Steve Blank

APRIL 16, 2013

The article describes Lean as the search for a repeatable and scalable business model – and business model design, customer development and agile engineering – as the way you implement it. Eric Ries, who took my first Customer Development class at Berkeley, had the insight that Customer Development should be paired with Agile Development.

Technical Review 327

Technical Review Lean Venture Capital Customer Development 327

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

the wave of semiconductor startups in the 1960’s/70’s, the emergence of venture capital as a professional industry, the personal computer revolution in 1980’s, the rise of the Internet in the 1990’s and finally. The New Structure of the Venture Capital industry. or Euro-centric phenomenon. Happy Thanksgiving.

Silicon Valley 335

Silicon Valley United States Venture Capital Software Review 335

Steve Blank

APRIL 16, 2013

The article describes Lean as the search for a repeatable and scalable business model – and business model design, customer development and agile engineering – as the way you implement it. Eric Ries, who took my first Customer Development class at Berkeley, had the insight that Customer Development should be paired with Agile Development.

Technical Review 219

Technical Review Lean Venture Capital Customer Development 219

Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

the wave of semiconductor startups in the 1960’s/70’s, the emergence of Venture Capital as a professional industry, the personal computer revolution in 1980’s, the rise of the Internet in the 1990’s and finally. Venture Capital used to be a tight club clustered around formal firms located in Silicon Valley, Boston, and New York.

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Restful Silicon Valley Puerto Rico San Jose 222

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Based on the best evidence I can find, the genesis of this trend and the advantages come from several evolutionary changes in the startup investment industry, and some innovations driven by the recession several years ago and the recent pandemic: Venture capital funds are regaining momentum.

Angel Investor 342

Angel Investor Venture Capital Silicon Valley Portfolio 342

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Venture capital firms have become more discerning where they put their limited funds to use, and banks have always been anti-startup in their business dealings. Pivoting only works if a business is small and agile and can shift its operations quickly and flawlessly in a different direction.

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Bankruptcy Startup Agile Technical Review 154

ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Over time, this revenue reduces the dependency on outside venture capital sources. Additionally, it becomes critical to choose a modern software development methodology suitable for crafting digital ventures. Consider Agile or one of its variants for a flexible approach to building top-shelf mobile apps or interactive websites.

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Incubator Startup Software Developers Software Development 188

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 27, 2011

I interviewed Eric for an hour for - This Week in Venture Capital. 36:30 Eric: Social media is great for people with social capital. 42:20 Did agile development influence you? I find myself nodding – even when the topic is one I don’t expect to agree with such as “fail fast.” 46:18 iOS Vs. Android.

Silicon Valley 301

Silicon Valley Lean Social Media PR 301

Steve Blank

JANUARY 27, 2011

This startup search process is the business model / customer development / agile development solution stack. A business model competition would emulate the “out of the building” experience of real entrepreneurs executing the customer development / business model / agile stack. The 47th (-46) Annual Business Model Competition.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Use agility to your advantage and make speed a team priority. 2021 gave us plenty of examples for bad governance in both startups and venture capital. There aren’t many structural advantages for a startup compared to a large company, and speed is a rare exception. Need for Speed, indeed.

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Founder Startup Valuation Pre-Money Valuation 187

Agile VC

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Most folks reading this will know that many startups were built in part with the help of venture capital. There’s a wide range of intermediaries for venture capital and private equity investment, each with its own structure and business model. What Are These Intermediaries?

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 25, 2011

The benefits of customer and agile development and minimum features set are continuous customer feedback, rapid iteration and little wasted code. Ironically it becomes the antithesis of agile. Filed under: Customer Development , Technology , Venture Capital. Making the wrong choice can crater your company.

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Part-Time VPE Agile Engineer Startup 318

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. The country needs to build a deeper Venture Capital industry.

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Silicon Valley Chile South America Venture Capital 335

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

These tools—Customer Development, Agile Engineering, and Business Model design—became the lean start-up methodology , a rigorous approach to testing hypotheses and building prototypes, and, on the basis of data and evidence, adjusting or pivoting to a variant of the original hypothesis.

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Incubator Lean Agile Business Model 402

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 19, 2020

Based on the best evidence I can find, the genesis of this trend and the advantages come from several evolutionary changes in the startup investment industry, and some innovations driven by the recession several years ago: Venture capital funds are still regaining momentum. Some VC firms are bogged down by their own weight.

Angel Investor 314

Angel Investor Venture Capital Silicon Valley Startup 314

BeyondVC

APRIL 4, 2018

If you are looking for a story about how large enterprises digitally transform themselves into agile software organizations (to the extent they can), then I suggest reading Pivotal’s recently filed S-1 on Friday. Their ascent over the last 5 years mirrors many of the trends we are hearing about on a daily basis; cloud in all forms?—?public,

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Cloud Agile Architecture Azure 60

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 20, 2011

We taught them the business model / customer development / agile development solution stack. We recruited two veteran Venture Capital partners to be part of the 10-week teaching team: Jon Feiber , at Mohr Davidow and John Burke of True Ventures. And they were hard at work at some real science. The class syllabus is here.

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Incubator Government Silicon Valley Lean 301

OnlyOnce

AUGUST 6, 2015

But even if you are agile, lean, and practice continuous deployment, it’s still a good read as it provides reminders of what the world used to be like and what the manufacturing-rooted theories are behind these “new” techniques in software development. I can’t imagine operating a business any other way.

