Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

In 2012 I got together with Alexander Osterwalder , Henry Chesbrough and Andre Marquis to think about the Lean and the future of corporate innovation. It didn’t take us very long to connect the dots between exponential growth, business model innovation and the “Lean Startup” movement. to find, attract and retain “starters.”.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 6, 2016

The show follows the journeys of founders who share what it takes to build a startup – from restaurants to rocket scientists, to online gifts to online groceries and more. Evangelos Simoudis’ is the founder and managing director of Synapse Partners. If you can’t hear the clip, click here. If you can’t hear the clip, click here.

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David Teten

OCTOBER 1, 2015

Should you co-found your company with a software development shop? incubators, e.g., the many options in New York. I’ve talked with a number of software development shops who are eager to get into the business of cofounding companies, i.e., getting product revenue and equity instead of just consulting revenue. The discounts?

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 22, 2013

My co-author and business Partner Bob Dorf spends much of his time traveling the world teaching countries and companies how to run the Lean LaunchPad program. The program is funded by the Colombian government and modeled after the NSF Innovation-Corps program created and built by my partner and co-author Steve Blank.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 30, 2014

Our Lean Launchpad® for Life Sciences is one of them. But a new class of life science/healthcare co-working and collaboration space is another. The Lean Launchpad® for Life Sciences (the I-Corps @ NIH ) uses the Lean Startup Model to discover and validate the business model.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 22, 2013

My co-author and business Partner Bob Dorf spends much of his time traveling the world teaching countries and companies how to run the Lean LaunchPad program. The program is funded by the Colombian government and modeled after the NSF Innovation-Corps program created and built by my partner and co-author Steve Blank.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 7, 2011

Incubators : toured the TechArb , the engineering student accelerator, and the Michigan Venture Center in the University’s Tech Transfer Office. Everyone I met in this program “gets” the principles of Agile, Lean and Customer Development big time. Venture Capital ; met with the local hardware/software venture capital firm.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 8, 2012

There’s probably no one more qualified to write this book then Brad Field (startup founder, co founder of two VC firms – Mobius and Foundry, and founder of TechStars.). Incubators and Accelerators. For some incubators, entrepreneurs can stay as long as they want. Leaders and Feeders.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 14, 2013

Amsterdam-based startup accelerator Rockstart last year launched a program to find and support ten teams of startup founders in Europe. It recently announced the results of its incubator program – and the results look promising.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 8, 2022

Some entrepreneurs, like Paul Graham , co-founder of Y-Combinator, and Dave McClure , founder of 500 Startups, mask their focus on multiple startups by running an incubator or accelerator, and providing seed funding for a number of individual efforts. Cross-fertilization from current market feedback.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Guest post by Lisa Regan, writer for The Lean Startup Conference. Entrepreneurs beyond Silicon Valley, including those working abroad, often have to retool Lean Startup methods to apply them in places with very different business cultures. On September 24 in the U.S. Here’s what they had to say.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 28, 2020

With the theme “Build Back Better” Jerry Engel , Pete Newell , Steve Weinstein and I co-hosted nearly 500 Lean Educators from 63 countries and 235 universities online for a three-hour session to share what we’ve learned about educators on how we can help our communities rebound, adjust, and recover. — Background. Students/Teams.

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 16, 2012

As we have seen with the recent speed bumps at highfliers like Groupon and Zynga, taking “lean startups” from foundation to creating sustainable, scalable, profitable business models is a very rare and special task. TripAdvisor, in effect, was a model lean start-up with an engineering-driven, product-focused founder.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 26, 2012

I reminded my Startup Owners Manual co-author Bob Dorf this is how entrepreneurs played the game, blah, blah, blah. I was headed to my second Lean LaunchPad launch, excited that the first one in June had led to four funded startups raising some $2-million from Russian VC’s. Go ahead and take a moment to read the post , it’s short.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

announced this evening at its annual Pitch Night , that it has received sponsorship by the Kauffman Foundation to support its "Founder Labs," a pre-incubator program whose mission is to increase the number of female founders of technology startups. CEO and co-founder, "Founder Labs and Women 2.0

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 6, 2019

Some entrepreneurs, like Paul Graham , co-founder of Y-Combinator, and Dave McClure , founder of 500 Startups, mask their focus on multiple startups by running an incubator or accelerator, and providing seed funding for a number of individual efforts. Cross-fertilization from current market feedback.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 6, 2015

Previously she was Co-Founder and CEO of SNAZZ, a cloud-based event management platform. What are some of the unique benefits and constraints from the point of view of a founder? . However, founders shouldn’t take money from corporate VCs because of an exit expectation. New York Times’ timeSpace is a good example.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2020

Jake Soberal and Irma Olguin are the founders of a company called Bitwise. Here's my conversation with the founders of Bitwise. I am the co-founder and CEO of Bitwise Industries. Irma Olguin : My name is Irma Olguin, I'm the co-founder and CEO of Bitwise Industries. So what are we going to do?

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 6, 2020

In January of this year, he arrived in the US with his co-founders as part of the winter 2020 YCombinator batch. When the shelter in place orders began, Alpha found himself living in a tiny Airbnb with his other co-founders, Having just arrived from the UK to do the start up program, YCombinator. Alpha Lee : Right.

