Steve Blank

MAY 26, 2009

The best entrepreneurship textbooks and blogs assume that advice to startups is generalizable. But as I learned from my students this “one-size-fits-all” approach does not work for all startups. Different market opportunities present radically different startup risks and costs. Just get out of the building.”

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

Since 2005 startup accelerators have provided cohorts of startups with mentoring, pitch practice and product focus. What’s been missing for everyone is: a common language for investors to communicate objectives to startups. Big Companies versus Startups: Durant versus Sloan Lean LaunchPad Life Sciences Teaching'

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Instead you need to find the patterns, where I can build a single piece of IP or technology and then “sell it” to all the combatant commands and services equally.” I thought about the job like a startup. We took all the colonels and the captains and said, “You are now going out there and finding the repeatable customer patterns.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 30, 2013

Doing so meant they would have to take risks for IP acquisition and customer/market risks outside their experience or comfort zone. I earnestly believe that large corporations should emulate Lean Startups (Business model design, Customer Development and Agile Engineering.) Developing a program to generate new ideas is the easy part.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

My blog also allowed me to indulge my interest in a few other subjects: The Secret History of Silicon Valley , thoughts on a career as an entrepreneur, observations about family and startups, etc. Startup Culture. Preparing for Chaos – the Life of a Startup……………… 15. It Wasn’t Just Me.

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Steve Blank

JULY 30, 2012

I really didn’t have much of a resume – four years in the Air Force , building a scram system for a nuclear reactor , a startup in Ann Arbor Michigan but not much else. It was at my second startup in Silicon Valley that my life and career took an interesting turn. This is a technology-driven company and your background sounds great.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Looking for a chance to run their own show, many of them left and founded startups. Noyce liked the kid, and for the next few years, Noyce met with him and coached him as he founded his first company and went through the highs and lows of a startup that caught fire. Steve Jobs and Robert Noyce. He was in his early fifties.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 20, 2013

In the end Knox, like a lot of startups in Life Science and Health Care, discovered that they had a multi-sided market. In medical devices, understanding reimbursement, regulation and IP is critical. Watch their Lesson Learned presentation below. Listen to the comments from Allan May the Device instructor at the end. Lessons Learned.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 11, 2015

I pointed out to Bob the irony – in a large company “fear of failure” inhibits speed and risk taking while in a startup “fear of failure” drives speed and urgency. Startups have finite time and resources to find product/market fit before they run out of money. In a startup “fear of failure” drives speed and urgency.

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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.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2010

I’ve introduced a new class at Stanford to teach engineers, scientists and other professionals how startups really get built. In contrast, startups search for a business model. (Or Or more accurately, startups are a temporary organization designed to search for a scalable and repeatable business model.)

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Steve Blank

MAY 3, 2011

The Stanford Lean LaunchPad class was an experiment in a new model of teaching startup entrepreneurship. Any IP you need to license? This post – part eight – was the last formal lecture. Parts one through seven of the lectures are here , Syllabus is here. How many people? Any hardware or software you need to buy?

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Steve Blank

MAY 4, 2009

In an early stage startup, instead of sales being up front, the point departments are likely to be product development and customer development. In an IP licensing business, legal and finance are the sharp end of the stick. Their own internal culture would tie them up in knots, and agile startups could run rings around them.

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