Steve Blank

APRIL 23, 2014

Ironically, the business development and strategic partner executives who find the startup and negotiate the deal are not the executives who manage the integration or the acquisition. Filed under: Big Companies versus Startups: Durant versus Sloan , Business Model versus Business Plan.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 19, 2014

The traditional model of how to turn scientific discovery into a business has been: 1) make a substantive discovery, 2) write a business plan/grant application, 3) raise funding, 4) execute the plan, 5) reap the financial reward. And that’s just what we’re doing at the National Institutes of Health.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 5, 2015

On our first show, Monday March 9 th 4-6pm Pacific Time join me, as I chat with Alexander Osterwalder – inventor of the Business Model Canvas , and Oren Jacob, ex-CTO of Pixar and now CEO of ToyTalk on Sirius XM Radio Channel 111. Alex Osterwalder – Business Models. Oren Jacob – CEO ToyTalk.

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Steve Blank

JULY 14, 2015

My guests on Bay Area Ventures on Wharton Business Radio on Sirius XM Channel 111 were: Alexander Osterwalder – inventor of the Business Model Canvas. Oren Jacob , ex-CTO of Pixar and now CEO of ToyTalk. The other thing that still is a surprise to me is that large companies still write business plans for innovation projects.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2017

If the founder was lucky, he got to stay as chairman or CTO. It’s hard to imagine, but in the 20th century there were no startup blogs or books on startups to read, and business schools (the only places teaching entrepreneurship) believed the best thing they could teach startups was how to write a business plan.

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