Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

We came to the Lean LaunchPad class wanting to build a mobile/web research management system aimed at helping qualitative researchers better manage the media they captured in the field. Here’s how that happened. We were ready to learn, but pretty confident we would end the journey in the same market space in which we started.

Lean 315

Lean Customer Development Sales Cycle Business Model 315

Steve Blank

MARCH 12, 2014

For the second startup, we chose a year-old web/mobile startup whose market is college bound teens, with a founder who had skipped the initial customer validation process. For their first startup, we chose a 3-year old funded company that was working to refine its customer segment and channel for its physical product.

Lean 334

Lean Customer Development Startup Silicon Valley 334

Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

Which brings me back to your mobile phones. It’s worth noting that everything from the Internet, to electric cars, genomic sequencing, mobile apps, and social media — were pioneered by startups, not existing companies. Disruptive innovation leads to the creative destruction of businesses that once seemed pre-eminent and secure.

Private Equity 325

Private Equity Metrics China Intellectual Property 325

Steve Blank

APRIL 21, 2011

There are two major channels: physical channels and virtual (web/mobile) channels. They believed they were going to have inside sales reps, third party cloud computing consultants and their own web channel sales. How does the web differ from other channels? its product or service) to its customers.

Channel 215

Channel Artificial Inteligence San Francisco Business Model 215

Steve Blank

MARCH 8, 2011

– not just web-based startups. The most interesting part of the class would happen outside the classroom when each team spent 50-80 hours a week testing their business model hypotheses by talking to customers and partners and (in the case of web-based businesses) building their product. Selection, Mixer and Speed Dating.

Lean 298

Lean Business Model Customer Development Guinea 298

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

The result: great success of my third startup, a load balancing technology for web servers back in the late 1990’s. When I said of course, but who would meet with me with two days notice, he picked up his mobile phone and, surprisingly for me, started dialing … and I actually had a great meeting with one of them the very next day.

Japan 292

Japan Customer Development Developer Customer 292

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

However, business models in the Life Sciences are a bit more complicated than those in software, web/mobile or hardware. Close to 400 teams in robotics, computer science, materials science, geoscience, etc. have learned how to use business models, get out of the building to test their hypotheses and minimum viable product.

Intellectual Property 254

Intellectual Property Lean Business Model Mobile 254

Steve Blank

MAY 19, 2015

They had reinvented a traditional print media category onto web and mobile devices for a new generation of users who were no longer buying magazines but reading online. Their content was topical, targeted and refreshed daily. to drive traffic to their site, which they then turned into ad revenue.

Technical Review 120

Technical Review Salary Early Stage Software Review 120

Steve Blank

APRIL 7, 2011

For an Engineering School so focused on innovation and startups the lack of sufficient numbers of venture capitalists in the local community for Cleantech, hardware, Web/Mobile apps and aerospace was noticeable. You Can’t Start a Fire Without A Spark – A Lack of Venture Capital. Silver Lake Kraftwerk’s Fund just raised $1.3

Michigan 307

Michigan Silicon Valley Venture Capital Incubator 307

Steve Blank

MARCH 29, 2011

One of the amazing consequences of the low cost of creating web and mobile apps is that you can get a lot of them up and running simultaneously and affordably. These web science experiments are the logical extension of the Customer Discovery step in the Customer Development process. Napkin Entrepreneurs. Lessons Learned.

Entrepreneur 267

Entrepreneur Web Demand Customer Development 267

Steve Blank

APRIL 15, 2011

This week they were testing one of the most confusing sections of a company’s business model – Customer Relationships - the activities used to “Get, Keep and Grow” customers in a physical or virtual (web or mobile) channel. If their team was a web or mobile app they actually had to buy Google or Facebook ads and create demand.).

Customer 247

Customer Cloud EC2 Channel 247

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 9, 2012

Provides separate paths and advice for web/mobile products versus physical products. Offers a ton of detail and great tips on how to get, keep, and grow customers, recognizing that this happens very differently between web and physical channels.

Entrepreneur 289

Entrepreneur Lean Business Model Customer Development 289

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. I-Corps bridges the gap between public support of basic science and private capital funding of new commercial ventures. in Science or Nature.

