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10,000 Startups – Startup Weekend Next

Steve Blank

The class teaches founders how to dramatically reduce their failure rate through the combination of business model design, customer development and agile development using the Startup Owners Manual. When you leave the class, you’ll know how to think about your startup in the now standard “language” of the business model canvas.

Startup 335
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How Today’s Startups Can Adapt to a Globally Distributed Model

ReadWriteStart

Although it’s tempting to blame it all on the coronavirus situation and its formidable ripples, the pandemic only accelerated the processes of globalization and digitization that have been underway for decades. Still, COVID-19 helped tip the balance towards a globally distributed model. The world of work is transforming.

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Blowing up the Business Plan at U.C. Berkeley Haas Business School

Steve Blank

The disadvantage is that its methodology was based on the old waterfall model of product development and not the agile and lean methods that startups use today. It taught lean theory ( business model design , customer development and agile engineering) and practice. We’ve gone global as well. Berkeley-wide.

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Business Trends Startups Should Be Watching Heading into 2024

The Startup Magazine

Sustainability and ESG Integration Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) criteria are becoming increasingly important to investors and consumers. Startups should align their business practices with sustainability goals to reduce their environmental impact and attract socially responsible investors and customers.

Startup 142
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Hacking for Diplomacy – Solving Foreign Policy Challenges with the Lean LaunchPad

Steve Blank

Department of State manages America’s relationships with 180 foreign governments, international organizations, and the people of other countries with 270 embassies, consulates, and other posts. Advance democracy, human rights, and other global interests. diplomats, government officials, and all other personnel at home and abroad.

Lean 165
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Steve Blank’s Lean Startup Model: Not Just For Startups Any More

ReadWriteStart

For years, HBR and most of the country’s leading business schools taught entrepreneurship as if the strategies, processes and techniques were some sort of amputated versions of the business models embraced by “real companies.” Keep Failing Fast Til You Succeed.

Lean 60
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Crisis versus Opportunity: 6 Ways to Bootstrap a Startup in a Post-COVID-19 World While Navigating the New Normal

ReadWriteStart

Thus, let’s start this discussion by defining the global crisis caused by the new coronavirus, COVID-19 , so that we can look forward to finding the opportunity in the crisis. One of the many challenges facing the world’s governments is the fact that no one really knows how this virus behaves. .” – Albert Einstein.