Steve Blank

JUNE 12, 2020

The eight teams spoke to over 945 beneficiaries, stakeholders, requirements writers, program managers, warfighters, legal, security, customers, etc. 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.

Oakland 306

Oakland Asia Lean Video 306

Steve Blank

JULY 25, 2023

This meant the class was team-based, Lean-driven (hypothesis testing/business model/customer development/agile engineering) and experiential – where the students, rather than being presented with all of the essential information, must discover that information rapidly for themselves.

Lean 294

Lean Chile Ukraine Spain 294

Steve Blank

MAY 7, 2019

Modern entrepreneurship began at the turn of this century with the observation that startups aren’t smaller versions of large companies – large companies at their core execute known business models, while startups search for scalable business models. This new framework can act as the front-end of Customer Development.

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Lean Marketing Agile Customer Development 333

Steve Blank

JANUARY 28, 2020

They operated this way because their existing business models didn’t allow them to initially profit from those opportunities – so they ignored them – and continued to chase higher profitability in more-demanding segments. Innovation Theater) in companies and government organizations, rather than creating actual innovation.

Lean 429

Lean Business Model Government Agile 429

The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

.” Startups can use AI for predictive analytics, chatbots for customer service, automation to optimize supply chain management, and many other applications. Sustainability and ESG Integration Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) criteria are becoming increasingly important to investors and consumers.

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Startup Analytics Global Agile 120

Steve Blank

JUNE 21, 2017

I was in Boston and was interviewed by The Growth Show about my current thinking about innovation in companies and government agencies.The interviewer was great and managed to get me to summarize several years of learning in one podcast. 7:11 Agile Engineering – Eric Ries. 17:08 Government Agency innovation limitations.

Silicon Valley 229

Silicon Valley Lean Government Boston 229

Steve Blank

MAY 23, 2016

And there are more to come: your first job, getting married, buying a house, having a child, becoming a manager, starting a company, retirement – and eventually commencement speaker. Established businesses execute business models while startups search for them. In 33% of the commencement speeches this year, 2.8

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Lean Technical Review Vietnam Engineer 222

ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Still, COVID-19 helped tip the balance towards a globally distributed model. Government restrictions and fears of infection pushed companies that had previously held out to accept remote working, and many discovered that it’s more manageable than they had expected. Support agile working practices.

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Distribution Global Agile Startup 145

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

But by taking advantage of open source, agile software, and iterative development, lean startups can operate with much less waste. So far, I have found "lean startup" works better with the entrepreneurs Ive talked to than "agile startup" or even "extreme startup.") Of course, many startups are capital efficient and generally frugal.

Lean 168

Lean San Francisco Startup Continuous Deployment 168

Steve Blank

AUGUST 4, 2016

Hacking for Diplomacy is a new course from the Management Science and Engineering department in Stanford’s Engineering school and Stanford’s International Policy Studies program that will be first offered in the Fall of 2016. The management of all these relationships is called diplomacy. Support U.S.

Lean 162

Lean Government Agile Africa 162

Steve Blank

JUNE 1, 2011

As customer and agile development reinvent the Startup, it’s time to ask why startup board governance has not kept up with the pace of innovation. Reinventing the board meeting may offer venture-backed startups a more efficient, productive way to direct and measure their search for a profitable business model.

Silicon Valley 292

Silicon Valley Business Model Venture Capital Balance Sheet 292

Steve Blank

MAY 29, 2019

My contribution has been, “Why don’t we design classes more closely modeled to what innovators and entrepreneurs actually do.” Today the capstone class is most often experiential, team-based, hands on, focused around the search for a repeatable and scalable business model. PB: Everyone looks for a turnkey solution.

Incubator 331

Incubator Lean Programming Government 331

Steve Blank

JUNE 1, 2011

As customer and agile development reinvent the Startup, it’s time to ask why startup board governance has not kept up with the pace of innovation. Reinventing the board meeting may offer venture-backed startups a more efficient, productive way to direct and measure their search for a profitable business model.

