Steve Blank

JUNE 6, 2016

Evangelos Simoudis’ is the founder and managing director of Synapse Partners. — Ashok has taken a Lean approach to innovation at Verizon: Within a couple of weeks of joining Verizon, they said, “Before you learn a lot about the company, write down what you think we should do.” If you can’t hear the clip, click here.

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JULY 2, 2015

My guests this past week on Bay Area Ventures on Wharton Business Radio on Sirius XM Channel 111 were: Pete Newell , managing partner of BMNT Partners. Matt Weingart, program development manager in the Strategic Development Office at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 1, 2016

On September 7 th – 9 th we are holding our first Hacking for Defense & Diplomacy – class for Educators and Sponsors , training educators how to teach these classes in their universities and sponsors how to select problem sets and manage their teams. Sign up here. An Idea Whose Time Has Come. Result: Hell yes.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 1, 2016

On September 7 th – 9 th we are holding our first Hacking for Defense & Diplomacy – class for Educators and Sponsors , training educators how to teach these classes in their universities and sponsors how to select problem sets and manage their teams. Sign up here. An Idea Whose Time Has Come. Result: Hell yes.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Using Air is the leading platform for marketing teams to manage and automate their creative operations. If I, if you've used my service before or have your IP address, I could say, Hey, welcome Paul from I'm in Loma Linda Paul from Loma Linda, California. Share files securely. Learn more at Air.inc/ducttape. Like from a story.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 31, 2016

The cross-disciplinary class brings students from widely divergent backgrounds together in teams of three to five, each aiming to tackle a gnarly international problem vexing Foggy Bottom in just 10 weeks by applying Lean LaunchPad methodology. The time difference between Washington and California often doesn’t help.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Leadership & Managing | Tuesdays. LEADERSHIP & MANAGING. Computer Security. Managing Creativity. Leadership and Managing >. Quality Manager Job Description. Quality Manager Job Description. Recruitment Manager Job Description. Technology | Thursdays. Finance | Tuesdays. Innovation | Fridays.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 11, 2020

A subsegment of those instructors – those trying to teach Lean LaunchPad, whether in I-Corps, or Hacking for Defense – have an additional burden of figuring out how to teach a class that depends on students getting out of the building and talking to 10 to 15 customers a week. Here’s what we learned. Student Engagement.

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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. As one could imagine this was the last thing the supercomputer center management wanted to hear.

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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

OCTOBER 31, 2016

The cross-disciplinary class brings students from widely divergent backgrounds together in teams of three to five, each aiming to tackle a gnarly international problem vexing Foggy Bottom in just 10 weeks by applying Lean LaunchPad methodology. The time difference between Washington and California often doesn’t help.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 17, 2020

But all of those meals that we have been providing for the last 14 years, qualify for the federal subsidy programs that are designed to increase food security for kids and families in low income areas. The fear of food security, the threat of food insecurity in our communities is far greater than the threat of COVID, as serious as COVID is.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 3, 2009

military, the CIA and the National Security Agency. Next, Terman used his military contacts to secure funding for the Lab from the Office of Naval Research, the Air Force and the Army Signal Corps. Frederick Terman, Stanford’s Dean of Engineering, enlisted Stanford University as a major arms suppliers in this war.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Your presentation doesn’t have a single word about Lean Startups or Customer Development. We also talk about cash flow management rather than fund-raising though – watch and justifying expenses by cash coming in that matches or exceeds. They will realize that you have built a startup that’s agile, resilient and customer-centric.

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Steve Blank

JULY 20, 2009

Just as I was getting settled into Zilog, the manager of the training department got fired. (I I was beginning to think that my hiring managers were related to red-shirted guys on Star Trek.) At the end of two days I realized, This was the first full weekend I had taken off since I had moved to California 3 years ago.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2020

They created a program called Onward California in partnership with the State of California and with the support of governor Newsom. Their model in California was so successful they eventually created a new organization, Onward US, dedicated to putting American workers displaced by COVID-19 back to work.

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 28, 2013

Security Choice: The Power of Conversion Through Transparency. ", and the page is exactly the same for me in California or someone in London? It says Continue securely. 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

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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. A subscription box business plan will include the following components: Executive summary.

