Steve Blank

JANUARY 15, 2017

I-Corps uses Lean Startup methods to teach scientists how to turn their discoveries into entrepreneurial, job-producing businesses. But I haven’t forgotten that before everyone else thought that teaching scientists how to build companies using Lean Methods might be a good for the country, there was one congressman who got it first.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 15, 2013

These are the worries that come with grinding it out in corporate America. So it makes sense, that as Sheryl Sandberg points out in the much talked about book, “ Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead “, “many women are reluctant to make a focused effort to lead in the workplace” My advice?

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2011

I’m a very big proponent of the “lean startup movement&# as espoused by Steve Blank & Eric Ries. In the initial phases of any new market you’re developing a product (hopefully with a minimal set of features), getting feedback from customers, refining your product based on user feedback and then re-launching your product.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 9, 2023

Focusing on products and services that are extremely valuable to your customers is essential as it helps them rely more on you and ensures your business weathers the tough economic times. This strategy is aimed at providing our customers with a variety of options that can accommodate different budget ranges and preferences.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 8, 2023

Customers will be even more comfortable with the introduction of voice commerce, another unicorn of the online shopping experience. Sustainability is the Queen In 2023, customers have become even more environmentally conscious, as recent statistics prove. Only in 2021, 72.9% Amazon has been at it for years.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 15, 2017

I-Corps uses Lean Startup methods to teach scientists how to turn their discoveries into entrepreneurial, job-producing businesses. But I haven’t forgotten that before everyone else thought that teaching scientists how to build companies using Lean Methods might be a good for the country, there was one congressman who got it first.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 4, 2016

State Department and asks students to use Lean Methods to test their understanding of the problem and deliver rapid-fire innovative solutions to pressing diplomacy, development and foreign policy challenges. As they learn, they’ll iterate and pivot on these hypotheses through customer discovery and build minimal viable prototypes (MVPs).

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 4, 2016

State Department and asks students to use Lean Methods to test their understanding of the problem and deliver rapid-fire innovative solutions to pressing diplomacy, development and foreign policy challenges. As they learn, they’ll iterate and pivot on these hypotheses through customer discovery and build minimal viable prototypes (MVPs).

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Lean Business Tips: Hiring Contractors for Fun and Profit(ability) – [link]. “Empower Your Small Business”, crowdSPRING’s smallbiz newsletter: content marketing, lean biz, more – [link]. The State of Business To Business (B2B) Content Marketing In North America - [link]. – [link].

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Steve Blank

MARCH 26, 2012

63 scientists and engineers in 21 teams made ~ 2,000 customer calls in 10 weeks , turning laboratory ideas into formidable startups. through the Lean Launchpad class. He wanted to fly out to Stanford and sit in the Lean LaunchPad class about to start in the engineering school. No, there’s no age limit.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 13, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, July 13, 2009 The Principles of Product Development Flow If youve ever wondered why agile or lean development techniques work, The Principles of Product Development Flow: Second Generation Lean Product Development by Donald G. For example, take the lean dictum of working in small batches.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 13, 2024

03:22] How do you help your customers stay ahead with the changes in Marketing? [06:58] 02:08): They were challenges caused because the marketing was working and bringing in new leads, new customers, new business. But then my customer was, Hey, great, but what I don't have systems. What kind of content does it lean towards?

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The Next Web

APRIL 20, 2013

Not only is he bringing Lean Startup methodology into his medical practice, but he most recently helped launch Health For America. How has lean startup methodology influenced your role? Lean Startup was critical in creating our program. Finally, we used Lean Startup to create MVPs and test these solutions.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 21, 2016

You must also understand the value the product provides customers (along with the rest of your business model.). And going for crowdfunding before you do customer discovery with customers can lock you into the wrong idea too early. Tiffani was also a 2014 Code for America Fellow working with the City of Atlanta.

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Austin Startup

MAY 11, 2017

We invest in companies that sell to both enterprise/SMB customers as well as direct to consumers. Aligned Partners offers our portfolio companies world-class venture capital expertise while enabling founders to start lean and stay lean all the way through their growth. We have a passion for product and out-of-the-box thinking.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 23, 2013

Guest post by Lisa Regan, writer for The Lean Startup Conference. Analytics spark more questions and discussion than almost any other aspect of the Lean Startup method. Alistair and Ben, co-authors of the book Lean Analytics, will help you sort it out in our next webcast, Lean Analytics for Non-tech Companies.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 7, 2019

The eight teams spoke to over 820 beneficiaries, stakeholders, requirements writers, program managers, warfighters, legal, security, customers, etc. Followed by an 8-minute slide presentation follow their customer discovery journey over the 10-weeks. All the presentations are worth a watch. Goals for the Hacking for Defense Class.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2020

