Business Model Customer Development Russia 
Steve Blank
OCTOBER 7, 2011
I spent the month of September lecturing, and interacting with (literally) thousands of entrepreneurs in two emerging startup markets, Finland and Russia. Ironically one of the things that’s holding back the Finnish cluster is Tekes , the government organization for financing research, development and innovation in Finland.
Steve Blank
OCTOBER 10, 2011
Finland itself has significant engineering talent, and is also attracting entrepreneurs from Russia and the former USSR. Filed under: Business Model versus Business Plan , Customer Development , Teaching , Venture Capital. Finnish culture makes risk-taking and sharing hard.
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ReadWriteStart
OCTOBER 13, 2011
I spent the month of September lecturing, and interacting with (literally) thousands of entrepreneurs in two emerging startup markets, Finland and Russia. Steve Blank is a retired serial entrepreneur, educator, thought leader and creator of the rigorous "Customer Development" methodology detailed in his book, "The Four Steps to the Epiphany."
Steve Blank
MARCH 3, 2015
It taught lean theory ( business model design , customer development and agile engineering) and practice. Now, 4 years after I arrived at BerkeleyHaas, we don’t teach business plan writing in any of our entrepreneurship classes or in any of our dozens of programs and competitions. Berkeley-wide.
Steve Blank
MAY 18, 2009
The dysfunctional family theory may explain why founders who excel in the chaotic early phases of a company throw organizational hand grenades into their own companies after they find a repeatable and scaleable business model and need to switch gears into execution. Let me know what you think. Comments and brickbats welcomed.
Steve Blank
NOVEMBER 1, 2010
With an out-of-this-world business plan. First, the company bought a fleet of 15 rockets from Russia, the U.S. But Iridium’s business model assumptions were fixed like it was still 1990. No Business Plan Survives First Contact With A Customer. Business plans are the leading cause of startup death.
Steve Blank
OCTOBER 31, 2014
China, Russia, Brazil, India, Indonesia all meet those criteria. The biggest mistake for most of these startups was not understanding that optimizing their business model for the 24 million people in the Australian market would not prepare them for the size and scale they needed to get to big. Outside the U.S.
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