Steve Blank
SEPTEMBER 5, 2018
Reading the NY Times article “ Jeffrey Katzenberg Raises $1 Billion for Short-Form Video Venture, ” I realized it was time for a new startup heuristic: the amount of customer discovery and product-market fit you need to find is inversely proportional to the amount and availability of risk capital. It’s the antithesis of the Lean Startup.
Steve Blank
MARCH 12, 2014
While the Lean LaunchPad class has been adopted by Universities and the National Science Foundation, the question we get is, “Can students in K-12 handle an experiential entrepreneurship class?” Knowing they had 3 weeks before presenting to the company co-founders, the kids felt intensity like no traditional classroom could generate.
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Startup Lessons Learned
DECEMBER 1, 2014
Guest post by Lisa Regan, writer for The Lean Startup Conference The Lean Startup Conference is next week--and now that we can step back and see all the speakers and mentors, we have to say: Wow. For example: Mitch Kapor was a founder of Lotus. He’ll be running a hands-on session on how to make a compelling business video.
Steve Blank
DECEMBER 9, 2013
As our Lean LaunchPad for Life Sciences class winds down, a good number of the 26 teams are trying to figure out whether they should go forward to turn their class project into a business. see 0:30 in the video below). See 1:03 in the video below). But in my next to last company, I got into the video game business.
Startup Lessons Learned
MARCH 6, 2013
Once again, along with my partners at 500 Startups, we are proud to present the most substantive track at SXSW: [link] There was a running joke last year that "the Lean Startup track was the only place at SXSW you couldn't get out of the building." 1,000 startup founders, investors, and press! We're back!
Startup Lessons Learned
APRIL 29, 2013
This post was written by Sarah Milstein, co-host of The Lean Startup Conference. We’re looking for speakers for the 2013 Lean Startup Conference. If you’re a Lean Startup veteran, feel free to skim the beginning, as this is mostly stuff you already know. Last week, we announced that our short application form was live.
ReadWriteStart
DECEMBER 27, 2010
In the video below, LivingSocial co-founder and CTO Aaron Batalion talks about the company's previous manifestations - consultants, Facebook app developers, and so on - and the principles that helped motivate the company to change direction like this. And so LivingSocial pivoted into the group-buying and daily deals space.
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