Steve Blank

APRIL 10, 2009

One of the things he mentioned was that when it came to decision-making he still tended to think and act like an engineer. Since every situation is unique, there is no perfect solution to any engineering, customer or competitor problem, and you shouldn’t agonize over trying to find one. The same is true in your company. Order Here.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 29, 2010

In my last post I described my approach to one of the three classes I teach at Stanford in the engineering school: Fundamentals of Technology Entrepreneurship. The key things I want students to take from the class are: Understand that a startup is a temporary organization designed to search for a profitable business model.

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 1, 2015

So-called after the California Gold Rush where the purveyors of picks and shovels made a killing (whereas the outcome for prospectors was mixed), the picks and shovels of machine intelligence are hardware, data feeds, and (arguably) the algorithms themselves. Better search. It’s not uncharted territory?—?if Pick and Shovel’ plays.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 2, 2009

Since no benchmarks existed, we enlisted our engineering department in a serious software development effort and wrote our own. If you’re constantly correlating data and searching for patterns, all intelligence if properly integrated will give you insight. We don’t need to know all this stuff.” Yes you do. From top to bottom.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 27, 2009

—————- The next piece of the Secret History of Silicon Valley puzzle came together when Tom Byers , Tina Selig and Mark Leslie invited me to teach entrepreneurship in the Stanford Technology Ventures Program ( STVP ) in Stanford’s School of Engineering. My office is in the Terman Engineering Building.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 26, 2012

63 scientists and engineers in 21 teams made ~ 2,000 customer calls in 10 weeks , turning laboratory ideas into formidable startups. through the Lean Launchpad class. He sits on the House committee that oversees the NSF - the Science, Space and Technology committee (a place where his engineering degree and PhD comes in handy.)

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Steve Blank

JULY 27, 2009

And I understood engineering since I interacted with them almost daily. And finally, I had a great working relationship with our engineers who designed the chips. I found that having a senior marketer responsible for business strategy surrounded by ex-engineers and domain experts makes one heck of a powerful marketing department.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

I know that this all seems obvious now with the movements started by Steven Blank ( Four Steps of Epiphany ) with the whole Customer Development processes / Lean Startup movements also popularized by people like Eric Ries. Yet he still personally travels in his customers’ neighborhoods in search of deeper customer insights.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 24, 2012

Transcript Automated transcription services provided by: Dan Bowen: My name is Dan Bowen, and I’m up in the wine country in Healdsburg, California north of San Francisco, and the company name is SyncBloc, S-Y-N-C-B-L-O-C. I think that we get lost in search and social. Jason: SyncBloc. Well I know what Sync is, but Bloc.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

At any given moment, they are just as likely to be reading Man’s Search for Meaning or watching Helvetica on Netflix as they are to be watching The Profit on CNBC or discreetly thumbing through their well-worn copy of How to Win Friends and Influence People. Are you passionate about creating great user experiences within a product?

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 10, 2016

But then the Lean Startup’s scientific method of validating their business idea quickly has them feeling right at home. In addition he conducts research with Dr. Hsueh Chia Chang in Chemical Engineering. from University of California, Davis in Biomedical Engineering. We found people to talk to through Google searches.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 26, 2019

Because we will not be maintaining the integrity of the data after June 28th, we will be discounting the search and account features after that date. Since launching the site last year, we’ve had the privilege of helping more than 7,500 folks with their most important search. Lean into it. in a huge $77b market. Of course I do.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

AgileZen – project management visually see and interact with your work Kanbanery – Simple online team or personal kanban board LeanKit Kanban – Great for visualizing work of product development Kanban Pad – “Nice and lean” and free online Kanban tool Banana Scrum – A tool simple as Scrum itself.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 13, 2011

Search engine marketing is a tactic that is perfect for a lean, iterative approach to marketing. Paid search allows small business owners to easily set simple, reasoned goals and then, based on the data collected, make adjustments and decisions rationally. Lean Marketing tips: not-for-profit edition.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 10, 2016

But then the Lean Startup’s scientific method of validating their business idea quickly has them feeling right at home. In addition he conducts research with Dr. Hsueh Chia Chang in Chemical Engineering. from University of California, Davis in Biomedical Engineering. We found people to talk to through Google searches.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 30, 2008

Many great engineers Ive worked with (especially the type I talked about in the hackers lament ) seem to think that if they get along well with someone in an interview, theyll be a good addition to the team. I experienced this when I was the engineering manager at a small company. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

If you’re a visiting dignitary whose country has a Gross National Product equal to or greater than the State of California, your visit to Silicon Valley consists of a lunch/dinner with some combination of the founders of Google, Facebook, Apple and Twitter and several brand name venture capitalists. California Dreaming.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Whether you’re wondering what site search you should use or what is the best email marketing tool, knowledge is power. Lean Methodology Sources. Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. Part 3- Lean Cust. Â Search for apps tools. Firebase : Are all your developers front-end engineers? Codeacademy.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

