Steve Blank

AUGUST 4, 2016

State Department and asks students to use Lean Methods to test their understanding of the problem and deliver rapid-fire innovative solutions to pressing diplomacy, development and foreign policy challenges. Like its sister class, Hacking for Defense , our goal is to open-source this class to other universities.

Lean 164

Lean Government Agile Africa 164

Hearpreneur

APRIL 13, 2022

One of the most important lessons entrepreneurs can learn from Dropbox is to adopt the lean start-up methodology and start. He has also been an outspoken advocate for the power of collaboration and open-source software. The company has three large operations across the world, with 20 smaller operations across the US.

Artificial Inteligence 77

Artificial Inteligence Entrepreneur Technical Review Software Review 77

Steve Blank

AUGUST 4, 2016

State Department and asks students to use Lean Methods to test their understanding of the problem and deliver rapid-fire innovative solutions to pressing diplomacy, development and foreign policy challenges. Like its sister class, Hacking for Defense , our goal is to open-source this class to other universities.

Lean 120

Lean Government Agile Africa 120

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Team 1: Precision Match (AI for DoD Operations) Click here to see the presentation. Team 3: Open-Source AI Click here to see a summary of the presentation. Their policy presentations are below. The class is as exhausting to teach as it to take. We have an awesome set of teaching assistants.

Technology 270

Technology China Artificial Inteligence Russia 270

Up and Running

OCTOBER 7, 2014

You probably don’t have a big portion of your income that you can tuck away as savings, and you welcome opportunities to make your operations more cost-effective. Use Open Source and Cloud Computing. Sourceforge.net has an index of open source options. Review your operating expenses. “Lean is in.

South Africa 157

South Africa Software Review Green Technical Review 157

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 29, 2009

I hope to show why lean and agile techniques actually reduce the negative impacts of technical debt and increase our ability to take advantage of its positive effects. Leverage product development with open source and third parties. For example, early on at IMVU, we incorporated in tons of open source projects.

Technical Review 168

Technical Review Software Review San Francisco Lean 168

Steve Blank

MAY 29, 2019

Lean LaunchPad class developed for Stanford. And the Lean LaunchPad class I developed at Stanford was the first such class. I believe the analogy is identical for entrepreneurship.The capstone entrepreneurship classes like NSF I-Corps or a Lean LaunchPad class, are for those who have already decided they want to be entrepreneurs.

Incubator 332

Incubator Lean Programming Government 332

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 6, 2020

As Alpha explained, it's "not in any way tied to PostEra's commercial operations. 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.

Artificial Inteligence 60

Artificial Inteligence Open Source Cofounder Design 60

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 16, 2012

If you are new to the entrepreneurial world of startups, you are likely confused by the terminology of seed-stage, lean startups, micro-VCs, and Super Angels. Lean startup. Lean startups operate on minimal money, an open source environment, and assume multiple iterations, with customer feedback, to get it right.

Early Stage 253

Early Stage Finance Seed Stage Entrepreneur 253

This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 27, 2010

If schools are going to participate in the growth of NYC’s innovation ecology, they’re going to have to change the way they operate, or they’re going to get lapped and left behind. 3) Open source your real estate. How does the average Lean Startup Meetup get event space at a school?

New York 132

New York CTO Hire Technical Review New York City 132

blog.chrisomeara.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

From a development and operations perspective, the common element in successful software businesses seems to be the technical leader. They tend to know the operations side of a software business well enough to be the one overseeing deploys, crafting the infrastructure plans, and monitoring the health of the product.

Fractional CTO 40

Fractional CTO CTO Hire Startup Cofounder 40

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 18, 2012

Now, with open source software components, and low-cost development tools, the same job can be done by one good hacker for a few thousand dollars. Founders now routinely use their home to operate their startup until they are well into the revenue phase. Facilities and staff. Of course, a word of caution is also in order here.

Cost 255

Cost Burn Rate SEM Startup 255

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2011

If you are new to the entrepreneurial world of startups, you are likely confused by the terminology of seed-stage, lean startups, micro-VCs, and Super Angels. Lean startup. Lean startups operate on minimal money, an open source environment, and assume multiple iterations, with customer feedback, to get it right.

