Startup Professionals Musings
JANUARY 7, 2013
Yet 2013 is still projected by The Fiscal Times as a difficult IPO opportunity for startups, due to choppy markets, continuing fiscal uncertainty, and the Facebook fiasco. The market and venture capitalists are looking for business, but with a continuing focus on proven business models. Line up a winning team.
Steve Blank
OCTOBER 30, 2012
The class teaches founders how to dramatically reduce their failure rate through the combination of business model design, customer development and agile development using the Startup Owners Manual. When you leave the class, you’ll know how to think about your startup in the now standard “language” of the business model canvas.
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Steve Blank
FEBRUARY 23, 2013
———– What’s striking about Fast Company’s 2013 list of the world’s 50 most innovative companies is the relative absence of large, established firms. Finding a viable business model is not a linear, analytical process that can be guided by a business plan.
The Next Web
DECEMBER 30, 2012
These are with no doubt worthwhile goals, but I’d like to pose an important challenge for founders: Make learning and development your key resolution in 2013. How to identify and engage the first customers for your product, and how to gather, evaluate and use their feedback to make your product, marketing and business model far stronger.
Steve Blank
FEBRUARY 23, 2013
———– What’s striking about Fast Company’s 2013 list of the world’s 50 most innovative companies is the relative absence of large, established firms. Finding a viable business model is not a linear, analytical process that can be guided by a business plan.
Steve Blank
DECEMBER 10, 2014
Over 44 classes have embedded the business model canvas and/or Customer Discovery including a year-long course taken by every single one of its bioengineering majors. Since 2013, DC I-Corps has trained over 150 teams with the kind of impact NSF and Steve envisioned when they launched the program. It’s made a big bang.
Startup Professionals Musings
APRIL 4, 2013
In my experience, even the best technology and business model won’t succeed without successful relationships. Marty Zwilling First published on Young Entrepreneur on 03/27/2013. entrepreneur startup relationships work survival business' That’s why investors say they invest in people, not ideas.
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