2011 Business Model Lean Product Development 
Steve Blank
MARCH 15, 2011
Our new Stanford Lean LaunchPad class was an experiment in a new model of teaching startup entrepreneurship. what’s the product? Come up with ways to test each of the 9 business model canvas hypotheses. Their business was a robot lawn mower. Mike Dorsey ( MBA/MSE, Jun 2011) B.S. Syllabus here.
ConversionXL
SEPTEMBER 6, 2013
Steve Blank, a serial entrepreneur in Silicon Valley, developed a methodology for creating businesses that runs in parallel with the traditional product development process. The core idea behind customer development is that the assumptions you make about a target market are only guesses. Pivot the product entirely.
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Steve Blank
JUNE 25, 2009
They couldn’t keep up with the fast product development times that were enabled by using standard microprocessors. So their management teams were insisting that they OEM (buy from someone else) these products. Memorex is turning 50 years old in 2011. Convergent Technologies was one of those OEM suppliers.
SoCal CTO
DECEMBER 1, 2010
Clearly it'd be more accurate to say "sometime in Q1 2011." few years ago I also started following Alexander Osterwalder in his blog about his Business Model Generation -mantra. If nothing changes, when will you run out of money? Sometimes fear is a good motivator. Maybe you could get v1.0 same as the old boss.
conversionxl.com
SEPTEMBER 10, 2013
Steve Blank, a serial entrepreneur in Silicon Valley, developed a methodology for creating businesses that runs in parallel with the traditional product development process. The core idea behind customer development is that the assumptions you make about a target market are only guesses. Pivot the product entirely.
maplebutter.com
JANUARY 8, 2013
How to stay lean and iterate quickly while you’re building a two sided marketplace, especially when “network effect” and “critical mass” are the two main focuses? Near shoring development with your team (ex: your team is based in Canada / India) is cool, but not outsourcing. Please, where do i start?
betashop.com
OCTOBER 8, 2012
As the questions came in, I realized that my 2010 list was great for what I had learned as of 2 years ago, but it also was in desperate need of an update to include what I’ve learned more recently, especially as we’ve pivoted from fabulis to Fab in 2011 and then scaled Fab to more than 7.5 So, here goes. Don’t do this by committee.
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