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. The cloud , open-source development tools and web 2.0

Early Stage 286

Early Stage Silicon Valley Oregon Technical Review 286

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 25, 2010

Over the last 50 years engineers have moved from building computers out of individual transistors to building with prepackaged logic gates. In the last decade open source software (e.g In the last decade open source software (e.g It’s the combination of Business Model Design and Customer Development.

Customer Development 329

Customer Development Business Model Developer Customer 329

Steve Blank

JUNE 19, 2014

After seeing the process work so well for scientists and engineers in the NSF, we hypothesized that we could increase productivity and stave the capital flight by helping Life Sciences startups build their companies more efficiently. I’ll open source the syllabus and teaching guide later this year.).

Lean 269

Lean SBIR Intellectual Property Customer Development 269

Steve Blank

MARCH 15, 2011

By now the nine teams in our Stanford Lean LaunchPad Class were formed, In the four days between team formation and this class session we tasked them to: Write down their initial hypotheses for the 9 components of their company’s business model (who are the customers? Their business was a robot lawn mower. Personal Libraries.

Business Model 236

Business Model Nebraska Peru Germany 236

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

JUNE 12, 2020

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. Team Election Watch – Open Source Tool to Track Political Influence Campaigns. If you can’t see the Helmsman 2-minute video click her.

Oakland 301

Oakland Asia Lean Video 301

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

But by taking advantage of open source, agile software, and iterative development, lean startups can operate with much less waste. One that is powered by three drivers, each of which is a part of a major trend: The use of platforms enabled by open source and free software. What are the characteristics of a lean startup?

Lean 168

Lean San Francisco Startup Continuous Deployment 168

SoCal CTO

MARCH 20, 2007

Dr. Karrer was valedictorian at Loyola Marymount University, attended the University of Southern California as a Tau Beta Pi fellow, one of the top 30 engineers in the nation, and received a M.S. in Computer Science. He is a frequent speaker at industry and academic events.

Venture Capital 150

Venture Capital Technical Cofounder Southern California Los Angeles 150

SoCal CTO

MARCH 9, 2007

Dr. Karrer was valedictorian at Loyola Marymount University, attended the University of Southern California as a Tau Beta Pi fellow, one of the top 30 engineers in the nation, and received a M.S. in Computer Science. He is a frequent speaker at industry and academic events.

Technical Cofounder 150

Technical Cofounder Southern California Los Angeles CTO Hire 150

SoCal CTO

MARCH 13, 2007

Dr. Karrer was valedictorian at Loyola Marymount University, attended the University of Southern California as a Tau Beta Pi fellow, one of the top 30 engineers in the nation, and received a M.S. in Computer Science. He is a frequent speaker at industry and academic events.

Technical Cofounder 150

Technical Cofounder Southern California Los Angeles Internet 150

David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

has open-sourced their investment structure , now on version 3.0, A similar, open-source, highly visual tool focused on VC is Venture Dealr. Typical business stage. An already proven business model and its already valuable assets. Typical business model. Another tool is NoteGenie.io.

Cofounder 78

Cofounder Technical Review Equity Dividend 78

VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

They are accustomed to more frictionless buying, easier payments, smarter recommendation engines, sharper display (product images, 3D, HD), short fulfillment time, and excellent customer service. Today, eCommerce companies can scale up faster than almost any other consumer business model.

eCommerce 94

eCommerce Open Source SEM Technical Review 94

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

So I initially gravitated to the CTO title, and not VP of Engineering. But since I spent a long time in a hybrid CTO/VP Engineering role, I still have this nagging question. The CTOs primary job is to make sure the companys technology strategy serves its business strategy. I mean, have you seen other people? Heres my take.

CTO 168

CTO Fractional CTO CTO Hire Technical Review 168

Steve Blank

JUNE 18, 2013

It dawned on me that the plans were a symptom of a larger problem: we were executing business plans when we should first be searching for business models. So what would a search process for a business model look like? That is until Alexander Osterwalder wrote Business Model Generation.

Lean 286

Lean Agile Customer Development Business Model 286

SoCal CTO

MARCH 1, 2007

Dr. Karrer was valedictorian at Loyola Marymount University, attended the University of Southern California as a Tau Beta Pi fellow, one of the top 30 engineers in the nation, and received a M.S. in Computer Science. He is a frequent speaker at industry and academic events.

Technical Cofounder 150

Technical Cofounder Networking Southern California Los Angeles 150

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

The Startup Magazine

JUNE 29, 2021

The issue may also lie in the history of open source apps and software: the beginning of the internet may have championed collaborative free tech, but what exists now is not free and, I would argue, is less than virtuous. Your search engine? Nothing is Free. Aidan: Think of the app or software you use most often.

Technology 158

Technology Open Source California Social Media 158

SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

Open Source Business Models, speakers for Web 2.0 Dr. Karrer was valedictorian at Loyola Marymount University, attended the University of Southern California as a Tau Beta Pi fellow, one of the top 30 engineers in the nation, and received a M.S. event I did last fall. in Computer Science.

Technical Cofounder 150

Technical Cofounder Southern California Los Angeles CTO Hire 150

SoCal CTO

MARCH 12, 2007

Dr. Karrer was valedictorian at Loyola Marymount University, attended the University of Southern California as a Tau Beta Pi fellow, one of the top 30 engineers in the nation, and received a M.S. in Computer Science. He is a frequent speaker at industry and academic events.

Technical Cofounder 150

Technical Cofounder Southern California Los Angeles CTO Hire 150

SoCal CTO

MARCH 20, 2007

Dr. Karrer was valedictorian at Loyola Marymount University, attended the University of Southern California as a Tau Beta Pi fellow, one of the top 30 engineers in the nation, and received a M.S. in Computer Science. He is a frequent speaker at industry and academic events.

