Steve Blank

JULY 13, 2021

In 1985 the University of Miami held the first national business plan competition. By the end of the 20th century entrepreneurship education fell into two categories: 1) starting small businesses and 2) starting high-growth, high-risk scalable startups. But the case method is the antithesis of how entrepreneurs create a startup.

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Steve Blank

MAY 17, 2011

In the middle of a Michigan winter, I stuck out my thumb and hitchhiked to Miami, the warmest place I could think of. I managed to find a job at the Miami International Airport loading racehorses onto cargo planes. If I hadn’t discovered something I truly loved to do, I might be driving a cab at the Miami airport.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 10, 2023

A CEO running a B-to-B startup in needs to live in the city where their business is – or else they’ll never scale. She’s built a 65-person startup selling enterprise software to the financial services industry. As one would expect, with banks and hedge funds as customers, the majority were based in the New York metropolitan area.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 20, 2011

The next couple of days are going to be amazing, as the Lean Startup community converges on San Francisco. There are only a few tickets left to Startup Lessons Learned 2011 on Monday (May 23). Here's the official description and lineup: Join us for an evening of Lean Startup talks with a twist. Welcome to our fair city.

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