Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 26, 2009

Our friends who run the state park surrounding our ranch will join all of us for Thanksgiving dinner. So no post today on entrepreneurship, Secret History of Silicon Valley, Customer Development, Lean Startups, etc. Reply steveblank , on November 26, 2009 at 10:29 am Said: Just the stories of the entrepreneurs are bigger than life.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 14, 2011

The Federal government is being transformed - initially, in small ways - by people I think should be recognized as entrepreneurs. The topic of the day was Open Innovation; honoring a group of individual entrepreneurs doing innovative work inside and outside the public sector. But some have.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

The Lean Startup is a process for turning ideas into commercial ventures. As an entrepreneur my problem was that I had too many ideas. I realized the innovation/entrepreneurship process needed a “foundation” – the skills and processes that kick-start an entrepreneurs imagination and creative juices.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 8, 2017

The daily program encourages a balanced eating plan of fruit, vegetables, lean protein, and complex carbohydrates while monitoring portion sizes. Physical activity recommendations gradually guide our members from simple walking, on to vigorous strength and cardiovascular training that helps replace excess fat with lean muscle.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2012

Thanksgiving is a big holiday in the United States and traditionally, most families make a turkey for dinner. 3 mistakes I made as a young entrepreneur – [link]. 7 tactics lean startups need to build great products | Gigaom – [link]. 27 Mind Blowing Book Cover Designs | NaughtyDesigner – [link].

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 21, 2010

BTW, the definition of entrepreneurship I describe at 2:50 into the video is described in detail in the post “ You’re Not a Real Entrepreneur.&# Translation: They write checks for $100 Million dollars a year.) Instead of a brawl it turned out to be collegial, entertaining and informative.

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View from Seed

MARCH 1, 2016

She became a prolific writer—12 books, while you and I struggle with one email or one blog post! Then, also in the 1880s, some clever American entrepreneurs decided to market a “fast growing, shade generating” plant to the overly warm citizens living the waltz-dancing climate of the south-eastern United States.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

The Lean Startup Book launches in just under a week. How many copies will this book sell in its first week – real, hardcover, paper copies? If that number crosses some unknowable threshold, the book will debut as a bestseller, and then an awful lot of people are going to read it. No phony discounts. No free trials.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 7, 2014

Every startup will use some kind of software: book keeping, word processing, presentation. “Lean is in. There is so much business content that is oriented towards those that live in the United States, and while many of you reading are in fact, hailing from the U.S., Environmental Protection Agency.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 27, 2009

In December 1941, the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor, and Germany declares war on the United States. This lack of information meant that every World War II movie or book that had airplanes on bombing missions in it was wrong. That led me back to the history of radar in World War II – and a story you may not know.

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Steve Blank

JULY 20, 2015

Errol Arkilic was the lead program director for the National Science Foundation I-Corps , which uses my Lean LaunchPad curriculum to teach scientists and engineers how to take their technology out of the lab and into the marketplace. The Lean LaunchPad class. But nothing else like [The Lean LaunchPad class] was being taught. .

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 1, 2009

If you look around the United States it’s hard to avoid Sloan. Sloan’s book My Years with General Motors written 40 years ago is still a business classic. If you’re an entrepreneur you might be interested to know that when Sloan took over General Motors in 1923, it was already a $700 million dollar company (about $8.5

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Up and Running

JANUARY 22, 2015

In the last year alone, several have opened across the United States, with cafes in New York City, Oakland, California, and soon, Portland Oregon. The cat cafe business model is incredibly new, and as such, there is much less in the way of a road map for these entrepreneurs to follow. they are treading on very new ground.

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genylabs.typepad.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

The Changing Face of Entrepreneurs. The Connected World of Entrepreneurs. Entrepreneur Magazine Blog. Wall Street Journal: With New Technology, Start-Ups Go Lean. Deskmag: Profiling Coworkers in the United States. Business Week: Twitter for Entrepreneurs: 20 to Follow: Steve King. Book Reviews.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 1, 2011

It provides private funds for untested and unproven technology and entrepreneurs. Steve Blank is a retired serial entrepreneur, educator, thought leader and creator of the rigorous "Customer Development" methodology detailed in his book, "The Four Steps to the Epiphany." And Stanford's Lean LaunchPad class could do just that.

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Up and Running

MARCH 1, 2016

Everything you see around you—every item you own, every book you’ve read, every app you use, every website you browse—was once nothing more than an idea in someone else’s head. See Also: Market Research Resources for Entrepreneurs. You can do this on your own too using the lean planning methodology.

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Up and Running

APRIL 11, 2016

Of course, you could always go down the route of taking formal courses on the topic, or reading the right books (see the resources section at the end of this article). Introducing Lean Planning: How to Plan Less and Grow Faster. Practical Market Research Resources for Entrepreneurs. Free Business Plan Template. Step 3: Branding.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 25, 2019

We asked some entrepreneurs and business owners, why they started their businesses: #1- Two reasons. The desire for me to create something meaningful and the choking environment of the corporate culture made me quit my full-time job and become an entrepreneur. Each story is different though the reasons may be the same.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

The United States is now a debtor nation to China and that the bill is about to come due. The 11 Harsh Realities Of Being An Entrepreneur - OnStartups , November 1, 2010 There's always talk about the end game in the form of an acquisition, funding announcement, or eventual flame out. Ralph Waldo Emerson. But I don’t think so.

