Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

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. agile engineering. Some general customer development slides click here. Online Guide to How to Build a Startup: The Lean LaunchPad.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 11, 2009

Agile – you may find the real opportunities for your company was somewhere else. Passionate – is the company/product/customers the most important thing in your life? This means you still need to have a resilient personality, and be agile. Get customers first. How quickly will you recover? But it won’t be happening daily.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2020

As a veteran of many disasters in which improvising in the moment to meet an immediate need led to innovative solutions, Carl has been impressed by how many businesses, small and large, have reinvented the way they serve their customers during the pandemic. Then they've gotten to work. It's member-owned.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 26, 2013

The program pays scientists $50,000 to attend the program and takes no equity. universities teaching the Lean LaunchPad curriculum organized as I-Corps “nodes” across the U.S. The nodes are now offering their own regional versions of the Lean LaunchPad class under I-Corps. Currently there are 11 U.S.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

There’s been a lot of hand-wringing about gender equity in the high-tech and entrepreneurship worlds lately. I already advocate cross-functional teams as part of the lean startup methodology. Last year, I traveled to dozens of cities talking about lean startups and meeting people interested in entrepreneurship.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 6, 2011

The Lean Startup Book is done. If you've been waiting for a comprehensive account of the Lean Startup and how it can help you achieve dramatically better business results, this is it. The Lean Startup is a new approach being adopted across the globe, changing the way companies are built and new products are launched.

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

Step 1: Start with a lean plan. It’s the fastest way to get your idea onto paper, and it’s the very first step in the lean planning process, which is much easier and more iterative than traditional business planning methods. Also, make a bullet list of the marketing activities that will drive customers to your door.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 4, 2014

These groups are adapting or adopting the practices of startups and accelerators – disruption and innovation rather than direct competition, customer development versus more product features, agility and speed versus lowest cost. It needs the tools and processes pioneered in Lean Startups. This is a big idea. What to Do?

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Lean Methodology Sources. Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. Part 3- Lean Cust. Customer service. Google Custom Search Engine. Customer Relationship Management. Steve Blank’s Lean Startup Resources. Lean Startup Circle â?? great web customer acquisition tutorials.

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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. — — — — In this second segment, Takashi Tsutsumi and Masato Iino talk about how they brought the Lean Startup to Japan. The focus of our first segment is how Silicon Valley and the U.S.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 30, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, October 30, 2008 John Doerrs 10 lean startup tips I just saw video of John Doerrs talk yesterday at VentureBeat’s “How to manage your start-up in the downturn&# roundtable event. Offer equity instead of cash. Over-communicate with employees, investors, customers.

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Altgate

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Things that are key to, for example, building barriers to entry for competitors or barriers to exit for customers, should be done internally…they’re part of your “special sauce.&# For example, you can barter for a service or you can negotiate payment terms or even equity for service. Customer Support.

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Up and Running

JUNE 23, 2015

“It took an enormous investment of sweat equity on both our parts,” Allyson admits. Customer feedback, both from medical professionals and the patients themselves, is a key factor in how Maternova selects their products, in addition to copious in-house research. The Lean Startup by Erik Reis.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 2, 2011

A revolution has taken hold as customer development and agile engineering reinvent the Startup process. The process they use to guide their search is customer development. They would: Blog their Customer Development progress as a narrative. Weekly blog of the customer development narrative. Victor Hugo.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers - SoCal CTO , November 1, 2010 I had a recent email dialog with the founder of a company looking for a CTO for their startup. No Business Plan Survives First Contact With A Customer – The 5.2 The United States is now a debtor nation to China and that the bill is about to come due.

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Steve Blank

MAY 4, 2009

And the same time we were also going to do all the other strategic stuff about pricing, positioning, promotion and customer discovery and validation to help engineering understand customer needs. Sometimes it was the legal department crafting contracts so onerous I wouldn’t even sign it, let alone expect a customer to do so.

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blog.simeonov.com

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

I have been thinking a lot recently about how to apply agile development principles to investing and key aspects of startup development such as team building. Both stem from the agile principle of delaying decisions until the last responsible moment. The first post is about agile startup fundraising.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Chapter 3: Brand Identity Research: Customers, Competition, and Your Brand. A brand is the sum total of the experience your customers and customer prospects have with your company or organization. Your company’s brand is a promise you make to customers and prospects about your products, your services, and your company.

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