Business Model, Customer Development, Marketing and Open Source

Open Source Entrepreneurship

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

Market research tools to help you figure out the size of the opportunity your startup is pursuing, are here. The class teaches the three basic skills all entrepreneurs need to know: business model design. customer development. Some general customer development slides click here. agile engineering.

Open Source

Open Source Silicon Valley Lean Customer Development

I-Corps @ NIH – Pivoting the Curriculum

Steve Blank

JUNE 26, 2014

We’re changing the order in which we teach the business model canvas and customer development to better-fit therapeutics, diagnostics and medical devices. The Lean LaunchPad class uses the three “ Lean Startup ” principles: Alexander Osterwalders “ business model canvas ” to frame hypotheses.

Intellectual Property

Intellectual Property Lean IP Open Source

Entrepreneurship as a Science – The Business Model/Customer Development Stack

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 25, 2010

In the last decade open source software (e.g It’s the combination of Business Model Design and Customer Development. Business Model Design. Today every business organization from startup to large company uses the words “business model.” Business Model Canvas.

Customer Development

Customer Development Business Model Developer Customer

Early-stage Regional Venture Funds–part 2 of 3 of Bigger in Bend

Steve Blank

JANUARY 22, 2014

Success depends on finding startups that have identified acute customer pains in large markets where conditions are ripe for a new entrant. Few entrepreneurs find this scalable and repeatable business model because it’s not easy. The cloud , open-source development tools and web 2.0 . ——-.

Early Stage

Early Stage Silicon Valley Oregon Technical Review

Why Lean May Save Your Life – The I-Corps @ NIH

Steve Blank

JUNE 19, 2014

clinical utility, customer, quality of data, reimbursement, what parts of the product are valuable, roles of CRO’s , and partners, etc.,) you make substantive changes to one or more parts of your initial business model, and this new data affects your biological and clinical hypotheses. They cannot be done by proxies.

Lean

Lean SBIR Intellectual Property Customer Development

When It’s Darkest Men See the Stars

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

A company developing software would have to buy computers and license software from other companies and hire the staff to run and maintain it. Today open source software has slashed the cost of software development from millions of dollars to thousands. The New Structure of the Venture Capital industry.

Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley United States Venture Capital Software Review

Lean Innovation Management – Making Corporate Innovation Work

Steve Blank

JUNE 26, 2015

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. Companies pursuing innovation can Buy, Build, Partner or use Open Innovation. Horizon 1 activities support existing business models.

Lean

Lean Management Business Model Incubator

Innovation, Change and the Rest of Your Life

Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

I’ve seen the Valley grow from Sunnyvale to Santa Clara to today where it stretches from San Jose to South of Market in San Francisco. But in the 20 th century, dominated by hardware, software, and life sciences, technology swings inside an existing market happened slowly — taking years, not months. The founders.

Restful

Restful Silicon Valley Puerto Rico San Jose

The LeanLaunch Pad at Stanford – Class 2: Business Model Hypotheses

Steve Blank

MARCH 15, 2011

By now the nine teams in our Stanford Lean LaunchPad Class were formed, In the four days between team formation and this class session we tasked them to: Write down their initial hypotheses for the 9 components of their company’s business model (who are the customers? Consider if their business worth pursuing? Stay tuned.

Business Model

Business Model Nebraska Peru Germany

When Customers Make You Smarter

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 2, 2013

We talk a lot about Customer Development, but there’s nothing like seeing it in action to understand its power. Here’s what happened when an extraordinary Digital Health team gained several critical insights about their business model. At Linden Lab, delivered the open-sourced Second Life Viewer 2.0

Customer

Customer Churn Rate Customer Development Lean

Lessons Learned: The lean startup

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. I am heavily indebted to earlier theorists, and highly recommend the books Lean Thinking and Lean Software Development. (So Labels: customer development , lean startup 8comments: Amy said.

Lean

Lean San Francisco Startup Continuous Deployment

Startup Tools

steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

Home Books for Startups Guide Secret History-Bibliography Steve Blank Startup Tools Steve Blank Entries RSS | Comments RSS Email Subscription Get Steve Blank via your RSS Feed RSS - Posts RSS - Comments Categories Air Force (12) Ardent (10) Audubon (1) Big Companies versus Startups: Durant versus Sloan (39) Business Model versus Business Plan (..)

Software Review

Software Review Startup Silicon Valley Analytics

Lessons Learned: The three drivers of growth for your business.

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 22, 2008 The three drivers of growth for your business model. The AARRR model (hence pirates, get it?) He also has a discussion of how your choice of business model determines which of these metric areas you want to focus on. Choose one.

San Francisco

San Francisco CPA SEM CTO Hire

What’s A Startup? First Principles.

Steve Blank

JANUARY 25, 2010

In this post we’re going to offer a new definition of why startups exist : a startup is an organization formed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model. A Business Model. Ok, but what is a business model ? A business model describes how your company creates, delivers and captures value.

Agile

Agile Startup Silicon Valley Business Model

Lessons Learned: What does a startup CTO actually do?

