Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

We’re standing 15 air miles away from the epicenter of technology innovation. 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. Even though I live just up the coast, I’ve never had the opportunity to start a talk by saying “Go Banana Slugs.”.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 10, 2013

Here are the key steps for a personal home-based business website selling a few products (as an alternative to Ebay): Go online to reserve a website domain name. Be sure it matches your business, and get a hosting agreement from one of the popular providers like GoDaddy. Then there are full-featured software sites like Facebook.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 26, 2014

. — Over the last three years the Lean LaunchPad class has started to replace the last century’s “how to write a business plan” classes as the foundation for entrepreneurial education. The Lean LaunchPad class uses the three “ Lean Startup ” principles: Alexander Osterwalders “ business model canvas ” to frame hypotheses.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Here are the key steps for a personal home-based business website selling a few products (as an alternative to Ebay): Go online to reserve a website domain name. Be sure it matches your business, and get a hosting agreement from one of the popular providers like GoDaddy. Then there are full-featured software sites like Facebook.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 13, 2010

I’ve spent the last week in Santiago, a guest of Professor Cristóbal García at the Catholic University of Chile as part of Stanford’s Engineering Technology Venture Program. Here’s the course announcement from Professor Vergara (in English): Customer Development Course in Chile – Lean Launchpad. Teaching in Chile.

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Up and Running

MAY 10, 2021

The engineers can produce various models in a matter of seconds. People can get directions from the camera phone in real-time. Today smart homes, savvy health insurance plans are no more from the realm of science fiction but we see them in real life every day. Suppose you want to design a room. dollars by 2024.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 6, 2012

Students will even receive a minor in entrepreneurship as they develop their own business plans. Boston University Business Incubation. Boasting resources for life sciences, bio-tech, medical devices, photonics, clean energy, and engineering, BU can help to incubate businesses in just about any physical technology.

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Steve Blank

MAY 6, 2015

Build a product, get it into the real world, measure customers’ reactions and behaviors, learn from this, and use what you’ve learned to build something better. Waterfall Development. Back then, an entrepreneur used a serial product development process that proceeded step-by-step with little if any customer feedback.

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View from Seed

APRIL 21, 2015

NextView Ventures: Where did the initial idea for your company come from? million raised, per CrunchBase): It was January of second semester of my second year, and Michelle [Zatlyn, Matt’s co-founder] and I were brainstorming different ideas to enter into the business plan competition. Tom Eisenmann.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 19, 2016

Organizations that made strong investments in talent development outperformed the S&P 500 by 15 percent over two years, according to a study performed by Laurie Bassi, CEO of Bassi Investments, for KnowledgeAdvisors (which has since been acquired by CEB). Your business plan needs to set the course for how you invest in your team.

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Transformify

JUNE 9, 2023

For businesses planning to expand overseas or hire internationally, it's important to be aware of average salaries to understand the expectations of prospective candidates. Although the average salary is high, the United States is such a huge country that income and cost of living vary dramatically from state to state.

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Gust

FEBRUARY 22, 2014

When people would ask a similar question back then about the difficulty of software development, my usual response was “anyone can write a TAP program over a weekend that will work with 80% of the paging systems in the world…but getting it to work on the other 20% will take you a year.”

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Up and Running

JANUARY 23, 2012

What do they require from your product or service? In looking to answer these questions focus on these overall understanding you are trying to develop with relation to your clientele and market: Understand where your customers are. For Irish developers it is important to have a global outlook from day 1.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

For those of you who have been following the discussion, a Lean Startup is Eric Ries ’s description of the intersection of Customer Development , Agile Development and if available, open platforms and open source. This “get out of the building” activity is the Customer Discovery step of the Customer Development Model.

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 27, 2021

But if you ask me whether I’d rather invest in the entire class of Computer Science graduates from Stanford, MIT, Georgia Tech, and CMU, or the entire class of MBA graduates from Harvard Business School, Stanford’s Graduate School of Business, Wharton, and Kellogg, I’ll take the CS graduates. THE CASE FOR PURSUING AN MBA.

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 27, 2021

But if you ask me whether I’d rather invest in the entire class of Computer Science graduates from Stanford, MIT, Georgia Tech, and CMU, or the entire class of MBA graduates from Harvard Business School, Stanford’s Graduate School of Business, Wharton, and Kellogg, I’ll take the CS graduates. THE CASE FOR PURSUING AN MBA.

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Steve Blank

MAY 11, 2009

Present at the Creation It was early 1991 and Apple’s software development team was hard at work on QuickTime , the first multimedia framework for a computer. So SuperMac engineering also developed video compression software, called Cinepak. The software was idiot proof.

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Up and Running

MAY 10, 2017

We didn’t know anything about small business accounting or finance. We didn’t even know how to write a business plan. I had some limited knowledge about search engine marketing, but knew nothing about marketing in a more general sense. From backpackers to business owners. Suddenly, we were business owners.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

6 Things that Designers Can Learn from the Olympics – [link]. Very cool sliding CSS labels from @dharder – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. How to Write a Great Business Plan – [link]. – [link].

