Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Their idea is that consumers will want a subscription service for short form entertainment (10-minute programs) for mobile rather than full length movies. Will consumers want to watch short-form mobile entertainment? Think YouTube meets Netflix). It’s an almost $2-billion-dollar bet based on a set of hypotheses. The result?

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Lean Burn Rate Startup IPO 335

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 11, 2023

No Knowledge of Computers Silicon Valley emerged from work in World War II led by Stanford professor Fred Terman developing microwave and electronics for Electronic Warfare systems. The company took on any engineering work that came their way but were kept in business developing new code-breaking machines for the Navy.

Minnesota 281

Minnesota Engineer Minneapolis Silicon Valley 281

Steve Blank

MARCH 12, 2014

Therefore we needed them to think and learn about two parts of a startup; 1) ideation - how to create new ideas and 2) customer development – how do they test the validity of their idea (is it the right product, customer, channel, pricing, etc.). You’ve developed archetype and narratives from a ton of real customer interviews.

Lean 334

Lean Customer Development Startup Silicon Valley 334

Steve Blank

AUGUST 19, 2013

The last 60 years has seen remarkable breakthroughs in what we know about the biology underlying diseases and the science and engineering of developing commercial drug development and medical devices that improve and save lives. Yep, it cost 80 times more to get a successful drug developed and approved today than it did 60 years ago.

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Venture Capital Startup Lean Philadelphia 301

Steve Blank

JANUARY 22, 2014

Over the years Dino and I brainstormed about how Lean entrepreneurship would affect regional development. The cloud , open-source development tools and web 2.0 This was valuable to startups in the Valley and has been vital to startups in regions where the ecosystem is less developed. The inevitable failures then damaged returns.

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Early Stage Silicon Valley Oregon Technical Review 286

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

We think teaching teams a formal methodology around the Lean Framework (Business Model design, Customer Development and Agile Engineering) is a natural evolution of how successful incubators/accelerators will build startups. Filed under: Customer Development , Lean LaunchPad , Teaching. Customer Development Lean LaunchPad Teaching'

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Lean Customer Development Sales Cycle Business Model 315

Steve Blank

JANUARY 15, 2017

The new I-Corps authority also supports prototype or proof-of-concept development activities, which will better enable researchers to commercialize their innovations. While I was developing the class at Stanford, it was my counterparts at the NSF who had the vision to make the class a national program. Why This Matters.

Lean 238

Lean Technical Review Government Programming 238

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 11, 2020

It didn’t become an innovation until it was developed and deployed at scale. that the Nazis – who got the idea from Goddard’s papers – developed missiles and jet aircraft first. And there’s a unique skill set that needs to be developed. Step 2 : Develop a proposal to address your problem. That was a great invention.

Technical Review 322

Technical Review Taiwan Technology Design 322

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. “Customer Development” to test the hypotheses outside the building and. I realized we were trying to conform to a lecture order optimized for web, mobile, hardware.

Intellectual Property 281

Intellectual Property Lean IP Open Source 281

Steve Blank

APRIL 20, 2021

Shawn immediately said the name I had given the four steps was confusing – I had called it market development – he suggested that I call it Customer Development – and the name stuck. For software products, the channels are typically through the mobile app stores or directly over the Internet. Sales channels.

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Product Viral Channel San Francisco 436

Steve Blank

APRIL 14, 2013

They’re used to using the web and increasingly the mobile web for everything, commerce, communication, games, etc. They also probably haven’t seen a phone that isn’t mobile.) Filed under: China , Customer Development , Technology , Venture Capital. China Customer Development Technology Venture Capital' Unlike U.S.

China 323

China Silicon Valley Non-Compete Intellectual Property 323

Steve Blank

JANUARY 30, 2013

Entrenched Innovation Model Issues : Qualcomm’s existing innovation model – wireless products were created in the R&D lab and then handed over to existing business units for commercialization – was wildly successful in the existing wireless and mobile space. Developing a program to generate new ideas is the easy part.

