Steve Blank

MARCH 8, 2011

It was designed to bring together many of the new approaches to building a successful startup – customer development, agile development, business model generation and pivots. The first class was an introduction to the concepts of business model design and customer development. The Adventure Begins.

Lean 298

Lean Business Model Customer Development Guinea 298

Steve Blank

MARCH 11, 2016

To be honest I built the class out of frustration watching schools teach aspiring entrepreneurs that all they need to know is how to write a business plan or how to sit in an incubator building a product. Understanding their market in week 6, slide 31. Notice how they learned about their customer archetypes on slides 12-14.

Lean 120

Lean Incubator Business Model Channel 120

Steve Blank

MAY 18, 2020

Do you have a startup idea or new technology that you’d like to learn how to bring to market in the post-pandemic economy? The first 5-day class will be aimed at “Finding New Business Models” for businesses to adapt and pivot to find new customers, new markets, new products and new services to win in the recovery.

Lean 436

Lean Business Model Affiliate Incubator 436

Steve Blank

MAY 30, 2016

If you’ve been reading along so far, you know that this class is not an extended hackathon nor is it a 10-week long incubator. Teams that are just all technologists quickly grasp product/market fit (the right side of the canvas) but often have a hard time understanding the left side of the canvas (activities, resources, partners and costs.)

Silicon Valley 120

Silicon Valley San Diego Technical Review Incubator 120

Steve Blank

JUNE 6, 2016

He is a senior advisor to several multinational corporations and a recognized thought leader on corporate innovation, big data, cloud computing, and digital marketing platforms. they often confuse the vehicles to innovation –a venture fund, or an incubator or something else — with actual innovation.

Silicon Valley 120

Silicon Valley Entrepreneur Fractional CTO Analytics 120

Steve Blank

JULY 13, 2021

By the early 1920s a new dean changed the curriculum – shifting it from an industry orientation (steel, railroads, etc.) – to a functional one (marketing, factory and employment management (HR), etc.). Lean-driven (hypothesis testing/business model/customer development/agile engineering). experiential.

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Lean Agile Business Model Business Plan 433

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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Finland Venture Capital Government Russia 158

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 3, 2014

All teams struggle with finding product/market fit. Like all great Silicon Valley companies they started with a technology and guessed who the customers will be. The Customer Development process, this relentless drive to turn hypotheses into facts is what makes this learning so rapid. Massive pivot.

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Lean Silicon Valley Customer Development Incubator 272

Steve Blank

JUNE 11, 2012

The NSF I-Corps Lean LaunchPad class has different goals then the same class taught in a university or incubator. In an incubator, the Lean LaunchPad develops angel or venture-funded startups. 2) Get the teams out of the building to test their hypotheses with prospective customers. Teaching Objectives. Lessons Learned.

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Lean Incubator Business Model Georgia 248

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

The application of agile development methodologies which dramatically reduce waste and unlock creativity in product development. See Customer Development Engineering for my first stab at articulating the theory involved) Ferocious customer-centric rapid iteration, as exemplified by the Customer Development process.

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Lean San Francisco Startup Continuous Deployment 168

Steve Blank

AUGUST 20, 2013

Class III devices are generally the highest risk devices and must be approved by the FDA before they are marketed. Class III medical devices that are high risk or novel devices for which no “predicate device” exist require clinical trials of the medical device a PMA (Pre-Market Approval). Regulatory Issues.

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Startup Venture Capital Lean IPO 294

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 29, 2015

He left EA in 2009 to start Vaporware Labs, a product incubator that mostly failed, but also created products including Commonred, which was acquired by Income.com in 2012. … … (And when a friend with a new startup called asking me to do some marketing for him) I said, I’m totally focused on on this truck idea.

