Steve Blank

AUGUST 29, 2016

We tend to associate the government with words like bureaucracy rather than lean innovation. Department of Defense by adopting Lean Methodology inside their agency. The NGA has adopted Lean Innovation methods to make this happen. Their goal is to integrate these techniques into their own Lean innovation processes.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 29, 2016

We tend to associate the government with words like bureaucracy rather than lean innovation. Department of Defense by adopting Lean Methodology inside their agency. The NGA has adopted Lean Innovation methods to make this happen. Their goal is to integrate these techniques into their own Lean innovation processes.

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Board Effect

OCTOBER 15, 2023

The Benefits of Generative AI for Nonprofits Nonprofit organizations and associations typically run on tight budgets and lean staff numbers. To learn more about how a BoardEffect board management system can serve your mission-driven organization and support your AI best practices, request a demo today.

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Steve Blank

JULY 13, 2021

I began formulating the key ideas around what became the Lean Startup – that startups and existing companies were distinctly different – companies execute business models while startups search for them. Let’s Teach Lean Via Experiential Learning. Lean-driven (hypothesis testing/business model/customer development/agile engineering).

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Steve Blank

APRIL 7, 2020

The classes are built on the Lean Startup methodology: Customer Discovery, Agile Engineering and the Business/Mission Model Canvas. Rather than doing every demo of your MVP live, consider 1) recording it 2) highlighting the key points. Break your MVP demo into <1 minute segments. Take the time to zoom in. Lessons Learned.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 11, 2011

The Lean Startup Machine looks a lot like reality television for startups. I have written previously about how powerful the these events are as a teaching tool for Lean Startup principles. Below you will find the final presentations of each of the Lean Startup Machine NYC teams, including SnappSchool, who was judged to be the winner.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

This post co-written by Sarah Milstein and Eric Ries, co-hosts of The Lean Startup Conference. Our goal in hosting The Lean Startup Conference —which starts in just over two weeks—is to help entrepreneurs learn absolutely useful things from each other. Whether intended as jokes, plenty of people saw them as far from funny.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 23, 2019

There was a time when anticipating your target demo was more or less guesswork. Writing a Lean Business Plan and modeling different financial scenarios is a great way to make sure you’ve thought through every aspect of your hotel venture. You can download a free Lean Plan template to help you get started. Write a business plan.

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Steve Blank

MAY 29, 2019

Lean LaunchPad class developed for Stanford. And the Lean LaunchPad class I developed at Stanford was the first such class. I believe the analogy is identical for entrepreneurship.The capstone entrepreneurship classes like NSF I-Corps or a Lean LaunchPad class, are for those who have already decided they want to be entrepreneurs.

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Steve Blank

MAY 30, 2016

Hackathons and incubators are helpful in getting product teams focused and result in great demos, but you’re left still not knowing whether you have something beneficiaries/stakeholders/users want nor do you know what it takes to deploy the solution to the field. Demo of final MVP. Pivot stories.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 22, 2011

We'll have slides and video from our Lean Startup track posted soon. Don't forget to vote to help choose a Lean Startup SXSW Challenge winner. I am declaring next week to be officially Lean Startup Week in New York City. These events all have limited availability: NYC Lean Startup Circle , Thurs. Here's why: NYU, Tues.

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

At Wednesday’s Capital Factory Demo Day , one of the major takeaways for me was that many of us don’t really know what a lean startup is, or how one is successfully managed. This idea was brought to my attention during Ash Maurya’s presentation called “How to Identify a Lean Startup”. How to Identify a lean startup.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

However, accelerator Demo Days are a combination of graduation ceremony and pitch contest, with the uncomfortable feel of a swimsuit competition. Other than “I’ll know it when I see it”, there’s no formal way for an investor attending Demo Day to assess project maturity or quantify risks.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

Lean Marketing tips: not-for-profit edition – [link]. Learn from Excelerate Labs Demo Day: 3 Elements of a Killer Pitch – [link]. Lean Marketing tips: not-for-profit edition – [link]. Outstanding, candid post for entrepreneurs on a failed fundraising effort – by @randfish of @seomoz [link].

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Steve Blank

APRIL 21, 2011

The Stanford Lean LaunchPad class was an experiment with a new model of teaching startup entrepreneurship. They found that sales to this channel would require a demonstration, and that dealers would have to demo the robotic weeders to the customers. Filed under: Lean LaunchPad , Teaching. Relationships and trust are important.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 15, 2008 The one line split-test, or how to A/B all the time Split-testing is a core lean startup discipline, and its one of those rare topics that comes up just as often in a technical context as in a business-oriented one when Im talking to startups. Expo SF (May. for Harvard Business Revie.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 6, 2013

At the demo day, Tine Hamler, CEO of the company said it was seeking £250k to increase the sales and marketing team, and spread the word about Peekster even further. Tank Top TV was at the demo day looking to raise £400,000 in seed round funding. by 2016 “or will have been acquired for our discovery technology”. ?

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Steve Blank

JUNE 7, 2019

Unlike traditional demo days or Shark Tanks which are “here’s how smart I am, please give me money,” a Lessons Learned presentation tells a story of a journey of hard-won learning and discovery. Hacking for Defense has its origins in the Lean LaunchPad class I first taught at Stanford in 2011.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 17, 2013

It’s Lean, it’s fast, it works and it’s unlike anything else ever done. Welcome to the Lean LaunchPad for Life Sciences and Healthcare (part of the National Science Foundation I-Corps ). This post is part of our series on the Lean Startup in Life Science and Health Care. (We If you can’t see the video above, click here.

