Customer Development IP Sales Startup 
Steve Blank
JUNE 26, 2014
We’re changing the order in which we teach the business model canvas and customer development to better-fit therapeutics, diagnostics and medical devices. The Lean LaunchPad class uses the three “ Lean Startup ” principles: Alexander Osterwalders “ business model canvas ” to frame hypotheses.
Steve Blank
MAY 29, 2011
He set up Blackbox.vc, a seed accelerator for technology startups (and one of the tour stops for entrepreneurs from around the world.) They went to work gathering deep knowledege of what makes successful Internet startups. Max and his partners interviewed and analyzed over 650 early-stage Internet startups. better user growth.
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Steve Blank
DECEMBER 7, 2009
Posted on December 7, 2009 by steveblank In my 21 years of startups, I had my ideas “stolen” twice. Customer Development We were starting Epiphany, my last company. I was out and about in Silicon Valley doing what I would now call Customer Discovery trying to understand how marketing departments in large corporations worked.
A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
FEBRUARY 14, 2012
This is part of an ongoing startup advice series where I answer (anonymized!) Freshman Salesman writes: I’ve read somewhere in your blog about how you had a very large organisation as the first customer for your software. The contract says you retain the IP and are allowed to sell a product like this to other companies.
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. Click around on the various topics to find some amazing resources.
Steve Blank
MARCH 11, 2015
I pointed out to Bob the irony – in a large company “fear of failure” inhibits speed and risk taking while in a startup “fear of failure” drives speed and urgency. Startups have finite time and resources to find product/market fit before they run out of money. In a startup “fear of failure” drives speed and urgency.
Steve Blank
DECEMBER 7, 2010
I’ve introduced a new class at Stanford to teach engineers, scientists and other professionals how startups really get built. In contrast, startups search for a business model. (Or Or more accurately, startups are a temporary organization designed to search for a scalable and repeatable business model.)
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