Steve Blank

JULY 25, 2023

I just spent a month and a half at Imperial College London co-teaching a “Wicked” Entrepreneurship class. Co mpanies also face Wicked problems. Startups vs. Large Companies vs. Governments Innovation at Speed for Horizon 1, 2 and 3 (Managing the Portfolio across Horizons) What is Systems Thinking?

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2008

So if youre new, consider not paying any attention to the rest of this post, and just diving into the archives, if you havent already. Maybe youd like to start with The lean startup , How to listen to customers , or What does a startup CTO actually do? ) He previously co-founded and served as Chief Technology Officer of IMVU.

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View from Seed

MAY 14, 2019

A number of blog posts recently have mentioned this, but we seem to be experiencing a rise in repeat founders starting new businesses and raising seed capital. We’re also seeing a wave of folks who were not founders, but were star players among the first 25 folks at a unicorn company also starting new companies.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 30, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, July 30, 2009 Techstars brings The Lean Startup to Boulder Im very excited to announce a pair of events that will kick off a very busy fall speaking tour. The event will include a talk from Eric on The Lean Startup over dinner, followed by moderated table discussion and then final Q&A with Eric.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 8, 2008

This theory has become so influential that I have called it one of the three pillars of the lean startup - every bit as important as the changes in technology or the advent of agile development. I highly recommend this book for all entrepreneurs, in startups as well as in big companies. Heres the catch. Theory of market types.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 2, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, August 2, 2008 Paul Graham on fundraising I have found no better primer on the current realities of starting a new technology company in a startup hub like Silicon Valley than Paul Grahams essays. but rest assured they would be. How to Fund a Startup [link] Its obvious why investors delay.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 25, 2010

(for Harvard Business Review) Over at Harvard Business Review, Ive been building up a series designed to introduce the Lean Startup methodology to a business-focused audience. Read the rest of The Startups Rules of Speed - The Conversation - Harvard Business Review. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 31, 2010

Expo Intensive rocked, the mainstream media has started writing about the Lean Startup, and - most of all - the movement continues to grow and evolve. First of all, the Startup Lessons Learned conference exceeded my wildest expectations. You can read the rest of his posts on his blog : Introduction , Part 1 , Part 2.)

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 5, 2008

But I have a special sympathy for the "product manager" in a startup that is bringing a new product to a new market, and doing their work in large batches. The product manager was clearly struggling to get results from the rest of the team. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 5, 2010

I have personally sold many copies of his book, and continue to recommend it as one of the most important books a startup founder can read. You can easily take from it whatever makes sense for your business, and leave the rest. Four Steps primarily centers its stories and case studies on B2B hardware and software startups.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

It was one of those brilliant startup brainstorms that comes to the team in a flash, with a giant thunderclap. Eric, Excellent article about an essential technique for startups. To help find the right keywords, Ive written an article on my blog Web Startup Help that details How to Do Keyword Research for startups.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 7, 2010

As an entrepreneur, I often saw the best practices of general management fail startups. My most recent startup created a marketplace for customers to buy and sell virtual goods for their 3D avatar. Read the rest at The Conversation - Harvard Business Review. Read the rest at The Conversation - Harvard Business Review.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 25, 2021

The digital transformation represents a learning curve and skills transformation not only for employers, but for the rest of their teams. Pablo Listingart is the Founder and Executive Director of ComIT , a non-profit organization designed to help people overcome employment barriers and re-introduce themselves to the local market.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

by Amit Damani , cofounder of Vista Rooms. In the startup world, bootstrapping essentially means funding your own venture and not being too dependent on external sources. While most startups believe that only funding guarantees success, we beg to differ. Most startups do the reverse of this. Spend Wisely.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, November 17, 2008 The four kinds of work, and how to get them done: part one Ive written before about some of the advantages startups have when they are very small, like the benefits of having a pathetically small number of customers. A "startup within the startup" feeling is a good thing.

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Agile VC

JANUARY 4, 2012

AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. Founders Hardi Meybaum and Indrek Narusk originally started building the company in their native Estonia before moving to Boston to join the hub of SaaS / CAD software companies located here. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. million times.

