Steve Blank

JUNE 26, 2015

To move innovation faster, we now have 21 st century tools — Business Model Canvas , Customer Development , Agile Engineering – all adding up to a Lean Startup. Lean is The Engine for the Ambidextrous Organization. Fast forward to today. We can adapt these startup tools for use inside the corporation.

Lean 120

Lean Management Business Model Incubator 120

Steve Blank

AUGUST 31, 2009

Yet startup companies have traditionally used this model to manage and pace not only engineering but also non-engineering activities. The flaw in this thinking is that “first customer ship&# is simply the date when engineering thinks they “finished” the 1.0 release of the product.

Customer Development 238

Customer Development Developer Customer Silicon Valley 238

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

Both venture firms sought my advice for their portfolio companies. I’m a software engineer by trade, so I’m always interested in some better way to do things, whether they are in software or in business processes or organizations. It was a long way from Ellis Island.) Would you mind sharing them?

Silicon Valley 125

Silicon Valley RSS Venture Capital Customer Development 125

Steve Blank

MAY 28, 2009

Our firm has a portfolio of companies across a broad range of markets and the way we look at it is pretty simple – the deals fall into two types: those with customer/market risk and those with invention risk.” Customer/Market Risk Versus Invention Risk One day I was having lunch with a VC sharing what I learned from my students.

Vertical 144

Vertical Silicon Valley Marketing Customer 144

Steve Blank

AUGUST 29, 2023

In June 1940 Vannevar Bush , ex-MIT dean of engineering; and a group of the country’s top science and research administrators ( Harvard President James Conant , Bell Labs President and head of the National Academy of Sciences Frank Jewett , and Richard Tolman Caltech Dean) all felt that there was a huge disconnect. They wanted the U.S.

Germany 262

Germany Programming Government Engineer 262

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Prior to that, she spent 12 years at Stanford; worked at Monsanto and Sigma Chemical as a research scientist; administered a dialysis clinical trial at University of California; and taught chemistry and basic engineering courses. In the average VC portfolio … 1 in 10 companies (they invest in) will turn out to be a big hit.

Government 120

Government Entrepreneur Intellectual Property Silicon Valley 120

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 17, 2015

And take what it learns and regularly update the corporate engineering, strategy, VC groups and business unit heads, on technology and market shifts. Corporate VC needs to be part of an innovation investment portfolio with a mix of incubate, invest and acquire. This is not the the optimal way to start.

Silicon Valley 120

Silicon Valley Incubator Acquisition Business Model 120

Steve Blank

APRIL 20, 2021

An MVP tree has three main components—customer archetypes, jobs to be done, and execution—and we’ll walk you through them step by step with a case study of Roku, a former portfolio company we’ve been fortunate to see execute from a $20 million first VC round to what is now a $50 billion public company. (To It has a growth engine.

Product 436

Product Viral Channel San Francisco 436

Steve Blank

APRIL 11, 2013

This post is about the how the Chinese government engineered technology clusters. There are close to 100 specialized incubators for companies founded by returned overseas Chinese scientists and engineers. The Torch Program is the worlds largest “lets engineer entrepreneurial clusters” experiment. – The Torch Program.

Programming 278

Programming Technical Review SBIR China 278

Steve Blank

APRIL 11, 2013

This post is about the how the Chinese government engineered technology clusters. There are close to 100 specialized incubators for companies founded by returned overseas Chinese scientists and engineers. The Torch Program is the worlds largest “lets engineer entrepreneurial clusters” experiment. – The Torch Program.

Programming 170

Programming Technical Review SBIR China 170

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Fred Terman , Stanford’s dean of engineering, received ONR’s first research grants for electronics and microwaves. Panel 1 – Autonomy/Unmanned Systems Research and Engineering. It’s made up of ONR – the Office of Naval Research , ONR Global , the Naval Research Laboratory , and Special Projects (PMR 51.).

Artificial Inteligence 353

Artificial Inteligence Russia Technology China 353

Steve Blank

JANUARY 19, 2011

He was a great engineering manager and recruited, hired and inspired a world-class team. If a partner screws up a single company in a portfolio it’s not the end of the world since they have 20-30 companies in a fund. This was his first CEO job. And why would there be if the problems are only with the founders.).

Silicon Valley 235

Silicon Valley Venture Capital Software Review Technical Review 235

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

That same year, Fred Terman became Stanford’s dean of engineering, and he received four ONR research contracts for electronics and microwaves. This picture is a way I divvy up my Naval Research portfolio: On the left is the division that’s home to cyber and electronic warfare. The Naval Research Enterprise.

Technology 202

Technology DC Acquisition Silicon Valley 202

Steve Blank

JULY 2, 2009

Video Games At SuperMac , Peter Barrett was the witty and creative 24-year old Australian engineer who had designed several of our most successful products, culminating with the software for the Video Spigot. I remember thinking, “What a disappointment one of the smartest engineers I know and he is going to waste his time making games.”

Silicon Valley 120

Silicon Valley Technical Review RSS Software Review 120

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Lean Methodology consists of three tools designed for entrepreneurs building new ventures: The Business Model Canvas – to write down all the hypotheses about a new business; Customer Development – a process for testing those hypotheses outside the building; Agile Engineering – to rapidly build minimal viable products to test product/market fit.

Customer 420

Customer Marketing Lean Vertical 420

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Teams use the Lean Startup toolkit: the Business Model Canvas + Customer Development process + Agile Engineering. These are 20 th century relics of the lack of data available from each team and the lack of comparative data across a cohort and portfolio. Those days are over.

Oakland 326

Oakland Incubator Lean Metrics 326

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

It Will Be Harder Than the Pentagon Thinks , Considering Military Culture and Values When Adopting AI, Swarms of Mass Destruction , Joby Aviation raises $590 million led by Toyota to launch an electric air taxi service , Linking combat veterans and Valley engineers.

Technology 300

Technology China United States Government 300

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

And more importantly work with them to get the best and brightest of their portfolio companies engaged. spends $15 billion a year on forty-two Federally Funded Research and Development Centers (FFRDCs)—twenty-six R&D labs, ten study and analysis centers, and six system engineering and integration centers.

Technology 269

Technology China Government Artificial Inteligence 269

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 26, 2020

I want you to leave your job, where you’re getting free meals, where you’re living and working around a bunch of other software engineers. Why Should Silicon Valley Engineers and Our Students Get Involved? It’s working on a portfolio of 32 products in 6 verticals across the DOD. I want you to come into that.

Artificial Inteligence 388

Artificial Inteligence Fractional CTO Technology CTO 388