Steve Blank
JANUARY 22, 2014
Over the years Dino and I brainstormed about how Lean entrepreneurship would affect regional development. Success depends on finding startups that have identified acute customer pains in large markets where conditions are ripe for a new entrant. The cloud , open-source development tools and web 2.0 Build $10-30M funds.
Steve Blank
JUNE 11, 2009
Yet for every founder there are 10-20 other employees who take the near-equivalent risks in joining an early-stage company. If you’re not a founder (by choice, timing or temperament,) you may be an early employee or a later stage startup employee. Founders know they want to start something. You’re not joining a big company.
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Startup Lessons Learned
FEBRUARY 20, 2009
I owe it originally to lean manufacturing books like Lean Thinking and Toyota Production System. The batch size is the unit at which work-products move between stages in a development process. The sooner you pass your work on to a later stage, the sooner you can find out how they will receive it.
Steve Blank
JUNE 15, 2010
What startup stage do they typically invest in? Do they “get&# Customer Development ? What Startup Stage Do they Invest In? Certain VC’s like the new class of Super-Angels and small VC funds specialize in the early stage of a startup where you are searching for a business model. Lean Startups ?
Startup Lessons Learned
JUNE 12, 2009
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, June 12, 2009 Lean Startup Workshop scholarship program I havent had much time to write lately, and so havent been able to share much about the Lean Startup Workshop series I have been producing with OReilly in their Master Class division. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0.
David Teten
SEPTEMBER 6, 2015
Of course, bringing startups (whether prospective or existing portfolio companies) closer to operating divisions has business and customer development benefits. Could they excel at customer development with enterprises? Conventional R&D can only address so many areas and it’s not exactly lean or fast.
Steve Blank
OCTOBER 1, 2009
Durant Versus Sloan – Part 1 « Steve Blank steveblank.com/2009/10/01/durant-versus-sloan-part-1 – view page – cached + Customer Development Manifesto: The Path of Warriors and Winners (part 5) + Can You Trust Any VC’s Under 40?
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