YoungUpstarts

APRIL 7, 2016

Depending on what a startup needs, the cost and equity share will vary — ranging from a full scope of projections, a business plan, and modeling, to a simple consulting partnership. Right now, Silicon Valley has a highly creative pool of talent, but there is a blaringly obvious missing link between creativity and business.

Seed Stage 100

Seed Stage Silicon Valley Incubator Asia 100

Steve Blank

MAY 23, 2016

Established businesses execute business models while startups search for them. I was a lone voice inside one of the country’s leading business schools challenging the conventional wisdom of the last 40 years, proposing that everything we were teaching about starting companies was wrong.

Lean 221

Lean Technical Review Vietnam Engineer 221

Steve Blank

APRIL 29, 2009

This book may be the Iraq war equivalent of “ Dispatches &# which defined Vietnam for my generation. As a founder you need to prepare yourself to think creatively and independently, because more often than not, conditions on the ground will change so rapidly that the original well-thought-out business plan becomes irrelevant.

Silicon Valley 170

Silicon Valley Iraq RSS Vietnam 170

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.

Government 120

Government Channel Southern California Lean 120

blog.startupsquare.com

APRIL 13, 2010

I’d be very very wary of my business plan. Ive lived in the US, Germany, Taiwan, Switzerland, and Vietnam and will gladly play you a game of chess or connect with you on LinkedIn. In the case of option (1), I’m not sure what I would do. I think every entrepreneur should be actively generating ideas constantly.

Lean 40

Lean Startup Cofounder Architecture 40

Scalable Startup

MAY 16, 2015

The 2000 collapse followed a period of manic investing when entrepreneurs with off-the-wall ideas and ridiculous or nonexistent business plans sought and received funding from ill-informed investors blinded by the magical aura of the Internet or just simple greed.

San Francisco 20

San Francisco Silicon Valley California Oakland 20