Steve Blank

JULY 19, 2017

Soldier, Scholar, Entrepreneur. Ironically, I was first introduced to Joe not at Stanford but through one of his other lives – that of an entrepreneur and businessman – at the company he founded, BMNT Partners. Joe Felter was just appointed Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for South and Southeast Asia. Fast forward a year.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2018

Our primary goal was to teach students Lean Innovation while they engaged in a national public service. Hacking for Defense has its origins in the Lean LaunchPad class I first taught at Stanford in 2011. Wondering how we could get students engaged, we realized the same Lean LaunchPad/I-Corps class would provide a framework to do so.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2017

It combines the same Lean Startup Methodology used by the National Science Foundation to commercialize science, with the rapid problem sourcing and curation methodology developed on the battlefields in Afghanistan and Iraq by Colonel Pete Newell and the US Army’s Rapid Equipping Force. The Innovation Insurgency Spreads.

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market-by-numbers.com

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

Without any more evidence than my personal experience—working alongside hundreds of mentors and entrepreneurs around the globe, including such far off places as Brussels, Moscow, and Kuala Lumpur—I’m willing to bet […]. Economy Lean Entrepreneur San Diego Startup Community accelerator incubator mentor mentor program'

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 17, 2013

Even the best entrepreneurs have failed in one endeavor or another, and it has given them the hard lessons that allowed them to succeed in their other ventures. Knowing the companies priorities, it would also be prudent to keep things “lean and mean” so the funds and your people’s energies are efficiently utilized. It’s a fact of life.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 1, 2016

So I was astonished how ready and eager students were for a class that combines the toughest problems in national security, with learning Lean Innovation methods. We had more applicants (70+) for the 32 seats in this class than we usually get in our Lean LaunchPad entrepreneurship class. Result: Hell yes. Lessons Learned.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 1, 2016

So I was astonished how ready and eager students were for a class that combines the toughest problems in national security, with learning Lean Innovation methods. We had more applicants (70+) for the 32 seats in this class than we usually get in our Lean LaunchPad entrepreneurship class. Result: Hell yes. Lessons Learned.

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techcocktail.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

When we see entrepreneurs come up with great ideas (and we see many), we hope that they also remember that while an idea is key, it won’t go anywhere without the right team in place. As entrepreneurs we need to recognize the importance of having a solid support system. Your team does not need to be comprised of jacks-of-all-trades.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

– Cornell University; University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center at Carnegie Mellon University; and the San Diego Supercomputer Center at the University of California at San Diego. A entrepreneur’s idea of closure. And taxpayers are only out $35M on that one machine.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2021

But before that, actually, there was this a couple of years break where, when Udemy did not work in Turkey, I met this Silicon Valley entrepreneur who wanted to build online, like speed dating, a video-based speed dating application. That's one of the very, very early companies that I was talking to Lean Startup about. EB : Yeah.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 6, 2015

When I counsel startup entrepreneurs I give them my blunt dose of reality, “If you can’t easily identify target leads who have a problem you can solve then hang up your cleats – you’re not going to succeed.” VCs all say: We are entrepreneur friendly. We do a lot of deals in San Francisco.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 22, 2009

Shortly thereafter, Andrew Beinbrink, CEO of the interesting San Diego start-up SportsTV, introduced me to Seal Ellis who introduced me to Steven Blank’s book The Four Steps to Epiphany, which sounded an awful lot like what I had blogged about.

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market-by-numbers.com

DECEMBER 7, 2009

ralxz's Blogs said: Your Business “Driving Force” [link] [.] [link] @mccannatron #startup please RT about 50 minutes ago from TweetDeck My answer on Quora to: Are there any tech meet-ups in San Diego? link] about 1 hour ago from Quora RT @marksbertrand : like lean?

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

Thank you to all of you who joined me for Lean Startup Week 2016 ! I can't tell you how moving it is to get to shake so many hands of entrepreneurs from around the world. I mean I grew up in San Diego California as a middle-class white American. Your passion and enthusiasm is contagious. I thought they were paranoid.

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