Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

Your startup is an organization built to search for a repeatable and scalable business model. Agile Development is the way startups quickly iterate their product as they learn. A Lean Startup is Eric Ries’s description of the intersection of Customer Development, Agile Development and if available, open platforms and open source.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2011

Over the last decade we assumed that once we found repeatable methodologies (Agile and Customer Development , Business Model Design) to build early stage ventures, entrepreneurship would become a “science,” and anyone could do it. Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not.

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Steve Blank

MAY 17, 2010

Most startups are facing unknown customer needs, an unknown product feature set and is an organization formed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model. That means that writing a static business plan adds no value to starting a company, as the plan does not represent the iterative nature of the search for the model.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 6, 2020

They actually search for indications of change and opportunities across diverse environments, rather than just more customers who might use their current offerings. Focus on agility as the key skill your organization needs. As a first step toward faster decisions and agility, practice applying the 80/20 Principle to your thinking.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

We think teaching teams a formal methodology around the Lean Framework (Business Model design, Customer Development and Agile Engineering) is a natural evolution of how successful incubators/accelerators will build startups. Technology in search of a market. The next customer segment we tried was startup founders.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Then we saw the great alignment between the Customer Development Model and the Agile software development methodologies so we decided to create the course IIC3515 “Workshop of Entrepreneurship with Software” that applies both models to develop real software products with customers from the startup ideas of the students.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 10, 2009

That’s why startups are agile. Startups that are agile have mastered one other trick – and that’s Tempo – the ability to make quick decisions consistently over extended periods of time. Reply Why Startups are Agile and Opportunistic -- Pivoting the Business Model , on April 14, 2010 at 6:32 am Said: [.]

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Steve Blank

JUNE 26, 2014

Agile Engineering” to have teams prototype, test, and iterate their idea while discovering if they have a profitable business model. Value Propositions and Customer Segments are covered in weeks 1 and 2, emphasizing the search for problem/solution and then product/market fit. So why change something that worked so well?

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Gust

NOVEMBER 9, 2014

All you old software development types will recognize the analogy to the traditional two year “waterfall model” of software development, which has been totally replaced with the Agile iterative methodology. Agile assumes and plans for iterative development, where requirements and solutions evolve as more is known and markets change.

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The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 22, 2024

These missed opportunities can stall progress and put startups at a disadvantage compared to more agile competitors. This integration ensures that everyone in the team has access to up-to-date information, reducing the time spent searching for data or transferring details between departments manually.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 16, 2013

As much as I loved the magazine, there was little in it for startups (or new divisions in established companies) searching for a business model. ” It defined a startup as a “temporary organization designed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model.” I’m proud to be called the “father” of the Lean Startup Movement.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 2, 2011

Working with him, I’ve been impressed to watch his small team embrace Customer Development (and Business Model Generation ) and search the world for the right product/market fit. GE’s performance in implementing Customer Development gives lie to the tale that only web startups can be agile. Corporate elephants can dance.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

AUGUST 30, 2010

Agile Development, meet Agile Business. Search ODesk under Admin Support -> Personal Assistant or Other. Search Google for "virtual assistants." Search Elance under Admin Support -> Admin Assistant. Search ODesk under Admin Support -> Personal Assistant or Other. Part-time VAs. Full-time VAs.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 13, 2024

Whether you’re a startup or a multinational corporation, the need for agile and streamlined workflows is universal. Organizing digital files intuitively and accessiblely can dramatically reduce the time spent searching for documents. The journey toward operational efficiency takes time to happen.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 8, 2011

It was designed to bring together many of the new approaches to building a successful startup – customer development, agile development, business model generation and pivots. Startups are in fact only temporary organizations, organized to search –not execute–for a scalable and repeatable business model.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

In the past, we’ve assumed that potential customers would always arrive at our website after Googling a specific search term, and we’d make them “aware” of a problem and how our product solves this problem. For example, the Jira Software team created a microsite dedicated to product-agnostic education about becoming an agile team.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 13, 2023

I believe that a fully engaged team is the key to both productivity and agility in the face of change. In my search for guidance on modern business leadership studies, both scientific and actual case studies, I was impressed with a new book, “ Head and Heart: The Art of Modern Leadership ,” by Dr.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

For those of you who have been following the discussion, a Lean Startup is Eric Ries ’s description of the intersection of Customer Development , Agile Development and if available, open platforms and open source. Marketing demand creation programs (Search Engine Marketing, Public Relations, Advertising, Lead Generation, Trade Shows, etc.)

