Government Lean Non-Compete Silicon Valley 
Steve Blank
SEPTEMBER 5, 2018
It’s the antithesis of the Lean Startup. The mantra of “ first mover advantage ,” the idea that winners are the ones who are the first entrants in their market, became the conventional wisdom of investors in Silicon Valley.“ The Rise of the Lean Startup. After the crash, venture capital was scarce to non-existent.
Steve Blank
MAY 26, 2009
Government Regulations I turned to the class and said, “The rest of you can keep building your company and shipping your product because you don’t need to worry about government regulations. Competing with such companies is pure pleasure – just harp on their mis-understandings of the market. Non-linearity is approaching.
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Steve Blank
AUGUST 24, 2009
His wife, about my age, could have been a poster child for the stereotypical California hippie surfer, with politics that matched her style – antiwar, anti government, antiestablishment. But it was a bit incongruous to hear her get wound up and rail against our government and the very people we were all working for.
SoCal CTO
DECEMBER 1, 2010
Put likable, competent and passionate people on the front line. Competing To Win Deals - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , November 7, 2010 The venture capital business is highly competitive. Build Your Own Silicon Valley? This doesn’t make sense. If network B has 20 users than it’s value is 400 (20*20). Absolutely.
Austin Startup
JUNE 26, 2019
I’ve made a few grammatical and non-substantive updates for clarity. It’s my hope that some of it can be useful to others, specifically other under-represented founders or non-traditional markets. (I As a boot-strapped founder aka our biggest investor, one of the things I leaned into uncovering was the unknown. Lean into it.
Steve Blank
JULY 28, 2011
Silicon Valley was born in an era of applied experimentation driven by scientists and engineers. This approach would shape Silicon Valley’s entrepreneurial ethos: In startups, failure was treated as experience (until you ran out of money). And Stanford’s Lean LaunchPad class could do just that.
Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 8, 2009
Im writing this post from an airplane headed to Washington DC, where Ill be presenting at the Government 2.0 Im especially curious to gauge the reaction of the civilian and military representatives of our government. Ive been in a few government-themed meetings recently, so I know some of the standard answers.
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