Steve Blank

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Joe Felter , Raj Shah and I designed a class to examine the new military systems, operational concepts and doctrines that will emerge from 21st century technologies – Space, Cyber, AI & Machine Learning and Autonomy. Will Roper is responsible for spending $60 billion acquiring 550 programs as well as technology and logistics.

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Technology China Agile Acquisition 397

Steve Blank

MAY 29, 2019

The easy part is, “Let’s have an incubator.” My contribution has been, “Why don’t we design classes more closely modeled to what innovators and entrepreneurs actually do.” . “I want to see what you look like in a prison suit.” ” What are companies doing beyond innovation theater?

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

But by taking advantage of open source, agile software, and iterative development, lean startups can operate with much less waste. I also owe a great debt to Kent Beck, whose Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change was my first introduction to this kind of thinking. The lean startup is an application of Lean Thinking.

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Lean San Francisco Startup Continuous Deployment 168

Steve Blank

JUNE 18, 2013

Eric’s insight was that traditional product management and Waterfall development should be replaced by Agile Development. Business model design + customer development + agile development is the process that startups use to search for a business model. Having Eric in the class was the best investment I ever made. Lessons Learned.

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Lean Agile Customer Development Business Model 288

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 26, 2013

This month we’ve crossed ~ 300 teams in the first two years through the program. It’s a model for a government program that’s gotten the balance between public/private partnerships just right. The program pays scientists $50,000 to attend the program and takes no equity. in Science or Nature.

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Lean Washington Incubator Agile 264

Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

These Key Performance Indicators and processes are what make a company efficient —but they are also the root cause of its inability to be agile and innovative. These will enable firms to embrace innovation by design not by exception. Every time another execution process is added, corporate innovation dies a little more.

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Private Equity Metrics China Intellectual Property 326

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2009

Every summer, they bring approximately 10 companies to Boulder for an intense "accelerator" experience (dont call it an incubator, or youll get dirty looks). And every year, it looks as if one or two entrepreneurs from the program decide to stay. Their model looks like a key ingredient in the startup brew there.

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San Francisco Silicon Valley Startup Lean 113

www.bothsidesofthetable.com

MAY 13, 2012

This post is designed mostly for non-technical founders. I know this will fall like a lead balloon to the many people who believe it is possible to have a [insert: startup incubator or technology accelerator or technology consultant or outsource firm] build your technology. I don’t believe it. CTO’s max out at about 3.

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Fractional VPE Part-Time VPE Fractional CTO CTO Hire 89

Steve Blank

JUNE 18, 2013

Eric’s insight was that traditional product management and Waterfall development should be replaced by Agile Development. Business model design + customer development + agile development is the process that startups use to search for a business model. Having Eric in the class was the best investment I ever made. Lessons Learned.

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Lean Agile Customer Development Business Model 180

Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 29, 2010

Weve got a new scholarship program up and running. Each part of the program is organized around one phase of the Build-Measure-Learn feedback loop and begins with a keynote address from a heavy hitter: Steve Blank on Customer Development, Randy Komisar on "Getting to Plan B" and - a third person, not-yet-announced-but-extremely-cool-trust-me.

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San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment DC 120

Steve Blank

AUGUST 4, 2016

Hacking for Diplomacy is a new course from the Management Science and Engineering department in Stanford’s Engineering school and Stanford’s International Policy Studies program that will be first offered in the Fall of 2016. Hacking for Diplomacy is not a product incubator for a specific technology solution. Real Problems.

Lean 162

Lean Government Agile Africa 162

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

They accomplished their goal, but at a huge, unanticipated cost: the processes and committees they designed ended up strangling innovation. It didn’t help that “innovation” was the new hot-button buzzword from senior leadership, and incubators were sprouting in every division of their company, it just made their job more unmanageable.

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Incubator Curation Engineer Government 313

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 3, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, July 3, 2009 Lean Startup fbFund wrap-up Last week I had a real blast meeting with the companies at the fbFund incubator at Palo Alto. If your practice is not designed to cope with uncertainty, it has no place in a startup - even if your startup is located in government or enterprise.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 14, 2009

What will be covered in the full-day program? Unlike other incubator-led programs, this workshop is open to anyone who wants to learn, and it does not require companies take investment or give out equity. We changed our model to B2B and adopted Agile around 2002. Conference streaming, sponsors, discounted tickets.

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Lean San Francisco Continuous Deployment Software Review 60

Steve Blank

AUGUST 4, 2016

Hacking for Diplomacy is a new course from the Management Science and Engineering department in Stanford’s Engineering school and Stanford’s International Policy Studies program that will be first offered in the Fall of 2016. Hacking for Diplomacy is not a product incubator for a specific technology solution. Real Problems.

Lean 120

Lean Government Agile Africa 120

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 17, 2017

We could design warfighting tactics based on knowing the tactics of our opponent. We could design and manufacture the best systems. Army’s Rapid Equipping Force on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan finding and deploying technology solutions against agile insurgents. Newell ran the U.S.

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Community Silicon Valley Technical Review Incubator 218

Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2017

The result is a combination of design thinking, Lean Startup, and Agile Scrum, and Ignacio’s innovation team includes 25 coaches who train employees in PACE best practices. . … Let's see what works well, what doesn't work well for us, for our organization, for our culture.’ What is the impact that our customers need? It's amazing.”

