Early Stage Entrepreneur Framework Lean 
Steve Blank
JUNE 26, 2015
—– Lean Innovation Management. In the last five years “ Lean Startup ” methodologies have enabled entrepreneurs to efficiently build a startup by searching for product/market fit rather than blindly trying to execute. The result will be: a new, Lean version of the Three Horizons of Innovation. Here’s how.
YoungUpstarts
JUNE 1, 2019
This is the second in a three-part series that aims to help you understand the Traction Gap Framework® – a step-by-step approach that startup teams can use to go from ideation to preparing to scale. Read on to find out what exactly the “gap” in the Traction Gap Framework is and why traversing that gap is so critical to your success.
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Steve Blank
MARCH 8, 2011
In January, we introduced a new graduate course at Stanford called the " target="_blank">Lean LaunchPad. While we were going to teach theory and frameworks, these students were going to get a hands-on experience in how to start a new company. The Lean LaunchPad class was scheduled to meet for three hours once a week.
Steve Blank
MARCH 3, 2015
It has replaced how to write a business plan with hands-on Lean Startup methods. Over my career as a serial entrepreneur I observed that since the late 1990s, no early-stage Silicon Valley investor had used business plans to screen investments. That has changed in the last few years. Today the U.C. Seeing Is Believing.
Duct Tape Marketing
MARCH 26, 2021
You’ll hear from Staples on the five positive emotions that are the most effective in content to get people to lean forward and share: happiness, awe, curiosity, empathy, and surprise. He then went on to found his own business and run marketing for a number of early-stage startups. Click here to listen to the episode.
Both Sides of the Table
SEPTEMBER 28, 2014
Let’s set up a framework. Plus, most early-stage M&A fails so this isn’t likely a good use of capital for a young company). In a world where the economy only heads in one direction (read: 2009-2014) most investors & entrepreneurs forget to pay attention to gross burn. Gross Burn vs. Net Burn.
JANUARY 9, 2014
Simon Sinek’s Golden Circle framework “People don’t buy what you do, they buy why you do it” Simon Sinek If your customers believe in your mission, then they’ll warm to you and listen to what you offer and how. It takes discipline to stay on track and not lose focus, but it’s a valuable trait that all successful entrepreneurs seem to have.
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