Steve Blank

JANUARY 28, 2020

Over time, I realized that was wrong – large companies executed known business models, while startups searched for them. Customer Development became one of the three parts of the Lean Startup as Eric Ries and Alexander Osterwalder provided the other two components (Agile Engineering and the business model canvas.)

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Steve Blank

JUNE 26, 2015

government to help them innovate faster– not just kind of fast, but 10x the number of initiatives in 1/5 the time. In the last five years “ Lean Startup ” methodologies have enabled entrepreneurs to efficiently build a startup by searching for product/market fit rather than blindly trying to execute. A 50x speedup kind of fast.

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Steve Blank

MAY 23, 2016

Established businesses execute business models while startups search for them. Shortly after that, I met Pete Newell , the retired head of the Army’s Rapid Equipping Force – one of the best Lean and agile organizations in the military – and I met Joe Felter an ex Special Forces Colonel. Actually they’re entirely different.

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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.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 28, 2013

Those tools now embraced by startups searching for new business models “also happen to have arrived just in time to help existing companies deal with the forces of continual disruption. Blank’s revelation — that large companies execute while startups “search” — was the key to articulating the difference between big and small businesses.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 4, 2016

Department of State manages America’s relationships with 180 foreign governments, international organizations, and the people of other countries with 270 embassies, consulates, and other posts. diplomats, government officials, and all other personnel at home and abroad. Department of State is working on all of them. Support U.S.

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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.

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Silicon Valley North Korea Agile Lean 120

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. Jonathan Swift.

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Steve Blank

MAY 29, 2019

Today the capstone class is most often experiential, team-based, hands on, focused around the search for a repeatable and scalable business model. The only hard part about it, is to get well-defined problems from sponsors in the local city or government agency that you offer to students. PB: Everyone looks for a turnkey solution.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 4, 2016

Department of State manages America’s relationships with 180 foreign governments, international organizations, and the people of other countries with 270 embassies, consulates, and other posts. diplomats, government officials, and all other personnel at home and abroad. Department of State is working on all of them. Support U.S.

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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. Jonathan Swift.

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Silicon Valley Business Model Venture Capital Balance Sheet 258

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 6, 2023

For example, a while back a passionate entrepreneur approached me with an innovative solution for reducing world hunger, but hadn’t focused on the fact that hungry people often don’t have any money, and governments are not easy customers. Solutions and inventions alone do not make a business. Be customer focused, not technology focused.

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NZ Entrepreneur

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Innovation sprints, hackathons, and other rapid, agile problem-solving and prototyping approaches may seem like the antithesis of the academic approach to research. Dr Mary Tate is an Associate Professor in Information Management at the Wellington School of Business and Government.

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ConversionXL

MAY 1, 2017

As marketing channels that once brought in endless streams of new customers mature, those streams can quickly become mere trickles, as a result of anything from new competition, to changes in consumer behavior (often brought about by technology, like the shift to mobile), to new rules that govern the channel. Image Source.

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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.

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Where to Play

MAY 28, 2019

Lean Methodology consists of three tools designed for entrepreneurs building new ventures: The Business Model Canvas – to write down all the hypotheses about a new business; Customer Development – a process for testing those hypotheses outside the building; Agile Engineering – to rapidly build minimal viable products to test product/market fit.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

We assume it will be a 2-3 day discussion, but may be much longer, because of the CR (Continuing Resolution) to fund the government overall. Dickinson: If government shuts down, only political appointees can work. We’ve revectored to an agile development methodology. This is 1st chance to update patent law since 1952.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 31, 2016

We decided to start something we felt would have the greatest positive impact on fellow business owners, an Agile Methodology consulting company. We quit our jobs, pooled our money, and set out to help companies implement Agile – a highly efficient, organized, and empowering way to run your business.

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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.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 26, 2009

What we call “community management&# is actually governance. It is our obligation to govern well, but – as history has repeatedly shown – this is incredibly hard. What we call “community management&# is actually governance. It was absolutely worth it. Passionate online communities are real societies.

