Customer Development, Lean, Open Source and Silicon Valley

Early-stage Regional Venture Funds–part 2 of 3 of Bigger in Bend

Steve Blank

JANUARY 22, 2014

Over the years Dino and I brainstormed about how Lean entrepreneurship would affect regional development. However, four critical advances over the past decade (cloud, accelerators, Lean, and Angels) not only changed the math for tech investing but made regional tech clusters possible.

Early Stage

Early Stage Silicon Valley Oregon Technical Review

Open Source Entrepreneurship

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

The Lean LaunchPad course online. I teach potential founders a hands-on, experiential class called the Lean LaunchPad at Berkeley, Stanford, Columbia and Caltech. customer development. The Slides/Video tab on the top of this page has all the open source course material for my classes. agile engineering.

Open Source

Open Source Silicon Valley Lean Customer Development

Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2020 Lesson Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

JUNE 12, 2020

This was followed by an 8-minute slide presentation describing their customer discovery journey over the 10-weeks. All the teams used the Mission Model Canvas , (videos here ) Customer Development and Agile Engineering to build Minimal Viable Products, but all of their journeys were unique.

Oakland

Oakland Asia Lean Video

Lessons Learned: Principles of Lean Startups, presentation for.

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 4, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, November 4, 2008 Principles of Lean Startups, presentation for Maples Investments Image via Wikipedia Steve Blank and I had the opportunity to create a presentation about lean startups for Maples Investments. Customer development. you get the idea. you get the idea.

Lean

Lean San Francisco Agile Continuous Deployment

Lean Startups aren't Cheap Startups

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

For those of you who have been following the discussion, a Lean Startup is Eric Ries ’s description of the intersection of Customer Development , Agile Development and if available, open platforms and open source. Over its lifetime a Lean Startup may spend less money than a traditional startup.

Lean

Lean Silicon Valley Startup RSS

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

Steve Blank

JANUARY 26, 2016

Introducing Hacking for Defense – Connecting Silicon Valley Innovation Culture and Mindset to the Department of Defense and the Intelligence Community. They don’t need an office in Silicon Valley to figure out what’s out there. Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, CIA, NSA. They are experts in leveraging Web 2.0

Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley North Korea Agile Lean

What’s A Startup? First Principles.

Steve Blank

JANUARY 25, 2010

At Stanford, Ann Miura-Ko and I have been working on a simplified Silicon Valley version of this model. Most of the time the darn customers don’t behave as you predicted. How Does Customer Development, Agile Development and Lean Startups Fit? Alexander Osterwalder's Business Model Template. (At

Agile

Agile Startup Silicon Valley Business Model

New Rules for the New Internet Bubble

Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

The signals are loud and clear : seed and late stage valuations are getting frothy and wacky, and hiring talent in Silicon Valley is the toughest it has been since the dot.com bubble. 2001 – 2010: Back to Basics: The Lean Startup. Carpe Diem. We’re now in the second Internet bubble. Rules For the New Bubble: 2011 -2014.

Internet

Internet IPO Silicon Valley Agile

What would you want to tell Washington DC about startups?

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

Beyond just those who will be hearing about the lean startup for the first time, Im expecting to shake a lot of hands and have a lot of interesting side conversations. Much of what makes the USA, and Silicon Valley in particular, such a great place to start a company is the result of good government policy.

DC

DC Washington San Francisco SBIR

The free software hiring advantage

Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 11, 2009

Heres the short version: hire people from the online communities that develop free software. Yes, you may be more familiar with the term open source, but lets give credit where credit is due , at least for today). This is especially true in Silicon Valley. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0.

Software Review

Software Review Software Hiring San Francisco

Story Behind “The Secret History” Part IV: Library Hours at an.

Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2009

It was the model for almost every military startup that followed, and its alumni who lived through its engineering and customer-centric culture had a profound effect on the rest of the valley, the intelligence community and the country. Thank you Bill Perry for one hell of a start in Silicon Valley.

Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley RSS California Washington

Lessons Learned: Five Whys

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

Most of this code was from a variety of open source PHP projects that were glued together with the shortest path to goal possible. Great related post by John Shook at the Lean Enterprise Institute about technical vs. social sides of problems. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Expo SF (May. .

Software Review

Software Review Technical Review San Francisco Continuous Deployment

Women 2.0 » FounderDating: How I Found My Co-Founder

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. I first spent time trying to build it myself leveraging open source tools, applying my skills from a single CS class, and trying to be an autodidactic coder.

Cofounder

Cofounder Technical Review San Francisco Founder

supermac War Story 7: Rabbits Out of the Hat - Product Line Extensions

Steve Blank

APRIL 16, 2009

Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. In most markets, “first mover advantage&# is illusorily; fast followers often win. To Order Outside of the U.S. Now In Print! Blog at WordPress.com. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer.

Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley Product RSS Engineer

From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Especially if you aren’t from around Silicon Valley. pretty much sums everything up well, but – let’s be honest here – if you live outside Silicon Valley, you are going to be at odds, because the rest of the world hasn’t yet caught up with this tech start-up thing.

Technical Review

Technical Review Cofounder Technical Cofounder Software Review

Change We Can Believe In - Reinventing the US Auto Industry: Open.

Steve Blank

APRIL 15, 2009

Jobs Keeping an Auto Industry as a strategic national resource Energy Independence Clean Energy I proposed that in exchange for the GM bailout we spin out the Chevy Volt into an open source electric car platform. will be able to build on the Volt Platform, but all drivetrain improvements are open source.

Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley Open Source RSS California

Innovation, Change and the Rest of Your Life

Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

I’ve seen the Valley grow from Sunnyvale to Santa Clara to today where it stretches from San Jose to South of Market in San Francisco. I’ve watched the Valley go from Microwave Valley – to Defense Valley – to Silicon Valley to Internet Valley. So how did this happen? Where is it going?

Restful

Restful Silicon Valley Puerto Rico San Jose

Startup Tools

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.

Software Review

Software Review Startup Silicon Valley Analytics

Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

VC Cafe highlights everything you need to know from hosting your code in hackathons to open source legal docs. Lean Methodology Sources. Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. Part 3- Lean Cust. High Quality, and open sourced! Mantis (Open source). Seed Startups.

Software Review

Software Review Technical Review Startup

StartUpRoar

Early-stage Regional Venture Funds–part 2 of 3 of Bigger in Bend

Open Source Entrepreneurship

Trending Sources

Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2020 Lesson Learned Presentations

Lessons Learned: Principles of Lean Startups, presentation for.

Lean Startups aren't Cheap Startups

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

What’s A Startup? First Principles.

New Rules for the New Internet Bubble

What would you want to tell Washington DC about startups?

The free software hiring advantage

Story Behind “The Secret History” Part IV: Library Hours at an.

Lessons Learned: Five Whys

Women 2.0 » FounderDating: How I Found My Co-Founder

supermac War Story 7: Rabbits Out of the Hat - Product Line Extensions

From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

Change We Can Believe In - Reinventing the US Auto Industry: Open.

Innovation, Change and the Rest of Your Life

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Startup Resources

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