Steve Blank

JULY 13, 2021

With Lean LaunchPad, we were going to toss teaching the business plan aside and try to teach students a completely new, hands-on approach to starting companies – one which combines customer development, agile development, business models and pivots. Lean-driven (hypothesis testing/business model/customer development/agile engineering).

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Steve Blank

JUNE 12, 2020

All the teams used the Mission Model Canvas , (videos here ) Customer Development and Agile Engineering to build Minimal Viable Products, but all of their journeys were unique. Hacking for Defense has its origins in the Lean LaunchPad class I first taught at Stanford in 2011. If you can’t see the Protocol One slides click here.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 25, 2011

It may be hard to remember that there was a time when people in the agile software development community thought Lean Startup was incompatible with agile practices. SLLCONF 2011 is happening on May 23 in San Francisco. We’re just getting started. Hope to see you there.

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Agile VC

DECEMBER 13, 2011

December 13, 2011. © 2011 GenuineVC - All rights reserved. How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC. How To Think About The Future. AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. Making Good Decisions Still Means You’re Sometimes Wrong. Our tools were once large and caused local change, now they fit in our pockets and cause.

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Seed Stage Silicon Valley Cofounder Technical Review 185

Steve Blank

JULY 7, 2015

Jon Sebastiani , founder and CEO of KRAVE Jerky , a company that got its start in my class at Berkeley back in 2011 and was recently acquired by Hershey. Eric was the very first practitioner of my Customer Development methodology which became the core of the the Lean methodology. If you can’t hear the clip, click here.

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Agile VC

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

September 15, 2011. In the first half of 2011, the IPO markets were looking strong for VC-backed companies. How diffferent 2H 2011 looks. © 2011 GenuineVC - All rights reserved. How To Think About The Future. AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. Startup IPO Market: A Fickle Mistress. VCs dreamt of liquidty.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 19, 2011

Jeff will also be joining us on stage at Startup Lessons Learned 2011 , where he will be presenting a case study on his experience blending design, Lean Startup, and large company culture. Originally a waterfall shop, we transitioned to Agile development about two years ago. Come see Jeff speak at SLLCONF 2011 on May 23 in SF.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

Today, September 13, 2011 is launch day ! A Conversation with Eric Ries Thursday, September 15, 2011, 7:30 PM 1855 Main St , Santa Monica , CA ( map ) Price: $30.00 /per person Eric not only created the term "Lean Startup", he has sparked a movement that is changing the way people think about startups. I'll be signing copies as well.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 13, 2011

What You Need to Know About Agile UX – [link]. 2011 edition) – data on crowdSPRING’s community – [link]. A Crash Course in Typography: Principles for Combining Typefaces – [link]. 50 Sweet & Tasty Food Inspired Website Designs – [link]. 25% of US homes are now cell phone only [link]. Who are we?

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Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

The New Bubble : (2011 – 2014): Here we go again…. (If Over time, open source software the rise of the next wave of web startups and the embrace of Agile Engineering meant that startups no longer needed millions of dollars to buy specialized computers and license expensive software – they could start a company on their credit cards.

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Agile VC

JANUARY 4, 2012

NextView originally invested in the company’s seed round in the spring of 2011 and we again participated in this latest round along with Atlas Venture. © 2011 GenuineVC - All rights reserved. Today one of our portfolio companies, GrabCAD, announced it’s Series A funding led by Matrix. Previous Entries.

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Agile VC

JUNE 5, 2011

June 5, 2011. Filing Date: initial filing June 2, 2011. Run Rate Revenue: $2.6B (Q1 2011 annualized). Revenue Growth: 2241% YoY (2010 vs 2009), 1357% YOY (Q1 2011 vs Q1 2010). Run Rate Gross Profit: $1.1B (Q1 2011 annualized). Featured merchants (may not have tipped): 56.8K (Q1 2011), 66.3K (2010), 2.7K (2009).

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Agile VC

APRIL 17, 2011

April 17, 2011. GameFly filed in 2010 and remains in registration, though 2011 has seen a positive start for VC-backed IPOs with 14 in Q1 2011. GameFly filed in 2010 and remains in registration, though 2011 has seen a positive start for VC-backed IPOs with 14 in Q1 2011. Quinstreet priced at $15.00/sh

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Steve Blank

JUNE 18, 2013

Eric’s insight was that traditional product management and Waterfall development should be replaced by Agile Development. Business model design + customer development + agile development is the process that startups use to search for a business model. As a condition of my investment I insisted Will and Eric take my class at Berkeley.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

This startup search process is the business model / customer development / agile development solution stack. the Lean Launchpad, the first hands-on class utilizing the entire business model/customer development / agile development stack. In fact, starting in January, Stanford will offer Engineering 245, a.k.a

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www.smashingmagazine.com

MAY 5, 2011

Tags : Design , forms , usability , ux Bookmark Vote up Retweet Share Advertising 48 Comments Best Comments 1 +2 Matt Rittman May 5th, 2011 5:34 am Thank you, this was some very useful information! Reply 2 0 Uncleserb May 5th, 2011 5:53 am Nice read ;) Thx for sharing! Most designers are familiar with the conventional ways.

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Agile VC

OCTOBER 27, 2011

October 28, 2011. © 2011 GenuineVC - All rights reserved. How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC. How To Think About The Future. AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. The Consumerization of Business Software. Our tools were once large and caused local change, now they fit in our pockets and cause. Previous Entries.