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Steve Blank

MAY 22, 2009

And inviting to the booth/dinner/private demo. General Comments for both Awareness and Lead Generation Demo’s I don’t care how small the booth or trade show is, do a canned demo every 20 to 30 minutes regardless of whether anyone is at your booth or not. Demo’s are the heart of the booth. One of them is a loser.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 28, 2008

Ill exclude those non- lean startups who basically exist for the purpose of raising bigger and bigger sums of money. Most important slide: live demo Prototype product Key questions: what will it take to ship a working product? How does a lean start-up find the all-star team worthy of pitching? Youre not one of those are you?)

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 30, 2011

Lean Marketing: Five Cheap Ways To Market Your Startup – [link]. Lean Marketing: Five Cheap Ways To Market Your Startup – [link]. Good post by @micah with tips for entrepreneurs demoing a product/service to investors – [link]. image credit: EpicV27. The Best 10 Solutions For Email Marketing – [link].

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 28, 2010

Their supposed lack of ambition was belied by the many cool demos and startups I got to meet. If anyone is interested, the Wellington Lean Startup Meetup is a good place to start. Im particularly looking forward to inaugurating the Sydney Lean Startup meetup. In fact, you have to learn to adjust to the humility.

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Steve Blank

JULY 1, 2014

Investors sitting through Incubator or Accelerator demo days have three metrics to judge fledgling startups – 1) great looking product demos, 2) compelling PowerPoint slides, and 3) a world-class team. Lessons Learned: Investment Readiness ties capital-raising to the capital-efficient Lean Startup methodology. But the ‘ah-hah!’

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 30, 2014

Our Lean Launchpad® for Life Sciences is one of them. The Lean Launchpad® for Life Sciences (the I-Corps @ NIH ) uses the Lean Startup Model to discover and validate the business model. The Lean Launchpad® for Life Sciences (the I-Corps @ NIH ) uses the Lean Startup Model to discover and validate the business model.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 26, 2013

universities teaching the Lean LaunchPad curriculum organized as I-Corps “nodes” across the U.S. The nodes are now offering their own regional versions of the Lean LaunchPad class under I-Corps. The program pays scientists $50,000 to attend the program and takes no equity. Currently there are 11 U.S.

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Steve Blank

MAY 11, 2009

But Apple had planned to announce and demo QuickTime without a way to get video into the Mac. Something Profound Engineering gave us a demo of the prototype board and software and asked, “Do you guys think we can sell a few of these boards?” We must have made them play the demo twenty times. My first IPO at Convergent.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2010

——————– March 11 th 1-4pm Demo Day at VC Firm (Location TBD). Set up a booth, put up posters, run demos, etc. Deliverable: Each team will present a 30 minute “Lessons Learned” presentation about their business. Show off your product to the public and real VC’s. Food and refreshments provided.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

First, our mantra to the students has been to learn about “Deployment not Demos.” We wanted them to learn what it takes to get their product/service deployed to the field, not just have another demo to a general. They wanted the students to start delivering MVPs early and often and use the sponsor feedback to accelerate their learning.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

I learned everything I know about startups in these lean years: 2001-2004. A small refuge from a busy day of shaking hands and demo’ing products. We went “nuclear&# and slimmed down to 33 people (yes, I know, still large by today’s standards but this was 2001), raised $10 million and we built a real company.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 27, 2015

While the parallels between a director and a startup founder are striking, what’s even more surprising is the match between the creative process Pixar uses to make its movies and our implementation of Lean for startups in the Lean LaunchPad and I-Corps incubators. Lean Startups are built around the same notion as Pixar research trips.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2009

My company is in the contract automation business so we have made our NDA available for free on our demo page so people can use it for free if they think it works for them. EE Reply My take on Customer Development and the Lean Startup | Recess Mobile Blog , on January 9, 2010 at 5:30 am Said: [.]

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 13, 2011

I’m comfortable with introductions and then getting into the demo.&#. I believe in this so much that, despite my post advising you to be prepared for the *norm* in VC, I wrote a post about a company that came in for a presentation and never even got the slides out or presented a demo. Just jump into the demo after intros.

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Steve Blank

JULY 28, 2011

The class will be a version of the Lean LaunchPad class we developed in the Stanford Technology Ventures Program , (the entrepreneurship center at Stanford’s School of Engineering). At the end of the class there will be a Demo Day when investors get to see the best this country’s researchers have to offer. Join the I-Corps.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

Guest post by Lisa Regan, writer for The Lean Startup Conference. With an online course from Stanford and a series of webcasts from the Lean Startup Conference team, you can learn a lot from your desk in the coming months. We’re lining up a series for entrepreneurs this fall, going in-depth on Lean Startup methods and applications.

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 1, 2022

L eanne Eliott-Young ( Institute of Digital Fashion ) commented on how fashion brands leaning in to engage with younger customers Roblox. Finally, Faisal Galaria, CEO of Blippar closed the event with a live demo of the company’s No code AR builder – so simple even a kid can do it (try it at [link] ).

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This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 22, 2012

When you’ve got two people on the team and you’re going super lean in the early stages, usually your best bet is to have a customer experience person and a builder. Plus, in such a connected world, at the seed stage, the "outside" bar is low--a good article, review, demo can be a difference maker and get you on the right radars.

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