Steve Blank
MARCH 8, 2011
It was designed to bring together many of the new approaches to building a successful startup – customer development, agile development, business model generation and pivots. Startups are in fact only temporary organizations, organized to search –not execute–for a scalable and repeatable business model.
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? Consider if their business worth pursuing? Xu Cui (Ph.D,
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Steve Blank
DECEMBER 7, 2010
I’ve introduced a new class at Stanford to teach engineers, scientists and other professionals how startups really get built. Business schools teach aspiring executives a variety of courses around the execution of known business models, (accounting, organizational behavior, managerial skills, marketing, operations, etc.).
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.
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.
Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 15, 2008
See Customer Development Engineering for my first stab at articulating the theory involved) Ferocious customer-centric rapid iteration, as exemplified by the Customer Development process. Paring down products, target customers, business models etc takes courage, but it must be done to have any chance of success.
ConversionXL
MARCH 29, 2017
If you don’t have a validated product or business model yet, stop here. There are a lot of different ways to approach this, depending on your business model and your goals. Growth Engineer. You have a product manager, an engineer, data scientists… you have leadership there.” (via CXL Live).
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