Steve Blank

JUNE 26, 2015

—– Lean Innovation Management. 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. The result will be: a new, Lean version of the Three Horizons of Innovation. Here’s how.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 30, 2019

Join a startup incubator. A startup incubator is a company, university, or other organization which provides resources for equity to nurture young companies, helping them to survive and grow during the startup period when they are most vulnerable. Nevertheless, it’s an option that doesn’t cost you equity.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 1, 2019

In the first post , we drilled down into the often-overlooked notion of “market-engineering” and why it’s so critical. Go-to-Market. In the go-to-product phase, you can get help from a plethora of incubators, accelerators and angel investors. In other words, they need go-to-market traction. Go-to-Product. Go-to-Scale.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 8, 2008 The lean startup Ive been thinking for some time about a term that could encapsulate trends that are changing the startup landscape. After some trial and error, Ive settled on the Lean Startup. I like the term because of two connotations: Lean in the sense of low-burn.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

Over the last three years our Lean LaunchPad / NSF Innovation Corps classes have been teaching hundreds of entrepreneurial teams a year how to build their startups by getting out of the building and testing their hypotheses behind their business model. And what the market needed would, of course, be exactly what we had envisioned.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Why are some companies able to reinvent themselves while others, once market leaders, are disrupted? Do they have better sales, marketing, or product development groups? So they prepare for future markets by exploring new ventures. Today, lean is the de facto method for building new start-ups. Are their people smarter?

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

We just finished our Lean LaunchPad class at UC Berkeley’s engineering school where many of the teams embedded machine learning technology into their products. The technology’s broad market applicability and relevance are clearly paying off. Machine Learning Meets Lean – Berkeley Lean LaunchPad Class.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 30, 2013

With hindsight we should have had “proof of concepts” tested in a corporate center (think ‘pop-up incubator’) where they would do extensive Customer Discovery. Eventually Qualcomm did create a corporate incubator to handle projects beyond the scope of traditional R&D, yet too early to hand-off to existing business unit).

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2011

I’m a very big proponent of the “lean startup movement&# as espoused by Steve Blank & Eric Ries. In the initial phases of any new market you’re developing a product (hopefully with a minimal set of features), getting feedback from customers, refining your product based on user feedback and then re-launching your product.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 14, 2014

Join a startup incubator. A startup incubator is a company, university, or other organization which provides resources for equity to nurture young companies, helping them to survive and grow during the startup period when they are most vulnerable. Nevertheless, it’s an option that doesn’t cost you equity.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 1, 2017

Join a startup incubator. A startup incubator is a company, university, or other organization which provides resources for equity to nurture young companies, helping them to survive and grow during the startup period when they are most vulnerable. Nevertheless, it’s an option that doesn’t cost you equity.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 8, 2011

In January, we introduced a new graduate course at Stanford called the " target="_blank">Lean LaunchPad. The Lean LaunchPad class was scheduled to meet for three hours once a week. We made clear that this class wasn’t an incubator. BlinkTraffic will empower mobile users in developing markets (Jakarta, Sao Paolo, Delhi, etc.)

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

Join a startup incubator. A startup incubator is a company, university, or other organization which provides resources for equity to nurture young companies, helping them to survive and grow during the startup period when they are most vulnerable. Nevertheless, it’s an option that doesn’t cost you equity.

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Intellectual Property Technical Review Venture Capital Startup 309

crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 3, 2012

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Lean Marketing: Delivering Customer Service via Social Media - [link]. Lean Marketing: Delivering Customer Service via Social Media - [link].

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2018

Join a startup incubator. A startup incubator is a company, university, or other organization which provides resources for equity to nurture young companies, helping them to survive and grow during the startup period when they are most vulnerable. Now the price is closer to $100, if you are willing to do the work yourself.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

To celebrate the debut of the Japan edition of “The Startup Owner’s Manual” and to express great thanks to Steve and his co-author Bob Dorf, I would like to reflect back what first drew me to this book and offer Steve’s worldwide readers a look at the progress of Customer Development and the Lean LaunchPad class in Japan.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 11, 2016

We just finished the 6 th annual Lean LaunchPad class. For the last 6 years I’ve taught the Lean LaunchPad class at Stanford and Berkeley. business plans are fine for large companies where there is an existing market, existing product and existing customers, but they are useless in a startup where most often none of these are known.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 3, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, July 3, 2009 Lean Startup fbFund wrap-up Last week I had a real blast meeting with the companies at the fbFund incubator at Palo Alto. The Lean Startup fbFund Edition View more documents from Eric Ries. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Without further ado.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 1, 2020