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Steve Blank

JULY 2, 2015

Takashi Tsutsumi and Masato Iino , founders of Learning Entrepreneur’s Lab in Japan. John recently co-founded P360, a business that produces animated training content for the military, and he works for BMNT Partners. Takashi Tsutsumi has been a venture capitalist 15 years incubating and investing in startups in Japan.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 27, 2019

It’s rare for a startup founder to hit the ball out of the park on their first try. That’s not a good use of the team’s time especially if they’re trying to keep lean and move fast. He is focused on investments, partnerships and incubation of startups across various sectors within the pet care industry.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

Over breakfast he got me up to date on his life since school (two non-CEO roles in startups,) but he wanted to talk about his third startup – the one he and two co-founders had started. The belief then was that most founders couldn’t acquire the skills rapidly enough to steer the company through this phase.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 9, 2016

The show follows the journeys of founders who share what it takes to build a startup – from restaurants to rocket scientists, to online gifts to online groceries and more. Joining me in SiriusXM’s studio in New York were: Drew Silverstein , co-founder and CEO of the music technology venture Amper Music. Drew Silverstein.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 17, 2016

The show follows the journeys of founders sharing their experiences of what it takes to build a startup – from restaurants to rocket scientists, to online gifts to online groceries and more. Joining me this week at the Stanford University studio were: Wayne Sutton , co-founder of BUILDUP VC. Dave Kashen.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 6, 2013

The Telefonica-backed Wayra London incubator officially opened its doors last year, but its current intake of startups have only called it home for around seven months. Founder, Robyn Exton, explained to TNW that location had to still be included as a relevant factor but exactly how important it was varies from person to person.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

The show follows the journeys of founders who share what it takes to build a startup – from restaurants to rocket scientists, to online gifts to online groceries and more. Additionally, he is the co-founder of ConnectYard , a social analytics platform for e-learning platforms. And download any of the past shows here.).

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 8, 2008 The lean startup Ive been thinking for some time about a term that could encapsulate trends that are changing the startup landscape. After some trial and error, Ive settled on the Lean Startup. I like the term because of two connotations: Lean in the sense of low-burn.

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Up and Running

JULY 14, 2015

Peter and Jonathan discuss startup incubators, and our guest Caroline talks to us about the “F” word and 10 reasons why startups fail. Startup Incubators – (2:13). Read also: Q&A with Business Incubator Co-founder Joe Maruschak. Peter: Joe talks a little bit about this idea of incubators.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 25, 2011

I posed this question to FamigoGames co-founder Q Beck. In the selection process, I get the chance to meet with founders with varying motivations. I look for founders with somewhat of a “built to last&# attitude because starting a company, and indeed even being an entrepreneur is not a destination but a journey.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

Richard Witten , special advisor on entrepreneurship to the President of Columbia University ; and Kathryn Minshew , co-founder of the popular online career platform TheMuse.com both joined me in Sirius’ New York studio and shared their version of being knocked down and coming back stronger. It has been phenomenally successful.

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Business Plan Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

Mentor programs, co-working spaces and meetup events over the past few years have increased at an exciting rate. There was no Brad Pitt, broken ribs or bars of soap but The Founder’s Fight Club was just as entertaining as the Hollywood film. John Girard, Advisor, Founder, Mentor. Rodney Rumford, Co-Founder RapidEngage.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 14, 2013

– cupcake trucks and boutique farms, gourmet this and sous vide that – “food accelerators” are setting up to put them through tech-style incubator programs and turn their early-stage ideas into fully baked businesses. Zajonc reminds Local Food Lab startups that they can get from concept to product in very lean fashion.

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www.usatoday.com

JULY 16, 2012

But most start-ups in Silicon Beach are young and lean and cant afford to provide Silicon Valley-like perks as trumpeted by Google, such as free food, pool tables and massages. "If Now hes the co-founder of TextPlus, which makes a popular app for making free texts and phone calls on smartphones. Want 300 days of sun a year?"

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Steve Blank

JUNE 27, 2024

We just finished the 14th annual Lean LaunchPad class at Stanford. Below are the Lessons Learned presentations from the spring 2024 Lean LaunchPad. Unlike an incubator or accelerator with no frame, the canvas acts as the connective tissue – the frame – that students can fall back on if they get lost or confused.

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Mike Michalowicz

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Renske Lynde, Co-founder & Managing Director, Food System 6 Accelerator. Shen Tong, Food Future Incubator. Derek Denckla, Investor and founder of Slow Money NYC ; Convener Food+Enterprise Summit. It’s important to be lean in this day and age, but you cannot save yourself into success.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 2, 2019

That’s the story of Zima Media, and the co-founders, Michael Zima and Damien Bouvier. Growing today, there is a thriving community of entrepreneurs and incubators for young talent. Ever imagined working successfully with a person you’ve never met? Now, they will be meeting in July for the first time.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

Many startups begin from a single entrepreneur or a small team that either invest their own time and money until they can begin to generate revenue, or reach small fundraising goals through friends, family, crowdfunding, incubators, or bootstrapping. Lean Business: The Very Model of a Modern Spreadsheet. image credit: Paul Cross.

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