Steve Blank

JULY 6, 2016

He has been a reporter for The New Republic; has written about foreign policy for numerous publications; and is the author of Ally Versus Ally: America, Europe and the Siberian Pipeline Crisis. It’s the best of America and it opens doors sometimes when our policies may actually shut them or keep them closed. .

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 21, 2013

Through rapid experimentation, short product development cycles, and rigorous measurements of the right metrics, they can ascertain what customers really want. Such direct experiences allows one to test critical “leap-of-faith” assumptions about what customers like and dislike.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

So will failing to understand your customers. Successful founders have a laser-like focus and commitment; a keen understanding of customers’ needs; and a tenacious spirit, said the latest guests on Entrepreneurs are Everywhere , my radio show on Sirius XM Channel 111. Filed under: Customer Development , SiriusXM Radio Show.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 26, 2009

So no post today on entrepreneurship, Secret History of Silicon Valley, Customer Development, Lean Startups, etc. For all its flaws, America is still a beacon of liberty and justice. Each year I teach hundreds of students from around the world who come to America to pursue their version of this same dream.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

When I told her they not only didn’t want it back, but were trying to see if they could give me more for my next company, she paused for a long while and then said in a very Russian accent, “Only in America are the streets paved with gold.” It was a long way from Ellis Island.)

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 15, 2017

This bill is a reauthorization of the 2010 America Creating Opportunities to Meaningfully Promote Excellence in Technology, Education, and Science (COMPETES) Act, which set out policies that govern the NSF, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), and federal programs on innovation, manufacturing, and science and math education.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 26, 2012

63 scientists and engineers in 21 teams made ~ 2,000 customer calls in 10 weeks , turning laboratory ideas into formidable startups. We now know how to reduce customer and market risk for new ventures. Filed under: Customer Development , Lean LaunchPad , Technology. No, there’s no age limit.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

customer development. Some general customer development slides click here. Startupplays.com, publisher of online entrepreneurs processes guides, drew from my Udacity course and The Startup Owner’s Manual to create a free step-by-step guide to understanding your customers and creating your value proposition.

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David Teten

APRIL 1, 2021

For example, recruiting writ large is useful at all stages of development. Similarly, customer introductions are invaluable in the early days, but become less valuable once a company has a fully-formed go to market function.”. Customer Development. A well-developed model is Andreessen Horowitz’s Executive Briefing Center.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

Small Business and Startups: Slice & Dice Your Customer Service Data | crowdSPRING Blog - [link]. Is The Only Purpose of Customer Service To Change Feelings? How Customers evaluate your product | StartupCFO – [link]. Using mTurk to interview 100 customers (in 4 hours) | Customer Development Labs - [link].

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Steve Blank

JUNE 7, 2019

The eight teams spoke to over 820 beneficiaries, stakeholders, requirements writers, program managers, warfighters, legal, security, customers, etc. Followed by an 8-minute slide presentation follow their customer discovery journey over the 10-weeks. All the presentations are worth a watch.

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Steve Blank

JULY 25, 2016

I simply wasn’t happy in corporate America. Working in corporate America, he gained enormous experience that serves him today, he says, but his heart wasn’t in working for others. I went out and talked to customers, friends. I was a square peg in a round hole and needed to be someplace where I could think creatively.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

But they had minimal understanding of their target customer segment(s), and in the relentlessly direct nature of the class, we let them know it. Rising to the occasion Jon and the team got out of the building and went to the Sonoma County Fair and Wine and other food festivals, and spoke to 50 customers. Lessons Learned.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2017

Today if college students want to give back to their country they think of Teach for America , the Peace Corps , or Americorps or perhaps the US Digital Service or the GSA’s 18F. Eight teams spoke to over 800 beneficiaries, requirements writers, program managers, warfighters, legal, security, customers, etc.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 22, 2010

The New Startup Arms Race Americas future prosperity depends on our ability to maintain this lead. The New Startup Arms Race Americas future prosperity depends on our ability to maintain this lead. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Back in MacArthur’s day, fighting a conventional conflict akin to the wars America experienced in the 20th century was certainly not expected to be easy. You stand as the Nation’s war-guardian, as its lifeguard from the raging tides of international conflict.”.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 9, 2012

If you want a preview of what I’ll be talking about, Steve Blank , the successful entrepreneur and brilliant brain behind the Customer Development idea, has an outstanding and thorough (like everything Steve does) review of Startup Communities up on his site. This is the first public session in Boulder about Startup Communities.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 4, 2016

They’ll learn how to apply “lean startup” principles, (“mission model canvas,” “customer development,” and “agile engineering”) to discover and validate agency and user needs and to continually build iterative prototypes to test whether they understood the problem and solution. National Service.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 3, 2016

Today if college students want to give back to their country they think of Teach for America , the Peace Corps , or Americorps or perhaps the US Digital Service or the GSA’s 18F. And we will build a knowledge base of DOD/IC acquisition primers, customer development best practices, org charts, etc. What Surprised Us?

