Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

In 2012 I got together with Alexander Osterwalder , Henry Chesbrough and Andre Marquis to think about the Lean and the future of corporate innovation. For most big, established companies like us, our business models were developed years—even decades ago. in developing these new models.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 28, 2013

The lean startup – as envisioned and explained by Steve Blank, serial entrepreneur, associate professor at Stanford University and ReadWrite contributor – is no longer just for startups. As Blank writes in HBR , “It’s already becoming clear that lean start-up practices are not just for young tech ventures.”

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

NYU has adopted the Lean LaunchPad ® class as a standard entrepreneurship course across twelve different schools/colleges within the University. Over 1,000 students a year are learning lean startup concepts. The Educators Program is a 2½ day class that teaches faculty how to create and teach their own Lean LaunchPad class.)

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leananalyticsbook.com

AUGUST 19, 2012

Lean Analytics Book. August 7, 2012 by Alistair. There are three criteria you can use to help choose your OMTM: the business you’re in; the stage of your startup’s growth; and your audience. First: what business are you in? Is my business model right? There’s business model optimization.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 22, 2013

My co-author and business Partner Bob Dorf spends much of his time traveling the world teaching countries and companies how to run the Lean LaunchPad program. The hands-on Lean LaunchPad program offers the most intense support of all. The first 8-week Lean LaunchPad Colombia program. program.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 18, 2012

Innovate Israel 2012 aims to connect Israeli web, mobile & digital entrepreneurs & businesses with their UK & European counterparts. Check out the 28 Israeli startups coming to London next week to showcase at the Innovate Israel 2012 portfolio. Share/Bookmark.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 14, 2012

In 2012, in partnership with Stanford University , U.C. Berkeley and NCIIA , Jerry Engel and I first offered the Lean LaunchPad Educators Class. In addition the class offers a suggested “Lean Entrepreneurship” curriculum and the details of how to teach the capstone Lean LaunchPad class. Here’s what she had to say….

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 22, 2013

My co-author and business Partner Bob Dorf spends much of his time traveling the world teaching countries and companies how to run the Lean LaunchPad program. The hands-on Lean LaunchPad program offers the most intense support of all. The first 8-week Lean LaunchPad Colombia program. program.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 11, 2012

. ———– The Lean LaunchPad class for the National Science Foundation (NSF). Over the last 6 months, we’ve been teaching a version of the Lean LaunchPad class for the National Science Foundation Innovation Corps. We’ve taught two cohorts: 21 teams ending in December 2011 , and 24 teams ending in May 2012.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

Last May, I shared the news that long-time Lean Startup advocates Brant Cooper and Patrick Vlaskovits were working on a new book called The Lean Entrepreneur featuring illustrations by FAKEGRIMLOCK. After the 2012 conference I viewed it as an opportunity to reflect on the growth and evolution of the movement as a whole.

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www.startuplessonslearned.com

MAY 4, 2012

Tuesday, April 24, 2012. Noam is one of a rare breed of business academics: he studies entrepreneurship using a rigorous empirical approach. At the company level, founders learn about the flaws in their initial plans and adjust the startup’s strategy, business plan,and business model. Lessons Learned.

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Up and Running

MAY 15, 2019

Jason Carriere, the owner of Falling Sky Fermentation Supply Shop and co-founder of Falling Sky Brewing , has gone through many twists and turns since Falling Sky opened its first Eugene, Oregon brewpub location in 2012. There’s no one model—or one business plan—for breweries. Do they have access to contingency capital?

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 16, 2012

TripAdvisor may be one of the most fascinating companies I know and so I was excited to dig into their business model as part of my series on scaling. TripAdvisor is more of a classic consumer Internet success story, but with even more powerful network effects and an amazing business model. Really hard. Magical, really.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 6, 2014

But businesses are finding that Continuous Deployment not only changes engineering but has ripple effects on the rest of its business model. skip this part of you’re conversant in Waterfall and Lean.). Cloud based products has offered companies an opportunity to rethink how new business models would work.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

APRIL 9, 2013

Guest post by Ben Yoskovitz, the co-author of Lean Analytics , a new book on how to use analytics successfully in your business. Ben is currently VP Product at GoInstant, which was acquired by Salesforce in 2012. Lean Startup pokes a hole in our reality distortion field. Have you pivoted before? Was it a lazy pivot?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 28, 2013

Based on the latest Startup Environment Index from the Kauffman Foundation and LegalZoom, personal money, or bootstrapping, continued to be the primary startup funding in 2012. At least wait until later, when you ready to scale, and have some “leverage” based on a proven business model, some real customers, and real revenue.

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Up and Running

JUNE 23, 2015

The business model is innovative and unique, and the business itself serves as a fantastic “how to” example for entrepreneurs looking to start a social, mission-driven business. The Lean Startup by Erik Reis. See Also What Is a Social Enterprise? Always be learning. Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell.

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betashop.com

OCTOBER 8, 2012

But, you can iterate and iterate on features, but you cannot iterate your way to a business model. I’ve seen too many businesses get stuck or fail because of their endless pursuit for the magic new feature that is going to help them gain traction. So, we started thinking about our business differently.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Lean Planning is a concept that we introduced back in 2012 as an evolution in business planning. The traditional business plan just wasn’t fitting the needs of modern, fast-moving companies and it was time to bring more of a scientific approach to business planning. But, where did Lean Planning come from?