Early Stage 231

Early Stage Seed Stage Angel Investor Silicon Valley 231

Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

Lean Startups/Back to Basics (2000-2010): No IPO’s, limited VC cash, lack of confidence and funding fuels “lean startup” era with limited M&A and even less IPO activity. There was no repeatable methodology, startups and their VC’s still operated like startups were simply a smaller version of a large company. Visibility.

Internet 334

Internet IPO Silicon Valley Agile 334

Steve Blank

JANUARY 26, 2016

Join a select cross-disciplinary class that will put you hands-on with the masters of lean innovation to help bring rapid-fire innovative solutions to address threats to our national security. Targeting, assessments, technology, recipes, and tactics all flow at the speed of a Lean Startup. Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, CIA, NSA.

Silicon Valley 120

Silicon Valley North Korea Agile Lean 120

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Now, with open source software components, and low-cost development tools, the same job can be done by one good hacker for a few thousand dollars. Founders now routinely use their home to operate their startup until they are well into the revenue phase. Facilities and staff. Of course, a word of caution is also in order here.

Entrepreneur 235

Entrepreneur Burn Rate SEM Social Network 235

Gust

JULY 8, 2012

If you are new to the entrepreneurial world of startups, you are likely confused by the terminology of seed-stage, lean startups, micro-VCs, and Super Angels. Lean startup. Lean startups operate on minimal money, an open source environment, and assume multiple iterations, with customer feedback, to get it right.

Early Stage 177

Early Stage Finance Seed Stage Entrepreneur 177

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 22, 2020

They've brought together a group of passionate volunteers across engineering, data science, content strategy, design, logistics and supply chain and disaster response to assist with open source solutions. 16:54) Jen discusses making open source tools. (19:16) We're no longer operating at the speed of government.

New Jersey 60

New Jersey Government CTO America 60

Gust

JUNE 10, 2012

Now, with open source software components, and low-cost development tools, the same job can be done by one good hacker for a few thousand dollars. Founders now routinely use their home to operate their startup until they are well into the revenue phase. Facilities and staff. Of course, a word of caution is also in order here.

Cost 139

Cost Burn Rate SEM Startup 139

Genuine VC

JANUARY 3, 2013

Look back to the reasons why there was a Cambrian explosion of seed funding in the first place – a dramatic reduction in the initial capital requirements to launch a new company because of cloud hosting infrastructure, social graph distribution platforms, open source and low-cost development tools/methods, etc.

Seed Stage 166

Seed Stage Venture Capital Audience New York 166

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Some are strategic peers, some are near peers in specific areas, some are threats as non-state disrupters operating with no rules. Together Pete, Joe Felter and I created Hacking for Defense , a nationwide program to teach university students how use Lean methodologies to solve defense and national security problems.

Community 227

Community Silicon Valley Technical Review Incubator 227

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

I’m teaching my first non-lean start up class in a decade at Stanford next week; Technology, Innovation and Modern War : Keeping America’s Edge in an Era of Great Power Competition. As each new technology created new military systems, new operational concepts were developed (bows and arrows were used differently than rocks, etc.).

Artificial Inteligence 374

Artificial Inteligence Technology North Korea Iran 374

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 8, 2022

Both these roles require unique skills, but both can benefit from operating in the other mode. Allocating resources, financial and operational, between divisions has long been a strategy for conglomerates, and can work just as well for savvy entrepreneurs. Learn to manage resources like multi-divisional corporations.

Bandwidth 362

Bandwidth Entrepreneur Portfolio Cofounder 362

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

Hes a new employee, and he was not properly trained in TDD So far, this isnt much different from the kind of analysis any competent operations team would conduct for a site outage. For my first time, it was scalability problems and our operations team. why didnt operations get paged? How do you get started with five whys?