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Lean Startup CTO Hire Cofounder 245

Steve Blank

MAY 12, 2016

Now with over 660 interviews of beneficiaries (users, program managers, stakeholders, etc.) Our advanced in-class lectures are designed to fill the knowledge gap between the on-line lectures and reading assigned for homework and the new realities of the Mission Model canvas and the DOD/IC as beneficiaries.

Virginia 120

Virginia Lean Analytics Incubator 120

Steve Blank

MAY 12, 2016

Now with over 660 interviews of beneficiaries (users, program managers, stakeholders, etc.) Our advanced in-class lectures are designed to fill the knowledge gap between the on-line lectures and reading assigned for homework and the new realities of the Mission Model canvas and the DOD/IC as beneficiaries.

Virginia 120

Virginia Lean Analytics Incubator 120

Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 23, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, June 23, 2009 Join the lean startup discussion at Facebook on Thursday I recently agreed to join Facebook s fbFund incubator as a mentor. Part of that includes giving a presentation for the fbFund companies on the lean startup methodology. If youd like to reserve a spot, please RSVP. Amazon PostRank

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Lean San Francisco Continuous Deployment DC 74

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 22, 2009

Loved it and great speaker, but disagree with portrayal of agile only dealing with known problems #leanstartup Im really interested in perspectives on this point. For example, the agile practice of an in-house customer or product owner that can make authoritative prioritization decisions seems like it doesnt translate very well to startups.

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Lean San Francisco Continuous Deployment Startup 76

Steve Blank

JANUARY 4, 2011

I spent two weeks of December in Chile as a guest of Professor Cristóbal García, Director of EmprendeUC at the Catholic University of Chile , which just signed up a 3-year collaboration partnership with Stanford’s Technology Ventures Program. Small Business versus Scalable Startup versus Corporate Entrepreneurship.

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Silicon Valley Chile South America Venture Capital 335

ConversionXL

JUNE 16, 2015

So today really, when you think about my journey six, seven years now, I was truly honored to be able to work for companies like [inaudible 00:02:43] com, kind of incubating their global personalization and behavioral targeting program from baby to seed to be successful. Same thing with AB testing program. First thing is, goal.

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www.women2.org

MARCH 8, 2012

Damsels in Design, a professional networking group for women in design, along with General Assembly, the collaborative workspace and technology incubator, are hosting “Women in Design & Technology,” a conversation series dedicated to celebrating and highlighting successful female entrepreneurs in New York City.

Cofounder 47

Cofounder Technical Review San Francisco Founder 47

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 14, 2012

The class was designed to teach educators (and the entrepreneurs that support them) the Lean LaunchPad approach (Business Model Design, Customer Development and Agile Engineering) for teaching entrepreneurship. Berkeley and NCIIA , Jerry Engel and I first offered the Lean LaunchPad Educators Class. Lessons Learned.

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Developer Arizona Lean Business Model 302

Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2017

That if we could get teams to rapidly discover the real problems in the field using Lean methods, and only then articulate the requirements to solve them, could defense acquisition programs operate at speed and urgency and deliver timely and needed solutions. Their sponsors agreed. 21 st Century Frogman. Sign up here.

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Silicon Valley Southern California Lean San Diego 185

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

Or if a CEO proudly boast about their corporate incubator, but the incubator’s parking lot is empty at 5:15 pm. For innovation to happen by design not by exception, companies need to hack their corporate culture. the Apple legends of the Mac, iPod and iPhone development). Hacking a Corporate Culture. to the new values.

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Startup Silicon Valley Incubator Matching 120

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

The class was designed to teach educators (and the adjunct entrepreneurs that support them) the Lean LaunchPad approach (Business Model Design, Customer Development and Agile Engineering) for teaching entrepreneurship. Steve’s insight and inspiration during the Lean LaunchPad Educators Program was extraordinary.

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Delaware Lean Entrepreneur Advisory Board 299

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

The class was designed to teach educators (and the adjunct entrepreneurs that support them) the Lean LaunchPad approach (Business Model Design, Customer Development and Agile Engineering) for teaching entrepreneurship. Steve’s insight and inspiration during the Lean LaunchPad Educators Program was extraordinary.

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Delaware Lean Entrepreneur Advisory Board 191

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

In addition to super angels, incubators like Y Combinator , TechStars and the 100+ plus others worldwide like them have begun to formalize seed-investing. They pay expenses in a formal 3-month program while a startup builds something impressive enough to raise money on a larger scale. or Euro-centric phenomenon.

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Silicon Valley United States Venture Capital Software Review 335

steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

automatic links to generated images Rietveld - asynchronous code reviews on changesets Tech*if*er0*urs – blog on roadmap for learning rails Best free programming books Project Management Basecamp - web-based project management and collaboration tool. WebSequenceDiagrams - sketch sequence diagrams.

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Software Review Startup Silicon Valley Analytics 110

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Design/Front End: Twitter Bootstrap : Include this in your website, and you are half finished. LiveRoad : A Great IDE for design is very helpful. Color Scheme Designer. online/offline, extensible wireframing tool w/design library. 99 Designs - marketplace for crowdsourced graphic design. Customer service.

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