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.

Oakland 301

Oakland Asia Lean Video 301

ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 21, 2021

So what are the best ways to stay on the lean-side of things? Oftentimes, new startups are inclined to cut costs that seem superfluous or unnecessary for the core business model to function. Rely on Open Source Software. Accordingly, you’ll need to be frugal. You’ll need to find creative ways to save money.

Startup 106

Startup Software Review Open Source Technical Review 106

Steve Blank

JUNE 18, 2013

The Lean LaunchPad entrepreneurship curriculum has caught fire. It dawned on me that the plans were a symptom of a larger problem: we were executing business plans when we should first be searching for business models. So what would a search process for a business model look like? Victor Hugo.

Lean 178

Lean Agile Customer Development Business Model 178

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

Customer Development is a technique startups use to quickly iterate and test each part of their business model. How you execute Customer Development varies, depending on your type of business. In my book, “ The Four Steps to the Epiphany ” I use enterprise software as the business model example.

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Customer Development Web Developer Customer 266

Hearpreneur

APRIL 13, 2022

One of the most important lessons entrepreneurs can learn from Dropbox is to adopt the lean start-up methodology and start. Wikipedia isn’t the most reliable source in the world, but it’s good enough to get a brief overview. It led the way to a new kind of business model and changed the game. 2- Dropbox. 5- Airbnb.

Artificial Inteligence 77

Artificial Inteligence Entrepreneur Technical Review Software Review 77

Steve Blank

MARCH 15, 2011

Our new Stanford Lean LaunchPad class was an experiment in a new model of teaching startup entrepreneurship. Come up with ways to test each of the 9 business model canvas hypotheses. Their business was a robot lawn mower. This post is part two. Part one is here. Syllabus here. what’s the product? Stay tuned.

Business Model 236

Business Model Nebraska Peru Germany 236

Steve Blank

AUGUST 4, 2016

State Department and asks students to use Lean Methods to test their understanding of the problem and deliver rapid-fire innovative solutions to pressing diplomacy, development and foreign policy challenges. Like its sister class, Hacking for Defense , our goal is to open-source this class to other universities. Lessons Learned.

Lean 160

Lean Government Agile United States 160

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 27, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, May 27, 2009 Austin: the Lean Startup tour continues Next week I head to Austin, TX for my first visit ever. 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.

Lean 60

Lean Austin San Francisco Startup 60

Steve Blank

AUGUST 4, 2016

State Department and asks students to use Lean Methods to test their understanding of the problem and deliver rapid-fire innovative solutions to pressing diplomacy, development and foreign policy challenges. Like its sister class, Hacking for Defense , our goal is to open-source this class to other universities. Lessons Learned.

Lean 120

Lean Agile Government Africa 120

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. for Harvard Business Revie.

San Francisco 167

San Francisco CPA SEM CTO Hire 167

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? for Harvard Business Revie. Expo SF (May.

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CTO Fractional CTO CTO Hire Technical Review 168

The Next Web

AUGUST 6, 2013

There is a lot of talk about the lean startup and whether it works or not. But the lean startup model, when you boil it down, simply says that when you launch any new business or product you do so based on validated learning, experimentation and frequent releases which allow you to measure and gain valuable customer feedback.

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Lean Startup Continuous Deployment Open Source 132

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 2, 2013

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 Having a multisided market with five segments is a pretty complicated business model. A Five-sided Market.

Customer 323

Customer Churn Rate Customer Development Lean 323

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

When my Lean LaunchPad class was adopted by the National Science Foundation , we taught our original classes to scientists scattered across the U.S. Embracing the “too dumb to know it can’t be done,” I worked with a friend from Stanford, Sebastian Thrun and his startup Udacity , to put my Lean LaunchPad lectures online.

Lean 319

Lean Incubator Video Open Source 319

Steve Blank

MAY 29, 2019

Lean LaunchPad class developed for Stanford. My contribution has been, “Why don’t we design classes more closely modeled to what innovators and entrepreneurs actually do.” Today the capstone class is most often experiential, team-based, hands on, focused around the search for a repeatable and scalable business model.

Incubator 331

Incubator Lean Programming Government 331

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 335

Agile Startup Silicon Valley Business Model 335

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 29, 2009

I hope to show why lean and agile techniques actually reduce the negative impacts of technical debt and increase our ability to take advantage of its positive effects. 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 168

Technical Review Software Review San Francisco Lean 168

Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

Lean Startups/Back to Basics (2000-2010): No IPO’s, limited VC cash, lack of confidence and funding fuels “lean startup” era with limited M&A and even less IPO activity. 2001 – 2010: Back to Basics: The Lean Startup. During the the Lean Startup era, the advice was clear; focus on building the company and avoid hype.

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Internet IPO Silicon Valley Agile 334

YoungUpstarts

MAY 10, 2012

Startups Open Sourced. Getting to Plan B: Breaking Through to a Better Business Model. Getting to Plan B encourages startups to realize that business plans often change, and in fact, your success as a startup depends on your ability to do just that. Running Lean: Iterate from Plan A to a Plan That Works.

Startup 224

Startup Lean Silicon Valley Open Source 224

Steve Blank

JANUARY 26, 2016

Join a select cross-disciplinary class that will put you hands-on with the masters of lean innovation to help bring rapid-fire innovative solutions to address threats to our national security. Targeting, assessments, technology, recipes, and tactics all flow at the speed of a Lean Startup. Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, CIA, NSA.

