Steve Blank

JULY 25, 2011

And the venture capital community became comfortable in funding them. The fact that serious money could be made in companies investing in life sciences wasn’t lost on other researchers and the venture capital community. So the engineers taught themselves how to become marketers, sales people and CEO’s.

Engineer 307

Engineer Silicon Valley United States Venture Capital 307

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

Joining me in the Stanford University studio were: Pat Sullivan , CEO of Ryver , a team communication tool. Sebastian Jackson , CEO and founder of The Social Club Grooming Company , a community barbershop on the midtown campus of Wayne State University. He had to write four business plans to get the OK to open his barbershop.

Entrepreneur 120

Entrepreneur Channel Programming Customer Development 120

Steve Blank

AUGUST 27, 2009

This series of posts is a brief explanation of how we’ve evolved from Product Development to Customer Development to the Lean Startup. The Product Development Diagram Emerging early in the twentieth century, this product-centric model described a process that evolved in manufacturing industries.

Silicon Valley 263

Silicon Valley Product Startup Product Development 263

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 10, 2014

We didn’t know it at the time, but with that investment we had paid for front-row VIP seats to witness the origins of Customer Development and the Lean Startup. Since 2013, DC I-Corps has trained over 150 teams with the kind of impact NSF and Steve envisioned when they launched the program. It’s a Capitol Idea.

Maryland 274

Maryland Lean DC Virginia 274

viniciusvacanti.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

Become a Key Member of the Tech Community The Hope: You’ll form friendships with potential technical co-founders and work on small projects together. You have good community building skills and quickly become other people’s friends. Learning programming is hard to do alone. The timing just never worked out.

Cofounder 43

Cofounder Technical Cofounder Founder Ruby 43

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 11, 2016

The program examines the DNA of entrepreneurs: what makes them tick, how they came up with their ideas; and explores the habits that make them successful, and the highs and lows that pushed them forward. He was also on the team that wrote the business plan for BlackGirlsCode. Tune in Thursday, Oct.

Columbus 246

Columbus Entrepreneur Ohio Cofounder 246

Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 4, 2013

I’ve been a big supporter of Startup Weekend , locally and nationally, since the very beginning and I’m continuing to do so by both sponsoring and mentoring in the NEXT Boulder program. Below are the words of Ken Hoff, an up-and-coming leader in the Boulder startup community. Sign up here! for more information.

Startup 130

Startup Vesting Cofounder Lean 130

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

Ali G meets with business leaders and investors on Wall Street to learn how to create a new company around a new product idea. After some general lessons, he then proposes his first product idea, complete with flip charts, business plan, and marketing plan. Labels: customer development 3comments: Anonymoussaid.

San Francisco 104

San Francisco DC Continuous Deployment Lean 104

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 11, 2016

The program examines the DNA of entrepreneurs: what makes them tick, how they came up with their ideas; and explores the habits that make them successful, and the highs and lows that pushed them forward. He was also on the team that wrote the business plan for BlackGirlsCode. Tune in Thursday, Oct.

Columbus 120

Columbus Entrepreneur Ohio Cofounder 120

Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 10, 2011

We still have some collective scar tissue: the idea conjures up the hordes of dot-com hopefuls that descended on VC’s and angel investors with little more than a business plan. I hear similar things for pre-revenue startups that are on schedule, on time, and on budget - even though they are busy building something that nobody wants. (In

Silicon Valley 167

Silicon Valley San Francisco Lean Investment Bankers 167

Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2009

And passionate players are often the backbone of game communities – especially online. Constructing a working business model is a form of ecosystem design. We cultivated a passionate community that nurtured a skilled set of developers. Constructing a working business model is a form of ecosystem design.

Customer 156

Customer San Francisco Viral Lean 156

news.ycombinator.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

The biggest risk in our business plan is that we are relying to some extent on time over money, because were self-funded. We know of no-one making a similar product to us, but there are businesses making other kinds of products that would naturally compete for the same money from the same customers, which makes us mutual threats.

Stealth 41

Stealth Technical Review Startup Software Review 41

maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

Create a strong brand, solid social community, sell advertising. I’m learning how to program. Has anyone found a referral program system that works great to generate new customers? Your existing customers are you best source of referals – just ask. No investor cares about a business plan.

Technical Review 44

Technical Review Startup Cofounder Software Review 44

steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

automatic links to generated images Rietveld - asynchronous code reviews on changesets Tech*if*er0*urs – blog on roadmap for learning rails Best free programming books Project Management Basecamp - web-based project management and collaboration tool. WebSequenceDiagrams - sketch sequence diagrams. It’s more reference material.

Software Review 110

Software Review Startup Silicon Valley Analytics 110

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. Ning Communities. On-line Communities. That’s why we gathered a collection of 20 online resources for European startups that will help you with business plans, recruiting, publicity and networking. BPS : Business Plan Servicesâ?? Codeacademy.

Software Review 53

Software Review Technical Review Startup 53