Steve Blank

MAY 29, 2019

The easy part is, “Let’s have an incubator.” At Stanford, Tom Byers , who runs the innovation and entrepreneurship program inside the engineering school, has made that a big deal and it’s now part of the curriculum. Distribution channels, brand loyalty, etc. A third is incubators and makers’ spaces.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 19, 2011

We also did some segmentation work and related exploration of relevant channels. Sramana Mitra is the founder of the One Million by One Million (1M/1M) initiative, an educational, business development and incubation program that aims to help one million entrepreneurs globally to reach $1 million in revenue and beyond. MyDataOrganizer.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 14, 2011

First up, Girish Mathrubootham from Chennai, India, presented Freshdesk , a SaaS solution for multi-channel customer support including knowledge base and social CRM support. The majority of the discussion was about go-to-market strategy, channels and regulatory issues. It's a very impressive concept, to say the least! Invention Labs.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 8, 2011

Startups, are not about executing a plan where the product, customers, channel are known. We were going to toss teaching the business plan aside and try to teach engineering students a completely new approach to start companies – one which combines customer development, agile development, business models and pivots.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

Other than measuring engineering progress, there’s no standard language to communicate progress. Corporations running internal incubators face many of the same selection issues as startup investors, plus they must grapple with the issues of integrating new ideas into existing P&L-driven functions or business units.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 6, 2016

He is also a Consulting Professor at Stanford in the Electrical Engineering Department and Editor-in-Chief of the AIAA Journal of Aerospace Information Systems. Prior to his investing and advisory career, Evangelos spent 20+ years in high-technology industries, in executive roles spanning operations, marketing, sales and engineering.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 7, 2011

At this week's One Million by One Million roundtable, we announced a very important partnership with MAD Incubator, Malaysia for entrepreneurship development in the region. This is our first major partnership with an incubator whereby MAD will adopt the 1M/1M methodology to foster Silicon Valley-style technopreneurship in Malaysia.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 1, 2011

The company has distribution through about 50 retailers in Chennai, and is looking for ways to market their product through online channels. She has a master's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. We discussed guerilla p.r., Discuss.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 27, 2011

The 1M/1M Channel on Stanzr. I am anxious to see Said do an immediate strategic re-engineering of his business, and I think, he can build a much more successful company by focusing on certain core verticals, especially Dentists, where he has superior domain knowledge. She is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and strategy consultant.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

In today's India, people with high-end engineering skills are in high demand. In addition, we are offering entrepreneurs access to investors and customers through our recently launched our 1M/1M Incubation Radar series. I asked Anuj who would be teaching these workshops, and who would be paying for them.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 11, 2012

The NSF I-Corps Lean LaunchPad class has different goals then the same class taught in a university or incubator. In an incubator, the Lean LaunchPad develops angel or venture-funded startups. In a university, the Lean LaunchPad class teaches a methodology the students can use for the rest of their careers. Here’s what they found.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 7, 2012

Today, the first half of the Stanford Engineering Lean LaunchPad Class gave their final presentations. The goal is for them is to observe this class, then host and teach the next round of 50 NSF Innovation Corps scientist/engineer teams in July. Yet this isn’t an incubator. Here are the first five. Team ColorWheels.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 29, 2013

by Meng Weng Wong, co-founder and social engineer at JFDI Asia. Better to decide now that you would rather pursue a career path in engineering than in entrepreneurship. Have we confirmed a CHANNEL to reach our market? Advice For The Young At Heart accelerator incubator JFDI Asia Singapore startup' The former pays better.

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Steve Blank

JULY 13, 2021

Business plans presume that building a startup is a series of predictable steps requiring execution of a plan which assumes a series of known facts: known customers, known features, known pricing, known distribution channel. Lean-driven (hypothesis testing/business model/customer development/agile engineering). experiential.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

Lessons learned from starting up and teaching entrepreneurship were the focus of an interview with the latest guest on Entrepreneurs are Everywhere , my radio show on SiriusXM Channel 111 (airing weekly Thursdays at 1 pm Pacific, 4 pm Eastern). Tune in Thursday at 1 pm PT, 4 pm ET on Sirius XM Channel 111. Grant Warner.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 9, 2011

In my experience, wealth managers often refer experts to their clients and Ankit could position his service through that channel. Lead Generation & Qualification With a Channel Partner. One of the members of the channel partner team was actually present in the room and shared his point of view as well. Discuss.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

You’ll realize you’re ready to exit the Search step when you have customer validation: You’ve found a sales channel that matches how the customer wants to buy and the costs of using that channel are understood. What resources are there for me to learn how to guide my company through the Build phase?”. Time to Make New Friends.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 27, 2011

This partnership speaks to a core philosophy of the program where we encourage entrepreneurs to get as much customer validation as possible before raising too much money, use other people's channels if you can get to them, don't burn too much cash, and all that good fiscal conservative stuff. You can register for the next roundtable here.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 23, 2023