Technical Cofounder 150

Technical Cofounder Southern California Los Angeles CTO Hire 150

Kodorra

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

Don’t forget to choose a sound business model. Whether it is advertisement model, B2C (Business to Consumer) ecommerce, affiliate or subscription, picking the right choice could determine the rise or fall of your business. Open source software or clone script is also available.

Software Review 45

Software Review Hosting Intellectual Property Naming 45

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Here’s what happened when an extraordinary Digital Health team gained several critical insights about their business model. At Linden Lab, delivered the open-sourced Second Life Viewer 2.0 Kent Quirk was director of engineering at Playdom and director of engineering at Linden Labs. A Five-sided Market.

Customer 323

Customer Churn Rate Customer Development Lean 323

Steve Blank

JUNE 18, 2013

It dawned on me that the plans were a symptom of a larger problem: we were executing business plans when we should first be searching for business models. So what would a search process for a business model look like? That is until Alexander Osterwalder wrote Business Model Generation.

Lean 178

Lean Agile Customer Development Business Model 178

Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 15, 2020

When they can invest the marginal engineering hour in listing a new token that drives revenue vs. saving some costs on settlement, it’s hard to justify. Some early open source projects include Whatsatt and Juggernaut. This could change very quickly, however, with a new bull run. 6) Identity Issuance .

Networking 168

Networking Global OTC Security 168

crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 28, 2010

Business Plan vs Business Model – [link]. 6 Things a Non-Engineer Should Know Before Founding a Web Startup – [link]. Government releases open source code – [link]. Angel-Backed Companies More Likely to Succeed, Says Harvard Study – [link]. Never Hire Job Hoppers.

Social Media 91

Social Media Small Business Design Media 91

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. Tom has added a class on entrepreneurial ethics.

Incubator 331

Incubator Lean Programming Government 331

www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Business Model I would like to propose that in addition to team, product, and market, there is actually a fourth, equally important, core element of startups, which is the need for a viable business model. These new business models focused heavily on how buying behavior has changed because of the power of the web.

Acquisition 103

Acquisition Cost Customer Entrepreneur 103

Steve Blank

AUGUST 4, 2016

Hacking for Diplomacy is a new course from the Management Science and Engineering department in Stanford’s Engineering school and Stanford’s International Policy Studies program that will be first offered in the Fall of 2016. Join a select cross-disciplinary class that takes real problems from the U.S.

Lean 160

Lean Government Agile Africa 160

Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

VC’s engineered financial transactions, working with entrepreneurs to brand, hype and take public un profitable companies with grand promises of the future. Customer Development , Agile Engineering and the Lean methodology enforced a process of incremental and iterative development. Thus began the 5-year dot-com bubble.

Internet 334

Internet IPO Silicon Valley Agile 334

The Next Web

AUGUST 6, 2013

Editor’s Note: The following is a guest post by James Donelan , the VP of engineering at MuleSoft , provider of the world’s most widely used integration platform. They didn’t validate their business model before investing so much in it and under-estimated the “last mile” problem. Lean startup engineering.

Lean 132

Lean Startup Continuous Deployment Open Source 132

Steve Blank

AUGUST 4, 2016

Hacking for Diplomacy is a new course from the Management Science and Engineering department in Stanford’s Engineering school and Stanford’s International Policy Studies program that will be first offered in the Fall of 2016. Join a select cross-disciplinary class that takes real problems from the U.S.

Lean 120

Lean Government Agile Africa 120

Lightspeed Venture Partners

APRIL 12, 2016

We are thrilled to welcome Ajay Sudan , who brings with him 15 years of operating experience including six years at Palantir where he was responsible for launching several new businesses, including their healthcare business, which he grew to $100M+ in sales. Prior to that, he worked at Microsoft in product management and marketing.

Sudan 60

Sudan Georgia Cofounder Open Source 60

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 29, 2009

The human tendency to moralize about debt affects engineers, too. Leverage product development with open source and third parties. For example, early on at IMVU, we incorporated in tons of open source projects. Although it costs to pay down the principal, we gain by reduced interest payments in the future.

Technical Review 168

Technical Review Software Review San Francisco Lean 168

Altgate

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

The presentation was on outsourcing generally, not just software engineering and the audience was very early stage companies (some yet to be founded). it’s also a good example of hybrid sourcing…you can draft and get outsourced review. Engineering/QA. Advertising. Bookmark the permalink. … [.]

Software Review 65

Software Review Offshore Startup Boston 65

blog.captainrecruiter.com

MARCH 8, 2012

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. You may get a software engineer to start something for you, but they wont stick with the project when it gets difficult.

Cofounder 40

Cofounder Technical Cofounder Founder Software Engineering 40

ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 20, 2011

Foundups : Michael Trout, from Fukui, Japan, pitched Foundups , which he claims will be a platform for open corporations. He talked about everything from raising funding for pre-seed entrepreneurs to get them to the seed stage, crowd funding, social media marketing and open source. You can't tell what the company does.

Massachusetts 113

Massachusetts Entrepreneur Open Source Silicon Valley 113

Steve Blank

JANUARY 26, 2016

Hacking for Defense is a new course at Stanford’s Engineering School in the Spring of 2016. Our goal is to open-source this class to other universities and create the 21 st Century version of Tech ROTC. Stanford’s new Hacking for Defense class is a part of the solution. Hacking for Defense (H4D) @ Stanford.

Silicon Valley 120

Silicon Valley North Korea Agile Lean 120