Startup Professionals Musings
AUGUST 8, 2022
There is nothing wrong with a focus on making the current business model work better. Business plans should be loose frameworks to be used as guidelines rather than detailed route maps. Existing production teams are generally too busy meeting monthly deadlines and targets to give new innovations the attention they need.
Startup Professionals Musings
NOVEMBER 6, 2019
There is nothing wrong with a focus on making the current business model work better. Business plans should be loose frameworks to be used as guidelines rather than detailed route maps. Existing production teams are generally too busy meeting monthly deadlines and targets to give new innovations the attention they need.
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Steve Blank
JANUARY 30, 2013
With hindsight we should have had “proof of concepts” tested in a corporate center (think ‘pop-up incubator’) where they would do extensive Customer Discovery. We should had done this before assigning the teams to a particular business unit (or had the ability to create a new business unit, or spin the team out of the company).
YoungUpstarts
JUNE 1, 2019
This is the second in a three-part series that aims to help you understand the Traction Gap Framework® – a step-by-step approach that startup teams can use to go from ideation to preparing to scale. Read on to find out what exactly the “gap” in the Traction Gap Framework is and why traversing that gap is so critical to your success.
YoungUpstarts
APRIL 7, 2016
The rub is that a startup likely has the ideas to take it straight to the top, but it’s also likely that the company lacks the business skills to make it truly successful. A company pitches an idea to the Startup Lab and if the Lab deems the idea viable, then the idea is accepted and the framework for the project is created.
Steve Blank
SEPTEMBER 5, 2013
Over the last three years our Lean LaunchPad / NSF Innovation Corps classes have been teaching hundreds of entrepreneurial teams a year how to build their startups by getting out of the building and testing their hypotheses behind their business model.
Steve Blank
MARCH 11, 2016
To be honest I built the class out of frustration watching schools teach aspiring entrepreneurs that all they need to know is how to write a business plan or how to sit in an incubator building a product. using the business model canvas as the framework. Every week we teach the practice of Lean. Reflection Week.
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