Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

My good friend Alexander Osterwalder , the inventor of the business model canvas (one of foundations of the Lean Methodology) has written a playbook (along with his associate partner Tendayi Viki ,) From Innovation Theater to Growth Engine to explain how to build and implement repeatable innovation processes inside a company. .

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 20, 2011

They launched an incubator for the top scientists and engineers in the U.S. 63 scientists and engineers in 21 teams made 2,000 customer calls in 8 weeks , turning laboratory ideas into formidable startups. In July I got a call from Errol Arkilic , a program manager at the National Science Foundation (NSF), the $6.8-billion

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Steve Blank

JUNE 26, 2014

We’re changing the order in which we teach the business model canvas and customer development to better-fit therapeutics, diagnostics and medical devices. The Lean LaunchPad class uses the three “ Lean Startup ” principles: Alexander Osterwalders “ business model canvas ” to frame hypotheses.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 1, 2024

Eliminating middlemen in healthcare – from using AI to automate repetitive human jobs to exploring new and better business models for providing care. For that purpose, she launched Embed , an accelerator program. Verticalized Video Understanding – machine interpreted video.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 6, 2012

Follow along as we explore 10 of the most exciting college business incubators around today, and be sure to share your own favorites in the comments: Entrepreneurs Hall @ The RIT Global Village. Offering a “holistic entrepreneurship program,” this residential community has entrepreneurship at every step of the college experience.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 25, 2019

by Rick Mac Gillis , founder and CEO of Dragon Cloud , author of “ The New Frontier In Web Api Programming “ Startups, more than any other type of business, are sensitive to change. Use freelance platforms to connect with talent, then contract those who fit your business model outside the confines of the intermediary.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 7, 2021

Various business models in an on-demand courier delivery app. Business to Consumer (B2C) – It is the most common type of business model. An integrated referral program – where existing customers get points and rewards for referring the courier service app to new users.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 22, 2014

Dino Vendetti a VC at Bay Partners, moved up to Bend, Oregon on a mission to engineer Bend into a regional technology cluster. Part 3: Engineering a Regional Tech Cluster. Few entrepreneurs find this scalable and repeatable business model because it’s not easy. I visited Bend last year and caught up with his progress.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 10, 2011

I was invited to Finland as part of Stanford’s Engineering Technology Venture Program partnership with Aalto University. Finland itself has significant engineering talent, and is also attracting entrepreneurs from Russia and the former USSR. Startup incubators, business angels and VCs are starting to emerge.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 23, 2018

Sloan Foundation , the Sloan School of Management at MIT , the Sloan program at Stanford , and the Sloan/Kettering Memorial Cancer Center in New York. Sloan’s book My Years with General Motors , written half a century ago, is still a readable business classic. automotive industry grew to become one of the drivers of the U.S.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 4, 2020

Programming a piece of software, for example, is different from taking a sales meeting with the CEO of a credit union. Yet, especially in the early stages of your business, you will have to drive the whole of that process. Is your business idea disruptive? The software exists, and you add users.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 12, 2020

The eight teams spoke to over 945 beneficiaries, stakeholders, requirements writers, program managers, warfighters, legal, security, customers, etc. All the teams used the Mission Model Canvas , (videos here ) Customer Development and Agile Engineering to build Minimal Viable Products, but all of their journeys were unique.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 7, 2011

—— I was invited to Finland as part of Stanford’s Engineering Technology Venture Program partnership with Aalto University. It’s hard enough to pick which existing companies with known business models to aid. This is the first of two posts about Finland and entrepreneurship.

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Steve Blank

JULY 28, 2011

Silicon Valley was born in an era of applied experimentation driven by scientists and engineers. From the point of view of scientists and engineers in a university lab, too often entrepreneurship in all its VC-driven glory – income statements, balance sheets, business plans, revenue models, 5-year forecasts, etc.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 3, 2012

Long before there was the Lean Startup, Business Model Canvas or Customer Development there was a guy in Santa Barbara California who had already figured it out. The inspection- system GM decided to use it for his fourth-generation system, an 18-month program. Humility had crumbled the walls between marketing and engineering.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 14, 2013

Schedule and run the necessary sessions to update strategic product offerings, processes, and marketing programs. Align your business model to how your customers want to buy. Every business needs to take advantage of the new tools and technologies which can assist you in making this shift in strategy and measuring effectiveness.

