Steve Blank

MARCH 29, 2010

A partner allows me the flexibility to miss a session or two (my job as a California Coastal Commissioner meets three days every month up and down the coast of California.) For example, when we taught the value of getting out of the building and agile development, we had Eric Ries talk about the Lean Startup.

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MARCH 17, 2021

Gloria Mark, a professor at the University of California, studies the issue of digital distraction. If you were to take the number of times you get distracted during an average workday and multiply it by 25, you’ll get a better idea of how many minutes of focus time you’re losing every day.

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OCTOBER 7, 2016

Kelly McAdoo is the City Manager & CEO of the City of Hayward in Alameda County, California. series that also includes the Future of Work , the Future of Corporate Agility, Skill-Sharing, and more in the weeks leading up to Lean Startup Week. This interview is part of a “Future of….” What were the biggest stumbling blocks?

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

Finally, I’ll write about how Eric Ries and the Lean Startup concept provided the equivalent model for product development activities inside the building and neatly integrates customer and agile development.

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AUGUST 23, 2010

At times I’ll do what I consider an extension of teaching; a two-day Customer Discovery/Validation intensive session with a large corporation serious about Customer Development at my ranch on the California Coast. Customer Development Without Agile Engineering Is A Plan For Failure.

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OCTOBER 13, 2016

The latter requires speed and agility. The California design firm IDEO distinguishes between three types of risk when they assess prototypes: desirability, feasibility, viability. That means the innovators end up competing without any competitive advantage against the more nimble and agile startups.

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APRIL 27, 2009

And in hindsight, we seemed a bit more agile and innovative in WWII.) Yet decades later the military lacked the agility to write a spec in two years, let alone get 10′s of thousands of new systems deployed on aircraft as Terman had done. My first business trip to the valley was to visit California Microwave.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 29, 2009

I packed up my life in Michigan and spent five days driving to California to start work. Agile Opportunism – Entrepreneurial DNA « Steve Blank (tags: startup) [.] Agile Opportunism – Entrepreneurial DNA. You’re Hired, You’re Fired. Driving across the U.S. is an adventure everyone ought to do. Reply Create.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Leaders should define KPIs with their teams using an agile approach that ties to top needed results. Christa Martin is a Chief Outsiders CMO based in San Diego, California. In short, KPIs are defined early on and consistently reaffirmed, rather than one that is made only in at the beginning of the year.

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JUNE 25, 2009

Home Books for Startups Secret History-Bibliography Steve Blank Startup Resources Steve Blank Entries RSS | Comments RSS Categories Air Force (9) Ardent (9) Big Companies versus Startups: Durant versus Sloan (29) California Coastal Commission (3) Conservation (2) Convergent Technologies (1) Customer Development (98) Customer Development Manifesto (..)

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Steve Blank

APRIL 9, 2009

But what I wanted was an agile marketing team capable of operating independently without day-to-day direction. The first reaction from my CEO was, “that’s why you’re running the department.” And yes, we could have built a top-down, command-and-control hierarchy.

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OnlyOnce

MAY 4, 2017

Any product team (or other kind of team) who has Agile practices, does some kind of a Daily Standup (DSU) meeting in which each team member reviews progress against goals for a given period and highlights issues where he or she is blocked and needs help. We do it at 11 eastern because we have people in Colorado and California on it.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 18, 2017

Buoys out in the Pacific Ocean send data to meteorologists regarding the size of the swells approaching Northern California. Master Reinvention Agility. We call this strategy Reinvention Agility. They listen intently to wave forecasts coming from special radios they carry with them at all times. There is no middle ground.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 6, 2009

When Terman said no, Sylvania, a tube company which built proximity fuse tubes in WWII, won the contract and set up its Electronic Defense Lab (EDL) in Mountain View California in the middle of an orchard. The Army offered Fred Terman, the Dean of Engineering at Stanford, a $5M contract to build an electronics countermeasures lab.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

They attended property management association meetings in Oregon outside of the technology echo chamber of California to get a sense for people’s daily problems. The whole point of Agile Development is to produce shorter, sharper pieces of code completed more quickly where you can get feedback from customers.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

By learning to be rapidly responsive and agile. I'm honored to be hosted by the Commonwealth Club of California, who I've spent many hours listening to on public radio. So how is it best to deal with uncertainty? How does an organization like this thrive? Ries wants to show you how. Presented by the Town Hall Center for Civic Life.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 30, 2009

Hopefully you and your co-founders are experts in one or two parts (agile development, SEO/SEM, etc.) Initially your job is to understand each of the parts of your business model before you hire someone to do it. so at least some parts are being run by people who know what they are doing.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 7, 2012

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. We trying to teach students a methodology that combines customer development, agile development, business models and pivots. Only in California!

