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.

Silicon Valley 335

Silicon Valley United States Venture Capital Software Review 335

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. Applied engineering (top 10 annual challenges from the mining companies). UAV’s?

Silicon Valley 335

Silicon Valley Chile South America Venture Capital 335

Steve Blank

JUNE 26, 2015

To move innovation faster, we now have 21 st century tools — Business Model Canvas , Customer Development , Agile Engineering – all adding up to a Lean Startup. Inside of companies these are the mavericks you want to fire for not getting with program. Here the company is essentially incubating a startup.

Lean 120

Lean Management Business Model Incubator 120

Steve Blank

JULY 13, 2021

When Harvard started the MBA program there were no graduate-level business textbooks. While MBA programs proliferated during the first half of the 20th century, they focused on teaching management of existing companies. By 1991 there were 57 undergraduate and 22 MBA programs. There were no classes on how to start a business.

Lean 433

Lean Agile Business Model Business Plan 433

Steve Blank

MAY 29, 2019

The easy part is, “Let’s have an incubator.” With the nature of work changing, the core skills entrepreneurs need to know to become practitioners are actually core skills that everybody will need to know to get a job: creativity, agility, resilience, tenacity, curiosity. Innovators are not entrepreneurs.

Incubator 331

Incubator Lean Programming Government 331

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.

Lean 168

Lean San Francisco Startup Continuous Deployment 168

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.

Lean 262

Lean Washington Incubator Agile 262

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. As a condition of my investment I insisted Will and Eric take my class at Berkeley.

Lean 286

Lean Agile Customer Development Business Model 286

Steve Blank

APRIL 7, 2011

I spent a few days in March in Ann Arbor Michigan as a guest of Professor Thomas Zurbuchen , Associate Dean for Entrepreneurial Programs, and Doug Neal , Director of Center for Entrepreneurship in the Engineering School at the University of Michigan. The Engineering School has 5,600 undergrads and 3,000 graduate students.

Michigan 307

Michigan Silicon Valley Venture Capital Incubator 307

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Investors sitting through Incubator or Accelerator demo days have three metrics to judge fledgling startups – 1) great looking product demos, 2) compelling PowerPoint slides, and 3) a world-class team. We now have the tools, technology and data to take incubators and accelerators to the next level. We think we can do better.

Oakland 326

Oakland Incubator Lean Metrics 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. You can learn more about that by reading The engineering managers lament.)

San Francisco 113

San Francisco Silicon Valley Startup Lean 113

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.

Lean 160

Lean Government Agile Africa 160

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. As a condition of my investment I insisted Will and Eric take my class at Berkeley.

Lean 178

Lean Agile Customer Development Business Model 178

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. At this size the program will provide hundreds of solutions to critical national security problems every year. What Were Our Goals for this Class?

Agile 120

Agile Security Audio Video 120

ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

announced this evening at its annual Pitch Night , that it has received sponsorship by the Kauffman Foundation to support its "Founder Labs," a pre-incubator program whose mission is to increase the number of female founders of technology startups. Diverse Founding Teams, Agile Development Techniques. and that creates jobs."

Founder 146

Founder Incubator Cofounder Lean 146

Steve Blank

MARCH 7, 2012

Today, the first half of the Stanford Engineering Lean LaunchPad Class gave their final presentations. The goal is for them is to observe this class, then host and teach the next round of 50 NSF Innovation Corps scientist/engineer teams in July. Yet this isn’t an incubator. Here are the first five. Team ColorWheels.

Lean 256

Lean Business Model Agile United States 256

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.

Software Review 110

Software Review Startup Silicon Valley Analytics 110

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.

Lean 120

Lean Government Agile Africa 120

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.

Lean 60

Lean San Francisco Continuous Deployment Software Review 60

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.

Delaware 297

Delaware Lean Entrepreneur Advisory Board 297

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. of Management Science and Engineering. Their sponsors agreed.

Silicon Valley 182

Silicon Valley Southern California Lean San Diego 182

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. Nothing is more demoralizing to an engineering team. leanstartup bmorrow : Not just for engineers: ask why 5x every time something unexpected happens.

Lean 60

Lean San Francisco Continuous Deployment Cofounder 60

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.

San Francisco 120

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment DC 120

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Firebase : Are all your developers front-end engineers? Google Custom Search Engine. Google App Engine. Search Engine Optimization Tools. Google App Engine â?? Agile project management tool that enables real time collaboration. Twilio : Need to call/txt get a phone number from your web/mobile application?

Software Review 53

Software Review Technical Review Startup 53

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

When any special custom engineering effort was required to match the over-the-top sales commitments (almost every deal), the engineers were treated as heroes as well. Or if a CEO proudly boast about their corporate incubator, but the incubator’s parking lot is empty at 5:15 pm. to the new values. Lessons Learned.

Startup 120

Startup Silicon Valley Incubator Matching 120

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. The Lean LaunchPad Educators course.

Developer 300

Developer Arizona Lean Business Model 300

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.

Delaware 189

Delaware Lean Entrepreneur Advisory Board 189

www.women2.org

MARCH 8, 2012

Being a resource-constrained entrepreneur, I wanted a co-founder because even if I got a paid engineer or an outsourced team to build it, I would still need to build a team, and there would be continuous development needs. Then, what’s missing — clearly an engineer — and why do I want a partner?

Cofounder 47

Cofounder Technical Review San Francisco Founder 47

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

Lean 74

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.

Lean 76

Lean San Francisco Continuous Deployment Startup 76