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When It’s Darkest Men See the Stars

Steve Blank

The United States is now a debtor nation to China and that the bill is about to come due. Risk capital has emerged in China, India and other countries where risk taking, innovation and liquidity is encouraged, on a scale previously only seen in the U.S. Finally, venture capital and angel investing is no longer a U.S.

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Innovation, Change and the Rest of Your Life

Steve Blank

China has simply become the factory. Risk capital has emerged in China, India and other countries where risk taking, innovation and liquidity are encouraged, on a scale previously only seen in the U.S. And for consumer hardware, no startup has to build their own factory as the costs are absorbed by offshore manufacturers.

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2020 Lesson Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

This was followed by an 8-minute slide presentation describing their customer discovery journey over the 10-weeks. All the teams used the Mission Model Canvas , (videos here ) Customer Development and Agile Engineering to build Minimal Viable Products, but all of their journeys were unique.

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Startup Tools

steveblank.com

Github - Free public repositories, collaborator management, issue tracking, wikis, downloads, code review, graphs Pivotal Tracker – Agile project management tool that enables real time collaboration. WebSequenceDiagrams - sketch sequence diagrams. Bontq – hosted bug tracking and project management needs. Thus, these pages.

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Founders and dysfunctional families « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

We agreed that all her founding CEOs seemed to have the same set of personality traits – tenacious, passionate, relentless, resilient, agile, and comfortable operating in chaos. I coach agile teams for a living, and I do most of my work with start-ups. of the founders surveyed were born in China, 3.8% were born in India.

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Intel Disrupted: Why large companies find it difficult to innovate, and what they can do about it

Steve Blank

They’re better than large companies at identifying customer needs/problems and finding product/market fit by pivoting rapidly. Their size lets them adopt flatter and more agile organizational structures while providing incentives that reward risk-taking and collaboration. Filed under: Corporate Innovation , Customer Development.

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Why Companies are Not Startups

Steve Blank

Facing continuous disruption from globalization, China, the Internet, the diminished power of brands, changing workforce, etc., Staff functions in finance, human resources, legal departments and business units developed Key Performance Indicators, processes, procedures and goals to measure, control and execute. The question is – why?

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