Software Review 167

Software Review Technical Review San Francisco Continuous Deployment 167

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

Beyond just those who will be hearing about the lean startup for the first time, Im expecting to shake a lot of hands and have a lot of interesting side conversations. In Computer Science research, it is often better to open source an innovation than to go through the process of protecting it and then licensing it to a new startup.

DC 90

DC Washington San Francisco SBIR 90

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

I walk through below how progressive investors are using technology and analytics throughout all of their operations. We are also seeing technology evaluation as an increasingly important part of LP operational due diligence. To learn more about this space, I suggest join an online community I co-founded, PEVCTech. .

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 19, 2010

No, wait, I'm sorry, the real question is: What are you going to do when there are four totally free, open-source competitors? You don't have an "edge" just because you're passionate, hard-working, or "lean.". We made an image browser with thumbnail previews so you didn't have to open each file individually to see what it was.

Software Review 325

Software Review Technical Review Development Team Review Bolivia 325

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 6, 2019

Both these roles require unique skills, but both can benefit from operating in the other mode. Allocating resources, financial and operational, between divisions has long been a strategy for conglomerates, and can work just as well for savvy entrepreneurs. Learn to manage resources like multi-divisional corporations.

Bandwidth 247

Bandwidth Portfolio Cofounder Angel Investor 247

crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Branding provides a reassuring level of professionalism that very small operations may struggle to establish. To create a smart and effective fee structure, you have to start by knowing how much it costs you to run your business (your operating costs). But, your operating costs are only a starting point.

Small Business Administration 86

Small Business Administration Small Business Social Media Elevator Pitch 86

Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 4, 2009

Im talking about the actual data-fetching operation. This information is normally maintained by your operations team. We can take advantage of the many open source libraries out there that dont scale especially well, and write as much non-scalable code as we want. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0.

San Francisco 151

San Francisco Architecture Startup Database 151

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%. They should start “lean.&# This led to an explosion in startups.

Venture Capital 296

Venture Capital Software LP Early Stage 296

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 2, 2017

Both these roles require unique skills, but both can benefit from operating in the other mode. Allocating resources, financial and operational, between divisions has long been a strategy for conglomerates, and can work just as well for savvy entrepreneurs. Learn to manage resources like multi-divisional corporations.

Bandwidth 152

Bandwidth Portfolio Angel Investor API 152

betashop.com

OCTOBER 8, 2012

At Fab, our virtual product is our website & apps, our physical products are the merchandise we sell, and our experience product is our operations and service. Do they operate in silos or do they foster teamwork and collaboration? I’m not saying don’t leverage open-source or established platforms. Manages Horizontal.

Technical Review 108

Technical Review Technology Software Review Valuation 108

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 1, 2013

Both these roles require unique skills, but both can benefit from operating in the other mode. Allocating resources, financial and operational, between divisions has long been a strategy for conglomerates, and can work just as well for savvy entrepreneurs. Learn to manage resources like multi-divisional corporations.

Bandwidth 230

Bandwidth Entrepreneur Portfolio Angel Investor 230

crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 21, 2010

3 Rules for Building Features in a Lean Startup – [link]. Facebook the operating system, or what @shivsingh has to do w/ polka-dot bikini swimsuits – [link]. Government releases open source code – [link]. How To Name Your Company – [link]. What Makes A Great Product Leader? – [link].

Social Media 93

Social Media Small Business Design Media 93

Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2009

And when I wasn’t reading, I was also teaching operations which gave me a pretty good understanding of what we were looking for on the other side. But when the targets lit up, the music and chatter would stop, and the communications would get very professional. Reply Top Posts « WordPress.com , on April 14, 2009 at 5:12 pm Said: [.]

Silicon Valley 276

Silicon Valley RSS California Washington 276

VC Cafe

JUNE 18, 2012

Applicaster helps content owners, broadcasters, cable companies and mobile operators of all sizes deliver innovative and profitable mobile broadcast experiences. Our mission is to help content owners, broadcasters, cable companies and mobile operators of all sizes deliver innovative and profitable mobile experiences.

Securities and Exchange Commission 133

Securities and Exchange Commission Technical Review Software Review 133