Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

Continuous innovation requires the imagination and courage to challenge the initial hypotheses of your current business model (channel, cost, customers, products, supply chain, etc.) A unicorn is a startup with a market capitalization north of a billion dollars. The founders. VCs have now ceded more control to founders.

Restful 249

Restful Silicon Valley San Jose Puerto Rico 249

Steve Blank

JUNE 11, 2013

When you take money from investors their business model becomes yours. Sigh… What I should have been hearing is the search for the business model, specifically the progress on product/market fit, but I hear the fund raising story first at least 90% of the time. When I asked, “What are you working on?” What’s a Startup?

Venture Capital 335

Venture Capital IRR Liquidity Event Business Model 335

Steve Blank

JUNE 11, 2013

When you take money from investors their business model becomes yours. Sigh… What I should have been hearing is the search for the business model, specifically the progress on product/market fit, but I hear the fund raising story first at least 90% of the time. When I asked, “What are you working on?” What’s a Startup?

Venture Capital 227

Venture Capital IRR Liquidity Event Business Model 227

Steve Blank

JULY 20, 2015

Errol Arkilic was the lead program director for the National Science Foundation I-Corps , which uses my Lean LaunchPad curriculum to teach scientists and engineers how to take their technology out of the lab and into the marketplace. The Lean LaunchPad class. But nothing else like [The Lean LaunchPad class] was being taught. .

Government 120

Government Channel Southern California Lean 120

Campus Entrepreneurship

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Lack of seed capital (home equity lines of credit, friends/family) is a major problem. (Is The new reality of entrepreneurship will bring new opportunities and business models for entrepreneurs and society. Few Businesses Sprout, With Even Fewer Jobs – WSJ.com.

Bootstrapping 31

Bootstrapping Seed Capital Lean Global 31

maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

How to stay lean and iterate quickly while you’re building a two sided marketplace, especially when “network effect” and “critical mass” are the two main focuses? Initially we had a different business model (an entire venue, track design, sleds, etc for $1 million+) which made it hard to sell.

Technical Review 44

Technical Review Startup Cofounder Software Review 44