Steve Blank

APRIL 14, 2013

Small startups act the same way, simply cloning each other’s products. The Chinese government must be laughing hysterically over U.S. When the Chinese government censors (run by their propaganda department ) shutdown access to yet another U.S. Most of their parents still tell them to work for the government or a big company.

China 327

China Silicon Valley Non-Compete Intellectual Property 327

Steve Blank

JUNE 12, 2020

32 students were scattered across the globe and given a seemingly impossible assignment- they had 10 weeks to understand and then solve a real Dept of Defense problem – by interviewing 100 beneficiaries, stakeholders, requirements writers, et al while simultaneously building a series of minimal viable products – all while never leaving their room.

Oakland 313

Oakland Asia Lean Video 313

Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 1, 2014

As the emeritus Chief Technology Officer of the United States, he still connects government and Silicon Valley. He’s a founder of Andreessen Horowitz, which has backed Facebook, Skype, Jawbone, and dozens of other companies whose products you use. And the whole site was developed in just 9 weeks. Eric Ries will interview him.

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Lean Fractional CTO Part-Time VPE Fractional VPE 165

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, October 26, 2009 A real Customer Advisory Board A reader recently asked on a previous post about the technique of having customers periodically produce a “state of the company&# progress report. Many companies seek to involve customers directly in the creation of their products.

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Advisory Board Customer San Francisco Lean 151

Steve Blank

APRIL 14, 2013

Small startups act the same way, simply cloning each other’s products. The Chinese government must be laughing hysterically over U.S. When the Chinese government censors (run by their propaganda department ) shutdown access to yet another U.S. Most of their parents still tell them to work for the government or a big company.

China 219

China Silicon Valley Non-Compete Intellectual Property 219

Steve Blank

JUNE 26, 2015

government to help them innovate faster– not just kind of fast, but 10x the number of initiatives in 1/5 the time. In the last five years “ Lean Startup ” methodologies have enabled entrepreneurs to efficiently build a startup by searching for product/market fit rather than blindly trying to execute. A 50x speedup kind of fast.

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Lean Management Business Model Incubator 120

Steve Blank

MARCH 3, 2015

Traction and evidence from customers were what investors were looking for – even in “slow” sectors like healthcare and energy. The disadvantage is that its methodology was based on the old waterfall model of product development and not the agile and lean methods that startups use today. And there it was. Berkeley-wide.

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Business Plan Silicon Valley Saudi Arabia Lean 120

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Teams are continuing their relentless interviewing of customers, or beneficiaries as we call them in this class. 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.

Silicon Valley 120

Silicon Valley Washington United Kingdom Lean 120

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Teams are continuing their relentless interviewing of customers, or beneficiaries as we call them in this class. 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.

Silicon Valley 120

Silicon Valley Washington United Kingdom Lean 120

Steve Blank

MAY 7, 2019

Lean Methodology consists of three tools designed for entrepreneurs building new ventures: The Business Model Canvas – to write down all the hypotheses about a new business; Customer Development – a process for testing those hypotheses outside the building; Agile Engineering – to rapidly build minimal viable products to test product/market fit.

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Lean Marketing Agile Customer Development 334

Steve Blank

JULY 25, 2023

This meant the class was team-based, Lean-driven (hypothesis testing/business model/customer development/agile engineering) and experiential – where the students, rather than being presented with all of the essential information, must discover that information rapidly for themselves. Class Flow Week 1 What is a simple idea?

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The Equity Kicker

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

We see this all the time at Forward Partners where we invest right from the idea stage and most of the companies get a first version of their product live for less than £30k (that generally includes founder salaries and time spent doing customer research). The second development is SEIS and EIS.

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Early Stage Development Team Review Technical Review Software Review 119

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

by Dan Adams , president of Advanced Industrial Marketing and author of “ New Product Blueprinting: The Handbook for B2B Organic Growth “ Right now our economy and our nation feel anything but business-friendly. But here’s the rub: It rewards only intelligent, well-researched action that results in positive customer outcomes.