Beyond just those who will be hearing about the lean startup for the first time, Im expecting to shake a lot of hands and have a lot of interesting side conversations. Truth be told, we've got defense contractors here just like California does too. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. There are and we do.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

View All Search Results » Subscribe. When youve bootstrapped a business where youre not drawing a salary and depleting whatever savings you have, thats one of the very difficult things to do," says Toby Stuart, a professor at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley. Harley Goes Lean to Build Hogs.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 6, 2020

We are in Santa Clara, California, still holding up well. Eric Ries : So, it's an unbelievably complicated and large search base. Alpha Lee : It's an unbelievably complicated search base. Eric Ries : That's a technique and a form of social engineering, almost, that is usually thought of as coming from the software world.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 5, 2022

If I, if you've used my service before or have your IP address, I could say, Hey, welcome Paul from I'm in Loma Linda Paul from Loma Linda, California. And I think leaning into that, that I want to help this customer, I created this emerging experience, it's been targeted to you. So then I can go back and reverse engineer, right?

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Steve Blank

MAY 3, 2011

The Stanford Lean LaunchPad class was an experiment in a new model of teaching startup entrepreneurship. Within the week they were #6 in Google search results for “Stanford Admission Books.”. Filed under: Business Model versus Business Plan , Lean LaunchPad , Teaching. The team talked to an agricultural sensor expert at U.C.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2015

BMNT , a new Silicon Valley company, is combining the Lean Methods it learned in combat with the technology expertise and speed of startups. The University of California managed research and development of the bomb design at Los Alamos while the US Army managed the Los Alamos facilities and the overall administration of the project.

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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. Combined with product costs, an engineering budget, and schedules, this results in a spreadsheet that faintly resembles the first financial plan in the company’s business plan.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 10, 2009

Stanford’s Dean of Engineering, Fred Terman, encouraged scientists and engineers to set up companies to build these microwave tubes for the military. It was perfect for a new generation of ELINT receivers to be built into the Ferret planes searching for signals around the Soviet Union. Much more was to come.

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pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

The networking company will close the deal early next year with Cariden Bay, which specializes in software for planning, designing and engineering computer networks. Google+ Chief touts the only thing Google+ is beating Facebook on — Search. Pando Daily. PandoMonthly. PandoDigest. Share on Twitter. Share on Facebook.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 16, 2009

Now we were faced with the fact that even though we were gaining market share daily, there was nothing coming out of Engineering. Instead of eight boards, Engineering was going to be able to deliver one new graphics board. One of the reasons I had joined the company was seeing these boards as hope for the future. What could we do?

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Steve Blank

JULY 23, 2009

They were national efforts of hundreds of companies employing 10’s or 100’s of thousands of engineers. There was a ton of engineering innovation and coordination along the way, and the project could have failed at any point. Try searching for some of his letters on the subject. You’ve got no room in you bag for regrets.&#

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 2, 2015

Negotiate your overhead for lower rates to help you get through the lean years when you are still building your company.” Then go out and search!” As CEO of a California biotech company, it is critical that I have speedy responses to my submissions and queries.” ” – Nicole Munoz, Start Ranking Now.

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www.usatoday.com

JULY 16, 2012

The search giant recently took over the prominent Binoculars building, designed by famed architect Frank Gehry , in Venice. Were helping the second-largest city in the United States become a veritable tech center," Google says on its website, in trying to attract employees for sales and engineering positions. Google says.

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usersknow.blogspot.com

APRIL 30, 2010

The answer to this question must be: I have enough design, engineering, QA, and customer support resources to dedicate to supporting and improving this feature without causing me to neglect any of the other important features that I’m already supporting. Twitter Updates Twitter Updates follow me on Twitter.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 28, 2009

Think of a plane the length of a 767 airliner (but with 30 foot longer wings and 8 engines rather than 2) whose only mission was to FedEx 70,000 pounds of nuclear weapons to the Soviet Union. Now we have ditched the cold war triad in the 21st century since the Soviet Union became Russia again and discovered its own style of capitalism.)

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 11, 2008

From California Historical Landmarks for Santa Clara note that Federal Telegraph predates HP by more than a quarter of a century and all of the early WWII era technology entrepreneurs had a common interest in radio. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Principles of Lean Startups, presentation for Mapl.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

According to Hanapin Marketing’s 2015/2016 State of Paid Search Report , most people feel pretty good about their PPC campaigns… Image Source. They know who you are, what you like, what you searched for last night, what you’re looking for, how motivated you are to find it, etc. billion desktop search queries…?

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 28, 2013

The suggestions engine they have. Then they match it back to their rules engine that serves me the best options. Of course there is still the search box on top of the page. ", and the page is exactly the same for me in California or someone in London? I really do. It is such a cool service. They deliver delight.

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Scalable Startup

MAY 16, 2015

“Boom and bust is our lot and we must follow the ancient advice.that Joseph gave to the Pharaoh: Put away your surplus during the years of great plenty so you will be ready for the lean years which are sure to follow.”. The first page results of a search for “tech 2.0 California alone lost a million jobs.

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