Silicon Valley 120

Silicon Valley North Korea Agile Lean 120

Steve Blank

JULY 20, 2015

Errol Arkilic was the lead program director for the National Science Foundation I-Corps , which uses my Lean LaunchPad curriculum to teach scientists and engineers how to take their technology out of the lab and into the marketplace. The Lean LaunchPad class. But nothing else like [The Lean LaunchPad class] was being taught. .

Government 120

Government Channel Lean Southern California 120

Steve Blank

AUGUST 11, 2020

A subsegment of those instructors – those trying to teach Lean LaunchPad, whether in I-Corps, or Hacking for Defense – have an additional burden of figuring out how to teach a class that depends on students getting out of the building and talking to 10 to 15 customers a week. Here’s what we learned. And so it began.

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Lean San Francisco Silicon Valley Florida 420

Altgate

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

If you are pursuing an advertising business model, then in the early days you will almost certainly have to outsource, despite the fact that this could be a core long term advantage. Cloud computing, open source and a global talent pool make outsourcing easier than ever before (even a few years ago). Advertising.

Software Review 65

Software Review Offshore Startup Boston 65

Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

WordPress is an open source project that was started by Matt Mullenweg leaving a comment on a blog. And that’s really the spirit of WordPress is this open source collaboration by people volunteering their time. Is it possible to pause my membership for three months?” She said, “No problem.”

Community 42

Community Framework Ruby Architecture 42

Steve Blank

AUGUST 17, 2020

I realized we had the ability to rapidly launch a large number of companies on the path of validating their business models. We could offer a 5-day version of the Lean LaunchPad / Hacking For Defense / National Science Foundation I-Corps class that’s trained tens of thousands of entrepreneurs. Here’s how it happened.

Hawaii 434

Hawaii Aggregator Business Model Lean 434

The Next Web

JULY 29, 2013

It also helped us to start lean and simple, and grow our product into something bigger. Wunderlist, as you know it, was our MVP, our simplest approach to solve a problem that’s huge – helping people to organize their private and business life. Another one I can really recommend is Business Model Generation.

San Francisco 125

San Francisco Cofounder Germany Europe 125

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 19, 2010

No, wait, I'm sorry, the real question is: What are you going to do when there are four totally free, open-source competitors? You don't have an "edge" just because you're passionate, hard-working, or "lean.". Office 2010 will be the end of Zoho, if we stop innovating, stop being nimble and flexible in our business model.

Software Review 325

Software Review Technical Review Development Team Review Algorithm 325

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 29, 2011

If you don’t want to read that post, the summary is: Open source computing drove computing costs down 90%, which spurred innovation in technology. Open cloud led by Amazon with their AWS services drove total operating costs down by 90%. They should start “lean.&#

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Venture Capital Software LP Early Stage 296

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Technographics vendors such as Builtwith , Datanyze , HG Data , Stackshare, and Stacklist help CEOs identify the right tech platform on which to build their business; they’re also helpful for investors to due diligence a company’s tech stack choices. Similarly, Corsis uses benchmarking data to understand technology spend patterns.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Letting inertia and stubbornness limit your growth and ability to change your business model was cited as cause for failure almost 1/5 of the time. #8 Now I just need a business model. Sure Twitter gets away with not having a business model, but they’re not the norm. 8 – Lack Passion and Domain Expertise.

Cofounder 89

Cofounder Startup Technical Cofounder CTO Hire 89

ReadWriteStart

MARCH 27, 2011

Steve Blank, author of Four Steps to Epiphany , has helped formulate the thinking behind the Lean Startup methodology , together with Eric Ries. He observed that most startups that succeed aren't lean: their goal is to have an exit rather than a scalable business. This is lean development without any customer development.

Lean 144

Lean Startup Agile Coder 144

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

It’s close to de-facto adopting a Lean decision-making process and rapid clearances for things that minimally affect health. The other interesting observation: Unlike other medical device companies, Apple’s current Watch business model is not dependent on getting insurers to pay for the watch. What’s Not Working?

China 67

China Technical Review Software Review Algorithm 67

betashop.com

OCTOBER 8, 2012

But, you can iterate and iterate on features, but you cannot iterate your way to a business model. I’ve seen too many businesses get stuck or fail because of their endless pursuit for the magic new feature that is going to help them gain traction. I’m not saying don’t leverage open-source or established platforms.

Technical Review 108

Technical Review Technology Software Review Valuation 108

Up and Running

JULY 3, 2015

Check out Tim Berry’s book, Lean Business Planning , coming soon. Check out Lara Galloway’s new book, Moms Mean Business. Open Source Bee Hives. Well that’s where the lean planning comes in. Well that’s where the lean planning comes in. – (9:47). What are we doing here?

Internet 60

Internet Marketing Lean Small Business 60

VC Cafe

JUNE 18, 2012

From live & on demand video with endless interactive overlays, through 2nd screen, synchronized & social experiences, to brilliant mobile apps that may function in all connectivity environments and support every possible business model. Kaltura provides the world’s first and only Open Source Online Video Platform.

Securities and Exchange Commission 133

Securities and Exchange Commission Technical Review Software Review 133

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 41

Sweat Equity Equity Cofounder Non-Compete 41

techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Nosake From nothing to losing money every month with no business model in sight. Will it kill these SV types to admit building HTML front-ends to open source products? There was something very right about Zed Shaw’s rant regarding open source licenses. It’s all about how bad you want it.

Technical Review 84

Technical Review Cofounder Technical Cofounder Software Review 84