Steve Blank

APRIL 11, 2013

This post is about the how the Chinese government engineered technology clusters. Of all the Chinese government programs, the Torch Program is the one program that kick-started Chinese high-tech innovation and startups. Filed under: China , Customer Development , Technology , Venture Capital. – The Torch Program.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Especially if you are a first-time business owner, the payback for this initiative is well worth the effort and cost. Unfortunately, I see too many new entrepreneurs who let their passion for a new idea or invention blind them to the stark realities of customer need, opportunity size, or pricing and cost implications.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Business agility is defined as the ability to adapt rapidly and cost efficiently. Today’s customers are much more proactive in going online for the latest information, rather than simply reacting to the “push” messages that businesses traditionally use to drive commerce. Foster a performance culture, and avoid analysis paralysis.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 21, 2013

—— When I wrote Four Steps to the Epiphany and the Startup Owners Manual , I believed that Life Sciences startups didn’t need Customer Discovery. In the real world a big pivot in life sciences far down the road of development is a very bad sign due to huge sunk costs. used to serve those customers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

In other words, inventions are necessary but not sufficient to create real value for investors and customers. The value is tied to infrastructure outside your control, such as a pervasive network of fuel stations, trained service facilities, and new government regulations. You need a viable business model and customers.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 30, 2012

The class teaches founders how to dramatically reduce their failure rate through the combination of business model design, customer development and agile development using the Startup Owners Manual. More importantly, it makes no demands of you to stand and deliver your weekly customer development progress in front of your peers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 17, 2020

Don’t forget to consider customer alternatives, like trains versus airplanes. New smartphone apps cost only a few thousand, if you have the programming skills. Sometimes your solution is impressive, but mass acceptance requires a big culture change, a large support system, or government legislation.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Most of the machines were custom-built to crack a specific code, and increasingly used a new ERA invention – the magnetic drum memory to process and analyze the coded texts. Applicants were told that ERA was doing electronics work for government and industry. Costing $250,000 ($3.2 Each ATLAS I cost the NSA $1.3

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Acting as the bridge between shippers and carriers, freight brokers ensure that goods are moved efficiently and cost-effectively. It’s not just about moving goods but also about optimizing routes and providing exceptional customer service.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 14, 2023

In 2022, we saw unusual supply constraints — lingering post-coronavirus supply chain issues, a persistently tight labor market , and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine — converge with high demand — partly fueled by heavy government stimulus during the first two years of the pandemic.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

It’s important to learn from your own mistakes, but it’s even smarter to learn from someone else’s mistakes, without paying their high price in time lost, cost, and pain. Offer free solutions to bring in more customers. Don’t get caught in the myth that you shouldn’t worry about monetization until after you have a large customer base.

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NZ Entrepreneur

DECEMBER 1, 2022

With inflation reaching a 30-year high, small businesses across the country will be looking for ways to reduce costs amid cost of living and rising price pressures. With the increasing cost of living, 7-in-10 local SMEs have also noticed changes in consumer behaviour. 2) UNCOVER HIDDEN COSTS. 7) SEEK OUT AN EXPERT.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 1, 2020

Business agility is defined as the ability to adapt rapidly and cost efficiently. Today’s customers are much more proactive in going online for the latest information, rather than simply reacting to the “push” messages that businesses traditionally use to drive commerce. Foster a performance culture, and avoid analysis paralysis.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

OCTOBER 30, 2024

In some instances, your government may be able to provide you with a template to follow. For the markets that don’t have anything like this, you can usually find a business worksheet online that will help you calculate your startup costs. Having a website will also help you to reach customers, so be sure to keep this in mind.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 12, 2022

Government bail-outs do not promote innovation. Customers today demand products and services personalized or tailored to local needs with embedded quality of life services. Customers today demand products and services personalized or tailored to local needs with embedded quality of life services. Next wave of economic expansion.

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 26, 2022

Designing new hardware products that have a positive impact on customers is no small feat. There are several elements that go into hardware product design that taps an unaddressed customer need, has the customer WOW factor, and succeeds long term in the market. Certification research for new parts.

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Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

Government and the enterprise are now followers rather than leaders. In the 20 th century startups I was part of, the time to build a first product release was measured in years as we turned out the founder’s vision of what customers wanted. The founders were simply wrong about their assumptions about customer needs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 30, 2022

As a potential investor, I always think of the high rate of failure of disruptive technologies, due to the longer learning curve of customers, infrastructure change consistently required, and higher marketing costs. Before you act, shut up and listen to employees, customers, and futurists.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 6, 2019

Cost of skipping Software Testing in Startup Culture. Revising the project plan and design post-launch can cost much more if testing is ignored. It is always better to retain customers than to go out for new ones. Save money but not at the cost of your company’s reputation and customer’s trust. Like, seriously?

