Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2021

While all the teams used the Mission Model Canvas , (videos here ), Customer Development and Agile Engineering to build Minimal Viable Products, each of their journeys was unique. 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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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 27, 2015

That means the entire company is driven by directors – the artists – not by corporate executives in management with MBA’s or financial models or a development department. Directors, like founders, develop mental models for how they search for an unseen destination – they “get in the zone.” Braintrust = Continual Feedback.

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Life Beyond Code

JULY 2, 2013

I went to BYU (Brigham Young University) at Hawaii. Some said I was “stupid” or “crazy” for going after this dream to help people start businesses in developing countries, but I persisted. BYU-Hawaii worked closely with me to help create the business model and put mentors in place.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 17, 2020

And so, Hacking for Recovery began, starting first at Stanford and next offered by University of Hawaii for the State of Hawaii. I realized we had the ability to rapidly launch a large number of companies on the path of validating their business models. 5 teams developed concepts related to Remote Work.

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Steve Blank

MAY 18, 2009

Next, you have to deal with the daily crisis of product development and acquiring early customers. And here’s where life gets really interesting, as the reality of product development and customer input collide, the facts change so rapidly that the original well-thought-out business plan becomes irrelevant. I like my odds.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

Overall, nonventure-backed companies fail more often than venture-backed companies in the first four years of existence, typically because they dont have the capital to keep going if the business model doesnt work, Harvards Mr. Ghosh says. Harley Goes Lean to Build Hogs. DJVentureWire : Clinical Development News, Sept.

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Up and Running

JULY 14, 2015

See if you can start developing at that kind of thing. Peter: You’re going to develop, develop, develop and if you don’t get kicked out of the the accelerator, you will get funding of some sort. Peter: Or all the business but not the development knowledge let’s say. Take your idea there.

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