Steve Blank

MAY 30, 2016

Understanding the left-side of the mission model canvas ( activities, resources , partners , and costs) forces all teams to ask, “Are we building a product for a DOD/IC customer only or do we have a “dual-use” product that could be sold commercially and get funded by venture capital?”. This post is a continuation of the series.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

However the Customer Development Model and the Lean Startup work equally well for startups on the web. Union Square Ventures The next morning I got to spend time with Brad Burnham , partner at Union Square Ventures talking about their investment strategy and insights about web-based businesses.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 31, 2009

Finally, I’ll write about how Eric Ries and the Lean Startup concept provided the equivalent model for product development activities inside the building and neatly integrates customer and agile development. Steve Blank and Eric Reis have proposed the Customer Development Manifesto and Lean Startup as ways for [.] business model.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

For those of you who have been following the discussion, a Lean Startup is Eric Ries ’s description of the intersection of Customer Development , Agile Development and if available, open platforms and open source. Over its lifetime a Lean Startup may spend less money than a traditional startup.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

The problem with a Lean Startup: the Minimum Viable Product | Paul Kortman – [link]. Want Venture Capital Funding? 40+ Best Web UI Interface Framework Kits – [link]. Ad Nauseum Leadership: Use Repetition to Reiterate What’s Important – [link]. What’s the secret to a great team?

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Steve Blank

JUNE 2, 2011

This approach offers VC’s and Angels a semi-formal framework for measuring progress and offering their guidance in the “search”? It might be possible to create Virtual Valley Ventures. Kathryn Gould of Foundation Capital and Ann Miura-Ko of Floodgate also want to try it. for a business model. 2) Asynchronous Updates.

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Steve Blank

MAY 11, 2009

Present at the Creation It was early 1991 and Apple’s software development team was hard at work on QuickTime , the first multimedia framework for a computer. And I got to experience a type of customer buying behavior I had never seen before – the Novelty Effect.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

Reply Best books for the lean product managers — Justin Gibbs , on April 28, 2009 at 2:44 pm Said: [.] guiado por um framework comum e pouco questionado na indústria. Steve chama esse framework de Product Development Model. familiar with Customer Development you should be.

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Altgate

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

We tried to provide a framework for startups to think about what activities should be outsourced and why. … Tom Eisenmann Furqan: Does outsourcing engineering work well when following a lean approach with lots of iterative learning? link] fnazeeri I’ve seen it work (and not).

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David Teten

APRIL 25, 2012

My mother and I met Daniella Norwood, the owner of ella j designs , and her husband Brian Bigda at a Lean Startup Machine weekend at which I was a judge. I have been using StudioPress for a long time and love the Genesis framework and the beautifully designed child themes. Assembling a WordPress Website. fixing some existing errors.

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The Equity Kicker

JULY 8, 2019

When I started in venture capital in the late 1990s VCs were regularly lambasted for taking long summer holidays and spending too much time on the golf course. In addition to Platform and Applied Venture strategies, the trend towards hiring ex-operators into partner roles at VC firms can be seen in this light.

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Eric Friedman

JUNE 16, 2016

Expa Studio has created an incredible framework for founders to build, scale and launch companies, and using this for outside founders is a natural evolution. Future Funding: Access to materials and people that can help in raising outside capital. I spent a long time thinking about this list, and going through what Expa could offer.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Now they are starting to use the Lean Innovation process (see here and here ) to turn ideas into solutions. He wanted to build an innovation pipeline that would allow the Navy to: Create “dual-use” products (build solutions that could be used for the military but also sold commercially, and attract venture capital investments.)

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Hunter Walker

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Starting a venture capital blog post with 1970s country music lyrics is pretty uncommon, but so is writing about when and why an investor might choose to sell equity before the company exits. Below I’ll share some of the principles we use at Homebrew , knowing that there’s not really a single ‘right’ answer for a fund manager.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 13, 2011

I recently filmed a show for This Week in Venture Capital in which I talked about how to prepare for a VC meeting: whom you’ll meet, who should attend from your side, what materials you should bring and how you should run the meeting. Use it as a framework for a dialog not a script. That notes only told part of the story.

