Steve Blank

MAY 29, 2019

With the nature of work changing, the core skills entrepreneurs need to know to become practitioners are actually core skills that everybody will need to know to get a job: creativity, agility, resilience, tenacity, curiosity. Companies have more demos than they’ll ever need. Tom has added a class on entrepreneurial ethics.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 17, 2017

My colleague Joel Zien and I spent four action-packed days checking out the latest technology, meeting hundreds of people, and of course, having fun! What is the latest technology and how can I leverage it within my organization? The question then becomes: what technology is the right one to invest in?

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 26, 2013

While a few of the I-Corps teams are in web/mobile/cloud, most are working on advanced technology projects that don’t make TechCrunch. It’s success is measured not only by the technologies that leave the labs, but how many U.S. government has built an accelerator for scientists and engineers. in Science or Nature.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 28, 2008

Now there was nothing wrong with their analysis: anyone who invents a technology as sophisticated as The Transformers is definitely going to make a lot of money. Turns out, they were incredibly well-credentialed graduate students who had, in fact, developed some interesting new robotics technology. whos on the engineering team?

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San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment DC 128

Steve Blank

JUNE 7, 2019

Unlike traditional demo days or Shark Tanks which are “here’s how smart I am, please give me money,” a Lessons Learned presentation tells a story of a journey of hard-won learning and discovery. Steve Weinstein a 30-year veteran of Silicon Valley technology companies and Hollywood media companies. Team: Panacea.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 18, 2011

QA can look at stuff built just hours before and give feedback by the time the engineers return to work. First of all the cases where the integration of the new small agile and innovative company into a large corporate worked are few and far between. Most of the time buying a startup has bad consequences for the parent company.

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Austin Startup

JULY 27, 2019

21 Teams Gather at Capital Factory to Hack Daimler North America’s Voice Technology for Truck Report On Friday, July 19th a group of 77 ambitious developers, designers and entrepreneurs gathered at Capital Factory to participate in the Daimler Trucks North America (DTNA) Hackathon. Diagnostic Engineer Dave Vigna ?—?Diagnostic

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North America Technology Texas America 53

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

— I just watched a very smart company try to manage innovation by hiring a global consulting firm to offload engineering from “distractions.” This was a very large and established tech company; its engineering organization developed the core day-to-day capabilities of the organization. Engineering continually felt overwhelmed.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Our defense department and intelligence community owned proprietary advanced tools and technology. We and our contractors had the best technology domain experts. Army’s Rapid Equipping Force on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan finding and deploying technology solutions against agile insurgents. Newell ran the U.S.

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Community Silicon Valley Technical Review Incubator 245

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2010

I’ve introduced a new class at Stanford to teach engineers, scientists and other professionals how startups really get built. There are few courses which teach aspiring entrepreneurs the skills (business models, customer and agile development, design thinking, etc.) ——————– Engineering 245.

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Steve Blank

JULY 30, 2024

I’ve been working with a large organization whose very existence is being challenged by an onslaught of technology (AI, autonomy, quantum, cyberattacks, access to space, et al) from aggressive competitors, both existing and new. In the military it’s demos but no funding for deployments at scale. The result is “innovation theater.”

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Steve Blank

JUNE 2, 2011

A revolution has taken hold as customer development and agile engineering reinvent the Startup process. Reinventing the board meeting may offer angel-funded startups that don’t have formal boards or directors (because of geography or size of investment) to attract experienced advice and investment outside of technology clusters (i.e.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 1, 2011

Silicon Valley was born in an era of applied experimentation driven by scientists and engineers. The combination of venture capital and technology entrepreneurship is one of the great business inventions of the last 50 years. It provides private funds for untested and unproven technology and entrepreneurs. billion U.S.

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Silicon Valley Intellectual Property Balance Sheet Lean 118

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

in many cases an example is required - demo, or in my case video guitar lesson along with google ads for quick test data. 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?

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 11, 2010

Tuesday, January 12th 6:30PM Agile UX at the Economist (Waitlist only) The Economist online will share their experiences, successes and lessons learned around practicing user-centered design in an Agile development process. Like many evolving technologies, there remains a gap between theory and practice. RSVP: [link].

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

As a formal method, the Lean Startup consists of three parts: The Business Model Canvas – to frame hypotheses, Customer Development – to test those hypotheses in front of customers, and Agile Engineering – to build Minimum Viable Products to maximize learning. Customer Relationships is changed to Buy-in/Support.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 24, 2017

What are the industry and technology trends that are fueling the need for these skills? With agile development cycles and uncertain monetization models, they live and die by data and experimentation. Therefore, product demos, “trying before buying,” live support, etc., What should they learn today?

