Steve Blank

JULY 20, 2015

Errol Arkilic was the lead program director for the National Science Foundation I-Corps , which uses my Lean LaunchPad curriculum to teach scientists and engineers how to take their technology out of the lab and into the marketplace. The Lean LaunchPad class. But nothing else like [The Lean LaunchPad class] was being taught. .

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Steve Blank

JULY 12, 2010

The Vietnam War had just ended and I was out of the Air Force back in college living in Ann Arbor Michigan. Civilian life was good, the government was paying my tuition and I got a college work/study job in the University of Michigan physics department. The lab manager let me stand there for a while as I caught my breath.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 2, 2011

In the past they had no way to monitor and manage these investments. At Stanford our Lean Launchpad class ran an experiment that showed when “the boardroom is bits” can make a radical difference in the outcome of an early stage startup. The University of Michigan is a possible first test.) Now they can. We Ran the Experiment.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

Management. How well a failed entrepreneur has managed his company, and how well he worked with his previous investors, makes a difference in his ability to persuade U.S. Harley Goes Lean to Build Hogs. Manage Email Preferences. Manage Email Preferences. » More. Real Estate. » More. » More.

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Steve Blank

MAY 18, 2009

The Rust Belt – (Skip this Section if I’m Boring You) Out of the Air Force, my first job out of school was in Ann Arbor, Michigan, in the mid-1970’s installing broadband process control systems in automotive and manufacturing plants throughout the Midwest. It’s our hood alignment station,” the plant manager said proudly.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 1, 2009

Sloan Foundation , the Sloan School of Management at MIT , the Sloan program at Stanford , and the Sloan/Kettering Memorial Cancer Center in New York. Sloan realized that the traditional centralized management structures (like General Motors had in 1920) were poor fits for the management of GM’s already diverse product lines.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 15, 2011

In the past they had no way to monitor and manage these investments. At Stanford our Lean Launchpad class ran an experiment that showed when "the boardroom is bits" can make a radical difference in the outcome of an early stage startup. The University of Michigan is a possible first test.) Now they can. We Ran the Experiment.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 15, 2020

We see that at every level across the organization today, Eric Ries : It's almost like some of those other top-down command and control management structures maybe aren't needed. Frank Barbieri : Completely. Ryan Sarver : Yeah. Eric, we talk a lot about Stanley McChrystal's book, Team of Teams. Eric Ries : Those are two pretty great bookends.

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Other tools, can provide more dimensions including children, political leanings, ethnicity etc… You can see how this might be a lot more interesting for a magazine or content sites, and perhaps a lot less to other types of businesses. I find this behavior to be a million times more useful than demographics or political leanings.

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