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Phoenix Continuous Deployment Agile Software Developers 48

ReadWriteStart

APRIL 8, 2023

In my experience, I follow different resources, for instance, the Andreessen Horowitz blog , one of the top venture capital funds reporting trends in their newsletters, and INC.5000 Aside from venture capitalists, following Twitter personas or subscribing to newsletters is another way to utilize industry information.

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eCommerce Technical Review Software Review Analytics 185

VC Cafe

AUGUST 2, 2022

Animoca Brands is a Hong Kong-based game software company and venture capital company founded 2014 by Yat Siu. As a venture capital fund investing in gaming and metaverse, we (Remagine Ventures) are excited about how much there’s still to be invented in this space to deliver the promise of the metaverse.

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IP Cofounder Valuation Acquisition 206

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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Lean Startup CTO Hire Cofounder 245

Steve Blank

MAY 17, 2010

The plan describes the execution strategy for addressing these “knowns.&# In the early days of venture capital, investors and entrepreneurs were familiar with the format of business plans from large company and adopted it for startups. Without much thought it has been used ever since.

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Business Plan Business Model Customer Development Deal Flow 312

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Incubators and accelerators like Y-Combinator have institutionalized experiential training in best practices (product/market fit, pivots, agile development, etc.); Filed under: Venture Capital. Today, every founder can read all there is to know about running a startup online.

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Founder Technical Review CTO Hire IPO 245

Steve Blank

APRIL 10, 2009

That’s why startups are agile. Startups that are agile have mastered one other trick – and that’s Tempo – the ability to make quick decisions consistently over extended periods of time. Reply Why Startups are Agile and Opportunistic -- Pivoting the Business Model , on April 14, 2010 at 6:32 am Said: [.]

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Up and Running

AUGUST 19, 2014

For example, one of the angels I pitched to cared deeply about our competitive landscape, whereas another wasn’t too concerned about the competitive landscape, he was more interested in our financial assumptions and my team’s ability to implement in an agile fashion. Angels vs. venture capitalists. What impresses angels?

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Angel Investor Technical Review Due Diligence Startup 161

Steve Blank

JULY 7, 2015

Named one of BusinessWeek’s Best Young Entrepreneurs of Tech, Eric served as a venture advisor at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers before moving on to advise startups and venture capital firms independently. He was named entrepreneur-in-residence at Harvard Business School in 2010 and is currently an IDEO Fellow.

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Lean Technical Cofounder Silicon Valley Channel 120

Steve Blank

MAY 17, 2022

History tells us that late adopters fall by the wayside as more agile and opportunistic governments master new technologies. The opportunity is so large that there are hundreds of AI accelerator startups designing their own chips, funded by 10’s of billions of venture capital and private equity. Carpe Diem. Want more Detail?

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Artificial Inteligence Software Review Algorithm Technical Review 417

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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Ukraine China Private Equity Russia 277

Steve Blank

APRIL 20, 2009

And since there was no Venture Capital in the 1950′s/’60′s where was the money coming from? Another piece of trivial: the road that is the side-entrance (during business hours) to Agilent Corporation HQ in Santa Clara is named “Terman Lane&# after Terman. This startup boom seemed to come out of nowhere.

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Silicon Valley RSS San Francisco Technical Review 270

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

venture capital was funding startups led by iconoclasts, troublemakers and dissidents. It needs to use rapid/agile innovation, disposable systems that take advantage of innovations in the commercial technology base. Meanwhile in the U.S., military must now invest in new capabilities and concepts to reimagine how it fights.

Technology 269

Technology China Government Artificial Inteligence 269

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.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 30, 2019

On August 14–15, the Air Force, through AFWERX , hosted a two-day Spark Collider event at Capital Factory to bring newly awarded 19.2 SBIR Phase I companies together with relevant Air Force and venture capital stakeholders. Really impressive & demonstrates how serious the @usairforce is about fostering true #innovation.

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SBIR Government Venture Capital Startup 48

www.bothsidesofthetable.com

MAY 13, 2012

Raising Venture Capital. They know how to estimate work units, how to manage the agile development process and how to get the most out of their teams. As the CEO you can personally help manage deadlines and the Agile process. Raising Venture Capital (12). This Week in Venture Capital (14).

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Fractional VPE Part-Time VPE Fractional CTO CTO Hire 89

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Venture Capital Cafe > Startup Resources (Updated Mar 2013). Agile project management tool that enables real time collaboration. Agile project management. agile product management. agile product management and Scrum tool. Agile project management tool collaborative product life-cycle. Mercurial â??

Software Review 53

Software Review Technical Review Startup 53

Steve Blank

AUGUST 5, 2010

Consumer Internet investing seems to have split off from traditional Venture Capital, and is creating a new category of VC’s: Lean VC’s. I think you can blame Customer and Agile Development for a small part of it. Electron-based Venture Capital. Here’s why. They build a minimum feature set.

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Lean Internet Silicon Valley Venture Capital 258

crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 11, 2012

Better Agile Than Smart – [link]. What I learned from raising venture capital – [link]. Better Agile Than Smart – [link]. Web Tool of the Month: crowdSPRING – [link]. Lean Marketing: Delivering Customer Service via Social Media – [link]. The 5 Qualities of Remarkable Bosses – [link].

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 92

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 27, 2014

Based on the best evidence I can find, the genesis of this trend and the advantages come from several evolutionary changes in the startup investment industry, and some innovations driven by the recent recession: Venture capital funds are still recovering from the recession. Some VC firms are bogged down by their own weight.

Angel Investor 260

Angel Investor Silicon Valley Startup Portfolio 260