2011, Customer Development and Partner

The Lean LaunchPad Class: It’s the same, but different

Steve Blank

MARCH 26, 2019

So in 2011, with support from the Stanford Technology Ventures Program (the entrepreneurship center in the Stanford Engineering School), we created a new capstone entrepreneurship class – the Lean LaunchPad. If you had dropped by in 2011, the first time I taught the class, and then stuck your head in today, you’d say it was the same class.

Lean

Lean Business Model Balance Sheet Video

China’s Torch Program – the glow that can light the world (Part 2 of 5)

Steve Blank

APRIL 11, 2013

By 2011, there were a total of 1034 Technology Business Incubators across China, including 336 as National incubators, hosting nearly 60,000 companies. (20% Filed under: China , Customer Development , Technology , Venture Capital. China Customer Development Technology Venture Capital'

Programming

Programming Technical Review SBIR China

Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2021 Lessons Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2021

Although the class was run completely online, and even though they were suffering from Zoom fatigue, the 10 teams of 42 students collectively interviewed 1,142 beneficiaries, stakeholders, requirements writers, program managers, industry partners, etc. – while simultaneously building a series of minimal viable products.

Lean

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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

JULY 7, 2015

Eric was the very first practitioner of my Customer Development methodology which became the core of the the Lean methodology. Jon Sebastiani , founder and CEO of KRAVE Jerky , a company that got its start in my class at Berkeley back in 2011 and was recently acquired by Hershey. Taking My Class. Origins of the Lean Startup.

Lean

Lean Technical Cofounder Silicon Valley Channel

China’s Torch Program – the glow that can light the world (Part 2 of 5)

Steve Blank

APRIL 11, 2013

By 2011, there were a total of 1034 Technology Business Incubators across China, including 336 as National incubators, hosting nearly 60,000 companies. (20% Filed under: China , Customer Development , Technology , Venture Capital. China Customer Development Technology Venture Capital'

Programming

Programming Technical Review SBIR China

Startup Tools

steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

It’s more reference material. Thus, these pages. I’ll add more as time goes on.

Software Review

Software Review Startup Silicon Valley Analytics

Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 20: Nayeem Hussain and Will Zell

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

If you’re a venture capitalist … you have limited partners that give you money to invest on their behalf, and you’re responsible for giving them outsize returns. Will was honored at the White House as part of the 2011 Empact 100 list , for his work as a young entrepreneur. Nayeem : (Nods.) Nayeem : I didn’t, no.

Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley Ohio Columbus Entrepreneur

The Class That Changed the Way Entrepreneurship is Taught

Steve Blank

JULY 13, 2021

A decade later, I began to teach the foundations of Lean, first at UC Berkeley (Customer Development) and then at Stanford using cases and business plans. Launched in 2011, the Lean LaunchPad capstone entrepreneurship class was unique in that it was: team-based. Let’s Teach Lean Via Experiential Learning. experiential.

Lean

Lean Agile Business Model Business Plan

The Lean LaunchPad Online

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

I read a ton of existing literature and came up with a formal methodology for search I called Customer Development. That resulted in a new process for Search: Customer Development + traditional product management/Waterfall Engineering. Berkeley asked me to teach a class in Customer Development.

Lean

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When Krave Jerky Showed up in Class with a $435,000 Check

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Hershey just bought Krave Jerky, a team in our 2011 Berkeley Lean LaunchPad class, for >$200 million. —– Jon Sebastiani and his team came into the 2011 Berkeley Lean LaunchPad class with several key observations: Snack foods were a large ~$35 billion but the moribund food category was starving for innovation and modernization.

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North America Lean Customer Development Distribution

Zhongguancun in Beijing – China’s Silicon Valley (Part 4 of 5)

Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

I trained the Startup Weekend Next Beijing mentors and instructors, presented to several hundred entrepreneurs, and had a great fireside chat with Zhen Fund founding partner Xu Xiaoping in front of another roomful of entrepreneurs. To compare the two, in 2011 U.S. By comparison, in 2011 Chinese VC’s invested $13 billion in all deals.

Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley China Venture Capital Merger

The Lean LaunchPad Educators Class

Steve Blank

JUNE 18, 2013

I read a ton of existing literature and came up with a formal methodology for search I called Customer Development. Berkeley asked me to teach a class in Customer Development at Haas business school. Then in July 2011, the National Science Foundation read my blog posts on the Lean LaunchPad class. In 2003 U.C.

Lean

Lean Agile Customer Development Business Model

Get Out of The Building – And Win $50,000

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

This startup search process is the business model / customer development / agile development solution stack. Business Model Design meets Customer Development. the Lean Launchpad, the first hands-on class utilizing the entire business model/customer development / agile development stack.

