Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2021

Although the class was run completely online, and even though they were suffering from Zoom fatigue, the 10 teams of 42 students collectively interviewed 1,142 beneficiaries, stakeholders, requirements writers, program managers, industry partners, etc. – while simultaneously building a series of minimal viable products.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 30, 2012

Today we are announcing the biggest entrepreneurial program ever launched – Startup Weekend Next. The Lean LaunchPad Class. You may have read my previous posts about the Lean LaunchPad entrepreneurship class. I’m partnered with four great organizations to deliver the program. Hands-On in 100’s of Cities.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 26, 2014

We’ve pivoted our Lean LaunchPad / I-Corps curriculum. — Over the last three years the Lean LaunchPad class has started to replace the last century’s “how to write a business plan” classes as the foundation for entrepreneurial education. . The Lean LaunchPad is now being taught in over 100 universities.

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Intellectual Property Lean IP Open Source 286

Steve Blank

JUNE 26, 2015

—– Lean Innovation Management. In the last five years “ Lean Startup ” methodologies have enabled entrepreneurs to efficiently build a startup by searching for product/market fit rather than blindly trying to execute. Companies pursuing innovation can Buy, Build, Partner or use Open Innovation. Here’s how.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 11, 2018

As we put the final touches on Lean Startup Conference 2018 , I wanted to take a moment to share more about some of the panels, workshops, and events. For the whole program, please take a look here. That’s the growth management strategy that prioritizes speed over efficiency in an environment of uncertainty as an organization scales.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Our guest this week on #TWiVC was Dana Settle , partner at Greycroft Partners , a venture capital firm with offices in New York and Los Angeles. Another topic we debated early in the program was “lean startup” vs. “ fat startup ” where we both took the obvious hedge and said “it depends.” OTHER DEALS: 1.

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Partner New York City Cofounder Syndicate 240

Up and Running

JULY 8, 2016

Learn programming and build it yourself. The type of person you’ll need to partner with is in extremely high demand, so even if you do find someone, it’s going to be difficult to convince them to join your team. See Also: How to Find a Business Partner. How long does it really take to learn programming? like I did.

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Programming Technical Cofounder Cofounder Technical Review 74

Steve Blank

MAY 19, 2021

To help a large Defense organization wrestle with how to increase the velocity of innovation in their ranks Steve Blank and I spent the better part of last week with our heads together reviewing everything we learned in the five years since we merged the concepts of problem curation and Lean while launching the innovation pipeline.

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Curation Technical Review Lean Australia 349

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

In his Harvard Business Review article summing up his tenure, Immelt recalls that the two things that influenced him most were Marc Andreessen’s 2011 Wall Street Journal article “ Why Software Is Eating the World, ” and Eric Ries’s book The Lean Startup. Are lean innovation and the Startup Way a failure in large companies?

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Institutional Investors Dividend Stock Technical Review 247

Steve Blank

AUGUST 21, 2013

We’re going to test this hypothesis by teaching a Lean LaunchPad class for Life Sciences and Health Care (therapeutics, diagnostics, devices and digital health) this October at UCSF with a team of veteran venture capitalists. The teams that took the Lean Launchpad class – get ready for this – had a 60% success rate.

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SBIR Technical Review Lean Startup 318

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 19, 2012

Guest post by Sarah Milstein, co-host of The Lean Startup Conference. At a party in NYC recently, I was challenged by a VC to name the biggest company currently using Lean Startup practices. The ecomagination program at GE applies similar open innovation methods to a different problem: the environment and energy use.

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Lean Saudi Arabia Startup Technical Review 167

Steve Blank

JANUARY 22, 2014

Dino Vendetti a VC at Bay Partners, moved up to Bend, Oregon on a mission to engineer Bend into a regional technology cluster. Over the years Dino and I brainstormed about how Lean entrepreneurship would affect regional development. Filed under: Customer Development , Lean LaunchPad , Science and Industrial Policy , Venture Capital.

