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. Here’s Part 1 of Dino’s story….

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Up and Running

AUGUST 28, 2018

A Lean Business Plan might be a better fit if you simply need to think through all the different aspects of your business. A Lean Plan will be shorter, and it lends itself to quick revisions, but both types follow the same general outline. They tend to be lengthier and more detailed.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Botanical Bounty is an Oregon-based perennial farm that grows a variety of botanical, medicinal plants. A weakness that may deter investors is NovOculi’s lack of relationship with the medical device distribution community. Example SWOT analysis: Botanical Bounty. About the company. Customer testimonials. Sales channel relationships.

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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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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 18, 2013

However, I’ve noticed as the design community has leaped from font to font, color to color, designs are converging on a theme of minimalism. Andy Hayes is a creative web producer based in sunny Portland, Oregon. Just like in fashion, web designers tend to go through a lot of fads – specifically color schemes and font choices.

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Up and Running

MARCH 30, 2015

I view pitches regularly as a member of an angel investment group in Oregon, and as a judge for three intercollegiate and international business plan contests. My latest book, “Lean Business Planning” has a chapter on these pitches, which is also on the website as “Your Business Pitch.”

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Up and Running

JULY 17, 2017

My neighborhood of Alberta in Portland, Oregon, where small local businesses are plentiful. However, this isn’t just based on the perception that local communities are experiencing improved economic conditions; in fact, it’s debatable whether or not individual small business communities are actually experiencing measurable success and growth.

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