Silicon Valley 263

Silicon Valley Business Model Venture Capital Balance Sheet 263

Steve Blank

JUNE 7, 2019

The eight teams spoke to over 820 beneficiaries, stakeholders, requirements writers, program managers, warfighters, legal, security, customers, etc. 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. Team: Panacea.

Oakland 271

Oakland Lean SBIR Afghanistan 271

Steve Blank

AUGUST 4, 2016

Hacking for Diplomacy is a new course from the Management Science and Engineering department in Stanford’s Engineering school and Stanford’s International Policy Studies program that will be first offered in the Fall of 2016. The management of all these relationships is called diplomacy. Support U.S.

Lean 120

Lean Government Agile Africa 120

Steve Blank

JUNE 2, 2011

A revolution has taken hold as customer development and agile engineering reinvent the Startup process. It’s time to ask why startup board governance has failed to keep pace with innovation. Startups now understand what they should be doing in their early formative days is search for a business model. Victor Hugo.

Silicon Valley 284

Silicon Valley Business Model Early Stage Venture Capital 284

Steve Blank

JANUARY 26, 2016

Today these potential adversaries are able to harness the power of social networks, encryption, GPS, low-cost drones, 3D printers, simpler design and manufacturing processes, agile and lean methodologies, ubiquitous Internet and smartphones. Terrorists today live on the ‘net and they are all early adopters. We’re Our Own Worst Enemy.

Silicon Valley 120

Silicon Valley North Korea Agile Lean 120

Steve Blank

AUGUST 1, 2016

On September 7 th – 9 th we are holding our first Hacking for Defense & Diplomacy – class for Educators and Sponsors , training educators how to teach these classes in their universities and sponsors how to select problem sets and manage their teams. Engage directly with potential government problem sponsors. Sign up here.

Silicon Valley 129

Silicon Valley Southern California San Diego Lean 129

Steve Blank

AUGUST 1, 2016

On September 7 th – 9 th we are holding our first Hacking for Defense & Diplomacy – class for Educators and Sponsors , training educators how to teach these classes in their universities and sponsors how to select problem sets and manage their teams. Engage directly with potential government problem sponsors. Sign up here.

Silicon Valley 120

Silicon Valley Southern California San Diego Lean 120

Women Entrepreneurs Can

MARCH 2, 2023

Instead of maintaining strict, serial boundaries for business growth, like the legacy waterfall method, we perform parallel efforts to shape a flexible strategy while we take action. We can accurately interpret causal relationships that are the true drivers of our specific business outcomes. So, What Exactly Is the Lean Method?

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Lean South Korea Metrics Framework 98

ReadWriteStart

JUNE 29, 2020

One of the many challenges facing the world’s governments is the fact that no one really knows how this virus behaves. Thus, the world’s scientists, medical experts, and governments are in new territory, determining what works and what doesn’t work as each country moves through the peaks and troughs of this pandemic. Draw up a budget.

Bootstrapping 85

Bootstrapping Global Startup Hungary 85

Steve Blank

JULY 25, 2011

government backed venture firms and limited partnerships. In 1960’s and ‘70’s few MBA’s would give up a lucrative career in management, finance or Wall Street to join a bunch of technical lunatics. Yet because of the Golden Rule, the VC’s got to set how startups were built and managed (those who have the gold set the rules.).

Engineer 307

Engineer Silicon Valley United States Venture Capital 307

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

. — I just watched a very smart company try to manage innovation by hiring a global consulting firm to offload engineering from “distractions.” An existing company or government organization is primarily organized for day-to-day execution of its current business processes or mission. There’s a much better way.

Incubator 313

Incubator Curation Engineer Government 313

Steve Blank

JULY 15, 2010

Most of the startups they invested in either died by running out of money before they found a scalable business model or ended up in the “land of the living dead” by never growing (failing to Pivot.). Your company had money in the bank to expand your business, scaling the company from the “build” stage into the “grow” stage.

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Venture Capital IPO Liquidity Event Entrepreneur 299

Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

Struggling to explain the successes and failures of those companies, I discussed principles like continuous deployment, customer development, and a hyper-accelerated form of agile. Therefore, we needed a new management toolkit designed explicitly for iteration, scientific learning, and rapid experimentation. It's a big tent.

