Steve Blank

DECEMBER 20, 2011

In July I got a call from Errol Arkilic , a program manager at the National Science Foundation (NSF), the $6.8-billion We taught them the business model / customer development / agile development solution stack. The class textbooks were “ The Four Steps to the Epiphany and Business Model Generation.”).

Incubator 301

Incubator Government Silicon Valley Lean 301

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 20, 2017

by Amanda Setili, author of “ Fearless Growth: The New Rules to Stay Competitive, Foster Innovation, and Dominate Your Markets “ Growth has always been fundamental to business success, but it’s never been more critical than it is now. Do we develop new capabilities internally or partner? Not anymore.

Technical Review 147

Technical Review Malaysia Agile Employee 147

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. Startups are in fact only temporary organizations, organized to search –not execute–for a scalable and repeatable business model.

Lean 298

Lean Business Model Customer Development Guinea 298

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 22, 2023

If you feel trapped in an unsatisfying and limiting role as a business professional, I urge you to assess your own interest and level of ownership thinking as a means of enhancing your career or growing your own business. Jeff Bezos now manages Amazon, which encompasses over 40 subsidiaries and operates worldwide.

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Metrics Startup Agile Salary 279

Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2021

Although the class was run completely online, and even though they were suffering from Zoom fatigue, the 10 teams of 42 students collectively interviewed 1,142 beneficiaries, stakeholders, requirements writers, program managers, industry partners, etc. Team Fleetwise – Vehicle Fleet Management.

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Lean Security Asia SBIR 385

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 Evan Tunis, Florida Healthcare Insurance ! #2-

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Business Plan Jordan Entrepreneur Florida 127

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 16, 2012

Alexander Osterwalder and I spent last week in Salt Lake City, Utah as judges at the 2 nd Annual International Business Model Competition , hosted by Professor Nathan Furr , and his team at the BYU Center for Entrepreneurship. The reality is that startups needed a new class of management tools.

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Business Model Customer Development Utah Business Plan 263

Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

Your time at ESADE has trained you to become a global business leader. But the world you lead will be much different from the one your professors knew or your predecessors managed. Yet in the face of all this change, traditional firms continue to embrace a management ethos that values efficiency over innovation. Innovation.

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Private Equity Metrics China Intellectual Property 325

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. Having a teaching partner makes life a lot easier and the class improves.

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Business Model Silicon Valley California Engineer 226

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 4, 2017

As business models rotate toward subscription services, if technical developments don’t keep pace, a crucial piece of the puzzle will be missing. Let’s forget for a moment how software is billed and take a look at another essential aspect: the value software offers both IT and business users.

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Business Model Asia SQL Cloud 138

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. Their week 6 business model now looked like this: . PersonalLibraries was focused on creating a reference management system for discovering, organizing and citing researchers’ readings.

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Channel Artificial Inteligence San Francisco Business Model 215

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 27, 2023

To achieve success in your business despite today’s volatile global markets , you and your team must have a mindset that goes beyond the traditional strategies of repeatable processes and lower costs. Look for every opportunity to scale the business. Assure team members are always fully engaged.

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Agile Leadership Global Distribution 229

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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Wiki Lean Management Business Model 311

TechEmpower

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

Our business model nudges us slightly toward the sound, safe (stodgy?) We work with clients to get them off the ground with a platform to build their business. As the technical partner, we want to be real partners in the business-making sure the technology helps achieve the business objectives.

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Guinea Application Development Ruby Web Development 200

Steve Blank

APRIL 10, 2009

That’s why startups are agile. Startups that are agile have mastered one other trick – and that’s Tempo – the ability to make quick decisions consistently over extended periods of time. Too often, CEOs and small business managers suffer from analysis paralysis. in Entrepreneur, VC, decision making.

Silicon Valley 300

Silicon Valley RSS Startup Agile 300

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

For decades startups were managed by pretending the company would follow a predictable path (revenue plan, scale, etc.) As we described in previous posts , startups fail on the day they’re founded if they are organized and managed like they are a small version of a large company. that make up a business model.

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Burn Rate Management Business Model Customer Development 247

Steve Blank

MARCH 5, 2012

One of the confusing things to entrepreneurs, investors and educators is the relationship between customer development and business model design and business planning and execution. When does a new venture focus on customer development and business models ? Here’s an attempt to put this all in context.

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Search Business Model Customer Development Agile 320

Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Tesla Tesla invented a successful business model for bringing compelling electric cars to the market. Even though they don't own any rental properties, they've managed to become the first place people look for lodging when planning a trip. For me, it's a live example of agile and sustainable business.

Technical Review 120

Technical Review Entrepreneur Software Review SEO 120

Steve Blank

JUNE 18, 2013

It dawned on me that the plans were a symptom of a larger problem: we were executing business plans when we should first be searching for business models. So what would a search process for a business model look like? That is until Alexander Osterwalder wrote Business Model Generation.

