Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

China has simply become the factory. Risk capital has emerged in China, India and other countries where risk taking, innovation and liquidity are encouraged, on a scale previously only seen in the U.S. And for consumer hardware, no startup has to build their own factory as the costs are absorbed by offshore manufacturers.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 10, 2013

I just spent a few weeks in Japan and China on a book tour for the Japanese and Chinese versions of the Startup Owners Manual. In these series of 5 posts, I thought I’d share what I learned in China. I was only in China for a week so this a cursory view. What a long strange trip China has been through.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 25, 2009

Reply steveblank , on March 28, 2009 at 7:27 am Said: Denis, Over time the blogs tagged under the “customer development&# category will build up a narrative of illustrative stories of how customer development evolved in practice. What part of this blog should I read if I am also reading the book?

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Steve Blank

JUNE 12, 2020

This was followed by an 8-minute slide presentation describing their customer discovery journey over the 10-weeks. 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

APRIL 12, 2013

I just spent a few weeks in Japan and China on a book tour for the Japanese and Chinese versions of the Startup Owners Manual. In these series of 5 posts, I thought I’d share what I learned in China. I was only in China for a week so this a cursory view. Investing in China Today. All the usual caveats apply.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

I just spent a few weeks in Japan and China on a book tour for the Japanese and Chinese versions of the Startup Owners Manual. In these series of 5 posts, I thought I’d share what I learned in China. I was only in China for a week so this a cursory view. China Venture Capital. China now has plenty of both.

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Steve Blank

JULY 6, 2016

Blinken : We found that defectors getting out of North Korea have much greater access than we thought to technology, much of it coming in from China. Filed under: Customer Development , SiriusXM Radio Show. How do you drop those on North Korea? . Send an email to terri@kandsranch.com describing your entrepreneurial journey.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 3, 2013

As soon as they had designed the product, they found a contract manufacturer to build the product in China. Alice and Bettina are hands-on mechanical and electrical engineers, so instead of assuming everything would go smoothly, they wisely got on a plane to Dongguan China and worked with the factory directly. They learned a ton.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

It wasn’t so many years ago that starting a new e-commerce business on the Internet was a complex custom development project, usually costing a million dollars or more. You can now get tooling and products built very quickly either in the US or in China, with delayed payment options.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Class 3: Our guest speaker for session 3 was Anja Manuel , former State Department official, founding partner of Rice, Hadley, Gates and Manuel and author of This Brave New World : India, China and the United States. If you can’t see the slides click here. If you can’t see Anja Manuel ‘s talk click here .

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Steve Blank

MARCH 14, 2012

The MiCasa customer discovery narrative blog is here. Interviewed 154 customers in China plus surveyed another 48. Curriculum = business model canvas + customer development. Relentless customer visits (10-20 a week). On-line journal to document their customer discovery narrative. Team ZiiLion.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

Nayeem explained why: Building a hardware product standalone is very, very difficult because you have to deal with supply chain, you have to deal with customer service, you have to deal with fulfillment. … Filed under: Customer Development , SiriusXM Radio Show. Steve : Did you personally know about any of this?

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Steve Blank

APRIL 12, 2013

I just spent a few weeks in Japan and China on a book tour for the Japanese and Chinese versions of the Startup Owners Manual. In these series of 5 posts, I thought I’d share what I learned in China. I was only in China for a week so this a cursory view. Investing in China Today. All the usual caveats apply.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

I just spent a few weeks in Japan and China on a book tour for the Japanese and Chinese versions of the Startup Owners Manual. In these series of 5 posts, I thought I’d share what I learned in China. I was only in China for a week so this a cursory view. China Venture Capital. China now has plenty of both.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 8, 2019

In the government space, Russian interference with elections, and China building island bases in the South China Sea as well as repurposing ICBMs as conventional weapons to attack aircraft carriers, are examples of radical disruption using existing technologies deployed in extremely short periods of time.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 3, 2013

As soon as they had designed the product, they found a contract manufacturer to build the product in China. Alice and Bettina are hands-on mechanical and electrical engineers, so instead of assuming everything would go smoothly, they wisely got on a plane to Dongguan China and worked with the factory directly. They learned a ton.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 29, 2013

I was surprised how interested the faculty was in exploring whether the Capstone class could be modified to use the Customer Development process to get input from potential “customers” inside the Air Force. with the product built incrementally and iteratively, as students acquire more customer feedback. While the U.S.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 27, 2014

It wasn’t so many years ago that starting a new e-commerce business on the Internet was a complex custom development project, usually costing a million dollars or more. You can now get tooling and products built very quickly either in the US or in China, with delayed payment options.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

That will inform velocity and direction of the market. Detailed Industry Understanding. Who are the market leaders? New entrants? In revenue, market share and growth rate. In the U.S. Western countries. Understand the technology flows. Who builds on top of who. Who is critical versus who can be substituted. Understand the economic flows.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 23, 2016

Filed under: Corporate Innovation , Customer Development. Which brings us to the fourth reason it’s harder for large corporations to offer disruptive breakthroughs: startups. For the first 75 years of the 20 th century, when capital for new ventures was scarce, the smartest engineering talent went to corporate R&D labs.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

. — Alice and her team made it point to not just get customer insights but to understand all aspects of their business model. Filed under: Customer Development , SiriusXM Radio Show. 6 : David Taylor , founder of Crudefunders ; and Bill Keenan , chairman and CEO of Pango Financial.