The next reason is to establish a competitive advantage over your competition and quickly acquire a substantial market share. Let’s take an example – In the case of an internet or app business, the user traction and market penetration is a must. Incubators and Accelerators. Establish a competitive advantage. Crowdfunding.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2017

Guest Post by Misti Yang, Writer for Lean Startup Co. Editor’s Note: We wrapped up the 2017 Lean Startup Week in San Francisco just a few weeks ago, and we’re excited to share with you some of the best lessons learned in entrepreneurship and corporate innovation. Because these Lean Startup people, they do crazy stuff,” Alex joked. “So

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 8, 2015

Join a startup incubator. A startup incubator is a company, university, or other organization which provides resources for equity to nurture young companies, helping them to survive and grow during the startup period when they are most vulnerable. Now the price is closer to $100, if you are willing to do the work yourself.

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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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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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Lean Silicon Valley Government Acquisition 177

Steve Blank

JULY 13, 2021

By the early 1920s a new dean changed the curriculum – shifting it from an industry orientation (steel, railroads, etc.) – to a functional one (marketing, factory and employment management (HR), etc.). Let’s Teach Lean Via Experiential Learning. First Case Study-General Shoe. experiential. The Syllabus.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Busting the Lean-Startup Myth – crowdspring.co/1ozOXHA. 1871 Ranks 9th In The World In Survey Of Business Incubators – crowdspring.co/Xe1N6Y. YqAyHQ. – [link].

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

We just finished our Lean LaunchPad class at UC Berkeley’s engineering school where many of the teams embedded machine learning technology into their products. The technology’s broad market applicability and relevance are clearly paying off. Machine Learning Meets Lean – Berkeley Lean LaunchPad Class.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 4, 2016

State Department and asks students to use Lean Methods to test their understanding of the problem and deliver rapid-fire innovative solutions to pressing diplomacy, development and foreign policy challenges. Hacking for Diplomacy is not a product incubator for a specific technology solution. Lessons Learned.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 14, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, May 14, 2009 The Lean Startup Workshop - now an OReilly Master Class My rate of posting has been much lower lately, and this is mostly due to preparations for the upcoming Lean Startup Workshop on May 29. We attempted to use Waterfall and market ourselves as B2C. It was a disaster.

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Steve Blank

MAY 18, 2020

Do you have a startup idea or new technology that you’d like to learn how to bring to market in the post-pandemic economy? Or perhaps you would like to join a team creating a new business, or reinventing an existing business, and learn the lean startup techniques that will be critical to our recovery. Stanford’s Lean LaunchPad.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2016

He nails the current key startup parameters, including the following: Crafting a lean business plan as your road map. Minimum viable products (MVPs) are recommended for validating the market, with iterative enhancement to quickly meet market feedback. Angel groups, accelerators, and incubators are pervasive.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

Corporations running internal incubators face many of the same selection issues as startup investors, plus they must grapple with the issues of integrating new ideas into existing P&L-driven functions or business units. data that investors, accelerators and incubators can use to inform selection.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 4, 2016

State Department and asks students to use Lean Methods to test their understanding of the problem and deliver rapid-fire innovative solutions to pressing diplomacy, development and foreign policy challenges. Hacking for Diplomacy is not a product incubator for a specific technology solution. Lessons Learned.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 24, 2019

Write a Lean Business Plan. Your business plan can be a Lean Plan , meaning that it doesn’t need to be lengthy. If you’ve heard of a Business Model Canvas, a Lean Plan is a much more useful alternative. For more on what should be included in your Lean Plan, check out this article. You can do the same!

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Steve Blank

MAY 29, 2019

Lean LaunchPad class developed for Stanford. The easy part is, “Let’s have an incubator.” And the Lean LaunchPad class I developed at Stanford was the first such class. Worth a read. Interview highlights: How is the way that universities teach entrepreneurship evolving? Mission-Driven Entrepreneurship. .

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

Guest post by Lisa Regan, writer for The Lean Startup Conference. We’re dedicated to making The Lean Startup Conference unlike other entrepreneurship conferences. Early-stage entrepreneurs; people participating in startrup incubator or accelerator programs; and bootstrappers. Here are the details for each group.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Guest post by Lisa Regan, writer for The Lean Startup Conference. Entrepreneurs beyond Silicon Valley, including those working abroad, often have to retool Lean Startup methods to apply them in places with very different business cultures. On September 24 in the U.S. Here’s what they had to say.

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Steve Blank

MAY 30, 2016

If you’ve been reading along so far, you know that this class is not an extended hackathon nor is it a 10-week long incubator. Using the Lean LaunchPad methodology our teams do much more than just build a product or understand customer problems/needs. Second: I also gave the commencement speech at the NYU engineering school here.

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