The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 22, 2013

While you are working away on your business plan, looking for ways to raise capital, finding the right people to hire, etc., But have you ever had the opportunity to pick the brains of founders who created amazingly successful startups and companies like Envato , Backblaze , Simple , or Treehouse ? Things snowballed from there.”.

Cofounder 164

Cofounder Founder Startup Bootstrapping 164

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 10, 2011

I was invited to Finland as part of Stanford’s Engineering Technology Venture Program partnership with Aalto University. Instead the business press dumped on the founders for “selling out.” Many founders mentioned this as a reason not to incorporate or grow their companies in Finland. Lessons Learned.

Finland 324

Finland Naming Russia Government 324

YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 7, 2018

by Humberto Farias, CEO and co-founder at Concepta. The digital revolution is disrupting the traditional business model for small and medium businesses (SMBs). Buzzwords like data science, artificial intelligence, and predictive analytics are being used by big companies with the ability to invest.

Artificial Inteligence 164

Artificial Inteligence Analytics SCRUM Cofounder 164

Steve Blank

JANUARY 22, 2014

Dino Vendetti a VC at Bay Partners, moved up to Bend, Oregon on a mission to engineer Bend into a regional technology cluster. Part 3: Engineering a Regional Tech Cluster. Few entrepreneurs find this scalable and repeatable business model because it’s not easy. Focus on capital efficient, scalable startups and founders.

Early Stage 286

Early Stage Silicon Valley Oregon Technical Review 286

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 11, 2018

For the whole program, please take a look here. It’s the engine that has powered companies including Amazon, Alibaba, and Google. Co-founder Holly Liu will walk us through the the decisions that led to that outcome. As is the right business model, which is the focus of the Don’t Bet on Your First Business Model workshop.

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Lean Las Vegas Cofounder Startup 103

Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2011

Over the last decade we assumed that once we found repeatable methodologies (Agile and Customer Development , Business Model Design) to build early stage ventures, entrepreneurship would become a “science,” and anyone could do it. Founders fit the definition of a creator: they see something no one else does. George Bernard Shaw.

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Agile Customer Development Early Stage Business Model 332

Steve Blank

JUNE 12, 2020

The eight teams spoke to over 945 beneficiaries, stakeholders, requirements writers, program managers, warfighters, legal, security, customers, etc. All the teams used the Mission Model Canvas , (videos here ) Customer Development and Agile Engineering to build Minimal Viable Products, but all of their journeys were unique.

Oakland 301

Oakland Asia Lean Video 301

Steve Blank

JUNE 26, 2015

The first, the notion of the “ ambidextrous organization ” from O’Reilly and Tushman , posits that companies that want to do continuous innovation need to execute their core business model while innovating in parallel. Horizon 1 activities support existing business models. Horizon 1 is the company’s core business.

Lean 120

Lean Management Business Model Incubator 120

Steve Blank

JULY 13, 2021

In 1908 Harvard Business School filled that need by creating a graduate degree – the Master of Business Administration. When Harvard started the MBA program there were no graduate-level business textbooks. Entrepreneurship Becomes a Subject in Business Schools. There were no classes on how to start a business.

Lean 433

Lean Agile Business Model Business Plan 433

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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Lean Chile Ukraine Spain 294

Steve Blank

MARCH 29, 2010

In my last post I described my approach to one of the three classes I teach at Stanford in the engineering school: Fundamentals of Technology Entrepreneurship. The key things I want students to take from the class are: Understand that a startup is a temporary organization designed to search for a profitable business model.

Business Model 226

Business Model Silicon Valley California Engineer 226

Steve Blank

JULY 25, 2011

Scientists and engineers as founders and startup CEOs is one of the least celebrated contributions of Silicon Valley. ESL, the first company I worked for in Silicon Valley , was founded by a PhD in Math and six other scientists and engineers. It might be its most important. ———-. Cold War Spin Outs.