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www.usatoday.com

JULY 16, 2012

The Hollywood creativity has finally caught the technology wave," says Draper, managing director of Draper Fisher Jurvetson , which invested in early start-ups such as video-chat company Skype and electric-vehicle maker Tesla Motors. "It Give your passwords a security check-up. Privacy Notice/Your California Privacy Rights.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2017

It combines the same Lean Startup Methodology used by the National Science Foundation to commercialize science, with the rapid problem sourcing and curation methodology developed on the battlefields in Afghanistan and Iraq by Colonel Pete Newell and the US Army’s Rapid Equipping Force. Their sponsors agreed. This is the End.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 22, 2015

In the last year alone, several have opened across the United States, with cafes in New York City, Oakland, California, and soon, Portland Oregon. In the instance of a cat cafe, Kristen discussed the difficulty in managing the opening of what is essentially two distinct businesses. Starting a Business cat cafe lean planning'

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 11, 2008

In true startup form, the world was forever changed when the CIA and the National Security Agency acted as venture capitalists for this first wave of entrepreneurship. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? Expo SF (May.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 29, 2009

I packed up my life in Michigan and spent five days driving to California to start work. I was met by a very apologetic manager who said, “We’ve been trying to get a hold of you for the last week. The manager of the training department who hired you wasn’t authorized to do so – and he’s been fired.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2018

Six teams spoke to over 600 beneficiaries, stakeholders, requirements writers, program managers, warfighters, legal, security, customers, etc. Note: The Hacking for Defense class was designed as “fundamental research” to be shared broadly and the results are not subject to restriction for proprietary or national security reasons.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2020

And half our clubs were in the state of California in 2008, so was a very interesting time to be a CEO and learned a lot. And the truth is that's yesterday and you don't really have the ability to change what you did yesterday, but what you do have the ability today, is to lean into this. You're usually your own worst critic.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 10, 2020

A quality education for our children in a safe and secure space shouldn't be impossible to achieve. 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.

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Steve Blank

MAY 18, 2009

It’s our hood alignment station,” the plant manager said proudly. One day, I was at the Ford Wixom auto assembly plant training my replacement and I was at met at the door by an irate plant manager. the manager followed us still yelling. These damn models weren’t designed right so we’re fixing them on the line.”

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 2, 2021

Dara manages Uber’s fast-growing business in 63 countries around the world and leads a global team of more than 22,000 employees. So the norms that we have were a combination of bottoms-up and then some top-down leaning. We had a management offsite plan. Dara, thank you so much for being here. RH: Yeah, totally agree.

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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. We’ve got amazing calendar tools, we’ve got contact management tools. Jason: SyncBloc.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 6, 2015

This was a dilemma because while it seemed like easy money and a reasonable request I knew it was going to drive up our support and maintenance costs and become hard to manage. In the long run it will be cheaper, better maintained and even more secure.” Who will manage yours? So we took a stand. So our pitch went.

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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. If you’re a founder/product manager/business owner, I encourage you to find that out! And, while working to build the business we want, a competitor in California secured resources to far outpace us.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 10, 2021

So no matter what my political leanings might be, I have a minimum bar for experience that I’m requiring for my vote—especially when the devil is really in the details. He’s even suggested that he would dismiss his security detail in favor of carrying a gun—because that’s Eric Adams’ view of the world—that you’re only safe if you have a gun.

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Steve Blank

MAY 2, 2016

They’ve collectively talked to over 550 beneficiaries (users, program managers, stakeholders, etc.) The teams live and die by the Lean Startup credo: “There are no facts inside the building so get the hell outside.” But by week 5, (this week) the teams have either embraced the Lean process or we’re not going to get through to them.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 2, 2019

However, they’ve managed to create a thriving business through the beauty of technology. I had the ambition to work at a traditional advertising agency, but a couple of things worked out when I secured an Agency role as an SEO Manager at the largest SEO Agency in North America managing XXXK in annual billings.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Million in 1946 as a closed-end mutual fund ) which meant ARD was regulated by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC.) Several wealthy families in the U.S. set up companies to do just that – find and formalize investments in new and emerging industries. Whitney Co. That same year Laurance Rockefeller founded Rockefeller Brothers, Inc.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 23, 2015

By being both agile and lean in development and management, we can weed out all the frustration that exists in larger companies. So I decided to found a fencing club and in 2013 established “Academy of Fencing Masters” in Campbell, California. Do we worry about job security? Thanks to Diego Villarreal, Banter !

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Meanwhile on the West Coast – “The Group” 1950’s When Ampex was raising its money, in 1952, an employee of Fireman’s Fund in San Francisco, Reid Dennis , managed to put $20,000 in the deal. It would charge its investors annual “management fees” to pay for the firm’s salaries, building, etc. More on this in the next post.

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