Steve Blank

MARCH 14, 2012

The Ziilion customer discovery narrative blog is here. Stanford e245 2012 class photo. Curriculum = business model canvas + customer development. Relentless customer visits (10-20 a week). On-line journal to document their customer discovery narrative. One mentor (VC or experienced entrepreneur) per team.

Lean 251

Lean Business Model Customer Development China 251

Steve Blank

MARCH 7, 2012

We’ll teach over 175 NSF Innovation Corps teams in the Lean LaunchPad course in 2012. The 2012 Stanford Lean LaunchPad Presentations. The class is intensely and deliberately experiential to develop the mindset, reflexes, agility and resilience an entrepreneur needs to search for certainty in a chaotic world.

Lean 260

Lean Business Model Agile United States 260

YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

The upcoming Startup Weekend in Singapore, will be held on March 9-11, 2012, at NUS Business School. Over Saturday and Sunday, teams will focus on customer development, validating their ideas, practicing LEAN Startup Methodologies and building a minimal viable product. - Hell, there’s even a book on it!

Singapore 162

Singapore Colorado Startup Lean 162

Steve Blank

APRIL 14, 2013

By the end of 2012, there were 85 million iOS and 160 million Android devices in China. Entrepreneurs in Beijing were knowledgeable about Silicon Valley, entrepreneurship and the state of software and tools available for two reasons. Almost every entrepreneur I met was using VPN to circumvent the Great Firewall. Management 101.

China 326

China Silicon Valley Non-Compete Intellectual Property 326

Steve Blank

JANUARY 15, 2017

And finally this bill acknowledges that networks of entrepreneurs and mentors are critical in getting technologies translated from the lab to the marketplace. IN 2012, Representative Dan Lipinski (D-Il), co-chair of the House STEM Education Caucus, got on an airplane and flew to Stanford to see the class first-hand.

Lean 120

Lean Technical Review Government Programming 120

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

In 2012, in partnership with Stanford University , U.C. The class was designed to teach educators (and the adjunct entrepreneurs that support them) the Lean LaunchPad approach (Business Model Design, Customer Development and Agile Engineering) for teaching entrepreneurship.

Delaware 302

Delaware Lean Entrepreneur Advisory Board 302

Hearpreneur

JULY 30, 2016

Share A census in 2012 found that 36% of all businesses were owned by women – a number which has steadily increased. Female entrepreneurs and business owners are no longer taken with a grain of salt. I recently sat on a panel where the discussion was the challenges facing female entrepreneurs – out in the wilderness.

Technical Review 48

Technical Review Technical Cofounder Entrepreneur CTO Hire 48

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

Why it’s important for entrepreneurs to temper confidence with regular reality checks was the focus of the guests on today’s Entrepreneurs are Everywhere radio show. Chris Schroeder is an American entrepreneur, advisor and investor in interactive technologies and social communications. . You are the entrepreneur.

Washington 294

Washington Entrepreneur Silicon Valley Cofounder 294

Steve Blank

APRIL 14, 2013

By the end of 2012, there were 85 million iOS and 160 million Android devices in China. Entrepreneurs in Beijing were knowledgeable about Silicon Valley, entrepreneurship and the state of software and tools available for two reasons. Almost every entrepreneur I met was using VPN to circumvent the Great Firewall. Management 101.

China 218

China Silicon Valley Non-Compete Intellectual Property 218

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

In 2012, in partnership with Stanford University , U.C. The class was designed to teach educators (and the adjunct entrepreneurs that support them) the Lean LaunchPad approach (Business Model Design, Customer Development and Agile Engineering) for teaching entrepreneurship.

Delaware 194

Delaware Lean Entrepreneur Advisory Board 194

Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

Last May, I shared the news that long-time Lean Startup advocates Brant Cooper and Patrick Vlaskovits were working on a new book called The Lean Entrepreneur featuring illustrations by FAKEGRIMLOCK. After the 2012 conference I viewed it as an opportunity to reflect on the growth and evolution of the movement as a whole.

Lean 167

Lean Entrepreneur Agile San Francisco 167

David Teten

MARCH 28, 2012

Koen, Gyorgy, and Adham are all Columbia Business School MBA 2012 students and former consultants with McKinsey and BCG. Even the best VCs and entrepreneurs have a painfully high failure rate. We’re now in the midst of surveying VCs and entrepreneurs for this research. Entrepreneurs please click here.

