Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 6, 2023

For example, a while back a passionate entrepreneur approached me with an innovative solution for reducing world hunger, but hadn’t focused on the fact that hungry people often don’t have any money, and governments are not easy customers. Choose a business model that will win in the market.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

But by taking advantage of open source, agile software, and iterative development, lean startups can operate with much less waste. So far, I have found "lean startup" works better with the entrepreneurs Ive talked to than "agile startup" or even "extreme startup.") Of course, many startups are capital efficient and generally frugal.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 12, 2020

All the teams used the Mission Model Canvas , (videos here ) Customer Development and Agile Engineering to build Minimal Viable Products, but all of their journeys were unique. Few consider opportunities to make the world safer with the Department of Defense, Intelligence Community or other government agencies.

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Steve Blank

MAY 23, 2016

Established businesses execute business models while startups search for them. Shortly after that, I met Pete Newell , the retired head of the Army’s Rapid Equipping Force – one of the best Lean and agile organizations in the military – and I met Joe Felter an ex Special Forces Colonel.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 3, 2015

The disadvantage is that its methodology was based on the old waterfall model of product development and not the agile and lean methods that startups use today. It taught lean theory ( business model design , customer development and agile engineering) and practice. Where We Are Going From Here.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 1, 2018

Talking about the Brazilian market, they can even get a fine from the government because of some missing transactions on that day. Most of their business models wouldn’t be possible without it. But the main thing here is the overhead that will be created inside those companies to put everything back into the systems.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 25, 2015

I’ve spent this year working with corporations and government agencies that are adopting and adapting Lean Methodologies. We were once a scrappy, agile and feared organization with a “can-do” attitude. The biggest surprise for me was getting schooled on how extremely difficult it is to be an innovator inside a company of executors.

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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. Your First Iteration of an Idea Will Be Wrong. think his slides are great (and by far much easier on the eye then mine.). I've also read his book The Four Steps to the Epiphany, where he outlines this in great detail.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 26, 2015

government to help them innovate faster– not just kind of fast, but 10x the number of initiatives in 1/5 the time. The first, the notion of the “ ambidextrous organization ” from O’Reilly and Tushman , posits that companies that want to do continuous innovation need to execute their core business model while innovating in parallel.

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Transformify

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Most young people can’t afford to study abroad without government subsidies or scholarships. Of course, the hiring needs vary a lot and are dependent on the business model, but a skills gap analysis reveals that more product managers, programmers, and sales and marketing experts will be needed in the near future.

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Steve Blank

JULY 13, 2021

Founders of startups (and new ventures inside existing companies) are searching for product/market fit and a repeatable and scalable business model. At the start of the 21st century, after two decades and 8 startups, I retired and had time to think about how VCs directed their startups using business plans. experiential.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 13, 2010

Why Startups are Agile and Opportunistic – Pivoting the Business Model – [link]. Government Continues To Embrace Crowdsourcing – [link]. Build a technology company without a tech cofounder – [link]. Why you should have a co-founder – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 13, 2010

Why Startups are Agile and Opportunistic – Pivoting the Business Model – [link]. Government Continues To Embrace Crowdsourcing – [link]. Build a technology company without a tech cofounder – [link]. Why you should have a co-founder – [link].

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Steve Blank

JUNE 1, 2011

As customer and agile development reinvent the Startup, it’s time to ask why startup board governance has not kept up with the pace of innovation. Reinventing the board meeting may offer venture-backed startups a more efficient, productive way to direct and measure their search for a profitable business model.

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Steve Blank

JULY 25, 2017

I was at Stanford in the Graduate School of Business and was interviewed by Peter Gardner of StartGrid for his On The Road podcast. I shared my current thinking about innovation in companies and government agencies. 07:44 An MBA meant Master of Business Administration. 08:18 Agile Development and Lean – Eric Ries.

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Steve Blank

MAY 7, 2019

Modern entrepreneurship began at the turn of this century with the observation that startups aren’t smaller versions of large companies – large companies at their core execute known business models, while startups search for scalable business models. This new framework can act as the front-end of Customer Development.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 1, 2011

As customer and agile development reinvent the Startup, it’s time to ask why startup board governance has not kept up with the pace of innovation. Reinventing the board meeting may offer venture-backed startups a more efficient, productive way to direct and measure their search for a profitable business model.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 21, 2017

I was in Boston and was interviewed by The Growth Show about my current thinking about innovation in companies and government agencies.The interviewer was great and managed to get me to summarize several years of learning in one podcast. 7:11 Agile Engineering – Eric Ries. 17:08 Government Agency innovation limitations.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 28, 2020

They operated this way because their existing business models didn’t allow them to initially profit from those opportunities – so they ignored them – and continued to chase higher profitability in more-demanding segments. Innovation Theater) in companies and government organizations, rather than creating actual innovation.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 5, 2013

Lean Start-up Connection: Business Model Canvas. We figured our key partners would include consumers (to contribute data much like Wikipedia’s users), manufacturers (to keep their product information updated) and the US government (to supply datasets to power our content). Staying Agile. An Untested Hypothesis.

