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When Hell Froze Over – in the Harvard Business Review

Steve Blank

To fill this gap I wrote The Four Steps to the Epiphany , a book about the Customer Development process and how it changes the way startups are built. ” It defined a startup as a “temporary organization designed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model.”

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When Hell Froze Over – in the Harvard Business Review

Steve Blank

To fill this gap I wrote The Four Steps to the Epiphany , a book about the Customer Development process and how it changes the way startups are built. ” It defined a startup as a “temporary organization designed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model.”

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10,000 Startups – Startup Weekend Next

Steve Blank

The class teaches founders how to dramatically reduce their failure rate through the combination of business model design, customer development and agile development using the Startup Owners Manual. And you’ll learn about how to build a minimal viable product to get feedback early and often from customers.

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The 47th (-46) International Business Model Competition

Steve Blank

(Or more accurately, startups are a temporary organization designed to search for a scalable and repeatable business model.) This startup search process is the business model / customer development / agile development solution stack. The 47th (-46) Annual Business Model Competition.

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

Steve Blank

The disadvantage is that its methodology was based on the old waterfall model of product development and not the agile and lean methods that startups use today. It taught lean theory ( business model design , customer development and agile engineering) and practice. We’ve gone global as well.

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When It’s Darkest Men See the Stars

Steve Blank

The globalization of entrepreneurship means the worldwide pool of potential startups has increased at least ten fold since the turn of this century. Or more accurately, startups are a temporary organization designed to search for a scalable and repeatable business model.). Entrepreneurship as It’s Own Management Science. (Or

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Innovation, Change and the Rest of Your Life

Steve Blank

And the globalization of entrepreneurship means the worldwide pool of potential startups has increased at least 100-fold since the turn of this century. We now understand that startups are just temporary organizations designed to search for a scalable and repeatable business models. VCs have now ceded more control to founders.

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