Teaching Entrepreneurship – Logistics

Posted on March 29, 2010 by steveblank

Back from a family humanitarian trip/vacation to one of the last bastions of Communism where “marketing” isn’t even a profession and entrepreneurship is a crime.  The irony is that the “Revolutionary Square” in all these Communist countries will be the the first place the McDonald’s go when the system collapses. ——————- In my last post I described my [...]

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On Blog Vacation

Posted on March 15, 2010 by steveblank

I’m off the web for the next week or so.  I’m in a place with no cell or internet coverage. Back blogging by the end of March. steve

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Teaching Entrepreneurship – By Getting Out of the Building

Posted on March 11, 2010 by steveblank

One of the classes I teach in the engineering school at Stanford is E145: the Fundamentals of Technology Entrepreneurship, an introduction to building a scalable startup. While the class is open to everyone at the University, we want to teach science and engineering undergraduates how they can take a technical idea and turn it into [...]

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The Secret History of Silicon Valley Part 15: Agena – The Secret Space Truck, Ferret’s and Stanford

Posted on March 8, 2010 by steveblank

This post is the latest in the “Secret History Series.”  They’ll make much more sense if you read some of the earlier ones for context. See the Secret History video and slides as well as the bibliography for sources and supplemental reading. ———— By the early 1960’s Lockheed Missiles Division in Sunnyvale was quickly becoming the largest [...]

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Perfection By Subtraction – The Minimum Feature Set

Posted on March 4, 2010 by steveblank

“By knowing things that exist, you can know that which does not exist.” Book of Five Rings I was having coffee with a former student who was complained that my idea of building a first product release with a minimum feature set was a bad idea. (One of the principles of Customer Development is to [...]

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Death By Competitive Analysis

Posted on March 1, 2010 by steveblank

Trading emails with a startup CEO building an iPhone app, I asked him why potential customers would buy his product.  In response he sent me a competitive analysis. It looked like every competitive analysis I had done for 20 years, (ok maybe better.) And it made me sad. Looking at the spreadsheet, I realized that [...]

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