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

Platform selection and technical design - if your business strategy is to create a low-burn, highly iterative lean startup, youd better be using foundational tools that make that easy rather than hard. If not, whos going to insist we switch to free and open source software? Massive proprietary databases? I dont think so.

CTO

CTO Fractional CTO CTO Hire Technical Review

New Rules for the New Internet Bubble

Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

The Golden Age (1970 – 1995): Build a growing business with a consistently profitable track record (after at least 5 quarters,) and go public when it’s time. Dot.com Bubble ( 1995-2000): “ Anything goes” as public markets clamor for ideas, vague promises of future growth, and IPOs happen absent regard for history or profitability.

Internet

Internet IPO Silicon Valley Agile

Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

VC Cafe highlights everything you need to know from hosting your code in hackathons to open source legal docs. Updated Business tools for Startups. Whether you’re wondering what site search you should use or what is the best email marketing tool, knowledge is power. Lean Methodology Sources. Email marketing.

Software Review

Software Review Technical Review Startup

Hacking for Diplomacy – Solving Foreign Policy Challenges with the Lean LaunchPad

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.

Lean

Lean Government Agile Africa

Hacking for Diplomacy – Solving Foreign Policy Challenges with the Lean LaunchPad

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.

Lean

Lean Government Agile Africa

Hacking for Defense @ Stanford – Making the World a Safer Place

Steve Blank

JANUARY 26, 2016

Each week, teams will use the Mission Model Canvas (a DOD/IC variant of the Business Model Canvas ) to develop a set of initial hypotheses about a solution to the problem and will get out of the building and talk to all Requirement Writers, Buyers (Acquisition project managers) and Users (the tactical folks).

Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley North Korea Agile Lean

Embrace technical debt

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 29, 2009

Just as a business incurs some debt to take advantage of a market opportunity developers may incur technical debt to hit an important deadline. Leverage product development with open source and third parties. For example, early on at IMVU, we incorporated in tons of open source projects.

Technical Review

Technical Review Software Review San Francisco Lean

Austin: the Lean Startup tour continues

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 27, 2009

The Lean Startup is a practical approach for creating and managing a new breed of company that excels in low-cost experimentation, rapid iteration, and true customer insight. It uses principles of agile software development, open source and web 2.0, No departments The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business R.

Lean

Lean Austin San Francisco Continuous Deployment

How to Flip Your Startup in 5 Steps

ReadWriteStart

MARCH 27, 2011

Unlike Lean startups, their priority isn't to learn in order to create a scalable business model. This is lean development without any customer development. The consolidation of the social graph by Facebook, the various app stores and the abundance of cloud-based services lower time to market.

Lean

Lean Startup Agile Coder

What is the perfect startup team?

www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

Find Questions, Topics and People Add Question Add Question Team Configuration 500 Startups Guerilla Marketing Organizations Entrepreneurship Startup Founders & Entrepreneurs Startups Startup Incubators and Seed Programs Seedcamp Y Combinator TechStars Lean Startups What is the perfect startup team? They are many more examples.

Technical Review

Technical Review Startup CTO Hire Cofounder

From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Not everybody can, especially if they need to run with the idea to get to market. Pitching to investors before building is a waste of time especially if they do not understand the timing to enter the market. By now it is useless except bragging rights as traction and market disruption have been lost.

Technical Review

Technical Review Cofounder Technical Cofounder Software Review

Piercing the Corporate Veil of Sweat Equity

grasshopperherder.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

While it’s flattering that someone might think I’m capable of immediately grasping all the complexities of the business instantly, it’s a bit unrealistic. If I can copy your business by just looking around, then your company isn’t going anywhere anyway. You don’t have a defensible business model.

Sweat Equity

Sweat Equity Equity Cofounder Non-Compete

StartUpRoar

Open Source Entrepreneurship

I-Corps @ NIH – Pivoting the Curriculum

Trending Sources

Entrepreneurship as a Science – The Business Model/Customer Development Stack

Early-stage Regional Venture Funds–part 2 of 3 of Bigger in Bend

Why Lean May Save Your Life – The I-Corps @ NIH

When It’s Darkest Men See the Stars

Lean Innovation Management – Making Corporate Innovation Work

Innovation, Change and the Rest of Your Life

The LeanLaunch Pad at Stanford – Class 2: Business Model Hypotheses

When Customers Make You Smarter

Lessons Learned: The lean startup

Startup Tools

Lessons Learned: The three drivers of growth for your business.

What’s A Startup? First Principles.

Lessons Learned: What does a startup CTO actually do?

New Rules for the New Internet Bubble

Startup Resources

Hacking for Diplomacy – Solving Foreign Policy Challenges with the Lean LaunchPad

Hacking for Diplomacy – Solving Foreign Policy Challenges with the Lean LaunchPad

Hacking for Defense @ Stanford – Making the World a Safer Place

Embrace technical debt

Austin: the Lean Startup tour continues

How to Flip Your Startup in 5 Steps

What is the perfect startup team?

From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

Piercing the Corporate Veil of Sweat Equity

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