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Agile Business Model Customer Development Lean

Making a Dent in the Universe – Results from the NSF I-Corps

Steve Blank

JUNE 11, 2012

We’ve taught two cohorts: 21 teams ending in December 2011 , and 24 teams ending in May 2012. Few of the Principal Investigators or Entrepreneurial Leads had startup experience, and few of the mentors were familiar with Business Model design or Customer Development. Here’s what they found. They left with very deep knowledge.

Lean

Lean Incubator Business Model Georgia

Why Internal Ventures are Different from External Startups

Steve Blank

MARCH 26, 2014

For those who don’t know, I wrote the book Open Innovation in 2003, and followed it with Open Business Models in 2006, and Open Services Innovation in 2011. The success of Documentum and Document Sciences, they felt, came largely from Xerox technology and customers, yet the startup companies XTV funded got all the credit.

Startup

Startup Business Model Lean Russia

Impact! NYU Scales the Lean LaunchPad

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

—– In August 2011 I received an email from someone at NYU I never heard of. The Lean LaunchPad class teaches students how to build a Lean Startup using business model design, customer development and agile engineering. Teams have to get out of the building and talk to 10-15 customers a week.) Make it Better.

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. Mark Suster GRP Partners Advice. Philippe Botteri,Â Bessemer Venture Partners. Their Partners all come from industry, where each has held senior level executive positions delivering industry-leading products. Lodestone Innovation Partners (IP) Ltd are spin-out specialists.

Software Review

Software Review Technical Review Startup

Zhongguancun in Beijing – China’s Silicon Valley (Part 4 of 5)

Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

I trained the Startup Weekend Next Beijing mentors and instructors, presented to several hundred entrepreneurs, and had a great fireside chat with Zhen Fund founding partner Xu Xiaoping in front of another roomful of entrepreneurs. To compare the two, in 2011 U.S. By comparison, in 2011 Chinese VC’s invested $13 billion in all deals.

Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley China Venture Capital Merger

The Lean LaunchPad Educators Class

Steve Blank

JUNE 18, 2013

I read a ton of existing literature and came up with a formal methodology for search I called Customer Development. Berkeley asked me to teach a class in Customer Development at Haas business school. Then in July 2011, the National Science Foundation read my blog posts on the Lean LaunchPad class. In 2003 U.C.

Lean

Lean Agile Customer Development Business Model

What is the perfect startup team?

www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

are just emerging for business people (customer development, business model generation,). Duncan Connor • Jan 4, 2011 I was about to provide an answer, but then read this response and realized Saul had already provided an even better response than I would have done. Dave McClure • Jan 9, 2011 Home run Saul.

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Where is the best place to find a rockstar developer to bring it to life?

www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

" => I have not bothered to put up a landing page, survey to test customer demand, or done any customer development whatsoever. "Where is the best place to find a rockstar developer to bring it to life?" Stephen Pitt-Francis • Jan 5, 2011 Why? Murray Robinson • Jan 5, 2011 Stephen.so

Developer

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The National Science Foundation Innovation Corps – What America Does Best

Steve Blank

MARCH 26, 2012

We ran the first National Science Foundation Innovation Corps class October to December 2011. 63 scientists and engineers in 21 teams made ~ 2,000 customer calls in 10 weeks , turning laboratory ideas into formidable startups. In-between the 2011 pilot class and the first NSF class of 2012, I got a call from Congressman Dan Lipinski.

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America Rhode Island Southern California Illinois

Getting out of the building…by staying in the building!

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 30, 2014

However, one of the bottlenecks in actually doing Customer Discovery for medical devices/health care is testing how minimal viable products work in-context. Testing hypotheses with doctors, patients, payers, providers, purchasing departments, strategic partners is hard. It Takes a Village.

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Things to Avoid When Recruiting Co-founders

grasshopperherder.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

Reply Josh Strike says: January 18, 2011 at 10:50 am Tristan, the only thing I disagree with on an emotional level is the NDA business. Reply Tristan says: January 18, 2011 at 1:04 pm Josh, I totally agree with you. Reply Feature Overload » Blog Archive » QUESTIONS FOR A CO-FOUNDER says: January 18, 2011 at 1:40 pm [.]

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Founder's Dilemmas: Equity Splits

www.startuplessonslearned.com

MAY 4, 2012

For instance, when Robin Chase and her partner, Antje, founded the car-sharing startup Zipcar, they agreed with a quick handshake to split the equity 50–50. Robin wondered when her partner would be able to become more involved, but, in the end, Antje never joined full-time. ► 2011. (28). ► March. (3).

