Steve Blank

MARCH 8, 2011

In January, we introduced a new graduate course at Stanford called the " target="_blank">Lean LaunchPad. It was designed to bring together many of the new approaches to building a successful startup – customer development, agile development, business model generation and pivots. We made clear that this class wasn’t an incubator.

Lean 300

Lean Business Model Customer Development Guinea 300

Steve Blank

JULY 13, 2021

The Rise of Business Schools – Management as an Occupation. These explosions in company size and scale created a demand for professional managers. Its purpose was to educate management on best practices to run existing companies. Here’s why and what we did about it. that took place in the last quarter of the 19th century.

Lean 435

Lean Agile Business Model Business Plan 435

Steve Blank

JUNE 18, 2013

The Lean LaunchPad entrepreneurship curriculum has caught fire. 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.

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Lean Agile Customer Development Business Model 288

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. The Lean Startup fbFund Edition View more documents from Eric Ries. As usual, Id like to post the slides and then offer some additional commentary.

Lean 60

Lean San Francisco Continuous Deployment Cofounder 60

Steve Blank

JUNE 18, 2013

The Lean LaunchPad entrepreneurship curriculum has caught fire. 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.

Lean 180

Lean Agile Customer Development Business Model 180

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. The management of all these relationships is called diplomacy. Lessons Learned.

Lean 162

Lean Government Agile Africa 162

Steve Blank

AUGUST 29, 2016

We tend to associate the government with words like bureaucracy rather than lean innovation. Department of Defense by adopting Lean Methodology inside their agency. The NGA has adopted Lean Innovation methods to make this happen. Their goal is to integrate these techniques into their own Lean innovation processes.

Lean 178

Lean Silicon Valley Government Acquisition 178

Steve Blank

AUGUST 29, 2016

We tend to associate the government with words like bureaucracy rather than lean innovation. Department of Defense by adopting Lean Methodology inside their agency. The NGA has adopted Lean Innovation methods to make this happen. Their goal is to integrate these techniques into their own Lean innovation processes.

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Lean Silicon Valley Government Acquisition 178

Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2017

Guest Post by Misti Yang, Writer for Lean Startup Co. Editor’s Note: We wrapped up the 2017 Lean Startup Week in San Francisco just a few weeks ago, and we’re excited to share with you some of the best lessons learned in entrepreneurship and corporate innovation. Because these Lean Startup people, they do crazy stuff,” Alex joked. “So

Lean 245

Lean Startup CTO Hire Cofounder 245

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 14, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, May 14, 2009 The Lean Startup Workshop - now an OReilly Master Class My rate of posting has been much lower lately, and this is mostly due to preparations for the upcoming Lean Startup Workshop on May 29. We changed our model to B2B and adopted Agile around 2002.

Lean 60

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. The management of all these relationships is called diplomacy. Lessons Learned.

Lean 120

Lean Government Agile Africa 120

YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 31, 2018

In many respects, it’s the leanness, flexibility and agility of startups that help them become successful,” he says. On the other hand, startups are often the first adopters of the latest technologies, especially around operational and productivity tools, digital marketing and customer relationship management.

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United Kingdom Technical Review Design Operations 113

Steve Blank

MAY 29, 2019

Lean LaunchPad class developed for Stanford. The easy part is, “Let’s have an incubator.” And the Lean LaunchPad class I developed at Stanford was the first such class. Worth a read. Interview highlights: How is the way that universities teach entrepreneurship evolving? Mission-Driven Entrepreneurship. .

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Incubator Lean Programming Government 331

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). Thank you @ericries for drastically altering my perception of agile startup Thank you all so much for your kind words. In the meantime, let me keep my promise of some multimedia.

San Francisco 113

San Francisco Silicon Valley Startup Lean 113

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. Product management tools like Stage-Gate ® emerged to systematically manage Waterfall product development.

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IRR Startup Business Model Agile 335

Steve Blank

JULY 2, 2015

My guests this past week on Bay Area Ventures on Wharton Business Radio on Sirius XM Channel 111 were: Pete Newell , managing partner of BMNT Partners. Matt Weingart, program development manager in the Strategic Development Office at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Listen to my entire chat with John.

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Channel Japan Bosnia Silicon Valley 120

Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 29, 2010

Traveling the past year, I have heard loud and clear that its time for the Lean Startup movement to enter its next phase. My aspiration with the Lean Startup methodology has always been to provide such a framework, so that we have more intelligent conversations about what works and what doesnt for startups.

San Francisco 120

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment DC 120

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

— I just watched a very smart company try to manage innovation by hiring a global consulting firm to offload engineering from “distractions.” A canonical Lean Innovation process inside a company or government agency would look something like this: Curation. A shorter version of this post first appeared on the HBR blog.

