Steve Blank

MAY 10, 2017

He founded Google X and led the development of the Google self-driving car. 12:37 Small Businesses vs. Scalable Startups (Should I take Risk Capital). Customer Discovery, Pivots) Filed under: Customer Development. Sebastian is the embodiment of a renaissance person. And he asks great questions. The Navy SEAL’s).

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 6, 2014

For the last 75 years products (both durable goods and software) were built via Waterfall development. In the last few years Agile and “Continuous Deployment” has replaced Waterfall and transformed how companies big and small build products. The Old Days – Waterfall Product Development.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 29, 2016

The Small Business Administration and the digital services agency 18F are trying to help entrepreneurs build successful companies and the 21st century digital government. Small Business Administration. Small Business Administration ’s Associate Administrator and chief of its investment and innovation programs.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 31, 2014

Not all start ups want to go in that direction – some will opt instead to become a small business. There’s nothing wrong with a business that supports you and perhaps an extended family. Each industry in a region should develop a playbook that expands and details the strategy and tactics of how to build a scalable startup.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 4, 2010

A lot of entrepreneurs think that their startup is the next big thing when in reality they’re just building a small business. They used Customer and Agile development to search for a scalable and repeatable business model to become a large company. of all businesses. Make no little plans. Daniel Burnham.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 20, 2014

When Customer Development and the Lean Startup were just a sketch on the napkin, Dino Vendetti, a VC at Bay Partners, was one of the first venture capitalists I shared my ideas with. Over the years we brainstormed about how Lean entrepreneurship would affect regional development. Part 1: Bend, Oregon Ecosystem and Entrepreneurs.

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Steve Blank

MAY 12, 2015

The Small Business Innovative Research ( SBIR ) and Small Business Technology Transfer ( STTR ) programs are startup seed funds created by Congress to encourage U.S. small businesses to turn Government-funded research into commercial businesses. Here’s Edmund’s description of the I-Corps Lite program.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 18, 2022

was fighting Al-Qaeda and ISIS, China built new weapons and developed new operational concepts to negate U.S. There’s an absolute need to foster a collaborative partnership with academia and businesses – big businesses, small businesses, and startups. While You Were Out. military strengths. What Can Go Wrong?

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 6, 2011

Second, to share how my how my thinking about entrepreneurship as a distinct practice and how Customer Development as one of its central components has evolved over the last decade. Clearshore is a “matchmaker&# that helps small businesses get their fair share of the $60-billion US government budget for R&D and innovation.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

In fact, by the start of class they had ~$750K in revenue for 2011 – not quite Facebook but a nice small business. The Lean LaunchPad class works for existing businesses as well as new startups. Filed under: Customer Development , Teaching. Customer Development Teaching' But Jon had much bigger ambitions.

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Steve Blank

JULY 28, 2011

The class will be a version of the Lean LaunchPad class we developed in the Stanford Technology Ventures Program , (the entrepreneurship center at Stanford’s School of Engineering). And they’ll do this using the business model / customer development / agile development solution stack. What Took You So Long.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 29, 2016

Sarah Calhoun has spent two decades building nonprofits and small businesses. She was the 2012 National Women in Business Champion for the Small Business Administration. In 2011, she served as a as a US Delegate to the APEC Women in Business Summit in San Francisco.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 10, 2023

They’re growing the number of accounts and the deal size, but it feels like we’re incrementally growing a small business, not heading for exponential growth. Her inside sales team (Sales Development and Business Development reps) used email, phone, social media and Zoom for prospecting and generating leads.

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Steve Blank

JULY 11, 2016

Jessica Mah , founder of InDinero , provider of accounting software and tax services for small businesses. Filed under: Customer Development , SiriusXM Radio Show. Jessica Mah. Joining me in the Stanford University studio were. Peggy Burke , founder of 1185 Design digital brand agency. Peggy Burke.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 22, 2016

Being domain experts and having done one startup together gave the Caldon brothers confidence about starting Ballstar: Vaughn : The confidence that we can start anything together , came from the fact that we had been the CEO and Director of Development of an organization that we created, and we started interacting on that level. ….

