Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2009

Lies Entrepreneurs Tell Themselves Part of my problem was that my reality distortion field encompassed my relationships. While she stuck it out for seven years, she had no connection to the passion and excitement that was driving me; all she saw was a tired and stressed entrepreneur when I got home. The Adventure of a Lifetime.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 4, 2012

The reality is that the United States is still a nation of small businesses. While we were figuring out how to be incredibly more efficient in building new technology startups, three out out of 10 new small businesses will fail in 2 years, half fail within 5 years. of the ~6 million companies in the U.S.

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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. The word entrepreneur covers a lot of ground. It means someone who organizes, manages, and assumes the risks of a business. of all businesses. Make no little plans. Daniel Burnham.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 20, 2014

Part 1: Bend, Oregon Ecosystem and Entrepreneurs. So what types of entrepreneurs and startups exist in Bend? In addition to local entrepreneurs building startups, I found something else I wasn’t expecting in Bend: a deep pool of talented Valley transplants who’ve made their way to Bend – either during their careers or after.

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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. I’m in Australia and just spent time with some great entrepreneurs in Melbourne. Regional Ecosystems. Bay of Fires Tasmania.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 21, 2015

Passion and fearlessness — two key ingredients the latest guests on Entrepreneurs are Everywhere , my radio show on Sirius XM Channel 111, leveraged to build their companies. Steve : I want you to know that’s one of the key characteristics of a great entrepreneur. Betsy Corcoran. And download any of the past shows here.).

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 31, 2011

Women as Entrepreneurs. Students that age can master the basics of a small business. (Watching these girls gave me even more confidence about predictions of the future of entrepreneurship in the post When It’s Darkest, Men See the Stars.). Teaching entrepreneurship in middle school is an amazing achievement.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 6, 2011

Third, to share both thinking and practice as I learned how to teach entrepreneurs (the way one teaches artists and musicians.). An innovative entrepreneur put his company to work delivering the podcasts with his compliments.

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Steve Blank

JULY 28, 2011

The combination of Venture Capital and technology entrepreneurship is one of the great business inventions of the last 50 years. It provides private funds for untested and unproven technology and entrepreneurs. While most of these investments fail, the returns for the ones that win are so great they make up for the failures.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

Not understanding and agreeing what “Entrepreneur&# and “Startup” mean can sink an entire country’s entrepreneurial ecosystem. Who’s an entrepreneur? There are six distinct organizational paths for entrepreneurs: lifestyle business , small business, scalable startup, buyable startup, large company, and social entrepreneur.

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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.” Entrepreneur -“Well no but my product is much better than their product and I have this great idea….” Do you know how they create demand?

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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. Besides sharing tips for teaching traditional entrepreneurs the discussion also included how we could help Main Street businesses.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 10, 2010

Who is an entrepreneur really? It turns out that there are four distinct types of entrepreneurial organizations; s mall businesses , scalable startups , large companies and social entrepreneurs. Yet entrepreneurs in one class think that the others aren’t the “real” entrepreneurs. Small Business Entrepreneurship.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 4, 2011

In my short time in Chile, I spent time meeting with: Chilean entrepreneurs ; as part of Santiago’s Startup Weekend as well as EmprendeUC - DUOC New Ventures Contest Awards ceremony. There seemed to be very few who knew how to coach entrepreneurs and to build companies. Creating the Next Silicon Valley – The Chilean Experiment.

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Steve Blank

MAY 18, 2009

In this admittedly very unscientific survey I’ve found that between a quarter and half of the students I consider “hard-core&# entrepreneurs/founders (working passionately to found a company,) self-identified as coming from a less than benign upbringing. I’ve been surprised at the data. Comments and brickbats welcomed.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 17, 2020

I realized we had the ability to rapidly launch a large number of companies on the path of validating their business models. We could offer a 5-day version of the Lean LaunchPad / Hacking For Defense / National Science Foundation I-Corps class that’s trained tens of thousands of entrepreneurs. 3 Small Business.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 11, 2013

For many entrepreneurs “raising money” has replaced “building a sustainable business” as their goal. When you take money from investors their business model becomes yours. Entrepreneurs need to think about 1) when to raise money, 2) why to raise money and 3) who to take money from, 4) the consequences of raising money.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 19, 2010

The question is whether you are born with innate entrepreneurial talent or whether you can be taught to operate like an entrepreneur. 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.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 11, 2013

For many entrepreneurs “raising money” has replaced “building a sustainable business” as their goal. When you take money from investors their business model becomes yours. Entrepreneurs need to think about 1) when to raise money, 2) why to raise money and 3) who to take money from, 4) the consequences of raising money.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

The words “startup,” “entrepreneur,” and “innovation” are used fast, loose and furious by both parties in Washington. Third, the notion of a public/private partnership without giving entrepreneurs a seat at the policy table inside the White House is like telling the passengers they can fly the plane from their seats. There are 5.7

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Steve Blank

MAY 7, 2009

For those of you who don’t know, business plan competitions are held by universities who get their students to enter and compete to see who has the best business idea. In exchange, these VCs/companies get early looks at new deal flow and offer aspiring entrepreneurs feedback and advice on their business plan.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 19, 2016

In my neighborhood, successful entrepreneurship meant small businesses entrepreneurs. Before my parents divorced they had owned a small grocery store. No one I knew had ever started a company (other than a small business). I wouldn’t eat in a real restaurant until I went to college.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 19, 2016

In my neighborhood, successful entrepreneurship meant small businesses entrepreneurs. Before my parents divorced they had owned a small grocery store. No one I knew had ever started a company (other than a small business). I wouldn’t eat in a real restaurant until I went to college.

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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. Aligning their interests with their limited investors and the entrepreneurs they were investing in. into believing it was behind the Soviet Union in innovation.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 16, 2009

steve Siddharth Chawla , on April 16, 2009 at 11:51 pm Said: Sounds interesting.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2015

This shift from small businesses to corporations organized by function was the second structural shift in American commerce. By the 1950’s Shumpeter observed that in-house R&D had replaced the inventor-entrepreneur. For the best explanation of this see Chandler’s The Visible Hand.)

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Steve Blank

MAY 30, 2016

government has embraced Lean methodologies to reinvigorate its innovation efforts was the focus of the latest episode of my SiriusXM radio show, Entrepreneurs are Everywhere. America is full of entrepreneurs, inventor and dreamers. I don’t have a background as an entrepreneur. How the U.S. We need to continue that.

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