OnlyOnce

AUGUST 12, 2013

Book Short: Is CX the new UX? Outside In: The Power of Putting Customers at the Center of Your Business , by Harley Manning and Kelly Bodine from Forrester Research, was a good read that kept crossing back and forth between good on the subject at hand, and good business advice in general. It has a beginning but it doesn’t have an end.”

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 23, 2013

Guest post by Lisa Regan, writer for The Lean Startup Conference. Analytics spark more questions and discussion than almost any other aspect of the Lean Startup method. Alistair and Ben, co-authors of the book Lean Analytics, will help you sort it out in our next webcast, Lean Analytics for Non-tech Companies.

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AUGUST 17, 2009

Stanford had a Customer Development loop going on inside their own lab. The discoveries in tube and circuit research suggested new electronic intelligence and countermeasure techniques and systems; in turn the needs of the Applied Lab pushed tube and circuit development.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 14, 2009

Something you can appreciate if you’ve read my class text on Customer Development.) It was a rough draft you’ll see again when I can finish complete sentences. My only excuse is that this week I’m doing public service in my role as a California Coastal Commissioner.

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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. The Arms Factories that Won the Cold War Were Semiconductor Factories Who was the government official pushing all of this? From 1977 to 1981 Perry cranked up spending for research and development on a massive scale. (I

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 10, 2014

The University of Maryland is now integrating the Lean LaunchPad ® into standard innovation and entrepreneurship courses across all 12 colleges within the University. Over 44 classes have embedded the business model canvas and/or Customer Discovery including a year-long course taken by every single one of its bioengineering majors.

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JULY 2, 2015

military and are now helping government agencies operate with the speed and urgency of Silicon Valley. — — — Matt Weingart is a program development manager in the Strategic Development Office at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Listen to my entire chat with Matt.

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Steve Blank

MAY 3, 2011

The Stanford Lean LaunchPad class was an experiment in a new model of teaching startup entrepreneurship. to find out what books they’d recommend for prospective students. Within the week they were #6 in Google search results for “Stanford Admission Books.”. This post – part eight – was the last formal lecture.

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K9 Ventures

AUGUST 13, 2010

It wasn’t that they didn’t want to pay, but for anything above a certain dollar amount, it had to be a committee decision, and Universities are a notoriously bad market to crack (probably second to the government). I tell these stories to lay the groundwork for what I am going to call Revenue Development.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 1, 2011

Steve Blank is a retired serial entrepreneur, educator, thought leader and creator of the rigorous "Customer Development" methodology detailed in his book, "The Four Steps to the Epiphany." They'll explore the best way to deliver the product to customers, the resources required, as well as competing technologies.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

I promised to post the slides for my highly abbreviated version of the lean startup presentation, so here they are. 2009 09 08 The Lean Startup Gov 2.0 g2s The very abbreviated version of Customer Development (channeling Steve Blank ). g2s The very abbreviated version of Customer Development (channeling Steve Blank ).

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AUGUST 5, 2013

It’s been fun watching a 20th Century entrepreneur learn new tricks as he builds his next startup, FindTheBest using Lean Methodology. We’ve both published bestselling books.*. Okay: my book sold way less copies than Steve’s. Lean Start-up Connection: Business Model Canvas. Here’s Kevin’s story to date.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 3, 2009

The Cold War After World War II ended, our wartime ally the Soviet Union kept its army in Eastern Europe and forcibly installed Communist governments in its occupied territories. That same year China fell to the communists under Mao Zedong, and the Nationalist government retreated to Taiwan. Meanwhile the U.S.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 11, 2008

I think the absolute best reading on this subject is a book called Regional Advantage: Culture and Competition in Silicon Valley and Route 128 by AnnaLee Saxenian. To an early observer, it would have seemed obvious that Route 128 had all the advantages: a head start, more government and military funding, and far more established companies.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

The Ultimate Combination of Startup Business Development Methods - ArcticStartup , November 16, 2010 I've been a huge fan of Steven Blank's Customer Development methodology for a long time. I've also read his book The Four Steps to the Epiphany, where he outlines this in great detail. It simply doesn’t work that way.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 24, 2009

The quintessential California couple, they stood out in our crowd as the engineer (in his late 20′s, respected by his peers and the customer) had hair down to his shoulders, sharply contrasting with the military crewcuts of the customers and most of the other contractors. Reply Michael F. This is the way the world works.

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Steve Blank

JULY 2, 2009

There Ought to be a Law Nowadays there are laws that allow you to back out of a time-share condo contract, or used car purchase after seven days because even the government believes there are times when grown adults lose their minds and stand up and yell “Yes I believe, sign me up!”

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The Next Web

JANUARY 27, 2013

Luckily for me, I found some books that enlightened my path. Four books helped me out a lot over the last few years: Four Steps to the Epiphany by Steve Blank, Running Lean by Ash Maurya, The Four Hour Workweek by Timothy Ferris and Rework by Jason Fried & David Heinemeier Hansson. For me, these books were great guides.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 5, 2020

government innovate. Steve Blank is the author of books The Four Steps to the Epiphany and The Startup Owner’s Manual as well as the author of a Harvard Business Review cover story, Why the Lean Startup Changes Everything , that explained how companies could use the Lean Startup to counter disruption and implement innovation at speed.

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Steve Blank

MAY 26, 2009

Don’t share the details of your manufacturing process with customers until you’ve locked up your intellectual property.” Government Regulations I turned to the class and said, “The rest of you can keep building your company and shipping your product because you don’t need to worry about government regulations.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 7, 2009

From the king of customer development, Steve Blank: [.] You don’t get grades for having resiliency, curiosity, agility, resourcefulness, pattern recognition and tenacity. You just get successful. Sometimes they just drop out and do their own thing. No one has to tell them to do that.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 29, 2009

to spur innovation was a new government agency to fund new companies. government would invest three (up to $300,000.) And for the first time, private companies like Continental Capital, Pitch Johnson & Bill Draper and Sutter Hill were formed to take advantage of the government largesse from the SBA.

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Steve Blank

JULY 23, 2009

government kept up the pace. Hundreds of thousands of people worked on developing strategic weapons, bombers, our ICBM and SLBM missile programs, and the Apollo moon program. From a standing start in 1942 the U.S. scaled up the production of U-235 and plutonium from micrograms to tens of kilograms by 1945. During the cold war, the U.S.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 26, 2009

These technology startups had no risk capital – just customers/purchase orders from government/military/intelligence agencies. military and intelligence agencies and defense contractors. This post is about the rise of “risk capital” and how it came to be associated with what became Silicon Valley.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

How to stay lean and iterate quickly while you’re building a two sided marketplace, especially when “network effect” and “critical mass” are the two main focuses? Read great books / especially business biographies. Talk to your customers. Government grants – Credit cards / debt. 1) Hire A’s.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 15, 2009

The reality is that independent electric vehicle startups will win over time (closer to the customer, more agile, etc.) As part of this spin out I’d make sure the Government also supports the nascent U.S. As I said, I am far from an expert in the auto industry, government bailouts or other related big “businesses”.

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Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

and there were no books, blogs or YouTube videos about entrepreneurship. and there were no books, blogs or YouTube videos about entrepreneurship. Government and the enterprise are now followers rather than leaders. I’m glad to have been part of the team inventing the Lean Startup methodology.

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