Programming 265

Programming Technical Review Incubator Intellectual Property 265

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 11, 2016

Dan Miller , co-founder of Level Therapy , provider of mobile therapy sessions. Through that process, I lost a lot including some relationships with individuals, and I started to develop symptoms of acute anxiety. . Filed under: Customer Development , SiriusXM Radio Show. Dan Miller. Brian Zuercher. Tune in Thursday, Oct.

Columbus 245

Columbus Entrepreneur Ohio Cofounder 245

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 25, 2022

This company was so serious about dealing with this threat (they described it as “existential to their survival”) that they had mobilized the entire corporation to come up with new solutions. This wasn’t a small undertaking, because the threats were coming from multiple areas in multiple dimensions; How do they embrace new technologies?

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Framework Distribution Channel Leadership 389

Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

Defense and Intelligence organizations drove the pace of innovation in Silicon Valley by providing research and development dollars to universities, and defense companies built weapons systems that used the Valley’s first microwave devices and semiconductor components. and there were no books, blogs or YouTube videos about entrepreneurship.

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Restful Silicon Valley Puerto Rico San Jose 222

Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

Fifty years later another Harvard professor, Clayton Christensen, developed his theory of disruptive innovation, which actually described how creative destruction worked. Which brings me back to your mobile phones. Disruptive innovation leads to the creative destruction of businesses that once seemed pre-eminent and secure.

Private Equity 325

Private Equity Metrics China Intellectual Property 325

Steve Blank

JANUARY 15, 2017

The new I-Corps authority also supports prototype or proof-of-concept development activities, which will better enable researchers to commercialize their innovations. While I was developing the class at Stanford, it was my counterparts at the NSF who had the vision to make the class a national program. Why This Matters.

Lean 120

Lean Technical Review Government Programming 120

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Successful Innovation Outposts typically develop over a period of time through three stages. Therefore, the profile of the initial team to staff an Innovation Outpost should be a technology-savvy business development group. . ——– Now that your company had decided to set up an Innovation Outpost, how do you do it?

Silicon Valley 120

Silicon Valley Incubator Acquisition Business Model 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. Even if they did, what if the assumption – that we had developed a better approach to teaching entrepreneurship – was simply mistaken?

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Lean Business Model Customer Development Guinea 298

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 23, 2015

How and why Customer Development shapes a startup was the subject of discussion with the two latest guests on Entrepreneurs are Everywhere , my radio show on SiriusXM Channel 111. Jason Young , co-founder of MindBlown Labs , which makes mobile social games to teach young adults about personal finance. Get out of the building.

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Cofounder Entrepreneur Colorado Customer Development 120

Steve Blank

JULY 14, 2020

AntiCovidAI – Mobile app for testing COVID-19. Mango Lango – Mobile app that allows small businesses to reopen safely. Safe.ly – Mobile app for making reservations to visit your local stores safely. Alivia – Telemedicine service bringing healthcare to middle income people in Peru.

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Peru Philippines Mobile Global 291

Steve Blank

APRIL 14, 2013

They’re used to using the web and increasingly the mobile web for everything, commerce, communication, games, etc. They also probably haven’t seen a phone that isn’t mobile.) Filed under: China , Customer Development , Technology , Venture Capital. China Customer Development Technology Venture Capital' Unlike U.S.

China 215

China Silicon Valley Non-Compete Intellectual Property 215

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 8, 2009

If you don’t have facts or domain expertise to add, and your business card has the word(s) “marketing&# or “business development,&# realize you have brought no value to the table steve Michael Langford , on October 8, 2009 at 1:54 pm Said: The correct response is: Yes, I’m 24, but I learned manners by the time I was 9.

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Silicon Valley RSS Customer Development California 271

Steve Blank

AUGUST 17, 2020

When the sessions at Stanford were completed, we helped the University of Hawaii and Maui Economic Development Board STEMworks launch the Hawaii version of Hacking 4 Recovery – to rebuild the State’s economy, which has been uniquely devastated by the coronavirus lockdown. AntiCovidAI – a novel mobile app to detect COVID-19 symptoms.