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Up and Running

JULY 16, 2018

There’s really not a lot of difference between a “ one-page business plan” a Lean Plan, and a good executive summary. A Lean Plan can be slightly longer but still uses summaries and bullet points, while traditional executive summary can extend to two or three pages—and it will usually use full sentences rather than bullets.

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Up and Running

MARCH 13, 2019

If your product or service doesn’t solve a problem that potential customers have, you don’t have a viable business model. That’s great if you are tackling such a problem, but for most businesses, that’s not the reality. What’s more important is that you understand your business model. Simple as that.

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Up and Running

MARCH 17, 2020

There’s really not a lot of difference between a single-page business plan, a Lean Business Plan, and a good executive summary. . Here at Bplans, we’ve developed a formula that helps you quickly put together all the critical information that you need to define the strategy for your business. .

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Campus Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

Two semesters ago I introduced some lean startup ideas/examples in the New Venture Creation class I teach to undergraduates. In mid november 2011 we hosted a Global Entrepreneurship Week event that featured GMU student startup turned INC 500 member ROCS Staffing and also discussed lean startup ideas.

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 3, 2012

The Lean Start-Up movement, as exemplified in Eric Ries' book The Lean Start-Up, has appropriately focused a great deal of attention on the hard decisions and techniques required to create a company from nothing. In 2012, analysts forecast the company will achieve nearly $1.5 How did Akamai do it? . . Founding Akamai.

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aweissman.com

NOVEMBER 14, 2012

Hexus.net In our startupy world, we often think of competition coming from the ability of new companies to innovate by being nimble, fast, using lean principles to iterate quickly and forcefully. Samsung is famously producing its own smart phone devices that look like they may be able to compete with Apple, it's component customer.

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www.usatoday.com

JULY 16, 2012

But most start-ups in Silicon Beach are young and lean and cant afford to provide Silicon Valley-like perks as trumpeted by Google, such as free food, pool tables and massages. "If Americas new business model: Sharing. © 2012 USA TODAY, a division of Gannett Co. Want 300 days of sun a year?" Google says. Travel Tips.

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Up and Running

JULY 29, 2016

It’s a completely different business model. In fact, as these companies form, merge, or sell, the first action is usually to separate or spin off the service aspect of the business (caretaking, meals, and so on) from the underlying real estate. See Also: Funding a Business Guide. Gumshoe investigating.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

SMALL BUSINESS. September 19, 2012, 9:32 p.m. Overall, nonventure-backed companies fail more often than venture-backed companies in the first four years of existence, typically because they dont have the capital to keep going if the business model doesnt work, Harvards Mr. Ghosh says. Harley Goes Lean to Build Hogs.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 23, 2021

We just finished the 11th annual Lean LaunchPad class at Stanford — our first version focused on deep science and technology. This allowed us to emphasize how to differentiate a technical spec from a value proposition and expand on the parts of the business model that are unique for science and engineering startups.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 21, 2013

Guest post by Lisa Regan, writer for The Lean Startup Conference. The Lean Startup Conference was founded four years ago to bring together real entrepreneurs who have applied Lean Startup techniques and have useful advice to share with each other. These show success at your core business.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Startups for startups – the top B2B tools used by Startups – Includes the list of top 50 startup vendors in 2012 by Vendorstack , a reviews and Q&A platform on enterprise vendors for startups and mid-market companies. Tools for Hackathons – added Dec 2012. Lean Methodology Sources. Part 3- Lean Cust.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

Written By Dan Martell on February 2nd, 2012 | Category: Hiring LeanStartup Marketing Metrics Startup Life | 6 Comments. How to stay lean and iterate quickly while you’re building a two sided marketplace, especially when “network effect” and “critical mass” are the two main focuses? Why do I do it?

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Transformify

JUNE 6, 2019

Called the Toyota Production System, it is one of the success stories about the lean manufacturing process. Lean manufacturing simply aims to minimize waste as much as possible because in this industry, and other manufacturing-related industries, it is very easy to accumulate it.

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wordsting.com

APRIL 4, 2013

Fat startup: Learn the lessons of my failed Lean Startup. by Word Sting in Lean Startup , Software copywriting , Copywriting for startups. Those that do will likely fall under the influence of the celebrated Lean Startup movement. Yet the company failed -- more of a fat startup than a lean startup.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

You may have read my previous posts about the Lean LaunchPad class taught at Stanford , Berkeley, Columbia , Caltech and for the National Science Foundation. It dawned on me that the plans were a symptom of a larger problem: we were executing business plans when we should first be searching for business models.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

In 2012, in partnership with Stanford University , U.C. Berkeley and NCIIA , Jerry Engel and I first offered the Lean LaunchPad Educators Class. In addition the class offers a suggested “Lean Entrepreneurship” curriculum and the details of how to teach the capstone Lean LaunchPad class.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

In 2012, in partnership with Stanford University , U.C. Berkeley and NCIIA , Jerry Engel and I first offered the Lean LaunchPad Educators Class. In addition the class offers a suggested “Lean Entrepreneurship” curriculum and the details of how to teach the capstone Lean LaunchPad class.

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