Steve Blank

MARCH 26, 2014

For those who don’t know, I wrote the book Open Innovation in 2003, and followed it with Open Business Models in 2006, and Open Services Innovation in 2011. A startup is a temporary organization in search of a repeatable, scalable business model. When companies want to innovate a new business model (vs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 26, 2021

Yet, I find them often jumping to the forefront, with many notable successes , including Elon Musk (South Africa) at Tesla, Sergey Brin (Russia) at Google, and Arianna Huffington (Greece) at the Huffington Post. That doesn’t mean that you should try to rollout your business globally with your limited initial resources.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 19, 2023

is supporting a proxy war with Russia while simultaneously attempting to deter a China cross-strait invasion of Taiwan. Viewing the DoD budget as a zero-sum game has turned the major defense primes and K-street lobbyists into saboteurs for DoD organizational innovation that threaten their business models. Today, the U.S.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 8, 2019

The model described innovation occurring in three time horizons : Horizon 1 ideas provide continuous innovation to a company’s existing business model and core capabilities. Horizon 2 ideas extend a company’s existing business/model and core capabilities to new customers, markets or targets.

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Steve Blank

MAY 3, 2022

At the onset of the war in Ukraine, Russia launched a cyber-attack on Viasat’s KA-SAT satellite, which supplies Internet across Europe, including to Ukraine. They know this and know that weapons that can be built at a fraction of the cost and upgraded via software will destroy their existing business models. In the U.S.,

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

To shorten that time, we wanted to teach them the best practices of Hacking for Defense/Lean Startup/I-Corps (customer discovery, MVPs, pivots, business model canvas, etc.) Last fall, Russia conducted a cyberattack on the Norwegian parliament. defense market. And give them a roadmap for how to play in the U.S. defense market.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 21, 2014

Other interesting facts: - Western businesses tend to have different geographic priorities than Asian businesses: while Western companies look towards expanding into multiple new markets in entrenched both Western markets as well as the emerging markets of Russia, South America and Middle East, Asian companies tend to focus on other parts of Asia.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 30, 2012

Starcount simply aggregates data from 11 top social media platforms – including Russia’s social network VKontakte – and pulls this into charts to give you info on who or what is the most popular in social media. I inquire after their business model. Monetizing Popularity.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 30, 2017

billion dollar market of business communication software. Its secret is a business model that focuses on providing a premium service using open source solutions, 90% cheaper than its competition, according to Eleconomista. Spanish startup Noysi has managed to penetrate the crowded and growing $67.4

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thebarefootvc

JUNE 13, 2010

This is also how business models also evolve. Technology usage is no longer on the fringe, it is part of most people’s daily life, be it in India, Russia, Abu Dhabhi or Silicon Valley. It signifies the importance of knowledge. No matter how much you know there is a lot more knowledge to acquire.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 14, 2013

If your business model is dependent on government approvals, that can take a long time, or require political connections. We all know that the success “rules” in Russia are different from the USA, so cross-boundary investments are considered high risk, even if you have operating experience there. Operations in another country.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 1, 2011

If your business model is dependent on government approvals, that can take a long time, or require political connections. We all know that the success “rules” in Russia are different from the USA, so cross-boundary investments are considered high risk, even if you have operating experience there. Operations in another country.

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Gust

JANUARY 6, 2013

If your business model is dependent on government approvals, that can take a long time, or require political connections. We all know that the success “rules” in Russia are different from the USA, so cross-boundary investments are considered high risk, even if you have operating experience there. Operations in another country.

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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.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 3, 2015

It taught lean theory ( business model design , customer development and agile engineering) and practice. For example, our Intel Technology To Market Accelerator took 22 teams from 11 countries across 15 time zones, from northern Russia to southern Chile and from Saudi Arabia to the U.S. Berkeley peers got in Steve’s class.

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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.

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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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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

If your business model is dependent on government approvals, that can take a long time, or require political connections. We all know that the success “rules” in Russia are different from the USA, so cross-boundary investments are considered high risk, even if you have operating experience there. Operations in another country.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

based in emerging markets: Russia, China, India. There’s a few proven business models on the net – don’t just rely on advertising because by definition, if you don’t have a massive audience to begin with, you’re revenues are bound to be LOW. com, qq.com, sina.com.cn).

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 15, 2020

My grandparents were forced from Russia. Actually keeping the company in business, having it have a sustainable business model, having it pull in the funds that it needs to keep going, that's actually not a greedy thing to do. Wars have been fought. It's either leave or die. My dad and my uncles fought in the World Wars.

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Strategic plans so carefully developed now look like Napoleon’s disastrous return from his invasion of Russia (see graphic). Our businesses are in Moscow now. Small business should focus on digital as well, with a keen eye looking at re-imagining their business models. Napoleon didn’t adjust his plans.

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Hunter Walker

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

I feel confident that money was his motivation in running for President and in doing whatever it is he did with Russia. I feel confident that money was his [Trump] motivation in running for President and in doing whatever it is he did with Russia. They have different business models, different companies, different creators, etc.

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