Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

The students “get out of the building” and test their hypotheses in front of potential beneficiaries using the Customer Development methodology, all while building and updating their Minimal Viable Products. The teaching team delivers comments, pulling no punches. It’s tough. She shares her observations below. Christos Makridis, a Ph.D

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NOVEMBER 21, 2016

The students “get out of the building” and test their hypotheses in front of potential beneficiaries using the Customer Development methodology, all while building and updating their Minimal Viable Products. The teaching team delivers comments, pulling no punches. It’s tough. She shares her observations below. Christos Makridis, a Ph.D

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 17, 2009

In 1949, with the detection of the first Soviet nuclear weapons test, the Iron Curtain falling across Europe and the fall of China to the Communists, Cold War paranoia drove the U.S. Stanford had a Customer Development loop going on inside their own lab. military to rearm and mobilize.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 23, 2016

For the first 75 years of the 20 th century, when capital for new ventures was scarce, the smartest engineering talent went to corporate R&D labs. They’re better than large companies at identifying customer needs/problems and finding product/market fit by pivoting rapidly. Startups are unencumbered by the status quo.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 11, 2013

I just spent a few weeks in Japan and China on a book tour for the Japanese and Chinese versions of the Startup Owners Manual. In these series of 5 posts, I thought I’d share what I learned in China. The previous post described how China built its science and technology infrastructure. It has become China’s Silicon Valley.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 26, 2016

Hacking for Defense is a new course at Stanford’s Engineering School in the Spring of 2016. DF-21 and Islands in the South China Sea. Hacking for Defense is a new class that teaches students how to: Use the Lean LaunchPad methodology to deeply understand the problems/needs of government customers. Yet in the last decade the U.S.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 11, 2013

I just spent a few weeks in Japan and China on a book tour for the Japanese and Chinese versions of the Startup Owners Manual. In these series of 5 posts, I thought I’d share what I learned in China. The previous post described how China built its science and technology infrastructure. It has become China’s Silicon Valley.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 3, 2009

Frederick Terman, Stanford’s Dean of Engineering, enlisted Stanford University as a major arms suppliers in this war. Stanford as a Center of Microwave and Electronics In 1946 after running the military’s secret 800 person Electronic Warfare Lab at Harvard, Fred Terman returned to Stanford as the dean of the engineering schoo l.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

The United States is now a debtor nation to China and that the bill is about to come due. Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers - SoCal CTO , November 1, 2010 I had a recent email dialog with the founder of a company looking for a CTO for their startup. Who better to answer than the company's engineering lead. call to arms.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! How Customers evaluate your product | StartupCFO – [link]. The Most Effective SEO Content Strategy | Duct Tape Marketing - [link]. What’s The Most Difficult CEO Skill?

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 8, 2019

Horizon 2 ideas extend a company’s existing business/model and core capabilities to new customers, markets or targets. This time-based definition made sense in the 20 th century when new disruptive ideas took years to research, engineer and deliver. That’s no longer true in the 21 st century.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Alice Brooks , co-founder of Roominate , toys meant to promote girls’ interest in science, tech and engineering. in mechanical engineering and holds a master’s in mechanical engineering from Stanford. With Roominate, Alice wanted to build a toy that would encourage girls to explore science, technology and engineering.

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www.women2.org

MARCH 8, 2012

After quitting my job and starting Sorced , I spent a few months validating my business concept by creating the product mockups and doing customer development. Consequently, I either needed a tech co-founder or to pay someone to develop the product. Given those criteria, where are the watering holes to find these engineers?

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

And they rolled all of this up into a set of financial forecasts with a “size of market” forecast from brand name management consulting firms that said they’d have 42 million customers by 2002. In the eleven years since they had been at work, Iridium’s potential market had shrunk nearly every day.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Alice Brooks , co-founder of Roominate , toys meant to promote girls’ interest in science, tech and engineering. in mechanical engineering and holds a master’s in mechanical engineering from Stanford. With Roominate, Alice wanted to build a toy that would encourage girls to explore science, technology and engineering.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

The United States is now a debtor nation to China and that the bill is about to come due. The plummeting cost of getting a first product to market (particularly for Internet startups) has shaken up the venture capital industry. the wave of internet commerce applications in the first decade of the 21 st century.

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Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

I’ve seen the Valley grow from Sunnyvale to Santa Clara to today where it stretches from San Jose to South of Market in San Francisco. But in the 20 th century, dominated by hardware, software, and life sciences, technology swings inside an existing market happened slowly — taking years, not months. Where is it going?

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

Home Books for Startups Guide Secret History-Bibliography Steve Blank Startup Tools Steve Blank Entries RSS | Comments RSS Email Subscription Get Steve Blank via your RSS Feed RSS - Posts RSS - Comments Categories Air Force (12) Ardent (10) Audubon (1) Big Companies versus Startups: Durant versus Sloan (39) Business Model versus Business Plan (..)

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Whether you’re wondering what site search you should use or what is the best email marketing tool, knowledge is power. Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. Inbound Marketing vs Interruption marketing. Email marketing. Market Research. Firebase : Are all your developers front-end engineers?

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