Steve Blank
APRIL 12, 2010
The Search for the Business Model. A startup is an organization formed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model. Investors bet on a startup CEO to find the repeatable and scalable business model. They may draw their business model formally or they may keep the pieces in their head.
Steve Blank
FEBRUARY 23, 2016
As we prepared for the new Hacking for Defense class at Stanford, we had to stop and ask ourselves: How do we use the Business Model Canvas if the primary goal is not to earn money, but to fulfill a mission? In other words, how can we adapt the Business Model Canvas when the metrics of success for an organization is not revenue?
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Steve Blank
APRIL 10, 2009
I love the way you differentiate. Reply Why Startups are Agile and Opportunistic -- Pivoting the Business Model , on April 14, 2010 at 6:32 am Said: [.] to see if they need to make a Pivot to find a better model. The search for a profitable and scalable business model might require a startup [.]
Steve Blank
MARCH 5, 2012
One of the confusing things to entrepreneurs, investors and educators is the relationship between customer development and business model design and business planning and execution. When does a new venture focus on customer development and business models ? Here’s an attempt to put this all in context.
Steve Blank
JANUARY 6, 2014
But businesses are finding that Continuous Deployment not only changes engineering but has ripple effects on the rest of its business model. While continuous delivery is truly a better development process for engineering, it has profound impacts on a company’s business model and customer expectations.
Steve Blank
OCTOBER 4, 2010
Using this idea to differentiate themselves as the hot new Silicon Valley VCs, some of his former business school students made this phrase their rallying cry. In 1921, Ford sold 900,000 Model Ts for 60 percent market share compared to General Motors 61,000 Chevys, a 6 percent market share. By then it was too late.
Steve Blank
JUNE 15, 2010
The role of a founding CEO in a startup searching for a business model is radically different than a CEO building and growing a company. Certain VC’s like the new class of Super-Angels and small VC funds specialize in the early stage of a startup where you are searching for a business model. Your potential business model?
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