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The Search For the Fountain of Youth – Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the Enterprise

Steve Blank

If you’ve been reading my book on Customer Development and follow my work on Market Type , this type of innovation is best for adding new products to existing markets. In fact the people a large firm needs for this kind of innovation looks suspiciously like startup founders and the processes needed look like Customer Development.

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Can You Trust Any vc's Under 40?

Steve Blank

For the next four or five years, technology M&A boomed, growing from 50 in 2003 to 450 in 2006. With Wall Street leery of technology companies, tech IPOs were a receding memory, and mergers and acquisitions became the only path to liquidity for startups and their investors.

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5 Tips to Becoming a More Customer Centric Organization

Both Sides of the Table

I know that this all seems obvious now with the movements started by Steven Blank ( Four Steps of Epiphany ) with the whole Customer Development processes / Lean Startup movements also popularized by people like Eric Ries. This was 2006 and we were now working on our second company. Back then it seemed foreign.

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The new startup arms race (for Huffington Post)

Startup Lessons Learned

Similarly, 24% of all the patents filed in the US in 2006 had a foreign resident as inventor or co-inventor. Similarly, 24% of all the patents filed in the US in 2006 had a foreign resident as inventor or co-inventor. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

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Why Internal Ventures are Different from External Startups

Steve Blank

For those who don’t know, I wrote the book Open Innovation in 2003, and followed it with Open Business Models in 2006, and Open Services Innovation in 2011. Filed under: Big Companies versus Startups: Durant versus Sloan , Customer Development. Big Companies versus Startups: Durant versus Sloan Customer Development'

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 42: Sunny Shah and Curt Haselton

Steve Blank

in Structural Engineering from Stanford University in 2006. Filed under: Customer Development , SiriusXM Radio Show. He’s a co-founder and CEO of HB Risk , and a Professor and Department Chair in Civil Engineering at California State University, Chico. He received his Ph.D.

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Finding Technical Cofounders Is Hard

rob.by

Certainly using techniques such as customer development (www.custdev.com) and lean startup (minimum viable product) can help go a long way to giving the tech co-founder some early payback in terms of whether there will be any traction in the idea and reduce their inital involvment to get to prototype stage. Expository (1). Finance (1).