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Steve Blank

MAY 30, 2016

America is full of entrepreneurs, inventor and dreamers. No one in Germany would ever believe that story but in America, things are different. He’s a veteran, but his experience is really in corporate America, and he’s quickening the pace of innovation at the VA. We need to continue that. Americans are dreamers.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 26, 2016

Student teams will take actual national security problems and learn how to apply Lean Startup principles to discover and validate customer needs and to continually build iterative prototypes to test whether they understood the problem and solution. Deliver minimum viable products that match DOD/IC customer needs in an extremely short time.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

I want to be able to backpack through Central America for 3 months when I feel like it. This enables you to truly understand your customers and to help them. Know your talents, develop a skill people value. Go out there and talk to prospective customers. Listen to your customers. I want to discover the world.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 13, 2009

In a truly new market, we face no meaningful competition, there are no tradeshows to present at, and customers are not clamoring for our product. Remember that startups operate by a different unit of progress: what I call validated learning about customers. Team New Zealand designed the yacht that won the Americas Cup.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 2, 2010

On the whole, this is a good thing for America and for our civilization. This is just like a startup to me, complete with distribution and product development challenges, ecosystem design and many, many customers. On the whole, this is a good thing for America and for our civilization.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2018

Six teams spoke to over 600 beneficiaries, stakeholders, requirements writers, program managers, warfighters, legal, security, customers, etc. Each of their slide presentations follow their customer discovery journey. Watching them I was left with wonder and awe about what they accomplished in 10 weeks.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 31, 2013

They are what customers always deserve and what they should use to rate any type of business transaction. But the end result is the same: You, the customer, are underserved and are not able to make a fully informed decision. Do I ever get the feeling that I’m a second-class citizen compared to other clients or customers? •

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 4, 2016

They’ll learn how to apply “lean startup” principles, (“mission model canvas,” “customer development,” and “agile engineering”) to discover and validate agency and user needs and to continually build iterative prototypes to test whether they understood the problem and solution. National Service.

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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. 3) An experienced board brings an extensive network of customers, partners, help in recruiting, follow-on financing, etc. Angels In America. Jonathan Swift. The Wrong Metrics.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 22, 2016

She struggled early on trying to get customers to see her vision for maintaining aviation manuals and other records on the cloud rather than on paper: Kerry : Just a couple short months after that final testing (of Comply’s 365 product using a Kindle) the iPad came out and I looked at that. — Customer discovery paid off for Kerry.

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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. 3) An experienced board brings an extensive network of customers, partners, help in recruiting, follow-on financing, etc. Angels In America. Jonathan Swift. The Wrong Metrics.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 30, 2016

I always have to prove myself to customers, and I get many men who don’t know the first thing about taking care of their cars. The short answer was no and whilst many of the businesses present had a large technology component to their company, with custom developed software etc they could not present themselves as a tech company.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 11, 2014

Listen to this episode if you want to hear about a founder who has a product and users and paying customers … and is trying to figure out how to take his company to the next level and grow faster. Jason: So how many of those 20,000 people are paying customers? Edwin: Okay, I have different types of customers. Jason: Okay.

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www.women2.org

MARCH 8, 2012

After quitting my job and starting Sorced , I spent a few months validating my business concept by creating the product mockups and doing customer development. Commits To International Growth, Enters Latin America With Ellas 2.0. The Alchemist Series: Customer Development and Metrics. Startup Weekend. Recent Posts.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 20, 2011

Product management and customer development, KISSmetrics. rfan622 How Listening to Customers Helped Us Raise $700K in Seed Funding Mariya Genzel. One caveat: if you come by, you are automatically volunteering to be subjected to some intense customer development. Also: booze. Co-founder, Backblaze.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 17, 2016

The features didn’t match what ultimately the customers would buy or wanted. Look at the history of America and what has been the role models or the examples of a way out for a lot of underrepresented entrepreneurs minorities? If you can’t hear the clip, click here. And it’s a culture issue. .

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

In America, I think it’s money; if you can make money from your illness, then you are deemed a genius. . The last thing that I built was a contact manager, the ability to track all the information about my prospects, about my customers, so that I could remember them. …I Filed under: Customer Development , SiriusXM Radio Show.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 29, 2010

Without lobbyists or PACs, were getting the word out in DC and nationwide that we have an opportunity to act - this year - to create jobs right here in America by supporting entrepreneurship and innovation. My big belief in the Startup Visa Act: Entrepreneurship is very much representative and symbolic of what Americas all about."

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