Steve Blank

JULY 23, 2014

This week the National Science Foundation goes Lean on education by providing $1.2 National Science Foundation adopted my Lean LaunchPad class. Their goal was to train University scientists and researchers to use Lean Startup methods (business model design, customer development and agile engineering) to commercialize their science.

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MAY 14, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, May 14, 2009 The Lean Startup Workshop - now an OReilly Master Class My rate of posting has been much lower lately, and this is mostly due to preparations for the upcoming Lean Startup Workshop on May 29. I have a lot of good news to report on this front. You can click here to learn more.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 4, 2016

State Department and asks students to use Lean Methods to test their understanding of the problem and deliver rapid-fire innovative solutions to pressing diplomacy, development and foreign policy challenges. This is a first step to a more agile, responsive and resilient, approach to diplomacy and national security in the 21 st century.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2013

Last May, I shared the news that long-time Lean Startup advocates Brant Cooper and Patrick Vlaskovits were working on a new book called The Lean Entrepreneur featuring illustrations by FAKEGRIMLOCK. LitMotors approach to using Lean Startup to create a new vehicle category. That new book is about to hit bookstores everywhere.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 5, 2010

Consumer Internet investing seems to have split off from traditional Venture Capital, and is creating a new category of VC’s: Lean VC’s. I think you can blame Customer and Agile Development for a small part of it. The Rise of the “Lean VC’s” – Consumer Internet Gets Funded. Lean VC’s are Different.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 4, 2016

State Department and asks students to use Lean Methods to test their understanding of the problem and deliver rapid-fire innovative solutions to pressing diplomacy, development and foreign policy challenges. This is a first step to a more agile, responsive and resilient, approach to diplomacy and national security in the 21 st century.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 7, 2019

Followed by an 8-minute slide presentation follow their customer discovery journey over the 10-weeks. All the teams used the Mission Model Canvas , Customer Development and Agile Engineering to build Minimal Viable Products, but all of their journeys were unique. All the presentations are worth a watch. Team: Panacea.

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AUGUST 26, 2009

Ive written a little bit about the origins of Silicon Valley because I think its important for us to understand how we got here in order to make sure we preserve what is best about our community. The companies I spoke to all agreed that the community there was extremely supportive, especially in the critical ulta-early-stage.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

One of the great things about being a retired entrepreneur is that I get to give back to the community that helped me. The Lean LaunchPad course online. I teach potential founders a hands-on, experiential class called the Lean LaunchPad at Berkeley, Stanford, Columbia and Caltech. customer development.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 28, 2020

Customer Development became one of the three parts of the Lean Startup as Eric Ries and Alexander Osterwalder provided the other two components (Agile Engineering and the business model canvas.) It’s the impact you make serving God, your family, community, and country. Dropping the curtain on Innovation Theater.

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OCTOBER 26, 2009

And, as you can see in my previous post on “ The cardinal sin of community management &# the feedback could be all over the map. But we had some super-active customers who would act as editors, collecting feedback from all over the community and synthesizing it into a report of the top issues. It was absolutely worth it.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 29, 2010

Traveling the past year, I have heard loud and clear that its time for the Lean Startup movement to enter its next phase. My aspiration with the Lean Startup methodology has always been to provide such a framework, so that we have more intelligent conversations about what works and what doesnt for startups.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 26, 2016

Introducing Hacking for Defense – Connecting Silicon Valley Innovation Culture and Mindset to the Department of Defense and the Intelligence Community. What do all these groups in the Department of Defense and Intelligence Community (DOD/IC) have in common? Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, CIA, NSA. North Korea.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

I know that this all seems obvious now with the movements started by Steven Blank ( Four Steps of Epiphany ) with the whole Customer Development processes / Lean Startup movements also popularized by people like Eric Ries. But I believe that it creates an authentic relationship with your community. It was Salesforce.com.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 1, 2016

First , would students to sign up for a class that engaged them in national service with the Department of Defense and Intelligence Community? So I was astonished how ready and eager students were for a class that combines the toughest problems in national security, with learning Lean Innovation methods. Result: Hell yes.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 1, 2016

First , would students to sign up for a class that engaged them in national service with the Department of Defense and Intelligence Community? So I was astonished how ready and eager students were for a class that combines the toughest problems in national security, with learning Lean Innovation methods. Result: Hell yes.

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AUGUST 24, 2009

Just like in the world of startups, we can start to use micro-scale pilot programs, executed in lean fashion, to gather real facts for making ROI decisions about new project investment. Your creators should always have a simple way to talk to current and potential customers in any segment. 12comments: Dougvs said.

