Steve Blank

MARCH 12, 2014

Their seniors just completed the school’s first-ever 3-credit semester program in evidence-based entrepreneurship. The startups and the teaching team crafted a challenge for the kids to tackle using the Customer Development methodology, Lean Launchpad tools and the business model canvas. Hawken School has now given us an answer.

Lean 334

Lean Customer Development Startup Silicon Valley 334

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

APRIL 23, 2014

Most large companies manage three types of innovation: process innovation (making existing products incrementally better), continuous innovation (building on the strength of the company’s current business model but creating new elements) and disruptive innovation (creating products or services that did not exist before.).

Acquisition 332

Acquisition Intellectual Property Silicon Valley Startup 332

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Jeff Katzenberg has a great track record – head of the studio at Paramount, chairman of Disney Studios, co-founder of DreamWorks and now chairman of NewTV. Their idea is that consumers will want a subscription service for short form entertainment (10-minute programs) for mobile rather than full length movies. ” Fire, Ready, Aim.

Lean 335

Lean Burn Rate Startup IPO 335

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 10, 2017

by Mark Gilbert, founder and CEO of MBS Accounting Technology & Advisory. Roughly 27 percent of startups can’t get the funding they need to take their business to the next level, according to the National Association of Small Businesses. These software programs are more efficient for managing a company’s finances.

Software Review 124

Software Review Technical Review Due Diligence Startup 124

Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2021

Although the class was run completely online, and even though they were suffering from Zoom fatigue, the 10 teams of 42 students collectively interviewed 1,142 beneficiaries, stakeholders, requirements writers, program managers, industry partners, etc. Tom Bedecarré , the founder and CEO of AKQA, the leading digital advertising agency.

Lean 385

Lean Security Asia SBIR 385

The Startup Magazine

JULY 1, 2020

Here’s another from The Startup Magazine Founder Series. We understand utility rebate programs very well and that helps us guide the customers to maximize their savings and make the overall payback lower. I could not see a way for a doubling or tripling my revenue unless I changed my business model.

Green 179

Green Founder Distribution Business Model 179

Steve Blank

APRIL 23, 2018

Sloan Foundation , the Sloan School of Management at MIT , the Sloan program at Stanford , and the Sloan/Kettering Memorial Cancer Center in New York. Sloan’s book My Years with General Motors , written half a century ago, is still a readable business classic. The founder of what became General Motors was William (Billy) Durant.

Michigan 268

Michigan Cofounder Stock Forecast 268

YoungUpstarts

MARCH 4, 2020

It will enable individuals to understand the travellers’ needs and expectations intimately which can result in new hospitality business models. They understand the need to constantly improve in order to develop resilient hospitality business models hand-in-hand with their employers.

Technical Review 165

Technical Review Singapore Artificial Inteligence Myanmar 165

View from Seed

AUGUST 17, 2021

A few weeks ago, we hosted a small dinner for a number of portfolio company founders, LP’s, and friends of the firm. It’s by far the longest time I’ve spent working on any one thing, and I feel very blessed to have been able to work with my partners, colleagues, founders, and collaborators. This one is controversial.

IRR 205

IRR Dilution Founder Portfolio 205

The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Unpacking the MBA Toolbox Imagine an MBA as a Swiss Army Knife for business: equipped with tools for any situation. I recall one classmate using a risk management model we had just studied to turn around a company during an internship placement. Often, they’re planted in MBA programs.

Global 127

Global Programming Non-Compete Agile 127

Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 6, 2022

Steve is the CEO of Founders Space, one of the world’s leading startup accelerators with over 50 partners in 22 countries. Founders Space was ranked the #1 incubator for overseas startups by Forbes and Entrepreneur Magazines. 15:05] Do you think that the no headquarters model is going to impact startups going forward? [17:14]

San Francisco 97

San Francisco Technical Review Incubator Silicon Valley 97

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

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.

Agile 332

Agile Customer Development Early Stage Business Model 332

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

YoungUpstarts

JULY 25, 2019

by Rick Mac Gillis , founder and CEO of Dragon Cloud , author of “ The New Frontier In Web Api Programming “ Startups, more than any other type of business, are sensitive to change. Rick Mac Gillis is the Founder and CEO of Dragon Cloud , a service connecting high-quality clients with high-quality contractors.

Hiring 113

Hiring Software Review Startup API 113

View from Seed

AUGUST 17, 2021

A few weeks ago, we hosted a small dinner for a number of portfolio company founders, LP’s, and friends of the firm. It’s by far the longest time I’ve spent working on any one thing, and I feel very blessed to have been able to work with my partners, colleagues, founders, and collaborators. This one is controversial.

IRR 156

IRR Dilution Founder Portfolio 156

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 11, 2018

For the whole program, please take a look here. 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. Finally, we know building a business is more than just work.

Lean 103

Lean Las Vegas Cofounder Startup 103

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.

