Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 16, 2012

Alexander Osterwalder and I spent last week in Salt Lake City, Utah as judges at the 2 nd Annual International Business Model Competition , hosted by Professor Nathan Furr , and his team at the BYU Center for Entrepreneurship. Business Plan vs. Business Model + Customer Development. The Business Plan ?-

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Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

The previous post described the evolution of the Chinese Venture Capital system. David Lin and the Microsoft China Accelerator was gracious enough to host two wonderful days of events for me. China Venture Capital. If it’s driven by profit then the ecosystem needs both entrepreneurs as well as Venture Finance.

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www.kernelmag.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Well, a few months ago, I migrated the hosting for my Selective Tweets app to Amazon’s AWS cloud hosting platform. in hosting costs for an app with nearly a million registered users that serves several million requests a month. Nic Brisbourne on venture capital. What does this mean in practice? Columnists.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 17, 2009

Stanford had a Customer Development loop going on inside their own lab. The discoveries in tube and circuit research suggested new electronic intelligence and countermeasure techniques and systems; in turn the needs of the Applied Lab pushed tube and circuit development. More on this in a later post.)

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

It’s structured around a model that Steve has become famous for—the Customer Development Process. It’s particularly good if you’re interested in venture capital funding and angel investment. If you don’t like podcasts, this self-paced video course by serial entrepreneur Steve Blank is for you.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2008

He serves on the advisory board of a number of technology startups, and has worked as a consultant to a number of startups, companies, and venture capital firms. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? No departments The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business R.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2010

We’ll build the class around the business model / customer development / agile development solution stack. Instead you will be getting your hands dirty talking to customers, partners, competitors, as you encounter the chaos and uncertainty of how a startup actually works. What are the 9 parts of a business model?

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Steve Blank

MARCH 22, 2009

Steve my name is Donald xx, and I’m the head of external affairs of the CIA’s venture capital firm and we’d like you to keynote our conference.” And you’d like me to do my talk on Customer Development and startups?” “No, we’re the other CIA.” Do you mean the Culinary Institute of America?

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Steve Blank

APRIL 11, 2013

By 2011, there were a total of 1034 Technology Business Incubators across China, including 336 as National incubators, hosting nearly 60,000 companies. (20% In recent years Business Incubators have developed into diverse models. Part 3, the next post describes the rise of Chinese venture capital. Lessons Learned.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 18, 2010

Truth: There’s nothing wrong with raising venture capital. Many lean startups are ambitious and are able to deploy large amounts of capital. Myth: Lean Startups replace vision with data or customer feedback. But they do not blindly do what customers tell them , nor do they mechanically attempt to optimize numbers.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 11, 2013

By 2011, there were a total of 1034 Technology Business Incubators across China, including 336 as National incubators, hosting nearly 60,000 companies. (20% In recent years Business Incubators have developed into diverse models. Part 3, the next post describes the rise of Chinese venture capital. Lessons Learned.

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Steve Blank

MAY 21, 2009

Is the company hosting/co-sponsoring some event? Customer Discovery Sitting inside of your company you’ve made a whole bunch of assumptions about who your customers are and why they will buy. Key Influencers Does the company have press/industry analysts scheduled for demos? Plus tips on overall trade show strategy.

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www.instigatorblog.com

MARCH 2, 2010

Venture capital firms like to see CEOs with strong support (beyond the Board of Directors) and that’s what the Advisory Board is there to do. In some ways it’s more important (although it doesn’t have any control over the business), and that’s the Board of Advisors.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

We faced this same problem in entrepreneurship and venture capital, but we are getting past it. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? The problem is that there are no other metrics they can look at to judge the content of a book to know if it’s worth reviewing.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

How To Pitch A Product - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , August 4, 2010 I've said a bunch of times on this blog that the perfect pitch is a very short intro to provide context followed immediately by a demo. He blogs to 10,000 web entrepreneurs at Software by Rob and co-hosts the podcast Startups for the Rest of Us.

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David Teten

OCTOBER 1, 2015

I’ve seen a range of options for supporting entrepreneurs, which I can rank from least to most involvement in companies by investors: financier VCs, e.g., Correlation Ventures. portfolio operator VCs, e.g., Andreessen Horowitz, ff Venture Capital, First Round Capital, Google Ventures. mentor VCs, e.g., most VCs.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 11, 2014

They have many, many man-years of development and customer development in them. My marketing site is hosted at WP Engines so … Jason: No wonder you get so much traffic. No, I’m a very happy customer actually. I’m instantly out because those companies are horrible for venture capital.

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www.women2.org

MARCH 8, 2012

After quitting my job and starting Sorced , I spent a few months validating my business concept by creating the product mockups and doing customer development. Prior to Sorced, Elizabeth worked in business development at SecondMarket. Prior to that, she worked in venture capital at OpenView Venture Partners.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

Frank has spent 20+ years in technology companies and venture capital, working at Lucent , Sun Microsystems , Apple and NeXT. Frank describes how: The (NYU Entrepreneurial) institute provides a host of resources, programs and the like to help our faculty and students learn how to (start a company). .

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

interactions, widgets, effects Django – high-level Python framework Cappuccino – open source framework for app development Kodingen – cloud development environment, code editor, hosting service, collaboration platform. Bontq – hosted bug tracking and project management needs.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Venture Capital Cafe > Startup Resources (Updated Mar 2013). VC Cafe highlights everything you need to know from hosting your code in hackathons to open source legal docs. Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. Launchpad (Free hosting and OpenSource). Fnord (resources hosting). About VC Cafe.

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