Steve Blank

JULY 25, 2023

In contrast, designing AI-driven enterprise software or building dating apps are comparatively simple problems.) Startups vs. Large Companies vs. Governments Innovation at Speed for Horizon 1, 2 and 3 (Managing the Portfolio across Horizons) What is Systems Thinking? Co mpanies also face Wicked problems.

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AUGUST 31, 2015

Every year, our team conducts more than 500 customer development calls to understand what challenges the community is facing. ReadyTalk, a 15-year-old web conferencing software company, launched an internal startup. ReadyTalk became interested in Lean Startup principles to develop new lines of business.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Regulated marketplaces are ones that have significant government regulation to promote (ostensibly) the public interest. regulation happens on three levels: federal laws that are applicable across the country are developed by Federal government in Washington. local city and county laws come from local government.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 28, 2020

We had just started an enterprise software company, Epiphany , and we were one of those disruptors. 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.)

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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. government does have some unique convening power and the ability to tap external talent and resources.

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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. government does have some unique convening power and the ability to tap external talent and resources.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 22, 2013

The program is funded by the Colombian government and modeled after the NSF Innovation-Corps program created and built by my partner and co-author Steve Blank. this may well be the most ambitious government-sponsored startup catalyst effort on the globe. Other than the NSF Innovation-Corps program in the U.S.,

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

But by taking advantage of open source, agile software, and iterative development, lean startups can operate with much less waste. I am heavily indebted to earlier theorists, and highly recommend the books Lean Thinking and Lean Software Development. Labels: customer development , lean startup 8comments: Amy said.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 22, 2013

The program is funded by the Colombian government and modeled after the NSF Innovation-Corps program created and built by my partner and co-author Steve Blank. this may well be the most ambitious government-sponsored startup catalyst effort on the globe. Other than the NSF Innovation-Corps program in the U.S.,

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

His most recent company, Filtrbox, participated in the inaugural Techstars class (Techstars Boulder 2007) and was a win for all parties involved; Filtrbox was acquired in 2010 by Jive Software (NASDAQ: JIVE). Early customer development talks are going great which keeps the team really excited.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

But what made the overwhelming impression for me was finding an entrepreneurial software cluster on par with the Internet software portion of Silicon Valley. China has essentially closed its internal search, media and social network software market to foreign companies who wouldn’t play with the government rules on the Great Firewall.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 20, 2013

government is the leading payer for most of health care, and under ObamaCare the government’s role in reimbursing for medical technology will increase. Some startups in this field are actually beginning with Customer Development while others struggle with the classic execution versus search problem. Regulatory Issues.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 26, 2016

During the Cold War we used asymmetric technologies in silicon and software to disrupt the Soviet Union’s lead in conventional weapons.) All while we’re still writing a Request for a Proposal from within the US Government procurement and acquisition channels. Yet in the last decade the U.S. We’re Our Own Worst Enemy. Lessons Learned.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 5, 2010

VC’s invested in things that ran on electrons: hardware, software and silicon. Bayh-Dole allowed for private ownership of government funded intellectual property developed in universities while the Orphan Drug Act created incentives for developing drugs for disorders afflicting fewer than 200,000 Americans.

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Steve Blank

JULY 15, 2010

It includes venture funded startups in all industries, from software to biotech. government for funding. government doles out funds to connected entrepreneurs, it lacks an integrated strategy to deal with the lack of public market financing for critical growth industries. .- Take a look at the chart below. (It Source: NVCA.).

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Steve Blank

JUNE 2, 2011

A revolution has taken hold as customer development and agile engineering reinvent the Startup process. It’s time to ask why startup board governance has failed to keep pace with innovation. The process they use to guide their search is customer development. Weekly blog of the customer development narrative.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

But what made the overwhelming impression for me was finding an entrepreneurial software cluster on par with the Internet software portion of Silicon Valley. China has essentially closed its internal search, media and social network software market to foreign companies who wouldn’t play with the government rules on the Great Firewall.

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K9 Ventures

AUGUST 13, 2010

In fact, at the time (1996-1997) we offered both a downloadable product, that our customers could install on their own servers, and a “hosted-offering”, which came to be known as “On-Demand”, then the “ASP” (Application Service Provider) model, and today we call it “SaaS” (Software as a Service). Patrick is completely correct here.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

An existing company or government organization is primarily organized for day-to-day execution of its current business processes or mission. In reality for innovation to contribute to a company or government agency, it needs to be designed a process from start to deployment. There’s a much better way. Three common mistakes.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 30, 2014

Key stakeholders in the broader healthcare ecosystem will be co-located under one roof: entrepreneurs, universities, established companies and strategic partners, providers, payers, hospitals, service providers, associations, advocacy groups, government and more.

