Steve Blank

MARCH 15, 2011

Autonomow team members: Jorge Heraud (MS Management, 2011) Business Unit Director, Agriculture, Trimble Navigation, Director of Engineering, Trimble Navigation, MS&E (Stanford), MSEE (Stanford), BSEE (PUCP, Peru). Fred Ford (MSME, Mar 2011) Senior Eng for Mechanical Systems on Military Satellites, BS Aerospace Eng (U of Michigan).

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 27, 2016

Now, business owners can quickly see how similar retailers are performing and identify areas of improvement for 2016. CEO of Stitch Labs Brandon Levey holds a BSE and MSE in electrical engineering from the University of Michigan.

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Michigan Metrics eCommerce Differentiation 100

Steve Blank

JUNE 2, 2011

A revolution has taken hold as customer development and agile engineering reinvent the Startup process. Jon Feiber at MDV is going to try investing in startups emerging from Universities with great engineering schools outside of Silicon Valley that have entrepreneurship programs, but minimal venture capital infrastructure.

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Silicon Valley Business Model Early Stage Venture Capital 281

Up and Running

APRIL 9, 2013

Though I’m back in Michigan now, I still work with CFI, five years later. What does this mean for your business? Google the name of your business, and search the category of your business with your location. If you’re not showing up, take these suggestions to heart and start looking into Search Engine Optimization.

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Small Business Social Media Michigan Search 133

Steve Blank

JULY 20, 2015

Errol Arkilic was the lead program director for the National Science Foundation I-Corps , which uses my Lean LaunchPad curriculum to teach scientists and engineers how to take their technology out of the lab and into the marketplace. That’s what scientists and engineers needed to embrace. Errol : And we did. What made him call Steve?

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Government Channel Southern California Lean 120

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

I wondered if business plans and 5-year forecasts were the right way to plan a startup. Experienced entrepreneurs kept finding that no business plan survived first contact with customers. That resulted in a new process for Search: Customer Development + traditional product management/Waterfall Engineering.

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Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

I lived through the time when working in my first job in Ann Arbor Michigan we had to get out a map to find out that San Jose was not only in Puerto Rico but there was a city with that same name in California. Not kind of wrong but going out of business wrong. 39 years ago I got on that plane and never went back. Where is it going?

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