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Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. Many assume it was a cakewalk, based on the success LinkedIn has enjoyed over time and the current stature of our founder/CEO Reid Hoffman (now Chairman). Salesforce.com is a startup with 76,000 subscribers (over 2.1M How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC. How To Think About The Future.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 15, 2010

Read the rest here. Read the rest here. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? No departments The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business R. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 30, 2022

The Proud Owners of a Startup. Today, as the proud owner of a startup, you’re probably much better at managing your money. While investors can seem like a solution to countless problems you encounter as a founder, don’t be too hasty to start eating from their hands. We have all been there, done that. You might even ask for it.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

The Forrest Four-Cast: February 26, 2019 Fifty diverse startups will aim to impress a panel of judges and a live audience with their skills, creativity and innovation at SXSW Pitch Presented by Cyndx. Novo is bringing small business banking into the modern age with easy-to-use tools for founders on the go. Not just U.S.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 18, 2010

Ash Maurya is the founder of WiredReach , a bootstrapped startup that he has been running for seven years. Recently, he was bitten by the lean startup bug and has started writing about his experiences attempting to apply lean startup and customer development principles.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 15, 2009

Of all the tactics I have advocated as part of the lean startup , none has provoked as many extreme reactions as continuous deployment , a process that allows companies to release software in minutes instead of days, weeks, or months. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

Over 1,000 students a year are learning lean startup concepts. The Lean LaunchPad class teaches students how to build a Lean Startup using business model design, customer development and agile engineering. But what NYU did with the rest of their grant dollars was simply brilliant. Encourage new startups?

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2009

We spent the rest of our time pretending to work on the assigned homework, but really trying to do interesting side projects, like sending juvenile messages across the school network or building primitive video games. Then you set up a web app to co-ordinate volunteers who can wipe a hard drive and install Ubuntu. Good Post.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

In other words, they are facing conditions of extreme uncertainty, just like startups. But, as any startup can tell you, this opens up a tremendous set of opportunities for the rest of us. Just like with startups, this is a hybrid question. So I generally feel right at home in these conversations.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 2, 2009

For the rest of us, there is an alternative: to create credibility by building a lean startup. Rather than just focus on the right kind of pitch to use, I wanted to write about the kinds of startups that create lasting value, and therefore are great companies to fund even in down times. Is there s choice? Expo SF (May. .

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

Heres my favorite part: If youve got a team, part of the team should obsess about the backlist, honing it, editing it and promoting it, while the rest work to generate (as opposed to promote) the frontlist. I see startups struggle with this all the time. No departments The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business R.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

The past year was a wild ride for startups and founders, giving a whole new meaning to the ”rollercoaster” aspect of being an entrepreneur. A combination of competition for top talent and an effort to bring employees back to the office drove startups in Israel to throw extravagant parties and all-inclusive retreats abroad.

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Agile VC

JUNE 5, 2011

AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. Even for those who don’t care to dive into the numbers, it’s worth a quick glance because co-founder/CEO Andrew Mason wrote a letter which forms the preamble of the full document. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010.

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Agile VC

JANUARY 22, 2014

This was before we started NextView and at the time Ben was still building Zeo, the prior company he co-founded. We’ve met with many startups working in this area over the last 2-3 years. I first met Ben about 5-6 years ago.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 30, 2009

Many thanks, you’ve changed my startup a hundred times already. Hopefully you and your co-founders are experts in one or two parts (agile development, SEO/SEM, etc.) But the rest; sales, marketing, bus dev is actually customer development that the founder needs to understand. Keep ‘em coming.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 4, 2009

Thanks to those of you who were willing to fill out the survey, I learned my net promoter score (about 25) as well as some clear other segmentation insights: about 80% of you are founders of or work at a startup, you read many of the same other blogs, and many of you would like to engage with Lessons Learned in formats and venues beyond this blog.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, September 19, 2009 Support the Startup Founders Visa with a tweet Its been an exhilarating first day here in Washington DC for the Geeks on a Plane tour. We can remedy it by creating a special visa for startup founders. Its actually part of a lean startup story.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 21, 2017

They do a great job at building an amazing culture, and they are able to keep a small company feel in terms of speed and agility because they keep the teams small and have basically broken the company up into a whole bunch of companies. Sales Account Manager for a leading NYC based StartUp. Thanks to Steve Benson, Badger Maps ! #4

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Idealistic founders believe they will break the mold when they scale, and not turn into a “typical big company.” Or it’s fatal because that was a co-founder. “The future is inherently unpredictable,” insists the small company, spurred on by Lean and Agile mindsets. A team of one is brittle, but fast.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 11, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, March 11, 2010 For Startups, How Much Process Is Too Much? for Harvard Business Review) In the latest article for my series in HBR, I discuss the problem of how to figure out how much process startups should have. When done right, it can help startups accelerate even as they scale.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Customizable task management : With MeisterTask , teams can track tasks from creation to completion via agile and intuitive Kanban-style project boards. We had a chance to interview Michael and asked about his story, how he started his business along with this co-founder and the future of MeisterTask. has in store: 1.

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