Steve Blank

JUNE 12, 2020

And the trick is we use the same Lean LaunchPad / I-Corps curriculum — and kept the same class structure – experiential, hands-on, driven this time by a mission -model not a business model. Hacking for Defense has its origins in the Lean LaunchPad class I first taught at Stanford in 2011. Goals for the Hacking for Defense Class.

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Board Effect

OCTOBER 15, 2023

The Benefits of Generative AI for Nonprofits Nonprofit organizations and associations typically run on tight budgets and lean staff numbers. Elements of an AI Governance Framework An AI governance framework is essential to ensure responsible and ethical use of AI technologies by nonprofit organizations.

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Generative AI ChatGPT Software Review Technical Review 98

Steve Blank

AUGUST 21, 2015

I’ve spent this year working with corporations and government agencies trying to adapt and adopt Lean Methodologies. I’ve summarized my learnings in this blog post , and here and here and here and put it all together in the presentation below. In doing so I’ve learned a ton from lots of people.

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Government Lean Customer Development Developer 120

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 23, 2013

My friend Ron Ashkenas interviewed me for his blog on the Harvard Business Review. Here’s Ron’s blog post. To get some perspective on this question, I recently talked with Steve Blank , a serial entrepreneur, co-author of The Start-Up Owner’s Manual, and father of the “lean start-up” movement.

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Business Model Technical Review Business Plan Search 334

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 3, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, July 3, 2009 Lean Startup fbFund wrap-up Last week I had a real blast meeting with the companies at the fbFund incubator at Palo Alto. The Lean Startup fbFund Edition View more documents from Eric Ries. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Without further ado. Expo SF (May.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 21, 2017

I was in Boston and was interviewed by The Growth Show about my current thinking about innovation in companies and government agencies.The interviewer was great and managed to get me to summarize several years of learning in one podcast. Part of the answer is the title of this blog post. 2:35 The origins of the Lean Startup.

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Silicon Valley Lean Government Boston 252

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 23, 2013

My friend Ron Ashkenas interviewed me for his blog on the Harvard Business Review. Here’s Ron’s blog post. To get some perspective on this question, I recently talked with Steve Blank , a serial entrepreneur, co-author of The Start-Up Owner’s Manual, and father of the “lean start-up” movement.

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Business Model Business Plan Technical Review Search 226

Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

Last May, I shared the news that long-time Lean Startup advocates Brant Cooper and Patrick Vlaskovits were working on a new book called The Lean Entrepreneur featuring illustrations by FAKEGRIMLOCK. LitMotors approach to using Lean Startup to create a new vehicle category. That new book is about to hit bookstores everywhere.

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Board Effect

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Throughout her life, she discovered that she would always lean into the leadership role when she found herself in situations where no leader was present. She would often find herself in situations where there isn’t a clear vision or maybe not as strong or established leader, and she would end up seamlessly leaning into that role.

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Leadership Technical Review Lean Government 78

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 21, 2014

Post by Lean Startup Conference co-hosts Sarah Milstein & Eric Ries We’re excited to announce this year’s Lean Startup Conference , December 8 – 12 in San Francisco. You can leave ideas in the comments or email Sarah Milstein , co-host for the conference and CEO of Lean Startups Productions.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Guest post by Lisa Regan, writer for The Lean Startup Conference. Entrepreneurs beyond Silicon Valley, including those working abroad, often have to retool Lean Startup methods to apply them in places with very different business cultures. government fund and as Entrepreneur-In-Residence for the National Science Foundation.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 28, 2020

If you’re reading my blog, odds are you know who Clayton Christensen was. 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.) He passed away this week and it was a loss to us all.

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Lean Business Model Government Agile 431

Steve Blank

JULY 20, 2015

In my interview with Errol, we discussed the origins of the National Science Foundation Innovation Corps (I-Corps), how and why it was created, and how it changed the way the government commercializes scientific research. And right about that time you were publishing your notes to the Lean LaunchPad course in spring of 2011, Stanford, E245.

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Government Channel Southern California Lean 120

Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 14, 2011

The Federal government is being transformed - initially, in small ways - by people I think should be recognized as entrepreneurs. In these documents, the entire executive branch is committed to taking a customer-centric view of new initiatives, including a few bullet points that may sound a little familiar to readers of this blog.

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DC CTO Hire Fractional CTO Silicon Valley 167

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 6, 2011

The Lean Startup Book is done. If you've been waiting for a comprehensive account of the Lean Startup and how it can help you achieve dramatically better business results, this is it. And others are from unusual folks we don't normally think of as entrepreneurs, from corporate managers to government agencies.

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Where to Play

MAY 28, 2019

The post How to Stop Playing “Target Market Roulette”: A new addition to the Lean toolset appeared first on Where to Play. In large companies and government agencies the problem is even more acute. To continue reading the full blog post click here. there is a lack of easy-to-use tools to do so.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 1, 2020

Bootstrapping inculcates the entrepreneurial discipline and financial responsibility to run a lean business. ? Government programs. You should also research the government programs like subsidies, funding, and grants that are available for your business sector and ensure you understand the parameters to qualify for these. ?

