Steve Blank

JUNE 2, 2011

The University of Michigan is a possible first test.) Filed under: Big Companies versus Startups: Durant versus Sloan , Business Model versus Business Plan , Teaching , Venture Capital. Kathryn Gould of Foundation Capital and Ann Miura-Ko of Floodgate also want to try it. Or watch the video here.

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Business Plan Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

Formally known as a Low Profit Limited Liability Company , L3C s are legal forms of business corporations that blend non-profit and for-profit investment efforts with a socially beneficial structure. Available in: Vermont, Michigan, Wyoming, Utah, Illinois, North Carolina, Louisiana, Maine, Rhode Island. Flexible-Purpose Corporation.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 15, 2011

Fred Ford (MSME, Mar 2011) Senior Eng for Mechanical Systems on Military Satellites, BS Aerospace Eng (U of Michigan). Filed under: Business Model versus Business Plan , Customer Development , Lean LaunchPad , Teaching. in Control Systems. Uwe Vogt (MBA, Jun 2011) Technical Director & Co-Owner, Sideo Germany (Sub.

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Up and Running

APRIL 9, 2013

Though I’m back in Michigan now, I still work with CFI, five years later. What does this mean for your business? Don’t be afraid of the term—it just means finding ways to get your business connected to more places and using strategic keywords so that you show up in searches.

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Up and Running

APRIL 17, 2013

Google was a private company and their CEO and co-founder was visiting his and my alma mater in Ann Arbor, the University of Michigan, where I had just graduated a few months prior and was bumming around getting my own startup off the ground. Tech-Nation turns it’s lonely eyes to you.

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Steve Blank

JULY 20, 2015

[Up until then] the capstone class – meaning the best class you could take for being an entrepreneur in a university – was how to write a business plan. Yet we all [anyone teaching who actually had founded a company] knew that in all honesty no business plan survives first contact with customers.

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Campus Entrepreneurship

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Mary Lemmer, University of Michigan, Iorio’s [Frozen Yogurt]. Take the opportunity to meet and interview the students who are inspired to begin their own ventures, control their own destinies and learn from other business leaders as they enter the Continuum of Entrepreneurship — a cycle of learning, growing and giving back.

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Campus Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Cool student entrepreneur story out of San Jose State University where students and recent alum use the school’s business plan competition to raise basic funding and launch a beta product for their student note sharing service. I was always in the attend and take my own notes camp on this debate.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

I saw a business plan for a high-end boutique for men’s underwear, catering mainly to the wives and partners and significant others of relatively well-to-do men. Or Hell, Michigan. It happens a lot. If they’d have called it Victor’s Secret, it would have been legal. Or Drain, Oregon. Too generic. Too vanilla.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 19, 2016

I remember one day, after sitting through what must have been the 15th meeting that week with sleazy salesmen, thinking There has to be a better way… That night I started working on my business plan for what ultimately became Piccana – an inbound marketing agency. 100% transparency was to be the main core value.

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Steve Blank

MAY 18, 2009

The Rust Belt – (Skip this Section if I’m Boring You) Out of the Air Force, my first job out of school was in Ann Arbor, Michigan, in the mid-1970’s installing broadband process control systems in automotive and manufacturing plants throughout the Midwest.

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Up and Running

MARCH 13, 2013

” And my absolute favorite on business planning: “Eisenhower’s observation about preparing for battle applies remarkably well for us as entrepreneurs: “’I have always found plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.’”. .’ But if you do that, your efforts will be diluted. ’”.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

I wondered if business plans and 5-year forecasts were the right way to plan a startup. Experienced entrepreneurs kept finding that no business plan survived first contact with customers. Filed under: Business Model versus Business Plan , Customer Development , Lean LaunchPad.

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Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

I lived through the time when working in my first job in Ann Arbor Michigan we had to get out a map to find out that San Jose was not only in Puerto Rico but there was a city with that same name in California. Not kind of wrong but going out of business wrong. 39 years ago I got on that plane and never went back.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JANUARY 21, 2011

I attended the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, a top ten business program year-in year-out and love to pretend to brag about it. Professionally, I am a Certified Public Accountant (CPA), may also be called a Chartered Accountant (CA) on your side of the globe, a Finance Charter-holder and a Certified Financial Planner.

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