Steve Blank

MARCH 29, 2010

After Stanford, Ann joined Mike Maples’ Venture Capital firm Floodgate as a partner. As the Stanford entrepreneurship program for the engineering school sits in the Management Science and Engineering Department , most of our TA’s are students in the MS&E PhD program.

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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. Venture Capital ; met with the local hardware/software venture capital firm.

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Steve Blank

JULY 28, 2011

The combination of Venture Capital and technology entrepreneurship is one of the great business inventions of the last 50 years. The NSF has announced the Innovation Corps – a program to take the most promising research projects in American university laboratories and turn them into startups. What Took You So Long.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2008

He serves on the advisory board of a number of technology startups, and has worked as a consultant to a number of startups, companies, and venture capital firms. He is the co-author of several books including The Black Art of Java Game Programming (Waite Group Press, 1996). Conference streaming, sponsors, discounted tickets.

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MARCH 31, 2014

As the venture capital business has come roaring back in the last 5 years, startups are awash in available capital. 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. Act Like a Startup.

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Steve Blank

JULY 25, 2011

While this signaled that investments in technology companies could be very lucrative, both Shockley and Fairchild could only be funded through corporate partners – there was no venture capital industry. government backed venture firms and limited partnerships. A wave of innovation was about to meet a pile of risk capital.

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MAY 29, 2019

In addition to Stanford I also teach at Columbia, and at these research universities – Stanford, Columbia, Berkeley, and others – they all now have an internal incubator, they have maker spaces, they have their own venture funds, they connect to the community, they connect to venture capital. It’s a big idea.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 31, 2009

Finally, I’ll write about how Eric Ries and the Lean Startup concept provided the equivalent model for product development activities inside the building and neatly integrates customer and agile development. The Focus on Execution Versus Agility The product development diagram has a linear flow from left to right.

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Steve Blank

MAY 12, 2015

Here’s Edmund’s description of the I-Corps Lite program. SBIR/STTR Program and Startup Seed Funding. The Small Business Innovative Research ( SBIR ) and Small Business Technology Transfer ( STTR ) programs are startup seed funds created by Congress to encourage U.S. startups that don’t fit whatever’s hot in venture capital.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 23, 2016

For the first 75 years of the 20 th century, when capital for new ventures was scarce, the smartest engineering talent went to corporate R&D labs. But starting in the last quarter of that century and accelerating in this one, a new form of financing – risk capital (angel and venture capital) — emerged.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 2, 2011

A revolution has taken hold as customer development and agile engineering reinvent the Startup process. Jon Feiber at MDV is going to try investing in startups emerging from Universities with great engineering schools outside of Silicon Valley that have entrepreneurship programs, but minimal venture capital infrastructure.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 27, 2009

—————- The next piece of the Secret History of Silicon Valley puzzle came together when Tom Byers , Tina Selig and Mark Leslie invited me to teach entrepreneurship in the Stanford Technology Ventures Program ( STVP ) in Stanford’s School of Engineering. How was this possible?

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

We faced this same problem in entrepreneurship and venture capital, but we are getting past it. Just like in the world of startups, we can start to use micro-scale pilot programs, executed in lean fashion, to gather real facts for making ROI decisions about new project investment. for Harvard Business Revie. Amazon PostRank

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Steve Blank

JUNE 25, 2009

It also made me understand what kind of support sales people needed from marketing and what marketing programs were wasted motion. Making sales calls with him taught me what a world class salesperson was like. It also made me realize that there are times you don’t want any sales people in your company.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 1, 2011

The combination of venture capital and technology entrepreneurship is one of the great business inventions of the last 50 years. The NSF has announced the Innovation Corps, a program to take the most promising research projects in American university laboratories and turn them into startups. This is a big deal.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 18, 2010

Truth: There’s nothing wrong with raising venture capital. Many lean startups are ambitious and are able to deploy large amounts of capital. Truth: There’s nothing wrong with raising venture capital. Many lean startups are ambitious and are able to deploy large amounts of capital.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 6, 2009

Forty years before Agile Development methodologies became popular, ESL had analysts from its &# customer&# sitting side-by-side with ESL engineers designing new equipment together. These would be the heart of ESL’s business. A-12 OXCART CIA Spyplane ESL found other ways to stay very close to its customers.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 1, 2021

Air Force’s Agility Prime program to accelerate testing and development, and last year, it became the first eVTOL company to achieve “airworthiness” approval from the Air Force. Our model here at RTP is to deliver “venture capital at scale.” For example, Joby works with the U.S.

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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. Tendayi explained, “It's actually based on the venture capital notion of investment thesis. What products in our portfolio are declining that we need to fix?”

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Steve Blank

JULY 1, 2009

military missile program in the 1950′s (Atlas, Thor, etc.) Filed under: Secret History of Silicon Valley « Agile Opportunism – Entrepreneurial DNA Rocket Science 2: Drinking the Kool-Aid » 2 Responses Ben , on July 1, 2009 at 2:31 pm Said: Great post Steve.

