Steve Blank

MARCH 8, 2011

It was designed to bring together many of the new approaches to building a successful startup – customer development, agile development, business model generation and pivots. We were positing that 20 years of teaching “how to write a business plan” might be obsolete. This post is part one.

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Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

Defense and Intelligence organizations drove the pace of innovation in Silicon Valley by providing research and development dollars to universities, and defense companies built weapons systems that used the Valley’s first microwave devices and semiconductor components. and there were no books, blogs or YouTube videos about entrepreneurship.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Compressing the Product Development Cycle. For products that are simply “bits” delivered over the web, a first product can be shipped in weeks rather than years. A company developing software would have to buy computers and license software from other companies and hire the staff to run and maintain it. Starting now.

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TechEmpower

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

We build web and mobile applications, and we've been doing so for a little over fifteen years. As software developers, we're technophiles, so we enjoy these cycles and quite often find humor listening to the energy spent arguing on either side of issues. It's a fun and funny business to be in. It's important to us.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 15, 2017

The new I-Corps authority also supports prototype or proof-of-concept development activities, which will better enable researchers to commercialize their innovations. While I was developing the class at Stanford, it was my counterparts at the NSF who had the vision to make the class a national program. Why This Matters.

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Steve Blank

MAY 17, 2010

At best I think business plan competitions are a waste of time. Business Plan Versus Business Models. Where did the idea that startups write business plans come from? A simple way to think about it is that in a startup no business plan survives first contact with customers. What did you build/do?

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Steve Blank

MARCH 2, 2011

Working with him, I’ve been impressed to watch his small team embrace Customer Development (and Business Model Generation ) and search the world for the right product/market fit. And they’ve continuously iterated and gone through a few pivots of their business model. Corporate elephants can dance.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 10, 2023

2- Yes, to build a customer-centric business model Photo Credit: David Brewer We based and built it around the idea that our industry could, and should do better and that was the model that we were going to implement that idea as our core objective. Thanks to David Walsh, SEO Web Logistics ! #12-

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Steve Blank

APRIL 21, 2011

All the teams were showing us what agile looked like, but this week several would remind us what focused and relentless really meant. There are two major channels: physical channels and virtual (web/mobile) channels. Their week 6 business model now looked like this: . How does the web differ from other channels?

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Mobile and web software apps may cost even less. Many have disappeared, and others have forgotten how to be agile and innovative. It’s the right way to get money without giving up too much equity or control of your business. The large investment amounts preferred by VCs are no longer needed to launch winners. Marty Zwilling.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

Fifty years later another Harvard professor, Clayton Christensen, developed his theory of disruptive innovation, which actually described how creative destruction worked. Disruptive innovation leads to the creative destruction of businesses that once seemed pre-eminent and secure. We legalized robbing the corporate treasury.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 15, 2017

The new I-Corps authority also supports prototype or proof-of-concept development activities, which will better enable researchers to commercialize their innovations. While I was developing the class at Stanford, it was my counterparts at the NSF who had the vision to make the class a national program. Why This Matters.

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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. They set up and keep the class web site updated. Class Logistics.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 6, 2012

Lean Planning is a set of tools for discovering a business model that works, building an action plan to test your assumptions, creating financial models and a plan for a viable business, and tracking your performance so you can adjust your plan on the fly, quickly and easily.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

But by taking advantage of open source, agile software, and iterative development, lean startups can operate with much less waste. I am heavily indebted to earlier theorists, and highly recommend the books Lean Thinking and Lean Software Development. Labels: customer development , lean startup 8comments: Amy said.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 6, 2014

For the last 75 years products (both durable goods and software) were built via Waterfall development. This process forced companies to release and launch products by model years, and market new and “improved” versions. The Old Days – Waterfall Product Development. Consumers counted the days until the new models were “unveiled”.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Tesla Tesla invented a successful business model for bringing compelling electric cars to the market. Tesla has always put a huge emphasis on product development and technological advancement. For me, it's a live example of agile and sustainable business. It is also one of my most admired companies.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 19, 2020

Mobile and web software apps may cost even less. Many have disappeared, and others have forgotten how to be agile and innovative. It’s the right way to get money without giving up too much equity or control of your business. The large investment amounts preferred by VCs are no longer needed to launch winners. Marty Zwilling.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 29, 2010

I’ve been teaching Customer Development at U.C. Berkeley’s Haas Business School since the fall of 2004 and in a joint MBA with Columbia since 2005. Back in 2004, Jerry Engel the head of the Entreprenuership program at Haas Business School at U.C. A lot has happened since I first authored and taught the class. Four Steps.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 22, 2008 The three drivers of growth for your business model. The AARRR model (hence pirates, get it?) He also has a discussion of how your choice of business model determines which of these metric areas you want to focus on. Choose one. Expo SF (May. . Expo SF (May.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2010

Business schools teach aspiring executives a variety of courses around the execution of known business models, (accounting, organizational behavior, managerial skills, marketing, operations, etc.). In contrast, startups search for a business model. (Or to optimize this search. to optimize this search.