Portfolio 144

Portfolio Private Equity Venture Capital Early Stage 144

www.women2.org

MARCH 8, 2012

Conference 2012. Lessons learned from female founders and women entrepreneurs. 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. female founders. founder friday. However, I needed to actually build it!

Cofounder 47

Cofounder Technical Review San Francisco Founder 47

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

Experienced entrepreneurs kept finding that no business plan survived first contact with customers. 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.

Lean 321

Lean Georgia Michigan Business Model 321

Steve Blank

JANUARY 22, 2013

Lean LaunchPad Colombia starts again today in Bogota with 25 more teams of tech entrepreneurs and at 25 mentors from the country’s universities, incubators, and chambers of commerce. SENA and the Colombian Ministry of IT: targeting 15,000 young entrepreneurs. We held the first cohort of 25 teams in Oct 2012.

Colombia 324

Colombia Lean Silicon Valley Coder 324

Up and Running

DECEMBER 6, 2012

Lean Planning started with Tim Berry ‘s 2008 “ Plan-As-You-Go Business Plan ” which was a new way for entrepreneurs to think about planning. Also, the “customer relationships” section didn’t seem to fit for many traditional businesses. Does the solution the entrepreneur is proposing actually solve the problem?

Lean 147

Lean Silicon Valley Forecast Technical Review 147

YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 14, 2013

Of the ten startups in the inaugural 2012 class, four have raised follow-on funding to date, and one even reached the break-even point and expanded to Silicon Valley. It recently announced the results of its incubator program – and the results look promising.

Silicon Valley 231

Silicon Valley Europe Venture Capital Incubator 231

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

Why it’s important for entrepreneurs to temper confidence with regular reality checks was the focus of the guests on today’s Entrepreneurs are Everywhere radio show. Chris Schroeder is an American entrepreneur, advisor and investor in interactive technologies and social communications. . You are the entrepreneur.

Washington 120

Washington Entrepreneur Silicon Valley Cofounder 120

Steve Blank

JANUARY 22, 2013

Lean LaunchPad Colombia starts again today in Bogota with 25 more teams of tech entrepreneurs and at 25 mentors from the country’s universities, incubators, and chambers of commerce. SENA and the Colombian Ministry of IT: targeting 15,000 young entrepreneurs. We held the first cohort of 25 teams in Oct 2012.

Colombia 285

Colombia Lean Silicon Valley Coder 285

Steve Blank

MARCH 9, 2016

The two guests on today’s Entrepreneurs are Everywhere radio show tell it like it really is to navigate the chaos of a startup. The program examines the DNA of entrepreneurs: what makes them tick, how they came up with their ideas; and explores the habits that make them successful, and the highs and lows that pushed them forward.

Silicon Valley 120

Silicon Valley Cofounder Entrepreneur IPO 120

Steve Blank

JUNE 11, 2012

We’ve taught two cohorts: 21 teams ending in December 2011 , and 24 teams ending in May 2012. In July 2012 we’ll teach 50 more teams, and another 50 in October. Mentors (average age ~50) are an experienced entrepreneur located near the academic institution and has experience in transiting technology out of academic labs.

Lean 256

Lean Incubator Business Model Georgia 256

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

I figured any academic who was as persistent as an entrepreneur had earned my time. 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.) So Frank did.

Lean 273

Lean New York City New York Customer Development 273

Steve Blank

JANUARY 29, 2016

These topics were the focus of interviews with the latest guests on Entrepreneurs are Everywhere , my radio show on SiriusXM Channel 111 (airing weekly Thursdays at 1 pm Pacific, 4 pm Eastern). She was the 2012 National Women in Business Champion for the Small Business Administration. If you can’t hear the clip, click here.

Entrepreneur 120

Entrepreneur Monaco San Francisco Cofounder 120

www.kernelmag.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Thursday, 8 March 2012. The Scene Developers Nailing that elusive technical co-founder. But if tools are plentiful and costs resemble rounding errors, what stands in the way of the would-be entrepreneur of 2012? Development by Message and Adrian McShane. New technology for enquiring minds. Yiannopoulos. Andy Young.

Cofounder 43

Cofounder Technical Cofounder Founder Coder 43

Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

In the few days I was in China I met with several VC’s, angel investors, business press and spoke to hundreds of entrepreneurs. We had a fireside chat with a room full of eager entrepreneurs. If it’s driven by profit then the ecosystem needs both entrepreneurs as well as Venture Finance. Entrepreneurship in Beijing.

