Steve Blank

MARCH 14, 2012

Today, the second half of the Stanford Engineering Lean LaunchPad Class gave their final presentations. Stanford e245 2012 class photo. Next week the Lean LaunchPad class will be taught to 25 teams for the National Science Foundation Innovation Corps. Curriculum = business model canvas + customer development.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

You may have read my previous posts about the Lean LaunchPad class taught at Stanford , Berkeley, Columbia , Caltech and for the National Science Foundation. 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.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 15, 2017

I-Corps uses Lean Startup methods to teach scientists how to turn their discoveries into entrepreneurial, job-producing businesses. The new I-Corps authority also supports prototype or proof-of-concept development activities, which will better enable researchers to commercialize their innovations. in Science or Nature.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

NYU has adopted the Lean LaunchPad ® class as a standard entrepreneurship course across twelve different schools/colleges within the University. Over 1,000 students a year are learning lean startup concepts. The Educators Program is a 2½ day class that teaches faculty how to create and teach their own Lean LaunchPad class.)

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wordsting.com

APRIL 4, 2013

Fat startup: Learn the lessons of my failed Lean Startup. by Word Sting in Lean Startup , Software copywriting , Copywriting for startups. Many software copywriters or developers dream of building their own company. Those that do will likely fall under the influence of the celebrated Lean Startup movement.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 10, 2012

It's called the Shopify 2012 Build-A-Business Competition and it launches today. I was working in manufacturing studying lean principals on the factory floor when I came up with the idea for Coffee Joulies and asked Dave if he would help me. Now is the time to take that idea you've been mulling over and put it in motion.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 14, 2012

In 2012, in partnership with Stanford University , U.C. Berkeley and NCIIA , Jerry Engel and I first offered the Lean LaunchPad Educators Class. In addition the class offers a suggested “Lean Entrepreneurship” curriculum and the details of how to teach the capstone Lean LaunchPad class. Here’s what she had to say….

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

In 2012 I got together with Alexander Osterwalder , Henry Chesbrough and Andre Marquis to think about the Lean and the future of corporate innovation. For most big, established companies like us, our business models were developed years—even decades ago. in developing these new models. And why wouldn’t it be?

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 9, 2012

TLDR: Brant Cooper and Patrick Vlaskovits , authors of The Entrepreneur's Guide to Customer Development are back with a new book called The Lean Entrepreneur. It took the idea of Customer Development and made it accessible to a whole new audience. Illustrations by FAKEGRIMLOCK. You can pre-order it starting today.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 27, 2012

I’m pleased to announce that I am once again hosting a Lean Startup Conference in San Francisco this fall. They’ll share real-world stories of lean startup principles in action and answer your questions. I think it's time to rename it since that's the phrase people actually use.) Some of those folks might be speaker newbies.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 8, 2012

This post was co-written by Eric Ries and Sarah Milstein , co-hosts of The Lean Startup Conference this fall. Last week , we announced the date and venue for The Lean Startup Conference: Dec 3 - 4, 2012 at the InterContintenal in SF. For new speakers, we’ll provide hands-on help developing presentations, plus speaker training.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Lean Business Tips: Hiring Contractors for Fun and Profit(ability) – [link]. “Empower Your Small Business”, crowdSPRING’s smallbiz newsletter: content marketing, lean biz, more – [link]. Lean Business Tips: Hiring Contractors for Fun and Profit(ability) – [link]. 25 Free Serif Fonts - [link].

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

Guest Post by Misti Yang, Writer for Lean Startup Co. This is the mantra of Lean teams described by Eric Ries in his upcoming book, The Startup Way. Drawing on the advice of experts and recent research, here are seven insights on how to best build a Lean team. A hallmark of Lean teams is cross-functionality. Start small.

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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.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

Aaron Skonnard is the CEO and co-founder of Pluralsight , an online training resource for Web developers and IT professionals. Venture capitalists look for a variety of intangibles when evaluating the entrepreneurs who they consider backing — vision, passion, integrity, confidence — but how many look for a background in software development?

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 21, 2013

Guest post by Lisa Regan, writer for The Lean Startup Conference. The Lean Startup Conference was founded four years ago to bring together real entrepreneurs who have applied Lean Startup techniques and have useful advice to share with each other. Metrics play a big role in any conversation around implementation.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 19, 2012

The Lean Startup track was successful beyond my wildest imaginations (we'll have video up soon ). He told us stories of specific examples of "lean government" in action, ranging from HealthCare.gov to a new approval process for medical devices at the FDA. And today's post represents the results: The 2012 AppSumo Lean SX Bundle.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 30, 2017

Written by Misti Yang, Contributor for Lean Startup Co. In the opening paragraphs of Eric Ries’s upcoming book The Startup Way , Eric sets the scene: He arrived at GE in the summer of 2012 amidst a multi-hundred-million-dollar, five-year plan to develop a new diesel and natural gas engine. And the plan did succeed. 5) this fall.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 31, 2012

This post was co-written by Eric Ries and Sarah Milstein , co-hosts of The Lean Startup Conference this fall. We’ve got a date and venue for The Lean Startup Conference : December 3 - 4, 2012 at the InterContinental San Francisco. Subscribe to The Lean Startup Conference mailing list

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 21, 2012

I judged Lean Startup Machine Boulder yesterday afternoon. I’m a huge Eric Ries / Lean Startup fan and believe that the methodology can be quickly taught. It’s not a coding / hacking weekend – it’s an applied process of the Lean Startup Methodology.

