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What’s Plan B? – The Small, the Agile, and the Many
Posted on January 18, 2022 by steve blank |
This post previously appeared in the Proceedings of the Naval Institute. One of the most audacious and bold manifestos for the future of Naval innovation has just been posted by the Rear Admiral who heads up the Office of Naval Research. It may be the hedge we need to deter China in the South China […]
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Innovators podcast @ Stanford
Posted on January 31, 2018 by steve blank |
A fun interview at Stanford about some old things and new ones. https://soundcloud.com/innovatorsradio/s1e5-steve-blank-lean-startup Founders 2:15: Founders and dysfunctional families 3:55: Operating in chaos 7:18: Mentorship is a two-way street 11:50: Founders are artists 14:03: Failure=experience 17:27: Rules for raising a family if you’re a founder Startups 19:25: Startups are not smaller versions of large companies […]
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The Lean LaunchPad Class: It’s the same, but different
Posted on March 26, 2019 by steve blank |
It’s the same, but different We just finished the 8th annual Lean LaunchPad class at Stanford. The team presentations are at the end of this post. It’s hard to imagine, but only a decade ago, the capstone entrepreneurship class in most universities was how to write – or pitch- a business plan. As a serial entrepreneur […]
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Lean Startup In Japanese Companies
Posted on November 17, 2015 by steve blank |
Implementing the Lean Startup in any company is hard. All the culture and incentives are designed for execution. Innovation at times seems like you’re swimming up hill. Now compound that level of effort with trying to put a Lean Startup culture in place in Japan. According to Takashi Tsutsumi and Masato Iino, Japanese companies tend […]
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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 15: DJ Jayalath and Mark Hatch
Posted on January 7, 2016 by steve blank |
A cool product by itself is not a company. And why being a military veteran is great training for starting up. The importance of using customer feedback to shape Minimum Viable Products and why world-class founders are disciplined were topics discussed by the guests on the latest episode of Entrepreneurs are Everywhere, my radio show on SiriusXM Channel […]
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How Investors Make Better Decisions: The Investment Readiness Level
Posted on July 1, 2014 by steve blank |
Investors sitting through Incubator or Accelerator demo days have three metrics to judge fledgling startups – 1) great looking product demos, 2) compelling PowerPoint slides, and 3) a world-class team. Other than “I’ll know it when I see it”, there’s no formal way for an investor to assess project maturity or quantify risks. Other than […]
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It’s Time to Play Moneyball: The Investment Readiness Level
Posted on November 25, 2013 by steve blank |
Investors sitting through Incubator or Accelerator demo days have three metrics to judge fledgling startups – 1) great looking product demos, 2) compelling PowerPoint slides, and 3) a world-class team. We think we can do better. We now have the tools, technology and data to take incubators and accelerators to the next level. Teams can […]
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When Customers Make You Smarter
Posted on December 2, 2013 by steve blank |
We talk a lot about Customer Development, but there’s nothing like seeing it in action to understand its power. Here’s what happened when an extraordinary Digital Health team gained several critical insights about their business model. The first was reducing what they thought was a five-sided market to a simpler two-sided one. But the big […]
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Filed under: Customer Development, Customer Development Manifesto, Lean LaunchPad, Life Sciences (NIH), NIH (National Institutes of Health) | 8 Comments »
When Hell Froze Over – in the Harvard Business Review
Posted on April 16, 2013 by steve blank |
“I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member.” Groucho Marx In my 21 years as an entrepreneur, I would come up for air once a month to religiously read the Harvard Business Review. It was not only my secret weapon in thinking about new startup strategies, it also gave me […]
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