Steve Blank

JUNE 26, 2015

Gore , I’ve found two corporate strategy tools developed by other smart people helpful in bridging Lean Startups with Corporate Innovation. However in practice most companies treated the Three Horizons like they are simply incremental execution of the same business model. Horizon 1 activities support existing business models.

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Steve Blank

JULY 25, 2023

Now at Imperial College Business School and Co-Founder of the Wicked Acceleration Labs , Cristobal and I wondered if we could combine the tenets of Lean (get out of the building, build MVPs, run experiments, move with speed and urgency) with the expanded toolset developed by researchers who work on Wicked problems and Systems’ Thinking.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 3, 2012

Enter the Business Model Canvas. With the business model canvas in hand, we can now approach rethinking corporate innovation strategy and structure. Existing companies and their operating divisions implement known business models. Operating divisions execute the known business model.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Over the same 30 years, Venture Capital firms have honed their skills and strategies to match Wall Streets needs to achieve liquidity for their portfolio companies. It may just be that the message of building companies that have predictable revenue and profit models hasn’t percolated through the VC business model.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Guide to Evaluating Startup Ideas - Tony Wright dot com , May 27, 2010 A great developer I once worked with was kvetching at lunch one day. The Yin and Yang of Product and Engineering - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , May 22, 2010 For a tech company, product and engineering are the heart and soul of the business. Innovative.

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Pre-launch customer development data is another way, sometimes in the form of user surveys for consumer companies or interviews with potential beta customers for B2B businesses. One of our portfolio investments, a B2B SaaS company, was a pre-product startup at the time of the seed round. B) Post-Product Companies.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 30, 2014

It was also found that “Engaged” customers received 3-4 (or more) reviews of their portfolios and were taking part of on-going conversations where their advisor was soliciting feedback and asking for actual input. Why Are They Referring New Customers Completely Unprompted? Read the full case study here.).

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Seeing Both Sides

JULY 11, 2013

Before this occurs, the sales process is a craft or an art - custom-made by the founder or evangelist sales VP. You dive deep into a customer development process, working closely with a few customers who feed you requirements and are willing to trial an imperfect product that is evolving quickly.

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Steve Blank

JULY 15, 2010

VC’s invested their limited partners’ “risk capital” in a portfolio of startups in exchange for illiquid stock. Most of the startups they invested in either died by running out of money before they found a scalable business model or ended up in the “land of the living dead” by never growing (failing to Pivot.). Lessons Learned.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 8, 2016

Lane Merrifield is a co-founder and CEO of FreshGrade , a learning collaboration and portfolio tool focused on enhancing teachers’ lives and making students’ learning visible. No MBA business model would ever come out with, “Hey we’re going to go target the academics.” If you can’t hear the clip, click here.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 8, 2016

Lane Merrifield is a co-founder and CEO of FreshGrade , a learning collaboration and portfolio tool focused on enhancing teachers’ lives and making students’ learning visible. No MBA business model would ever come out with, “Hey we’re going to go target the academics.” If you can’t hear the clip, click here.

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Cofounder New York City Entrepreneur New York 120

Steve Blank

APRIL 20, 2021

Shawn immediately said the name I had given the four steps was confusing – I had called it market development – he suggested that I call it Customer Development – and the name stuck. Shawns guest blog post describing describing the MVP Tree is below. Step 5 and 6 leads you to selecting the right MVPs.).

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

We have a portfolio of more than 500 brands and 4000 products and people invite us into their lives more 1.8 For most big, established companies like us, our business models were developed years—even decades ago. We’ve built up strength in executing our business model, not creating new ones.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Teams can prove their competence and validate their ideas by showing investors evidence that there’s a repeatable and scalable business model. A Lean Startup methodology offers entrepreneurs a framework to focus on what’s important: Business Model Discovery. We focus on evidence and trajectory across the business model.

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Hippoland

JUNE 19, 2018

One of our portfolio companies called The Pill Club, for example, sends women birth control right to their doors. For example, we have backed Kenzie Academy, which helps teach people to become developers in cities where this education is traditionally not available. But, I don’t think everyone needs to become a developer.

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Hippoland

JUNE 19, 2018

One of our portfolio companies called The Pill Club, for example, sends women birth control right to their doors. For example, we have backed Kenzie Academy, which helps teach people to become developers in cities where this education is traditionally not available. But, I don’t think everyone needs to become a developer.

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San Francisco California Cost Software 48

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Modern entrepreneurship began at the turn of the 21 st century with the observation that startups aren’t smaller versions of large companies – large companies at their core execute known business models, while startups search for scalable business models. Given this set of characteristics, how should a market be defined?

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Steve Blank

JULY 2, 2009

The CDROM content business in the early 1990’s was one of the many of the long line of venture capital fads. Reply steveblank , on July 2, 2009 at 12:22 pm Said: Aamir, The game business is different from the tech business in some obvious and non obvious ways. - Make game, market, sell, profit?

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Silicon Valley Technical Review RSS Software Review 120

Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 10, 2011

I hear similar things for pre-revenue startups that are on schedule, on time, and on budget - even though they are busy building something that nobody wants. (In In fact, this crisis was at the heart of Steve Blank ’s original impetus to develop customer development as an alternative set of milestones to use for startups.)

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Last night at the NY Tech Meetup, John Britton of our portfolio company Twilio showed how it is done. Making Money From Social Games - ArcticStartup , August 23, 2010 Games Developer Conference Europe 2010 (GDCE) took place last week in Cologne, Germany. Develop your business plan. Developer. 10 cents per DAU.

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Steve Blank

MAY 1, 2012

If our school is to retain its current standards in terms of access and excellence we think it is of paramount importance that we develop an overarching campus strategy that enables and supports online innovation. Fixing our business model to fix our budget crisis. That’s why they invest in a portfolio.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 11, 2014

We started with the product about three years ago, development, a year later we released it. They have many, many man-years of development and customer development in them. You have your general management meeting and in your general management meeting you talk about product development, about marketing and about finance.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 27, 2011

Unlike Lean startups, their priority isn't to learn in order to create a scalable business model. This is lean development without any customer development. The development part is similar to a lean startup: you want to be agile. The development part is similar to a lean startup: you want to be agile.

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Up and Running

JULY 14, 2015

See if you can start developing at that kind of thing. Peter: You’re going to develop, develop, develop and if you don’t get kicked out of the the accelerator, you will get funding of some sort. Peter: Or all the business but not the development knowledge let’s say. Take your idea there.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. s helpful to find an developer tool that allows you to write html/css and renders the view in real time, so you donâ??t Firebase : Are all your developers front-end engineers? s easier to use/develop with. Mobile Tools: If you are a web developer, you donâ??t

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