Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

By learning to be rapidly responsive and agile. I'm honored to be hosted by the Commonwealth Club of California, who I've spent many hours listening to on public radio. So how is it best to deal with uncertainty? How does an organization like this thrive? Ries wants to show you how. Presented by the Town Hall Center for Civic Life.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 6, 2009

Communism being a bad science experiment) ESL’s founder Bill Perry was moving the chess pieces. When Terman said no, Sylvania, a tube company which built proximity fuse tubes in WWII, won the contract and set up its Electronic Defense Lab (EDL) in Mountain View California in the middle of an orchard. There were no venture investors.

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Steve Blank

MAY 18, 2009

We agreed that all her founding CEOs seemed to have the same set of personality traits – tenacious, passionate, relentless, resilient, agile, and comfortable operating in chaos. What makes an individual a great startup founder (versus an employee) has been something I had been thinking about since I retired.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 18, 2017

Buoys out in the Pacific Ocean send data to meteorologists regarding the size of the swells approaching Northern California. Master Reinvention Agility. Judo originated in 1880, when its founder, Jigorō Kanō, was motivated to stop bullying at a local school. We call this strategy Reinvention Agility.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 30, 2009

Hopefully you and your co-founders are experts in one or two parts (agile development, SEO/SEM, etc.) But the rest; sales, marketing, bus dev is actually customer development that the founder needs to understand. Initially your job is to understand each of the parts of your business model before you hire someone to do it.

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Steve Blank

JULY 2, 2015

Takashi Tsutsumi and Masato Iino , founders of Learning Entrepreneur’s Lab in Japan. military can work together – for access to advanced technology and to learn how to move with agility, speed and urgency. The focus of our first segment is how Silicon Valley and the U.S.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

The Lean LaunchPad class teaches students how to build a Lean Startup using business model design, customer development and agile engineering. Over the last two years they used part of the National Science Foundation funds to send eight NYU faculty to California attend the Lean LaunchPad Educators program.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 20, 2015

Most of the times, founders make a mistake of not executing this and it becomes a massive set back later on. Scale With Agility. “Scale with agility in mind especially if you have only experienced increasing demand for a short amount of time. Burn rate: Seeing company grow fast is both exciting and overwhelming experience.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 22, 2020

Jen is the founder and former executive director of Code for America. She has been an advocate for a more responsive, a more resilient, more agile government. My parents and my brother live in Southern California. They co-founded it with former U.S. She served as the U.S. If that sounds like an oxymoron, well listen up.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 22, 2009

The original Hewlett Packard which made test and measurement products was spun-out and renamed Agilent. Agilent is a $5.8 Technology changes, culture changes, customer needs change, more agile competitors emerge, etc. At HP the founders were still at the company and still running the business.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 18, 2010

Andrew read the Four Steps to the Epiphany , tracked me down at California Coastal Commission hearing in Santa Barbara, and had me meeting with him in a stairwell during a break in my day-long meeting. The founders do. Customer Development is like being Agile. This guest post is from Andrew Elliott of Lottay. Lessons Learned.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

In future posts I’ll describe how Eric Ries and the Lean Startup concept provide the equivalent model for product development activities inside the building and neatly integrates customer and agile development. A few successful ones do all these things. But if you have a web based product the right answer may be 300-500. Thank you, Steve.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 30, 2019

“I didn’t set out to write a book but as we looked around the market for an operational playbook for sales, we couldn’t find one, so I tapped into my 20 years of sales experience and my network so that we could create a valuable resource for founders everywhere,” said Schwartzfarb. Austin, TX Nov. 12: Products that Count?—?Austin,

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 29, 2020

This start-up is headed by industry-leading professionals including its CEO and co-founder, Ido Susan, and Hillel Kobrinsky the CSO and co-founder. The company is headed up by co-founders Chemi Katz and Ohad Greenshpan, and has several big-name investors involved, including Greatpoint, Hanaco, Oak HC/FT, and Blumberg Capital.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2009

Waterfall, Agile, Lean? Filed under: Customer Development , Technology , Vertical Markets « Faith-Based versus Fact-Based Decision Making Am I a Founder? Intellectual Property/Patents – Strategic or Tactical, timing? Regulatory Issues – What are they? Time to Market – How long? Product Development – How do you engineer it?

