Steve Blank

OCTOBER 7, 2011

—— I was invited to Finland as part of Stanford’s Engineering Technology Venture Program partnership with Aalto University. I suggested that they might want to consider putting themselves out of the public funding business by using public capital to kick-start private venture capital firms, incubators and accelerators.

Finland 324

Finland Venture Capital Government Russia 324

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

After helping build the first Ethernet switch startup, I was attracted by Asynchronous Transfer Mode 25Mbit/sec technology, (ATM25) which was 2.5x The result: great success of my third startup, a load balancing technology for web servers back in the late 1990’s. faster than Ethernet and ran data but plus voice and video.

Japan 292

Japan Customer Development Developer Customer 292

Steve Blank

JUNE 20, 2022

How does a newly hired Chief Technology Officer (CTO) find and grow the islands of innovation inside a large company? I just had coffee with Anthony, a friend who was just hired as the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of a large company (30,000+ people.) Anthony concluded that the incubator in his new company was no exception.

CTO 354

CTO Technical Cofounder CTO Hire Incubator 354

Steve Blank

MAY 30, 2016

If you’ve been reading along so far, you know that this class is not an extended hackathon nor is it a 10-week long incubator. Or conversely business team members draw timelines and costs without a deep understanding of the technology hurdles. Second: I also gave the commencement speech at the NYU engineering school here.

Silicon Valley 120

Silicon Valley San Diego Technical Review Incubator 120

Steve Blank

JUNE 26, 2015

Here the company looks for new opportunities in its existing business model (trying a different distribution channel, using the same technology with new customers or selling existing customers new products, etc.) Here the company is essentially incubating a startup. In Horizon 2 a company extends its core business.

Lean 120

Lean Management Business Model Incubator 120

Steve Blank

MAY 29, 2019

The easy part is, “Let’s have an incubator.” But they’ve taken that basic technology past fabrics into multiple markets – medical, filtration, fibers, cables, etc. A third is incubators and makers’ spaces. The first step is where the ideas or technology come from.

Incubator 331

Incubator Lean Programming Government 331

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

We just finished our Lean LaunchPad class at UC Berkeley’s engineering school where many of the teams embedded machine learning technology into their products. Early entrants get sold to corporate acquirers at inflated prices for their teams, their technology, and their tools. . Producers of the technology shake out or fail.

Artificial Inteligence 318

Artificial Inteligence Lean Exit Strategy Startup 318

Steve Blank

MAY 18, 2020

Do you have a startup idea or new technology that you’d like to learn how to bring to market in the post-pandemic economy? Students who take the Hacking 4 Recovery class will have an opportunity to be apply for affiliated summer startup accelerators and incubators, including Pear VC, Stanford Venture Studio, H4XLabs and others.

Lean 436

Lean Business Model Affiliate Incubator 436

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

They were trying to keep up with providing the core services necessary to run the current business and at the same time deal with a flood of well-meaning but uncoordinated ideas about new features, technologies and innovations coming at them from all directions. Ironically, by standing still, they were falling behind.

Incubator 312

Incubator Curation Engineer Government 312

Steve Blank

JUNE 6, 2016

Innovation outposts in Silicon Valley allow big companies to sense and respond to rapid changes in technology. Prior to his investing and advisory career, Evangelos spent 20+ years in high-technology industries, in executive roles spanning operations, marketing, sales and engineering. He was the CEO of two startups.

Silicon Valley 120

Silicon Valley Entrepreneur Fractional CTO Analytics 120

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 30, 2014

The landscape for how to turn life science and health care technologies into viable companies has changed more in the last 3 years than in the last 30. ———– The National Institutes of Health recognizes that Life Science/Health Care commercialization has two components: the science/technology, and the business model.

San Diego 261

San Diego North Carolina Chicago Lean 261

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 26, 2013

While a few of the I-Corps teams are in web/mobile/cloud, most are working on advanced technology projects that don’t make TechCrunch. It’s success is measured not only by the technologies that leave the labs, but how many U.S. in Science or Nature. university lab. It’s scaled across the U.S.