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Steve Blank

MAY 22, 2009

Everyone should be articulate and agile in describing and demoing the products.) For bigger booths a good rule of thumb is to have two to four staffers for every 100 square feet of exhibit space. Even for the smallest trade show, no one shows up without booth training. Messages, themes, demo’s.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 1, 2016

Fourth , would the same Lean Startup methodology (business model design, customer development and agile engineering) used in the Lean LaunchPad and NSF I-Corps class work here? Result: Hell yes. Fifth , would other schools be interested in offering this class? 15 more schools are in the pipeline. Lessons Learned.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 13, 2016

The latter requires speed and agility. The California design firm IDEO distinguishes between three types of risk when they assess prototypes: desirability, feasibility, viability. That means the innovators end up competing without any competitive advantage against the more nimble and agile startups.

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Steve Blank

JULY 2, 2015

military can work together – for access to advanced technology and to learn how to move with agility, speed and urgency. Prior to that, he worked for an integrated trading company in which he built several new businesses by collaborating with high-tech startups in California.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 1, 2016

Fourth , would the same Lean Startup methodology (business model design, customer development and agile engineering) used in the Lean LaunchPad and NSF I-Corps class work here? Result: Hell yes. Fifth , would other schools be interested in offering this class? 15 more schools are in the pipeline. Lessons Learned.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

The Lean LaunchPad class teaches students how to build a Lean Startup using business model design, customer development and agile engineering. Over the last two years they used part of the National Science Foundation funds to send eight NYU faculty to California attend the Lean LaunchPad Educators program.

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Agile VC

JUNE 30, 2016

Subsequent challenges in 2005 and 2007 had better results, and the 2007 event was the first actually staged on roads… albeit an abandoned military base in California. None of the entrants could complete the 150 mile course, in fact the best vehicle (developed by CMU team) only went about 7 miles before it got stuck like the others.

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MAY 22, 2020

She has been an advocate for a more responsive, a more resilient, more agile government. My parents and my brother live in Southern California. Raylene Yung : Yeah, a couple of weeks ago, the city of Concord, California reached out with a request of, how do we help get volunteer help to get food to senior citizens who are home-bound?

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 20, 2015

Scale With Agility. “Scale with agility in mind especially if you have only experienced increasing demand for a short amount of time. He has previously worked for organizations including the California Immigrant Policy Center and Colombia Reports. ” – Muneeb Mushtaq, AskforTask.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

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. A few successful ones do all these things. But if you have a web based product the right answer may be 300-500. Thank you, Steve.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 18, 2010

Andrew read the Four Steps to the Epiphany , tracked me down at California Coastal Commission hearing in Santa Barbara, and had me meeting with him in a stairwell during a break in my day-long meeting. Customer Development is like being Agile. One of the attributes of great entrepreneurs is that they are tenacious and relentless.

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Steve Blank

JULY 1, 2009

Filed under: Secret History of Silicon Valley « Agile Opportunism – Entrepreneurial DNA Rocket Science 2: Drinking the Kool-Aid » 2 Responses Ben , on July 1, 2009 at 2:31 pm Said: Great post Steve. It’s interesting that the NY Times obituary makes no mention of Ted Hall.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 22, 2009

The original Hewlett Packard which made test and measurement products was spun-out and renamed Agilent. Agilent is a $5.8 Technology changes, culture changes, customer needs change, more agile competitors emerge, etc. The remaining company kept the Hewlett Packard name and focussed on computers.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

Finally, I’ll write about how Eric Ries and the Lean Startup concept provided the equivalent model for product development activities inside the building and neatly integrates customer and agile development.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2009

Waterfall, Agile, Lean? Intellectual Property/Patents – Strategic or Tactical, timing? Regulatory Issues – What are they? Time to Market – How long? Product Development – How do you engineer it? Manufacturing – How do you build it? Seed and Follow-on Financing – How do your finance it? Liquidity – How? M&A, IPO?

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 1, 2021

Founded in 2009 by JoeBen Bevert, Joby Aviation has been working under the radar at a base in Santa Cruz, California to develop an electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft. When it comes to safe, clean, super-convenient and technologically amazing transportation options, why should the sky be the limit?

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 30, 2019

Schwartzfarb set out to create a guide for anyone interested in starting, growing or leading a modern startup so that they can hit the ground running with a solid plan and foundation with agile and effective sales teams, so that they can avoid and manage the hazards all startups face. Austin, TX Nov. 12: Products that Count?—?Austin,

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Steve Blank

APRIL 2, 2009

I teach teams various Agile techniques, and occasionally get told some particular trick is cheating. One might omit, for example, “less important&# tests where one hadn’t performed as well, without crossing an ethical boundary. Reply William Pietri , on April 2, 2009 at 3:56 pm Said: Well put.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 29, 2020

Varada’s mission is clear: ‘… Bring agility to any data-driven business and enable ad hoc, interactive analytics on any data without friction.’ This Israeli start-up was established in 2017, with dual offices in Israel and California.

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