Steve Blank

JULY 14, 2020

Mango Lango – Mobile app that allows small businesses to reopen safely. MatchBook – Hiring platform structured similarly to dating apps. Remote Daily – Simplified employee feedback for small businesses. MemLove – Helping people grieve for lost loved ones.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 17, 2020

With the Covid-19 virus a worldwide pandemic, if you’re leading any startup or small business, you have to be asking yourself, “What’s Plan B? While the impact on small businesses and workers in the “gig-economy” hasn’t made the news, it will be worse for them. But next the question is, ‘What happens to my business?”.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 9, 2020

How would your organization increase collaboration between industry and government, especially at the startup and small company level? Most of our innovation comes from small businesses. We have rather Byzantine hiring processes. It’s absolutely vital to us at Department of Defense. But you have to connect with people.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 4, 2010

A lot of entrepreneurs think that their startup is the next big thing when in reality they’re just building a small business. They used Customer and Agile development to search for a scalable and repeatable business model to become a large company. of all businesses. Make no little plans. Daniel Burnham. In the U.S.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 1, 2020

Check if the the Paycheck Protection Program , ( here and here ) which provides 100% federally guaranteed loans to small businesses, can apply to your company. Or if you have sufficient cash, now is the time to hire great people who were never available. When hiring began again, everyone was relieved: “The worst is over.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 10, 2023

I personally sold the first big deals and hired the VP of sales who’s building the sales team in our New York office. They’re growing the number of accounts and the deal size, but it feels like we’re incrementally growing a small business, not heading for exponential growth. Lessons Learned.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 29, 2016

Sarah Calhoun has spent two decades building nonprofits and small businesses. She was the 2012 National Women in Business Champion for the Small Business Administration. In 2011, she served as a as a US Delegate to the APEC Women in Business Summit in San Francisco. Clips from their interviews are below.

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