Steve Blank

AUGUST 24, 2009

If you’re a startup raising money or just want to see your name online, there’s not a better blog on the web. His wife, about my age, could have been a poster child for the stereotypical California hippie surfer, with politics that matched her style – antiwar, anti government, antiestablishment. Reply Michael F.

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Steve Blank

MAY 26, 2009

Don’t share the details of your manufacturing process with customers until you’ve locked up your intellectual property.” Government Regulations I turned to the class and said, “The rest of you can keep building your company and shipping your product because you don’t need to worry about government regulations.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

I’d been around the web long enough to remember the dozens of companies before YouTube that tried to create crowdsourced video sites and failed. Storm Clouds - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , November 12, 2010 We have enjoyed an amazing run in the web startup and investing space over the past five or six years. What went wrong?

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The Next Web

JANUARY 27, 2013

We all know these people, most often working at large corporates or even the government. Especially because I could have used this time on marketing, sales and customer development, and actually helped our business move forward. Life starts at the end of your comfort zone. Every now and then I run into them.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 26, 2009

It was a labor of love, and it meant we always had a real voice of the customer right there in the meeting with us. What we call “community management&# is actually governance. It is our obligation to govern well, but – as history has repeatedly shown – this is incredibly hard. It was absolutely worth it.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

Im writing this post from an airplane headed to Washington DC, where Ill be presenting at the Government 2.0 Im especially curious to gauge the reaction of the civilian and military representatives of our government. Ive been in a few government-themed meetings recently, so I know some of the standard answers.

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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. ReadyTalk, a 15-year-old web conferencing software company, launched an internal startup. ReadyTalk became interested in Lean Startup principles to develop new lines of business.

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K9 Ventures

AUGUST 13, 2010

It worked like a charm since we could create a more interactive experience on the Web. What started out as a generic web-based chat solution morphed into a full-fledged product for a distance education that we called iClass. (We We were a tiny web-conferencing startup in Pittsburgh called iMeet. This time we’d gotten it right.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 5, 2013

What if you could think like an expert on any topic in a matter of minutes, instead of after hours of inefficient web browsing? We assumed our customers would be any smart Internet users looking to make a decision—granted, an extremely broad customer segment. Lean Start-up Connection: Customer Development.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 8, 2009

"Spy satellites produced far more raw information than the government's battalion of overworked analysts could handle. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. The CIA relied so heavily on [these]. Expo SF (May.

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Steve Blank

JULY 15, 2010

New, agile and adroit venture firms with new business models have emerged to deal with the reality that 1) web 2.0 But not all industries are as capital efficient as the Web or Information Technology. government for funding. What About Us? Some of these industries have turned to the U.S Yet while the U.S. Lessons Learned.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 8, 2019

It’s one of the quickest ways to describe and prioritize innovation ideas in a large company or government agency. However, in the 21 st century the Three Horizons model has a fatal flaw that could put companies out of business and government agencies behind their adversaries. Innovate better than the disrupters. Lessons Learned.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 11, 2013

If you don’t have scale as a goal then you shouldn’t be raising money from angel or venture investors, you should be getting a commercial or government small business loan.). • Search. These types of startups are better suited to raising money from friends, family, commercial and government small business loans, etc.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 26, 2013

It’s a model for a government program that’s gotten the balance between public/private partnerships just right. While a few of the I-Corps teams are in web/mobile/cloud, most are working on advanced technology projects that don’t make TechCrunch. government has built an accelerator for scientists and engineers.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 3, 2009

If your practice is not designed to cope with uncertainty, it has no place in a startup - even if your startup is located in government or enterprise. Use some customer development to find out. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? What if its both of you?

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 5, 2010

Bayh-Dole allowed for private ownership of government funded intellectual property developed in universities while the Orphan Drug Act created incentives for developing drugs for disorders afflicting fewer than 200,000 Americans. Lean VC’s are expert in on-line distribution, Agile and Customer Development.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 1, 2011

As customer and agile development reinvent the Startup, it’s time to ask why startup board governance has not kept up with the pace of innovation. Rather than invent a new form of corporate governance, venture investors adopted the traditional board meeting structure from large corporations. Jonathan Swift. Here’s how.

