Steve Blank
JANUARY 28, 2013
In 2006, as a new employee of the Fortune 100 provider of wireless technology and services, San Diego’s Qualcomm , I volunteered to salvage a fledging idea management system (fancy term for an online suggestion box) by turning into a comprehensive corporate entrepreneurship program. Part 1 outlining the program is here. The origin.
Steve Blank
JANUARY 28, 2013
In 2006, as a new employee of the Fortune 100 provider of wireless technology and services, San Diego’s Qualcomm , I volunteered to salvage a fledging idea management system (fancy term for an online suggestion box) by turning into a comprehensive corporate entrepreneurship program. Part 1 outlining the program is here. The origin.
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Steve Blank
JUNE 3, 2010
If you’ve been reading my book on Customer Development and follow my work on Market Type , this type of innovation is best for adding new products to existing markets. In fact the people a large firm needs for this kind of innovation looks suspiciously like startup founders and the processes needed look like Customer Development.
Both Sides of the Table
NOVEMBER 3, 2009
I remember going to an Under the Radar conference in 2006 in the heat of the Web 2.0 Do you really want to spent $100k building a product to discover through Customer Development that the market is too small? There were tons of young entrepreneurs showing their latest Web 2.0
Steve Blank
SEPTEMBER 14, 2009
For the next four or five years, technology M&A boomed, growing from 50 in 2003 to 450 in 2006. With Wall Street leery of technology companies, tech IPOs were a receding memory, and mergers and acquisitions became the only path to liquidity for startups and their investors.
Both Sides of the Table
NOVEMBER 1, 2009
I know that this all seems obvious now with the movements started by Steven Blank ( Four Steps of Epiphany ) with the whole Customer Development processes / Lean Startup movements also popularized by people like Eric Ries. This was 2006 and we were now working on our second company. Back then it seemed foreign.
Steve Blank
MARCH 26, 2014
For those who don’t know, I wrote the book Open Innovation in 2003, and followed it with Open Business Models in 2006, and Open Services Innovation in 2011. Filed under: Big Companies versus Startups: Durant versus Sloan , Customer Development. Big Companies versus Startups: Durant versus Sloan Customer Development'
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