Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 23, 2013

For what I had thought were a few simple ideas about taking what we’ve learned about startups and applying it to corporate innovation, the post has gotten an amazing reaction. Blank explains that this is why companies need a portfolio of new business start-ups rather than putting all of their eggs into a limited number of baskets.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

link] Reply Rodrigo Landerdahl , on November 9, 2009 at 8:25 am Said: Steve, you put into words something that I’ve been thinking a lot lately. But in a startup, it is very important to be surrounded by efficient people. If you don’t know what you want that’s a different problem altogether. 45 is efficient.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 31, 2010

Expo Intensive rocked, the mainstream media has started writing about the Lean Startup, and - most of all - the movement continues to grow and evolve. First of all, the Startup Lessons Learned conference exceeded my wildest expectations. Steve Blank has been a mentor to me for several years.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 10, 2011

This week, the startup tribe from Harvard Business School is making their annual trek to Silicon Valley. They’ll hear from a variety of experts and get to see many startups firsthand. Even today, I routinely hear MBA’s advised to remove the degree from their resume when applying to startup jobs.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 5, 2020

Marketing Podcast with Steve Blank. In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Steve Blank, considered one of the fathers of modern entrepreneurship – is a seral entrepreneur-turned best selling author and educator. More about Steve Blank: Learn more about Steve Blank here.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 29, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, March 29, 2010 New conference website, speakers, agenda The Startup Lessons Learned Conference on April 23 is fast approaching. Traveling the past year, I have heard loud and clear that its time for the Lean Startup movement to enter its next phase. Heres what you had to say about it.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 12, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, January 12, 2010 Amazing lean startup resources A year ago, there was no lean startup movement. I continue to believe that the explosion of interest in the lean startup has very little to do with me. The term was known by maybe a few dozen people.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 31, 2010

Sure, when entrepreneurs create startups that grow up into mature companies, they become part of an established industry, with its own ecosystem, norms, partners and best practices. The reason is that the underlying theory that powers established business, the theory of general management, is increasingly inadequate for managing startups.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 16, 2014

Blank’s “ The Lean Approach ” series encourages entrepreneurs to undertake a process of customer discovery, development and iteration to achieve the right product and/or market fit, and goes on to advise founders to systematically test their assumptions and look for insights that can shape their business through this process.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 2, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, January 2, 2010 Towards a new entrepreneurship When I started writing about the lean startup , my aspiration was to do more than just share a handful of tips and tricks that work for consumer internet startups. This belief led me to the lean startup, and to an amazing 2009.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, December 14, 2009 Business ecology and the four customer currencies Lately, I’ve been rethinking the concept of “business model&# for startups, in favor of something I call “business ecology.&# A successful startup strives for this latter case.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 13, 2016

Steve Blank, father of the Lean Startup movement, stresses that you will never know enough about your customers if you are holed up inside a boardroom. As Steve Blank says, “You can’t drive forward by looking in the rear view mirror.”. The rules to compete in the digital age are completely different.

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JANUARY 9, 2014

No clear vision or purpose This should be the starting point for any startup founder, but it’s often overlooked. Tony Hsieh Without a clear purpose, a startup can meander along without much momentum. in business we can create much deeper connections with our audience and give our startups a better chance of success.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 22, 2011

Several years ago, there was a lot more about “how to startup a company&# , especially around product, vision, and team. It was with this backdrop that I read The Lean Startup by Eric Ries over the weekend. Now a lot of that focus has shifted to deal making and exits.

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viniciusvacanti.com

APRIL 2, 2012

I remember reading the first few pages of Steve Blank’s book, Four Steps to Epiphany , and thinking two things: This is not exactly a page-turner. This is a really smart way of thinking about startups. Soon after, I started attending the Lean Startup meetup in New York and reading Eric Reis’s writings.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

Guest post by Lisa Regan, writer for The Lean Startup Conference. We’re dedicated to making The Lean Startup Conference unlike other entrepreneurship conferences. As Lean Startup takes root around the world, we’d like to learn from and help people working in geographically diverse areas connect with each other.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Is it an exciting challenge to create and study information about markets, industry trends, competitive movements, user sentiment; and to evaluate that information, and to find within it the answers about what a fast-growing and fast-developing company should do next? Are you passionate about creating great user experiences within a product?

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

We'll be discussing the Lean Startup movement, the upcoming conference, and whatever else you decide you want to ask about. Throughout the hour (from 10am-11am) we'll be picking people to win free tickets to the Lean Startup Conference on December 3. FM or 89.3

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 6, 2010

This past October I was honored to be invited by Steve Blank to speak at Stanford for their Enterprise Thought Leader (ETL) series. Afterward, I came and spoke to her (and Steve’s) class on entrepreneurship.