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Early Stage Silicon Valley Oregon Technical Review 290

YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 28, 2020

If your community attracts top talent and businesses, then your company’s resources, networking opportunities, and growth partners all improve. Through a public-private partnership, or PPP, Ameren coordinates an accelerator program focused on sustainable and smart technology.

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Los Angeles Green San Francisco Community 218

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

NYU has adopted the Lean LaunchPad ® class as a standard entrepreneurship course across twelve different schools/colleges within the University. Over 1,000 students a year are learning lean startup concepts. The Educators Program is a 2½ day class that teaches faculty how to create and teach their own Lean LaunchPad class.)

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Lean New York City New York Customer Development 273

Steve Blank

JUNE 18, 2013

The Lean LaunchPad entrepreneurship curriculum has caught fire. It’s called the Lean Startup. So my book and Berkeley class turned into the Lean LaunchPad class in the Stanford Engineering school. Then in July 2011, the National Science Foundation read my blog posts on the Lean LaunchPad class. Victor Hugo.

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Lean Agile Customer Development Business Model 291

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

My good friend Alexander Osterwalder , the inventor of the business model canvas (one of foundations of the Lean Methodology) has written a playbook (along with his associate partner Tendayi Viki ,) From Innovation Theater to Growth Engine to explain how to build and implement repeatable innovation processes inside a company. .

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Portfolio Business Model Metrics Programming 373

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Aaron Dignan --who has described himself as "obsessed with organizational adaptivity" --is one of the speakers at this year’s Lean Startup Conference in Las Vegas , where he’ll be talking about How to Reinvent Your Organization. and the ones who say, "Okay, we’ve got to get with the program here."? What are my assumptions?

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 20, 2011

In July I got a call from Errol Arkilic , a program manager at the National Science Foundation (NSF), the $6.8-billion We’ve been reading your blog about your Lean Launchpad class.” We want to make a bet that your Lean Launchpad class can apply the scientific method to market-opportunity identification. Your Country Needs You.

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Incubator Government Silicon Valley Lean 306

Steve Blank

JULY 13, 2021

When Harvard started the MBA program there were no graduate-level business textbooks. While MBA programs proliferated during the first half of the 20th century, they focused on teaching management of existing companies. By 1991 there were 57 undergraduate and 22 MBA programs. Let’s Teach Lean Via Experiential Learning.

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Steve Blank

JULY 23, 2014

This week the National Science Foundation goes Lean on education by providing $1.2 ——– The I-Corps program started when the U.S. National Science Foundation adopted my Lean LaunchPad class. This week, the NSF is announcing the next step in the I-Corps program– I-Corps for Learning ( I-Corps L ).

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 19, 2019

We’ve spent a lot of time this past year running Lean Startup tests on our annual flagship conference to really nail down what you’re most interested in. Our goal—again, based on feedback—is to continue broadening the reach of Lean Startup and embracing the numerous ways people are using it.

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Lean Programming San Francisco Silicon Valley 68

Up and Running

OCTOBER 30, 2020

ReferralCandy helps brands set up and run customer referral programs (such as Give $10, get $10) on autopilot — that means tracking referral purchases and distributing referral rewards automatically. Their referral marketing strategy contributed to 13% of all revenue, and their referral program generated a 2,600% ROI.

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eCommerce Sales Software Review Canada 152

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Not only that—they took things a step further and launched their Run Squad membership program. Soon after launching their local delivery program, they were averaging over 500 orders per week. We’re even seeing cities build out programs designed to drive local support for retailers. said Jeff Bull, Brand Manager TC Running.

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eCommerce Cofounder Community Channel 155

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

You might like to think that a bunch of savvy venture capitalists saw a market niche for raising smaller funds or perhaps there was a generational shift where disgruntled junior partners spun out of bigger firms to start their own gigs. This is why many VCs are waiting and letting deals mature a bit before leaning into rounds.

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Venture Capital Technical Review Seed Stage IPO 328

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

To celebrate the debut of the Japan edition of “The Startup Owner’s Manual” and to express great thanks to Steve and his co-author Bob Dorf, I would like to reflect back what first drew me to this book and offer Steve’s worldwide readers a look at the progress of Customer Development and the Lean LaunchPad class in Japan. Takashi Tsutsumi.

