Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

The reason I came back is the same reason I left – to be where life science startups are happening. Hard to imagine now, but in the late ’80s the life sciences startup landscape in the UK was almost non-existent. There were few alternatives then, if you wanted to work in a startup you had to go to the US.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 10, 2013

I just spent a few weeks in Japan and China on a book tour for the Japanese and Chinese versions of the Startup Owners Manual. Summary: I’ve lived in Silicon Valley for 35 years, I’ve taught in entrepreneurial clusters in New York, Boston, Helsinki, Santiago Chile, St. My post about Japan will follow. All the usual caveats apply.

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Steve Blank

MAY 21, 2012

The irony is that as good as some of these nascent startups are in material science, sensors, robotics, medical devices, life sciences, etc., For the first time, startups can today think about a Total Available Market in the billions of users (smart phones, tablets, PC’s, etc.) And who can blame them. Facebook and Social Media.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 30, 2014

The Lean Launchpad® for Life Sciences (the I-Corps @ NIH ) uses the Lean Startup Model to discover and validate the business model. Co-working spaces seem to be evolving into the startup garages of the future. assess intellectual property and regulatory risk before they design and build.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 10, 2013

I just spent a few weeks in Japan and China on a book tour for the Japanese and Chinese versions of the Startup Owners Manual. Summary: I’ve lived in Silicon Valley for 35 years, I’ve taught in entrepreneurial clusters in New York, Boston, Helsinki, Santiago Chile, St. My post about Japan will follow. All the usual caveats apply.

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Steve Blank

JULY 25, 2011

Scientists and engineers as founders and startup CEOs is one of the least celebrated contributions of Silicon Valley. Each region already had the beginnings of a high-tech culture , Boston with Raytheon, Silicon Valley with Hewlett Packard. It might be its most important. ———-. Why It’s “Silicon” Valley. (In

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

He believed that he could use the “go-to-market” strategies of other food/beverage disrupters– companies like Pete’s Brewing Company, Boston Beer and Kettle Chips. Jon and the team came in with all the assurance of a startup that thought they knew what they were doing. Get Out of the Building. Lessons Learned.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

Not understanding and agreeing what “Entrepreneur&# and “Startup” mean can sink an entire country’s entrepreneurial ecosystem. Six Types of Startups – Pick One. Lifestyle Startups: Work to Live their Passion. Small Business Startups: Work to Feed the Family. Scalable Startups : Born to Be Big. There are 5.7

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 5, 2014

When I was where you are, 36 years ago (can ya believe it) I didn’t have a plan—but I did have an aspiration: I wanted to go to Silicon Valley and I wanted to work in startups. But they weren’t really in Silicon Valley at the time—they were in Boston, Minneapolis, New York. Eventually I left Oracle, wanting to do another startup.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 9, 2016

When the legend becomes fact…print the legend” The Hollywoodization of Silicon Valley startup stories “prints legends,” but for most startups those stories are pure fiction. The two guests on today’s Entrepreneurs are Everywhere radio show tell it like it really is to navigate the chaos of a startup.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 10, 2015

Successful founders believe anything is possible but they build strong founding teams to achieve their startup dreams. Joining me at the Lean Startup Conference in San Francisco were: Liz Powers , co-founder of ArtLifting , a for-profit online art gallery that features the work of homeless and disabled artists. Liz Powers.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

The show follows the journeys of founders who share what it takes to build a startup – from restaurants to rocket scientists, to online gifts to online groceries and more. Prior to joining Columbia, Orin spent seven years with the Boston Consulting Group’s New York office. But) The reality is most times nobody is interested. …It’s

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Silicon Valley, Boston). Startups, entrepreneurs, and management teams. These partnerships may take the form of Proof of Concept projects with startups, getting to know VC firms and their portfolios, and familiarizing themselves with university groups doing research in the established strategic problems. (It

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 25, 2022

An edited version of this article previously appeared in the Boston Consulting Group’s strategy think tank website. The scale of solutions needed dwarf anything a single startup would be working on. I spent last week at a global Fortune 50 company offsite watching them grapple with disruption.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 8, 2015

These corporate Innovation Outposts monitor Silicon Valley for new innovative technologies and/or companies (as emerging threats or potential tools for disruption) and then take advantage of these innovations by creating new products or investing in startups. Startups are developing IP relevant to the disruption.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 10, 2016

The first two years of my startup were the most challenging years of my life; I just felt like a complete failure all the time. Most first-time entrepreneurs aren’t prepared for the challenges they will face building a startup, and yet they wouldn’t trade the experience for anything. Demoralizing.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 10, 2016

The first two years of my startup were the most challenging years of my life; I just felt like a complete failure all the time. Most first-time entrepreneurs aren’t prepared for the challenges they will face building a startup, and yet they wouldn’t trade the experience for anything. Demoralizing.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 26, 2009

The motivation in the mid 1950’s for these new startups was a crisis – we were in the midst of the cold war and the United States military and intelligence agencies were rearming as fast as they could. These technology startups had no risk capital – just customers/purchase orders from government/military/intelligence agencies.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 18, 2009

Being in a startup and having a successful relationship and family was very hard work. Biological Clocks After Convergent and now single again, I was a co-founder of my next two startups; MIPS and Ardent. My wife knew a bit about startups. But entrepreneurs can be great spouses and parents.

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Steve Blank

MAY 3, 2022

They’re not the only startup in this fight. An entire wave of new startups and scaleups are providing satellite imagery and analysis, satellite communications, and unmanned aerial vehicles supporting the struggle. Other startups are providing portable cell towers – “backpackable” and fixed. In the U.S.,

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Wave after wave of hardware, software, biotech and cleantech products have emerged from what has become “ground zero” of entrepreneurial and startup culture. While startups continued to innovate in each new wave of technology, the rate of innovation was constrained by limitations we only now can understand. Starting now.

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Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

I’ve spent my life in innovation, eight startups in 21 years, and the last 15 years in academia teaching it. 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.

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