Steve Blank
MARCH 29, 2010
The key things I want students to take from the class are: Understand that a startup is a temporary organization designed to search for a profitable business model. Learn how to put together a business model , not a business plan. Class Logistics. As described in the previous post , this is a hands-on class.
Steve Blank
MARCH 4, 2014
These groups are adapting or adopting the practices of startups and accelerators – disruption and innovation rather than direct competition, customer development versus more product features, agility and speed versus lowest cost. KPI’s and processes are the root cause of corporations’ inability to be agile and responsive innovators.
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Startup Lessons Learned
JANUARY 12, 2010
For the many entrepreneurs that send me cold emails asking for me to review a business plan or answer a strategic dilemma: Im much more likely to answer if youve already tried getting an answer on the mailing list. Youll probably get a better result, anyway. Youll probably get a better result, anyway. Expo SF (May. Amazon PostRank
Startup Lessons Learned
NOVEMBER 8, 2008
This theory has become so influential that I have called it one of the three pillars of the lean startup - every bit as important as the changes in technology or the advent of agile development. Most likely, your business plan is loaded with opinions and guesses, sprinkled with a dash of vision and hope. Expo SF (May.
Startup Lessons Learned
JANUARY 2, 2009
My startup business (web development) is being shunned by virtually every other potential investor I approached thus far. The only folks who invested in me were the ones who barely understood the business plan. They just havd faith in me. My 2008 revenues were over $100k on a 35k inventory. I am chugging along. Expo SF (May.
Steve Blank
JULY 25, 2011
Each region already had the beginnings of a high-tech culture , Boston with Raytheon, Silicon Valley with Hewlett Packard. In the real world a startup is about the search for a business model or more accurately, startups are a temporary organization designed to search for a scalable and repeatable business model.
Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 8, 2008
Some combination of the dot-com crash and a just terrible business plan prevented us from having to take our scalability problems to the next level. It cost us a few hundred thousand dollars to get our app up and running, but none of that was dollars spent on software licenses or professional services. Expo SF (May. Amazon PostRank
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