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Product B2B Product Development Developer 251

Steve Blank

JANUARY 31, 2018

Company/Government Innovation. 43:30 Deliverable products and services not activities. Government Innovation. 52:08: How governments innovate. government goes Lean. 56:00: Customer Development versus Design Thinking. Government Innovation. 52:08: How governments innovate.

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Lean Government Customer Development Founder 194

Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 6, 2013

Vinod Khosla Founder Dave McClure Founding Partner Eric Ries Author Steve Blank Serial Entrepreneur & Professor Todd Park CTO Travis Kalanick CEO & Co-Founder Joe Zadeh Director of Product Sam Shank Co-Founder & CEO NEW! Seth Sternberg Co-Founder & CEO Scott Chacon CIO Kevin Hale Senior Product Manager NEW!

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Lean Cofounder Startup Software Engineering 165

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 9, 2018

They use the Business Model (or Mission Model ) Canvas to keep track of their key hypotheses and then rapidly test them by talking to customers and iterating their Minimal Viable Products. This allows them to quickly find product/market fit. state laws that are applicable in one state are imposed by state government.

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Marketing Startup Government SEC 325

Steve Blank

JULY 13, 2021

Analyzing a case in the classroom, removed from the realities of a new venture, adds little to an entrepreneur’s preparation for the chaos, uncertainty, and conflicting customer responses that all entrepreneurs face. The reality is that most business plans don’t survive first contact with customers. experiential.

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Lean Agile Business Model Business Plan 436

Steve Blank

JANUARY 28, 2020

Christensen, writing for a corporate audience, explained that there were two classes of products – sustaining and disruptive. His message was that existing companies are great at sustaining technologies and products but were ignoring the threat of disruption. These new entrants were the disruptors. See Kodak, Blockbuster, Nokia, etc.).

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Lean Business Model Government Agile 431

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 31, 2015

Every year, our team conducts more than 500 customer development calls to understand what challenges the community is facing. Product Hunt, an 18-month old startup, has evolved from a basic idea into a thriving online community. Check out his post on how he launched Product Hunt, a story captured in tweets, emails, and photos.

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Lean United States Fractional CTO Startup 60

Steve Blank

AUGUST 29, 2016

We tend to associate the government with words like bureaucracy rather than lean innovation. But smart people within government agencies are working to change the culture and embrace new ways of doing things. The National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA) is a great example. The NGA, an organization within the U.S.

Lean 182

Lean Silicon Valley Government Acquisition 182

Steve Blank

AUGUST 29, 2016

We tend to associate the government with words like bureaucracy rather than lean innovation. But smart people within government agencies are working to change the culture and embrace new ways of doing things. The National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA) is a great example. The NGA, an organization within the U.S.

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Lean Silicon Valley Government Acquisition 182

Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

ASC starts building product, but as they get into the thick of it, the team realizes executing on their vision is going to be extremely hard. Early customer development talks are going great which keeps the team really excited. Heads down on product, they say. Soundbites from potential customers are encouraging.

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Burn Rate Equity Software Review Early Stage 152

Steve Blank

AUGUST 13, 2009

The first few months of my startups were centered around building the founding team, prototyping the product and raising money. I’m convinced that starting a company without talking to customers is like throwing your time and money in the street (unless you’re already a domain expert). I was an idiot. Berkeley and at Stanford.

Silicon Valley 204

Silicon Valley RSS Technical Review Lean 204

Steve Blank

AUGUST 17, 2009

With the memories of WWII only five years old, and the Cold War now a shooting war in Korea, there was very little discussion (or dissension) about turning a university into a center for the production of military intelligence and electronic warfare systems. Stanford had a Customer Development loop going on inside their own lab.