Lean 262

Lean Washington Incubator Agile 262

Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

The numbers of mobile subscribers are staggering – 1.18 Chinese Internet companies live in a large closed, self-contained ecosystem with 564 million web users with 420 million having mobile web access. billon, 260 million are 3G. 309 million use microblogs and 242 million shop online.

Silicon Valley 267

Silicon Valley China Venture Capital Merger 267

Steve Blank

JULY 19, 2016

Jim Semick , co-founder of ProductPlan , which sells web-based software for building visual product roadmaps. Soon after, he developed the world’s first mobile newsreader so people could follow TED Talks from their mobile devices. . Joining me in the Stanford University studio were. Peter Arvai. In Sweden, he founded omvard.se

Cofounder 120

Cofounder Entrepreneur Silicon Valley Sweden 120

Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2011

In the case of this bubble, it was social networks, consumer and mobile applications, and the cloud. No one doubts that social networks and web and mobile applications are reinventing commerce. VCs who understood the ubiquity, pervasiveness and ultimate profitability of these startups doubled-down on their investments.

Silicon Valley 327

Silicon Valley Stealth Valuation Mississippi 327

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

For teams developing Digital Health solutions, Abhas Gupta of MDV noted that the Investment Readiness Level was closest to the standard web/mobile/cloud model with the addition of reimbursement and technical validation. You can see the entire presentation here. Digital Health. Diagnostics.

Incubator 310

Incubator Intellectual Property Startup Lean 310

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2009

It is web-based, fast and easy and soon to may be available on the iPhone. EE Reply My take on Customer Development and the Lean Startup | Recess Mobile Blog , on January 9, 2010 at 5:30 am Said: [.] I am currently a young entreprenuer working on my first web-based start-up and I am using the Customer Development model Ash uses.

Silicon Valley 225

Silicon Valley Non-disclosure Agreement NDA Startup 225

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 31, 2014

Creating a vertically oriented regional ecosystem is a pretty amazing accomplishment for any country or industry.

Global 335

Global Australia Silicon Valley China 335

Steve Blank

JUNE 17, 2011

Smart Money are prescient angel investors and Venture Capitalists who started investing in social networks, consumer and mobile applications and the cloud 3, 4 or 5 years ago. Do the new wave of social/web/mobile/cloud companies going public have valuations which exceeds their fundamental value by a large margin?

Investment Bankers 310

Investment Bankers Stock Valuation Venture Capital 310

Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

The numbers of mobile subscribers are staggering – 1.18 Chinese Internet companies live in a large closed, self-contained ecosystem with 564 million web users with 420 million having mobile web access. billon, 260 million are 3G. 309 million use microblogs and 242 million shop online.

Silicon Valley 159

Silicon Valley China Venture Capital Merger 159

Steve Blank

JANUARY 6, 2014

While most of the literature talks about continuous Delivery/Deployment as a software innovation for web/mobile/cloud apps, Tesla is using it for durable goods – $100,000 cars – in both hardware and software. Cloud based products has offered companies an opportunity to rethink how new business models would work.

Continuous Deployment 329

Continuous Deployment Customer Agile Cloud 329

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 21, 2012

And I emphasize the value of a founding team with complementary skills sets – i.e. the hacker/hustler/designer cofounder archetype for web/mobile apps. I often get asked about finding cofounders and I usually give the standard list of characteristics of what I look for in a founder.

Cofounder 329

Cofounder IPO Early Stage Green 329

Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

Over time, open source software the rise of the next wave of web startups and the embrace of Agile Engineering meant that startups no longer needed millions of dollars to buy specialized computers and license expensive software – they could start a company on their credit cards.

Internet 334

Internet IPO Silicon Valley Agile 334

Steve Blank

JUNE 1, 2011

Angel investments in mobile and web apps today are approaching the “throw it against the wall and see if it sticks” strategy. As there’s no formal board, most of these angel/investors meetings are over coffees. And lacking a board meeting there’s no formal mechanism to get investor advice.

Silicon Valley 290

Silicon Valley Business Model Venture Capital Balance Sheet 290

Steve Blank

JUNE 1, 2011

Angel investments in mobile and web apps today are approaching the “throw it against the wall and see if it sticks” strategy. As there’s no formal board, most of these angel/investors meetings are over coffees. And lacking a board meeting there’s no formal mechanism to get investor advice.

