Steve Blank

JUNE 26, 2015

Here the company is essentially incubating a startup. Horizon 3 groups need to be physically separate from operating divisions (in a corporate incubator, or their own facility.) These innovators want to create new and potentially disruptive business models. Lean is The Engine for the Ambidextrous Organization.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

1871 Ranks 9th In The World In Survey Of Business Incubators – crowdspring.co/Xe1N6Y. 67 Open Source Replacements for Really Expensive Applications | Datamation – crowdspring.co/1yevQN7. Ways to think about watches – crowdspring.co/1wpIpQT. Apple Watch: Initial Thoughts and Observations – crowdspring.co/1maJA6k.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

But by taking advantage of open source, agile software, and iterative development, lean startups can operate with much less waste. One that is powered by three drivers, each of which is a part of a major trend: The use of platforms enabled by open source and free software. What are the characteristics of a lean startup?

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Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

Other smart companies are learning how to use Open Innovation pioneered by Henry Chesbrough who teaches here at EDADE. They can partner with suppliers, co-create with consumers, open-source key technologies, open their application programming interfaces, or run open incubators for customer ideas.

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Steve Blank

MAY 29, 2019

The easy part is, “Let’s have an incubator.” It’s taught at Stanford, Berkeley, Columbia and probably another hundred universities and colleges because I open-sourced the class and trained educators on how to teach it. A third is incubators and makers’ spaces.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Tim O’Reilly, Founder at O’Reilly Media and promoter of open source and Web 2.0 Capital Factory runs not only a tightly-knit co-working space, but also an incubator-accelerator type of organization with very founder-friendly terms. You don’t want to run out of gas on your trip, but you’re not doing a tour of gas stations.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 6, 2020

They took an open source approach, inviting thousands of collaborators from around the world to contribute potential solutions. None of this would have been possible without the open source contributions of thousands of scientists around the world. We are working on a open-source drug discovery project against COVID-19.

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 27, 2010

It took me all of 45 minutes to setup the program—I wrote up a syllabus for 5 sessions, solicited feedback from a dozen or so product managers I knew (most of whom volunteered to speak), and called up Micah at the NYU/Poly Incubator to get the space. 3) Open source your real estate. No revenues, no costs.

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www.reincubate.com

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Past contribution to one or more Open Source projects. Tactical Draw-up and control complete IT operational and capital expenditure budgets for IT. Understanding of relevant laws, regulations and information security best practices. © 1996 - 2010 Reincubate Limited.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 16, 2012

A while back I heard a talk by Dave McClure, a long-time angel investor, who also proclaims to be one of the “new breed” of venture capitalists in Silicon Valley, as CEO of 500Startups , which is either a micro-VC seed fund, or a startup incubator, or both. He is going gangbusters, and is now targeting a $50M second round of funding.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 18, 2013

While I had open-sourced all my lectures and put them online via Udacity , I was getting requests to teach other educators how teach the class. As part of each of the classes we open source our educators guide here. We’ll also offer a version for incubators and accelerators in New York, September 22-24 th.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2011

Recently I heard a talk by Dave McClure, a long-time angel investor, who also proclaims to be one of the “new breed” of venture capitalists in Silicon Valley, as CEO of 500Startups , which is either a micro-VC seed fund, or a startup incubator, or both. For VCs, early-stage means customer revenue is less than $10M. Business accelerator.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

And we’ve found a pretty remarkable way to use the Lean LaunchPad to organize corporate innovation/incubator groups. (We We opened source our teaching guide we use in the classes here.). My experiments in how to teach the Lean LaunchPad class have led to a 2 ½ day class for 75 educators a quarter (information here.)

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 4, 2016

Hacking for Diplomacy is not a product incubator for a specific technology solution. Like its sister class, Hacking for Defense , our goal is to open-source this class to other universities. Real Problems. In this class, student teams select from an existing set of problems provided by the Department of State.

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Gust

JULY 8, 2012

A while back I heard a talk by Dave McClure, a long-time angel investor, who also proclaims to be one of the “new breed” of venture capitalists in Silicon Valley, as CEO of 500Startups , which is either a micro-VC seed fund, or a startup incubator, or both. He is going gangbusters, and is now targeting a $50M second round of funding.

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Early Stage Finance Seed Stage Entrepreneur 177

Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

While at Jabber, Durand incubated the Jabber Software Foundation, a non-profit established to facilitate growth of the Jabber Open Source project. Prior to Ping Identity, Durand founded Jabber, Inc., an instant messaging and presence management software provider (acquired by Cisco in 2009). Prior to Jabber, Inc.,

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Steve Blank

JUNE 18, 2013

While I had open-sourced all my lectures and put them online via Udacity , I was getting requests to teach other educators how teach the class. As part of each of the classes we open source our educators guide here. We’ll also offer a version for incubators and accelerators in New York, September 22-24 th.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

Nearly all have abandoned hope in the "sure thing" and are stepping into what has traditionally been the Angel role of incubating startups. More and more VCs have deals in their portfolios that have long outlasted their investment value, and more and more VCs are seeking to unload these deals, at a loss, as reverse merger vehicles.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

