Steve Blank
JANUARY 28, 2013
He gave my innovation team free reign on designing a new employee innovation program. The design challenge. Our challenge was to design a program that could: Teach participants on how to turn their ideas into fundable experiments. (In His only request was that we keep two of the original program’s goals: 1. What went right?
Steve Blank
JANUARY 28, 2013
He gave my innovation team free reign on designing a new employee innovation program. The design challenge. Our challenge was to design a program that could: Teach participants on how to turn their ideas into fundable experiments. (In His only request was that we keep two of the original program’s goals: 1. What went right?
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Steve Blank
APRIL 8, 2010
There must be something really wrong with our business. We thought we’d take our plan and go raise seed money. We can’t raise money knowing our plan is wrong.”. Why a business plan is different than a business model. A business model describes how your company creates, delivers and captures value.
Both Sides of the Table
MARCH 25, 2016
Most of this advice boils down to an argument in favor of basic planning before starting a company or raising money. In many ways the fact that it has become so cheap to start a company and relatively cheap to raise angel/seed money that we as an industry have gotten lazy on basic planning. Incumbent Strengths & Weaknesses.
Steve Blank
JUNE 11, 2009
However, you will be dealing with almost daily change, (new customer feedback/insights from a Customer Development process and technical roadblocks ,) as the company searches for a repeatable and scalable business model. By now the company may have found and settled on a repeatable business model. Thanks Steve!
Mike Michalowicz
MARCH 24, 2013
11 Jewelry Design. Kids who have an eye for fashion or a love for creative endeavors can find jewelry making a rewarding and profitable business. Designed pieces may be sold online or at local trade shows and church bazaars. #12 20 Use the Allowance as Seed Money. All businesses need startup capital.
www.paulgraham.com
OCTOBER 23, 2010
Microsofts originalplan was to make money selling programming languages, of all things.Their current business model didnt occur to them until IBM droppedit in their lap five years later. Some believe only businesspeople can do this-- that hackers can implement software, but not design it. Thats nonsense.
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