Steve Blank

JUNE 23, 2021

We just finished the 11th annual Lean LaunchPad class at Stanford — our first version focused on deep science and technology. A focus on scientists and engineers. We created an additional Spring section of the class with a focus on commercializing inventions from Stanford’s scientists and engineers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 14, 2014

An example would be getting free office space by agreeing to be the property manager for the owner. Exchanging your services for services is possible with legal counsel, accountants, engineers, and even sales people. Consider licensing your product or intellectual property, and “white labeling.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 1, 2017

An example would be getting free office space by agreeing to be the property manager for the owner. Exchanging your services for services is possible with legal counsel, accountants, engineers, and even sales people. Consider licensing your product or intellectual property, and “white labeling.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

An example would be getting free office space by agreeing to be the property manager for the owner. Exchanging your services for services is possible with legal counsel, accountants, engineers, and even sales people. Consider licensing your product or intellectual property, and “white labeling.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2018

An example would be getting free office space by agreeing to be the property manager for the owner. Exchanging your services for services is possible with legal counsel, accountants, engineers, and even sales people. Consider licensing your product or intellectual property, and “white labeling.”

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 30, 2013

I earnestly believe that large corporations should emulate Lean Startups (Business model design, Customer Development and Agile Engineering.) If I were starting a corporate innovation program today, I’d use the Lean LaunchPad classes as the starting framework. Developing a program to generate new ideas is the easy part.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 8, 2015

An example would be getting free office space by agreeing to be the property manager for the owner. Exchanging your services for services is possible with legal counsel, accountants, engineers, and even sales people. Consider licensing your product or intellectual property, and “white labeling.”

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Steve Blank

JULY 28, 2011

Silicon Valley was born in an era of applied experimentation driven by scientists and engineers. From the point of view of scientists and engineers in a university lab, too often entrepreneurship in all its VC-driven glory – income statements, balance sheets, business plans, revenue models, 5-year forecasts, etc. billion U.S.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Hacking for Diplomacy takes the Lean Startup methodology and applies it to problems sourced from the State Department. Each team continues to capture its work on a Mission Model Canvas – a modified version of the Business Model Canvas that’s at the heart of the Lean Startup methodology. Christos Makridis, a Ph.D

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Hacking for Diplomacy takes the Lean Startup methodology and applies it to problems sourced from the State Department. Each team continues to capture its work on a Mission Model Canvas – a modified version of the Business Model Canvas that’s at the heart of the Lean Startup methodology. Christos Makridis, a Ph.D

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Up and Running

AUGUST 20, 2018

Most of us need just a Lean Business Plan, for internal use, with just bullet point lists and important projections. Good businesses always keep their Lean Plan up to date. The lean business plan is great news because it makes the planning process much less daunting. More on that in the section on the Lean Plan.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 28, 2014

And I’m in good company – also in the series is Noam Wasserman of Harvard teaching Founder’s Dilemmas , Craig Wortmann University of Chicago covering Entrepreneurial Selling , Peter McDermott helping understand Intellectual Property , and Nathan Gold offering how to give Powerful Presentations.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

Other than measuring engineering progress, there’s no standard language to communicate progress. The startups in our Lean LaunchPad classes and the NSF I-Corps incubator use LaunchPad Central to collect a continuous stream of data across all the teams. Investment Readiness Level (IRL) for Corporations and Investors.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 1, 2013

While it’s true that communities of like-minded people exist both in the real world and online, it’s a rare innovator who’ll be willing to divulge the details of his work, especially in an age when more people than ever play fast and loose with intellectual property.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Lean Methodology Sources. Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. Part 3- Lean Cust. Firebase : Are all your developers front-end engineers? Google Custom Search Engine. Google App Engine. Steve Blank’s Lean Startup Resources. Lean Startup Circle â?? Search Engine Optimization Tools.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

AgileZen – project management visually see and interact with your work Kanbanery – Simple online team or personal kanban board LeanKit Kanban – Great for visualizing work of product development Kanban Pad – “Nice and lean” and free online Kanban tool Banana Scrum – A tool simple as Scrum itself.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

John (Shuo) Yang is our Senior Software engineer and one of the smartest people I have ever met. Adriano Marques is our wonderful Brazilian Software Engineer, recently immigrated to the US. Diogenes Herminio works for us as a Software Engineer, but does it from his home in Brazil. Thanks, guys! Plus he likes Legos.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

Beyond just those who will be hearing about the lean startup for the first time, Im expecting to shake a lot of hands and have a lot of interesting side conversations. Thirdly, revamp how intellectual property rights are applied to software and code. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Expo SF (May.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 1, 2011

Silicon Valley was born in an era of applied experimentation driven by scientists and engineers. From the point of view of scientists and engineers in a university lab, too often entrepreneurship in all its VC-driven glory - income statements, balance sheets, business plans, revenue models - seems like another planet. billion U.S.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2015

BMNT , a new Silicon Valley company, is combining the Lean Methods it learned in combat with the technology expertise and speed of startups. The OODA Loop was the Lean Startup philosophy before lean. In 2010 Colonel Peter Newell took over the REF and turned its focus into what we would call a Lean Startup.

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rob.by

MARCH 8, 2012

He argued that software engineers don’t finish what they start, and that you’re better off paying a technical person than partnering with one. He picked engineers who were technically-driven but not entrepreneurially-driven. He picked engineers who weren’t comfortable taking risks as great as he wanted to take.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Lean Case provides standard business models & metrics, so you can apply a standard approach to business planning, modeling, and profitability tracking. ff Venture Capital hired two full-time engineers to build out Totem. Similarly, Corsis uses benchmarking data to understand technology spend patterns.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2020

It just so happens that my disposition will always lean toward the health of human beings, it is part of who I am. I have a bachelor's in computer science and computer engineering. Then came back as a sort of a young intellectual property attorney, working for a wonderful firm here in town. Irma Olguin : I did.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2009

Intellectual Property/Patents – Strategic or Tactical, timing? Product Development – How do you engineer it? Waterfall, Agile, Lean? Customer Development Steps – How do we iterate with customers? Business and Revenue Model – How do we organize to make money? Regulatory Issues – What are they? Time to Market – How long?

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