Steve Blank

APRIL 14, 2013

For the last 10 years China essentially closed its search, media and social network software market to foreign companies with the result that Google, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Dropbox, and 30,000 other websites were not accessible from China. business models. business models. like WeChat.).

China 323

China Silicon Valley Non-Compete Intellectual Property 323

Steve Blank

MAY 19, 2015

They had reinvented a traditional print media category onto web and mobile devices for a new generation of users who were no longer buying magazines but reading online. Equally important their VP of Marketing had brilliantly executed a stream of social media campaigns (Facebook likes and partnerships, email campaigns, etc.)

Technical Review 120

Technical Review Salary Early Stage Software Review 120

Steve Blank

APRIL 14, 2013

For the last 10 years China essentially closed its search, media and social network software market to foreign companies with the result that Google, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Dropbox, and 30,000 other websites were not accessible from China. business models. business models. like WeChat.).

China 215

China Silicon Valley Non-Compete Intellectual Property 215

Steve Blank

JUNE 23, 2016

Disruptive innovations are coming from startups – Telsa for automobiles, Uber for taxis, Airbnb for hotel rentals, Netflix for video rentals and Facebook for media. These resulting business models made them look incredibly profitable. They knew how to execute the current business model. Lessons Learned.

Architecture 227

Architecture IRR Balance Sheet Liquidity Event 227

Steve Blank

JUNE 12, 2020

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. Steve Weinstein 30-year veteran of Silicon Valley technology companies and Hollywood media companies. He runs H4X Labs.

Oakland 301

Oakland Asia Lean Video 301

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

Early proof-of-concept stories and media interest trigger significant publicity. Each of our teams in this class followed the canonical Lean model: Articulate your hypotheses using the business model canvas. Each of those had a set of common characteristics that the Gartner Group characterizes as the Hype Cycle.

Artificial Inteligence 318

Artificial Inteligence Lean Exit Strategy Startup 318

Steve Blank

JUNE 7, 2019

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. Steve Weinstein a 30-year veteran of Silicon Valley technology companies and Hollywood media companies. Team: IntelliSense.

Oakland 266

Oakland Lean SBIR Afghanistan 266

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2009

Our business model changed as we realized that to become a large company, we needed to automate more than just a few marketers. We had validated our new assumptions by a set of orders, and we had pivoted on our business model. Our original idea had been nothing more than an untested set of hypotheses.

Silicon Valley 225

Silicon Valley Non-disclosure Agreement NDA Startup 225

Steve Blank

JANUARY 6, 2011

So Happy New Year to my 100,000-plus monthly readers throughout the world, and to many more who read my posts via some of the most important media in the startup/tech/entrepreneurship world, in more languages and places than I can keep track of. Now I’ve had days with 20 viewers per minute. Now Hear This.

Silicon Valley 195

Silicon Valley California Vertical Customer Development 195

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

Early proof-of-concept stories and media interest trigger significant publicity. Each of our teams in this class followed the canonical Lean model: Articulate your hypotheses using the business model canvas. Each of those had a set of common characteristics that the Gartner Group characterizes as the Hype Cycle.

Artificial Inteligence 120

Artificial Inteligence Lean Exit Strategy Startup 120

Steve Blank

APRIL 5, 2017

I reminded her that all the Lean tools she learned in class–Customer Discovery, business model and value proposition canvases– contained her answer. Audience(s), Message, Media, Messenger. Select the media you want the message to be read/seen/heard on. Step 3: Media. Here’s how.

Marketing 310

Marketing Audience Technical Review PR 310

Steve Blank

MARCH 25, 2011

Week 3 of the class and our teams in our Stanford Lean LaunchPad class were hard at work using Customer Development to get out of the classroom and test the first key hypotheses of their business model: The Value Proposition. Filed under: Business Model versus Business Plan , Customer Development , Lean LaunchPad , Teaching.

