Steve Blank

MAY 30, 2016

the teams spent the last two weeks learning what activities, resources and partners they would need to actually deliver their solution. Because of the embedded presentations this post is best viewed on the website.). Next week the teams will present their final Lessons Learned presentations. See all the H4D posts here.

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Silicon Valley San Diego Technical Review Incubator 120

Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2017

Eight teams presented their Lessons Learned presentations. Each of the eight teams presented a 2-minute video to provide context about their problem and then gave an 8-minute presentation of their Lessons Learned over the 10-weeks. Each of their slide presentation follow their customer discovery journey.

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Silicon Valley Southern California Lean San Diego 182

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

The teams present what they learned talking to 10-15 customer/week, and get comments, suggestions and critiques from their teaching team. If you can’t see the presentation above click here. If you can’t see the presentation above click here. If you can’t see the presentation above click here.

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Lean Customer Business Model Customer Development 258

Steve Blank

MAY 19, 2021

Then last night I watched the final presentations from the inaugural Hacking for National Security course in Australia before jumping over to teach Stanford’s Hacking for Defense® (H4D) class. Connectors – who will help teams rapidly grow their networks to gain new insights from unique partners not yet discovered.

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Curation Technical Review Lean Australia 344

Steve Blank

JANUARY 2, 2014

Over the course of the class Mira Medicine team spoke to over 80 customers, partners and payers. Look at their Lesson Learned slides below If you can’t see the presentation above, click here. Filed under: Customer Development , Lean LaunchPad , Life Sciences , Teaching. Here’s their 2 minute video summary.

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Lean Algorithm Customer Development IP 240

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. Over the quarter, teams of students would put the theory to work, using these tools to get out of the building and talk to customer/partners, etc.

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Lean Business Model Customer Development Guinea 298

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2010

We’re here for Greycroft’s CEO Summit – a gathering of the CEO’s of their portfolio companies with guest speakers covering topics including how to build your team, PR, customer development, etc. It is the key to “customer development” that Steve Blank talks about. I’m going to save that for a future blog post.

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PR Technical Review Portfolio Customer Development 279

Steve Blank

MARCH 7, 2012

Today, the first half of the Stanford Engineering Lean LaunchPad Class gave their final presentations. The 2012 Stanford Lean LaunchPad Presentations. The class is intensely and deliberately experiential to develop the mindset, reflexes, agility and resilience an entrepreneur needs to search for certainty in a chaotic world.

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Lean Business Model Agile United States 256

Steve Blank

JUNE 3, 2016

Today the eight teams presented their Lessons Learned presentations. Because of the embedded presentations this post is best viewed on the website.). And we will build a knowledge base of DOD/IC acquisition primers, customer development best practices, org charts, etc. Then turn your audio back on. This is the End.

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Agile Security Audio Video 120

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 20, 2011

We taught them the business model / customer development / agile development solution stack. This methodology forces rapid hypothesis testing and Customer Development by getting out of the building while building the product. After 7 weeks they returned to Silicon Valley for their final presentations.

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Incubator Government Silicon Valley Lean 301

Steve Blank

JANUARY 27, 2011

This startup search process is the business model / customer development / agile development solution stack. A business model competition would emulate the “out of the building” experience of real entrepreneurs executing the customer development / business model / agile stack. Utah: Entrepreneurial Surprises.

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Business Model Utah Intellectual Property Agile 275

Steve Blank

JANUARY 28, 2013

All while keeping in mind that employees, managers and executives have day jobs – so how could we ask them to spend significant time on new ideas while not sacrificing their present obligations? Thus began our search for a program that would properly balance the focus on the present with the need to increase our options for the future.

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Programming Design Lean Seed Money 291

Steve Blank

MAY 10, 2011

This last post – part nine – highlights the final team presentations. Class lectures were over last week, but most teams kept up the mad rush to talk to even more customers and further refine their products. Now they were standing in front of us to give their final presentations. Syllabus is here. This is the End.

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Lean Business Model Agile Customer Development 279

Steve Blank

JANUARY 28, 2013

All while keeping in mind that employees, managers and executives have day jobs – so how could we ask them to spend significant time on new ideas while not sacrificing their present obligations? Thus began our search for a program that would properly balance the focus on the present with the need to increase our options for the future.

Programming 283

Programming Design Lean Seed Money 283

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 23, 2012

Partnered with engineering trying to understand what customers really wanted, needed and would pay for, versus what we could actually build and deliver (and learning the difference between a simply good engineer and working in the presence of sheer genius.) Filed under: Air Force , Customer Development , Family/Career/Culture.

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Thailand Engineer Customer Development SEO 331

Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 6, 2013

Once again, along with my partners at 500 Startups, we are proud to present the most substantive track at SXSW: [link] There was a running joke last year that "the Lean Startup track was the only place at SXSW you couldn't get out of the building." STAY #500STRONG ON THE INTERWEBS OUR STARTUP LOVIN' PARTNERS. We're back!

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Lean Cofounder Startup Software Engineering 165

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 25, 2022

How do they become present on new social media and communications channels? How do they connect with a new generation of customers who had no brand loyalty? How do they make these transitions without alienating and losing their existing customers, distribution channels and partners? Are these the real problems?

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Framework Distribution Channel Leadership 389

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 11, 2016

They still thought we were building what we had presented in a PowerPoint slide. They still thought we were building what we had presented in a PowerPoint slide as the product, but that didn’t work out in our case. . Filed under: Customer Development , SiriusXM Radio Show. Tune in Thursday, Oct.