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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. IDecideFast – A web-based application for effective decision making for the layperson. If you can’t see the video above, click here.

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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.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

China has essentially closed its internal search, media and social network software market to foreign companies who wouldn’t play with the government rules on the Great Firewall. Chinese Internet companies live in a large closed, self-contained ecosystem with 564 million web users with 420 million having mobile web access.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Prior to Tachyus, Dakin co-founded OpenGov , a platform to share, visualize, and analyze government financial data. Before OpenGov, he built California Common Sense , the open data and government watchdog non-profit. Companies like MySpace and LinkedIn became some of our biggest customers. Filed under: Customer Development.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Prior to Tachyus, Dakin co-founded OpenGov , a platform to share, visualize, and analyze government financial data. Before OpenGov, he built California Common Sense , the open data and government watchdog non-profit. Companies like MySpace and LinkedIn became some of our biggest customers. Filed under: Customer Development.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 1, 2011

As customer and agile development reinvent the Startup, it’s time to ask why startup board governance has not kept up with the pace of innovation. Rather than invent a new form of corporate governance, venture investors adopted the traditional board meeting structure from large corporations. Jonathan Swift. Here’s how.

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Steve Blank

JULY 28, 2011

government agency that supports research in all the non-medical fields of science and engineering - is changing the startup landscape for scientists and engineers. They’ll explore the best way to deliver the product to customers, the resources required, as well as competing technologies. See the NSF web page here. Until today.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 11, 2013

If you don’t have scale as a goal then you shouldn’t be raising money from angel or venture investors, you should be getting a commercial or government small business loan.). • Search. These types of startups are better suited to raising money from friends, family, commercial and government small business loans, etc.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

My personal background was as an engineer and my companies had been Web-based startups, so that is what I wrote about. 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. It's a big tent.

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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

MAY 3, 2011

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). The Agora Cloud Services team was now making a tool set for managing Amazon Web Services cloud compute usage. Veritas turbines.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

China has essentially closed its internal search, media and social network software market to foreign companies who wouldn’t play with the government rules on the Great Firewall. Chinese Internet companies live in a large closed, self-contained ecosystem with 564 million web users with 420 million having mobile web access.

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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.

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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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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 21, 2010

It also causes them to miss the numerous other kinds of startups that appear in less-glamorous settings: inside enterprises, non-profits, and even governments. I prefer to take the most expansive possible definition of product, one that encompasses any source of value for a set of people who voluntarily choose to become customers.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Kathy and Orin provided a brief overview of what tech transfer does and how it works: Kathy : The federal government funds most of the research at universities … (to the tune of) tens of billions of (dollars a year). (In Kathy : … The law at the time said the government (not the university) owned these patents. Is that correct?

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 26, 2016

They can do so because most have little legacy organizational baggage, no government overhead, some of the best software talent in the world, cheap manpower costs, no career risk when attempting new unproven feats and ultimately no fear of failure. They are experts in leveraging Web 2.0 We’re Our Own Worst Enemy. Lessons Learned.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 6, 2010

Our trip was bipartisan, bicameral, and bi-branches-of-government. Our trip was bipartisan, bicameral, and bi-branches-of-government. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Expo SF (May. . Expo SF (May.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 13, 2011

As customer and agile development reinvent the startup, it's time to ask why startup board governance has not kept up with the pace of innovation. The process, which Blank detailed in his book, "The Four Steps to the Epiphany," uses customer feedback to refine and improve a product before scaling a business. Here's how.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

g2s The very abbreviated version of Customer Development (channeling Steve Blank ). g2s The very abbreviated version of Customer Development (channeling Steve Blank ). Every bit as true for government as for enterprise - and even the two guys in a garage. Federal government should do nothing. Expo SF (May.

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