Steve Blank

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Apple Vision Pro – Tech in the Search of a Market

Steve Blank

A version of this article previously appeared in Fortune. If you haven’t been paying attention Apple has started shipping its Apple Vision Pro , its take on a headset that combines Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR). The product is an amazing technical tour de force.

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Search versus Execute

Steve Blank

Search Versus Execution. However, we now know that a startup is a temporary organization designed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model. If your business model is unknown – that is just a set of untested hypotheses- you are a startup searching for a repeatable business model. Organization.

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The Search For the Fountain of Youth – Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the Enterprise

Steve Blank

They start with an innovation, search for a repeatable business model, build the infrastructure for a company, then grow by efficiently executing the model. It’s not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one that is most responsive to change. Charles Darwin.

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Is a Venture Studio Right for You?

Steve Blank

Venture Studios are an “idea factory” with their own employees searching for product/market fit and a repeatable and scalable business model. Instead, they search and pivot until product-market fit is found. They do the most to de-risk the early stages of a startup. How Venture Studios Work.

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In a Crisis – An Opportunity For A More Meaningful Life

Steve Blank

Here are the steps you can take to get started: Use the customer discovery methodology to search for new careers. Reddit – search for topics of interest. What are ways you might help to strengthen organizations that help those less able and less fortunate? MDDI+QMED – Medical Device and Diagnostic Industry.

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Corporate Acquisitions of Startups: Why Do They Fail?

Steve Blank

Is the Potential Acquisition Searching or Executing? Remember, the definition of a startup is a temporary organization designed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model. ( Startups are those companies that are still in the process of searching for a business model. Predicting Success or Failure of an Acquisition.

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Is the Lean Startup Dead?

Steve Blank

As a reminder, the Dot Com bubble was a five-year period from August 1995 (the Netscape IPO ) when there was a massive wave of experiments on the then-new internet, in commerce, entertainment, nascent social media, and search. Yet while we had plenty of language and tools for execution, we had none for search. The result?

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