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

In an effort to support startups looking for capital and mentorship, The Startup Magazine is supporting Volvo Financial Services in its launch of its iLabX global innovation program for technology entrepreneurs. You’ll have the chance to expand on your application and convince the panel that you’re right for the program.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 3, 2015

During the Cold War with the Soviet Union, science and engineering at both Stanford and U.C. Starting in the 1950’s, Stanford’s engineering department became “outward facing” and developed a culture of spinouts and active faculty support and participation in the first wave of Silicon Valley startups. The Business Plan is Dead.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 7, 2018

The digital revolution is disrupting the traditional business model for small and medium businesses (SMBs). by Humberto Farias, CEO and co-founder at Concepta. Buzzwords like data science, artificial intelligence, and predictive analytics are being used by big companies with the ability to invest.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 26, 2015

The first, the notion of the “ ambidextrous organization ” from O’Reilly and Tushman , posits that companies that want to do continuous innovation need to execute their core business model while innovating in parallel. Horizon 1 activities support existing business models. Horizon 1 is the company’s core business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 7, 2017

Schedule and run the necessary sessions to update strategic product offerings, processes, and marketing programs. Align your business model to how your customers want to buy. Every business needs to take advantage of the new tools and technologies which can assist you in making this shift in strategy and measuring effectiveness.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 11, 2018

For the whole program, please take a look here. It’s the engine that has powered companies including Amazon, Alibaba, and Google. As is the right business model, which is the focus of the Don’t Bet on Your First Business Model workshop. You need the right tools.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 29, 2010

In my last post I described my approach to one of the three classes I teach at Stanford in the engineering school: Fundamentals of Technology Entrepreneurship. The key things I want students to take from the class are: Understand that a startup is a temporary organization designed to search for a profitable business model.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 19, 2014

After seeing the process work so well for scientists and engineers in the NSF, we hypothesized that we could increase productivity and stave the capital flight by helping Life Sciences startups build their companies more efficiently. Program Director/Principal Investigator (PD/PI): The assigned PD/PI on the SBIR/STTR Phase I award.

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Steve Blank

JULY 25, 2011

Scientists and engineers as founders and startup CEOs is one of the least celebrated contributions of Silicon Valley. ESL, the first company I worked for in Silicon Valley , was founded by a PhD in Math and six other scientists and engineers. It might be its most important. ———-. Cold War Spin Outs.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 13, 2010

I’ve spent the last week in Santiago, a guest of Professor Cristóbal García at the Catholic University of Chile as part of Stanford’s Engineering Technology Venture Program. Teaching in Chile. Valaparaiso houses. Entrepreneurship and innovation in what I call “Chilecon Valley” is being talked about continually here.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 3, 2012

Schedule and run the necessary sessions to update strategic product offerings, processes, and marketing programs. Align your business model to how your customers want to buy. Every business needs to take advantage of the new tools and technologies which can assist you in making this shift in strategy and measuring effectiveness.

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Steve Blank

JULY 13, 2021

In 1908 Harvard Business School filled that need by creating a graduate degree – the Master of Business Administration. When Harvard started the MBA program there were no graduate-level business textbooks. Entrepreneurship Becomes a Subject in Business Schools. There were no classes on how to start a business.

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Steve Blank

JULY 25, 2023

This meant the class was team-based, Lean-driven (hypothesis testing/business model/customer development/agile engineering) and experiential – where the students, rather than being presented with all of the essential information, must discover that information rapidly for themselves.

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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. It is a very different skill than science, engineering, or management. George Bernard Shaw.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 25, 2023

4- Drop-shipping enterprise Photo Credit: Matthew Magnante It's my proposal The drop-shipping business model involves selling things that are transported straight from the supplier to the client. Your business model involves cooking and delivering delicious meals to people at their places of employment or at their homes.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 25, 2011

Schedule and run the necessary sessions to update strategic product offerings, processes, and marketing programs. Align your business model to how your customers want to buy. Every business needs to take advantage of the new tools and technologies which can assist you in making this shift in strategy and measuring effectiveness.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Good news, this is the business to be in next year. As corporate giants reassess their business models, some current staff will jump into the consulting world. In fact, we created a Certified Marketing Manager Program for 2021). 1) Coaching and consulting practices explode. 2) More and more firms crowdsource talent.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 22, 2018

For example, creating an experience management platform requires subject matter expertise, programmers, quality assurance, implementation specialists, professional services engineers, and a roadmap of future functionality requests.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 2, 2022

DocuSign , for example, created an ABM program to increase click-through rates and boost the number of conversations with high-value accounts. How you approach ABM depends on your business model and ideal accounts, as well as how you plan to expand campaigns. Use the median numbers as a guide for which program to lean towards.

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Agile VC

OCTOBER 3, 2016

The way forward includes not only advanced vehicles themselves but also potentially shifts in road infrastructure, laws and regulations, and even business models for “mobility.” And this entire system was engineered for human-driven vehicles.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 9, 2023

We asked entrepreneurs and business owners how technology will possibly affect their business tomorrow and here are the responses: #1- Automation will increase Photo Credit: Umair Syed Automation will undoubtedly increase businesses, supplanting monotonous, time-consuming operations and boosting productivity. In the U.S.

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