Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2010

Business schools teach aspiring executives a variety of courses around the execution of known business models, (accounting, organizational behavior, managerial skills, marketing, operations, etc.). In contrast, startups search for a business model. (Or to optimize this search. to optimize this search.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 20, 2013

This post is part of our series on the National Science Foundation I-Corps Lean LaunchPad class in Life Science and Health Care at UCSF. It’s Lean, it’s fast, it works and it’s unlike anything else ever done. Basil Ayish , MBA, Business Development. Clare Pak , Business Development. And saved millions.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 11, 2015

I suggested the best place to start the conversation is with the 21 st century definition of a startup: A startup is a temporary organization designed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model. That means in their core business, large companies have a series of knowns. What We Now Know about Corporate Innovation.

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Steve Blank

MAY 3, 2011

The Stanford Lean LaunchPad class was an experiment in a new model of teaching startup entrepreneurship. After a week of hectic customer discovery , the team further refined their new business model. His lecture covered: What resources do you need to build your business? Any IP you need to license?

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ConversionXL

JUNE 2, 2022

This lead becomes your first contact and is then developed into an account. Marketing development reps were then limited to 100 accounts each and aligned with three to four sales reps to target only 400 accounts. How you approach it will depend on your business model and ideal accounts and how (or if) you plan to expand campaigns.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 8, 2015

Wants to promote intrapreneurship to extend its business model and retain creative employees like Google, Amazon, and Facebook do. Startups are developing IP relevant to the disruption. What is the timeline to ROI and the amount of risk we are willing to assume? We’ll cover “ corporate moonshots ” in a subsequent post.).

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Steve Blank

MAY 26, 2009

You don’t need to worry about any Intellectual Property (IP) issues. The next week another team, working on a new type of solid oxide fuel cell, remarked, “Professor Blank, in our industry there’s a ton of patents and stuff and people tell us we shouldn’t be out there unless we start patent protecting all our IP.” Order Here.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

AUGUST 8, 2012

” Just adding a Google map to a website, I mean, you might as well just be a web developer and charge $100 an hour and have a WordPress template and knock us out and charge them $5,000. Let’s just for now go with this Craigslist assumption, because at least it’s a business. So, you’re a developer, right?

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 27, 2011

Steve Blank, author of Four Steps to Epiphany , has helped formulate the thinking behind the Lean Startup methodology , together with Eric Ries. He observed that most startups that succeed aren't lean: their goal is to have an exit rather than a scalable business. This is lean development without any customer development.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

How to stay lean and iterate quickly while you’re building a two sided marketplace, especially when “network effect” and “critical mass” are the two main focuses? Near shoring development with your team (ex: your team is based in Canada / India) is cool, but not outsourcing. Should I require and NDA?

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

Some really great stuff in 2010 that aims to help startups around product, technology, business models, etc. First Principles. Steve Blank , January 25, 2010 10 Tips for Adding Game Mechanics to a Non-Gaming Service - ReadWriteStart , September 21, 2010 Startups & VCs: Learn How to Design, Market, & Eat Your Own. -

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Up and Running

MARCH 11, 2015

” Our featured speaker was Caroline Cummings, the VP of Business Development at Palo Alto Software. I was able to work with him, and he did some due diligence on my financials, because we had a similar business model, and I was able to show this is a comparable for our exit strategy.

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

1- Digital nomadism Photo Credit: Andre Oentoro The future of entrepreneurship may involve more decentralized teams and digital nomads– which can lead to new business models and opportunities. 3- Accelerated innovation and ideas Photo Credit: Ryan Stone Entrepreneurship will only become more and more dominant in the business landscape.

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grasshopperherder.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

While it’s flattering that someone might think I’m capable of immediately grasping all the complexities of the business instantly, it’s a bit unrealistic. If I can copy your business by just looking around, then your company isn’t going anywhere anyway. You don’t have a defensible business model.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Lean Methodology Sources. Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. Part 3- Lean Cust. 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.

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