As a veteran of many disasters in which improvising in the moment to meet an immediate need led to innovative solutions, Carl has been impressed by how many businesses, small and large, have reinvented the way they serve their customers during the pandemic. Then they've gotten to work. Stanley McChrystal's Team of Teams. (29:34)

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 26, 2009

So no post today on entrepreneurship, Secret History of Silicon Valley, Customer Development, Lean Startups, etc. For all its flaws, America is still a beacon of liberty and justice. Each year I teach hundreds of students from around the world who come to America to pursue their version of this same dream.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 7, 2019

It’s been almost a decade since we first started teaching the Lean Methodology. But in all that time, we haven’t gotten a large group of educators together to talk about what it’s been like to teach Lean or the impact it’s had in their classrooms and beyond. What’s next for Lean and entrepreneurial education.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

The Lean LaunchPad course online. I teach potential founders a hands-on, experiential class called the Lean LaunchPad at Berkeley, Stanford, Columbia and Caltech. customer development. Some general customer development slides click here. Online Guide to How to Build a Startup: The Lean LaunchPad. agile engineering.

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Up and Running

JUNE 21, 2013

You need to engage in Lean Planning. 60 percent of the small businesses that fail in America fail due to lack of cash, not lack of profits—using Lean Planning you can quickly understand if you have missed assumptions about your financials that will ultimately have an adverse effect on your cash. Call them.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

We used to be able to fit all the Lean Educators in my living room and have space left over. Turns out we needed a bigger room for the Dec 4th-5th Lean Educators Summit. It’s been almost a decade since we first started teaching the Lean Methodology. What’s next for Lean and entrepreneurial education. Australia?].

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 30, 2014

Story about one crowdSPRING customer’s logo design experience on crowdSPRING – | Lovin it! Agile UX vs Lean UX, which should you choose? Agile UX vs Lean UX, which should you choose? Story about one crowdSPRING customer’s logo design experience on crowdSPRING – | Lovin it! – crowdspring.co/1mq7jdH.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 4, 2021

These are keepsake cards and many of our customers tell us that the recipients frame their cards. 9- Providing Legitimate B2B Customer Data in the Era of Mistrust. That's when I was struck by the idea: Why not provide a legit B2B customer database that is neither dodgy and nor a bad fit for a business? that add texture.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 2, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, January 2, 2010 Towards a new entrepreneurship When I started writing about the lean startup , my aspiration was to do more than just share a handful of tips and tricks that work for consumer internet startups. This belief led me to the lean startup, and to an amazing 2009.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 22, 2010

The New Startup Arms Race Americas future prosperity depends on our ability to maintain this lead. The New Startup Arms Race Americas future prosperity depends on our ability to maintain this lead. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Expo SF (May. . Expo SF (May.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

So will failing to understand your customers. Successful founders have a laser-like focus and commitment; a keen understanding of customers’ needs; and a tenacious spirit, said the latest guests on Entrepreneurs are Everywhere , my radio show on Sirius XM Channel 111. Filed under: Customer Development , SiriusXM Radio Show.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 22, 2011

Initially their only customers are people who can get by on the reduced functionality or perhaps don’t have the money to spend on the expensive product. Often major customers defect en masse to the new entrant as they realize that the huge price premium is not justified by the product differentials. It’s remarkable.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 28, 2019

On crowdspring, over 220,000 designers and namers from around the world help small businesses, entrepreneurs, agencies, Brands, and non-profits with professional, custom logo design, web design, graphic design, product design, and even naming companies and products. Want to learn lean marketing tips for your small business?

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

When I told her they not only didn’t want it back, but were trying to see if they could give me more for my next company, she paused for a long while and then said in a very Russian accent, “Only in America are the streets paved with gold.” It was a long way from Ellis Island.)

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 30, 2020

It’s why one out of every 12 small businesses in America is a franchise, and why a new franchise opens every eight minutes. You’ll know how long it will take to become profitable and you can lean on a network of fellow franchisees who have had success with the brand to learn best practices.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 30, 2018

While doing research for his extraordinary new book, Great at Work , Morten Hansen studied more than 5,000 managers and employees in corporate America to identify the key practices that explain why some perform better than others. The problem was, the customers complained that only 65% of the shipments arrived when they needed them.

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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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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

What Customers Want Most From Small Business Mobile Websites – [link]. What Customers Want Most From Small Business Mobile Websites – [link]. 50 Beautiful Examples Of Custom Logo Design – [link]. What Customers Want Most From Small Business Mobile Websites – [link]. lean Democrat – [link].

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2009

Im not offering extensive studies or research to support this conclusion; the evidence from my peers right here in the innovation capital of America, Silicon Valley, is absolutely overwhelming. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 21, 2015

” These were by far the worst interviews of my life and it was so bad … that some guy leaned across the desk and said, “I’ve got an idea for you. Miriam Altman got her career start through Teach for America teaching in the New York City public schools. . ” If you can’t hear the clip, click here.

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