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 13, 2015

I coached one team from REDACTED working on building a complex new technology for a market that is generally very secretive. Because they assumed customers would be unwilling to talk with them, the company was building their technology around market research. He’d present a demo of the prototype and ask customers if it would be useful.

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Security Customer Early Stage Agile 60

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

After hearing from 20+ guest speakers , including two Secretaries of Defense, Generals, Admirals and Policy makers in our Technology, Innovation and Modern War class – the direction of technology and the future of national security came into sharper focus. — “We need to couple the $150 billion a year U.S.

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Technology China Government Artificial Inteligence 316

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Investors sitting through Incubator or Accelerator demo days have three metrics to judge fledgling startups – 1) great looking product demos, 2) compelling PowerPoint slides, and 3) a world-class team. We now have the tools, technology and data to take incubators and accelerators to the next level. We think we can do better.

Oakland 331

Oakland Incubator Lean Metrics 331

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. Our mantra to the students was that we wanted them to learn about “Deployment not Demos.” Each of their slide presentations follow their customer discovery journey.

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Southern California San Diego Mississippi SBIR 191

Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2017

Our mantra to the students was that we wanted them to learn about “Deployment not Demos.” Our observation is that the DOD has more technology demos than they need, but often lack deep problem understanding. Our sponsors did remind us, that at times getting a solution deployed meant that someone did have to see a demo!).

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 12, 2016

We just held our final week of the Hacking for Diplomacy class, teaching students entrepreneurship and “Lean Startup” principles while they engaged in national public service applying advanced technologies to solve global challenges. In exchange the sponsors got access to fresh ideas, new technology and a new perspective on serious problems.

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Silicon Valley Lean San Diego Agile 219

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 12, 2016

We just held our final week of the Hacking for Diplomacy class, teaching students entrepreneurship and “Lean Startup” principles while they engaged in national public service applying advanced technologies to solve global challenges. In exchange the sponsors got access to fresh ideas, new technology and a new perspective on serious problems.

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Silicon Valley Lean San Diego Agile 120

css-tricks.com

JANUARY 2, 2013

You have options for just about every other technology you choose for a project, but you always need to use CSS. Is that historically, ASP.Net Webforms engine made IDs really hard to specify. This is something that most technology companies fail at, and is reflected in the popularity of their products. Web Design.

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Web Software Review Technical Review Caching 96

Steve Blank

MARCH 26, 2019

So in 2011, with support from the Stanford Technology Ventures Program (the entrepreneurship center in the Stanford Engineering School), we created a new capstone entrepreneurship class – the Lean LaunchPad. The additional teaching team members made it possible. Class Velocity/Depth. Product/Market Fit Versus The Business Model Canvas.

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Lean Business Model Balance Sheet Video 257

blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Guess which technology we have the least trouble with. You have a CEO that clearly hasn’t taken the time to understand a technology platform. who forms technology biases based on old Visual Basic stereotypes or shallow interpretations of. ability based on one of many technologies. March 25, 2011 at 1:36 pm.

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Cracking the Code

APRIL 13, 2007

Several things - and I like the way Tin Tzuo, the Chief Strategy Officer of Salesforce.com illustrated them during his speech at the Stanford Technology Venture Program. for a demo. 4) Sales model: From seasoned sales people to a tiered sales engine To buy, people needs to be comfortable with the product. Basic sales principle.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 3, 2019

Sales calls and demo recordings can plot communication sequences, hierarchies, and help make copy sticky. Watch their expressions as they see the demo. recommendation engines, chatbots, automated suggestions for collaboration). Digital growth does not come from technology; it’s based on great customer experience.

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

Nothing essential that I disagree with you in your post, but when read by other people with minimal software engineering experience, they can have too high expectations. Would love to hear your insights sometime into how to partner with engineers. So, while your post is a good summary (of things that cant be learned quickly.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Every startup faces multiple choices and decisions when it comes to technology. Firebase : Are all your developers front-end engineers? Google Custom Search Engine. Google App Engine. Ad Serving Technology. Search Engine Optimization Tools. Hundreds of startups featured since 2005, will yours be next?

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Software Review Technical Review Startup 53

Steve Blank

JANUARY 15, 2017

And finally this bill acknowledges that networks of entrepreneurs and mentors are critical in getting technologies translated from the lab to the marketplace. While a few of the I-Corps teams are in web/mobile/cloud, most are working on advanced technology projects that don’t make TechCrunch. Why This Matters. in Science or Nature.

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Lean Technical Review Government Washington 275

Steve Blank

JANUARY 15, 2017

And finally this bill acknowledges that networks of entrepreneurs and mentors are critical in getting technologies translated from the lab to the marketplace. While a few of the I-Corps teams are in web/mobile/cloud, most are working on advanced technology projects that don’t make TechCrunch. Why This Matters. in Science or Nature.

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Lean Technical Review Government Washington 120