Lean 167

Lean Entrepreneur Agile San Francisco 167

Board Effect

AUGUST 30, 2019

A strong relationship between the CIO and the board will yield numerous benefits as each fulfills their role in cybersecurity management and oversight. As board directors strive to learn more about cyberattacks and cybersecurity, they’re gaining a better understanding of how technology can help them create newer, better business models.

Agile 45

Agile Government Technology Software 45

Steve Blank

JANUARY 10, 2011

There’s something about the combination of human nature (rationalization and self deception) and large hierarchical organizations (corporations, military, government, etc.) In other startups I was lucky and had great investors who knew how to manage and deal with chaos. that actively conspire to hide failure and errors.

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Forecast Agile Revenue Founder 265

ReadWriteStart

JUNE 13, 2011

As customer and agile development reinvent the startup, it's time to ask why startup board governance has not kept up with the pace of innovation. Reinventing the board meeting may offer venture-backed startups a more efficient, productive way to direct and measure their search for a profitable business model. Here's how.

Silicon Valley 117

Silicon Valley Balance Sheet Metrics Early Stage 117

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

Managing urban areas has become one of the most important development challenges of the 21st century. Including accessibility and purposeful inclusion into Austin’s Smart City Strategic builds a more trusted governance model.

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Austin LLC Texas Government 54

Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 21, 2010

It also causes them to miss the numerous other kinds of startups that appear in less-glamorous settings: inside enterprises, non-profits, and even governments. And because both small businesses and startups have a high mortality rate, sometimes these images lead us to believe that any small business is a startup. Wrong again.

San Francisco 168

San Francisco Startup Lean Continuous Deployment 168

Steve Blank

AUGUST 25, 2015

I’ve spent this year working with corporations and government agencies that are adopting and adapting Lean Methodologies. We were once a scrappy, agile and feared organization with a “can-do” attitude. The biggest surprise for me was getting schooled on how extremely difficult it is to be an innovator inside a company of executors.

Lean 120

Lean Entrepreneur Business Model Silicon Valley 120

Agile VC

MAY 22, 2014

My first two posts on this mammoth S-1 covered a high-level sizing of Alibaba and a deeper dive into some of Alibaba Group’s governance which in some ways mirrors the Politburo structure. Today I’m going to analyze monetization across Alibaba’s various businesses.

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China Revenue Flash Affiliate 159

Start Up Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

It will be one of the oldest technologies from civilised society – Governance. And part of the documentation process, are the rules, regulations and boundaries we use to Govern the market place. Finally activists and Governments are starting to take notice. We can expect a number market changing actions to commence.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Widget Architecture Government 78

Steve Blank

JANUARY 4, 2011

I did a keynote on innovation hubs at the newly created DoFuture program , spoke at Santiago’s Startup Weekend on Customer and Agile Development, and at a Conference in Patagonia supported by the Ministry of Economy’s Innovation Division. The good news: Entrepreneurship and innovation is being talked about continually in Chile.

Silicon Valley 335

Silicon Valley Chile South America Venture Capital 335

SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

So let’s be very specific: let’s assume your dream job is product manager at Google, working on the Analytics product. few years ago I also started following Alexander Osterwalder in his blog about his Business Model Generation -mantra. As if managing were a waste of time. By doing the job. Where is it?

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Technical Review Technology Product CTO Hire 175

bhargreaves.com

MARCH 7, 2010

But for every entrepreneur who has seriously considered the pluses and minuses of working with a dev shop in the context of the specificities of their business model, there are five who are hiring a dev shop because (a) they are lazy, (b) they don’t know any better, or (c) all of the above. Scissor.com is another agile option.

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Hiring Technical Review Agile Software Review 40

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

I’ve spent this year working with corporations and government agencies that are adopting and adapting Lean Methodologies. In Horizon 1 and 2 companies (those that execute or extend current business models), stories revolve around heroes and rebels who manage to get something new done in spite of the existing processes.

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Startup Silicon Valley Incubator Matching 120