Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2010

Business schools teach aspiring executives a variety of courses around the execution of known business models, (accounting, organizational behavior, managerial skills, marketing, operations, etc.). In contrast, startups search for a business model. (Or to optimize this search. to optimize this search.

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 24, 2011

Karl is a software engineer with more than 10 years of experience who specializes in agile web development and web services integrations. The business model was to offer consumers with RCA’s an alternative to meeting their monthly transaction requirements that could be scheduled for a small amount of money, $1.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 11, 2010

Our goal is to teach students the key concepts of the startup process and help them understand that a startup is a search for a profitable business model. Students formed 5-person teams, came up with a business idea then got out of the building to validate their business model. What is a business model?

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 4, 2010

Not only did their sales curve look like a textbook case of a VC-friendly hockey stick, but their Lessons Learned funding presentation was an eye-opener.). They used Customer and Agile development to search for a scalable and repeatable business model to become a large company. Take No Prisoners. Not just big but huge.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

What matters is proving the viability of the company’s business model, what investors call “traction.&# Of course this is not at all true of many profitable small businesses, but they are not what I mean by startups.) Go on an agile diet quickly. At present would represent the $30,000 revenue company.

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Altgate

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

The presentation was on outsourcing generally, not just software engineering and the audience was very early stage companies (some yet to be founded). Anyway, the presentation went well so I wanted to share a Cliffs Note version here (the actual presentation was 2+ hours including Q&A). Advertising.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

The new innovation process had lots of paperwork – committees, application forms and presentations, and pitches. One of the quickest ways to sort innovation ideas is to use the McKinsey Three Horizons Model. Horizon 1 ideas provide continuous innovation to a company’s existing business model and core capabilities.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2017

LESSON #1: Equip your business with a portfolio map and a 21st century org chart. With industries from banking to transportation being transformed and, in some instances, undermined by new business models and technology, executives are smart to wonder, “Are we next?” Ask “what are the trends that are impacting our business?

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2017

— all great things when you are executing and scaling a known business model. Because the new CEO had built a team capable of and comfortable with executing an existing business model, the company would fail or get acquired. A 20th century VC was likely to have an MBA or finance background. Board Control.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Unfortunately in early stage startups the drive for financing hijacks the corporate DNA and becomes the raison d’etre of the company. Chasing funding versus chasing customers and a repeatable and scalable business model, is one reason startups fail. If they’re not busy looking at their Blackberry’s/iPhone’s.)

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Steve Blank

MAY 10, 2011

The Stanford Lean LaunchPad class was an experiment in a new model of teaching startup entrepreneurship. This last post – part nine – highlights the final team presentations. Now they were standing in front of us to give their final presentations. is just another engineering process, not building a business.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 21, 2010

Many startups don’t innovate at all in the product dimension, but use other kinds of innovation: repurposing an existing technology for a new use, devising a new business model that unlocks value that was previously hidden, or even simply bringing a product or service to a new location or set of customers previously underserved.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Then, you draft your business model and plan. First you draft an executive summary of your business plan. Then you write down a brief about your company and business model. In step 3 you access the present situation of the market to figure out whether your app deserves a place in the market or not.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

few years ago I also started following Alexander Osterwalder in his blog about his Business Model Generation -mantra. Finance, IT, Legal). It was just minutes before I was supposed to go on stage for the very first time and present The Lean Startup to a large audience, at a big conference. same as the old boss.

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

The one-page pitch format is also more suitable for SaaS businesses that are constantly testing new ideas. Your pitch is going to cover your strategy (what you’re going to do), your tactics (how you’re going to do it), your business model (how you will make money), and your schedule (who is doing what and when).

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 7, 2009

Initially, IMVU sought to quickly build a product that would prove out the soundness of their ideas and test the validity of their business model. Moreover, approaching the problem from the direction that I had intuitively is a recipe for never reaching a point where continuous deployment is feasible. Expo SF (May.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

In thinking about the bigger goal of digital transformation, 46% say they have been able to identify and create new product and revenue streams, and 45% of organizations are now using data and analytics to develop new business models. The more you know about your customers and market, the more effectively you can run your business.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 26, 2019

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. After painful trial and error, we had discovered that the teaching team could listen to 8 teams present before our brains melted down.).

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

I’ve summarized my learnings in this blog post , and here , here and here and here and put it together in the presentation here. In Horizon 1 and 2 companies (those that execute or extend current business models), stories revolve around heroes and rebels who manage to get something new done in spite of the existing processes.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 28, 2009

Compounding is not a process that most people find intuitive, and thats as true in engineering as it is in finance, so it requires a lot of encouragement in the early days to stay the course. Labels: agile , product development , Test-driven development 11comments: William Pietri said. Its a version of the law of compounding interest.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 5, 2017

It’s more than competing with giants like Amazon and Alibaba, your business in downtown mid-America can easily be crushed by a similar company on the Internet in Europe. Every business, small or large, needs to focus on agility and their ability to innovate. No nation or local business is an island.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 3, 2019

You stop focusing on presenting “numbers” and present information. Talk to your finance people: What performance indicators get attention? Valerie Kroll: “How to Present Test Results to Inspire Action”. When presenting data , the key question is “What do you want your audience to walk away with?” Tell Don’t Sell.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

Github - Free public repositories, collaborator management, issue tracking, wikis, downloads, code review, graphs Pivotal Tracker – Agile project management tool that enables real time collaboration. WebSequenceDiagrams - sketch sequence diagrams.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Videos/presentations. Presentation tools. Agile project management tool that enables real time collaboration. simple way to make timelines for presentations. Agile project management. agile product management. agile product management and Scrum tool. Automates Agile / Scrum development.

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