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www.women2.org

MARCH 8, 2012

After quitting my job and starting Sorced , I spent a few months validating my business concept by creating the product mockups and doing customer development. The Alchemist Series: Customer Development and Metrics. Tweet By Elizabeth Knopf (Co-Founder & CEO, Sorced). However, I needed to actually build it!

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Steve Blank

APRIL 29, 2013

I was surprised how interested the faculty was in exploring whether the Capstone class could be modified to use the Customer Development process to get input from potential “customers” inside the Air Force. with the product built incrementally and iteratively, as students acquire more customer feedback. While the U.S.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

The United States is now a debtor nation to China and that the bill is about to come due. Risk capital has emerged in China, India and other countries where risk taking, innovation and liquidity is encouraged, on a scale previously only seen in the U.S. Finally, venture capital and angel investing is no longer a U.S.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 26, 2016

DF-21 and Islands in the South China Sea. Filed under: Customer Development , Science and Industrial Policy , Teaching. Yet in the last decade the U.S. Department of Defense and Intelligence Community are now facing their own disruption from ISIS. North Korea. Sign up here.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

. — Alice and her team made it point to not just get customer insights but to understand all aspects of their business model. Filed under: Customer Development , SiriusXM Radio Show. 6 : David Taylor , founder of Crudefunders ; and Bill Keenan , chairman and CEO of Pango Financial.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 29, 2016

I went out like a bull in a china shop, “Grab grab grab, get it, get it. Filed under: Customer Development , SiriusXM Radio Show. .” Steve Blank : Would you have listened? Steve Sims : No. I was young and obnoxious and arrogant. Of course, I never had anything to lose. …I I never had any of those trappings to risk.

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Steve Blank

MAY 18, 2009

Filed under: Customer Development , Family/Career , Technology | Tagged: Steve Blank , Entrepreneurs , Startups , Early Stage Startup , Tips for Startups « The Curse of a New Building Going to Trade Shows Like it Matters – Part 1 » 33 Responses William , on May 18, 2009 at 5:44 am Said: Heh.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

The United States is now a debtor nation to China and that the bill is about to come due. Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers - SoCal CTO , November 1, 2010 I had a recent email dialog with the founder of a company looking for a CTO for their startup. Ralph Waldo Emerson. One out of ten of Americans are out of work.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 17, 2009

In 1949, with the detection of the first Soviet nuclear weapons test, the Iron Curtain falling across Europe and the fall of China to the Communists, Cold War paranoia drove the U.S. Stanford had a Customer Development loop going on inside their own lab. military to rearm and mobilize.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

Using mTurk to interview 100 customers (in 4 hours) | Customer Development Labs - [link]. Using mTurk to interview 100 customers (in 4 hours) | Customer Development Labs - [link]. Using mTurk to interview 100 customers (in 4 hours) | Customer Development Labs - [link].

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 31, 2014

China, Russia, Brazil, India, Indonesia all meet those criteria. while building their products in China. channel partners and Chinese manufacturers and customer acquisition and activation programs outside their home country. Identify activities/resources/partners locally and then globally. Outside the U.S. Trip 2 to the U.S.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

The students “get out of the building” and test their hypotheses in front of potential beneficiaries using the Customer Development methodology, all while building and updating their Minimal Viable Products. The teaching team delivers comments, pulling no punches. It’s tough. She shares her observations below.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

The students “get out of the building” and test their hypotheses in front of potential beneficiaries using the Customer Development methodology, all while building and updating their Minimal Viable Products. The teaching team delivers comments, pulling no punches. It’s tough. She shares her observations below.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Today, the successor company serves some 300,000 customers in a series of niche markets including American soldiers calling home from war zones, oil rig managers, and big game hunters. Customer Development, Business Model Design and Agile Development could have changed the outcome. With an out-of-this-world business plan.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 4, 2014

Facing continuous disruption from globalization, China, the Internet, the diminished power of brands, changing workforce, etc., existing enterprises are establishing corporate innovation groups.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. Sourcing in China. Smart China Sourcing. Customer Development. Read post Why Learning should be your top 2013 new year’s resolution  for a full list. Codeacademy. Lean Methodology Sources. Steve Blank. SW Courses. Part 1- Intro. Part 2- 3 tools for startups.

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