Steve Blank

JUNE 18, 2013

It dawned on me that the plans were a symptom of a larger problem: we were executing business plans when we should first be searching for business models. So what would a search process for a business model look like? In 2003 U.C. That is until Alexander Osterwalder wrote Business Model Generation.

Lean 286

Lean Agile Customer Development Business Model 286

ReadWriteStart

MAY 28, 2013

For years, HBR and most of the country’s leading business schools taught entrepreneurship as if the strategies, processes and techniques were some sort of amputated versions of the business models embraced by “real companies.” Big businesses, Blank said, became so “focused on execution, they forgot how to innovate.”.

Lean 60

Lean Startup Technical Review Business Model 60

Steve Blank

JUNE 18, 2013

It dawned on me that the plans were a symptom of a larger problem: we were executing business plans when we should first be searching for business models. So what would a search process for a business model look like? In 2003 U.C. That is until Alexander Osterwalder wrote Business Model Generation.

Lean 178

Lean Agile Customer Development Business Model 178

Steve Blank

MAY 29, 2019

Philip Bouchard : You’ve started teaching at Berkeley since 2002, Columbia in 2003 and at Stanford since 2011. Steve Blank: When I first starting teaching, the capstone entrepreneurship class was how to write a business plan. SB: I think ethics are a critical missing component of most business curriculums.

Incubator 331

Incubator Lean Programming Government 331

Agile VC

APRIL 13, 2012

And going even further back there have been a few random ones have been built before like Salesforce.com and e-tailer RedEnvelope (IPO’d in 2003 though now defunct as a company). Startups in the city of SF are not exactly a new phenomena… a bunch of startups have been founded/built in SF in the last five years or so.

Silicon Valley 185

Silicon Valley San Francisco San Jose Startup 185

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

It dawned on me that the plans were a symptom of a larger problem: we were executing business plans when we should first be searching for business models. So what would a search process for a business model look like? And in 2003 the Haas Business School at U.C. He called it the “Lean Startup.”.

Lean 317

Lean Georgia Michigan Business Model 317