Steve Blank

MAY 23, 2016

This unorthodox idea has become a movement …called The Lean Startup – and has led to entirely new ways to start companies, commercialize science, and think about innovation. Over the last decade I’ve watched the Lean Startup approach to entrepreneurship take off. How did this happen? The National Science Foundation adopted it.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

We just held our twelfth session of our new national security class Technology, Innovation and Modern War. Space had long been part of the Air Force and the thought was, we really need to elevate space to a level commensurate with its importance to national security. Today’s topic was The Space Force and Modern War.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 17, 2013

Outsourcing lacks security and long-term focus. The best solution is to work with an experienced techie to help you secure grade-A technical talent. Furthermore, they are less agile and have longer product cycles that require more documentation and usage assumptions, which still requires an in-house tech to properly manage.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 30, 2013

Though the notion of a “lean startup” that uses both Agile and Customer Development approaches is ostensibly strongly customer focused, the purpose of these methodologies is for the company to find an maximize its market, not specifically to optimize the user experience. I think he totally nails it. What do you think?

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 28, 2008

Ill exclude those non- lean startups who basically exist for the purpose of raising bigger and bigger sums of money. Their idea was to build a next-generation autonomous robot, that could be used by defense and security agencies around the world. How does a lean start-up find the all-star team worthy of pitching? Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 22, 2010

But many more are true American success stories, out of the limelight, quietly creating jobs and securing our future. But many more are true American success stories, out of the limelight, quietly creating jobs and securing our future. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Take the example of Indianas Passageways.

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The Startup Magazine

APRIL 14, 2022

Honesty is undoubtedly the best policy, even if you can fend off the competition for a while by creating a false sense of security in your customers. You need to keep your startup lean and agile and not become big with too much money and too many people. In the business world, integrity matters more than anything else.

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Steve Blank

JULY 25, 2023

Now at Imperial College Business School and Co-Founder of the Wicked Acceleration Labs , Cristobal and I wondered if we could combine the tenets of Lean (get out of the building, build MVPs, run experiments, move with speed and urgency) with the expanded toolset developed by researchers who work on Wicked problems and Systems’ Thinking.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

NYU has adopted the Lean LaunchPad ® class as a standard entrepreneurship course across twelve different schools/colleges within the University. Over 1,000 students a year are learning lean startup concepts. The Educators Program is a 2½ day class that teaches faculty how to create and teach their own Lean LaunchPad class.)

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Up and Running

JANUARY 25, 2018

Digital businesses need to be agile and reactive too. Make sure that you fully explore the pros and cons of funding , and allow for plenty of time between securing, and actually accessing funding. If you’re looking for more details on how to write a simple business plan, consider using Bplans’ free downloadable Lean Plan template.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 29, 2016

We tend to associate the government with words like bureaucracy rather than lean innovation. Department of Defense by adopting Lean Methodology inside their agency. The NGA has adopted Lean Innovation methods to make this happen. Their goal is to integrate these techniques into their own Lean innovation processes.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 29, 2016

We tend to associate the government with words like bureaucracy rather than lean innovation. Department of Defense by adopting Lean Methodology inside their agency. The NGA has adopted Lean Innovation methods to make this happen. Their goal is to integrate these techniques into their own Lean innovation processes.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

I’m teaching my first non-lean start up class in a decade at Stanford next week; Technology, Innovation and Modern War : Keeping America’s Edge in an Era of Great Power Competition. The output of these classes is providing hundreds of solutions to critical national security problems every year. — Why This Course?

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 4, 2016

State Department and asks students to use Lean Methods to test their understanding of the problem and deliver rapid-fire innovative solutions to pressing diplomacy, development and foreign policy challenges. This is a first step to a more agile, responsive and resilient, approach to diplomacy and national security in the 21 st century.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Management Layer : Critical functions include managing AI agents, securing permissions, and enabling payments. Startups vs. Incumbents: The AI Battleground The rapid development of AI agents is creating a fierce competition between agile startups and established tech giants. Google is also leaning in on AI Agents.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 29, 2013

Todd Branchflower was one of my Lean LaunchPad students entrepreneurial enough to convince the Air Force send him to Stanford to get his graduate engineering degree. First, I got to meet the faculty in both electrical/computer engineering and management and share what I’ve learned about Lean and the Lean LaunchPad class.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 7, 2019

The eight teams spoke to over 820 beneficiaries, stakeholders, requirements writers, program managers, warfighters, legal, security, customers, etc. 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. Team: Panacea.

