Steve Blank

JULY 6, 2016

From 2002-08 Sec. Tune in Thursday at 1 pm PT, 4 pm ET on Sirius XM Channel 111. Filed under: Customer Development , SiriusXM Radio Show. During the first term of the Obama Administration, he was Deputy Assistant to the President and National Security Advisor to the Vice President. Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Teams use the Lean Startup toolkit: the Business Model Canvas + Customer Development process + Agile Engineering. These three tools allow startups to focus on the parts of an early stage venture that matter the most: the product, product/market fit, customer acquisition, revenue and cost model, channels and partners.

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Oakland Incubator Lean Metrics 329

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

When it was spun out as a a separate company, Iridium’s 1990 business plan had assumptions about potential customers, their problems and the product needed to solve that problem. They made other assumptions about the type of sales channel, partnerships and revenue model they would need. A Business Plan Frozen in Time. Their mistakes?

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Business Plan Customer Business Model Customer Development 335

Steve Blank

AUGUST 8, 2016

If you don’t value your product neither will your customers. Values – who and what founders and customers hold dear – were the focus on today’s Entrepreneurs are Everywhere radio show. Ryan Smith co-founded Qualtrics in 2002 with his father in the family basement. Ironically, though, academics are horrible customers.

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Cofounder New York City Entrepreneur New York 148

Steve Blank

AUGUST 8, 2016

If you don’t value your product neither will your customers. Values – who and what founders and customers hold dear – were the focus on today’s Entrepreneurs are Everywhere radio show. Ryan Smith co-founded Qualtrics in 2002 with his father in the family basement. Ironically, though, academics are horrible customers.

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Cofounder New York City Entrepreneur New York 120