Steve Blank

AUGUST 23, 2010

At times I’ll do what I consider an extension of teaching; a two-day Customer Discovery/Validation intensive session with a large corporation serious about Customer Development at my ranch on the California Coast. Customer Development Without Agile Engineering Is A Plan For Failure.

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Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

I lived through the time when working in my first job in Ann Arbor Michigan we had to get out a map to find out that San Jose was not only in Puerto Rico but there was a city with that same name in California. And that’s where my plane ticket ought to take me to install some computer equipment.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 27, 2009

And in hindsight, we seemed a bit more agile and innovative in WWII.) Yet decades later the military lacked the agility to write a spec in two years, let alone get 10′s of thousands of new systems deployed on aircraft as Terman had done. My first business trip to the valley was to visit California Microwave.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

They attended property management association meetings in Oregon outside of the technology echo chamber of California to get a sense for people’s daily problems. The whole point of Agile Development is to produce shorter, sharper pieces of code completed more quickly where you can get feedback from customers.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 9, 2009

But what I wanted was an agile marketing team capable of operating independently without day-to-day direction. The first reaction from my CEO was, “that’s why you’re running the department.” And yes, we could have built a top-down, command-and-control hierarchy.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 25, 2009

Home Books for Startups Secret History-Bibliography Steve Blank Startup Resources Steve Blank Entries RSS | Comments RSS Categories Air Force (9) Ardent (9) Big Companies versus Startups: Durant versus Sloan (29) California Coastal Commission (3) Conservation (2) Convergent Technologies (1) Customer Development (98) Customer Development Manifesto (..)

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Steve Blank

APRIL 6, 2009

When Terman said no, Sylvania, a tube company which built proximity fuse tubes in WWII, won the contract and set up its Electronic Defense Lab (EDL) in Mountain View California in the middle of an orchard. The Army offered Fred Terman, the Dean of Engineering at Stanford, a $5M contract to build an electronics countermeasures lab.

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Steve Blank

MAY 23, 2016

When I retired after 21 years working in 8 startups, I was invited to be a guest lecturer at the business school at the University of California Berkeley. While most visionaries turn out to be hallucinating, the few who are right push the human race further along. Let me give you an example.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 7, 2016

Kelly McAdoo is the City Manager & CEO of the City of Hayward in Alameda County, California. series that also includes the Future of Work , the Future of Corporate Agility, Skill-Sharing, and more in the weeks leading up to Lean Startup Week. This interview is part of a “Future of….” What were the biggest stumbling blocks?

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Enabling AI allows organizations to remain agile in their approach to execution and empower all members of their organizations to reach new heights in achieving results that matter most for the organization and their customers. Christa Martin is a Chief Outsiders CMO based in San Diego, California.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

By learning to be rapidly responsive and agile. I'm honored to be hosted by the Commonwealth Club of California, who I've spent many hours listening to on public radio. So how is it best to deal with uncertainty? How does an organization like this thrive? Ries wants to show you how. Presented by the Town Hall Center for Civic Life.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 13, 2016

The latter requires speed and agility. The California design firm IDEO distinguishes between three types of risk when they assess prototypes: desirability, feasibility, viability. That means the innovators end up competing without any competitive advantage against the more nimble and agile startups.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 7, 2009

You don’t get grades for having resiliency, curiosity, agility, resourcefulness, pattern recognition and tenacity. There’s a big difference between being an employee at a great technology company and having the guts to start one. You just get successful. Steve Blank [.] Midas Oracle.NET , on August 30, 2009 at 11:53 pm Said: [.]

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Steve Blank

MARCH 7, 2012

The class is intensely and deliberately experiential to develop the mindset, reflexes, agility and resilience an entrepreneur needs to search for certainty in a chaotic world. We trying to teach students a methodology that combines customer development, agile development, business models and pivots. Only in California!

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

In future posts I’ll describe how Eric Ries and the Lean Startup concept provide the equivalent model for product development activities inside the building and neatly integrates customer and agile development. A few successful ones do all these things. But if you have a web based product the right answer may be 300-500. Thank you, Steve.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 30, 2008

It ended with a large layoff and a transfer of jobs from NY to California and Bangalore. Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Six streaming locations Interviews ► March (7) New conference website, speakers, agenda Two new scholarship programs for lean startups Speed up or slow down? The moral of the story?

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 21, 2024

Agility and Resilience Agility and resilience are critical for navigating the uncertainties of today’s business environment. Businesses are adopting agile methodologies, such as Scrum and Lean, to enhance their responsiveness.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

Truth be told, we've got defense contractors here just like California does too. Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Six streaming locations Interviews ► March (7) New conference website, speakers, agenda Two new scholarship programs for lean startups Speed up or slow down? There are and we do. Expo SF (May.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

The Lean LaunchPad class teaches students how to build a Lean Startup using business model design, customer development and agile engineering. Over the last two years they used part of the National Science Foundation funds to send eight NYU faculty to California attend the Lean LaunchPad Educators program.