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 20, 2009

Some of the conversations went like this: Startup 1 Entrepreneur -“I’m competing against Company x and have been following the Customer Development process and I’ve talked to lots of customers.” Rule 2 : In an existing market Customer Development means understanding whether your hypothesis of why customers will buy match reality.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 28, 2020

The summit opened with a panel of Investors sharing their insights of what the funding environment for entrepreneurs, non-profits and small businesses will look like as the economy recovers. Not only the theorists but constituents for customer development, or with Main Street businesses and local constituents.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 1, 2020

Check if the the Paycheck Protection Program , ( here and here ) which provides 100% federally guaranteed loans to small businesses, can apply to your company. Whatever assessment you develop, you need to get feedback from your board and investors. Forecasted recovery date. Workers can return. Your customers start buying.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 4, 2011

I did a keynote on innovation hubs at the newly created DoFuture program , spoke at Santiago’s Startup Weekend on Customer and Agile Development, and at a Conference in Patagonia supported by the Ministry of Economy’s Innovation Division. Small Business versus Scalable Startup versus Corporate Entrepreneurship.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 17, 2020

Other teams tackled problems in travel, small business, sustainability, etc. 3 Small Business. this team is developing a sensor to prevent head and neck injuries from falls, especially for seniors in nursing homes. 5 teams developed concepts related to Remote Work. 9 Education. 5 Remote Work.

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Steve Blank

MAY 18, 2009

Next, you have to deal with the daily crisis of product development and acquiring early customers. And here’s where life gets really interesting, as the reality of product development and customer input collide, the facts change so rapidly that the original well-thought-out business plan becomes irrelevant. I like my odds.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 21, 2015

They … work to … help get capital to communities that typically can’t receive traditional capital to grow small businesses and fund charter schools … . … Lots and lots of filing and lots of uploading business cards. Certainly we tightened our business model by talking to many different people. .

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Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2009

Filed under: Customer Development , Family/Career , Technology | Tagged: Steve Blank , Entrepreneurs , Tips for Startups « Am I a Founder? Work product can’t be ignored, but central to Customer Development is having a solid relationship with customers so that you can learn their needs and iterate to a product that fits.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 19, 2010

Or is it something about those locations (network effect, risk capital, nurturing network) that makes entrepreneurs in other parts of the country start small businesses or even spend their lives in a 9 to 5 job? (I’ve Filed under: Customer Development , Venture Capital. Tags: Customer Development Venture Capital.

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Steve Blank

MAY 7, 2009

My two cents is that a business plan is the single place to collect your thinking about about your: business model, distribution channel, demand creation plan, financial assumptions, and customer and product development plan. If winning $5-10K is your goal, you’re not a scalable startup, just a small business.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 11, 2013

If you don’t have scale as a goal then you shouldn’t be raising money from angel or venture investors, you should be getting a commercial or government small business loan.). • Search. These types of startups are better suited to raising money from friends, family, commercial and government small business loans, etc.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 11, 2013

If you don’t have scale as a goal then you shouldn’t be raising money from angel or venture investors, you should be getting a commercial or government small business loan.). • Search. These types of startups are better suited to raising money from friends, family, commercial and government small business loans, etc.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

by expanding startups access to capital (with two $1 billion programs ); creating a national network of entrepreneurship education, commercializing federally-funded research and development programs and getting rid of tax and paperwork barriers for startups. Small Business Entrepreneurship. million small businesses in the U.S.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 10, 2010

Small Business Entrepreneurship. As immigrants their biggest dream was opening a small grocery store on the Lower East Side of New York City, which they did in 1939. When business was bad they figured out why, adapted and worked harder still. The division developed the IBM PC and announced it in less than a year.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 16, 2009

Nothing else was in the development pipeline for the next 12 months. My question is about the risk of a black market developing, like what happened to Garmin (they resold their avionics GPS as a marine GPS at a lower cost with speed limits built in, hackers promptly figured out how to remove the limits).

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 29, 2009

The Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) Act in 1958 guaranteed that for every dollar a bank or financial institution invested in a new company, the U.S. into believing it was behind the Soviet Union in innovation. In response, one of the many U.S. national initiatives (DARPA, NASA, Space Race, etc.)

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2015

In the Installation Period , a great surge of technology development (Perez calls this Irruption) is followed by an explosion of investment (called the Frenzy.) and to develop professional managers and management hierarchies to run them. Patents, inventions and small companies were sold to larger corporations.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

In cybersecurity, any individual, any business of any size, from a small business all the way up to a giant bank, is at the end of the day subjected to the worst that adversaries of any sort – foreign nations, organized criminal gangs – can throw their way. It’s either small businesses, or individuals.

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Steve Blank

MAY 30, 2016

If you’re listening on the Internet, DARPA (the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) and the NSF (The National Science Foundation) were critical in developing the internet. He was elected to Congress in 2014 and serves on the House Armed Services Committee, the House Budget Committee and the House Small Business Committee.

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