Steve Blank

JANUARY 6, 2011

Filed under: Air Force , Ardent , Audubon , Big Companies versus Startups: Durant versus Sloan , Business Model versus Business Plan , California Coastal Commission , Conservation , Convergent Technologies , Customer Development , Customer Development Manifesto , E.piphany , ESL , Family/Career , K and S Ranch , Market Types , Marketing , MIPS Computers (..)

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Steve Blank

MAY 7, 2009

I hate business plan competitions. I Love Business Plan Competitions I had a breakfast with a friend who has founded a few companies in Thailand and started the New Ventures Program at one of their universities. If you are outside of Silicon Valley, you ought to jump into them with both feet.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

While these objectives provide an illusion of progress, in reality they do little to validate the business plan hypotheses about customers and what they will buy. The plan calls for selling in volume the day Engineering is finished building the product. What plan says that? Doesn’t it depend on vertical market.?

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 27, 2009

Concept and Seed Stage In the Concept and Seed Stage, founders capture their passion and vision for the new company and turn them into a set of key ideas, which quickly becomes a business plan, sometimes on the back of the proverbial napkin. Thirty years later we now realize that its one the causes of early startup failure.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 29, 2009

As a founder you need to prepare yourself to think creatively and independently, because more often than not, conditions on the ground will change so rapidly that the original well-thought-out business plan becomes irrelevant. Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. Order Here. To Order Outside of the U.S.

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Steve Blank

MAY 6, 2009

Filed under: Customer Development , Technology | Tagged: Customer Development , Tips for Startups « The Sharp End of the Stick Love/Hate Business Plan Competitions » 2 Responses links for 2009-05-06 « Blarney Fellow , on May 6, 2009 at 5:17 pm Said: [.] Order Here. To Order Outside of the U.S.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Product Development – Getting Funded as The Goal In a traditional product development model, entrepreneurs come up with an idea or concept, write a business plan and try to get funding to bring that idea to fruition. Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. Just as a refresher. Order Here.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

As you search: Customer Development observes that when you start your company, all you and your business plan have are hypotheses, not facts –and that the founders are the ones who need to get out of the building to turn these hypotheses into customer data. Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice.

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Steve Blank

MAY 26, 2009

Verticals Are Different I began to realize that entrepreneurs (and their professors) act like every vertical market and industry has the same set of rules. So the first heuristic is: do not assume the startup rules are the same for all vertical markets. Just for discussion, the markets I chose were: Web 2.0,

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Now, as for the presenters, first up today was Benson Hall with Advanced Dental Technologies , presenting a business plan to bring Cone Beam Dental Imaging machines to a large number of consumers. Sramana Mitra is a technology entrepreneur and strategy consultant in Silicon Valley. Advanced Dental Technologies.

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Steve Blank

MAY 18, 2009

And here’s where life gets really interesting, as the reality of product development and customer input collide, the facts change so rapidly that the original well-thought-out business plan becomes irrelevant. of total entrepreneurs born in China and India is not even close to what entrepreneurship in Silicon Valley looks like.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 26, 2009

This is the first of two posts about the rise of “risk capital” and how it came to be associated with what became Silicon Valley. ———————– Building Blocks of Entrepreneurship By the mid 1950’s the groundwork for a culture and environment of entrepreneurship were taking shape on the east and west coasts of the United States.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 2, 2021

The way that Travis had set up Uber was a kind of vertical stack, very loosely coupled efforts, and any GM was essentially the CEO of their own city. Look, one thing that everyone tends to do (in the whole cult of culture in Silicon Valley) is to establish one and then you stay there, almost like the 10 commandments.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 22, 2009

Getting Out of the Building Wasn’t Entertainment – Discovery and Validation Now that I was the master of the “facts” about customer needs in these specialized vertical markets , and with my team of vertical marketers , I thought I had achieved absolution and redemption. But there was one fatal flaw. More in the next post.

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www.businessinsider.com

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

Silicon Valley 100. Notes like this are part of Grahams ongoing process of steering them through the thickets of Silicon Valley startup life. Parse, one of the most-anticipated startups in Silicon Valley these days , went through Y Combinator last year and raised seed money from Google Ventures , for example.

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techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

The businesses, it seems, vastly over-estimate their ability to raise funds. Meanwhile, the VCs surveyed indicated that their firms are only doing a few deals every six months and go through one hundred business plans to close one deal. 41% of them feel that they qualify for venture capital funding. Read more on TechCrunch [.]

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

Reply You don’t need a business plan yet: 7 ideas for Customer Development « Information Maven: Greg Meyer , on May 22, 2011 at 7:37 am said: [.] further along in the information you’ll need to build your business plan. Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. startupcto

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