Silicon Valley 258

Silicon Valley Business Model Venture Capital Balance Sheet 258

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Platform changes (web to mobile), faster technology (3G to 4G to 5G), commoditization of tech (Cloud). Put together a single slide that graphically shows the evolution of the space you’re in. You’re trying to show what’s changed to make your startup economically viable today. What’s changed? Has consumer behavior changed?

Bandwidth 281

Bandwidth Database Venture Capital Demand 281

Steve Blank

AUGUST 5, 2010

Most of the social and mobile channels (YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, iPhone, Android) have emerged in just the past 3-5 years. But these VC’s aren’t Lean because they fund startups with web-based distribution models. One could argue that there’s nothing new here, as Internet distibution models started in 1995.

Lean 258

Lean Internet Silicon Valley Venture Capital 258

Steve Blank

MAY 3, 2011

Their initial customer segment were upwardly mobile professionals with $2-10K discretionary purchases/year (excluding travel,) and their revenue model was affiliate program fees. The Agora Cloud Services team was now making a tool set for managing Amazon Web Services cloud compute usage. Veritas turbines.

South Dakota 217

South Dakota Business Model Lean United States 217

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 11, 2016

Dan Miller , co-founder of Level Therapy , provider of mobile therapy sessions. — Seeking help to cope with the anxiety he developed as Freshsessions was falling apart, Dan tried some web-based mental health practitioners. Dan Miller. Joining me in the Stanford University studio were. Brian Zuercher.

Columbus 245

Columbus Entrepreneur Ohio Cofounder 245

Steve Blank

MAY 17, 2011

If you’re in a technology company or build a web or mobile application, it’s probably the only way to start a company. And to their credit…Berkeley’s Business School and then Stanford’s Engineering School let me write and teach a new course based on my ideas. How did this happen?

Philadelphia 335

Philadelphia Miami Thailand Silicon Valley 335

Steve Blank

MARCH 29, 2016

We give out between $2 and $3 billion a year for these startups as 5,000 and 7,000 grants to small businesses doing everything from advance composite materials, space exploration, to IT, mobile security, you name it. The goal is help these companies take their tech. …It It is money extremely well spent.

Small Business Administration 120

Small Business Administration SBIR United States Entrepreneur 120

Steve Blank

APRIL 20, 2021

For software products, they would be the operating systems with big market shares: iOS, Android, web, Mac, and PC. For software products, the channels are typically through the mobile app stores or directly over the Internet. Delivery platforms are the vehicles through which customers come to interact with your product. Sales channels.

Product 436

Product Viral Channel San Francisco 436

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 11, 2016

Dan Miller , co-founder of Level Therapy , provider of mobile therapy sessions. — Seeking help to cope with the anxiety he developed as Freshsessions was falling apart, Dan tried some web-based mental health practitioners. Dan Miller. Joining me in the Stanford University studio were. Brian Zuercher.

Columbus 120

Columbus Entrepreneur Ohio Cofounder 120

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

In Silicon Valley the equivalent is the journeyman coder or web designer who loves the technology, and takes coding and U/I jobs because it’s a passion. In the last five years, web and mobile app startups that are founded to be sold to larger companies have become popular. Small Business Startups: Work to Feed the Family.

Government 335

Government Silicon Valley Startup Venture Capital 335

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 23, 2015

Jason Young , co-founder of MindBlown Labs , which makes mobile social games to teach young adults about personal finance. At that point, we decided to do a mobile game. … They were web-based, so I got my mom to sign the paperwork because I was only 13 and then … I got set up. ” The good news is that they did play it.

Cofounder 120

Cofounder Entrepreneur Colorado Customer Development 120

Steve Blank

JUNE 22, 2011

Ben and his partner Marc Andreessen (the founder of Netscape and author of the first commercial web browser on the Internet ) are the definition of Smart Money. Their firm, Andreessen/Horowtiz , has been prescient enough to invest in social networks, consumer and mobile applications and the cloud long before others.

Internet 295

Internet Silicon Valley United States .Net 295