Our current plan isn’t working. We invested in the plan you sold us on.” But at least you’d be executing your plan not ours. The Search for the Business Model. startup is an organization formed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model. Pivoting the Business Model. Steve Blank. A U.S. Summary. MORE >>

Last week one of the schools I teach at invited me to judge a business plan contest. suggested that they first might want to read my post on  why business plans are a poor planning and execution tool for startups. At best I think business plan competitions are a waste of time. Now I do. MORE >>

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 Business Plan  ?- And your revenue plan is something more than a hallucination.  MORE >>

Our Lean LaunchPad class teaches scientists and engineers that starting a company is another research project that can be solved by an iterative process of hypotheses testing and experimentation built around the business model / customer development / agile development solution stack. Some men see things as they are and ask why. MORE >>

The class is intensely and deliberately experiential to develop the mindset, reflexes, agility and resilience an entrepreneur needs to search for certainty in a chaotic world. Students The premise of the class is that startups, are not about executing a plan where the product, customers, channel are known.  Here are the first five. MORE >>