Agile Business Plan Incubator Operations 
Steve Blank
OCTOBER 30, 2012
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. It doesn’t take equity and just has a small fee that varies by city ($140 to $299), to cover event operations and expenses.
Startup Professionals Musings
NOVEMBER 7, 2022
Even with advantages that independent startups can never hope to match, including brand recognition, customers, financial capital, and distribution, I don’t often see the entrepreneurial passion for innovation, agility, and team perseverance exhibited by new startups. A documented business plan for the new venture is critical here.
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Steve Blank
MAY 9, 2017
To stay in business in the 21 st century, startups must do three things their 20 th century counterparts didn’t: A company is no longer built on a single innovation. To continually innovate, companies need to operate at startup speed and cycle time much longer their 20 th century counterparts did. The founders. The founders.
Steve Blank
JANUARY 30, 2013
With hindsight we should have had “proof of concepts” tested in a corporate center (think ‘pop-up incubator’) where they would do extensive Customer Discovery. We should had done this before assigning the teams to a particular business unit (or had the ability to create a new business unit, or spin the team out of the company).
Steve Blank
OCTOBER 24, 2017
Replacing the founder when the company needed to scale was almost standard operating procedure. However, there was no way for founders to share this information with other founders (this was life before the Internet, incubators and accelerators). Sandberg had been the vice president of global online sales and operations.
Steve Blank
JULY 13, 2021
By the end of the 20th century, case studies and business plans had reached an evolutionary dead-end for entrepreneurs. The Rise of Business Schools – Management as an Occupation. The business school was invented in the first decade of the 20th century in response to a massive economic transformation in the U.S.
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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