Steve Blank

OCTOBER 10, 2011

Startup incubators, business angels and VCs are starting to emerge. Filed under: Business Model versus Business Plan , Customer Development , Teaching , Venture Capital. They’ve gotten off to a good start with a start around Aalto University with passionate students. Finnish culture makes risk-taking and sharing hard.

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Finland Naming Russia Government 324

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 7, 2011

I suggested that they might want to consider putting themselves out of the public funding business by using public capital to kick-start private venture capital firms, incubators and accelerators. Filed under: Business Model versus Business Plan , Customer Development , Teaching , Technology , Venture Capital.

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Finland Venture Capital Government Russia 324

Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 1, 2014

Bill Gross founded Idealab in 1996, making it the longest-running technology incubator alive today. Bob Sutton is a Stanford professor and the author of several best-selling books on standout management, including Scaling Up Excellence , an investigation of high-growth companies.

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Lean Fractional CTO Part-Time VPE Fractional VPE 165

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. Here the company is essentially incubating a startup. Fast forward to today. We can adapt these startup tools for use inside the corporation.

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Lean Management Business Model Customer Development 120

Steve Blank

MARCH 8, 2011

It was designed to bring together many of the new approaches to building a successful startup – customer development, agile development, business model generation and pivots. The first class was an introduction to the concepts of business model design and customer development. The Adventure Begins.

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Lean Business Model Customer Development Guinea 298

Steve Blank

MARCH 11, 2016

To be honest I built the class out of frustration watching schools teach aspiring entrepreneurs that all they need to know is how to write a business plan or how to sit in an incubator building a product. entrepreneurship is experiential and requires theory and a ton of practice. Every week the teams present their results.

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Lean Incubator Business Model Channel 120

Steve Blank

MAY 18, 2020

Next, you’ll use customer development to virtually get out of the classroom and talk to 10-15 customers/ partners each day to validate whether your assumptions are correct, and to see whether anyone other than you would want/use your product or service. Signup at the website at [link]. Summer Startup Accelerators.

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Steve Blank

MAY 30, 2016

If you’ve been reading along so far, you know that this class is not an extended hackathon nor is it a 10-week long incubator. Second: I also gave the commencement speech at the NYU engineering school here. The Left side of the Canvas. It’s a ton of work.

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Silicon Valley San Diego Technical Review Incubator 120

Steve Blank

JUNE 6, 2016

they often confuse the vehicles to innovation –a venture fund, or an incubator or something else — with actual innovation. Filed under: Customer Development. Entrepreneurship stretches from Main Street to Silicon Valley, from startups to big companies.

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Silicon Valley Entrepreneur Fractional CTO Analytics 120

Steve Blank

JULY 1, 2014

Investors sitting through Incubator or Accelerator demo days have three metrics to judge fledgling startups – 1) great looking product demos, 2) compelling PowerPoint slides, and 3) a world-class team. data that investors, accelerators and incubators can use to inform selection. Investment Readiness Level is Prescriptive.

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Framework Sacramento Customer Development Lean 306

Steve Blank

JULY 13, 2021

A decade later, I began to teach the foundations of Lean, first at UC Berkeley (Customer Development) and then at Stanford using cases and business plans. Lean-driven (hypothesis testing/business model/customer development/agile engineering). Let’s Teach Lean Via Experiential Learning. experiential.

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Lean Agile Business Model Business Plan 433

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 3, 2014

The Customer Development process, this relentless drive to turn hypotheses into facts is what makes this learning so rapid. Most importantly they found a customer who taught them while weeding carrots was nice, thinning lettuce was where the money was. When I teach in universities I’m not running an incubator.

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Lean Silicon Valley Customer Development Incubator 272

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. 2) Get the teams out of the building to test their hypotheses with prospective customers. Teaching Objectives. Lessons Learned.

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Lean Incubator Business Model Georgia 248

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.

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Finland Venture Capital Government Russia 158

Steve Blank

JUNE 18, 2013

I read a ton of existing literature and came up with a formal methodology for search I called Customer Development. Berkeley asked me to teach a class in Customer Development at Haas business school. We’ll also offer a version for incubators and accelerators in New York, September 22-24 th. In 2003 U.C.

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David Teten

MARCH 28, 2012

The company teams they work with are usually highly motivated entrepreneurs trying to engage in extensive product and customer development efforts for a product they don’t typically have a full vision of, for a customer whose needs are opaque, and for a use case which is ambiguous. Entrepreneurs please click here.

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Portfolio Private Equity Venture Capital Early Stage 144

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

The application of agile development methodologies which dramatically reduce waste and unlock creativity in product development. See Customer Development Engineering for my first stab at articulating the theory involved) Ferocious customer-centric rapid iteration, as exemplified by the Customer Development process.

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Lean San Francisco Startup Continuous Deployment 168

Steve Blank

JANUARY 22, 2013

Lean LaunchPad Colombia starts again today in Bogota with 25 more teams of tech entrepreneurs and at 25 mentors from the country’s universities, incubators, and chambers of commerce. Second, technology education is more skill-based, graduating lots of smart coders and IT managers, but not a lot of true development visionaries.

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Colombia Lean Silicon Valley Coder 321

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 29, 2015

He left EA in 2009 to start Vaporware Labs, a product incubator that mostly failed, but also created products including Commonred, which was acquired by Income.com in 2012. Filed under: Customer Development , SiriusXM Radio Show. His first startup, built soon after the birth of his son, was advertising on trucks.

