Steve Blank

APRIL 23, 2018

The entrepreneur who founded and grew the largest startup in the world to $10 billion in revenue and got fired is someone you have probably never heard of. Today, if you look around the United States it’s hard to avoid Sloan. Who was the entrepreneur who founded what would become General Motors 16 years earlier, in 1904?

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Steve Blank

JUNE 12, 2020

We were lucky to get a team of mentors (VC’s and entrepreneurs) who selflessly volunteered their time to help coach the teams. And our course advisor – Tom Byers , Professor of Engineering and Faculty Director, STVP. Be sure to check out the other Hacking For Defense classes in universities in the U.S. and the U.K.

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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. The guests on today’s Entrepreneurs are Everywhere radio show explained how they’re working to do that. Javier Saade. Joining me on the latest show were.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

In 2007, I graduated United States Air Force Academy as a computer engineer and entered the Air Force’s acquisition corps , excited and confident about my ability to bring technology to bear for our airmen. Here’s Todd’s story of how we got there and progress to date. ——-. Not That Long Ago.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 21, 2010

BTW, the definition of entrepreneurship I describe at 2:50 into the video is described in detail in the post “ You’re Not a Real Entrepreneur.&# Translation: They write checks for $100 Million dollars a year.) Instead of a brawl it turned out to be collegial, entertaining and informative.

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Steve Blank

JULY 25, 2011

In the 1950’s the groundwork for a culture and environment of entrepreneurship were taking shape on the east and west coasts of the United States. The Stanford class introduced the first management tools for entrepreneurs built around the business model / customer development / agile development solution stack.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 10, 2009

A few caveats, this post is not legal advice, it’s not even advice, and it deals with law in the United States. It may seem full of legal definitions and terms but my two takeaways are: 1) Entrepreneurs need to know about these legal options, 2) Consulting an intellectual property attorney is a good move even before you get funded.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 15, 2016

Balancing business and family, and ensuring demand for your product were key lessons shared by two veteran entrepreneurs on today’s Entrepreneurs are Everywhere radio show. When I running the company) I would do extra travel to enhance the personal relationship with our customers across the United States.

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Steve Blank

JULY 28, 2011

It provides private funds for untested and unproven technology and entrepreneurs. The cultural tolerance for failure and experimentation, and a financial structure which balanced risk, return and obscene returns, allowed this system flourish in technology clusters in United States, particularly in Silicon Valley.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 15, 2016

Balancing business and family, and ensuring demand for your product were key lessons shared by two veteran entrepreneurs on today’s Entrepreneurs are Everywhere radio show. When I running the company) I would do extra travel to enhance the personal relationship with our customers across the United States.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 21, 2010

The Kauffman Foundation is the leading private funder of economic research related to growth and innovation in the United States. BTW, the definition of entrepreneurship I describe at 2:50 into the video is described in detail in the post “ You’re Not a Real Entrepreneur.&#. Filed under: Customer Development.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 17, 2011

Entrepreneurs from Japan, France and now Russia believed they could help startups in their country if the Four Steps to the Epiphany was available in their native tongue. Thousands of entrepreneurs are better for their efforts. All these translations have been crowd-sourced. They translated it at their own expense. Blame it On Eric.

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Steve Blank

MAY 29, 2019

Innovators are not entrepreneurs. My contribution has been, “Why don’t we design classes more closely modeled to what innovators and entrepreneurs actually do.” It was adopted by the National Science Foundation for commercializing science in the United States. .” The hard part is, “How do we deliver something?”.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 4, 2012

The reality is that the United States is still a nation of small businesses. Alex, vice provost for Innovation & Economic Development at Weber State University in Utah and completing his first year of teaching entrepreneurship. of the ~6 million companies in the U.S.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 1, 2009

If you look around the United States it’s hard to avoid Sloan. If you’re an entrepreneur you might be interested to know that when Sloan took over General Motors in 1923, it was already a $700 million dollar company (about $8.5 Durant was an amazing entrepreneur. It has happened to many entrepreneurs.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 11, 2012