Lean 286

Lean Agile Customer Development Business Model 286

Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Operating across varied industries, Fractional CMOs offer a fresh, tailored approach, helping businesses to be more agile, adaptive, and strategic in their planning Questions I ask Nicole Bernard [00:46] What exactly is a fractional CMO? 05:20] Could you shed some light on your business model? How do you avoid this? [07:30]

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Social Media Software Review Hiring Framework 78

Steve Blank

AUGUST 31, 2009

After 20 years of working in startups, I decided to take a step back and look at the product development model I had been following and see why it usually failed to provide useful guidance in activities outside the building – sales, marketing and business development. Product Development Diagram 1. Where Are the Customers?

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Customer Development Developer Customer Silicon Valley 238

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

Entrepreneurship As A Management Science. I believe that we have now learned enough about entrepreneurship as its own management science, to rethink our approach on how to teach it. Or more accurately, startups are a temporary organization designed to search for a scalable and repeatable business model.) Albert Einstein.

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Agile Business Model Customer Development Lean 250

ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Government restrictions and fears of infection pushed companies that had previously held out to accept remote working, and many discovered that it’s more manageable than they had expected. And finally, running subsidiaries and offices in numerous countries push business owners into overcoming mental barriers to global expansion.

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Distribution Global Agile Startup 145

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. Jonathan Swift.

Silicon Valley 290

Silicon Valley Business Model Venture Capital Balance Sheet 290

Steve Blank

JUNE 18, 2013

It dawned on me that the plans were a symptom of a larger problem: we were executing business plans when we should first be searching for business models. So what would a search process for a business model look like? That is until Alexander Osterwalder wrote Business Model Generation.

Lean 178

Lean Agile Customer Development Business Model 178

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. Jonathan Swift.

Silicon Valley 258

Silicon Valley Business Model Venture Capital Balance Sheet 258

Mike Michalowicz

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Clients want to pay for no-nonsense service and by offering solutions that make a client most successful, a health care staffing firm will achieve the title of the most valued partner without feeling the pressure of lower margins. Linda Murphy encourages Healthcare Staffing Firms to maintain an agile mentality to maintain innovation.

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CPA Ohio Omaha Reputation 76

Steve Blank

MARCH 11, 2015

And worse, even if someone does manage to start something new, our management structure has so many financial, legal and HR hurdles that every initiative needs to match our existing business financial metrics, processes and procedures. More agile competitors are starting to eat into our business.

Widget 120

Widget Lean Business Model Metrics 120

Up and Running

JUNE 23, 2015

The business model is innovative and unique, and the business itself serves as a fantastic “how to” example for entrepreneurs looking to start a social, mission-driven business. Allyson and her partner knew where not to look for funding, so they could focus their energy in the right places.

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Cofounder Sweat Equity Social Media Business Model 60

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

To survive in a crowded marketplace, businesses had to pool their resources, so they could operate more efficiently and capture more of the market share. I partnered up with Harrison Woods, then-Managing Director of Primal Parking. Pick the right business partner. Harrison is ultra-high-energy. It wasn’t personal.

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Cofounder Agile Business Model Operations 127

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 14, 2019

New building materials, construction equipment, and innovative project management made construction more efficient – unlocking technologies that lead to higher skyscrapers, undersea tunnels, longer bridges, and mega projects that changed the face of the Earth.

Global 189

Global Vertical Agile Engineer 189

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

The class teaches the three basic skills all entrepreneurs need to know: business model design. agile engineering. Called “ How to Build a Startup: The Lean LaunchPad ,” it walks you through the Business Model Canvas and an overview of the customer development process. customer development. Find it here.

Open Source 335

Open Source Silicon Valley Lean Customer Development 335

Steve Blank

MAY 29, 2019

My contribution has been, “Why don’t we design classes more closely modeled to what innovators and entrepreneurs actually do.” Today the capstone class is most often experiential, team-based, hands on, focused around the search for a repeatable and scalable business model. And a very small percentage are focused on innovation.

Incubator 331

Incubator Lean Programming Government 331

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

The goal of the class is to expose students to the basics of the Lean Methodology – Business Model Design , Customer Development and Agile Engineering. All teams talk to at least 50 customers/ partners/ stakeholders , and some manage to reach more than 100. Repeat for 5 days. The lessons?

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Lean Customer Development Business Model Agile 120

Steve Blank

JULY 25, 2011

While this signaled that investments in technology companies could be very lucrative, both Shockley and Fairchild could only be funded through corporate partners – there was no venture capital industry. In 1960’s and ‘70’s few MBA’s would give up a lucrative career in management, finance or Wall Street to join a bunch of technical lunatics.

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Engineer Silicon Valley United States Venture Capital 305

Steve Blank

JULY 15, 2010

VC’s invested their limited partners’ “risk capital” in a portfolio of startups in exchange for illiquid stock. Most of the startups they invested in either died by running out of money before they found a scalable business model or ended up in the “land of the living dead” by never growing (failing to Pivot.).

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Venture Capital IPO Liquidity Event Entrepreneur 297

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

These would include the following: You have a proven business model. Once you have a complete offering, with real revenue from real customers, it’s time to ramp up the business. Even here, an alternative solution is to partner with a related vendor or potential big customer for equity or royalty advances.

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Bootstrapping Cofounder Equity Agile 120