Up and Running

MARCH 21, 2018

A study done by SurveyMonkey and Search Engine Land found that brand name was the first thing people looked for when clicking on search engine results: Source. These don’t require coding skills—they’re usually visual templates that are easy to use but don’t allow for great customization (that would require technical skills).

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Entrepreneur Technical Review Hosting SEO 107

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

If you’re looking to dive deep on Lean Startup skills, our workshop sessions provide professional development at a serious bargain. They’re led by established experts in the community, and the rooms we’re holding these in are limited, so you’ll get a chance to ask your questions and share your experience.

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Lean Cofounder Analytics Startup 154

Steve Blank

APRIL 14, 2013

While I didn’t get much time with the academic community, in talking to students, education seems to still be one of China’s bottlenecks – rote lectures, passive learning, follow the process, exam-based performance, etc. Their leadership has shown incredible foresight in engineering an amazing economic engine and formidable military.

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China Silicon Valley Non-Compete Intellectual Property 215

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

I know that this all seems obvious now with the movements started by Steven Blank ( Four Steps of Epiphany ) with the whole Customer Development processes / Lean Startup movements also popularized by people like Eric Ries. But I believe that it creates an authentic relationship with your community. Back then it seemed foreign.

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Customer Technical Review Software Review Mexico 280

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. Dino and I kept in touch as he moved up to Bend, Oregon on a mission to engineer Bend into a regional technology cluster. What’s Different.

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Silicon Valley Oregon Lean Venture Capital 312

Steve Blank

AUGUST 13, 2009

Since I wasn’t an engineer, my contribution was around the team-building and fund raising. Customer Development/Lean Startups In hindsight startups and the venture capital community left out the most important first step any startup ought to be doing – hypothesis testing in front of customers- from day one.

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Silicon Valley RSS Technical Review Lean 179

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

. … (Still) We had no idea the complexity that would be involved from sourcing the manufacturer and how long it would take once you found that manufacturer to be able to engineer the product… It’s very different when you’re engineering a product to make 100 of parts. …. If you can’t hear the clip, click here.

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Silicon Valley Ohio Columbus Entrepreneur 120

Steve Blank

MAY 30, 2016

But a decade earlier as undersecretary of defense for research and engineering, he was the father of the second offset strategy using software and semiconductors to build smart weapons, smart sensors, and stealth aircraft that helped end the Cold War. Second: I also gave the commencement speech at the NYU engineering school here.

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Silicon Valley San Diego Technical Review Incubator 120

Steve Blank

JUNE 7, 2019

Followed by an 8-minute slide presentation follow their customer discovery journey over the 10-weeks. All the teams used the Mission Model Canvas , Customer Development and Agile Engineering to build Minimal Viable Products, but all of their journeys were unique. All the presentations are worth a watch. Team: Panacea.

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Oakland Lean SBIR Afghanistan 266

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 10, 2012

Your most powerful growth engine is your existing customer. Short, well-told customer story videos proved most powerful, exponentially increasing engagement and lead generation for Intel. Community marketing is the best way to leverage Rock Star customers. That’s right.

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Customer Fractional CTO Canada Technical Review 154

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

One of the great things about being a retired entrepreneur is that I get to give back to the community that helped me. customer development. agile engineering. Some general customer development slides click here. Free: Startup Tools. Berkeley presentations, lectures and syllabus here. Find it here.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 28, 2020

Customer Development became one of the three parts of the Lean Startup as Eric Ries and Alexander Osterwalder provided the other two components (Agile Engineering and the business model canvas.) It’s the impact you make serving God, your family, community, and country. And in the end the measure of a life is not time.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2009

Ive written a little bit about the origins of Silicon Valley because I think its important for us to understand how we got here in order to make sure we preserve what is best about our community. The companies I spoke to all agreed that the community there was extremely supportive, especially in the critical ulta-early-stage.

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San Francisco Silicon Valley Startup Lean 113

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 22, 2012

The program has to be well staffed so it becomes a seamless and well integrated part of your entire growth engine. There are certain predictable mistakes companies make that can derail customer reference programs before they ever get off the ground.

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Programming Customer Social Media Advisory Board 145

Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

The investors, founders, and “community” are all super excited about ASC. Early customer development talks are going great which keeps the team really excited. This is all a part of the normal product and customer development process,” the CEO tells the team. Three months in, the burn is now at $70k/month.

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Burn Rate Equity Software Review Early Stage 152

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. At the same time, it’s a chance to expose some career State Department employees to Silicon Valley thinking.

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Silicon Valley Washington United Kingdom Lean 120

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. At the same time, it’s a chance to expose some career State Department employees to Silicon Valley thinking.

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Silicon Valley Washington United Kingdom Lean 120

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 26, 2009

The key to successful integration of customer feedback is to make each kind of collection part of the regular company discipline of building and releasing products. And, as you can see in my previous post on “ The cardinal sin of community management &# the feedback could be all over the map. It was absolutely worth it.

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Advisory Board Customer San Francisco Lean 151

Steve Blank

JUNE 3, 2016

Few consider opportunities to make the world safer with the Department of Defense, Intelligence Community or other government agencies. First, we validated that students were ready and willing to sign up for a class that engaged them in national service with the Department of Defense and Intelligence Community. What Surprised Us?

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 21, 2011

When a customer feels that his/her business is welcomed, appreciated and valued, the result will be repeat business. In 2012, smart, forward-looking companies will be viewing customer service in new ways. Here are 7 Customer Service Trends to watch and leverage in 2012: 1. Influencing the Social Masses.