Cloud 228

Cloud Intellectual Property Lean Customer Development 228

Steve Blank

APRIL 5, 2010

By getting out of the building on a team project, the class helped students viscerally understand that a startup is a search for a profitable business model. Students formed teams, came up with a business idea then talked to customers, vendors and sales channel partners to validate their business model.

Silicon Valley 126

Silicon Valley Business Model Customer Development Engineer 126

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2017

— all great things when you are executing and scaling a known business model. Because the new CEO had built a team capable of and comfortable with executing an existing business model, the company would fail or get acquired. Before social media connected billions of people, bad behavior stayed behind closed doors.

Founder 245

Founder Technical Review CTO Hire IPO 245

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 17, 2009

Web startups are at real disadvantage here as founders may confuse web metrics, A/B testing and on-line surveys as the entirety of first-hand knowledge – for most web business models they are not. In fact, this mistake can be a “going out of business” strategy. Metrics tell you that something is happening. Birds-eye view”.

Metrics 239

Metrics Customer Customer Development Lean 239

Steve Blank

APRIL 4, 2016

Team Narrative Mind is trying to determine how to use data mining, machine learning, and data science to understand, disrupt, and counter adversaries’ use of social media (think ISIS). So we are supplementing the video lectures with in-class “advanced” lectures that explain the new Mission Model Canvas. Advanced Lectures.

Lean 120

Lean Silicon Valley Social Media Artificial Inteligence 120

Steve Blank

APRIL 30, 2009

New Century, New Channels For many of you reading this, boxes sitting on a retail shelf may seem hopelessly outdated, but the same marketing lessons hold for “award winning&# web sites or social media. Initially your job is to understand each of the parts of your business model before you hire someone to do it.

Sales 120

Sales Silicon Valley RSS Las Vegas 120

Steve Blank

JANUARY 8, 2019

The model described innovation occurring in three time horizons : Horizon 1 ideas provide continuous innovation to a company’s existing business model and core capabilities. Horizon 2 ideas extend a company’s existing business/model and core capabilities to new customers, markets or targets.

China 295

China Government Russia Acquisition 295

Steve Blank

AUGUST 20, 2009

Rule 1: In an existing market Customer Development means not only understanding potential customers, but your competitors in detail – their product features, their sales channels, their demand creation strategy, their business model, etc. We’re about to ship next week.”

Silicon Valley 181

Silicon Valley Startup RSS Customer Development 181

Steve Blank

JUNE 22, 2009

For the first 25 years HP’s business model was static. Of course HP did ship new products and innovate, but their center of innovation was sustaining innovation , around the core of their existing business. Elephant Graveyard Reinvention of large companies, while making for great case studies are rare.

Silicon Valley 164

Silicon Valley RSS California Agile 164

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 8, 2015

Wants to promote intrapreneurship to extend its business model and retain creative employees like Google, Amazon, and Facebook do. There needs to be prior agreement on what happens if the division develops disruptive products that do not fit the existing company business model. Does it become a new division?

Silicon Valley 120

Silicon Valley Acquisition Boston Early Stage 120

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 3, 2015

Andrew Breen has spent 20+ years developing products and services for mobile, enterprise, e-commerce, media and education companies. Andrew also teaches at NYU’s Stern School of Business. (But He grew up working in their businesses: … It was unfathomable for either of my parents to work for anyone else.

Entrepreneur 120

Entrepreneur Cofounder San Francisco Business Model 120

Steve Blank

JUNE 23, 2021

The existing winter quarter of the class remains the same as we taught for the last 10 years – taking all students’ projects – e-commerce, social media, web, and mobile apps. We created an additional Spring section of the class with a focus on commercializing inventions from Stanford’s scientists and engineers.

Lean 299

Lean Technology Artificial Inteligence Intellectual Property 299

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2015

The last 40 years have seen an explosive adoption of new technologies (social media, telecom, life sciences, etc.) Researchers addressed short-term, Horizon 1 problems (existing business models, last technology cycle) rather than working on potentially disruptive Horizon 3 ideas from the next technology cycle.

Silicon Valley 120

Silicon Valley Venture Capital United States Technical Review 120