Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2009

Never Get Even, Get Ahead With a set of orders from brand name customers, we had growing confidence that we had achieved product/market fit. We were within three months of formally announcing our company and products at a major industry trade show. making use of non disclosure agreement is both expensive and counter productive.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 20, 2013

They used agile engineering perfectly to continually test variants of their Minimum Viable Product (MVP’s) in front of customers often and early to get immediate feedback. In medical devices, understanding reimbursement, regulation and IP is critical. They learned a ton. And saved millions. Lessons Learned.

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Steve Blank

JULY 30, 2012

A recruiter found me, now in product marketing and wanted to introduce me to a hot startup making something called a workstation. But instead the minute I said, “my first startup used CATV coax to implement a local-area network for process control systems (which 35 years ago pre-Ethernet and TCP/IP was pretty cutting edge.)

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Steve Blank

MARCH 11, 2015

And when we do make bets, they’re small bets on incremental products or acquisitions that simply add to the bottom line.”. Startups have finite time and resources to find product/market fit before they run out of money. They’ve found product/market fit (what products customers want to buy). and how to price the product.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 25, 2022

The revenue of products that contain chips is worth tens of t rillions of dollars. Taken from the bottom up these semiconductor industry segments are: Chip Intellectual Property (IP) Cores. Chip Intellectual Property (IP) Cores. There are over 150 companies that sell chip IP Cores. Specialized Materials. Chip Foundries.

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Steve Blank

MAY 3, 2011

Partners are the external companies whose product or service combines with your Value Proposition to create a complete customer solution or “whole product&# to satisfy customers. Their minimum viable product would be “Trusted Advice on products tailored to your needs by people and groups relevant to you.”

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2010

Others emphasize how to build a product. If you’ve read any of my previous posts, you know I believe that: 1) a product is just a part of a startup, but understanding customers, channel, pricing, etc. Therefore we developed a class to teach students how to think about all the parts of building a business, not just the product.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

The Best Defense is a Good IP Strategy………… 65. The Leading Cause of Startup Death: The Product Development Diagram. Rabbits Out of the Hat – Product Line Extensions……… 189. The Press is Our Best Product……… 216. They Raised Money With My Slides?!……………

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Steve Blank

MAY 26, 2009

The time to product and scale of investment is radically different than other startup markets.&# You don’t need to worry about any Intellectual Property (IP) issues. You’re a startup, just get your product out the door.” In defining a product, you can easily move up or down and accidentally make a mess of your target market.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 8, 2015

These corporate Innovation Outposts monitor Silicon Valley for new innovative technologies and/or companies (as emerging threats or potential tools for disruption) and then take advantage of these innovations by creating new products or investing in startups. Startups are developing IP relevant to the disruption. Does it get spun out?

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Steve Blank

MAY 4, 2009

Every product marketer thought they should help define the product feature set, etc. All the strategic thinking in the world won’t make up for a missed revenue plan. In an early stage startup, instead of sales being up front, the point departments are likely to be product development and customer development.

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Steve Blank

MAY 17, 2022

Instead of building a model from scratch you can now buy , for common machine learning tasks, pretrained models from others and here , much like chip designers buying IP Cores.). Understanding how an AI works is essential to fostering trust and confidence in AI production models. Generative Design of Physical Products.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Nand changed the culture of the JAIC, bringing in Silicon Valley tools for product development, product management and for the first time a culture that focused on UI/UX, MVPs and continuous integration and deployment. One product at a time wasn’t going to change the trajectory of the DOD. Nand Mulchandani.

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