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David Teten

OCTOBER 1, 2015

Should you co-found your company with a software development shop? I’ve talked with a number of software development shops who are eager to get into the business of cofounding companies, i.e., getting product revenue and equity instead of just consulting revenue. mentor VCs, e.g., most VCs. Our model at Casual Corp.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 15, 2016

Before she was an investor, Magdalena founded two electronic commerce companies, CyberCash – a pioneer in the secure electronic payment systems, and MarketPay , an embedded payments software company. I was always curious to find out what the next developments were. Filed under: Customer Development , SiriusXM Radio Show.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 15, 2016

Before she was an investor, Magdalena founded two electronic commerce companies, CyberCash – a pioneer in the secure electronic payment systems, and MarketPay , an embedded payments software company. I was always curious to find out what the next developments were. Filed under: Customer Development , SiriusXM Radio Show.

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Steve Blank

JULY 25, 2011

government backed venture firms and limited partnerships. For the next two decades venture capital invested in things that ran on electrons: hardware, software and silicon. s the tidal wave of semiconductor startup spinouts from Fairchild would find a valley with a growing number of U.S. there were almost no MBA’s.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 11, 2013

This post is about the how the Chinese government engineered technology clusters. Of all the Chinese government programs, the Torch Program is the one program that kick-started Chinese high-tech innovation and startups. Filed under: China , Customer Development , Technology , Venture Capital. – The Torch Program.

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Steve Blank

MAY 3, 2011

Veritas needs three types of partners: installers (to reduce their overhead,) certification authorities (who would provide credibility) and government and research labs (for testing facilities). Any hardware or software you need to buy? Include people, hardware, software, prototypes, financing, etc. How many people?

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 16, 2013

We work in prototypically four-week iterations, with quality engineers and software developers working in close collaboration. This finally bit us after a four month stint of development blew through its testing schedule by a factor of four: two scheduled weeks turned into two months before the product reached stability.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 11, 2013

This post is about the how the Chinese government engineered technology clusters. Of all the Chinese government programs, the Torch Program is the one program that kick-started Chinese high-tech innovation and startups. Filed under: China , Customer Development , Technology , Venture Capital. – The Torch Program.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 23, 2013

LSC: Tell us about the customer development you did for your book: Alistair: We''ve been thrilled at how Lean Analytics seemed to resonate with founders. The beautiful thing about this, to someone who''s analytically minded, is that while humans are awful at recording things, software has no choice but to do so.

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Steve Blank

MAY 16, 2016

Why Innovation in Government Is Hard. The OODA loops and the four steps of Customer Development and the Lean Methodology are rooted in the same “get of the building/get eyes out of your cockpit” and “speed and urgency” concepts.) They are beginning to consider whether they should pivot to become a drone software platform.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

He blogs to 10,000 web entrepreneurs at Software by Rob and co-hosts the podcast Startups for the Rest of Us. Paul Graham on trends for the future - Business of Software Blog , August 25, 2010 Paul Graham spoke at last year's Business of Software conference. August 20, 2010 They say people won't pay for content. equity debate.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Five Reasons You Haven’t Launched - Software By Rob , November 10, 2010 Photo by stevendepolo. It’s Easy to Be Great…It’s Hard to Be Consistent - Software By Rob , November 4, 2010 No link from TechCrunch, write-up on Mashable, mention by Leo Laporte, or Tweet by Ashton Kucher is going to make your business. This post is an accusation.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

Im writing this post from an airplane headed to Washington DC, where Ill be presenting at the Government 2.0 Im especially curious to gauge the reaction of the civilian and military representatives of our government. Ive been in a few government-themed meetings recently, so I know some of the standard answers.

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Steve Blank

JULY 2, 2009

Video Games At SuperMac , Peter Barrett was the witty and creative 24-year old Australian engineer who had designed several of our most successful products, culminating with the software for the Video Spigot. Now he wanted to go off start his own company.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 11, 2008

To an early observer, it would have seemed obvious that Route 128 had all the advantages: a head start, more government and military funding, and far more established companies. Just to pick one: will software patents, NDAs and trade secrets laws make it harder for people to share knowledge outside of big companies?

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2017

Few consider opportunities to make the world safer with the Department of Defense, Intelligence Community or other government agencies. Each of their slide presentation follow their customer discovery journey. Filed under: Customer Development , Hacking For Defense , Lean LaunchPad. 21 st Century Frogman.

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Steve Blank

MAY 26, 2009

Don’t share the details of your manufacturing process with customers until you’ve locked up your intellectual property.” Government Regulations I turned to the class and said, “The rest of you can keep building your company and shipping your product because you don’t need to worry about government regulations.

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