Las Vegas 120

Las Vegas Entrepreneur Cofounder Nevada 120

Steve Blank

APRIL 12, 2013

Inside the zones were Torch Technology Business Incubators with startups licensed by the local governments. These local governments financially supported the startups because, by locating in these zones, the new ventures were seen as contributing to local economic development. China Customer Development Technology Venture Capital'

Venture Capital 271

Venture Capital China Offshore SBIR 271

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

The technology’s broad market applicability and relevance are clearly paying off. Get of the building and test those hypotheses using customer development. Validate learning by building minimal viable products and getting them in front of customers. a customer segment that was grabbing the product out of their hands.).

Artificial Inteligence 318

Artificial Inteligence Lean Exit Strategy Startup 318

SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2011

This site aggregates and filters content from thought leaders who talk about topics such as Marketing , Sales , Design , Revenue , Hiring , Social Media , Business Models , Metrics , PR , Venture Capital , Angel Investors , Bootstrapping , Incubators , Agile and many others.

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Intellectual Property Aggregator Startup IP 175

Steve Blank

AUGUST 29, 2016

To promote innovation inside the NGA, they’ve staffed an Enterprise Innovation Office (EIO) to coach, educate and advise the entire agency, from core leadership to the operational edges, with methods and concepts of validated learning through rapid experimentation and customer development.

Lean 177

Lean Silicon Valley Government Acquisition 177

Steve Blank

AUGUST 29, 2016

To promote innovation inside the NGA, they’ve staffed an Enterprise Innovation Office (EIO) to coach, educate and advise the entire agency, from core leadership to the operational edges, with methods and concepts of validated learning through rapid experimentation and customer development.

Lean 177

Lean Silicon Valley Government Acquisition 177

Steve Blank

MARCH 4, 2014

These groups are adapting or adopting the practices of startups and accelerators – disruption and innovation rather than direct competition, customer development versus more product features, agility and speed versus lowest cost. Product management tools like Stage-Gate ® emerged to systematically manage Waterfall product development.

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IRR Startup Business Model Agile 335

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

It didn’t help that “innovation” was the new hot-button buzzword from senior leadership, and incubators were sprouting in every division of their company, it just made their job more unmanageable. Horizon 2 ideas extend a company’s existing business model and core capabilities to new customers, markets or targets.

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Incubator Curation Engineer Government 312

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 30, 2014

understand who their core and tertiary customers are, and the sales and marketing process required for initial clinical sales and downstream commercialization. Yet they share values and hopefully some synergy around topics of mutual interest (same customers, or technologies). Incubators are designed for teams with an idea.

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San Diego North Carolina Chicago Lean 261

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

I remind my students that I’m teaching them a methodology they can use the rest of their careers, not running an incubator. in the snack food market. He believed that he could use the “go-to-market” strategies of other food/beverage disrupters– companies like Pete’s Brewing Company, Boston Beer and Kettle Chips.

North America 120

North America Lean Customer Development Distribution 120

Steve Blank

AUGUST 17, 2009

Stanford had a Customer Development loop going on inside their own lab. The discoveries in tube and circuit research suggested new electronic intelligence and countermeasure techniques and systems; in turn the needs of the Applied Lab pushed tube and circuit development. on August 18, 2009 at 4:39 am Said: [.]

Silicon Valley 142

Silicon Valley RSS California Government 142

Steve Blank

APRIL 12, 2013

Inside the zones were Torch Technology Business Incubators with startups licensed by the local governments. These local governments financially supported the startups because, by locating in these zones, the new ventures were seen as contributing to local economic development. China Customer Development Technology Venture Capital'

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Venture Capital China Offshore SBIR 163

Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 29, 2010

I believe it means were achieving product/market fit for a set of ideas. These case studies range in size and scope: from pre-product/market fit to already exited, bootstrapped to venture-backed, solo practitioner to large organization. Sure, everyone knows that getting customer feedback is important. Congratulations.

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San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment DC 120

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 6, 2015

Her work included heading Nokia’s location-based services business and app portfolio for emerging markets, which she built from a back-of-a-napkin idea to a 100-person organization with over 10 million users. It comes as no surprise as technology today enables companies to prove product-market fit much earlier in their lifecycles.