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Steve Blank

JULY 30, 2024

Seemingly overnight, disruption has allowed challengers to threaten the dominance of companies and government agencies as many of their existing systems have now been leapfrogged. The same holds true for Government organizations, albeit with more serious consequences. It’s a textbook case of the Innovators Dilemma.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 2, 2011

A revolution has taken hold as customer development and agile engineering reinvent the Startup process. It’s time to ask why startup board governance has failed to keep pace with innovation. Startups now understand what they should be doing in their early formative days is search for a business model. Victor Hugo.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 26, 2013

It’s a model for a government program that’s gotten the balance between public/private partnerships just right. government has built an accelerator for scientists and engineers. I-Corps bridges the gap between public support of basic science and private capital funding of new commercial ventures. Lessons Learned.

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Occam's Razor

MAY 2, 2017

There are great starting points, but there is an assumption that based on your expertise and business knowledge that you’ll be able to personalize these. The challenge I want to take on is to be specific in the recommendations make, and to share how we can be very nimble and agile. Government: California Department of Motor Vehicles.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 28, 2013

For years, HBR and most of the country’s leading business schools taught entrepreneurship as if the strategies, processes and techniques were some sort of amputated versions of the business models embraced by “real companies.” The pattern is the same,” Blank added in an interview, only “the scale is different.”.

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Steve Blank

JULY 25, 2011

government backed venture firms and limited partnerships. Large companies execute known business models. In the real world a startup is about the search for a business model or more accurately, startups are a temporary organization designed to search for a scalable and repeatable business model.

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Steve Blank

JULY 15, 2010

Most of the startups they invested in either died by running out of money before they found a scalable business model or ended up in the “land of the living dead” by never growing (failing to Pivot.). New, agile and adroit venture firms with new business models have emerged to deal with the reality that 1) web 2.0

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bhargreaves.com

MARCH 7, 2010

But for every entrepreneur who has seriously considered the pluses and minuses of working with a dev shop in the context of the specificities of their business model, there are five who are hiring a dev shop because (a) they are lazy, (b) they don’t know any better, or (c) all of the above. Scissor.com is another agile option.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 5, 2010

I think you can blame Customer and Agile Development for a small part of it. Fairchild Semiconductor became the progenitor of a flood of Silicon Valley chip companies and at the same time the adoption of the limited partnership as the model for Venture Firms gave VC’s their own profitable business model. Here’s why.

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Steve Blank

JULY 28, 2011

government agency that supports research in all the non-medical fields of science and engineering - is changing the startup landscape for scientists and engineers. And they’ll do this using the business model / customer development / agile development solution stack. Until today. billion U.S. Join the I-Corps.

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Steve Blank

MAY 29, 2019

My contribution has been, “Why don’t we design classes more closely modeled to what innovators and entrepreneurs actually do.” Today the capstone class is most often experiential, team-based, hands on, focused around the search for a repeatable and scalable business model. PB: Everyone looks for a turnkey solution.

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Steve Blank

JULY 23, 2014

Their goal was to train University scientists and researchers to use Lean Startup methods (business model design, customer development and agile engineering) to commercialize their science. National Science Foundation adopted my Lean LaunchPad class.

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Steve Blank

JULY 25, 2023

This meant the class was team-based, Lean-driven (hypothesis testing/business model/customer development/agile engineering) and experiential – where the students, rather than being presented with all of the essential information, must discover that information rapidly for themselves. What is unique about Wicked Problems?

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 10, 2011

There’s something about the combination of human nature (rationalization and self deception) and large hierarchical organizations (corporations, military, government, etc.) They realized that conditions change so rapidly that the original business plan hypotheses becomes irrelevant. that actively conspire to hide failure and errors.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 7, 2019

All the teams used the Mission Model Canvas , Customer Development and Agile Engineering to build Minimal Viable Products, but all of their journeys were unique. Few consider opportunities to make the world safer with the Department of Defense, Intelligence Community or other government agencies. Team: Panacea.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 12, 2019

We certainly want to hear about any positive feedback you have from potential customers on your idea, your prototype, and your business model, but that better not be the end of the story. We want to see a documented business plan that clearly addresses this challenge. Promote any inside relationships or customer base.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 4, 2016

Department of State manages America’s relationships with 180 foreign governments, international organizations, and the people of other countries with 270 embassies, consulates, and other posts. diplomats, government officials, and all other personnel at home and abroad. Department of State is working on all of them. Support U.S.

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