Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 3, 2009

Refreshing to finally see lean and agile thinking emerge in product/business-floors and not only in technology. Critical also, as the lean company/start-up can not be lean by just using lean principles in IT and not in Product Development/Management - a common misinterpretation of the Toyota Production System. Thank you. Thanks Eric.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 21, 2010

To get to this Transition stage, the company needed passionate visionaries who can articulate a compelling vision, agile enough to learn and discover in real time, resilient enough to deal with countless failures, and responsive enough to capitalize on what they learned in order to secure early customers. What’s Next.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 29, 2008

The six key attributes spell ABCDEF: Agility. When talking about their past experience, candidates with agility will know why they did what they did in a given situation. To probe for agility, you have to ask the candidate questions involving something that they know little about. I remember answering "What security model?"

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Steve Blank

JUNE 3, 2016

Over half the student teams have decided to continue working on national security projects after this class. 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.

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Steve Blank

MAY 18, 2009

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. The problem, I believe, is that repeatability represents the extreme discomfort zone of this class of entrepreneur. I’ve been surprised at the data.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 29, 2013

Out of the airport the first stop was in Denver – an impromptu meetup at Galvanize and a fireside chat with a roomful of 200 great entrepreneurs. And how the engineering process could be turned Agile. with the product built incrementally and iteratively, as students acquire more customer feedback. Military Academies.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2017

The Hacking for Defense class was designed as “fundamental research” to be shared broadly and the results are not subject to restriction for proprietary or national security reasons. Eight teams spoke to over 800 beneficiaries, requirements writers, program managers, warfighters, legal, security, customers, etc. This is the End.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

When I tell this story to entrepreneurs and big-company types alike, I sometimes get this response: "well, sure, if you start out with all those great tools, processes and TDD from the beginning, thats easy! Wed never heard of five whys, and we had plenty of "agile skeptics" on the team. One last comment. Expo SF (May.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

I figured any academic who was as persistent as an entrepreneur had earned my time. The Lean LaunchPad class teaches students how to build a Lean Startup using business model design, customer development and agile engineering. Teams have to get out of the building and talk to 10-15 customers a week.) So Frank did.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 22, 2010

Many of these companies are started by entrepreneurs, and are now household names: Google, Yahoo, eBay and Intel. But many more are true American success stories, out of the limelight, quietly creating jobs and securing our future. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2018

Six teams spoke to over 600 beneficiaries, stakeholders, requirements writers, program managers, warfighters, legal, security, customers, etc. Each of their slide presentations follow their customer discovery journey. Watching them I was left with wonder and awe about what they accomplished in 10 weeks.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

A group of Seedcamp entrepreneurs started a startup tools wiki for that purpose, and we thought it would be well suited here. Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. No need to worry about security and such. s easier to use/develop with. Agile project management tool that enables real time collaboration.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 1, 2016

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. Over half the student teams have decided to continue working on national security projects. Result : I’ll admit my hesitancy was because I brought my memories of U.S.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 29, 2013

Out of the airport the first stop was in Denver – an impromptu meetup at Galvanize and a fireside chat with a roomful of 200 great entrepreneurs. And how the engineering process could be turned Agile. with the product built incrementally and iteratively, as students acquire more customer feedback. Military Academies.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 1, 2016

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. Over half the student teams have decided to continue working on national security projects. Result : I’ll admit my hesitancy was because I brought my memories of U.S.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 28, 2008

Most of the times I have seen pitches fail, it is not because they are poorly written, or that the entrepreneur lacks passion. Their idea was to build a next-generation autonomous robot, that could be used by defense and security agencies around the world. Two Ways to Hold Entrepreneurs Accountable (for Ha. Expo SF (May.

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Steve Blank

JULY 2, 2015

Takashi Tsutsumi and Masato Iino , founders of Learning Entrepreneur’s Lab in Japan. military can work together – for access to advanced technology and to learn how to move with agility, speed and urgency. Masato Iino has been entrepreneur of a couple of startups and an investor for the last twenty years.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 15, 2009

As a consumer internet company with millions of customers, it may seem to have little relevancy for an enterprise software company with only a handful of potential customers, or a computer security company whose customers demand a rigorous audit before accepting a new release. Expo SF (May.

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Steve Blank

JULY 1, 2009

The National Security Agency has a great website on the subject. 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. I can’t get this one out of my head.

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

To give you a better idea of what entrepreneurs in this industry are thinking about during each phase of the startup process, I interviewed SaaS entrepreneurs from all over the world, including our own COO Noah Parsons. Practical Market Research Resources for Entrepreneurs. Use a development methodology.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 12, 2009

Although this was annoying for sysadmins, security consultants, and language purists (and for those who had proprietary modules that couldnt be bundled), it was a huge boon for developers. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? January 16, 2009 2:02 PM Chrissaid.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 19, 2009

A more rational career path for money-making is one that rewards effort, in the form of promotions, increased security, salary and status. So why become an entrepreneur instead of developing technology in an R&D lab? Now they hate their jobs and have no job security or path to becoming really wealthy.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 30, 2008

The tips are based on advice JD solicited from great KPCB entrepreneurs. All cash in most secure possible instruments. Over-communicate with employees, investors, customers. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Act now, act with speed. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 23, 2009

This is especially useful in situations, like most B2B businesses, where the total number of customers is likely to be small. This case study illustrates one company’s attempt to do customer development by testing their vision with customers before writing a single line of code. Oh, this is just a Photoshop file?

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 11, 2008

In true startup form, the world was forever changed when the CIA and the National Security Agency acted as venture capitalists for this first wave of entrepreneurship. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Two Ways to Hold Entrepreneurs Accountable (for Ha.

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