Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

However the Customer Development Model and the Lean Startup work equally well for startups on the web. The first question to ask is: “Does your startup have market risk or is it dominated by technical risk?” Lean Startup /Customer Development is used to find answers to the unknowns about customers and markets.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 31, 2009

Finally, I’ll write about how Eric Ries and the Lean Startup concept provided the equivalent model for product development activities inside the building and neatly integrates customer and agile development. customers aren’t buying it, the cost of distribution is too high, etc.) Product Development Diagram 1. business model.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

But if you’re writing a plan as an internal guide for strategic growth, you should consider a lighter version— a Lean Plan. A Lean Plan can also serve as an initial plan that helps you think through all the aspects of starting your business. Sourcing, fulfillment, and distribution. Your problem and solution. Financial plan.

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Hunter Walker

APRIL 9, 2015

Like Douglas McGray , the CEO and EIC of California Sunday Magazine , a newly launched multiplatform magazine. Hunter Walk: So a few months back this amazing magazine called California Sunday started showing up monthly. Hunter Walk: So a few months back this amazing magazine called California Sunday started showing up monthly.

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Steve Blank

JULY 16, 2009

Go spend some time outside the building talking to potential distribution partners. No, not really, but my partner owns the studio and tells me it’s spectacular and everyone will love it. Don’t bother him; he knows what he’s doing. Tell them how great it’s going to be and see how many pre-orders we can get.”

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Steve Blank

JULY 2, 2009

You can be an Independent studio or do “work for hire&# (either a revenue share or buy-out model) - If you’re an independent studio you have a set of choices for distribution channel and marketing models. - We understood none of this. More detail in future posts. steve Twitted by altgate , on July 2, 2009 at 5:22 pm Said: [.]

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Up and Running

AUGUST 28, 2019

Also, creating a quick lean financial forecast will help ensure your business idea is viable and financially sound. California can be appealing to California-based investors (particularly fast-growth tech companies) despite high income and corporate taxes, and franchise fees for all businesses regardless of size.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Venture Capitalists on your board developed the expertise to get your firm public as soon as possible using whatever it took including hype, spin, expand, and grab market share because the sooner you got your billion dollar market cap, the sooner the VC firm could sell their shares and distribute their profits.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 24, 2012

Transcript Automated transcription services provided by: Dan Bowen: My name is Dan Bowen, and I’m up in the wine country in Healdsburg, California north of San Francisco, and the company name is SyncBloc, S-Y-N-C-B-L-O-C. or an MSN or an AOL in terms of portal distribution. Jason: SyncBloc. Well I know what Sync is, but Bloc.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 26, 2019

As a boot-strapped founder aka our biggest investor, one of the things I leaned into uncovering was the unknown. Lean into it. By the by, women donors, I recommend diversifying some of your capital distributions to reap that ROI to keep doing good… (+ this is a whole ‘nother blog post…) Undeterred. What did our customers think?

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 22, 2020

Digital Response (USDR) CalFresh Onward California Center for Urban Education about Sustainable Agriculture (CUESA) "President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the New Deal, 1935-1944" SF New Deal donation/volunteer page Transcript for Out of the Crisis #15: SF New Deal Eric Ries : This is Out of the Crisis, I'm Eric Ries.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 30, 2009

SuperMac sold our graphic boards for the Macintosh through multiple distribution channels: direct sales to major accounts, national chains, independent rep firms, etc. But the computer retail channel was a large part of our sales.

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Steve Blank

MAY 7, 2009

My two cents is that a business plan is the single place to collect your thinking about about your: business model, distribution channel, demand creation plan, financial assumptions, and customer and product development plan. I now think that was a mistake. I was simply confused about what a plan was for.

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Steve Blank

MAY 22, 2009

Everyone should have a chance to walk the floor looking for deals, technology, distribution, customers, etc. Partnership Opportunities At any show you are attending there has to be tons of opportunity for business to business relationships you hadn’t thought about.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

AgileZen – project management visually see and interact with your work Kanbanery – Simple online team or personal kanban board LeanKit Kanban – Great for visualizing work of product development Kanban Pad – “Nice and lean” and free online Kanban tool Banana Scrum – A tool simple as Scrum itself.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

– Cornell University; University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center at Carnegie Mellon University; and the San Diego Supercomputer Center at the University of California at San Diego. And where are we today…distributed computing. Love it… Great closure.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 17, 2020

From a mission and purpose standpoint, we have always been about access and quality, so that was a natural place for our team to lean in harder to the support that we knew would be needed across our communities. So here we are today designing, producing, distributing close to three million meals per week across 400 cities.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, use the Order Reprints tool at the bottom of any article or visit www.djreprints.com. Distribution and use of this material are governed by our Subscriber Agreement and by copyright law. Harley Goes Lean to Build Hogs. California.