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Customer Retention Social Media Technical Review 154

Steve Blank

APRIL 7, 2011

I spent a few days in March in Ann Arbor Michigan as a guest of Professor Thomas Zurbuchen , Associate Dean for Entrepreneurial Programs, and Doug Neal , Director of Center for Entrepreneurship in the Engineering School at the University of Michigan. The Engineering School has 5,600 undergrads and 3,000 graduate students.

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Michigan Silicon Valley Venture Capital Incubator 307

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 3, 2016

There are obviously lots of differences, but creating an environment in which those people thrive and can collaborate together, it’s a new type of community basically. We were mostly selling our product to engineers. A lot of them do not have the engineering talent that companies in the Valley do.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 3, 2016

There are obviously lots of differences, but creating an environment in which those people thrive and can collaborate together, it’s a new type of community basically. We were mostly selling our product to engineers. A lot of them do not have the engineering talent that companies in the Valley do.

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Cofounder Silicon Valley Entrepreneur EC2 274

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

As a formal method, the Lean Startup consists of three parts: The Business Model Canvas – to frame hypotheses, Customer Development – to test those hypotheses in front of customers, and Agile Engineering – to build Minimum Viable Products to maximize learning. Customer Segments Change to Beneficiaries.

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Business Model Revenue Channel Community 120

Steve Blank

JANUARY 26, 2016

Introducing Hacking for Defense – Connecting Silicon Valley Innovation Culture and Mindset to the Department of Defense and the Intelligence Community. Hacking for Defense is a new course at Stanford’s Engineering School in the Spring of 2016. Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, CIA, NSA. Yet in the last decade the U.S. North Korea.

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Silicon Valley North Korea Agile Lean 120

Steve Blank

JULY 23, 2014

Their goal was to train University scientists and researchers to use Lean Startup methods (business model design, customer development and agile engineering) to commercialize their science. These classroom innovations often remain effectively a secret – unknown to most STEM educators or the research community at large.

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Lean Minnesota Jordan Agile 283

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 15, 2010

They bought distribution and engineering talent. Quirky - Platform facilitating collaborative design of consumer products through an online community. My take was that this follows three trends: a) customer involvement in product design, b) mass customization [e.g. No big surprise. Good deal for all.

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Venture Capital Affiliate Valuation San Francisco 271

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

My colleagues Sebastian Soler , Steven Greenberg and I recently launched a new online community, PEVCTech.com , exclusively for PE/VC investors; engineers who work at PE/VC funds; and other technologists who specialize in working on this problem. to motivate their angel community to support their startups. VC Firm. $

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Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Technical Review 60

Steve Blank

JANUARY 21, 2013

Last fall, I began teaching the Lean LaunchPad course at Princeton ( EGR 495: Special Topics in Entrepreneurship ) with four teams of undergraduates (ok, there were a few engineering grad students in the mix), a brave first-time LLP co-teacher (Cal Simmons), and a talented and dedicated teaching assistant (Ismaiel Yakub). Beertending.

Lean 282

Lean Cofounder Dividend Business Model 282

Steve Blank

AUGUST 4, 2016

Hacking for Diplomacy is a new course from the Management Science and Engineering department in Stanford’s Engineering school and Stanford’s International Policy Studies program that will be first offered in the Fall of 2016. Join a select cross-disciplinary class that takes real problems from the U.S. Real Problems.

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Lean Government Agile Africa 160

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 6, 2015

In either case, corporations have to set up their investment vehicles so that the venture capital community sees them as serious players. They have hundreds, if not thousands, of engineers, world-class design studios, subject matter experts from supply chain to manufacturing. Can the founders communicate well?

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Venture Capital Balance Sheet Technical Review Portfolio 60

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 14, 2009

Through case studies, exercises, and discussions, Eric Ries will guide entrepreneurs of all stripes through the key areas that determine success for startups: product, engineering, QA, marketing, and business strategy. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Let me know.

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Lean San Francisco Continuous Deployment Software Review 60

Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2015

In a major break from the past, where the military designed all its own weapons, 10,000 scientists and engineers from academia worked in civilian-run weapons labs (most headquartered in universities) in an organization called the Office of Scientific Research and Development (OSRD). In World War II the U.S. The Gulf Wars.

Silicon Valley 120

Silicon Valley Afghanistan Iraq Kuwait 120

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

— I just watched a very smart company try to manage innovation by hiring a global consulting firm to offload engineering from “distractions.” This was a very large and established tech company; its engineering organization developed the core day-to-day capabilities of the organization. There’s a much better way.

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Incubator Curation Engineer Government 312

Steve Blank

AUGUST 4, 2016

Hacking for Diplomacy is a new course from the Management Science and Engineering department in Stanford’s Engineering school and Stanford’s International Policy Studies program that will be first offered in the Fall of 2016. Join a select cross-disciplinary class that takes real problems from the U.S. Real Problems.

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Lean Government Agile Africa 120

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 26, 2009

Although customers didnt flock to this offering at first, we had enough of a developer program active to start recruiting early adopters to start creating 3D objects for sale in our catalog. That engine of creativity has led to a catalog of something like 2 million virtual goods authored by a hundred thousand developers.

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Product Development Developer San Francisco Product 88

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. The Product Development Diagram Emerging early in the twentieth century, this product-centric model described a process that evolved in manufacturing industries.

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Silicon Valley Product Startup Product Development 260