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Steve Blank

JUNE 27, 2017

If they select a business model that targets industry incumbents, they don’t have to worry about upsetting existing customers, partners or distribution channels. Banks protested that PayPal was an unregulated bank; and of course, are regulated by the federal government and states. to stifle competition.).

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

Yet everyone has limits, and every investor implicitly has similar limits on what makes a startup investable, or one to avoid at all costs. Products requiring changes to government regulations. Every country has their own unique business requirements and customer culture. You need a big differentiator in these arenas.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 24, 2018

Based on my experience, creating a new business is at least as difficult as creating an innovative solution, and it takes a knowledge of finance, operations, customers and the marketplace. Despite the technology, the fears of pedestrians and government regulations strangled the business. Don’t try to be all things to all people.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

AI-Enabled Customer Support Platform : Develop a platform that can handle a high percentage of customer support workloads, allowing companies to optimise their workforce for higher-value tasks. Datacenters: There’s a need for more data centers that can be built faster and at a lower cost to support AI infrastructure.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 18, 2014

In other words, inventions are necessary but not sufficient to create real value for investors and customers. The value is tied to infrastructure outside your control, such as a pervasive network of fuel stations, trained service facilities and new government regulations. You need a viable business model and customers.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 18, 2019

An Insider’s Perspective “Bird Zero” that are custom designed by the company There is a story arc of the electric scooter market that took the world by storm in 2018, was second-guessed late in the year and has quietly re-emerged as a powerful force of growth where few really appreciate the speed and scale of what has happened. Simply put?—?there

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 24, 2014

Business agility is defined as the ability to adapt rapidly and cost efficiently. Today’s customers are much more proactive in going online for the latest information, rather than simply reacting to the “push” messages that businesses traditionally use to drive commerce. Foster a performance culture, and avoid analysis paralysis.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 24, 2013

Government bail-outs do not promote innovation. Customers today demand products and services personalized or tailored to local needs with embedded quality of life services. Customers today demand products and services personalized or tailored to local needs with embedded quality of life services. Next wave of economic expansion.

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 1, 2023

In today’s fast-paced world, businesses with vehicle fleets are constantly seeking ways to improve efficiency and productivity while reducing costs. Properly managing a fleet can not only help businesses reduce costs but also improve customer satisfaction, increase employee safety, and promote environmental sustainability.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 21, 2020

This method is often used by businesses to send voice messages to their prospects, clients, and customers without interrupting them. It can be used for lead generation, customer appreciation, and alert notification. This technology is mostly used for customer outreach. Ringless voicemail has flexibility and scalability.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 6, 2023

For example, a while back a passionate entrepreneur approached me with an innovative solution for reducing world hunger, but hadn’t focused on the fact that hungry people often don’t have any money, and governments are not easy customers. Find market evidence of customers with means who are willing to pay for a solution.

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The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Sustainability reporting is the process of comprehensive disclosure and communication about a company’s efforts to achieve environmental, social, and governance goals. How Does Sustainability Reporting Work?

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Times China bureau chief Julie Makinen , who is on a JSK journalism fellowship at Stanford , joined in at the last minute and is helping students with customer discovery techniques, particularly how to find and interview people. How to bring together technology, government, and communities to combat violent extremist messaging.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 27, 2014

Don’t forget to consider customer alternatives, like trains versus airplanes. New smartphone apps cost only a few thousand, if you have the programming skills. Sometimes your solution is impressive, but mass acceptance requires a big culture change, a large support system, or government legislation.

Technical Review 267

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 13, 2023

Don’t forget to consider customer alternatives, like trains versus airplanes. New smartphone apps cost only a few thousand, if you have the programming skills. Sometimes your solution is impressive, but mass acceptance requires a big culture change, a large support system, or government legislation.

Technical Review 267

Technical Review Due Diligence Intellectual Property Internet 267

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 8, 2014

Yet everyone has limits, and every investor implicitly has similar limits on what makes a startup investable, or one to avoid at all costs. Products requiring changes to government regulations. Every country has their own unique business requirements and customer culture. You need a big differentiator in these arenas.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2023

Yet everyone has limits, and every investor implicitly has similar limits on what makes a startup investable, or one to avoid at all costs. Products requiring changes to government regulations. Every country has their own unique business requirements and customer culture. You need a big differentiator in these arenas.

New York City 246

New York City Silicon Valley Bootstrapping Technical Review 246

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Government bail-outs do not promote innovation. Customers today demand products and services personalized or tailored to local needs with embedded quality of life services. Customers today demand products and services personalized or tailored to local needs with embedded quality of life services. Next wave of economic expansion.

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