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Venture Capital Balance Sheet Technical Review Portfolio 60

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 3, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, July 3, 2009 Lean Startup fbFund wrap-up Last week I had a real blast meeting with the companies at the fbFund incubator at Palo Alto. Use some customer development to find out. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

Lean 60

Lean San Francisco Continuous Deployment Cofounder 60

Steve Blank

AUGUST 5, 2010

Finally, the “ death of the IPO &# and the emergence of the “ small market M&A &# changes Consumer Internet economics. YCombinator, Techstars, et al, have been described as incubators but in reality they are the new “Lean Angels.” Lean VC’s are expert in on-line distribution, Agile and Customer Development.

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Lean Internet Silicon Valley Venture Capital 258

Steve Blank

APRIL 11, 2013

Torch has four major parts: Innovation Clusters , Technology Business Incubators (TBIs), Seed Funding (Innofund) and Venture Guiding Fund. They provide consulting, promotion, product testing, hiring, training and incubation services to startups. Technology Business Incubators (TBIs). Innovation Clusters.

Programming 278

Programming Technical Review SBIR China 278

Steve Blank

AUGUST 4, 2016

They’ll learn how to apply “lean startup” principles, (“mission model canvas,” “customer development,” and “agile engineering”) to discover and validate agency and user needs and to continually build iterative prototypes to test whether they understood the problem and solution. Real Problems.

Lean 160

Lean Government Agile Africa 160

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 14, 2009

Take a look: This full-day Master Class focuses on how to build a startup from the ground up to focus on customers, markets, and speed of iteration. Unlike other incubator-led programs, this workshop is open to anyone who wants to learn, and it does not require companies take investment or give out equity. It was a disaster.

Lean 60

Lean San Francisco Continuous Deployment Software Review 60

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2009

Every summer, they bring approximately 10 companies to Boulder for an intense "accelerator" experience (dont call it an incubator, or youll get dirty looks). And do your customer development. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

San Francisco 113

San Francisco Silicon Valley Startup Lean 113

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

The technology’s broad market applicability and relevance are clearly paying off. Get of the building and test those hypotheses using customer development. Validate learning by building minimal viable products and getting them in front of customers. a customer segment that was grabbing the product out of their hands.).

Artificial Inteligence 120

Artificial Inteligence Lean Exit Strategy Startup 120

Steve Blank

JUNE 3, 2016

And we will build a knowledge base of DOD/IC acquisition primers, customer development best practices, org charts, etc. The combination of the Mission Model Canvas and the Customer Development process was an extremely efficient template for the students to follow – even more than we expected. What Would We Change?

Agile 120

Agile Security Audio Video 120

Steve Blank

JANUARY 17, 2016

Looking to create their accelerator/incubator, Wayne and seven other founders rented a Silicon Valley house together one summer. …By creating the BUILDUP VC incubator and accelerator … we’re got into the business of providing education and access. You have to put yourself out there.

Silicon Valley 120

Silicon Valley North Carolina Cofounder Entrepreneur 120

Steve Blank

AUGUST 4, 2016

They’ll learn how to apply “lean startup” principles, (“mission model canvas,” “customer development,” and “agile engineering”) to discover and validate agency and user needs and to continually build iterative prototypes to test whether they understood the problem and solution. Real Problems.

Lean 120

Lean Government Agile Africa 120

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 27, 2015

While I’m sure Ed Catmull doesn’t remember, when Pixar was a startup selling the Image Computer , their VP of Sales and Marketing brought me in to put together their marketing strategy. I found other parallels between Pixar’s method for managing innovation and what we built in the Lean LaunchPad/I-Corps incubators. Post mortems.

Founder 120

Founder Lean Hawaii Incubator 120

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

While finding product-market fit is important, getting the rest of the business model right is the difference between and a great demo and a great business. He is also a co-founder of XediaLabs , a DC-based incubator that provides training and technical consulting to local startups.

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Cofounder DC Entrepreneur Silicon Valley 120