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Rob Go

JULY 16, 2012

As few weeks ago, I wrote a tweet noting that many of the most remarkable scaling startups today were not “Lean Startups” by the traditional sense. Back to class 13, Peter introduces a framework for how an individual (or a company, or a country) thinks about the future. The table of contents are right here.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Private equity and venture capital investors are copying our sisters in the hedge fund world: we’re trying to automate more of our job. . Lean Case provides standard business models & metrics, so you can apply a standard approach to business planning, modeling, and profitability tracking. What’s Your VC Tech Stack?

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

Finally, I’ll write about how Eric Ries and the Lean Startup concept provided the equivalent model for product development activities inside the building and neatly integrates customer and agile development. The Customer Development Manifesto: Reasons for the Revolution (part 2) [.] Customer Development Manifesto Part II [.] Order Here.

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Eric Friedman

AUGUST 18, 2021

I lovingly call him the curmudgeon of fintech – in this episode we go deep into how he is building a venture capital firm and practice, not just running a fund and how he views the world of fintech investing. One of the ones that really bothers me is how Venture Capitalists try and conflate what they do as being complicated.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 15, 2011

This approach offers VCs and angels a semi-formal framework for measuring progress and offering their guidance in the "search"? It might be possible to create Virtual Valley Ventures. Kathryn Gould of Foundation Capital and Ann Miura-Ko of Floodgate also want to try it. for a business model. We Ran the Experiment.

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David Teten

NOVEMBER 29, 2015

Literally billions of people resonate at a deep, subconscious level when they hear stories that use this framework. The next stage is the road of trials , what Eric Ries of Lean Startup fame calls the montage. Hundreds of books , movies , and television series have been written utilizing this structure all over the world.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 27, 2009

This series of posts is a brief explanation of how we’ve evolved from Product Development to Customer Development to the Lean Startup. Reply Steve Blank explains the evolution of Customer Development « FrameThink – Frameworks for Thinking People , on September 7, 2009 at 1:04 pm Said: [.]

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Steve Blank

MAY 7, 2009

I finally understood how valuable these contests can be for students in cities or countries without a venture capital or entrepreneurial infrastructure. Over scrambled eggs and diet coke, I listened to this seasoned startup veteran describe the excitement of his students who came to the U.S. to compete.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 27, 2013

I was really struck thinking about the framework that you guys propose in the book, and that really is the psychological counterpart to this: the pivot decision is often one that has to be made by a team under a lot of stress, under adverse conditions where it seems like every psychological bias in the book seems to get in the way of doing it well.

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blog.simeonov.com

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

At this point, there is a precise, well-defined legal framework for resolving conflicts that can’t be addressed through other means. Tags: VC Venture Capital startups agile entrepreneurship founder agreements investing lean startups. The next post will go into this in more detail.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

net is the only framework in which you can build an app for all the major mobile operating systems (iphone, android, wp7). Someone who thinks of.NET as a programming language rather than a platform or a toolchain is, I suspect, someone who has never bothered to venture beyond the System.DraggyDroppy namespace. net implementation.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 3, 2012

Lean Marketing Tips: Increasing Lifetime Value With Email Campaigns – [link]. Trends In Venture Capital Over The Last 12 Years – [link]. Lean Marketing Tips: Increasing Lifetime Value With Email Campaigns – [link]. Bad returns be damned: Venture capital fundraising jumps 31 percent in U.S.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 18, 2009

Eric Ries’s astute observations about engineering and Lean Startups make the same point. I am a young entrepreneur who is thinking about how to divide time between work and family (when I have one), and I found your post to be a great framework for thought. My ideas about Customer Development started evolving around these concepts.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 15, 2020

Ryan Sarver was a partner at venture capital firm Redpoint. And I do think part of it is unique because we're all sheltered in place and people have maybe a little more time to give and also want to be able to lean in to do something. The founders of Frontline Foods are three of these people. So thanks for taking time out.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

interactions, widgets, effects Django – high-level Python framework Cappuccino – open source framework for app development Kodingen – cloud development environment, code editor, hosting service, collaboration platform.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Venture Capital Cafe > Startup Resources (Updated Mar 2013). Lean Methodology Sources. Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. Part 3- Lean Cust. Express : Express is built on NodeJS framework. Web frameworks. Zend Framework (PHP). Steve Blank’s Lean Startup Resources.

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abovethecrowd.com

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Eventually, however, we gained our footing and developed a mental model for the industry and a framework for where opportunities do exist. Bill is a general partner at Benchmark, one of Silicon Valley’s really legendary venture capital firms. He is one of Silicon Valley’s legendary venture capitalists.

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