Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

So will failing to understand your customers. Successful founders have a laser-like focus and commitment; a keen understanding of customers’ needs; and a tenacious spirit, said the latest guests on Entrepreneurs are Everywhere , my radio show on Sirius XM Channel 111. Filed under: Customer Development , SiriusXM Radio Show.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 16, 2012

This makes sense in a company where your customers, channel and competition are known. Yet year after year, decade after decade, VC’s would watch as no startup business plan survived first contact with customers. Business Plan vs. Business Model + Customer Development. It takes a ton of face-face customer interactions.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 10, 2014

The University of Maryland is now integrating the Lean LaunchPad ® into standard innovation and entrepreneurship courses across all 12 colleges within the University. Over 44 classes have embedded the business model canvas and/or Customer Discovery including a year-long course taken by every single one of its bioengineering majors.

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Steve Blank

MAY 1, 2015

Thibault Duchemin and his team applied for our Lean LaunchPad class at UC Berkeley in 2014. Lean LaunchPad: A Year After. Listening to Jason’s story made me realize how critical our experience with the Lean LaunchPad has been in our entrepreneurial journey at Transcense. Post-Lean LaunchPad – Making Something People Need.

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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 They taught you about customers, markets and profits. Rules For the New Bubble: 2011 -2014.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

Our LivePlan customers are entrepreneurs, our founder and staff have run and sold companies, the Bplans readers are aspiring entrepreneurs (or actual entrepreneurs), and as I sell my own handmade jewelry, I like to think I have a very small claim to the title. Your customer. At Palo Alto Software, I am surrounded by entrepreneurs.

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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. The SBIR/STTR program made ~6,200 seed stage investments in 2014, dwarfing the seed investments made by venture capital. Eleven U.S.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

Guest Post by Jennifer Maerz, Contributing Editor of Lean Startup Co., Here’s the thing about The Lean Startup methodology. Our customer-first, rapid trials-rapid discovery ethos is adaptable to all varieties of mission driven, enterprise, and startup companies around the world. At The Lean Startup Conference on Nov.

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Steve Blank

JULY 2, 2015

Army special operations before retiring from active duty service in 2014. — — — — In this second segment, Takashi Tsutsumi and Masato Iino talk about how they brought the Lean Startup to Japan. Takashi and Masato founded Learning Entrepreneur’s Lab (LEL) in 2014.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2018

Six teams spoke to over 600 beneficiaries, stakeholders, requirements writers, program managers, warfighters, legal, security, customers, etc. Each of their slide presentations follow their customer discovery journey. Our primary goal was to teach students Lean Innovation while they engaged in a national public service.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

It is simply getting customers. And by the transitive property, anything that gets customers is marketing. […] Welcome to growth hacking. Although they have a lot of similarities, growth hacking covers more, including: branding, offline marketing, customer success, support and more.”. via FastCompany). …Really?

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Steve Blank

MAY 30, 2016

Lean methodologies have changed the way science is commercialized in the U.S. government has embraced Lean methodologies to reinvigorate its innovation efforts was the focus of the latest episode of my SiriusXM radio show, Entrepreneurs are Everywhere. How the U.S. David Petraeus. I don’t have a background as an entrepreneur.

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