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Agile VC

JUNE 30, 2016

Subsequent challenges in 2005 and 2007 had better results, and the 2007 event was the first actually staged on roads… albeit an abandoned military base in California. None of the entrants could complete the 150 mile course, in fact the best vehicle (developed by CMU team) only went about 7 miles before it got stuck like the others.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 18, 2010

Andrew read the Four Steps to the Epiphany , tracked me down at California Coastal Commission hearing in Santa Barbara, and had me meeting with him in a stairwell during a break in my day-long meeting. Customer Development is like being Agile. One of the attributes of great entrepreneurs is that they are tenacious and relentless.

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Board Effect

MARCH 17, 2021

Gloria Mark, a professor at the University of California, studies the issue of digital distraction. If you were to take the number of times you get distracted during an average workday and multiply it by 25, you’ll get a better idea of how many minutes of focus time you’re losing every day.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 6, 2009

Air Force also needed improvements in frequency agility to protect its cold war bombers. Frequency agility can be best described by what happened over Germany in WWII. B-47 - primary Strategic Air Command Bomber in the 1950's As a result, to protect its bombers flying over the Soviet Union the U.S.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 29, 2009

I packed up my life in Michigan and spent five days driving to California to start work. Agile Opportunism – Entrepreneurial DNA « Steve Blank (tags: startup) [.] Agile Opportunism – Entrepreneurial DNA. You’re Hired, You’re Fired. Driving across the U.S. is an adventure everyone ought to do. Reply Create.

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Steve Blank

JULY 1, 2009

Filed under: Secret History of Silicon Valley « Agile Opportunism – Entrepreneurial DNA Rocket Science 2: Drinking the Kool-Aid » 2 Responses Ben , on July 1, 2009 at 2:31 pm Said: Great post Steve. It’s interesting that the NY Times obituary makes no mention of Ted Hall.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 10, 2009

Rapid Scan/High Probability of Intercept – Stanford’s contribution In the last post we described Stanford’s high power, electronically tuned microwave tubes (the Backward Wave Oscillator ) which made high power, frequency agile airborne jammers possible.

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usersknow.blogspot.com

APRIL 30, 2010

An Agile Alternative: Embedded Design A Depressing Example of Non-Agile Design Why Your Customer Feedback is Useless Seven More Ways People Suck at Customer Developmen. ▼ April (5) 7 Ways Design Can Speed Up Your Product Developmen. How to Make Your Product as Awful as a Corporate I.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Leaders should define KPIs with their teams using an agile approach that ties to top needed results. Christa Martin is a Chief Outsiders CMO based in San Diego, California. In short, KPIs are defined early on and consistently reaffirmed, rather than one that is made only in at the beginning of the year.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 28, 2009

Reply Agile Opportunism – Entrepreneurial DNA « Steve Blank , on June 29, 2009 at 7:02 am Said: [.] Reply dispatches from TJICistan » Blog Archive » a secret history , on April 27, 2009 at 7:25 am Said: [.] The invention of electronic warfare, part I and II. [.]

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2018

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. Each of the six teams presented a 2-minute video to provide context about their problem and then gave an 8-minute presentation of their Lessons Learned over the 10-weeks.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2009

Waterfall, Agile, Lean? Intellectual Property/Patents – Strategic or Tactical, timing? Regulatory Issues – What are they? Time to Market – How long? Product Development – How do you engineer it? Manufacturing – How do you build it? Seed and Follow-on Financing – How do your finance it? Liquidity – How? M&A, IPO?

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 18, 2017

Buoys out in the Pacific Ocean send data to meteorologists regarding the size of the swells approaching Northern California. Master Reinvention Agility. We call this strategy Reinvention Agility. They listen intently to wave forecasts coming from special radios they carry with them at all times. There is no middle ground.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2017

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. Each of the eight teams presented a 2-minute video to provide context about their problem and then gave an 8-minute presentation of their Lessons Learned over the 10-weeks.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 1, 2016

Fourth , would the same Lean Startup methodology (business model design, customer development and agile engineering) used in the Lean LaunchPad and NSF I-Corps class work here? Result: Hell yes. Fifth , would other schools be interested in offering this class? 15 more schools are in the pipeline. Lessons Learned.

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Steve Blank

JULY 2, 2015

military can work together – for access to advanced technology and to learn how to move with agility, speed and urgency. Prior to that, he worked for an integrated trading company in which he built several new businesses by collaborating with high-tech startups in California.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 2, 2009

I teach teams various Agile techniques, and occasionally get told some particular trick is cheating. One might omit, for example, “less important&# tests where one hadn’t performed as well, without crossing an ethical boundary. Reply William Pietri , on April 2, 2009 at 3:56 pm Said: Well put.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 13, 2016

The latter requires speed and agility. The California design firm IDEO distinguishes between three types of risk when they assess prototypes: desirability, feasibility, viability. That means the innovators end up competing without any competitive advantage against the more nimble and agile startups.

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