Steve Blank

JULY 25, 2011

In 1960’s and ‘70’s few MBA’s would give up a lucrative career in management, finance or Wall Street to join a bunch of technical lunatics. In the real world a startup is about the search for a business model or more accurately, startups are a temporary organization designed to search for a scalable and repeatable business model.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 28, 2016

Prior, he was a senior manager at Genentech in operations and project management. You’re constantly critically analyze the gaps in someone’s business plan. ” I think I was hesitant because of the experience my father had where he tried a bunch of businesses that were unsuccessful.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 28, 2016

Prior, he was a senior manager at Genentech in operations and project management. You’re constantly critically analyze the gaps in someone’s business plan. ” I think I was hesitant because of the experience my father had where he tried a bunch of businesses that were unsuccessful.

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Steve Blank

MAY 18, 2009

We agreed that all her founding CEOs seemed to have the same set of personality traits – tenacious, passionate, relentless, resilient, agile, and comfortable operating in chaos. It’s why all of you operated so well in the unpredictable environment that all startups face.” And that’s just to get started.

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

Step 1: Start with a lean plan. Instead of sitting down to write a 40-page business plan, start with a one-page pitch. It’s the fastest way to get your idea onto paper, and it’s the very first step in the lean planning process, which is much easier and more iterative than traditional business planning methods.

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Steve Blank

MAY 10, 2011

These diagrams are the visual representation of the how and the what a team learned in the class – how they tested their hypotheses by getting out of the building using the Customer Development process and what they learned about each part of their business model. is just another engineering process, not building a business.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 10, 2011

We still have some collective scar tissue: the idea conjures up the hordes of dot-com hopefuls that descended on VC’s and angel investors with little more than a business plan. I have seen founders replaced because their style seemed too chaotic, even though what’s really happening is that they are operating at startup speed.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 24, 2011

Because then you’d miss out on: Whether it’s better experience to build a complete, tiny startup or to do more in-depth customer development for a meatier problem. So that means stuff like thinking about what a business model might be, it does mean customer development. What’s the worst case?

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news.ycombinator.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

His quote on the subject, "no amount of finance will cure mismanagement". The biggest risk in our business plan is that we are relying to some extent on time over money, because were self-funded. Illegal for them to operate trucks. Then FedEx and everyone else, e.g., UPS, could both fly large airplanes and operate trucks.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Paul Graham kicked it off by noting that all the financings in the recent YC batch were converts. Even so, it’s difficult (and perhaps impossible) to operate a small business or startup and not negotiate agreements with employees, vendors, customers, and others. Develop your business plan.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 26, 2019

It’s hard to imagine, but only a decade ago, the capstone entrepreneurship class in most universities was how to write – or pitch- a business plan. In my experience, I saw that most business plans don’t survive first contact with customers. As a serial entrepreneur turned educator, this didn’t make sense to me.

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Up and Running

JULY 14, 2015

Or what if a new brilliant idea that you hadn’t considered when you were planning emerges? Build in fluidity to your business plans. I’d implemented a business plan including marketing, engagement, sales strategy and realized a few months in that it wasn’t servicing a key influence or in the sales process.

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Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

To stay in business in the 21 st century, startups must do three things their 20 th century counterparts didn’t: A company is no longer built on a single innovation. To continually innovate, companies need to operate at startup speed and cycle time much longer their 20 th century counterparts did. The founders. The founders. (And

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. Customer service. easy business finance software. YCombinator Series AA Equity Financing Documents. That’s why we gathered a collection of 20 online resources for European startups that will help you with business plans, recruiting, publicity and networking.

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