Steve Blank

JANUARY 21, 2013

Jim has founded six companies, including Preview Travel, one of the first online travel agencies, which went public in 1997 and subsequently merged to create Travelocity.com as an independent company. I asked Jim to share what he learned in teaching the Lean LaunchPad class to undergraduates. And Zignal Labs. What did we experience?

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 28, 2020

I remember the first time I read the Innovator’s Dilemma in 1997. Customer Development became one of the three parts of the Lean Startup as Eric Ries and Alexander Osterwalder provided the other two components (Agile Engineering and the business model canvas.) I never got to say thank you. Eye Opening.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 4, 2012

By 1997, when I started investing as a venture capital investor, I was no longer reading business plans. In the past decade, we’ve shifted from a “tell me about it” approach (the business plan) to a “show me” approach (the Lean Startup). Business Model Canvas vs Lean Canvas vs One-Page Lean Startup.

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K9 Ventures

AUGUST 13, 2010

In fact, at the time (1996-1997) we offered both a downloadable product, that our customers could install on their own servers, and a “hosted-offering”, which came to be known as “On-Demand”, then the “ASP” (Application Service Provider) model, and today we call it “SaaS” (Software as a Service). Patrick is completely correct here.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 29, 2016

government is discovering that Lean innovation can help them serve the country better and faster. She came to the GSA as a Presidential Innovation Fellow in 2013, where she worked on the development of MyUSA.gov. Filed under: Customer Development , SiriusXM Radio Show.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2009

Filed under: Customer Development , Family/Career , Technology | Tagged: Steve Blank , Entrepreneurs , Tips for Startups « Am I a Founder? The other thing it helps clarify is that even at work, it’s the relationships that matter most (collegues, customers, partners, etc). The Adventure of a Lifetime.

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