Steve Blank

JULY 13, 2021

Founders of startups (and new ventures inside existing companies) are searching for product/market fit and a repeatable and scalable business model. Searching, unlike execution, is not a predictable pattern. Let’s Teach Lean Via Experiential Learning. Cases and plans are useful for teaching managers of process, not founders.

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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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Steve Blank

JUNE 18, 2013

The Lean LaunchPad entrepreneurship curriculum has caught fire. It dawned on me that the plans were a symptom of a larger problem: we were executing business plans when we should first be searching for business models. So what would a search process for a business model look like? Teaching “Search versus Execution”.

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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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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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Steve Blank

MARCH 7, 2012

Today, the first half of the Stanford Engineering Lean LaunchPad Class gave their final presentations. It’s hard to believe it’s only been a year since we taught the first 10 teams in the Stanford Lean LaunchPad class. We’ll teach over 175 NSF Innovation Corps teams in the Lean LaunchPad course in 2012. Here are the first five.

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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. I have a lot of good news to report on this front. You can click here to learn more.

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Steve Blank

MAY 29, 2019

Lean LaunchPad class developed for Stanford. The easy part is, “Let’s have an incubator.” Today the capstone class is most often experiential, team-based, hands on, focused around the search for a repeatable and scalable business model. Worth a read. Teaching basic entrepreneurial appreciation.

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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

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. People search differently in different cultures. On September 24 in the U.S.

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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. The canvas illustrates the search for the unknowns that new ventures face.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 11, 2012

———– The Lean LaunchPad class for the National Science Foundation (NSF). Over the last 6 months, we’ve been teaching a version of the Lean LaunchPad class for the National Science Foundation Innovation Corps. In an incubator, the Lean LaunchPad develops angel or venture-funded startups.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2009

Every summer, they bring approximately 10 companies to Boulder for an intense "accelerator" experience (dont call it an incubator, or youll get dirty looks). We also had the benefit of many lean practices that break out of the "time, quality, money - pick two" paradox. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 29, 2010

Traveling the past year, I have heard loud and clear that its time for the Lean Startup movement to enter its next phase. My aspiration with the Lean Startup methodology has always been to provide such a framework, so that we have more intelligent conversations about what works and what doesnt for startups.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 20, 2013

We’re going to test this hypothesis by teaching a Lean LaunchPad class for Life Sciences and Healthcare (therapeutics, diagnostics, devices and digital health) this October at UCSF with a team of veteran venture capitalists. Lots of smart people are running experiments in search of ways to commercialize basic research more efficiently.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

In this first step, the goal of a startup is to search for a repeatable and scalable business model. You’ll realize you’re ready to exit the Search step when you have customer validation: You’ve found a sales channel that matches how the customer wants to buy and the costs of using that channel are understood. Most startups die here.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

One of the fastest is to use Google to search for it. It’s even better if you can make your search specific by including the name of the bank you’re looking for information on. It’s even better if you can make your search specific by including the name of the bank you’re looking for information on. First, what’s your question?

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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. When Pixar begins a new movie the movie doesn’t exist yet.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 4, 2014

The Enterprise: Business Model Execution We know that a startup is a temporary organization designed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model. Somewhere in the dim past of the company, it too was a startup searching for a business model. It needs the tools and processes pioneered in Lean Startups. What to Do?

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 23, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, June 23, 2009 Join the lean startup discussion at Facebook on Thursday I recently agreed to join Facebook s fbFund incubator as a mentor. Part of that includes giving a presentation for the fbFund companies on the lean startup methodology. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

SingTel Inno8 ), as well as one of the marquee cross-regional startup incubators, JFDI. Thus, one can say the concept of a “ lean startup ” existed in Asia far longer than in the Valley – it’s just that no one ever wrote a book about it. Golden Gate Ventures , Jungle Ventures , etc.), This concept is universal.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 22, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, May 22, 2009 The Lean Startup at SIPA follow-up I had wonderful time presenting at SIPA last night , and was completely exhausted by the incredible post-speech response. 2009 05 21 The Lean Startup At SIPA View more OpenOffice presentations from Eric Ries. And we listen and work on that issues.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 6, 2020

We're very fortunate that the YCombinator program took us on and is our incubator company, all of that. Eric Ries : So, it's an unbelievably complicated and large search base. Alpha Lee : It's an unbelievably complicated search base. Eric Ries : When was that? When did you apply to YCombinator? Alpha Lee : They were great.

