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The Woodstock of K-12 Education

Steve Blank

It happened recently when a group of educators came to the ranch to learn how to teach Lean entrepreneurship to K-12 students. We now understand the distinction between startups – who search for a business model – versus existing companies – that execute a business plan. On Fire With A Vision.

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How to Write a Business Plan for a Cannabis Company

Up and Running

If you simply want to map out the aspects of your business for internal use, you can consider a Lean Business Plan. It’s also a nice touch to customize the site with search boxes for recreational products and medical products, respectively, as well as for indicas, sativas, and hybrids. Include pictures of each product.

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The Evolution of Entrepreneurial Education and Corporate Innovation

Steve Blank

Lean LaunchPad class developed for Stanford. Other classes were on how to prep for VC pitches or develop the five year income statements, balance sheets and cash flows or read case studies. And the Lean LaunchPad class I developed at Stanford was the first such class. Worth a read. Mission-Driven Entrepreneurship.

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Intel Disrupted: Why large companies find it difficult to innovate, and what they can do about it

Steve Blank

It’s a lot easier to get these numbers to look great by outsourcing everything, getting assets off the balance sheet and only investing in things that pay off fast. And for long-term survival – Horizon 3 – search for and create new/disruptive business model(s). Lessons Learned.

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Why Companies are Not Startups

Steve Blank

The Enterprise: Business Model Execution We know that a startup is a temporary organization designed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model. Somewhere in the dim past of the company, it too was a startup searching for a business model. It needs the tools and processes pioneered in Lean Startups. What to Do?

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Microsoft, Near Death, & Enterprise Cloud

Agile VC

To be fair to Microsoft they’ve done some laudable things in the past decade like creating a respectable (still distant #2) search company in Bing, being both dominant and innovative in console gaming (Kinnect, Xbox Live, etc), and acquiring some interesting companies (Skype, Yammer). browsers).

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What Is a Business Plan?

Up and Running

Most of us need just a Lean Business Plan, for internal use, with just bullet point lists and important projections. Good businesses always keep their Lean Plan up to date. The lean business plan is great news because it makes the planning process much less daunting. More on that in the section on the Lean Plan.