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Japan Customer Development Developer Customer 299

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 3, 2019

Partnering with individuals who have Communication, Empathy, or Includer as top strengths. To lead boldly, you must think with a clear head, stick to your values, and lean on your team’s varied strengths. Louis’ graduate student program. Storytelling and metaphors have high impact.

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St. Louis Leadership Washington Lean 159

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 30, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, July 30, 2009 Techstars brings The Lean Startup to Boulder Im very excited to announce a pair of events that will kick off a very busy fall speaking tour. The event will include a talk from Eric on The Lean Startup over dinner, followed by moderated table discussion and then final Q&A with Eric.

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Lean San Francisco Continuous Deployment DC 68

Steve Blank

AUGUST 29, 2016

We tend to associate the government with words like bureaucracy rather than lean innovation. Department of Defense by adopting Lean Methodology inside their agency. The NGA has adopted Lean Innovation methods to make this happen. Their goal is to integrate these techniques into their own Lean innovation processes.

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Lean Silicon Valley Government Acquisition 181

Steve Blank

AUGUST 29, 2016

We tend to associate the government with words like bureaucracy rather than lean innovation. Department of Defense by adopting Lean Methodology inside their agency. The NGA has adopted Lean Innovation methods to make this happen. Their goal is to integrate these techniques into their own Lean innovation processes.

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Lean Silicon Valley Government Acquisition 181

ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 15, 2022

It provides the freedom to partner with entrepreneurs and reduce the costs of agency work in exchange for equity in their startup. For example, Lean Startup offers many benefits to emerging organizations, especially considering its focus on crafting a minimum viable product (MVP). It also helps bootstrap new startup businesses.

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Incubator Startup Software Developers Software Development 188

Steve Blank

JUNE 18, 2013

The Lean LaunchPad entrepreneurship curriculum has caught fire. It’s called the Lean Startup. So my book and Berkeley class turned into the Lean LaunchPad class in the Stanford Engineering school. Then in July 2011, the National Science Foundation read my blog posts on the Lean LaunchPad class. Victor Hugo.

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Lean Agile Customer Development Business Model 183

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 24, 2017

An important reminder: Lean Startup Week is in San Francisco October 30 - November 5 The Lean Startup Week team has been working around the clock to put together a program that will suit the needs of any entrepreneur in any organization, all themed around The Startup Way. See you there!

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San Francisco Los Angeles Software Review Silicon Valley 107

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 27, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, May 27, 2009 Austin: the Lean Startup tour continues Next week I head to Austin, TX for my first visit ever. The Lean Startup is a practical approach for creating and managing a new breed of company that excels in low-cost experimentation, rapid iteration, and true customer insight.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

Guest post by Lisa Regan, writer for The Lean Startup Conference. Our fall webcast series concluded on a high note with three extraordinary conversations about the origins and implications of Lean Startup. Nowadays Kent is programming again, this time at Facebook, which he describes: “It''s a laboratory.

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Lean San Francisco Cofounder Programming 165

Steve Blank

JANUARY 21, 2015

I was in New York last week teaching my annual 5-day version of the Lean LaunchPad class at the Columbia Business School. When I mentioned this to my friends running the NYU and Columbia entrepreneurship programs, they looked at me like I just discovered that it gets dark at night. I had a better one when I came back from New York.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 16, 2018

Ann Mei Chang is the Executive Director of Lean Impact, the social good division of the Lean Startup Company. Lean Impact: How to Innovate for Radically Greater Social Good is going to be an amazing resource for so many people from innovators to funders and everyone in between. It was incredibly energizing!

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Lean Silicon Valley Government Global 125

Steve Blank

MARCH 7, 2012

Today, the first half of the Stanford Engineering Lean LaunchPad Class gave their final presentations. It’s hard to believe it’s only been a year since we taught the first 10 teams in the Stanford Lean LaunchPad class. We’ll teach over 175 NSF Innovation Corps teams in the Lean LaunchPad course in 2012. Here are the first five.

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