Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

In 2012 NYU partnered with the City University of NY (CUNY) and Columbia University, and in early 2013 they won a grant from the National Science Foundation to build the Innovation Corps in New York City and jointly create the the NYC Regional Innovation Node (NYCRIN). Spend it Wisely. Student Impact.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

Richard Witten , special advisor on entrepreneurship to the President of Columbia University ; and Kathryn Minshew , co-founder of the popular online career platform TheMuse.com both joined me in Sirius’ New York studio and shared their version of being knocked down and coming back stronger. It’s a great thing for New York. .

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Steve Blank

JUNE 18, 2013

They get out of the classroom and talk to customers, partners and competitors and encounter the chaos and uncertainty of commercializing innovations and creating new ventures. The next Lean LaunchPad Educators Class will be held in New York, September 25-27 th. info@kandsranch.com. Lessons Learned.

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Steve Blank

JULY 13, 2021

That is until 1947 when Myles Mace taught the first entrepreneurship course “Management of New Enterprises” at Harvard Business School. In 1953 Peter Drucker offered an Entrepreneurship and Innovation class at New York University, and in 1954 Stanford’s business school offered “Small Business Management” its first small business course.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 24, 2013

Recently, the New York and North Carolina legislatures considered a new law written by Auto Dealer lobbyists that would make it illegal for Tesla to sell cars directly to consumers. This got me thinking about the legal obstacles that face innovators with new business models. Publicly shame the incumbents as rent seekers.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 30, 2014

Testing hypotheses with doctors, patients, payers, providers, purchasing departments, strategic partners is hard. In New York there’s Blueprint Health and Startup Health , in Denver there’s Stride and Princeton has Tiger Labs. It can involve traveling hundreds of miles and can consume months of time and loads of money.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 7, 2016

Joining me in SiriusXM’s studio in New York were. — Building a partner network was another crucial thing for Cirrus, Brandon said: Brandon : People said a SAAS (Software as a Service) companies like ours, haven’t had a lot of success selling through partners. Our partners are Salesforce consultants.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 18, 2013

They get out of the classroom and talk to customers, partners and competitors and encounter the chaos and uncertainty of commercializing innovations and creating new ventures. The next Lean LaunchPad Educators Class will be held in New York, September 25-27 th. info@kandsranch.com. Lessons Learned.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Joining me in SiriusXM’s studio in New York were: Carmen Medina , former director of the Center for the Study of Intelligence at the Central Intelligence Agency and co-author of Rebels at Work. Don Burke , digital architect for the Central Intelligence Agency. It was just like, “Are you kidding? Anyone can just edit?”

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Steve Blank

JUNE 1, 2011

Silicon Valley, New York). Rather than invent a new form of corporate governance, venture investors adopted the traditional board meeting structure from large corporations. Investors get board seats to assure themselves and their limited partners that they are duly informed about their investment. Here’s how.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 20, 2014

When Customer Development and the Lean Startup were just a sketch on the napkin, Dino Vendetti, a VC at Bay Partners, was one of the first venture capitalists I shared my ideas with. Dino and I kept in touch as he moved up to Bend, Oregon on a mission to engineer Bend into a regional technology cluster. Founders Pad.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 1, 2011

Silicon Valley, New York). Rather than invent a new form of corporate governance, venture investors adopted the traditional board meeting structure from large corporations. Investors get board seats to assure themselves and their limited partners that they are duly informed about their investment. Here’s how.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 5, 2009

A Phone Call After I left MIPS Computers I was in New York tagging along with a friend (a computer architect whose products at Apple a decade later would change the shape of personal computing) who was consulting for a voice recognition startup. He was my role model at Convergent, mentor at Ardent and partner at E.piphany.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 26, 2010

Eric left my classroom, and with his partner Will Harvey implemented the Lean Startup at IMVU. All The News That’s Fit to Print. The New York Times also thought the Lean Startup was a good idea. It was then that Customer Development became one of the building blocks of the Lean Startup. Thanks Eric.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

This was a modern city in a hurry to make a first impression – think of what Rome looked like in the time of the empire or New York in the 1920’s – now it’s Beijing announcing that China has arrived. First, I was amazed by the physical impact of the city itself. Kai-fu Lee of Innovation Works was equally generous with his time.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