Silicon Valley 271

Silicon Valley China Venture Capital Merger 271

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 14, 2012

In 2012, in partnership with Stanford University , U.C. The class was designed to teach educators (and the entrepreneurs that support them) the Lean LaunchPad approach (Business Model Design, Customer Development and Agile Engineering) for teaching entrepreneurship. and I had to pull them back when we met in class.

Developer 305

Developer Arizona Lean Business Model 305

Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

In the few days I was in China I met with several VC’s, angel investors, business press and spoke to hundreds of entrepreneurs. We had a fireside chat with a room full of eager entrepreneurs. If it’s driven by profit then the ecosystem needs both entrepreneurs as well as Venture Finance. Entrepreneurship in Beijing.

Silicon Valley 163

Silicon Valley China Venture Capital Merger 163

Up and Running

MARCH 13, 2015

In his recent Reddit AMA, visionary and serial entrepreneur Elon Musk wrote: “It is important to view knowledge as sort of a semantic tree—make sure you understand the fundamental principles, i.e., the trunk and big branches, before you get into the leaves/details or there is nothing for them to hang on to.”.

Entrepreneur 60

Entrepreneur Elevator Pitch Silicon Valley Semantic 60

Steve Blank

JULY 2, 2015

He was named by Defense News as one of the 100 most influential people in the defense industry in 2012. Masato Iino has been entrepreneur of a couple of startups and an investor for the last twenty years. Takashi and Masato founded Learning Entrepreneur’s Lab (LEL) in 2014. Pete directed the investment of over $1.4B

Channel 120

Channel Japan Bosnia Silicon Valley 120

www.startuplessonslearned.com

MAY 4, 2012

Tuesday, April 24, 2012. For example, most entrepreneurs know that the most successful entrepreneurs - from Bill Gates to Jeff Bezos - kept tight control over their companies. Having seen these dilemmas derail countless startups, I wish every entrepreneur and prospective founder would read this book." - Eric.

Equity 72

Equity Founder Technical Cofounder Cofounder 72

Up and Running

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Lean Planning is a concept that we introduced back in 2012 as an evolution in business planning. Lean Planning started with Tim Berry’s 2008 book, “The Plan-As-You-Go Business Plan,” which was a new way for entrepreneurs to think about planning. It starts with “Plan-As-You-Go”. Do startups have a manual?

Lean 60

Lean Silicon Valley Business Model Forecast 60

Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2018

Each of their slide presentations follow their customer discovery journey. All the teams used the Mission Model Canvas , Customer Development and Agile Engineering to build Minimal Viable Products, but all of their journeys were unique. The teams presented in front of several hundred people in person and online.

Southern California 176

Southern California San Diego Mississippi SBIR 176

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

A group of Seedcamp entrepreneurs started a startup tools wiki for that purpose, and we thought it would be well suited here. Tools for Hackathons – added Dec 2012. Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. List of Angel/SuperAngel Investors for entrepreneurs. Walker Law:Â Tips for Entrepreneurs.

Software Review 53

Software Review Technical Review Startup 53

ReadWriteStart

MAY 4, 2012

Not every company from the spring class of TechStar’s Boston 2012 is going to go on to fame and fortune. The second thing is to really dig in and to make sure you are getting the right data and customer development. There are a couple very strong companies and a few others that may have trouble surviving in crowded markets.

Startup 117

Startup Boston Elevator Pitch Database 117

Gust

AUGUST 8, 2012

I’m no UI/UX designer or product manager, but I do work with entrepreneurs daily. Entrepreneurs building new products and services are passionate about them, wanting more than anything to beat the pants off the competition and dazzle potential customers with their creations such that they willingly part with their hard-earned money.

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Customer Southern California San Jose Marketing 143

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

” April, 2012 – Andrew Chen writes Growth Hacker is the new VP Marketing , which goes viral (2.4K September, 2012 – Andrew Chen, who currently does growth at Uber , writes You don’t need a growth hacker , which encourages companies to really consider whether they have product-market fit before hiring a growth hacker.

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Retention Metrics Acquisition Conversion 48

maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

Written By Dan Martell on February 2nd, 2012 | Category: Hiring LeanStartup Marketing Metrics Startup Life | 6 Comments. If you’re an Entrepreneur, you can do it from any place in the world. Outsourcing is something a big company, with a known customer / problem (that has revenue & traction) does to save cost. We need more.

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Technical Review Startup Cofounder Software Review 44