Finland 324

Finland Naming Russia Government 324

The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 19, 2021

As part of The Startup Magazine’s Female Founder Interview series , we interviewed Nicole Price of the Chicago-based International Center for Breathwork. The festival brings people together for a specific event, and the ICFB membership program continues the engagement year-round with a monthly membership that costs only $11/month.

Founder 158

Founder Chicago Cofounder Global 158

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 21, 2023

Overall I like the principles in the classic book “ Robert’s Rules of Innovation: A 10-Step Program for Corporate Survival ,” by Robert F. Savvy investors tell me that startup founders who claim to have never failed are either lying or have never tried anything innovative. Business risks are not just development risks.

Intellectual Property 343

Intellectual Property Metrics .Net Social Network 343

Steve Blank

JANUARY 22, 2014

Few entrepreneurs find this scalable and repeatable business model because it’s not easy. Startups still need capital to scale once they find good product-market fit and a repeatable-scalable business model.). Focus on capital efficient, scalable startups and founders. Lessons Learned. Build $10-30M funds.

Early Stage 286

Early Stage Silicon Valley Oregon Technical Review 286

View from Seed

AUGUST 17, 2021

A few weeks ago, we hosted a small dinner for a number of portfolio company founders, LP’s, and friends of the firm. It’s by far the longest time I’ve spent working on any one thing, and I feel very blessed to have been able to work with my partners, colleagues, founders, and collaborators. This one is controversial.

IRR 136

IRR Dilution Founder Portfolio 136

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

YoungUpstarts

MARCH 22, 2019

By the time they are up and running they are so busy with the day to day aspects of keeping their business ticking over that they can become overwhelmed at the time demands of invoicing, tax compliance and a thousand other distractions competing for their attention. One-stop-shop” accounting software.

Software Review 176

Software Review Due Diligence Startup Stock 176

Steve Blank

JUNE 12, 2020

The eight teams spoke to over 945 beneficiaries, stakeholders, requirements writers, program managers, warfighters, legal, security, customers, etc. And the trick is we use the same Lean LaunchPad / I-Corps curriculum — and kept the same class structure – experiential, hands-on, driven this time by a mission -model not a business model.

Oakland 301

Oakland Asia Lean Video 301

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2020

Sapient’s Sam Parks and Martin Koch have developed a smart outlet system for commercial deployment The Forrest Four-Cast: January 28, 2020 If Sam Parks , CEO and co-founder of Sapient Industries , weren’t working for his startup, he’d be working as a scientist, using his background in nanotechnology as an applied physicist.

Philadelphia 62

Philadelphia Technical Review Artificial Inteligence Pennsylvania 62

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

ReadWriteStart

JUNE 1, 2020

In very few specific cases, depending on the nature of the business, the business model might demand a considerable gestation period or extensive research and development. For these businesses, it is imperative to get funding from the start without which the company cannot be set up. Government programs.

Startup 150

Startup Entrepreneur Elevator Pitch Seed Stage 150

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. No Nonsense.

Cofounder 40

Cofounder Technical Cofounder Founder Software Engineering 40

Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 17, 2021

Networking Reimagined With Plain Sight Founder James Chapman written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. 12:34] What’s the long-term plan and business model for Plain Sight? [17:02] More About The Certified Marketing Manager Program Powered by Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with James Chapman.

Networking 92

Networking Founder Social Network Social Media 92

Up and Running

DECEMBER 26, 2018

Are you ready to start your business this year? Sometimes it can help to hear from small business founders who were able to breathe life into their business idea and make it go. These four founders shared their success stories with our LivePlan team over the past year. Allison Reitz, founder of Good Elephant.

Small Business 112

Small Business Founder Metrics Forecast 112

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

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 12, 2010

Many of the growth equity firms have had outbound dialing programs for years. Growth equity firms typically target profitable businesses that are often not technical in nature. Perhaps outbound dialing / emailing programs worked well for growth equity firms in their core business. What a waste of my time.

Programming 294

Programming Entrepreneur Private Equity Equity 294

Austin Startup

MARCH 1, 2020

Milis Bio CEO and Founder Mike Sheehan winning the 2018 Bank of Ireland/IGNITE Business of Year prize. Milis Bio began in May of 2016, in the RebelBio accelerator program run by SOS Ventures. Mike Sheehan , CEO and Founder at Milis Bio, earned a B.S. He also tries to write at least four paragraphs per day on Medium.

Ireland 62

Ireland Morocco North America Philippines 62

Up and Running

APRIL 8, 2015

Q&A with Joe Maruschak, co-founder of Fertilab Thinkubator . You don’t move your business forward unless you’re interacting with the world. Who works at the incubator, helping these businesses? An incubator incubates a business, a business that’s started by an individual. It’s you starting a business.

Incubator 60

Incubator Cofounder Founder Early Stage 60

Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 28, 2011

Recently, Microsoft announced the Microsoft Kinect Accelerator , a program created to incubate startups building the next generation of innovative experiences for the Kinect. The companies will interact with and have access to mentors during the course of the program including Microsoft executives, entrepreneurs, and investors.

Intellectual Property 134

Intellectual Property Common Stock Seattle Cofounder 134