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Steve Blank

JULY 29, 2016

And that the Lean Innovation tools we’ve built to deal with disruption and create continuous innovation for large commercial organizations were equally relevant here. Horizon 3 is focused on searching for and creating brand new missions. ( But using Lean Innovation they’ll fail quickly and cheaply. And not just one.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 25, 2015

I’ve spent this year working with corporations and government agencies that are adopting and adapting Lean Methodologies. Several pockets of innovation in his agency have begun to look to startups and have tried to adopt lean methods. –left me searching for answers. —– What Have We Lost?

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Steve Blank

MAY 12, 2016

A pivot is the lean methodology’s way to fire the plan without firing people. Yet for the purpose of the class (versus an incubator) we do just that – we keep marching the teams through each canvas component because we want to teach them about all nine parts of the canvas. This is what enables Lean teams to move with speed and urgency.

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Steve Blank

MAY 12, 2016

A pivot is the lean methodology’s way to fire the plan without firing people. Yet for the purpose of the class (versus an incubator) we do just that – we keep marching the teams through each canvas component because we want to teach them about all nine parts of the canvas. This is what enables Lean teams to move with speed and urgency.

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500hats.com

AUGUST 2, 2012

Meanwhile, Micro VC has focused on sweeping changes in technology and consumer internet adoption that have enabled dramatically reduced capital requirements for building new software companies, as well as accelerated access to customers via search, social, and mobile platforms.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 17, 2016

Looking to create their accelerator/incubator, Wayne and seven other founders rented a Silicon Valley house together one summer. …By creating the BUILDUP VC incubator and accelerator … we’re got into the business of providing education and access. You have to put yourself out there.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2011

He invented the category of sponsored search. He created GoTo.com (later renamed Overture) out of a frustration with search. At the time when you did a search on Lycos, Alta Vista or similar for a category such as Cars you ended up getting 9 spam results and 1 proper website to meet your needs. Overture (Goto.com).

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

In 2012 I got together with Alexander Osterwalder , Henry Chesbrough and Andre Marquis to think about the Lean and the future of corporate innovation. It didn’t take us very long to connect the dots between exponential growth, business model innovation and the “Lean Startup” movement. And why wouldn’t it be?

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aweissman.com

APRIL 5, 2012

But in the 1940s and 50s, he didnt have that name, and he didnt have access to people, blogs, incubators, accelerators, venture investors, founder meetups, lean start ups, minimum viable methodology or Skillshare classes to allow him to do more. A Google search for "entrepreneur" has 135,000,000 results.

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Up and Running

JULY 24, 2017

With business plans for internal use and Lean Plans, nobody expects one. You can also use it again to fill in startup profiles on investment platforms such as Gust and AngelList or to apply for an incubator or a business plan competition. As I mentioned above, a true Lean Plan doesn’t need any summary.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

There are 110,000 monthly search queries looking for "stretch mark(s) removal." In addition, we are offering entrepreneurs access to investors and customers through our recently launched our 1M/1M Incubation Radar series. All three of todays roundtable companies will soon be featured on Incubation Radar. This is her core market.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

There are 110,000 monthly search queries looking for "stretch mark(s) removal." In addition, we are offering entrepreneurs access to investors and customers through our recently launched our 1M/1M Incubation Radar series. All three of todays roundtable companies will soon be featured on Incubation Radar. This is her core market.

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Marketing Bootstrapping Incubator Angel Investor 52

www.usatoday.com

JULY 16, 2012

The search giant recently took over the prominent Binoculars building, designed by famed architect Frank Gehry , in Venice. But most start-ups in Silicon Beach are young and lean and cant afford to provide Silicon Valley-like perks as trumpeted by Google, such as free food, pool tables and massages. "If Want 300 days of sun a year?"

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 14, 2012

Berkeley and NCIIA , Jerry Engel and I first offered the Lean LaunchPad Educators Class. The class was designed to teach educators (and the entrepreneurs that support them) the Lean LaunchPad approach (Business Model Design, Customer Development and Agile Engineering) for teaching entrepreneurship. The Lean LaunchPad Educators course.

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