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Is the Lean Startup concept of MVP dead?

VC Cafe

.” Steve Blank, “Is the lean startup dead?” ” The Lean Startup movement started out of necessity. Most principles of Lean Startup remain true, as described by Steve Blank in The Lean Startup Changes Everything : Business Plans are dead: Startups a series of hypothesis that need to be tested.

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Is the Lean Startup Dead?

Steve Blank

A version of this article first appeared in the Harvard Business Review. Given Verizon just shut down Go90 , its short form content video service, it will be interesting to see if Verizon distributes Katzenberg’s offerings.). But NewTV doesn’t plan on testing these hypotheses. It’s the antithesis of the Lean Startup.

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The Lean LaunchPad Class: It’s the same, but different

Steve Blank

We just finished the 8 th annual Lean LaunchPad class at Stanford. It’s hard to imagine, but only a decade ago, the capstone entrepreneurship class in most universities was how to write – or pitch- a business plan. In my experience, I saw that most business plans don’t survive first contact with customers.

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2021 Lessons Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

How would customer interviews work via video? After teaching remotely for the last year, we’ve learned that customer discovery is actually more efficient using video conferencing. For the final Lessons Learned presentation many of the eight teams presented a 2-minute video to provide context about their problem.

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Blowing up the Business Plan at U.C. Berkeley Haas Business School

Steve Blank

Berkeley Haas Business School is a leader in entrepreneurship education. It has replaced how to write a business plan with hands-on Lean Startup methods. The final deliverable for that class was a 30-page business plan. We had multiple business plan competitions. Today the U.C.

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2020 Lesson Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

If you can’t see the four videos of General Mattis click here for the entire talk. How on earth would customer interviews work via video? Second, doing customer discovery via video actually increased the number of interviews the students were able to do each week. If you can’t see the Omniscient 2-minute video click here.

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Lean Startups aren't Cheap Startups

Steve Blank

For those of you who have been following the discussion, a Lean Startup is Eric Ries ’s description of the intersection of Customer Development , Agile Development and if available, open platforms and open source. Over its lifetime a Lean Startup may spend less money than a traditional startup.

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