Joining me in SiriusXM’s studio in New York was Grant Warner , director of innovation and entrepreneurship at Howard University’s College of Engineering Architecture and Computer Science, and co-founder of ConnectYard. The other piece was that my partner had some of the Lean Startup process down cold. Grant Warner.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 5, 2014

But they weren’t really in Silicon Valley at the time—they were in Boston, Minneapolis, New York. My two best partners went off to start Benchmark Capital, very successful to this day, so my firm was going to blow up. Computers were so different from now—arcane, annoyingly difficult— and interesting. But then, trouble.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

This was a modern city in a hurry to make a first impression – think of what Rome looked like in the time of the empire or New York in the 1920’s – now it’s Beijing announcing that China has arrived. First, I was amazed by the physical impact of the city itself. Kai-fu Lee of Innovation Works was equally generous with his time.

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Silicon Valley China Venture Capital Merger 159

Steve Blank

APRIL 5, 2017

Create awareness for fundraising (VC, angels, corporate partners). Today some reporters are experts – product reviewers in the Tech Section of the Wall Street Journal , or the Technology section of the New York Times (or its product review site Wirecutter )). Create awareness for potential acquirers of our company.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 19, 2010

Fred Wilson of Union Square Ventures, Jason Calacanis , founder of Mahlo.com, and Mark Suster of GRP Partners, have all weighed in on the nature side – you’re born being an entrepreneur or your not. Mark Suster, Vivek Wadhwa and Patrick Chung, Partner at New Enterprises Associates will be debating. Taking Sides.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 11, 2013

Examples are Hollywood for movies, Milan for fashion, New York for finance and today, Silicon Valley for technology entrepreneurship. The ultimate goal of Innofund is to get the startups far enough along in technology and market validation so other sources of financial capital (banks, VC’s, corporate partners) will invest.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 11, 2013

Examples are Hollywood for movies, Milan for fashion, New York for finance and today, Silicon Valley for technology entrepreneurship. The ultimate goal of Innofund is to get the startups far enough along in technology and market validation so other sources of financial capital (banks, VC’s, corporate partners) will invest.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2009

And one would become my mentor and partner in later companies.) The other thing it helps clarify is that even at work, it’s the relationships that matter most (collegues, customers, partners, etc). Two of my role models for my career were in this company. (And But this story is not about Convergent.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

The other thing that we try to make everything that we do in and of (New York). We try to bring the entrepreneurs, the investors, the venture capitalists (the entire New York startup ecosystem) into everything we do. We teach them about it and then we make them do it right away. If you can’t hear the clip, click here.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

These three tools allow startups to focus on the parts of an early stage venture that matter the most: the product, product/market fit, customer acquisition, revenue and cost model, channels and partners. An Evidence-based Curriculum (currently taught in the Lean LaunchPad classes and NSF Innovation Corps accelerator ).

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Steve Blank

JUNE 10, 2010

As immigrants their biggest dream was opening a small grocery store on the Lower East Side of New York City, which they did in 1939. Unlike my parents, Fred Durham and his partner Maheesh Jain started the now $100+ million CafePress , knowing they wanted to build a large company. Scalable Startup Entrepreneurship.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 12, 2016

In this class, we partnered with sponsors in the State Department including: Office of Space and Advanced Technology. Every team spoke to close to 100 potential “beneficiaries,” partners and stakeholders including NGOs, tech company executives, supply chain managers, foreign service officers in embassies around the world, and even refugees.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 12, 2016

In this class, we partnered with sponsors in the State Department including: Office of Space and Advanced Technology. Every team spoke to close to 100 potential “beneficiaries,” partners and stakeholders including NGOs, tech company executives, supply chain managers, foreign service officers in embassies around the world, and even refugees.

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Steve Blank

JULY 6, 2010

One of those students, Shawn Carolan , is now a partner at Menlo Ventures. About a month ago I got a phone call from Alan Patricof of Greycroft Partners who saw the article about Lean Startups in the NY Times and invited me to talk at their CEO conference. The Greycroft team and Mark Suster of GRP Partners provided lots of local color.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Terman arranged for a research assistantship to bring his former student, David Packard, back from a job at General Electric in New York to collaborate with William Hewlett, another of Terman’s graduate students. In a typical venture fund, the partners receive a 2% management fee. Terman was also on the board of HP.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 24, 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. I visited Bend last year and caught up with his progress. However, it’s difficult to create density overnight.

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