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Customer Development for Web Startups

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

Ash Maurya , the CEO of WiredReach, has extended my work by building a model of Customer Development for Web Startups. Go read both of his posts on Discovery and Validation for web startups. What makes sense for startups selling Enterprise Software may not work for startups on the web. I think his process models are pretty good.

Customer Development

Customer Development Web Developer Customer

I-Corps @ NIH – Pivoting the Curriculum

Steve Blank

JUNE 26, 2014

This lecture order was embedded in the Udacity Lectures , the syllabi and educators guide I open-sourced. I realized we were trying to conform to a lecture order optimized for web, mobile, hardware. Once the syllabus stops moving around we’ll open source it along with the educators guide this fall.

Intellectual Property

Intellectual Property Lean IP Open Source

Early-stage Regional Venture Funds–part 2 of 3 of Bigger in Bend

Steve Blank

JANUARY 22, 2014

The cloud , open-source development tools and web 2.0 Today it’s dominated by capital efficient software, web and mobile startups whereas 10 years ago it was dominated by semiconductor and hardware startups that consumed huge amounts of capital before their first dollar in revenue.

Early Stage

Early Stage Silicon Valley Oregon Technical Review

ESADE Business School Commencement Speech

Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

Ask Sony about Samsung, ask any retailer about Amazon, any car company about Tesla, and any newspaper company about the web. Apple with the iPod, iPhone and iPad; Amazon with Amazon Web Services and Kindle; Toyota with the Prius… these companies are extraordinary because, …like startups, they create entirely new products and services.

Private Equity

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What I Learned by Flipping the MOOC

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

– MOOC’s – Massive Open Online Courses. A MOOC is a complicated name for a simple idea – an online course accessible to everyone over the web. We adopted WebEx , a web video conferencing tool, to hold our classes remotely. We opened source our teaching guide we use in the classes here.).

Lean

Lean Incubator Video Open Source

Entrepreneurship as a Science – The Business Model/Customer Development Stack

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 25, 2010

In the last decade open source software (e.g LAMP ) emerged for building web servers. At the same time every computer company was writing its own operating system. Soon standard operating systems (e.g. Windows, Linux ) emerged. Each time a standard solution emerged, innovation didn’t stop.

Customer Development

Customer Development Business Model Developer Customer

Zhongguancun in Beijing – China’s Silicon Valley (Part 4 of 5)

Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

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

Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley China Venture Capital Merger

New Rules for the New Internet Bubble

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

Internet IPO Silicon Valley Agile

Zhongguancun in Beijing – China’s Silicon Valley (Part 4 of 5)

Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

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

Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley China Venture Capital Merger

Hacking for Defense @ Stanford – Making the World a Safer Place

Steve Blank

JANUARY 26, 2016

They are experts in leveraging Web 2.0 Our goal is to open-source this class to other universities and create the 21 st Century version of Tech ROTC. Terrorists today live on the ‘net and they are all early adopters. They don’t need an office in Silicon Valley to figure out what’s out there.

Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley North Korea Agile Lean

The Evolution of Entrepreneurial Education and Corporate Innovation

Steve Blank

MAY 29, 2019

It’s taught at Stanford, Berkeley, Columbia and probably another hundred universities and colleges because I open-sourced the class and trained educators on how to teach it. After eight years the class is still taught to students working on their own problems. 98 universities teach it through the National Science Foundation.

Incubator

Incubator Lean Programming Government

Lean Startups aren't Cheap Startups

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

For those of you who have been following the discussion, a Lean Startup is Eric Ries ’s description of the intersection of Customer Development , Agile Development and if available, open platforms and open source. It is about when in the life of your company you do the spending.

Lean

Lean Silicon Valley Startup RSS

Change We Can Believe In - Reinventing the US Auto Industry: Open.

Steve Blank

APRIL 15, 2009

Jobs Keeping an Auto Industry as a strategic national resource Energy Independence Clean Energy I proposed that in exchange for the GM bailout we spin out the Chevy Volt into an open source electric car platform. will be able to build on the Volt Platform, but all drivetrain improvements are open source.

Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley Open Source RSS California

Innovation, Change and the Rest of Your Life

Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

For products that are simply “bits” delivered over the web, a first product can be shipped in weeks rather than years. Today open source software has slashed the cost of software development from millions of dollars to thousands. This lets them deliver a series of minimal viable products to customers in a fraction of the time.

Restful

Restful Silicon Valley Puerto Rico San Jose

When It’s Darkest Men See the Stars

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

For products that are simply “bits” delivered over the web, a first product can be shipped in weeks rather than years. Today open source software has slashed the cost of software development from millions of dollars to thousands. This lets them deliver a first version of the product to customers in a fraction on the time.

Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley United States Venture Capital Software Review

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