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Steve Blank

JUNE 7, 2019

And the trick is we use the same Lean LaunchPad / I-Corps curriculum — and kept the same class structure – experiential, hands-on, driven this time by a mission -model not a business model. Hacking for Defense has its origins in the Lean LaunchPad class I first taught at Stanford in 2011. Goals for the Hacking for Defense Class.

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Oakland Lean SBIR Afghanistan 278

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. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Expo SF (May.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 2, 2022

1- Launched company's website and blog. I am proud of launching our company's website and blog. This cycle of solutions delivered and value received has been a staple for us since our inception and we expect to lean on this approach for the foreseeable future. . Photo Credit: Tim Connon. Thanks to Neil John, One Computer Guy !

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

Inside the Mind of a Technical Founder | OpenView Blog by Larry Kim – crowdspring.co/1u7Fz1b. Busting the Lean-Startup Myth – crowdspring.co/1ozOXHA. Activate or Die: 10+ Ways You Can Improve Your User Activation for SaaS – Part 2 | 500 Startups Blog – crowdspring.co/1rgMYgu. Hiring startup engineers?

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 94

Steve Blank

AUGUST 13, 2009

No internet, no blogs, no books on startups, no entrepreneurship departments in universities, etc. Customer Development/Lean Startups In hindsight startups and the venture capital community left out the most important first step any startup ought to be doing – hypothesis testing in front of customers- from day one. I was an idiot.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 22, 2020

Deputy Chief Technology Officers Cori Zarek and Ryan Panchadsaram to help all levels of government with COVID-19 response and delivery of services. Highlights from the show Jen describes her background in government-tech partnerships. (2:52) 12:44) A look at the three waves of requests coming from government. (14:06)

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New Jersey Government CTO America 60

Feld Thoughts

JULY 28, 2020

This was his sequel to The Lean Startup , which created the phrase “lean startup” and the lean startup movement. He did an outstanding job of connecting the lean startup and startup communities to complex systems. With Eric’s permission, the Foreword it’s blogged below.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 16, 2013

Guest post by Lisa Regan, writer for The Lean Startup Conference. As Lean Startup methods have been used now for a number of years, we’ve become increasingly interested in how companies use them to sustain growth. Next Tuesday, October 22 at 10a PT, we’ll take a look at this advanced entrepreneurship question.

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Seeing Both Sides

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

experimental design, lean startup, design thinking), as well as decades of established governance modeled, are being effectively blown up by Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs). p.s. my blog has moved to WordPress: Seeing Both Sides and you can also follow me on Medium.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 8, 2009

I got a powerful taste of datablindness recently, as I’ve started to work with various large companies as partners in setting up events, speeches, and other products to sell around the Lean Startup concept. For a lean startup , this lack of discipline is anathema. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0.

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San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment DC 84

Steve Blank

AUGUST 14, 2009

Blog at WordPress.com. Those of you with a reader still have it.) It was a rough draft you’ll see again when I can finish complete sentences. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer.

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Silicon Valley Government RSS California 120

crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 16, 2013

A combination of government incentives and high oil prices have made projects like this one feasible and profitable for the companies that build them. Lean Business: Office Space – A Meditation. Lean Business: Do Unto Others*. Hundreds of gargantuan windmills line the fields in orderly rows almost to the horizon.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 17, 2009

The university found government contracts profitable as the government reimbursed their overhead charges (their indirect costs.) Over a hundred government contractors reviewed Stanford’s work on tubes and systems. The lab would repeat the conference the following week for government agencies doing military work.

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Silicon Valley RSS California Government 155

Up and Running

APRIL 2, 2015

One exception to the rule is that the federal Small Business Administration (SBA) has programs that guarantee some portion of startup costs for new businesses so banks can lend them money with the government, reducing the banks’ risk. See Also Introducing Lean Planning: How to Plan Less and Grow Faster.

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Balance Sheet SBA Covenant Technical Review 60

The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2020

The government-induced lockdown in response to COVID-19 has created conditions where the economy is now the softest we’ve seen since the Great Depression. Our aim with this post is to share a handful of management strategies that you can lean on to not only help you through this recession but also to assist you in thriving at any time.

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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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Bootstrapping Global Startup Hungary 85

crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 16, 2013

A combination of government incentives and high oil prices have made projects like this one feasible and profitable for the companies that build them. Lean vs. Mean – Small Business and Responsibility. Lean Business: The Very Model of a Modern Spreadsheet. Photo: Charles Cook.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

Guest post by Jennifer Maerz, contributing editor of Lean Startup Co. The Lean Startup team has been hard at work finalizing the details of this year’s Lean Startup Week. Welcome to Lean Startup Week 2016 TL;DR: Before you dive into the details, here’s a quick look at what you can expect during your week with us: On Oct.

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Board Effect

JULY 19, 2021

Nonprofit governance hasn’t evolved to a point where there’s a standard, acceptable definition for a sustainable organizational culture (not to be confused with sustainability in an environmental sense). Incorporate the principle into every part of nonprofit governance wherever you can.

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Government Leadership Revenue Finance 98

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

A shorter version of this post first appeared on the HBR blog. An existing company or government organization is primarily organized for day-to-day execution of its current business processes or mission. A canonical Lean Innovation process inside a company or government agency would look something like this: Curation.

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