Customer Development, Developer and Russia

The Helsinki Spring

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 7, 2011

I spent the month of September lecturing, and interacting with (literally) thousands of entrepreneurs in two emerging startup markets, Finland and Russia. Ironically one of the things that’s holding back the Finnish cluster is Tekes , the government organization for financing research, development and innovation in Finland.

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Nokia as “He Who Must Not Be Named” and the Helsinki Spring

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 10, 2011

Finland itself has significant engineering talent, and is also attracting entrepreneurs from Russia and the former USSR. Filed under: Business Model versus Business Plan , Customer Development , Teaching , Venture Capital. The country needs to figure out a long term privatization strategy for Venture investing.

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Blowing up the Business Plan at U.C. Berkeley Haas Business School

Steve Blank

MARCH 3, 2015

Berkeley were heavily funded to develop Cold War weapon systems. Starting in the 1950’s, Stanford’s engineering department became “outward facing” and developed a culture of spinouts and active faculty support and participation in the first wave of Silicon Valley startups. Seeing Is Believing. Berkeley-wide. We’ve gone global as well.

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The Helsinki Spring

ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 13, 2011

I spent the month of September lecturing, and interacting with (literally) thousands of entrepreneurs in two emerging startup markets, Finland and Russia. Steve Blank is a retired serial entrepreneur, educator, thought leader and creator of the rigorous "Customer Development" methodology detailed in his book, "The Four Steps to the Epiphany."

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Born Global or Die Local – Building a Regional Startup Playbook

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 31, 2014

China, Russia, Brazil, India, Indonesia all meet those criteria. They realized if they could develop and promote a well-coordinated sports technologies industry, they could capture their unfair share of the $300 billon sports consumer market. Filed under: Business Model versus Business Plan , Customer Development.

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The Fatal Flaw of the Three Horizons Model and How To Fix It

Steve Blank

JANUARY 8, 2019

While traditional analysis suggests that Horizon 3 disruptive innovations take years to develop, in today’s world this is no longer the case. McKinsey suggested that to remain competitive in the long run a company allocate its research and development dollars and resources across all three horizons. And here’s the big idea.

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No Business Plan Survives First Contact With A Customer – The 5.2 billion dollar mistake.

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

First, the company bought a fleet of 15 rockets from Russia, the U.S. First, in 1990 the company thought it knew the customer problem to solve, and therefore it knew what solution to build. Second, since it knew the solution, it went into a 8 -year Waterfall engineering development process. It All Came Crashing Down.

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Your Computer May Already be Hacked – NSA Inside?

Steve Blank

JULY 15, 2013

In Russia, President Putin’s office just stopped using PC’s and switched to typewriters. Filed under: Customer Development , Secret History of Silicon Valley. Customer Development Secret History of Silicon Valley' In a time of universal deceit – telling the truth is a revolutionary act. George Orwell.

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Why Internal Ventures are Different from External Startups

Steve Blank

MARCH 26, 2014

Just as Germany’s domination of Western Europe in World War II was eventually undone by its decision to launch a second front by invading Russia, so too unlike a start up, corporate ventures cannot focus solely on winning in the external marketplace. Filed under: Big Companies versus Startups: Durant versus Sloan , Customer Development.

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The Four Steps to the Epiphany is Now in Russian

Steve Blank

AUGUST 17, 2011

Entrepreneurs from Japan, France and now Russia believed they could help startups in their country if the Four Steps to the Epiphany was available in their native tongue. Filed under: Customer Development. All these translations have been crowd-sourced. They translated it at their own expense. Blame it On Eric. Good enough.

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Founders and dysfunctional families « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

MAY 18, 2009

Next, you have to deal with the daily crisis of product development and acquiring early customers. And here’s where life gets really interesting, as the reality of product development and customer input collide, the facts change so rapidly that the original well-thought-out business plan becomes irrelevant.

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The Story Behind the Secret History Part II. Getting B-52s through.

Steve Blank

MARCH 28, 2009

Now we have ditched the cold war triad in the 21st century since the Soviet Union became Russia again and discovered its own style of capitalism.) Sure the rest of the stories diverge though… can’t really imagine a Soviet counterpart to the Customer Development method. Reply Ben C. ,

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The Secret History of Silicon Valley Part VII: We Fought a War You.

Steve Blank

AUGUST 3, 2009

military had to develop new ways to collect intelligence. They developed the National Intelligence Estimate – a series of reports which summarized their judgment about the size of the Russian threat. And the way we were going to do it was with electronic/signals intelligence. political leadership with a much bigger picture.

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