Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Reading the NY Times article “ Jeffrey Katzenberg Raises $1 Billion for Short-Form Video Venture, ” I realized it was time for a new startup heuristic: the amount of customer discovery and product-market fit you need to find is inversely proportional to the amount and availability of risk capital. ” Fire, Ready, Aim.

Lean 335

Lean Burn Rate Startup IPO 335

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2016

They are hard to do in a company that excels at products. Visionary CEOs are product and business model centric and extremely customer focused. The best are agile and know how to pivot – make a substantive change to the business model while or before their market has shifted.

Azure 120

Azure Business Model Cloud Artificial Inteligence 120

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2016

They are hard to do in a company that excels at products. Visionary CEOs are product and business model centric and extremely customer focused. The best are agile and know how to pivot – make a substantive change to the business model while or before their market has shifted.

Azure 120

Azure Business Model Cloud Artificial Inteligence 120

Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

Startups needed millions of dollars of funding just to get their first product out the door to customers. A hardware startup had to equip a factory to manufacture the product. 2001 – 2010: Back to Basics: The Lean Startup. Software companies had to buy specialized computers and license expensive software.

Internet 335

Internet IPO Silicon Valley Agile 335

Hearpreneur

AUGUST 9, 2020

Founded in 2001, VisionSpring’s mission has always been to provide eyewear to the 2.5 Now, the company and its CEO Ella Gudwin are taking that a step further—offering their resources and capabilities to assist in the manufacturing and distribution of PPE for essential workers on the front lines of the COVID-19 effort.

Jordan 78

Jordan Bangladesh India Mexico 78

Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Founded in 2001, VisionSpring’s mission has always been to provide eyewear to the 2.5 Now, the company and its CEO Ella Gudwin are taking that a step further—offering their resources and capabilities to assist in the manufacturing and distribution of PPE for essential workers on the front lines of the COVID-19 effort.

Jordan 62

Jordan Bangladesh India Mexico 62

The Next Web

AUGUST 6, 2013

Others claim that it’s unproven , unscientific and gets your product to market in a haphazard way that is ungrounded in quality. WebVan went bankrupt in 2001 after burning through $1 billion on warehouses, inventory systems and fleet delivery trucks. Lean startup engineering seems to work for consumer products. Absolutely.

Lean 132

Lean Startup Continuous Deployment Open Source 132