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. Before that, restaurateurs would never compare California with France. It was “France is great” and “California is jug wine.”

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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. Before that, restaurateurs would never compare California with France. It was “France is great” and “California is jug wine.”

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Army veterans and mid-career MBAs hailing not just from the United States but from countries including Saudi Arabia, India, France, Israel and Austria. State Department and see what products you can come up with to solve them. In Week 4, a number of teams were sketching out minimal viable products, or MVPs.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 2, 2009

Think about the baseball Steroid scandal, Tour de France doping scandal, housing bubble, etc.) Shipping 8 months early, with only half a product! Don’t confuse or rationalize “relentless and focused&# with cheating. Shortcuts are easy. But besides being morally wrong, in the end they come back to bite you big time.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Army veterans and mid-career MBAs hailing not just from the United States but from countries including Saudi Arabia, India, France, Israel and Austria. State Department and see what products you can come up with to solve them. In Week 4, a number of teams were sketching out minimal viable products, or MVPs.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 3, 2009

To give our leadership an estimate of the Soviet’s nuclear production capacity, the CIA also had to estimate how many nuclear weapons could the Soviet Union make. Where were their production facilities? The military needed to answer these same questions about the nuclear armed missiles the Soviets were putting on their submarine force.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 12, 2016

These solutions, called Minimal Viable Products (MVP’s), are what allow the teams to become extremely agile and responsive. As they came to understand their problems more deeply, they refined their solutions into the final products we saw. At first the solutions were nothing more than drawings, wireframes or PowerPoint slides.

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