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

And to his credit (which I only appreciated years later) he agreed that while he was going to start a search, I could be a candidate for the job. I was agile enough to keep up with innumerable changes and I was changing lots of things myself. Heck every day something new was happening at our startup. What should I have done?

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

Labels: customer development , search engine marketing 13comments: Jim Lindstrom said. Another way to promote the website is doing organize search. For example, make sure your website is in the first page of Google search for the given keyword. Eric -- This is a pretty interesting idea. November 8, 2008 8:44 AM OneDish said.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 5, 2012

Search Versus Execution. However, we now know that a startup is a temporary organization designed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model. If your business model is unknown – that is just a set of untested hypotheses- you are a startup searching for a repeatable business model. Organization.

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Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

What we’ve learned is that while companies execute business models, startups search for a business model. We now understand that startups are just temporary organizations designed to search for a scalable and repeatable business models. Today, every founder can read all there is to know about running a startup online.

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The Startup Magazine

APRIL 12, 2017

Everypixel: Stock image search engine. Everypixel is an image search engine for quality stock images. What may come as a surprise is that stock image search engines have been around since the early nineteenth century, providing businesses and designers with professional photos.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 3, 2009

Refreshing to finally see lean and agile thinking emerge in product/business-floors and not only in technology. 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?

San Francisco 168

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 23, 2010

Rather, it is a organization searching for a business model (inside a company that’s executing an existing one.) Customer Development Without Agile Engineering Is A Plan For Failure. All the money in the world doesn’t negate the painful search for a business model, or the lack of a scalable/profitable one.

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Steve Blank

MAY 17, 2022

Fusing and making sense of sensor data (detecting threats in optical /SAR imagery, classifying aircraft based on radar returns, searching for anomalies in radio frequency signatures, etc.) History tells us that late adopters fall by the wayside as more agile and opportunistic governments master new technologies. Carpe Diem.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 11, 2009

Agile – you may find the real opportunities for your company was somewhere else. However, you will be dealing with almost daily change, (new customer feedback/insights from a Customer Development process and technical roadblocks ,) as the company searches for a repeatable and scalable business model. How quickly will you recover?

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Steve Blank

MAY 6, 2015

Best practices in software development started to move to agile development in the early 2000’s. With Agile you could end up satisfying every feature a customer asked for and still go out of business. A major improvement over Waterfall development, Build Measure Learn lets startups be fast, agile and efficient.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 16, 2009

For those whove heard it, it contains a length discourse on the subject of agile software development and extreme programming, including its weaknesses when applied to startups. As Im pontificating about agile, I see the name Kent Beck in my peripheral vision. Now, this webcast was packed, hundreds of people were logged in.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 6, 2023

In fact, I recommend that you search for the problem first, rather than creating a solution looking for a problem. Successful entrepreneurs are always analyzing market feedback, remain agile, and are quick to make corrections or change course if things aren’t working. Solutions and inventions alone do not make a business.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

Wed never heard of five whys, and we had plenty of "agile skeptics" on the team. 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? Expo SF (May.

Software Review 167

Software Review Technical Review San Francisco Continuous Deployment 167

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 27, 2017

Great tech support is about going above a customers’ needs, meaning you need to be agile and adapt to changes in your area of expertise. Nowadays, people will search for an answer to their question on the web long before they actively reach out to you. You can do this by honing in the following areas: 1. Be available.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 1, 2018

It’s time to lay the groundwork for voice search. I’m not going to tell you that you should put half of your marketing budget into voice search. Voice search and voice assistants are going to be a big deal, though they may not be essential to small businesses for now.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

Its had tremendous impact in many areas: continuous deployment , just-in-time scalability , and even search engine marketing , to name a few. Sounds very similar to agile development which is the way. I owe it originally to lean manufacturing books like Lean Thinking and Toyota Production System. Im a huge fan of small batches as well.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 8, 2008

This theory has become so influential that I have called it one of the three pillars of the lean startup - every bit as important as the changes in technology or the advent of agile development. Stevey's Blog Rants: Good Agile, Bad Agile Learning from Obama: maneuver warfare on the campa. Expo SF (May.

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TechEmpower

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Artificial Intelligence (AI), and particularly Large Language Models (LLMs), have significantly transformed the search engine as we’ve known it. This presents businesses with an opportunity to enhance their search functionalities for both internal and external users.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 29, 2020

Save time and paper by digitizing your entire document repository with optical character recognition and converting them into editable files, making it easier to find documents, search archives, edit content, and standardize your workflows to ISO requirements (PDF/A format support.). Comprehensive labeling, filtering, and search functions.

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