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Steve Blank

JULY 25, 2011

government backed venture firms and limited partnerships. In the real world a startup is about the search for a business model or more accurately, startups are a temporary organization designed to search for a scalable and repeatable business model. But by the early 1960?s Startups are not smaller versions of large companies.

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Steve Blank

JULY 15, 2010

New, agile and adroit venture firms with new business models have emerged to deal with the reality that 1) web 2.0 government for funding. government doles out funds to connected entrepreneurs, it lacks an integrated strategy to deal with the lack of public market financing for critical growth industries. Yet while the U.S.

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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.) The resulting conversations made us smarter, agile and relentless. In a startup “Good news needs to travel fast, but bad news needs to travel faster.”.

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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.

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www.scottporad.com

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

For example, I just searched for “philly startup&# and found some good things. I usually keep LinkedIn as just my online rolodex, but it can be a good search engine for finding a skillset you’re looking for. Search for ASP.net and see who’s a friend of your friend and ask for an intro.

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Board Effect

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

These boards are more agile and can make decisions quickly when necessary. All board meeting materials and key documents should be able to be found quickly and easily through keyword searches. It’s secure board management software streamlines operations, enhances governance practices, and enables confident decision-making.

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Technical Review Technology Software Review Security 52

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

And with campaign donations spread equally, both parties supported this exodus and no one in the government stood in their way – in fact, they encouraged it. In addition, skills training in resilience, agility, etc. Oh, and the jobs we moved overseas, or never even attempted to build here, (think iPhones)?

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

As a formal method, the Lean Startup consists of three parts: The Business Model Canvas – to frame hypotheses, Customer Development – to test those hypotheses in front of customers, and Agile Engineering – to build Minimum Viable Products to maximize learning. In a business the aim is to earn more money than you spend.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 3, 2009

If your practice is not designed to cope with uncertainty, it has no place in a startup - even if your startup is located in government or enterprise. I think it makes explicable why so-called "best practices" that people bring to startups from other contexts fail so miserably. Expo SF (May. Conference streaming, sponsors, discounted tickets.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 8, 2009

"Spy satellites produced far more raw information than the government's battalion of overworked analysts could handle. When a Deputy Secretary of State official called the CIA to find out more, he was shocked to realize they had little to no information about the event. The CIA relied so heavily on [these]. Expo SF (May.

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Occam's Razor

MAY 2, 2017

The challenge I want to take on is to be specific in the recommendations make, and to share how we can be very nimble and agile. There are Search people and Content people and Landing Page Optimizers and Cart fixers and Attribution Specialists and more. You’ll see three consistent patterns in the thinking expressed below.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

We met a number of policy makers from the White House and State Department, and had a solid Startup2Startup all about government policy and entrepreneurship. In a previous post , I asked readers for suggested topics that the US government needs to know about startups and entrepreneurs, and got some really interesting responses.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 21, 2017

It could be studying entrepreneurship in school or it could have been working with a government contractor or maybe someone had a sales job. But it’s rare that an entrepreneur or business owner doesn’t leverage their background in some way to launch their business. It’s usually a process. 1 – Medical Device Sales.

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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. This is equally true of a packaged good in a grocery store, an ecommerce website, a non-profit social service or a variety of government programs. Wrong again. Wrong again.

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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. –left me searching for answers. —– What Have We Lost? Yet today at dinner his frustration just spilled out.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Use agility to your advantage and make speed a team priority. Because the product and market can likely change in the search for product market fit. 2021 gave us plenty of examples for bad governance in both startups and venture capital. Need for Speed, indeed. Team, product, market. What matters most?

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

Every bit as true for government as for enterprise - and even the two guys in a garage. A lot of conversation was about what "the federal government" should do. But its all too easy to lose sight of the fact that any government, even one as large as the US, is made up entirely of people. Federal government should do nothing.

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