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. government does have some unique convening power and the ability to tap external talent and resources.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 31, 2015

Every year, our team conducts more than 500 customer development calls to understand what challenges the community is facing. The United States Digital Service, a federal government agency, is building a ‘stealth startup.’ We come across some interesting stories from people who are really making things happen.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 10, 2013

The best analogy to describe the relationship of science and technology and the Chinese startup scene is to understand its parallels with the United States during the Cold War with the Soviet Union. Part two the next post, describes China’s Torch Program, the largest government-run entrepreneurial program in the world.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

Entrepreneurs in the United States take for granted our freedom of speech, freedom of expression and freedom of thought. In several of these countries, the government is pouring enormous sums into building entrepreneurship programs, faculties and even cities. Filed under: Customer Development , Family/Career/Culture.

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Steve Blank

JULY 25, 2011

In the 1950’s the groundwork for a culture and environment of entrepreneurship were taking shape on the east and west coasts of the United States. government backed venture firms and limited partnerships. Starting this Thursday, scientists and engineers across the United States will once again set the rules.

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Steve Blank

JULY 28, 2011

The cultural tolerance for failure and experimentation, and a financial structure which balanced risk, return and obscene returns, allowed this system flourish in technology clusters in United States, particularly in Silicon Valley. This is a potential game changer for science and innovation in the United States.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 10, 2013

The best analogy to describe the relationship of science and technology and the Chinese startup scene is to understand its parallels with the United States during the Cold War with the Soviet Union. Part two the next post, describes China’s Torch Program , the largest government-run entrepreneurial program in the world.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 11, 2012

While many government agencies use Technology Readiness Levels to measure a projects technical maturity, there are no standards around Business Maturity Levels. It doesn’t replace private capital with government funds. 2) Get the teams out of the building to test their hypotheses with prospective customers.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 26, 2012

He asked tough questions about why the government not private capital should be doing this. government, American researchers in academia and risk capital can do together. This means more jobs, new industries and a permanent edge for innovation in the United States.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 4, 2016

Department of State is working on all of them. Department of State manages America’s relationships with 180 foreign governments, international organizations, and the people of other countries with 270 embassies, consulates, and other posts. diplomats, government officials, and all other personnel at home and abroad.

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Steve Blank

MAY 3, 2011

Last week the team did mass interviews of city officials across the United States to understand the project approval process inside a city. Veritas needs three types of partners: installers (to reduce their overhead,) certification authorities (who would provide credibility) and government and research labs (for testing facilities).

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

Struggling to explain the successes and failures of those companies, I discussed principles like continuous deployment, customer development, and a hyper-accelerated form of agile. Brant Cooper and Patrick Vlaskovits are among the earliest adopters of new ideas such as Lean Startup and customer development.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 29, 2016

government is discovering that Lean innovation can help them serve the country better and faster. The Small Business Administration and the digital services agency 18F are trying to help entrepreneurs build successful companies and the 21st century digital government. And some of it could be in development.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 4, 2016

Department of State is working on all of them. Department of State manages America’s relationships with 180 foreign governments, international organizations, and the people of other countries with 270 embassies, consulates, and other posts. diplomats, government officials, and all other personnel at home and abroad.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

government fund and as Entrepreneur-In-Residence for the National Science Foundation. Think, for example, about the way we talk about sales and customer development and the idea of ‘getting out of the building.’ On weekends, he evangelizes Customer Development and runs a Lean LaunchPad class nationwide in Japan.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 1, 2011

Steve Blank is a retired serial entrepreneur, educator, thought leader and creator of the rigorous "Customer Development" methodology detailed in his book, "The Four Steps to the Epiphany." They'll explore the best way to deliver the product to customers, the resources required, as well as competing technologies. billion U.S.

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ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

OrangeScape positions itself as an Application Platform As A Service (APaaS) provider, and has some marquee customers in India including Unilever, Citibank, Pfizer, AstraZeneca, and Sterlite. They will now be leveraging the 1M/1M-Persistent channel to go to market in the United States. Building new apps is also not as simple.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 15, 2016

Magdalena was a pioneer in the commercialization of the Internet, helping move it out of the government and university domains and in establishing the infrastructure for e-commerce and financial transaction platforms. Filed under: Customer Development , SiriusXM Radio Show.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 16, 2015

The dynamics around gay marriage and legalization of marijuana have intrigued me greatly, and as I read early American History, I understand (and remember) the original dynamic of the United States, where there are States that are United from the bottom up, rather than simply a federal government dictating policy top down.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 15, 2016

Magdalena was a pioneer in the commercialization of the Internet, helping move it out of the government and university domains and in establishing the infrastructure for e-commerce and financial transaction platforms. Filed under: Customer Development , SiriusXM Radio Show.

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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. Requirements are not known years ahead of time.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

We met a number of policy makers from the White House and State Department, and had a solid Startup2Startup all about government policy and entrepreneurship. In a previous post , I asked readers for suggested topics that the US government needs to know about startups and entrepreneurs, and got some really interesting responses.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 26, 2009

The motivation in the mid 1950’s for these new startups was a crisis – we were in the midst of the cold war and the United States military and intelligence agencies were rearming as fast as they could. These technology startups had no risk capital – just customers/purchase orders from government/military/intelligence agencies.

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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. The pundits say the American dream is dead and this next decade will see the further decline and fall of the West and in particular of the United States. Government and the enterprise are now followers rather than leaders.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 29, 2009

to spur innovation was a new government agency to fund new companies. government would invest three (up to $300,000.) And for the first time, private companies like Continental Capital, Pitch Johnson & Bill Draper and Sutter Hill were formed to take advantage of the government largesse from the SBA.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 11, 2008

To an early observer, it would have seemed obvious that Route 128 had all the advantages: a head start, more government and military funding, and far more established companies. The lesson for planners and economic developers is to focus on long-term, not short-term developmental trajectories. What is customer development?

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