Steve Blank
JULY 13, 2021
The business school was invented in the first decade of the 20th century in response to a massive economic transformation in the U.S. The country exited the Civil War as a nation of small businesses and ended the century with large national corporations (railroads, steel, oil, food, insurance, etc.). Soon others were created.
Steve Blank
APRIL 10, 2009
Customer Development ) to help you quickly recognize and reverse any incorrect decisions. That’s why startups are agile. Startups that are agile have mastered one other trick – and that’s Tempo – the ability to make quick decisions consistently over extended periods of time. And nice site.
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YoungUpstarts
APRIL 21, 2013
In the US, about 50% of small businesses fail in the first five years. Enter “ The Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses “, a New York Times bestseller by founder of IMVU (creator of 3D avatars) Eric Ries.
Steve Blank
JANUARY 6, 2014
In the last few years Agile and “Continuous Deployment” has replaced Waterfall and transformed how companies big and small build products. Agile is a tremendous advance in reducing time, money and wasted product development effort – and in having products better match customer needs.
Steve Blank
JANUARY 4, 2010
A lot of entrepreneurs think that their startup is the next big thing when in reality they’re just building a small business. They used Customer and Agile development to search for a scalable and repeatable business model to become a large company. of all businesses. Make no little plans. In the U.S.
Startup Lessons Learned
APRIL 14, 2009
What matters is proving the viability of the company’s business model, what investors call “traction.&# Of course this is not at all true of many profitable small businesses, but they are not what I mean by startups.) Go on an agile diet quickly. April 15, 2009 4:06 PM Eric said. dave - glad somebody noticed.
Steve Blank
FEBRUARY 3, 2015
In fact, by the start of class they had ~$750K in revenue for 2011 – not quite Facebook but a nice small business. Krave’s original outsourced manufacturing partner decided to raise their price – to a point that Krave’s business model was no longer viable. What Do You Mean You Only Spoke to 1 Customer?
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