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Steve Blank

APRIL 2, 2009

If you are a founder of a startup ethics begin with you. I teach teams various Agile techniques, and occasionally get told some particular trick is cheating. When your employees see that it’s “an anything goes” culture you’ll find unethical behavior occurring that you will regret. Think through if you want to win at any cost. (I

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Steve Blank

MAY 15, 2009

Let this article serve us reminders to founders and boards alike Reply Michael F. The Curse of a New Building At some point in my career as I began to ponder how/why startups morph from agile, “can do&# companies to [.] [.] I didn’t need to look much further than the “new building&# debacle I had a hand in.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

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.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 12, 2009

It was amazing to see the two founders, Fred Durham and Maheesh Jain, build a $100 million company from coffee cups and T-shirts. But Cafepress’s most memorable moment was when the founders used a “Lessons Learned” VC pitch to raise their second round of funding and got an 8-digit term sheet that same afternoon.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

The first step in Customer Development was Customer Discovery ; extracting hypotheses from the business plan and getting the founders out of the building to test the hypotheses in front of customers. They will realize that you have built a startup that’s agile, resilient and customer-centric. Just as a refresher.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2020

And half our clubs were in the state of California in 2008, so was a very interesting time to be a CEO and learned a lot. So we went back, got our agile teams engaged and in 48 hours, we could put up aerial of people's homes. Be very outcome-driven in the world we're going to. I mean, this is the beautiful thing that I. Let's go."

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers - SoCal CTO , November 1, 2010 I had a recent email dialog with the founder of a company looking for a CTO for their startup. And I tried to evaluate the idea and figure out: What did the founder really need here? Was it a Startup Founder Developer Gap ? same as the old boss.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 11, 2008

From California Historical Landmarks for Santa Clara note that Federal Telegraph predates HP by more than a quarter of a century and all of the early WWII era technology entrepreneurs had a common interest in radio. Stevey's Blog Rants: Good Agile, Bad Agile Learning from Obama: maneuver warfare on the campa. Expo SF (May.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 7, 2009

But what I remind them is that great grades and successful founders/technology entrepreneurs have at best a zero correlation (and anecdotal evidence suggests that the correlation may actually be negative.) You don’t get grades for having resiliency, curiosity, agility, resourcefulness, pattern recognition and tenacity.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

Truth be told, we've got defense contractors here just like California does too. ► August (2) SXSW Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium ► July (4) Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot Some IPO speculation Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# th. There are and we do. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 30, 2008

It ended with a large layoff and a transfer of jobs from NY to California and Bangalore. ► August (2) SXSW Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium ► July (4) Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot Some IPO speculation Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# th. The moral of the story? Theyll know if you dont.

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Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

I lived through the time when working in my first job in Ann Arbor Michigan we had to get out a map to find out that San Jose was not only in Puerto Rico but there was a city with that same name in California. The founders were simply wrong about their assumptions about customer needs. Founders Need to Run the Company Longer.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

Github - Free public repositories, collaborator management, issue tracking, wikis, downloads, code review, graphs Pivotal Tracker – Agile project management tool that enables real time collaboration. WebSequenceDiagrams - sketch sequence diagrams. Bontq – hosted bug tracking and project management needs.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

.” Hackernews list of “Tools of the Trade” for startups - includes over 150 SaaS tools used by startups, and over 150 comments with interesting insights from founders. Agile project management tool that enables real time collaboration. Agile project management. agile product management. Agile eLearning.

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 11, 2017

In his recent book The Givers: Money, Power, and Philanthropy in a New Gilded Age , Inside Philanthropy founder David Callahan warns that we "face a future in which private donors – who are accountable to no one – may often wield more influence than elected public officials, who (in theory, anyway) are accountable to all of us."

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