Lean 262

Lean Washington Incubator Agile 262

Steve Blank

JUNE 11, 2012

Mentors (average age ~50) are an experienced entrepreneur located near the academic institution and has experience in transiting technology out of academic labs. The NSF I-Corps Lean LaunchPad class has different goals then the same class taught in a university or incubator. The output of the NSF I-Corps class provides a proxy.).

Lean 248

Lean Incubator Business Model Michigan 248

Steve Blank

APRIL 12, 2013

The first post described how China built a science and technology infrastructure to support advanced weapons systems development. The first wave of startups began when R&D centers and universities began to provide the technology and seed capital for new startups that were spin-outs or spin-offs. Like the U.S.

Venture Capital 271

Venture Capital China Offshore SBIR 271

Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

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. Other smart companies are learning how to use Open Innovation pioneered by Henry Chesbrough who teaches here at EDADE.

Private Equity 325

Private Equity Metrics China Business Model 325

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 3, 2014

Like all great Silicon Valley companies they started with a technology and guessed who the customers will be. When I teach in universities I’m not running an incubator. After class they took this idea and formed a company – Blue River Technology. ” Lee Redden – Blue River Technology. Massive pivot.

Lean 272

Lean Silicon Valley Customer Development Incubator 272

Steve Blank

APRIL 7, 2011

Students ; presented to entrepreneurship classes teaching technology-driven Scalable startups as well as students interested in Social Entrepreneurship. Incubators : toured the TechArb , the engineering student accelerator, and the Michigan Venture Center in the University’s Tech Transfer Office. It offers 35 entrepreneurship courses.

Michigan 307

Michigan Silicon Valley Venture Capital Incubator 307

Steve Blank

APRIL 25, 2016

Great technical teams like Fishreel often want to use the class as a product incubator when we want them to spend an equal amount of time learning about the rest of the Mission Model canvas. What we’re trying to prevent is to have teams give the DOD/IC yet another great technology demo. They have plenty of those.

Afghanistan 120

Afghanistan Iraq Technical Review Social Media 120

Steve Blank

APRIL 25, 2016

Great technical teams like Fishreel often want to use the class as a product incubator when we want them to spend an equal amount of time learning about the rest of the Mission Model canvas. What we’re trying to prevent is to have teams give the DOD/IC yet another great technology demo. They have plenty of those.

Afghanistan 120

Afghanistan Iraq Technical Review Social Media 120

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 17, 2015

In the second stage, it moves into Investing, Inventing, Incubating and Acquiring technologies and companies, and in the third stage building product(s ). Stage 1: Networking and Partnering – the Technology Connectors. Academics, consultants, incubators. see the previous post.).

Silicon Valley 120

Silicon Valley Incubator Acquisition Portfolio 120

Steve Blank

AUGUST 4, 2016

In a world of complex threats, dynamic opportunities, and diffuse power, effective diplomacy and development require institutions that adapt, embrace technology, and allow for experimentation to ensure continuous learning. Hacking for Diplomacy is not a product incubator for a specific technology solution. National Service.

Lean 160

Lean Agile Government Africa 160

Steve Blank

MARCH 8, 2011

We made clear that this class wasn’t an incubator. The product would leverage GPS and laser-based technologies and could be used on existing mower or farm equipment or built into new units. We tried to weed out those that were unsure why they were there as well as those trying to build yet another fad of the week web site.

Lean 298

Lean Business Model Customer Development Guinea 298

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Our defense department and intelligence community owned proprietary advanced tools and technology. We and our contractors had the best technology domain experts. Army’s Rapid Equipping Force on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan finding and deploying technology solutions against agile insurgents. Newell ran the U.S.

Community 212

Community Silicon Valley Technical Review Incubator 212

Steve Blank

JULY 2, 2015

military can work together – for access to advanced technology and to learn how to move with agility, speed and urgency. Takashi Tsutsumi has been a venture capitalist 15 years incubating and investing in startups in Japan. Takashi Tsutsumi and Masato Iino , founders of Learning Entrepreneur’s Lab in Japan.

Channel 120

Channel Japan Bosnia Silicon Valley 120

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 29, 2015

He left EA in 2009 to start Vaporware Labs, a product incubator that mostly failed, but also created products including Commonred, which was acquired by Income.com in 2012. … We tried apps, we tried different technologies, we tried different formats, and nothing really worked. ” … This is four years ago. .

