Steve Blank

JUNE 19, 2014

I’ll open source the syllabus and teaching guide later this year.). identify financing vehicles before you need them. It’s open to NIH SBIR/STTR Phase 1 grantees. (Having these two federal research organizations working together is in itself a big deal.) The class is team based.

Lean 269

Lean SBIR Intellectual Property Customer Development 269

Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

Cheered on by finance professors, Wall Street analysts, investors and hedge funds, companies have learned how to make metrics like Internal Rate of Return look great by one; outsourcing everything, two, getting assets off their balance sheet, and three only investing in things that pay off fast.

Private Equity 325

Private Equity Metrics China Intellectual Property 325

Steve Blank

JUNE 26, 2015

To help Horizon 2 and 3 organizations navigate all the processes, procedures and metrics the company has built to support Horizon 1 activities, individuals from support organizations (legal, finance, procurement, etc.) are assigned to work inside Horizon 3 organizations. Horizon 1 operates on goals and incentives.

Lean 120

Lean Management Business Model Incubator 120

Steve Blank

JANUARY 25, 2010

How do we finance the company, etc. A Lean Startup is Eric Ries’s description of the intersection of Customer Development , Agile Development and if available, open platforms and open source. What’s the distribution channel. How do we price and position the product? How do we create end user demand?

Agile 335

Agile Startup Silicon Valley Business Model 335

Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

If it’s driven by profit then the ecosystem needs both entrepreneurs as well as Venture Finance. An entrepreneurial ecosystem is driven one of two ways; either by a crisis (i.e. innovation in the U.S. during World War II,) or during peacetime by profit. China now has plenty of both. To compare the two, in 2011 U.S. billion in all deals.

Silicon Valley 267

Silicon Valley China Venture Capital Merger 267

Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

If it’s driven by profit then the ecosystem needs both entrepreneurs as well as Venture Finance. An entrepreneurial ecosystem is driven one of two ways; either by a crisis (i.e. innovation in the U.S. during World War II,) or during peacetime by profit. China now has plenty of both. To compare the two, in 2011 U.S. billion in all deals.

Silicon Valley 159

Silicon Valley China Venture Capital Merger 159

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Accelerators, hubs, cafes, open-sourcing, crowd-souring, maker spaces, Chief Innovation Officers, etc. The framework has the team talking not just to potential customers but also with people responsible for legal, support, contracting, policy, and finance.

Community 212

Community Silicon Valley Technical Review Incubator 212