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Steve Blank

MAY 10, 2011

What really matters are the business model canvas diagrams in the body and appendix of each presentation. By comparing the changes the teams made week-to-week-week in their business model canvas diagrams, you’ll see the dynamics of entrepreneurship, as they iterate and Pivot over time. Team Agora. in one quarter.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 19, 2010

About twenty people on Answers OnStartups have asked this question in one form or another: When I meet an angel investor, he may ask: "What if a big company copies your idea and develops the same website as yours after your website goes public?". Adriana has been a psychiatrist for 10 years; she understands the ins and outs of that business.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 11, 2009

Agile – you may find the real opportunities for your company was somewhere else. However, you will be dealing with almost daily change, (new customer feedback/insights from a Customer Development process and technical roadblocks ,) as the company searches for a repeatable and scalable business model.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

Useful blogs and links for startups Click Here ————– 2.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 4, 2011

I did a keynote on innovation hubs at the newly created DoFuture program , spoke at Santiago’s Startup Weekend on Customer and Agile Development, and at a Conference in Patagonia supported by the Ministry of Economy’s Innovation Division. South American web commerce hub? materials science? food science?

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

When Ive asked mentors of mine who have worked in big companies about the role of the CTO, they usually talk about the importance of being the external face of the companys technology platform; an evangelist to developers, customers, and employees. Labels: product development 15comments: mukund said. What made them exceptional?

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 5, 2022

It will include UTM connections for each ambassador, a setup for internal tracking and reporting and an open line of communication with all of our ambassadors so they are kept informed of any new developments. I’ve devised a sustainable business model where we will contribute to the ecological welfare of our environment.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 13, 2010

5 Photoshop & CSS Tricks for Killer Web Designs – [link]. 30+ Excellent Photoshop Web layout Design Tutorials – [link]. Opinion Column: The Sad State Of The Web Design Community – [link]. Introducing the Web Safe Font Cheat Sheet – [link]. Web design conferences: just expensive blog posts?

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 13, 2010

5 Photoshop & CSS Tricks for Killer Web Designs – [link]. 30+ Excellent Photoshop Web layout Design Tutorials – [link]. Opinion Column: The Sad State Of The Web Design Community – [link]. Introducing the Web Safe Font Cheat Sheet – [link]. Web design conferences: just expensive blog posts?

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 95

Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

Startups built every possible feature the founding team envisioned (using “Waterfall development,”) into a monolithic “release” of the product taking months or years to build a first product release. The Business Plan (Concept- Alpha-Beta - FCS ) became the playbook for startups. Rules For the New Bubble: 2011 -2014.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 29, 2009

Like a financial debt, the technical debt incurs interest payments, which come in the form of the extra effort that we have to do in future development because of the quick and dirty design choice. Startups especially can benefit by using technical debt to experiment, invest in process, and increase their product development leverage.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 5, 2013

Lean Start-up Connection: Business Model Canvas. What if you could think like an expert on any topic in a matter of minutes, instead of after hours of inefficient web browsing? Lean Start-up Connection: Customer Development. Staying Agile. Lean Start-up Connection: Agile Development. Validation.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 1, 2011

As customer and agile development reinvent the Startup, it’s time to ask why startup board governance has not kept up with the pace of innovation. Reinventing the board meeting may offer venture-backed startups a more efficient, productive way to direct and measure their search for a profitable business model.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

This post describes a solution – the Customer Development Model. In future posts I’ll describe how Eric Ries and the Lean Startup concept provide the equivalent model for product development activities inside the building and neatly integrates customer and agile development.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

What matters is proving the viability of the company’s business model, what investors call “traction.&# Of course this is not at all true of many profitable small businesses, but they are not what I mean by startups.) And what of the product development team? Go on an agile diet quickly.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 1, 2011

As customer and agile development reinvent the Startup, it’s time to ask why startup board governance has not kept up with the pace of innovation. Reinventing the board meeting may offer venture-backed startups a more efficient, productive way to direct and measure their search for a profitable business model.

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