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Growthink Blog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2016

In his words, he focuses on the intersection of “Mobile + Digital + Apps + IoT + Wearables + UX + Cloud + Enterprise + Monetization + Government + Agile.” He is actively accountable for driving strategic mobility initiatives while building key industry partner and relationships. Mr. Isy Goldwasser , CEO of thync.

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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. Venture Capital. Filed under: Teaching , Venture Capital.

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Life Beyond Code

JANUARY 18, 2011

But I’m writing about a very specific type of entrepreneurship – small, agile businesses that are created without venture capital, payroll, big offices – or even the ambition to grow big, in terms of headcount. MM: They are indeed! They rely on hard work, creative talent, and the internet.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

For those of you who have been following the discussion, a Lean Startup is Eric Ries ’s description of the intersection of Customer Development , Agile Development and if available, open platforms and open source. Marketing demand creation programs (Search Engine Marketing, Public Relations, Advertising, Lead Generation, Trade Shows, etc.)

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Agile VC

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Most folks reading this will know that many startups were built in part with the help of venture capital. Today most corporations have 401(k) style defined contribution programs where employees pay a fixed amount and the performance of their investments determine the amount they have upon retirement.

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Agile VC

JULY 19, 2012

1) Self-Awareness & Humility - These are of course virtues that transcend venture capital or even professional pursuits broadly. Rightly or wrongly, Sequoia has received a lot of flak about their “scout” program recently. And yes… great firms are self-confident too.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 17, 2011

Yes, budget battles in state and local governments have led to extreme, never-before-seen cuts in education budgets — thousands of teacher layoffs and the slashing of music, athletic, gifted, and other programs. Entrepreneurs create success by being agile and by making effective but quick decisions based on what they have in front of them.

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Steve Blank

MAY 15, 2009

The Curse of a New Building At some point in my career as I began to ponder how/why startups morph from agile, “can do&# companies to [.] [.] I think there’s a size and scale where regardless of your intentions lean and agile won’t work (looking like a grandmother in a miniskirt.)

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Steve Blank

MAY 15, 2013

This school has a distinguished roster of graduates… Earl Bakken, the founder of Medtronic , was an Electrical Engineering grad, and Bob Gore of Gortex , and your current president are both alums of your Chemical Engineering program. They’d run around saying, “Hey look, I can program this chip to make this speaker go beep.”

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Steve Blank

MAY 15, 2013

This school has a distinguished roster of graduates… Earl Bakken, the founder of Medtronic , was an Electrical Engineering grad, and Bob Gore of Gortex , and your current president are both alums of your Chemical Engineering program. They’d run around saying, “Hey look, I can program this chip to make this speaker go beep.”

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www.women2.org

MARCH 8, 2012

Prior to that, she worked in venture capital at OpenView Venture Partners. Come celebrate with us at this joint program organized by BayBrazil, GABA, and SVForum Tech Women. About the guest blogger: Elizabeth Knopf is Co-Founder of Sorced. Prior to Sorced, Elizabeth worked in business development at SecondMarket.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 10, 2009

ELINT Tasking The ELINT program sought answers to operational questions like: What was the Radar Order of Battle a penetrating bomber would face? Venture Capital, Microwaves and the OSS Dean Watkins the leader of TWT research at Stanford’s Electronic Laboratory, left Stanford in 1957 and co-founded Watkins-Johnson (with R.H.

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

I have an interesting project idea, but it requires seasoned programming skills. Look out for teams/vendors who work on Agile, so that you are flexible with your requirements. I found your suggestions in the article “Startup Mistakes: The Partnership Gone Sour&# especially useful. I have a related dilemma.

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Steve Blank

MAY 4, 2009

Every marketing communication hire couldn’t wait to produce the next great ad or PR program. All the strategic thinking in the world won’t make up for a missed revenue plan. Their own internal culture would tie them up in knots, and agile startups could run rings around them. Don’t let this happen to your company.

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Steve Blank

MAY 3, 2022

Venture capital and startups have spent 50 years institutionalizing the rapid delivery of disruptive innovation. private investors spent $300 billion last year to fund new ventures that can move with the speed and urgency that the DoD now requires. In the U.S., ” Acquire at Speed.

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Steve Blank

MAY 17, 2022

It uses new words to define programming steps, job descriptions, development tools, etc. or decision-making processes (like understanding text and images) without being explicitly programmed to do so. Machine learning algorithms – computer programs that adjust themselves to perform better as they are exposed to more data.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

But it will definitely raise questions during the phone screen, for reasons that are best explained by simile: Programming with.NET is like cooking in a McDonalds kitchen. My example: I have mainly programmed _by choice_ in Python, Ruby, Scala, Haskell, C# and currently I’m doing Java. It’s so blinded, it’s shocking.

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