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Engineer Silicon Valley United States Venture Capital 305

SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

But founders need to know how to ask for their advice and when to ignore it. Berkeley Boalt Law School and runs their entrepreneurship program. Startup Insights From Paul English, Co-Founder of Kayak - OnStartups , May 10, 2010 I’m just wrapping up several weeks of attending conferences across both coasts. It says what?!”).

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Fractional CTO Startup Venture Capital Cofounder 248

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 22, 2018

For example, creating an experience management platform requires subject matter expertise, programmers, quality assurance, implementation specialists, professional services engineers, and a roadmap of future functionality requests.

Iowa 113

Iowa Investment Bankers Cloud Software Review 113

blog.captainrecruiter.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Technical Co-Founders Are A Myth. Two years ago I got the bug to do an online recruiting startup and I began the hunt to find a technical co-founder - a software engineer who works for no cash - to help me build my dream website. I learned something: technical co-founders are a myth. Captain Recruiter. Real Advice.

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Cofounder Technical Cofounder Founder Software Engineering 40

Steve Blank

AUGUST 15, 2016

But to do it, you need to actually have a sustainable business model. Starting a business is too risky. 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. Wanting to create impact is great.

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Cofounder Entrepreneur Africa Sales Cycle 142

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

GrowthHackers founder and former Head of Growth at Dropbox, Sean Ellis , coined the term: “A growth hacker is a person whose true north is growth. In his course on Growth Mindset (part of CXL’s Growth Marketing Minidegree ), WeTheFuture.org founder John McBride describes three key components of a successful growth marketer: 1.

Retention 113

Retention Marketing Acquisition Channel 113

Steve Blank

AUGUST 15, 2016

But to do it, you need to actually have a sustainable business model. Starting a business is too risky. 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. Wanting to create impact is great.

Cofounder 120

Cofounder Entrepreneur Africa Sales Cycle 120

ConversionXL

JUNE 2, 2022

As CXL founder Peep Laja notes in his CRO agency masterclass : “…it’s permission-based marketing. DocuSign , for example, created an ABM program to increase click-through rates and boost the number of conversations with high-value accounts. Before developing a program , consider the following variables: Deal size.

Lead Generation 94

Lead Generation Marketing Sales Cycle Campaign 94

Steve Blank

AUGUST 31, 2009

The first hint lies in its name; this is a product development model, not a marketing model, not a sales hiring model, not a customer acquisition model, not even a financing model (and we’ll also find that in most cases it’s even a poor model to use to develop a product.) release of the product.

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Customer Development Developer Customer Silicon Valley 238

ReadWriteStart

JULY 17, 2012

An innovative company needs to start with the founders and top execs. While even the most creative founders can’t drive innovation all by themselves, someone has to lead the way. This goes for every employee — from customer service to your head of engineering. These 7 tips can help get the ball rolling: 1. Set an example.

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Startup Technical Review Employee Business Model 147

ReadWriteStart

JUNE 16, 2011

The company already has paying customers and a validated business model. Bizosys Technologies, a Bangalore, India based software engineering company was founded in 2009. Abhijit foresees primarily a technology licensing business model whereby device vendors would be paying royalty per handset or tablet.

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India Bootstrapping Non-Compete Entrepreneur 123

ReadWriteStart

MAY 19, 2011

During today's roundtable, we opened the session with a discussion of the existential crisis in media and how talented bloggers and journalists are facing a tough time sustaining themselves due to lack of business models. One of them is the 1M/1M Affiliate Program we announced today at the roundtable. Photo by 7rains.

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India Silicon Valley Entrepreneur Affiliate 115

Austin Startup

MARCH 3, 2020

The LexSet Co-Founders (left to right) CEO Francis Bitonti , President Leslie Oliver Karpas , and COO Azam Khan won $250,000 in Verizon’s Built on 5G Challenge The Forrest Four-Cast: March 3, 2020 LexSet serves AI engineers, especially those with limited resources, with a better way to annotate photos.

