California Global Lean Operations 
Steve Blank
AUGUST 3, 2012
Long before there was the Lean Startup, Business Model Canvas or Customer Development there was a guy in Santa Barbara California who had already figured it out. That earned us the right to ask questions of fact about their department’s mission, goals, operations, volumes, tools, methods, and success metrics.
Steve Blank
JUNE 6, 2016
Evangelos Simoudis zJoining me in from the studio at Stanford University were: Evangelos Simoudis , venture investor and senior advisor to global corporations. You need to be able to understand how to take advantage of the market you’re operating in, including how to take advantage of corporations. .
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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.
Hearpreneur
JUNE 4, 2021
No more 60 hour weeks at a job where the owners apparently were unable to run a successful operation. But I also leaned that is actually ok. My interests were in technology, and my dreams were in California. I decided to decline that job offer and start my new career as a real estate entrepreneur. No hassles. No regrets.
Steve Blank
JANUARY 20, 2014
When Customer Development and the Lean Startup were just a sketch on the napkin, Dino Vendetti, a VC at Bay Partners, was one of the first venture capitalists I shared my ideas with. Over the years we brainstormed about how Lean entrepreneurship would affect regional development. Entrepreneurs in Bend. Founders Pad.
Steve Blank
APRIL 6, 2009
When Terman said no, Sylvania, a tube company which built proximity fuse tubes in WWII, won the contract and set up its Electronic Defense Lab (EDL) in Mountain View California in the middle of an orchard. The Army offered Fred Terman, the Dean of Engineering at Stanford, a $5M contract to build an electronics countermeasures lab. Order Here.
Startup Lessons Learned
MAY 1, 2018
Two weeks later, I was named the executive director of global marketing for GE at the corporate level, working for Beth Comstock. What that means is that If you're running a utility company, an airline, or let's say, even a railroad, the data that comes off of your equipment is invaluable to running your operation more efficiently.
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