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mashable.com

MAY 9, 2011

It will be important that your CTO can execute on big projects, too, hacking away to build an amazing product that is agile. May 7, 2011 03:05:36 Reply 0 Flag this comment jpp123 Follow A CTO needs to have vision of their own, not just share the company vision. Danny Wong , Blank Label Group, Inc. Experience with Startups!

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www.readwriteweb.com

MARCH 7, 2011

Past failures of enterprise technology to live up to its promises and ITs lack of agility caused by legacy technology have decreased the influence of the CIO, explained R "Ray" Wang in a piece for Forbes last year. The global recession, the consumerization of IT, the great cloud migration and other factors are changing the role of the CIO.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 18, 2013

Eric’s insight was that traditional product management and Waterfall development should be replaced by Agile Development. Business model design + customer development + agile development is the process that startups use to search for a business model. As a condition of my investment I insisted Will and Eric take my class at Berkeley.

Lean 184

Lean Agile Customer Development Business Model 184

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Hershey just bought Krave Jerky, a team in our 2011 Berkeley Lean LaunchPad class, for >$200 million. —– Jon Sebastiani and his team came into the 2011 Berkeley Lean LaunchPad class with several key observations: Snack foods were a large ~$35 billion but the moribund food category was starving for innovation and modernization.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 14, 2011

The majority of pundits agree that any successful agency has to be agile. That’s an important principle but if you’re having 10 different businesses working on the same brand and nobody talks to each other, agility starts to feel a bit superficial as a founding principle. Mitch Joel wrote a nice piece. I spoke about it before.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 7, 2019

All the teams used the Mission Model Canvas , Customer Development and Agile Engineering to build Minimal Viable Products, but all of their journeys were unique. Hacking for Defense has its origins in the Lean LaunchPad class I first taught at Stanford in 2011. All the presentations are worth a watch. Team: Panacea.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

—– In August 2011 I received an email from someone at NYU I never heard of. The Lean LaunchPad class teaches students how to build a Lean Startup using business model design, customer development and agile engineering. Over 1,000 students a year are learning lean startup concepts.

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Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

May 26, 2011. © 2011 GenuineVC - All rights reserved. How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC. How To Think About The Future. AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. LinkedIn: The Series A Fundraising Story. This also appears as a guest post at Fortune’s Term Sheet. LinkedIn went public last week. Previous Entries.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

While small businesses may not have the budgets and resources that bigger establishments have access to, they often enjoy the benefits of agility to respond and rejig their marketing efforts to cater to market trends, so take full advantage of that. Act quick, but don’t dive head in without clear objectives.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 3, 2017

The Hacker Chick Blog ended up becoming one of the top agile software development blogs on the Internet. I wanted to narrow our focus to just social media, but in 2011 many people told me I was foolish, that it was still a passing fad. while, by the way, my company’s did not). Thanks to Abby Fichtner, Hacker Chick ! #8-

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

s pre-incubator program, enabling additional Founder Labs which will serve at least 100 aspiring entrepreneurs in 2011. Diverse Founding Teams, Agile Development Techniques. The sponsorship will double the reach of Women 2.0's

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Steve Blank

MAY 29, 2019

Philip Bouchard : You’ve started teaching at Berkeley since 2002, Columbia in 2003 and at Stanford since 2011. With the nature of work changing, the core skills entrepreneurs need to know to become practitioners are actually core skills that everybody will need to know to get a job: creativity, agility, resilience, tenacity, curiosity.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Artem is a serial entrepreneur as he co-founded and acted as CTO of two companies (200 labs & Gipis) between 2011 and 2020 before founding Chatfuel in early 2020. Most of these tools also have freemium models so businesses can test them out first, with a sliding pricing scale from there to meet the needs of any size organization.

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Altgate

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

The key is to get the outsourced team locked in for the long term and to build your own lean/agile culture. .]… Tom Eisenmann Furqan: Does outsourcing engineering work well when following a lean approach with lots of iterative learning? link] fnazeeri I’ve seen it work (and not). link] Alex Cook Outsourcing is incredible.

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Software Review Offshore Startup Boston 65

Steve Blank

JUNE 25, 2009

Memorex is turning 50 years old in 2011. I’ve tried to read a lot of your History of Silicon Valley posts. They are very interesting. Now, I have an assignment that I would like to request your help with. We are putting together a plan to have some sort of gathering, lectures and celebration. So, here is my assignment.

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Technology Silicon Valley Fractional VPE Part-Time VPE 143

Agile VC

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

I first met Hardi at the beginning of 2011 here in Cambridge. It was still early days for the company then, at the time we invested in GrabCAD’s seed round in the spring of 2011 they had around 3,000 engineers in their community.

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Agile VC

JULY 26, 2019

sometime back in 2010 or early 2011) one of the limited partners we met with asked us what our “favorite future” was for NextView. Another phrase we use internally at NextView pretty often is that of a “favorite future”. Early in NextView’s history, when we were raising our first fund (e.g.

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Cracking the Code

DECEMBER 16, 2006

Venture Capital is about investing in the small, fast and agile company hoping that it will beat the large and slow incumbent. ► 2011. (2). Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Saturday, December 16, 2006. Betting on the right guy. at 12:25 PM.

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Steve Blank

MAY 12, 2015

In 2011 the National Science Foundation recognized that many of the innovators they were funding were failing – not from an inability to make their technologies work – but because they did not understand how to translate the technology into a successful business.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 30, 2015

Fast forward to 2011 and the business had been bought by Microsoft for a whopping US$8.5 They enjoy the same advantages as other SMEs, such as the agility to respond quickly to market changes, a collaborative DNA that fosters innovation, and the absence of the institutional inertia that often plagues larger organizations [7].

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