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Incubator Curation Engineer Government 313

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. This is a first step to a more agile, responsive and resilient, approach to national security in the 21 st century. What Were Our Goals for this Class?

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Agile Security Audio Video 120

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Army’s Rapid Equipping Force on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan finding and deploying technology solutions against agile insurgents. Together Pete, Joe Felter and I created Hacking for Defense , a nationwide program to teach university students how use Lean methodologies to solve defense and national security problems.

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Community Silicon Valley Technical Review Incubator 219

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. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0.

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Lean San Francisco Continuous Deployment DC 74

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 22, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, May 22, 2009 The Lean Startup at SIPA follow-up I had wonderful time presenting at SIPA last night , and was completely exhausted by the incredible post-speech response. 2009 05 21 The Lean Startup At SIPA View more OpenOffice presentations from Eric Ries.

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Lean San Francisco Continuous Deployment Startup 76

Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

AUGUST 28, 2018

It examines culture assessment, strategy, and on-going project management. It includes an overview of key frameworks ( Design Thinking, Agile, Lean, TRIZ, Synectics, Stage-Gate, CPS ) and their essential tools. Innovation team leaders and project managers learn what it takes to keep cycles spinning from year to year.

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Chicago Georgia Agile Framework 25

Steve Blank

MAY 12, 2016

Now with over 660 interviews of beneficiaries (users, program managers, stakeholders, etc.) A pivot is the lean methodology’s way to fire the plan without firing people. Pivots are what allows startups to be agile, and to move with speed and urgency. This is what enables Lean teams to move with speed and urgency.

Virginia 120

Virginia Lean Analytics Incubator 120

Steve Blank

MAY 12, 2016

Now with over 660 interviews of beneficiaries (users, program managers, stakeholders, etc.) A pivot is the lean methodology’s way to fire the plan without firing people. Pivots are what allows startups to be agile, and to move with speed and urgency. This is what enables Lean teams to move with speed and urgency.

Virginia 120

Virginia Lean Analytics Incubator 120

Steve Blank

AUGUST 25, 2015

I’ve spent this year working with corporations and government agencies that are adopting and adapting Lean Methodologies. Several pockets of innovation in his agency have begun to look to startups and have tried to adopt lean methods. We were once a scrappy, agile and feared organization with a “can-do” attitude.

Lean 120

Lean Entrepreneur Business Model Silicon Valley 120

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.

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Oakland Incubator Lean Metrics 327

Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2017

It combines the same Lean Startup Methodology used by the National Science Foundation to commercialize science, with the rapid problem sourcing and curation methodology developed on the battlefields in Afghanistan and Iraq by Colonel Pete Newell and the US Army’s Rapid Equipping Force. Their sponsors agreed. 21 st Century Frogman.

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Silicon Valley Southern California Lean San Diego 186

www.women2.org

MARCH 8, 2012

Opportunity Management: Now that I had a few people of interest, the courtship began. Learn how to create, launch, and manage your start-up over complimentary beer and wine. Pitching: You have to open the kimono both on your background, skills, and vision. You are selling yourself and your idea. Thursday, March 8, 2012, 7pm – 9:30pm.

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Cofounder Technical Review San Francisco Founder 47

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

I’ve spent this year working with corporations and government agencies that are adopting and adapting Lean Methodologies. Or if a CEO proudly boast about their corporate incubator, but the incubator’s parking lot is empty at 5:15 pm. One of the interesting innovation challenges I’ve encountered centers on a company’s culture.

Startup 120

Startup Silicon Valley Incubator Matching 120

Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

What this means is that the emergence of incubators and super angels have dramatically expanded the sources of seed capital. We now have specific management tools to grow startups. I’m glad to have been part of the team inventing the Lean Startup methodology. VCs have now ceded more control to founders.

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Restful Silicon Valley Puerto Rico San Jose 228

steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

signup, upgrade, trial pricing Zuora – online subscription management FeeFighters – find the cheapest credit card processors HealPay – Collections made easy Customer Support Tender – support, knowledgebase tool for your site GetSatisfaction - conversations between companies / customers.

Software Review 110

Software Review Startup Silicon Valley Analytics 110

Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

MARCH 19, 2019

Make it a project that allows people time to do research and think, incubate , and your results will dramatically improve. The session/project will be better planned and managed, and some of your best brains can join the team in jamming ideas instead of managing process. The danger and the reality is they check out.

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Framework Agile Chicago Incubator 54

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Lean Methodology Sources. Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. Part 3- Lean Cust. Task Management. Project Management Tools. Subscription Payments / Management. Managing APIs. Customer Relationship Management. Contractor Management. Scanning / Document Management. SW Courses.

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Software Review Technical Review Startup 53