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Up and Running

JULY 11, 2012

My monthly column at Entrepreneur.com, Lean Startups Need Business Plans Too , came out yesterday: But here’s my beef in a nutshell: When Ries and Blank criticize the business plan, they are talking about a now-obsolete approach: the formal written business plan. Startup image courtesy of Shutterstock.

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OnlyOnce

JUNE 20, 2013

I continue to be on a tear reading books about startups as I finish and get ready for the publication of Startup CEO ( now available for pre-ordering at Amazon ). This week’s selection was The Startup Owners Manual: A Step-by-Step Guide for Building a Great Company , by Steve Blank and Bon Dorf.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

This post was co-written by Sarah Milstein & Eric Ries, co-hosts of The Lean Startup Conference. We’ve just published the program for this year’s Lean Startup Conference , December 9 to 11 in San Francisco, and we can say without hesitation that it’s completely unlike any other entrepreneurship conference in existence.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 29, 2011

This led to an explosion in startups. I don’t think purely option-based investing in startups suits the long-term brand of the investor. As some of the last generation of startups have gotten bigger many VCs have also chased later-stage investments that were traditionally dominated by growth equity or mezzanine funds.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 13, 2016

Steve Blank, father of the Lean Startup movement, stresses that you will never know enough about your customers if you are holed up inside a boardroom. As Steve Blank says, “You can’t drive forward by looking in the rear view mirror.”. The rules to compete in the digital age are completely different.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 12, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, April 12, 2010 The Lean Startup Intensive at Web 2.0 So I am particularly excited that the Lean Startup is a big part of this years Web 2.0 Steve Blank and I are both giving keynotes in the main conference track. Thank you all so much. Expo in San Francisco.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 10, 2011

You all know I am busy writing The Lean Startup Book. A few months ago, I began planning an event at SXSW with my friends at 500 Startups (their glamorous frontman is Dave McClure but everyone knows Christen O'Brien does the real work). You see, my friends at Appsumo were not content to let 500 Startups have all the glory.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 9, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, March 9, 2010 Startup Lessons Learned - the Conference (April 23, 2010 in SF) Today we are opening up registration for the first ever Startup Lessons Learned Conference on April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. The Startup Lessons Learned Conference is by-and-for entrepreneurs, and only entrepreneurs.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 15, 2009

The reality is that independent electric vehicle startups will win over time (closer to the customer, more agile, etc.) with the auto bailout. with the auto bailout. with the auto bailout. (I will admit that taking a concept such as “open source” from the software business and applying it to the auto industry and Washington D.C.

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SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2010

Some great content around the intersection of startups and being a Startup CTO in June this year. This continues my series of posts: Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010 Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April 16 Great Startup Posts from March There was some really great content in June. It shows a lack of interest.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 6, 2010

I often get asked how lean startup ideas can work for the video game industry - which is, of course, where I originally started working on them. In April, stay tuned for word on the Startup Lessons Learned Conference, which will also be held in San Francisco. This year, lean startups will be a big part of the Web 2.0

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Campus Entrepreneurship

JUNE 27, 2011

From TechCrunch : Three students at the University of Pennsylvania—Joseph Cohen, Dan Getelman, and Jim Grandpre—are quitting school to launch a new education startup called Coursekit, and they’ve raised $1 million in a seed round to do it. via Penn Students Leave School to Launch CourseKit With $1 Million Seed Round. .’

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Campus Entrepreneurship

APRIL 6, 2011

Nice post at TechCrunch from Mark Suster as part of the boostrapping, lean start-up movement that seems to be gathering momentum in reality and on various campuses. I’m a very big proponent of the “lean startup movement” as espoused by Steve Blank & Eric Ries. h/t Tim Berry (@timberry).

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www.robgo.org

MARCH 3, 2010

robgo.org archives subscribe email Feb 19, 2010 #Lean Startups #Customer Development What Lean Startups are NOT The Lean Startup movement isn’t terribly new, but the level of hype is reaching pretty significant levels. But I think both are required to build industry transforming companies.

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Rob Go

MARCH 27, 2012

This trend away from business planning started with very positive roots with the concepts behind Steve Blank’s work and later with the Lean Startup movement. It leads to thoughts like: We are a startup – of course we’ll beat the big incumbents (except sometimes, you can’t).

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 16, 2013

Steve Blank, the pioneer of the Lean Startup Movement uses a Date Night every week to remove from work completely. This way, when you switch back to a creative task, you won’t have the cloud of a hundred emails hovering over your head. Another un-timed break. One day with no work.

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