Las Vegas 120

Las Vegas Entrepreneur Cofounder Nevada 120

Steve Blank

JANUARY 22, 2013

Lean LaunchPad Colombia starts again today in Bogota with 25 more teams of tech entrepreneurs and at 25 mentors from the country’s universities, incubators, and chambers of commerce. Second, technology education is more skill-based, graduating lots of smart coders and IT managers, but not a lot of true development visionaries.

Colombia 321

Colombia Lean Silicon Valley Coder 321

Steve Blank

APRIL 11, 2013

The previous post described how China built its science and technology infrastructure. This post is about the how the Chinese government engineered technology clusters. Torch has four major parts: Innovation Clusters , Technology Business Incubators (TBIs), Seed Funding (Innofund) and Venture Guiding Fund.

Programming 278

Programming Technical Review SBIR China 278

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

We just finished our Lean LaunchPad class at UC Berkeley’s engineering school where many of the teams embedded machine learning technology into their products. Early entrants get sold to corporate acquirers at inflated prices for their teams, their technology, and their tools. . Producers of the technology shake out or fail.

Artificial Inteligence 120

Artificial Inteligence Lean Exit Strategy Startup 120

Steve Blank

APRIL 12, 2013

The first post described how China built a science and technology infrastructure to support advanced weapons systems development. The first wave of startups began when R&D centers and universities began to provide the technology and seed capital for new startups that were spin-outs or spin-offs. Like the U.S.

Venture Capital 163

Venture Capital China Offshore SBIR 163

Steve Blank

AUGUST 4, 2016

In a world of complex threats, dynamic opportunities, and diffuse power, effective diplomacy and development require institutions that adapt, embrace technology, and allow for experimentation to ensure continuous learning. Hacking for Diplomacy is not a product incubator for a specific technology solution. National Service.

Lean 120

Lean Agile Government United States 120

Steve Blank

JANUARY 22, 2013

Lean LaunchPad Colombia starts again today in Bogota with 25 more teams of tech entrepreneurs and at 25 mentors from the country’s universities, incubators, and chambers of commerce. Second, technology education is more skill-based, graduating lots of smart coders and IT managers, but not a lot of true development visionaries.

Colombia 271

Colombia Lean Silicon Valley Coder 271

Steve Blank

AUGUST 20, 2013

government is the leading payer for most of health care, and under ObamaCare the government’s role in reimbursing for medical technology will increase. Companies must pay a medical device excise tax of 2.3% on medical device revenues, regardless of profitability delays or cash-flow breakeven.

Startup 294

Startup Venture Capital Lean IPO 294

Steve Blank

AUGUST 17, 2009

Other universities doing classified ELINT and Electronic Warfare work attended including University of Michigan, Georgia Institute of Technology and Cornell. Stanford Industrial Park was the first technology office park set up to house local and out of state microwave and electronics startups.

Silicon Valley 142

Silicon Valley RSS California Government 142

Steve Blank

APRIL 11, 2013

The previous post described how China built its science and technology infrastructure. This post is about the how the Chinese government engineered technology clusters. Torch has four major parts: Innovation Clusters , Technology Business Incubators (TBIs), Seed Funding (Innofund) and Venture Guiding Fund.

Technical Review 170

Technical Review Programming SBIR China 170

Steve Blank

AUGUST 29, 2016

As part of the Department of Defense, the NGA acquires technology and information systems through the traditional DOD’s acquisition system – which has been described as the antitheses of rapid customer discovery and agile practices. Putting lean principles into NGA’s acquisition practices.

Lean 177

Lean Silicon Valley Government Acquisition 177

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Technology cycles have become a treadmill, and for startups to survive they need to be on a continuous innovation cycle. However, there was no way for founders to share this information with other founders (this was life before the Internet, incubators and accelerators). Technology Cycles Measured in Years.

Founder 245

Founder Technical Review CTO Hire IPO 245

Steve Blank

AUGUST 29, 2016

As part of the Department of Defense, the NGA acquires technology and information systems through the traditional DOD’s acquisition system – which has been described as the antitheses of rapid customer discovery and agile practices. Putting lean principles into NGA’s acquisition practices.

Lean 177

Lean Silicon Valley Government Acquisition 177