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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!

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Lean Planning is a concept that we introduced back in 2012 as an evolution in business planning. We proposed Lean Planning as the next step in business planning. But, where did Lean Planning come from? Here’s a quick history of how we developed Lean Planning. See Also: Business Planning Guide.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 12, 2012

This blog offers great advice for transforming yourself into a lean and mean manager. Find Kevin Meyer and Bill Waddell’s thoughts on lean enterprise leadership on the Evolving Excellence blog to find out how you can execute a lean enterprise strategy to become a better manager. Recommended Post: Developing Your Grit ).

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css-tricks.com

JANUARY 2, 2013

Web Development. iOS Development. December 18, 2012. On a large project, you really need to develop a design system. Team development requires version control. Its a unique skillset, different from development. — Ryan McLaughlin (@ryanmclaughlin) December 18, 2012. CSS -Tricks. Web Design.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 4, 2017

When we established Ready4S back in 2012, the tech startup scene looked completely different than it does today. Develop a viable proposition. It also pays to develop a recruiting system that attracts talent in your field—specifically, one that is on-point and efficient. was “lack of a market need for their product.”

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leananalyticsbook.com

AUGUST 19, 2012

Lean Analytics Book. August 7, 2012 by Alistair. Companies like Flurry do a lot of work in this space, and many application developers roll their own code to suit the way their games are used. Game developers walk a fine line between compelling content, and in-game purchases that bring in money. 14 Aug 2012.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 27, 2013

Guest post by Lisa Regan, writer for The Lean Startup Conference. Last week, Eric sat down with developer Dan Milstein --one of the most popular speakers from the 2012 Lean Startup Conference --for a webcast conversation on getting engineers into the Lean Startup cycle. If you missed it, go ahead and watch it here.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 14, 2013

Guest post by Lisa Regan, writer for The Lean Startup Conference, who has created content for a number of startups. In our ongoing exploration of how people actually implement Lean Startup methods in their workplaces, we’re asking practitioners to share their techniques. But this is where the notion of "lean content" comes into play.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 16, 2012

Lean Marketing Tips: Public Relations & Focus – [link]. Lean Marketing Tips: Public Relations & Focus – [link]. 75 Professional Free Fonts from 2012 to Spice up Your Typography – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 3, 2012

Lean Marketing Tips: Increasing Lifetime Value With Email Campaigns – [link]. Lean Marketing Tips: Increasing Lifetime Value With Email Campaigns – [link]. Lean Marketing Tips: Increasing Lifetime Value With Email Campaigns – [link]. Fresh Free High Quality Fonts Created In 2012 – [link].

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

In 2012, in partnership with Stanford University , U.C. Berkeley and NCIIA , Jerry Engel and I first offered the Lean LaunchPad Educators Class. In addition the class offers a suggested “Lean Entrepreneurship” curriculum and the details of how to teach the capstone Lean LaunchPad class.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 22, 2013

My co-author and business Partner Bob Dorf spends much of his time traveling the world teaching countries and companies how to run the Lean LaunchPad program. 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.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 24, 2013

We are huge believers in a lean approach to marketing and business and one of the precepts is small batch testing: stick with what works and get rid of what doesn’t. Make sure your user agreement and About Us pages are up-to-date and plan to work with your web developers to make sure everything is ship shape. Clean house.

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Up and Running

JULY 19, 2017

Their study wasn’t specifically about entrepreneurship, but it stands to reason that women, especially millennial women, had some good reasons to lean toward forging their own path—essentially sidestepping inequalities by building their own companies. This is significant—in 2012, there were only 8.3 trillion in revenues.”

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 27, 2012

This post was co-written by Eric Ries and Sarah Milstein, co-hosts of The Lean Startup Conference. Marc Andreessen hardly needs introduction, but we're pleased to introduce him anyway--as a keynote speaker for The Lean Startup Conference on December 3, 2012 in San Francisco. And the startup is still successful.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

Hiring for Lean Startups: The First Few Hires – [link]. Seven observations on the 2012 Super Bowl ads – [link]. Report: Search Ad Spend To Rise 27% In 2012 – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template tco use today) – [link]. – [link].

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 16, 2017

Estimates show that only about 14% of engineers in 2012 were women (Crawford) and that number hasn’t gone up far in recent years. The next semester, I went to a seminar sponsored by the organization Lean In when during a power point presentation I learned that less tan 18% of CS students were female. ASME , Sept 2012, [link].

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