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APRIL 26, 2009

But I want to talk about a different kind of leverage, the kind that you can get in product development. Its a key lean startup concept. The idea of leverage is simple: for every ounce of effort your product development team puts into your product, find ways to magnify that effort by getting many other people to invest along with you.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2009

We also learned that law is code , and that leadership was needed to build thriving communities in a digital age. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. No departments The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business R.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 3, 2016

First was to teach students to develop the mindset, reflexes, agility and resilience an entrepreneur needs to make decisions at speed and with urgency in a chaotic and uncertain world. Few consider opportunities to make the world safer with the Department of Defense, Intelligence Community or other government agencies.

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JUNE 8, 2009

I got a powerful taste of datablindness recently, as I’ve started to work with various large companies as partners in setting up events, speeches, and other products to sell around the Lean Startup concept. For a lean startup , this lack of discipline is anathema. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

The Lean Startup is the way most innovators build startups and innovate inside of existing companies. What if you’re a government or a military organization or part of the intelligence community? In a mission-driven organization such as the defense and intelligence community, there is no revenue to measure.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 8, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, August 8, 2009 Introducing the Lean Startup Cohort subscription program Over the past few months, I have been engaged in another customer discovery exercise with passionate early adopters of the lean startup methodology. I am now ready to move into the customer validation phase.

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Steve Blank

MAY 12, 2015

After seeing the results of 500+ teams through the I-Corps, the NSF now offers all teams who’ve received government funding to start a company an introduction to building a Lean Startup. To address this problem, the NSF collaborated with Steve Blank to adapt his Lean LaunchPad class at Stanford for NSF-funded founders.

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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. — — — Matt Weingart is a program development manager in the Strategic Development Office at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 7, 2011

Everyone I met in this program “gets” the principles of Agile, Lean and Customer Development big time. Finally, I was impressed to find a robust local entrepreneurial community centered around A2Geeks and the Tech Brewery (after I met Dug Song I understood why.). A Lack of a Startup Culture in the Community.

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Steve Blank

JULY 25, 2011

And the venture capital community became comfortable in funding them. The fact that serious money could be made in companies investing in life sciences wasn’t lost on other researchers and the venture capital community. Filed under: Lean LaunchPad , Venture Capital. Medical Researchers Get Entrepreneurial.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, September 15, 2009 Testing the new Disqus comment system The recent and overwhelming influx of comments on The cardinal sin of community management. Testing the new Disqus comment system The recent and overwhelming influx of comments on The cardinal sin of community management. Expo SF (May. .

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

This way, the innovations that reached engineering would already have substantial evidence – about validated customer needs, processes, legal, security and integration issues identified — and most importantly, minimal viable products and working prototypes already tested. As the head of the U.S. Segments of the U.S. Lessons Learned.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 28, 2009 Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders (and a request for help) There are only two opportunities left this year to see a Lean Startup presentation in the US - for free. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Expo SF (May. .

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Then youll have a chance to come discuss the lean startup live and in-person. We'll have IDCEE conf on October 28-29, [link] If you could come any other day we'll organize small event at #kievstartup community. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Fascinating.)

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

Labels: customer development 3comments: Anonymoussaid. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? Cross posting is good. Expo SF (May.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 5, 2013

It’s been fun watching a 20th Century entrepreneur learn new tricks as he builds his next startup, FindTheBest using Lean Methodology. Lean Start-up Connection: Business Model Canvas. By leaning on our technology, we knew we could build cheaply, we just didn’t know how cheaply. Staying Agile. An Untested Hypothesis.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

Its actually part of a lean startup story. Recently, hes been engaged in a customer validation exercise around a new concept for a political action-oriented social network. For more on his lean startup journey, you can take a look at this slide presentation. Its actually part of a lean startup story.

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JANUARY 27, 2009

We're keeping ourselves free for the community that has helped us build our product; premium vs basic seems wrong to us. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. October 8, 2009 3:30 AM Anton Zolotov said.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

I promised to post the slides for my highly abbreviated version of the lean startup presentation, so here they are. 2009 09 08 The Lean Startup Gov 2.0 g2s The very abbreviated version of Customer Development (channeling Steve Blank ). g2s The very abbreviated version of Customer Development (channeling Steve Blank ).

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 19, 2008

I would recommend periodic surveys, along with some kind of forum or other community tool where the most passionate customers can congregate. Im Community Manager at VenCorps, co-host of commandN. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Hi Eric, Will Pate here.

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