Steve Blank

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A New Way to Teach Entrepreneurship – The Lean LaunchPad at Stanford: Class 1

Steve Blank

Startups, are not about executing a plan where the product, customers, channel are known. JointBuy allows buyers to start a new deal on any available product and share the idea with others through existing social networking sites. We were positing that 20 years of teaching “how to write a business plan” might be obsolete.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 19: Carmen Medina and Don Burke

Steve Blank

How to be a rebel at work was 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). Tune in Thursday at 1 pm PT, 4 pm ET on Sirius XM Channel 111. And oh by, the way my two guests did it while at the CIA.

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The LeanLaunch Pad at Stanford – Class 5: Customer Relationship Hypotheses

Steve Blank

This week they were testing one of the most confusing sections of a company’s business model – Customer Relationships - the activities used to “Get, Keep and Grow” customers in a physical or virtual (web or mobile) channel. The team concluded that AdWords may not be the best channel to create demand. The Week 5 Lecture: Channel.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere – Show No. 16: Wayne Sutton and Dave Kashen

Steve Blank

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.) In ’05, social networking was not quite as prevalent as is it today.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 25: Nigel and Vaughn Caldon and Kerry Frank

Steve Blank

The radio show airs on SiriusXM Channel 111 (weekly Thursdays at 1 pm Pacific, 4 pm Eastern). Nigel and Vaugn Caldon , co-founders of BallStar social network for basketball players. Tune in Thursday at 1 pm PT, 4 pm ET on Sirius XM Channel 111. . Nigel Caldon. Joining me in SiriusXM’s studio in New York were.

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford – Making the World a Safer Place

Steve Blank

Today these potential adversaries are able to harness the power of social networks, encryption, GPS, low-cost drones, 3D printers, simpler design and manufacturing processes, agile and lean methodologies, ubiquitous Internet and smartphones. Department of Defense and Intelligence Community are now facing their own disruption from ISIS.

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Hacking for Defense (H4D) @ Stanford – Week 3

Steve Blank

They mapped out competitive offerings, found that Government funding is not the proper channel for Capella, but did find that the Coast guard is currently in dire need of situational awareness at high resolution and that military customers want access to raw data; commercial customers highly value processed data for actionable insights.