Nearly all have abandoned hope in the "sure thing" and are stepping into what has traditionally been the Angel role of incubating startups. More and more VCs have deals in their portfolios that have long outlasted their investment value, and more and more VCs are seeking to unload these deals, at a loss, as reverse merger vehicles.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 20, 2011

Foundups : Michael Trout, from Fukui, Japan, pitched Foundups , which he claims will be a platform for open corporations. He talked about everything from raising funding for pre-seed entrepreneurs to get them to the seed stage, crowd funding, social media marketing and open source. You can't tell what the company does.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 4, 2016

Hacking for Diplomacy is not a product incubator for a specific technology solution. Like its sister class, Hacking for Defense , our goal is to open-source this class to other universities. Real Problems. In this class, student teams select from an existing set of problems provided by the Department of State.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Accelerators, hubs, cafes, open-sourcing, crowd-souring, maker spaces, Chief Innovation Officers, etc. The process recognizes that Innovation isn’t a single activity (an incubator, a class, etc.) Innovation sourcing : a list of problems/challenges, ideas, and technologies that might be worth investing in.

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mashable.com

AUGUST 31, 2010

Movies music myspace ONLINE VIDEO politics pop culture privacy Search small business social good social media social networking social networks software sports tech television trending tv twitter verizon video video games viral video web video Wordpress Yahoo youtube Join More Than 2.8

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mashable.com

JUNE 8, 2010

Movies music myspace ONLINE VIDEO politics pop culture privacy Search small business social good social media social networking social networks software sports tech television trending tv twitter verizon video video games viral video web video Wordpress Yahoo youtube Join More Than 2.8

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 18, 2014

We weren’t open source, but we appealed to the open source mindset. RW : Tell me about Founder.org. After more than two decades of no doubt killing yourself working crazy hours at startups, why the interest in a non-profit? Just because university is expensive doesn’t mean it’s not valuable for young entrepreneurs.

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mashable.com

AUGUST 31, 2010

work with the world’s leading pharmaceutical, bioscience, and medical device com.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Coworking Spaces - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , September 2, 2010 I've never been much of a fan of incubators. Betaworks is more than an incubator, but they have shown that they can make the incubation model work with projects like bit.ly ", they are aimed at convincing companies to use open source software.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

Cloud computing and the open source movements have brought down the costs of starting a company by more than 90%. This has led to the creation of incubators, accelerators and seed funds. The number of startups being created has increased by an order of magnitude.

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Venture Capital Technical Review LP Mobile 347

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 8, 2022

Some entrepreneurs, like Paul Graham , co-founder of Y-Combinator, and Dave McClure , founder of 500 Startups, mask their focus on multiple startups by running an incubator or accelerator, and providing seed funding for a number of individual efforts. With open-source tools and public APIs, every product is no longer owned by a given company.

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Seeing Both Sides

APRIL 30, 2012

With advances in cloud computing, open source infrastructure, development tools and general "Lean Start-Up" techniques, entrepreneurs need less capital than ever before. Hence, the rise of angels, super-angels, incubators, accelerators, micro-VCs and VC-led seed programs. And when entrepreneurs' needs change (i.e.,

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www.reincubate.com

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

These are Java (from Sun),NET (from Microsoft), and three Open Source options: PHP, Python and Ruby. Its a powerful object oriented language, and is effectively Open Source. Java can be used in both Microsoft or Open Source environments. PHP is a widely-used Open Source web scripting language.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 28, 2020

We as educators need to not treat solopreneurs or Main Street businesses as second-class citizens in our classrooms or incubators, or our meetups. At Ryerson the University incubators are open to entrepreneurs throughout the community, not just enrolled students. Main Street. University Experiments.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 6, 2019

Some entrepreneurs, like Paul Graham , co-founder of Y-Combinator, and Dave McClure , founder of 500 Startups, mask their focus on multiple startups by running an incubator or accelerator, and providing seed funding for a number of individual efforts. With open-source tools and public APIs, every product is no longer owned by a given company.

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Bandwidth Portfolio Cofounder Angel Investor 247

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 29, 2011

If you don’t want to read that post, the summary is: Open source computing drove computing costs down 90%, which spurred innovation in technology. Open cloud led by Amazon with their AWS services drove total operating costs down by 90%. The Blurring of Investment Lines. The Explosion in Early-Stage Innovation.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 22, 2009

The insights on customers and deployment methodologies have been fascinating, and I would like to hear your thoughts on co-founders & their relationships playing in to the other topics (for example, do you have the same 'no lone founders' rule that many of the incubators seem to adhere to?).

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

AUGUST 16, 2016

CPS is not a static framework, it’s an open source system and people are adding new tools all the time. Incubation needs to happen if you want breakthrough ideas. That’s one reason a lot of brainstorming simply doesn’t work — they’re not doing it right. And It Keeps On Changing and Adapting.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

is an AI-powered log analysis platform that offers the open source ELK Stack as an enterprise-grade cloud service with machine learning technology. Zebra Medical Vision was recently selected as one of the most Innovative AI companies for 2017 by Fastcompany. Logz.io (2014) – Logz.io

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