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

Step 1: Start with a lean plan. It’s the fastest way to get your idea onto paper, and it’s the very first step in the lean planning process, which is much easier and more iterative than traditional business planning methods. Introducing Lean Planning: How to Plan Less and Grow Faster. How to Write a Traditional Business Plan.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

This actually aligns closely with the Lean Planning approach, which allows your business to be more agile and make adjustments as you test your idea in the market. The faster I did that, the more high paying clients I secured. Two of my startups failed because I was so busy “creating” or perfecting the products.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 4, 2016

State Department and asks students to use Lean Methods to test their understanding of the problem and deliver rapid-fire innovative solutions to pressing diplomacy, development and foreign policy challenges. This is a first step to a more agile, responsive and resilient, approach to diplomacy and national security in the 21 st century.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 30, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, October 30, 2008 John Doerrs 10 lean startup tips I just saw video of John Doerrs talk yesterday at VentureBeat’s “How to manage your start-up in the downturn&# roundtable event. All cash in most secure possible instruments. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0.

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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. Getting Lean. Each of the teams used the Lean Startup methodology.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2017

It combines the same Lean Startup Methodology used by the National Science Foundation to commercialize science, with the rapid problem sourcing and curation methodology developed on the battlefields in Afghanistan and Iraq by Colonel Pete Newell and the US Army’s Rapid Equipping Force. Their sponsors agreed. This is the End.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 21, 2024

Businesses are investing in technology to support these models, such as collaboration tools, virtual private networks (VPNs), and secure cloud services. Agility and Resilience Agility and resilience are critical for navigating the uncertainties of today’s business environment.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2018

Six teams spoke to over 600 beneficiaries, stakeholders, requirements writers, program managers, warfighters, legal, security, customers, etc. 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. Team: TrackID. (Our

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Steve Blank

APRIL 29, 2013

Todd Branchflower was one of my Lean LaunchPad students entrepreneurial enough to convince the Air Force send him to Stanford to get his graduate engineering degree. First, I got to meet the faculty in both electrical/computer engineering and management and share what I’ve learned about Lean and the Lean LaunchPad class.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 26, 2016

Join a select cross-disciplinary class that will put you hands-on with the masters of lean innovation to help bring rapid-fire innovative solutions to address threats to our national security. Targeting, assessments, technology, recipes, and tactics all flow at the speed of a Lean Startup. We’re Our Own Worst Enemy.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 1, 2016

So I was astonished how ready and eager students were for a class that combines the toughest problems in national security, with learning Lean Innovation methods. We had more applicants (70+) for the 32 seats in this class than we usually get in our Lean LaunchPad entrepreneurship class. Result: Hell yes.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 1, 2016

So I was astonished how ready and eager students were for a class that combines the toughest problems in national security, with learning Lean Innovation methods. We had more applicants (70+) for the 32 seats in this class than we usually get in our Lean LaunchPad entrepreneurship class. Result: Hell yes.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 4, 2024

Most of these loans are issued with an underlying guarantee of the company’s assets or future cash flows, providing some security to lenders, and the borrower some leeway to take advantage of unforeseen cash fluctuations or act upon time-sensitive opportunities.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 3, 2016

Over half the student teams have decided to continue working on national security projects after this class. First was to teach students to develop the mindset, reflexes, agility and resilience an entrepreneur needs to make decisions at speed and with urgency in a chaotic and uncertain world. This post is a continuation of the series.

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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. — — — — In this second segment, Takashi Tsutsumi and Masato Iino talk about how they brought the Lean Startup to Japan. The focus of our first segment is how Silicon Valley and the U.S.

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Steve Blank

JULY 1, 2009

The National Security Agency has a great website on the subject. 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. during World War II.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 29, 2009

The former manager had been fired because: ESL had a major military contract to deploy an intelligence gathering system to Korea they needed to train the Army Security Agency on maintenance of the system the 10 week training course (6-hours a day) hadn’t been written the class was supposed to start in 6 weeks. Reply Create.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 23, 2009

The lean startup methodology is based on enlisting customers as allies, which requires honesty and integrity. The following was written an actual lean startup practitioner. It was originally posted anonymously to the Lean Startup Circle mailing list, and then further developed on the Lean Startup Wiki ’s Case Studies section.

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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. Getting Lean. Each of the teams used the Lean Startup methodology.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 26, 2012

Brown & Sons, Montgomery Securities. Once you put a lot of money in, you're no longer lean and flexible and kinkin' and jivin' and trying to figure it out," he says. When you keep it lean, everybody has better options, and a better outcome when all the dust settles.". Everything's better with the lean model.

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