Mentors (average age ~50) are an experienced entrepreneur located near the academic institution and has experience in transiting technology out of academic labs. If a commercial venture comes out of the I-Corps, it’s more than likely that the Entrepreneurial Lead will take an active role in the new company.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 7, 2012

While at the same time spreading the Lean LaunchPad entrepreneurship curriculum to campuses across the United States. The class is intensely and deliberately experiential to develop the mindset, reflexes, agility and resilience an entrepreneur needs to search for certainty in a chaotic world.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 27, 2009

In December 1941, the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor, and Germany declares war on the United States. That led me back to the history of radar in World War II – and a story you may not know. What Does WWII Have to Do with Silicon Valley? Just a quick history refresher.

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Steve Blank

JULY 20, 2015

Up until then] the capstone class – meaning the best class you could take for being an entrepreneur in a university – was how to write a business plan. This kind of makes it one of the largest accelerators in the United States, probably up there with TechStars and Y Combinator except it’s a U.S.

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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

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. They all engage in entrepreneurship.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 14, 2015

The latest guests on Entrepreneurs are Everywhere , my radio show on Sirius XM Channel 111, shared how a passion for food, and a personal need for modest but fashionable clothing fueled decisions to begin second careers as startup founders. And sometimes solving your own needs turns into a startup opportunity. Channeling a passion. (He)

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 24, 2009

By the time I came back to the United States, he was gone from the company. It’s been thirty years, but every once an awhile I still wonder what happened to the rest of their lives.

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Steve Blank

MAY 15, 2013

And what’s great about the United States… No other country embraces innovation and entrepreneurship quite like we do. By the way, every year I remind my students that great grades and successful entrepreneurs have at best a zero correlation – and anecdotal evidence suggests that the correlation may actually be negative.

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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 15, 2013

And what’s great about the United States… No other country embraces innovation and entrepreneurship quite like we do. By the way, every year I remind my students that great grades and successful entrepreneurs have at best a zero correlation – and anecdotal evidence suggests that the correlation may actually be negative.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 26, 2009

The motivation in the mid 1950’s for these new startups was a crisis – we were in the midst of the cold war and the United States military and intelligence agencies were rearming as fast as they could. Here’s a little history lesson, courtesy of serial entrepreneur Steve [.] play in the entrepreneurship ecosystem.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2015

In the first 50 years of commerce in the then-new United States, most businesses were general merchants , buying and selling all types of products as exporters, wholesaler, importers, etc. By the 1950’s Shumpeter observed that in-house R&D had replaced the inventor-entrepreneur. Institutional Adjustments.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Aligning their interests with their limited investors and the entrepreneurs they were investing in. Having the first earth satellite launched by a country that been portrayed as a third-world backwater with a bellicose foreign policy shocked the U.S. into believing it was behind the Soviet Union in innovation.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

The United States is now a debtor nation to China and that the bill is about to come due. The pundits say the American dream is dead and this next decade will see the further decline and fall of the West and in particular of the United States. It may be that all the doomsayers are right. But I don’t think so.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 11, 2022

VCs and entrepreneurs can play a role in addressing the challenge by shunning known sources of adversarial capital. Final Problem Statement: The United States Space Force lacks the supply chain and rapid launch capabilities needed to respond to contingencies in space. If you can’t see the presentation click here.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 26, 2020

I’m an entrepreneur and an implementation guy. In 2015, the Chief Technology Officer at the White House, Todd Park, mentioned I ought to meet with the Department of Defense who were thinking of creating the Defense Digital Service , a DOD version of United States Digital Service. I take a very practical approach to this.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Today the United States is in great power competition with China. After the celebratory champagne has been drunk and the confetti floats to the ground it’s helpful to put the CHIPS Act in context and understand the work that government and private capital have left to do.

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