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Eric Friedman

AUGUST 18, 2021

Then there’s Nobu and the institution he has built through all of his restaurants in many different cities in the United States and maybe abroad. It is the entrepreneurs that are singing their heart out, playing the instruments, et cetera. Personally, I love Brian Armstrong ; he’s an incredible entrepreneur.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 11, 2008

I think the absolute best reading on this subject is a book called Regional Advantage: Culture and Competition in Silicon Valley and Route 128 by AnnaLee Saxenian. The book is really fun to read (how often do you see an academic tome crossed with a real whodunit?). The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 22, 2020

Eric Ries : Next time someone criticizes entrepreneurs for whatever perceived slight in our society, we'll all be thinking of this story. The reason I wanted you to tell that story, and first of all, thank you for the kind words--that means a lot to me whenever The Lean Startup can be helpful to someone that's starting something.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2020

Once I graduated from the naval academy in the United States Navy. And the truth is that's yesterday and you don't really have the ability to change what you did yesterday, but what you do have the ability today, is to lean into this. It's one of the books that I cherish. I spent my early days. Carl Liebert : Yeah.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 17, 2011

Last year, only 50% of all small business in the United States had a website. If you operate a professional service (medical, consulting, accounting, law), consider adding appointment options to allow your customers and prospective customers to book appointments online – or at the very least, to check your availability.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 17, 2011

Last year, only 50% of all small business in the United States had a website. If you operate a professional service (medical, consulting, accounting, law), consider adding appointment options to allow your customers and prospective customers to book appointments online – or at the very least, to check your availability.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Often entrepreneurs and business owners create their daily, weekly, quarterly or yearly goals around their business. We asked entrepreneurs to share their Big Hairy Audacious Goals (BHAGs) and here are the insightful responses. #1- My BHAG is to grow my LinkedIn followers to 20,000 and leverage the audience's size to get a book deal.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 24, 2009

It was always a welcome change of pace to leave the brown of the unchanging desert and travel into town and have dinner with them and have a non-technical conversation about books, theater, politics, travel, etc. By the time I came back to the United States, he was gone from the company.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Transcript of Advice for Entrepreneurs Who Want to Sell Their Companies written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. John Jantsch: So you in the Value Builder System kind of lean on these drivers of salability kind of the things that people use to determine or demonstrate that a company has value. Back to Podcast.

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Up and Running

JUNE 13, 2015

Jeff gave an inspiring presentation based on his new book, The Art of Work. During the webinar, Jeff highlighted the results of his many hours of reading, and personal interviews with some of the world’s most successful entrepreneurs. To buy the book, click here. It took guts to write and it will take guts to read.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2020

It just so happens that my disposition will always lean toward the health of human beings, it is part of who I am. You wrote the book on this, literally. Irma Olguin : Well, it's not glamorous, but the first I tried as an entrepreneur, it was out of necessity. And so decision making still feels very black and white. I talk nice.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

While some claim to learn how to be a farmer through YouTube videos or books (and those can be excellent tools), it’s very important to get some hands-on training. Aside from the dangers, there is a lot to learn about how to start a farm and how to start farming, not the least of which is how to balance the books and come out ahead!

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 10, 2020

As an entrepreneur, Sal has always believed in thinking long-term. I think any entrepreneur has this delusional optimism that surely the world will recognize how valuable this is," he says. I think any entrepreneur has this delusional optimism that surely the world will recognize how valuable this is. So, I quit my day job.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 2, 2021

And so for me, I truly appreciate what we have in the United States, which is a second chance to rebuild, but also everything that comes with a culture where, Hey, if you earn something, you can keep it, and you’re not going to lose it because of some powers that be taking away from you what Americans take it for granted.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 24, 2023

Founder of tapthepotential.com and host of the Profit by Design podcast, she and her team coach entrepreneurs to take their lives back from their businesses. They are on a mission to disrupt the hustle culture by sending 10,000 entrepreneurs on a 4-week vacation over the next 10 years. So big, hairy, audacious goal as she stated.

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Reid Hoffman

JUNE 8, 2021

We can either try to step forward and be progressive and really try to lean forward, or we can get dragged in the future. And then how are some ideas for other entrepreneurs and other people thinking of doing it? And so you got to be honest, you got to be willing to lean in and be open, authentic. And here’s the key.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Often, they walk with a forward lean, as if they can’t wait to get to the future. They are usually CEOs, entrepreneurs, and sometimes salespeople. His new book,” Ninja Selling: Subtle Skills. I shared information with Chris, and he shared Power, Party, Peace, and Perfection People with me. Party People. (25 Time Frame.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

The stare at a screen all day lifestyle isn’t for them, so they’re an entrepreneur by default, then they have to figure out what to actually do with that entrepreneurial spirit. Is that the best use of an entrepreneurs time? You could do that if you are an entrepreneur and you are your own boss. Jonathan: Kanban.

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