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Las Vegas Entrepreneur Cofounder Nevada 120

Steve Blank

APRIL 12, 2013

Inside the zones were Torch Technology Business Incubators with startups licensed by the local governments. These local governments financially supported the startups because, by locating in these zones, the new ventures were seen as contributing to local economic development. China Customer Development Technology Venture Capital'

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Venture Capital China Offshore SBIR 271

Steve Blank

AUGUST 20, 2013

Some startups in this field are actually beginning with Customer Development while others struggle with the classic execution versus search problem. Filed under: Customer Development , Lean LaunchPad , Science and Industrial Policy , Teaching. Customer Development Lean LaunchPad Science and Industrial Policy Teaching'

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Startup Lean Venture Capital IPO 294

Steve Blank

JANUARY 22, 2013

Lean LaunchPad Colombia starts again today in Bogota with 25 more teams of tech entrepreneurs and at 25 mentors from the country’s universities, incubators, and chambers of commerce. Second, technology education is more skill-based, graduating lots of smart coders and IT managers, but not a lot of true development visionaries.

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Colombia Lean Silicon Valley Coder 271

SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2011

This site aggregates and filters content from thought leaders who talk about topics such as Marketing , Sales , Design , Revenue , Hiring , Social Media , Business Models , Metrics , PR , Venture Capital , Angel Investors , Bootstrapping , Incubators , Agile and many others.

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Intellectual Property Aggregator Startup IP 175

Steve Blank

AUGUST 29, 2016

To promote innovation inside the NGA, they’ve staffed an Enterprise Innovation Office (EIO) to coach, educate and advise the entire agency, from core leadership to the operational edges, with methods and concepts of validated learning through rapid experimentation and customer development.

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Lean Silicon Valley Government Acquisition 177

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 26, 2013

It’s curriculum is built on a framework of business model design, customer development and agile engineering – and its emphasis on evidence, Lessons Learned versus demos, makes it the worlds most advanced accelerator. It’s success is measured not only by the technologies that leave the labs, but how many U.S.

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Lean Washington Incubator Agile 262

Steve Blank

JUNE 18, 2013

I read a ton of existing literature and came up with a formal methodology for search I called Customer Development. Berkeley asked me to teach a class in Customer Development at Haas business school. We’ll also offer a version for incubators and accelerators in New York, September 22-24 th. In 2003 U.C.

Lean 178

Lean Agile Customer Development Business Model 178

Steve Blank

AUGUST 29, 2016

To promote innovation inside the NGA, they’ve staffed an Enterprise Innovation Office (EIO) to coach, educate and advise the entire agency, from core leadership to the operational edges, with methods and concepts of validated learning through rapid experimentation and customer development.

Lean 177

Lean Silicon Valley Government Acquisition 177

YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 14, 2013

It recently announced the results of its incubator program – and the results look promising. Amsterdam-based startup accelerator Rockstart last year launched a program to find and support ten teams of startup founders in Europe.

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Silicon Valley Europe Venture Capital Cofounder 215

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

Get of the building and test those hypotheses using customer development. Validate learning by building minimal viable products and getting them in front of customers. Each week the teams got out of the classroom and talked to 10-15 customers, testing a new part of the business model canvas.

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Artificial Inteligence Lean Exit Strategy Startup 318

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

It didn’t help that “innovation” was the new hot-button buzzword from senior leadership, and incubators were sprouting in every division of their company, it just made their job more unmanageable. The ideas that pass through the prioritization filter enter an I-Corps incubation process. Incubation. Lessons Learned.

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Incubator Curation Engineer Government 312

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.

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IRR Startup Business Model Agile 335

Steve Blank

JULY 2, 2015

Takashi Tsutsumi has been a venture capitalist 15 years incubating and investing in startups in Japan. This seed accelerator uses my Lean LaunchPad class to help incubate startups as well as create new business for enterprises in Japan. Today they are helping large companies in Japan relearn how to innovate at speed.

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Channel Japan Bosnia Silicon Valley 120

Steve Blank

APRIL 7, 2011

Incubators : toured the TechArb , the engineering student accelerator, and the Michigan Venture Center in the University’s Tech Transfer Office. Everyone I met in this program “gets” the principles of Agile, Lean and Customer Development big time. Venture Capital ; met with the local hardware/software venture capital firm.

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Michigan Silicon Valley Venture Capital Incubator 307

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 30, 2014

Yet they share values and hopefully some synergy around topics of mutual interest (same customers, or technologies). Incubators are designed for teams with an idea. It’s a shared work environment (typically a floor of a building) where individuals (or small teams) rent space and work around other people but independently.

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San Diego North Carolina Chicago Lean 261

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. on August 18, 2009 at 4:39 am Said: [.]

Silicon Valley 142

Silicon Valley RSS California Government 142

Steve Blank

MARCH 7, 2012

Yet this isn’t an incubator. We trying to teach students a methodology that combines customer development, agile development, business models and pivots. Filed under: Business Model versus Business Plan , Customer Development , Lean LaunchPad , Teaching. We’ll post their slides in part 2.

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Lean Business Model Agile United States 256

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

I remind my students that I’m teaching them a methodology they can use the rest of their careers, not running an incubator. Filed under: Customer Development , Teaching. Customer Development Teaching' Every once in awhile a team ignores my advice and builds a company worth hundreds of millions of dollars.

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