Technical Review 63

Technical Review Los Angeles Cofounder Silicon Valley 63

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

it is powered by 3D game engineering, a multibillion-pound entertainment sector that now makes more money than the film industry. Within the second quarter of 2019, we will have our first investor on board to accelerate our development process by hiring more developers and civil engineers. including those that benefit construction?—?it

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Artificial Inteligence Germany Startup Hungary 50

Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 18, 2024

Key Takeaways Mandi Ellefson, founder of Hands-off CEO, shares her journey from overwhelming debt to multimillionaire status by transforming consulting agencies into self-sustaining enterprises. She stresses the importance of building systems that allow businesses to thrive without the constant presence of the CEO.

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Framework Sales Cycle Sales Hiring 62

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Capital Factory is so excited to welcome the OHUB community to Austin during SXSW,” said Joshua Baer, founder & CEO. To date, over 275 of the nation’s top engineering jobs have gone to marketing and business college students that have had the opportunity to attend this immersive experience. The business model is simple.

Partner 55

Partner Cofounder Technical Cofounder Equity 55

Steve Blank

JANUARY 21, 2016

If you’re a technical startup founder, one of the painful lessons is that it’s not enough just to build a great product. You must also understand the value the product provides customers (along with the rest of your business model.). Clay Hebert , founder of Crowdfunding Hacks. Clay Hebert.

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Detroit Baltimore Entrepreneur Cofounder 120

Steve Blank

MAY 29, 2019

My contribution has been, “Why don’t we design classes more closely modeled to what innovators and entrepreneurs actually do.” Today the capstone class is most often experiential, team-based, hands on, focused around the search for a repeatable and scalable business model. Can you become a founder by watching videos?

Incubator 331

Incubator Lean Programming Government 331

Steve Blank

JUNE 7, 2019

The eight teams spoke to over 820 beneficiaries, stakeholders, requirements writers, program managers, warfighters, legal, security, customers, etc. Our keynote speaker was Palmer Luckey , founder of Oculus and the designer of the Oculus Rift. He’s now the CEO/founder of the AI-focussed defense contractor Anduril Industries.

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Oakland Lean SBIR Afghanistan 266

crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

How Small Businesses Can Compete with Big Business – [link]. crowdSPRING’s Small Business Spotlight of the Week: mor.sl | crowdSPRING Blog – [link]. The Founders Lie About Comfort Zones – [link]. How To Choose A Market For Your Startup Or Small Business – [link]. Just got acquired?

Social Media 100

Social Media Small Business Central African Republic Design 100

Steve Blank

JANUARY 20, 2014

Dino and I kept in touch as he moved up to Bend, Oregon on a mission to engineer Bend into a regional technology cluster. Part 3: Engineering a Regional Tech Cluster. These people are important and useful in the engineering of a tech cluster; as startup coaches, angel investors and advocates for the community.

Silicon Valley 312

Silicon Valley Oregon Lean Venture Capital 312

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 22, 2008 The three drivers of growth for your business model. The AARRR model (hence pirates, get it?) He also has a discussion of how your choice of business model determines which of these metric areas you want to focus on. Choose one.

San Francisco 167

San Francisco CPA SEM CTO Hire 167

SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

In junior high and high school, I did a bunch of programming, mostly self-taught. From there, I became the first non-founder employee at an e-commerce startup called BITSource, which was the first electronic software distributor delivering electronic volume software licenses to corporations. Tell me a bit about the Founder's Institute.

Management 150

Management Product Entrepreneur Silicon Valley 150

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.

Search 320

Search Business Model Customer Development Agile 320

OnlyOnce

MARCH 22, 2016

We expanded the program later that year with partner companies ReadyTalk, SendGrid, MWH Global, SpotX, and Moz, as I wrote about here. The day after I put up that last post about v2 of the program, a human resources leader at PayPal gave me a call and asked if we could help them structure a program for their engineering organization, too.

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CTO Hire Cofounder Programming Equity 48

ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 13, 2011

Please remember, free is not a business model. a healthcare IT business for managing compliance requirements for pharmaceutical and medical device companies, recording transactions that involve payments to physicians. If you want a deeper relationship with me, you are very welcome to join the 1M/1M premium program.

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Business Model New Hampshire Dallas Entrepreneur 122