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Women 2.0 » FounderDating: How I Found My Co-Founder

www.women2.org

MARCH 8, 2012

Published on: July 13, 2011 Posted By Angie Tags: Elizabeth Knopf , Finding A Co-Founder , FounderDating , Sorced , Technical Co-Founder , Tips & Tricks. After quitting my job and starting Sorced , I spent a few months validating my business concept by creating the product mockups and doing customer development. Debriefing.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 27: Brandon Bruce and Jack Sundell

Steve Blank

APRIL 7, 2016

Before opening The Root Café with his wife Corri in 2011, Jack Sundell was in the Peace Corps. — Building a partner network was another crucial thing for Cirrus, Brandon said: Brandon : People said a SAAS (Software as a Service) companies like ours, haven’t had a lot of success selling through partners.

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Towards a new entrepreneurship

Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 2, 2010

Sure, when entrepreneurs create startups that grow up into mature companies, they become part of an established industry, with its own ecosystem, norms, partners and best practices. Im just starting the publishing process that should lead to a book for a general business audience in 2011. Writing a book. Talk about long cycle times!

San Francisco

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment DC

Nailing that elusive technical co-founder

www.kernelmag.com

MARCH 8, 2012

The Scene Developers Nailing that elusive technical co-founder. Wednesday, 21 December 2011. Recently, my friend Harjeet Taggar, partner at US seed fund YCombinator, tweeted that, increasingly, the problems faced by start-ups they fund are being addressed by other start-ups. Yiannopoulos. The Nutshell. Editors’ Blog.

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We have a CTO, and so can you!

www.aaronkharris.com

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

Skipping ahead a bit Suffice it to say that we spent much of the last few months on customer development, a topic which merits its own post, and at which I think we’ve done a decent job. At that point, I shifted a major part of my time to tech specific networking, as did Josh. startupcto

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Finding Technical Cofounders Is Hard

rob.by

MARCH 8, 2012

He argued that software engineers don’t finish what they start, and that you’re better off paying a technical person than partnering with one. A business partnership is like a marriage and finding a long term partner is a very difficult thing. Finding someone to partner with isn’t easy.

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Lessons from the Front Line of a Microfund

The Entrepreneurial Mind

MARCH 10, 2011

Each of the selected concepts for our first year of operating this microfund received $15,000 in equity capital and special arrangements with participating partners for marketing, accounting, legal and technology services. Program Content : "Lean Startup / Customer Development in practice. In addition, three members.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 3: Frank Rimalovski and Frank Sculli

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

Frank : Somewhat serendipitously through a contact I made through IBM, I learned about this opportunity in NYU… to create a new venture fund to essentially do very similar work to what I’ve been doing inside Lucent and the venture partners … to work with researchers and invest capital to create new startups….

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Crazy! 189 Answers To The Top Startup Questions On Your Mind

maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

What is the best advice you can give for finding a business partner? Don’t quickly choose any business partner. The key is to ask the right people what they think – not your friends, parents or partner. The right people are potential customers – ask them if they have the problem. Initial developer: partner or hired?

Technical Review

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Top 57 Online Startups Meets Technology Meets Product Posts for November 2010

SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Clearly it'd be more accurate to say "sometime in Q1 2011." The Ultimate Combination of Startup Business Development Methods - ArcticStartup , November 16, 2010 I've been a huge fan of Steven Blank's Customer Development methodology for a long time. If nothing changes, when will you run out of money?

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StartUpRoar

The Lean LaunchPad Class: It’s the same, but different

China’s Torch Program – the glow that can light the world (Part 2 of 5)

Trending Sources

Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2021 Lessons Learned Presentations

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

China’s Torch Program – the glow that can light the world (Part 2 of 5)

Startup Tools

Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 20: Nayeem Hussain and Will Zell

The Class That Changed the Way Entrepreneurship is Taught

The Lean LaunchPad Online

When Krave Jerky Showed up in Class with a $435,000 Check

Zhongguancun in Beijing – China’s Silicon Valley (Part 4 of 5)

The Lean LaunchPad Educators Class

Get Out of The Building – And Win $50,000

Making a Dent in the Universe – Results from the NSF I-Corps

Why Internal Ventures are Different from External Startups

Impact! NYU Scales the Lean LaunchPad

Startup Resources

Zhongguancun in Beijing – China’s Silicon Valley (Part 4 of 5)

The Lean LaunchPad Educators Class

What is the perfect startup team?

Where is the best place to find a rockstar developer to bring it to life?

The National Science Foundation Innovation Corps – What America Does Best

Getting out of the building…by staying in the building!

Things to Avoid When Recruiting Co-founders

Founder's Dilemmas: Equity Splits

Women 2.0 » FounderDating: How I Found My Co-Founder

Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 27: Brandon Bruce and Jack Sundell

Towards a new entrepreneurship

Nailing that elusive technical co-founder

We have a CTO, and so can you!

Finding Technical Cofounders Is Hard

Lessons from the Front Line of a Microfund

Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 3: Frank Rimalovski and Frank Sculli

Crazy! 189 Answers To The Top Startup Questions On Your Mind

Top 57 Online Startups Meets Technology Meets Product Posts for November 2010

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