Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2016

In 2014, Microsoft finally announced that Ballmer would retire, and in early 2014, Satya Nadella took charge. The best are agile and know how to pivot – make a substantive change to the business model while or before their market has shifted. The result? This may work in stable markets and technologies.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 12, 2020

All the teams used the Mission Model Canvas , (videos here ) Customer Development and Agile Engineering to build Minimal Viable Products, but all of their journeys were unique. I observed that teaching case studies and/or how to write a business plan as a capstone entrepreneurship class didn’t match the hands-on chaos of a startup.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

Just look at the disruptive challenges that businesses face today– globalization, China as a manufacturer, China as a consumer, the Internet, and a steady stream of new startups. Perhaps that’s because where established companies might see risks or threats, startups see opportunity. Building Innovation Internally is Hard.

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BeyondVC

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

As we look into 2014, we thought it was important to reflect on our activities in 2013 and refocus and refine our thinking and messaging as a firm. focus on the mobile, agile, and smart enterprise". We are thematic in our approach and primarily known as seed investors with a focus on enterprise and companies that can scale quickly.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 2, 2022

As an early stage investor in the world of gaming and metaverse technology at Remagine Ventures, I find these companies have the potential to set the agenda, become the potential platforms for developers building in this space and future acquirers/consolidators of startups building the next generation of the Internet. Here we go! Epic Games.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

90 percent of startups fail. As the mayor of an entrepreneurial city, I recognize the benefits that come from the startup approach to building a business. Startups and entrepreneurs in general, share a number of characteristics that can lead to rapid growth and economic gain. Startups are agile.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

A startup is not a part-time activity. Trying to do a startup while keeping your day job may doom you to failure. Mandela Schumacher-Hodge , founder of The Startup Couch , which aims to help founders stay happy and healthy as they change the world. In between, she started a wearable startup in her spare time, but failed.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

What are they, how do they differ and what can startup do to take advantage of them? Paths to Liquidity: a quick history of the four waves of startup investing. 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.

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View from Seed

JUNE 17, 2015

I’ve observed what may be an emerging trend, at least in some startups, that I find somewhat unsettling. But I think it’s important to discuss, particularly given today’s heady environment for startups. But I think it’s important to discuss, particularly given today’s heady environment for startups.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 30, 2014

If you can quickly explain how mashup technology facilitates this agility challenge, the technology may quickly turn from a negative to a major positive. This priority applies to big companies, as well as startups. Martin Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 8/22/2014. Customer data integrity and security.

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Agile VC

JUNE 17, 2015

I’ve observed what may be an emerging trend, at least in some startups, that I find somewhat unsettling. But I think it’s important to discuss, particularly given today’s heady environment for startups. But I think it’s important to discuss, particularly given today’s heady environment for startups.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 29, 2017

The Lean Startup.”. Agile Methodology.”. Is agile & secure development a mismatch? 2 At first glance, agile development and security seem to be opposed to each other, with agile being focused on functionality driven, speed and flexibility in short cycles with limited documentation. SecAppDev 2014).

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Austin Startup

MARCH 17, 2017

Diagram from the 2014 Design Value Index Results and Commentary ( source ) Summary I believe the lesson here is that organizations have to shift the way they have built products historically, and take on a more agile approach. To see how design thinking can impact your organization, read about a workshop Connected ran last month.

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Steve Blank

JULY 2, 2015

military can work together – for access to advanced technology and to learn how to move with agility, speed and urgency. Army special operations before retiring from active duty service in 2014. Takashi Tsutsumi has been a venture capitalist 15 years incubating and investing in startups in Japan.

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Steve Blank

JULY 23, 2014

Their goal was to train University scientists and researchers to use Lean Startup methods (business model design, customer development and agile engineering) to commercialize their science. Proposals from potential I-Corps L teams will be accepted through September 30, 2014. Class starts January 2015. Lessons Learned.

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www.theenterprisearchitect.eu

MARCH 26, 2014

The Enterprise Architect building an Agile Enterprise Home MDD PaaS Startup Presentations About The cloud landscape described, categorized, and compared October 12, 2013 Johan Den Haan 10 comments “I work for a PaaS company” I answered him. “Ah, okay, great”, and he moved to another subject. startupcto'

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Agile VC

JUNE 17, 2015

I’ve observed what may be an emerging trend, at least in some startups, that I find somewhat unsettling. But I think it’s important to discuss, particularly given today’s heady environment for startups. But I think it’s important to discuss, particularly given today’s heady environment for startups.

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Agile VC

JUNE 24, 2014

The ecosystem of tech startups is a similarly efficient winnowing machine. As a tech entrepreneur you know that the odds are long from the outset, that most startups are ultimately unsuccessful. At times it may feel as though just a little more hard work can manufacturer success or the success of other startups feel like flukes.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 7, 2019

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. I observed that teaching case studies and/or how to write a business plan as a capstone entrepreneurship class didn’t match the hands-on chaos of a startup.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 16, 2012

But for startups, business plans fail to match the chaotic reality they encounter in the real world. Yet year after year, decade after decade, VC’s would watch as no startup business plan survived first contact with customers. They kept insisting startups write business plans as the price of entry to venture funding.

