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Clayton Christensen

Steve Blank

I remember the first time I read the Innovator’s Dilemma in 1997. Christensen, writing for a corporate audience, explained that there were two classes of products – sustaining and disruptive. His message was that existing companies are great at sustaining technologies and products but were ignoring the threat of disruption.

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Don’t Underestimate the Undergraduates

Steve Blank

Jim has founded six companies, including Preview Travel, one of the first online travel agencies, which went public in 1997 and subsequently merged to create Travelocity.com as an independent company. I asked Jim to share what he learned in teaching the Lean LaunchPad class to undergraduates. And Zignal Labs. What did we experience?

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Business Plans Are An Historical Artifact

Feld Thoughts

By 1997, when I started investing as a venture capital investor, I was no longer reading business plans. In the past decade, we’ve shifted from a “tell me about it” approach (the business plan) to a “show me” approach (the Lean Startup). Business Model Canvas vs Lean Canvas vs One-Page Lean Startup.

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Revenue Development

K9 Ventures

SneakerLabs’ first product was a Java-based chat server and client. Since I had good connections with the University, we got a lot of feedback on how the product could be improved to meet their needs. We listened to their feedback and started adding features to the product accordingly. The product worked. Not so fast.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 26: Javier Saade and Hillary Hartley

Steve Blank

government is discovering that Lean innovation can help them serve the country better and faster. She came to the GSA as a Presidential Innovation Fellow in 2013, where she worked on the development of MyUSA.gov. Filed under: Customer Development , SiriusXM Radio Show. Essentially our work all starts about the same.

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Lies Entrepreneurs Tell Themselves « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

As an early employee I worked all hours of the day, never hesitated to jump on a “ red-eye ” plane to see a customer at the drop of a hat, and did what was necessary to make the company a winner. The other thing it helps clarify is that even at work, it’s the relationships that matter most (collegues, customers, partners, etc).