One passed the other was born four months or so early and spend that time in the incubator and we relied, my wife and I relied on this community called Fish's mom's group to bring us some sanity in terms of hope and how other people who were in that situation dealt with it. I'm an engineer. We were expecting twins.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 28, 2010

Cristina currently has a couple of large customers in pilot mode, and is starting to show metrics on how much improvement IDES can deliver over existing analytics engines. Then, she can start doing partnerships with fraud management system vendors and use their channels to sell, perhaps. You can register for the next roundtable here.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 17, 2016

And a company culture and values need to be design and engineered just like the product. . These topics were the focus of interviews with the latest guests on Entrepreneurs are Everywhere , my radio show on SiriusXM Channel 111 (airing weekly Thursdays at 1 pm Pacific, 4 pm Eastern.) You have to put yourself out there.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 13, 2011

Michaeline is a 1M/1M premium member, trying to make decisions around fund-raising versus growing organically using channel partnerships. In 1M/1M premium, we do invest in certain companies on a revenue sharing basis and create channel partnerships with one or more of our partners. From 2008 to 2010, Mitra was a columnist for Forbes.

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www.xconomy.com

JUNE 9, 2012

Ministry of Supply Puts MIT Engineering Cred Into Dress Shirts. Tech Channels ▾ Cleantech ›. San Diego’s Free EvoNexus Tech Incubator Gains Qualcomm Expertise. of Computer Science and Engineering, Univ. Subscribe for Free. Xconomy San Diego. Our Cities ▾ Boston ›. View More in Boston ›. View More in Detroit ›.

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ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

Google PPC is a key channel for customer acquisition for many e-commerce and online businesses, yet keywords have become quite competitive, and the costs of campaigns for certain keywords tend to be extremely high. Most incubators, accelerators, or angel groups won't be willing to work with the smaller TAM businesses. Photo by ant_c54.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

Distribution Channel for Product Companies. Then Amit Gurung pitched a business plan to create a distribution channel for product companies trying to cater to the rural base-of-the-pyramid (BPO) market in India. All three of today's roundtable companies will soon be featured on Incubation Radar. How does he mitigate that?

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 6, 2015

They have hundreds, if not thousands, of engineers, world-class design studios, subject matter experts from supply chain to manufacturing. Internal R&D, labs, incubators, accelerators, corporate and business development, and M&A all play important roles in helping corporations innovate. I posted a summary of this at PeHub.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 12, 2011

Vrushali is moderator of a forum for technical documentation professionals and gets a lot of her clients through that channel. She has a master's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She has, thus far, not done any other formal customer acquisition initiative. Discuss.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 3, 2011

We also had two other entrepreneurs who are working with the William Factory Incubator in Tacoma, Washington. We also discussed Dan's options vis-à-vis channel partners. She has a master's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Wise Mind Studios LLC. Social Pulse.

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ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

They will now be leveraging the 1M/1M-Persistent channel to go to market in the United States. And in comes the Google App Engine as Google's offering in this context. Well, it turns out that to port long tail productivity apps to Google's App Engine is a somewhat cumbersome job, and requires a lot of custom development.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

Resilience – the ability to bounce back from adversity – is one of the key attributes of entrepreneurs and was the focus of my first weekly radio show, Entrepreneurs are Everywhere , on Sirius XM Radio Channel 111. On the alumni side, we set up an incubator downtown, called the Columbia Startup Lab. …

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

The premium lounge includes an online curriculum addressing the common topics specific to very early stage entrepreneurship; private roundtables that many of you have requested; customer, channel partners, and investor introductions; media and analyst access; and a variety of other value-added services to make our entrepreneurs successful.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 6, 2011

This curriculum is based on the various questions entrepreneurs have asked me over these 64 sessions, spanning financing, positioning, customer acquisition, marketing, sales, channel, and various other early stage, startup-related issues. As usual, then, I worked with three entrepreneurs working on specific businesses. Mava Consulting.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 20, 2017

The application process will give you a roadmap and likely where you can operate,” explains Norman Olson, director of marketing and Business Affairs at Hightech Extracts , an engineering company developing systems for the manufacturing of extract-based products. Funding and differentiating your service or brand will definitely help.

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Steve Blank

MAY 16, 2016

In companies this would be product line extensions, more efficient supply chain, new distribution channels. This results not in innovation, but in Innovation Theater – lots of coffee cups, press releases, incubators and false hopes, but no real disruptive changes. Resources are the internal company-owned activities.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 4, 2011

go-to-market strategy, and I advised him to try to recruit a channel partner like SuccessFactor or Taleo with major presence in the talent management space. She has a master's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Rohit is interested in exploring a U.S. Discuss.

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www.usatoday.com

JULY 16, 2012

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. He has hired engineers from Loyola Marymount University , CalTech, University of Southern California and UCLA , he says. Want 300 days of sun a year?"

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 8, 2011

And to engage effectively with them, we need to reach them through all those various channels. Sramana Mitra is the founder of the One Million by One Million (1M/1M) initiative, an educational, business development and incubation program that aims to help one million entrepreneurs globally to reach $1 million in revenue and beyond.

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