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Steve Blank

MAY 3, 2011

The Stanford Lean LaunchPad class was an experiment in a new model of teaching startup entrepreneurship. The concept of Partners , took some explanation as some teams confused partners with the Distribution Channel.). Filed under: Business Model versus Business Plan , Lean LaunchPad , Teaching. The Nine Teams Present.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 5, 2009

You make several first order approximations about your business model, distribution channels, demand creation, and customer acceptance. I talk about this in my book and there is always a discussion at the Lean Startup Group at [link]. Faith-based Entrepreneurship At first, entrepreneurship is a Faith-based initiative. Order Here.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 27, 2009

This series of posts is a brief explanation of how we’ve evolved from Product Development to Customer Development to the Lean Startup. After that there’s a discussion of how the product will reach the customer and the potential distribution channel. The distribution discussion also leads to some assumptions about pricing.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

So I think the most interesting aspect of this article is how just mind-blowing that distribution is. And in fact, The Lean Startup is very much that. One of my old Lean Startup sayings is that metrics are people too, and it came up in my conversation with Brian Chesky, too. So they've had to learn as fast as they could.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2009

Waterfall, Agile, Lean? At a glance, you can see how startup capital needs differ by markets, how distribution channels and demand creation activities differ by market, and even how VC’s assess risk and reward by market. Intellectual Property/Patents – Strategic or Tactical, timing? Regulatory Issues – What are they? M&A, IPO?

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Up and Running

JULY 16, 2015

Beginning as a small red cart in Eugene, Oregon, today Red Wagon Creamery has a downtown storefront, local retail distribution, and online ordering. That made our first winter in the shop very lean, but we made it through,” he says. We have leaned on LivePlan since we were a cart,” Stuart explains. The cook and the lawyer.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 20, 2009

Do you know have they distribute their product? Some of the conversations went like this: Startup 1 Entrepreneur -“I’m competing against Company x and have been following the Customer Development process and I’ve talked to lots of customers.” Me – “Have you used Company x’s product? Do you know how they create demand?

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Service companies are increasingly looking to get into work-for-equity relationships," says Peter Wendell , managing director of the Menlo Park , California -based venture capital firm Sierra Ventures and a faculty member at Stanford Business School. But Ive definitely had to lean on Dave. My official title is CEO," says Kyle.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Ampex’s first customer was Bing Crosby who wanted to record his radio programs for rebroadcast (and had exclusive distribution rights.) Ampex business took off when Terman introduced Ampex founder Alex Poniatoff to Joseph and Henry McMicking. government would invest three (up to $300,000.) More on this in the next post.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 3, 2009

In the end, the CEO couldn’t get his board to give us the cash in exchange for the Japanese distribution rights and some equity. I’m sure when he got back to the office he was handing out a personalized knife to the executive on his staff who had borrowed my slide.) We ended up raising money from Sega.

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Steve Blank

JULY 9, 2009

So I got out out of the building to meet and understand our customers and distribution partners. Unfortunately, while I had gone through phases of video game addiction in my life, in no way could I be described as even a “moderate hard-core gamer,” which ruled me out as a domain expert.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 1, 2009

Top management was trying to coordinate all of the operating details (sales, manufacturing, distribution and marketing,) across all the divisions and the company almost went bankrupt that year when poor planning led to excess inventory (with unsold cars piling up at dealers and the company running out of cash.)

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Lean Methodology Sources. Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. Part 3- Lean Cust. Steve Blank’s Lean Startup Resources. Lean Startup Circle â?? free, distributed source code control management system. Lean project management. California Israel Chamber of Commerce. Lean Startups.

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 28, 2013

", and the page is exactly the same for me in California or someone in London? They also make it clear they only serve California, rather than telling you after you click the Submit button! Why is it that when I visit www.3m.com 3m.com or www.gillette.com they ask me to pick my country? I really like the big boxes, big text.

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market-by-numbers.com

DECEMBER 7, 2009

The basic point, is that while all companies employ technology, sell products or services, employ technology, market to specific segments and use certain distribution methods, one factor dominates (or should dominate) the others in terms of business strategy. Distribution Company has unique or differentiated method of moving products.

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Other tools, can provide more dimensions including children, political leanings, ethnicity etc… You can see how this might be a lot more interesting for a magazine or content sites, and perhaps a lot less to other types of businesses. I find this behavior to be a million times more useful than demographics or political leanings.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 10, 2020

So, that was the first moment that we said, "This looks like it could be a thing in California." We weren't fully thinking about California or the country at that point. By this point, we had moved out to Northern California. By this point, we moved to California out here. So, there's a teacher in Hesperia, California.

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pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Chill Direct: Direct to fan content distribution. The report includes this fun tidbit about Amazon charging sales tax: “We in California have already become accustomed to paying sales tax on Amazon. Scanadu: Technologically-savvy healthcare. By Nathaniel Mott. November 29, 2012. CapLinked bags $1.6M from investor clients.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 15, 2020

And as we looked at that and had discussions and examined what that meant, it really meant distributing the sense of ownership, just pushing it out and opening it up and trying to enable anyone else to do this as well. So the wildfires hit in Northern California, they showed up here to feed firefighters and displaced families.

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