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Columbus Entrepreneur Ohio Cofounder 245

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

The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

This change has presented a challenge for the news and media companies to adopt digital technologies for their business operations. However, these technological developments have also presented a special opportunity for companies to understand what their customers need and how they interact with their businesses.

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API Media Agile Technical Review 107

David Teten

APRIL 1, 2021

Nick Kim , Crosscut’s Head of Platform, in his presentation at the 4th Annual VC Platform Summit, shared their Platform development methodology, which he viewed as an exercise in product development. I have developed a founder curriculum on my blog. All content is developed and delivered by the Real Ventures partners.

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Private Equity Venture Capital Portfolio Equity 78

Steve Blank

MAY 6, 2015

Luckily Alexander Osterwalder’s business model canvas presents a visual overview of the nine components of a business on one page. They are: value proposition, product/service the company offers (along with its benefits to customers). customer segments, such as users and payers or moms or teens.

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Lean Agile Business Model Customer Development 120

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

The students “get out of the building” and test their hypotheses in front of potential beneficiaries using the Customer Development methodology, all while building and updating their Minimal Viable Products. If you can’t see the presentation click here.

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Silicon Valley Washington United Kingdom Lean 120

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

The students “get out of the building” and test their hypotheses in front of potential beneficiaries using the Customer Development methodology, all while building and updating their Minimal Viable Products. If you can’t see the presentation click here.

Silicon Valley 120

Silicon Valley Washington United Kingdom Lean 120

Steve Blank

MARCH 29, 2010

Having a teaching partner makes life a lot easier and the class improves. But it wasn’t until Ann Miura-Ko joined me as a teaching partner that this “teach the model not the plan” idea jelled. After Stanford, Ann joined Mike Maples’ Venture Capital firm Floodgate as a partner. Teaching Team. Guest Speakers.

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Business Model Silicon Valley California Engineer 226

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2009

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. He continued: “I’d like to convince my boss so our company can be your first customer.”

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Silicon Valley Non-disclosure Agreement NDA Startup 225

Steve Blank

APRIL 19, 2010

Fred Wilson of Union Square Ventures, Jason Calacanis , founder of Mahlo.com, and Mark Suster of GRP Partners, have all weighed in on the nature side – you’re born being an entrepreneur or your not. Mark Suster, Vivek Wadhwa and Patrick Chung, Partner at New Enterprises Associates will be debating. Taking Sides. Or look at Israel.

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Silicon Valley Venture Capital China New York 219

crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 6, 2014

The embedded presentation above is filled with valuable data on the state of the Internet and trends in technology around the world. Mary Meeker of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers presented the data at the recent Code Conference. How Greylock Partners Finds the Next Facebook – crowdspring.co/Ud9VE5.

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Social Media Small Business Design Software Review 94

Steve Blank

APRIL 7, 2020

The key principles of customer development are: There are no facts inside the building so get the heck outside. You can test your hypotheses with a series of experiments with potential customers. Presenting Your Minimal Viable Product (MVP) Online. All you have are a series of untested hypotheses. An MVP is an experiment.

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Customer Business Model Restful Video 413

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

I assembled this collection of free and almost free tools, class syllabi, presentations, books, lectures, videos in the hope that it can make your path as an entrepreneur or educator easier. customer development. Class Syllabi, My Lecture Slides and Student Presentations. Latest presentations posted click here.

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Open Source Silicon Valley Lean Customer Development 335

Steve Blank

JUNE 6, 2016

Evangelos Simoudis’ is the founder and managing director of Synapse Partners. His investing career started 15 years ago at Apax Partners and continued with Trident Capital. I presented them to our chief product officer and our CTO. Filed under: Customer Development. If you can’t hear the clip, click here.

Silicon Valley 120

Silicon Valley Entrepreneur Fractional CTO Analytics 120

Steve Blank

APRIL 4, 2011

The news from customers was not good. The Nine Teams Present. The Agora team decided to formalize the customer discovery process by coming up with a set of Customer Discovery principles and questions that were as good as any I’ve seen. as well as channel partners and cloud industry technology consultants.

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Customer Business Model Nebraska Cloud 234

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 11, 2016

They still thought we were building what we had presented in a PowerPoint slide. They still thought we were building what we had presented in a PowerPoint slide as the product, but that didn’t work out in our case. . Filed under: Customer Development , SiriusXM Radio Show. Tune in Thursday, Oct.

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Columbus Entrepreneur Ohio Cofounder 120

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 3, 2014

Students need to get out of the building and talk to 10-15 customers a week. The next week they came back in class and presented this : Each week we’d teach them about one more part of what makes up a business model. By week four their presentation looked like this : Notice something different about the cover slide?

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Lean Silicon Valley Customer Development Incubator 272

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

That died with waterfall software development. I’m not even talking about your 12-page Powerpoint presentation that you need to raise venture capital or to talk with potential biz dev partners. Do you really want to spent $100k building a product to discover through Customer Development that the market is too small?

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Business Plan AJAX Venture Capital Technical Review 334

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Teams use the Lean Startup toolkit: the Business Model Canvas + Customer Development process + Agile Engineering. These three tools allow startups to focus on the parts of an early stage venture that matter the most: the product, product/market fit, customer acquisition, revenue and cost model, channels and partners.

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Oakland Incubator Lean Metrics 326

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Each VC firm/partner has a different spin on what to weigh more.) These types seem dangerous, yet are often the ones needed on board to get the fund to invest in the first place, seeing that the younger partners naturally have less pull during the Monday round-ups. I find the same still going on with a few firms and partners.&#

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Silicon Valley IPO Technical Review Venture Capital 217