Steve Blank

OCTOBER 30, 2012

The Lean LaunchPad Class. You may have read my previous posts about the Lean LaunchPad entrepreneurship class. The class teaches founders how to dramatically reduce their failure rate through the combination of business model design, customer development and agile development using the Startup Owners Manual.

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Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

I lived through the time when working in my first job in Ann Arbor Michigan we had to get out a map to find out that San Jose was not only in Puerto Rico but there was a city with that same name in California. The result, startups now have tools that speed up the search for customers, reduce time to market and slash the cost of development.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 1, 2009

automotive industry grew to become one of the drivers of the global economy. William Durant died managing a bowling alley in Flint Michigan in 1947. Known as the “Inventor of the Modern Corporation,” Sloan was president of General Motors from 1923 to 1956 when the U.S. If you look around the United States it’s hard to avoid Sloan.

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