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Innovation, Change and the Rest of Your Life

Steve Blank

When the product and channel are bits, adoption by 10’s and 100’s of millions and even billions of users can happen in years versus decades. Continuous innovation requires the imagination and courage to challenge the initial hypotheses of your current business model (channel, cost, customers, products, supply chain, etc.) The founders.

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When It’s Darkest Men See the Stars

Steve Blank

In addition to super angels, incubators like Y Combinator , TechStars and the 100+ plus others worldwide like them have begun to formalize seed-investing. The emergence of incubators and super angels have dramatically expanded the sources of seed capital. These angels make lots of early bets and double-down when early results appear.

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Learning Through Reflection

Steve Blank

To be honest I built the class out of frustration watching schools teach aspiring entrepreneurs that all they need to know is how to write a business plan or how to sit in an incubator building a product. Diagrams of key parts of the Canvas –customer flow, channel, get/keep/grow (before and after). Pivot stories. Demo of final MVP.

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[Interview] Bo Zou, Toronto-Based Digital User Experience Specialist And Thought Leader

YoungUpstarts

In many respects, it’s the leanness, flexibility and agility of startups that help them become successful,” he says. Further, he notes, opportunities for innovation are virtually unlimited as digital channels grow. They’re the ones doing the disrupting, and their innovations are making waves.”.

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Lean Innovation Management – Making Corporate Innovation Work

Steve Blank

To move innovation faster, we now have 21 st century tools — Business Model Canvas , Customer Development , Agile Engineering – all adding up to a Lean Startup. Here the company executes a known business model (known customers, product features, competitors, pricing, distribution channel, supply chain, etc.)

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Why Uber is The Revenge of the Founders

Steve Blank

A CEO brought in from a large company came with all the big company accoutrements – org charts, HR departments with formal processes and procedure handbooks, formal waterfall engineering methodology, sales compensation plans, etc. — all great things when you are executing and scaling a known business model. The founders.

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How to Hack Growth When Growth Stalls

ConversionXL

One of the greatest threats to long-term success is when companies aren’t vigilant enough about responding to the changes in their market—whether it’s by failing to spot product or channel fatigue, acknowledge new competition, make needed updates to products or marketing adjustments in a timely fashion, or embrace new technology coming online.