Steve Blank

AUGUST 27, 2009

This series of posts is a brief explanation of how we’ve evolved from Product Development to Customer Development to the Lean Startup. The Product Development Diagram Emerging early in the twentieth century, this product-centric model described a process that evolved in manufacturing industries.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 1, 2009

Sloan put in place GM’s management accounting system (borrowed from DuPont) that for the first time allowed the company to: 1) produce an annual operating forecast that compared each division’s forecast (revenue, costs, capital requirements and return on investment) with the company’s financial goals.

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

You can also find financial forecast discussions between the experts analyzing the pros and cons precisely. The curriculum was comprehensive and covered a wide range of topics, from product development to fundraising. There are specific fields as subgroups narrowing down the members to connect better.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 6, 2011

Anyone who is trying to innovate without knowing what's going to happen is an entrepreneur, their venture is a startup. Most of our management tools, like planning and forecasting, require a long and stable operating history. I believe entrepreneurship is the management discipline that deals with the domain of extreme uncertainty.

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Tim Keane

JUNE 13, 2006

In other words, if you are forecasting 100 orders in the next quarter, at $10,000 each, I’d ask how many potential orders there are in the market, whether there is any existing competitive experience, and how you derived your timing. Do you have assumptions about how long it will take to achieve each order? What it will cost? April 2013.

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Steve Blank

MAY 7, 2009

I finally understood how valuable these contests can be for students in cities or countries without a venture capital or entrepreneurial infrastructure. Over scrambled eggs and diet coke, I listened to this seasoned startup veteran describe the excitement of his students who came to the U.S. to compete.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 2, 2006

All too often we are enamored with how cool or sexy a technology is, invest lots of dollars to create that killer product, and sometimes forget that it is all about the people. Of course, any active venture capitalist can look into their existing portfolio of companies to determine what market really is.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

enabling you to expand on an already working business model), and if you’re in the extremely early stages of building your company, you still need to develop your product. Product development. When it comes to product development and marketing in the early stages of your tech startup, funding is optional.

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