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 95

rapidrollout.wordpress.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

Web Startup Lessons Advice from a CTO and Entrepreneur Home About Startup Advice: When to Use a Consulting CTO There are not many to be found. If you haven’t noticed from my web site or blog, I work as a web applications developer and a consulting CTO. For one thing, you’ll learn from his mistakes.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 15, 2012

More Than Half of Small-Business Owners Go Without Pay – [link]. Fall In Love With Your Business, Not Your Business Plan – [link]. crowdSPRING’s Small Business Spotlight of the Week: RentValet – [link]. Fall In Love With Your Business, Not Your Business Plan – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2012

Small Business Marketing: Best Times And Days To Send Email For Opens And Click-Throughs – [link]. crowdSPRING’s Small Business Spotlight of the Week: Priority Dish – [link]. 7 Crucial Lessons from an Embarrassing Customer Service Trainwreck | Help Scout - [link]. When did it become sexy to not make money?

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 31, 2009

The first hint lies in its name; this is a product development model, not a marketing model, not a sales hiring model, not a customer acquisition model, not even a financing model (and we’ll also find that in most cases it’s even a poor model to use to develop a product.) release of the product. All of this is usually a bad idea.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 10, 2013

Reverse Engineering Your Startup’s Success - [link]. Startups: You Should Value Software More | by Wade Foster – [link]. The Business Plan. eBay, The FBI, Shawn Hogan And Brian Dunning | Business Insider – [link]. 6 Interesting Facebook Tricks You Might Not Know | Search Engine Journal – [link].

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Software By Rob

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

The challenge with this approach is that unless you have a stack of cash from here to the moon, you have zero chance of reaching all of those X’s. Jokes aside, the top-down approach has its place in business plans and pitch decks commonly used to ask people for money. Good luck ranking in every Google search engine.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 28, 2010

50+ Ultimate Useful Cheat Sheets for Web Developers and Designers – [link]. Human implications of mobile phone design, from new features, to 3d world impact – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. Never Hire Job Hoppers.

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 91

ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

Originally from California, she now lives in Paris, where her involvement in the vibrant startup scene keeps her from spending too much time in the bakeries. There's a thriving geek culture in Paris, and no lack of software development expertise, thanks to superior universities that produce superior engineers.

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rob.by

MARCH 8, 2012

He argued that software engineers don’t finish what they start, and that you’re better off paying a technical person than partnering with one. link goes to Everybody Works from 37signals’ Rework ). He picked engineers who were technically-driven but not entrepreneurially-driven. Tuesday, August 17, 2010.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! How does a cat manage to always land on their feet when falling from any height? Start With a Business Model, Not a Business Plan | WSJ – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 4, 2013

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! The image above shows a Chimera monkey, created by combining up to six distinct embryos from rhesus monkeys. Doubtliers: Dangers Learning From The Exceptional – [link].

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blog.captainrecruiter.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Two years ago I got the bug to do an online recruiting startup and I began the hunt to find a technical co-founder - a software engineer who works for no cash - to help me build my dream website. You may get a software engineer to start something for you, but they wont stick with the project when it gets difficult.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

One of the sayings I hear from talented managers in product development is, “good enough never is.&# And, most importantly, it helps team members develop the courage to stand up for these values in stressful situations. One such rumor, which I’ve heard from several sources, tells of the launch of Google Maps.

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 5, 2010

There are actually two problems with this line of thinking: The amount of actual information garnered from this kind of book can be summarized in a page or two of written text. Massive markets that you don’t need to understand to run a software company. I mean come on, I need to know about marketing and trends and stuff, right?&#

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

The right sort of person is so passionate about coding, they can’t be stopped from doing it. They write everything from assembly to jQuery, on PCs to mobile phones, doing hard core computer graphics to high level social networking. We need people who can not only cook burgers, but cook anything , from scratch.

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

March 2005 (This essay is derived from a talk at the Harvard ComputerSociety.) A lot ofwould-be startup founders think the key to the whole process is theinitial idea, and from that point all you have to do is execute.Venture capitalists know better. The rulers of the technologybusiness tend to come from technology, not business.

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Seeing Both Sides

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

The plethora of mentorship opportunities for entrepreneurs is mind-boggling — programs like TechStars and Mass Challenge , not to mention myriad business-plan contests. Our companies desperately need more lab technicians, search engine marketers, online advertising salespeople, and software developers.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

He , Srikanth Narayan , Ben Werdmuller von Elgg , Jo Vi Ko , Justin Lee , Giovanni Tardini , David de Weerdt , Vineet Thanedar , Ryan Brideau , Jonathan Meiri , Rob Weedn , Krzysztof Kowalczyk , Greg Pilling , Kevin Leland , Parham Michael Ossareh , Dan Loewenherz , Mary Specht , Engin Erdo?an "I am a creative guy with a startup idea."

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