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Agile VC

MAY 15, 2014

We’re launching a series of platform initiatives here at NextView in 2014. Our first Growth Guide covers Content Marketing for Startups. This growth guide draws upon not only our collective experience but also what we’ve learned from running workshops and talking with a range of startups across stage and industry.

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Agile VC

JANUARY 22, 2014

We’ve met with many startups working in this area over the last 2-3 years. It’s easy for a startup to pitch itself as “mobile first” just as entrepreneurs pitched “cloud” a few years ago and “web” more than a decade ago.

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Steve Blank

MAY 12, 2015

After seeing the results of 500+ teams through the I-Corps, the NSF now offers all teams who’ve received government funding to start a company an introduction to building a Lean Startup. SBIR/STTR Program and Startup Seed Funding. startups that don’t fit whatever’s hot in venture capital. Eleven U.S. for Phase II grantees.

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Agile VC

APRIL 30, 2019

2019 is off to an exciting start for IPOs of VC-backed startups. I don’t follow the Chinese startup market as closely as I follow the US, but Alibaba’s 2014 IPO was a similar watershed moment. Reading Time: 3 minutes. This post also appears on NextView’s blog.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 22, 2020

Deputy Chief Technology Officer in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy from 2013–2014, where she founded the United States Digital Service. 11:54) Raylene on how USDR has been built like a startup and the exponential rate of growth. (12:44) Jen is the founder and former executive director of Code for America.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 31, 2018

One of the speakers at this year’s Lean Startup Conference , which kicks off on November 14th in Las Vegas, is Giff Constable. He was most recently VP of product at Axial, a fintech startup that connected medium-sized businesses with capital providers and buyers, where he oversaw product management, engineering and design.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2020

He was at Circuit City on 9/11, he led Home Depot through the response to Katrina, was at 24 Hour Fitness during, what we used to call, The Great Recession, and led USAA as COO and president, starting in 2014. So we went back, got our agile teams engaged and in 48 hours, we could put up aerial of people's homes. Let's go."

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Hunter Walker

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

I think investors realize this trend along with the larger folks who are trying to be as agile and progressive as possible to keep up. HW: Presciently, in our 2014 discussion you asked for startups to help make parking your car easier. Since that time we’ve seen Luxe, Zirx and others launch.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

The Forrest Four-Cast: January 31, 2018 At the 2018 SXSW Accelerator Pitch Event , 50 diverse startups will face off before a panel of industry experts. The SXSW Accelerator Pitch Event takes place within the Startup & Tech Sectors track of programming. Tell us about the tech/startup ecosystem in the Netherlands.

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Agile VC

JANUARY 13, 2016

Looking back at 2015, the standout theme in the VC/startup ecosystem was unicorn hunting. People started thinking of startup unicorns like this: Illustration for WSJ: Chris Silas Neal. The answer seems much simpler to me… the VC & startup ecosystem was seduced by growth above all else, but terminal scale still matters.

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The Next Web

MARCH 2, 2014

Andrea Francis is a growth-hacking oriented marketer who loves to work with startups. As European talent in the form of startups and entrepreneurs continue to flock towards the USA, the question remains: why? In the USA, the risk is expected and accepted as part of the deal of working with startups. Don’t risk it!

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Cracking the Code

JUNE 24, 2021

The first one in 2007 was Cornerstone OnDemand, the second one was Peopledoc in 2014 and the third one is Gloat in 2021. Some of the world’s largest, most forward-looking companies are already benefiting from the workforce agility enabled by Gloat’s AI-powered platform. Gloat was that startup. We’re excited about our future.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 28, 2014

We like to talk about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, economics and other interesting stuff! Bring Agile to the Whole Organization – crowdspring.co/1A49uxC. Cool Websites, November 2014’s Picks – crowdspring.co/1xb86H8. I hope you enjoy!

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Cracking the Code

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

The pace of SaaS company creation in Europe is growing even faster, up from 200 companies in 2008-10 to 670 in 2014-16. Promising companies in this segment include Robotic Process Automation vendor UI Path and process mining software startup Celonis. Our investments in the space have followed suit. We’ve invested $2.3B

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Hearpreneur

MAY 18, 2022

After living and traveling around Thailand in 2014 and with other travelers I was desperate to learn Thai. I was a co-founder of a startup rather early in my career and my first startup was acquired by Microsoft. The main reason I started my own business was that I saw a gap in the market for a more boutique/agile agency model.

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Agile VC

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

But all this is just the surface… I wanted to dive deeper into the business itself, having worked in payments and invested in other payments startups. Square has grown revenue rapidly for a 6 year old startup, but like most startups that achieve significant scale, top line growth is now slowing.

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