Customer Development Finance Incubator Operations 
Steve Blank
OCTOBER 7, 2011
Ironically one of the things that’s holding back the Finnish cluster is Tekes , the government organization for financing research, development and innovation in Finland. Finnish private investors don’t yet have enough time-in-grade to have developed good pattern recognition skills, and most lack operating backgrounds.
Steve Blank
JUNE 26, 2015
To move innovation faster, we now have 21 st century tools — Business Model Canvas , Customer Development , Agile Engineering – all adding up to a Lean Startup. And if they’re smart they’ll teach Horizon 1 teams to operate with mission and intent , not just process and procedure.). Fast forward to today.
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Steve Blank
MAY 9, 2017
To continually innovate, companies need to operate at startup speed and cycle time much longer their 20 th century counterparts did. A 20 th century VC was likely to have an MBA or finance background. A few, like John Doerr at Kleiner Perkins and Don Valentine at Sequoia, had operating experience in a large tech company.
Both Sides of the Table
MARCH 11, 2011
Secondly, they had an owned & operated (O&O) website – Google.com – and Overture had shut down GoTo.com at the request of their very profitable and large distribution partners. He wanted to build direct customer relationships to get product feedback but only 2% of customers would ever return their registration cards.
ReadWriteStart
OCTOBER 13, 2011
Steve Blank is a retired serial entrepreneur, educator, thought leader and creator of the rigorous "Customer Development" methodology detailed in his book, "The Four Steps to the Epiphany." Blank teaches entrepreneurship at Stanford University and UC Berkeley and blogs at steveblank.com. 9-to-5 Venture Capital.
Steve Blank
MARCH 4, 2014
These groups are adapting or adopting the practices of startups and accelerators – disruption and innovation rather than direct competition, customer development versus more product features, agility and speed versus lowest cost. existing enterprises are establishing corporate innovation groups. This is a big idea.
Steve Blank
NOVEMBER 7, 2013
In our case, we’re local in over 200 countries with operations in basically every city on the planet. Almost every large organization has some kind of incubator or accelerator program. in developing these new models. Many of the operating divisions can and should provide resources to the new businesses inside the company.
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