , Strategy. note: For those not familiar with the term, pivot is a lean startup vocab word that states in it’s simplest form: If your business model isn’t working, change something. So I decided to make a list of my potential pivots. More on this below.)

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Up and Running

JULY 16, 2015

From the beginning and all along the way, careful planning has guided the business from revenues of $35,000 in 2011, to $400,000 in 2014, and estimates of $700,000 for 2015. See Also Maternova and the Business of Saving Lives. By May 2011, they were ready to see if the public was as receptive as their neighbors.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Clearly it'd be more accurate to say "sometime in Q1 2011." No Business Plan Survives First Contact With A Customer – The 5.2 Vision Synching in a Lean Startup - Startup Marketing Blog , November 12, 2010 In the age of the lean startup , we often forget about the importance of vision. Absolutely.

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Campus Entrepreneurship

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

The Knackeo Team @ Triangle Startup Weekend 2011. Knackeo , a start-up in the education space, was born at the Triangle Startup Weekend in June 2011. Even more exciting is that he emailed that his firm uses lean start-up methodology and asked if the students were familiar. Blank and others promote.

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Campus Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

We expect that most proposals will come from teams entered in the HBS Business Plan Contest. However, you are not required to enter the Business Plan Contest to apply for this funding. His book, The Lean Startup Book will be published in Fall, 2011. HBS points us to Eric’s Minimum Viable Product Guide.

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Up and Running

MARCH 1, 2016

In 2011, it accounted for approximately $2.3 At Palo Alto Software, we use the One-Page Pitch feature in LivePlan to quickly validate new business ideas. You can do this on your own too using the lean planning methodology. See Also: One Easy Trick to Get Your Business Plan Done in Under an Hour.

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Up and Running

MARCH 21, 2017

“A pivot is a change in strategy without a change in vision,” says Eric Ries , author of The Lean Startup. This is a look at how CallHub has evolved out of three business pivots—what we learned, where we went wrong, and how we finally got it right. See Also: 6 Business Idea Validation Tactics to Improve Your Business Planning.

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rob.by

MARCH 8, 2012

Certainly using techniques such as customer development (www.custdev.com) and lean startup (minimum viable product) can help go a long way to giving the tech co-founder some early payback in terms of whether there will be any traction in the idea and reduce their inital involvment to get to prototype stage.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

How to stay lean and iterate quickly while you’re building a two sided marketplace, especially when “network effect” and “critical mass” are the two main focuses? No investor cares about a business plan. the overseas business is a $billion security market. © Copyright 2011 Maple Butter.

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Scalable Startup

MAY 16, 2015

“Boom and bust is our lot and we must follow the ancient advice.that Joseph gave to the Pharaoh: Put away your surplus during the years of great plenty so you will be ready for the lean years which are sure to follow.”. Governor Jerry Brown, State of the State speech, January 2014. California alone lost a million jobs.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

Will Price , October 11, 2010 Georgians Should Vote No - Force of Good: a blog by Lance Weatherby , October 28, 2010 Free Software for Managing a Lean Startup - Platforms and Networks , January 17, 2010 Purpose Driven Life - Journey of a Serial Entrepreneur , July 26, 2010 Two Decade-Defining Acquisitions?

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