Silicon Valley 155

Silicon Valley RSS California Government 155

Steve Blank

AUGUST 7, 2017

I shared my current thinking about innovation in companies and government agencies. 11:20 Steve Jobs on Customer Development. 12:38 The first time I did customer discovery. 14:49 Engineers built products for themselves and the “next bench” 15:27 Why MBA’s avoided Silicon Valley. 22:0o The team.

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Silicon Valley Boston Lean Government 220

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

MAY 23, 2016

Yet everyone – investors, entrepreneurs, academics — expected new startups to follow the same practices that worked for large companies – write a business plan, forecast 5-year sales projections and build the product without ever talking to customers. The National Science Foundation adopted it.

Lean 223

Lean Technical Review Vietnam Engineer 223

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Prior to Tachyus, Dakin co-founded OpenGov , a platform to share, visualize, and analyze government financial data. Before OpenGov, he built California Common Sense , the open data and government watchdog non-profit. For example, customers usually have a good intuitive understanding of the problem they have.

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Cofounder Silicon Valley Entrepreneur EC2 280

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Prior to Tachyus, Dakin co-founded OpenGov , a platform to share, visualize, and analyze government financial data. Before OpenGov, he built California Common Sense , the open data and government watchdog non-profit. For example, customers usually have a good intuitive understanding of the problem they have.

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Cofounder Silicon Valley Entrepreneur EC2 280

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 5, 2016

By Jay DesMarteau, head of small business and government banking distribution for TD Bank. While the holidays can be unpredictable, small business owners can navigate these waters by focusing on keeping their customers happy. Return customers are also more likely to refer new business through word of mouth.

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Customer Distribution Government Agile 100

Steve Blank

APRIL 10, 2013

Research universities also became an integral part of the military ecosystem as the federal government pumped billions into supporting science. Science and startups have come a long way since the 1980’s when the Chinese government owned everything and controlled it through a central planning system. Lessons Learned. Like the U.S.

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China Taiwan Silicon Valley Guam 320

Steve Blank

JUNE 7, 2019

The eight teams spoke to over 820 beneficiaries, stakeholders, requirements writers, program managers, warfighters, legal, security, customers, etc. Followed by an 8-minute slide presentation follow their customer discovery journey over the 10-weeks. All the presentations are worth a watch. Team: Panacea.

Oakland 278

Oakland Lean SBIR Afghanistan 278

K9 Ventures

AUGUST 13, 2010

SneakerLabs’ first product was a Java-based chat server and client. One of our first customers was a stock trading company in NY that wanted to host live stock chats. Another customer was my alma mater, Carnegie Mellon University, who was using it to host online class discussions for its distance education program. Not so fast.

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Revenue Developer Java Customer Development 72

Steve Blank

JUNE 11, 2012

While many government agencies use Technology Readiness Levels to measure a projects technical maturity, there are no standards around Business Maturity Levels. It doesn’t replace private capital with government funds. 2) Get the teams out of the building to test their hypotheses with prospective customers.

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Lean Incubator Business Model Georgia 258

Steve Blank

AUGUST 20, 2013

What if we could increase productivity and stave the capital flight by helping Life Sciences startups build their companies more efficiently? They also diagnostic products, test kits, ultrasound products, x-ray machines and medical lasers. Customer Development Lean LaunchPad Science and Industrial Policy Teaching'

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Startup Venture Capital Lean IPO 300

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

When Steve Jobs returned to Apple, he ran the Think Different ads, a brilliant marketing campaign to make Apple’s core customers believe that Apple was still fighting for the brand. In several of these countries, the government is pouring enormous sums into building entrepreneurship programs, faculties and even cities. The crazy ones?

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Entrepreneur United States Customer Development Business Model 335

Steve Blank

AUGUST 4, 2016

Department of State manages America’s relationships with 180 foreign governments, international organizations, and the people of other countries with 270 embassies, consulates, and other posts. diplomats, government officials, and all other personnel at home and abroad. Department of State is working on all of them. Support U.S.

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Lean Government Agile Africa 165