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Hawaii Aggregator Business Model Lean 434

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Platform changes (web to mobile), faster technology (3G to 4G to 5G), commoditization of tech (Cloud). Put together a single slide that graphically shows the evolution of the space you’re in. You’re trying to show what’s changed to make your startup economically viable today. What’s changed? Has consumer behavior changed?

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Bandwidth Database Venture Capital Demand 281

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 11, 2016

Dan Miller , co-founder of Level Therapy , provider of mobile therapy sessions. Through that process, I lost a lot including some relationships with individuals, and I started to develop symptoms of acute anxiety. . Filed under: Customer Development , SiriusXM Radio Show. Dan Miller. Brian Zuercher. Tune in Thursday, Oct.

Columbus 120

Columbus Entrepreneur Ohio Cofounder 120

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

But in the private sector he’s done a number of amazing things; he headed up mobile at Google, then went back into the Pentagon where he was the youngest Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense ever in the Pentagon. What Are Some Developments in Cyber That Might Change Offense and Defense? I think there are two.

Technology 306

Technology Security Internet Video 306

Steve Blank

JUNE 23, 2016

First, the shift away from desktop computers to mobile devices meant that Intel’s power-hungry x86 processors weren’t suitable. All of Intel’s resources – fabs, manufacturing strategies, and most importantly executive mindset — were geared towards large, expensive x86 processors, not low-cost mobile cores of someone else’s design.

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Architecture IRR Balance Sheet Liquidity Event 227

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Conceived in 1987 by Motorola and spun out in 1990 as a separate company, Iridium planned to build a mobile telephone system that would work anywhere on earth. All were predicated on the state of the mobile phone industry in 1990. Second, since it knew the solution, it went into a 8 -year Waterfall engineering development process.

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Business Plan Customer Business Model Customer Development 335

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. And yet, most of us responsible for trying to develop foreign policy don’t come from that background” of technology and innovation. “We

Silicon Valley 120

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. And yet, most of us responsible for trying to develop foreign policy don’t come from that background” of technology and innovation. “We

Silicon Valley 120

Silicon Valley Washington United Kingdom Lean 120

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Sooner than people think, virtually all home and outpatient diagnostics will be performed by consumer devices such as the Apple Watch, mobile phones, fitness trackers, etc. The pilot program allowed nine companies , including Apple, to begin developing products (like the Watch) using this regulatory shortcut. What’s Not Working?

China 67

China Technical Review Software Review Algorithm 67

Steve Blank

MAY 3, 2022

However, the equipment listed above is available commercially off-the-shelf, at dramatically cheaper prices than what’s offered by the large existing defense contractors, and developed and delivered in a fraction of the time. A key part of Beijing’s strategy includes developing and acquiring advanced dual-use technology.

Ukraine 277

Ukraine China Private Equity Russia 277

Steve Blank

JUNE 6, 2016

Today Evangelos invests in early- and growth-stage companies focusing on the enterprise in the areas of data and analytics, SaaS applications, and mobility. Filed under: Customer Development. His investing career started 15 years ago at Apax Partners and continued with Trident Capital.

Silicon Valley 120

Silicon Valley Entrepreneur Fractional CTO Analytics 120

Steve Blank

JANUARY 6, 2014

For the last 75 years products (both durable goods and software) were built via Waterfall development. Agile is a tremendous advance in reducing time, money and wasted product development effort – and in having products better match customer needs. The Old Days – Waterfall Product Development.

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Continuous Deployment Customer Agile Cloud 329

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 19, 2013

ResultCare is a mobile app that helps physicians take the guesswork out of medicine. Filed under: Customer Development , Lean LaunchPad , Life Sciences , Technology. Customer Development Lean LaunchPad Life Sciences Technology' Mitchell Geere product design. Kristen Bova MBA, MHS. Nima Anari PhD in Data Science.

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Lean Customer Development Video Distribution 251

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2009

Customer Development We were starting Epiphany, my last company. Our competitor was executing on hypotheses we had developed 9 months ago, and their strategy remained static. EE Reply My take on Customer Development and the Lean Startup | Recess Mobile Blog , on January 9, 2010 at 5:30 am Said: [.] Good stuff too.

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