Steve Blank

MAY 23, 2016

Yet everyone – investors, entrepreneurs, academics — expected new startups to follow the same practices that worked for large companies – write a business plan, forecast 5-year sales projections and build the product without ever talking to customers. When I was 18 I served in the Air Force during the Vietnam War.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 27, 2009

I began to realize a few things: First, everything we had done in electronic warfare in the Vietnam War was just a slightly more modern version of what we had done over occupied Europe in World War II. (And And in hindsight, we seemed a bit more agile and innovative in WWII.) Play spooky music here. How was this possible?

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Steve Blank

APRIL 6, 2009

If you are a practitioner of Customer Development, ESL was doing it before most us were born. By 1961 its customers now included our intelligence agencies. The “customers’” contracts funded the company. The “customers” in Washington had never seen anything like it. There were no venture investors.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 1, 2016

college campuses circa the Vietnam War (and the riots and student protests at Stanford ). Fourth , would the same Lean Startup methodology (business model design, customer development and agile engineering) used in the Lean LaunchPad and NSF I-Corps class work here? Result: Hell yes. 15 more schools are in the pipeline.

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AUGUST 1, 2016

college campuses circa the Vietnam War (and the riots and student protests at Stanford ). Fourth , would the same Lean Startup methodology (business model design, customer development and agile engineering) used in the Lean LaunchPad and NSF I-Corps class work here? Result: Hell yes. 15 more schools are in the pipeline.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 28, 2009

The Vietnam war was winding down. Even though the bombers we lost over North Vietnam were older versions, called B-52 D-models, many of the systems were the same. Sure the rest of the stories diverge though… can’t really imagine a Soviet counterpart to the Customer Development method. Reply Ben C. ,

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Steve Blank

MAY 13, 2009

Reply Agile Opportunism – Entrepreneurial DNA « Steve Blank , on June 29, 2009 at 7:02 am Said: [.] Keesler Air Force Base in Biloxi Mississippi was the Training Center responsible for teaching 10’s of thousands of students a year how to repair radar, communications, and electronics. entire story can be found at Steve Blank.

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