Steve Blank

APRIL 14, 2013

Second, most websites that a non-Chinese would use are blocked including Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, Google Docs, Scribd, Blogspot, Dropbox, New York Times, etc. Filed under: China , Customer Development , Technology , Venture Capital. China Customer Development Technology Venture Capital'

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 15, 2010

While I was teaching at Columbia in New York in November I was interviewed for the Shoshin Project by my friend Christian Jorg. Filed under: Customer Development.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2009

Filed under: Customer Development , Family/Career , Technology | Tagged: Steve Blank , Entrepreneurs , Tips for Startups « Am I a Founder? The other thing it helps clarify is that even at work, it’s the relationships that matter most (collegues, customers, partners, etc). The Adventure of a Lifetime.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 11, 2013

Examples are Hollywood for movies, Milan for fashion, New York for finance and today, Silicon Valley for technology entrepreneurship. Filed under: China , Customer Development , Technology , Venture Capital. China Customer Development Technology Venture Capital' Innovation Clusters.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

In previous posts I’ve talked about what the combination of Business Model Design, Customer Development and Agile Methodologies mean to startups and intrapreneurs in large companies; it’s the beginning of entrepreneurship as a science with its own rules and methodologies. Teaching In the Big Apple.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 21, 2013

Enter “ The Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses “, a New York Times bestseller by founder of IMVU (creator of 3D avatars) Eric Ries. Not doing so would end up in wasteful innovations and features that customers do not want.

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Steve Blank

JULY 7, 2015

My guests on Bay Area Ventures on Wharton Business Radio on Sirius XM Channel 111 were: Eric Ries , entrepreneur and author of the New York Times bestseller, The Lean Startup. Eric was the very first practitioner of my Customer Development methodology which became the core of the the Lean methodology. Taking My Class.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 14, 2013

Second, most websites that a non-Chinese would use are blocked including Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, Google Docs, Scribd, Blogspot, Dropbox, New York Times, etc. Filed under: China , Customer Development , Technology , Venture Capital. China Customer Development Technology Venture Capital'

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

They’re deep into Customer Development ,” he said. The New York Times has a story about it in today's business section. But startups can shoot themselves in the foot when founders use consultants at the wrong time or in the wrong way. Here’s why. Your Process Doesn’t Work. That seems like bad policy.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 5, 2009

A Phone Call After I left MIPS Computers I was in New York tagging along with a friend (a computer architect whose products at Apple a decade later would change the shape of personal computing) who was consulting for a voice recognition startup. It would be the company where I actually earned the title.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 15, 2013

Bad Customer Development Questions and How to Avoid My Mistakes – [link]. Bad Customer Development Questions and How to Avoid My Mistakes – [link]. Inside the New York Times’ web redesign | The Verge – [link]. 38 Fresh jQuery Plugins for Web Developers | Splashnology – [link].

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

The Ultimate Combination of Startup Business Development Methods - ArcticStartup , November 16, 2010 I've been a huge fan of Steven Blank's Customer Development methodology for a long time. Meet the New Enterprise Customer, He’s a Lot Like the Old Enterprise Customer - Ben's Blog , November 15, 2010 Meet the new boss.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 23, 2020

While there’s agreement that companies need to adapt to changing markets, rapidly find new markets, new customers and new revenue models, the question is how ? New York-based startup Katena Oncology discovered that a cancer detection tool under development could be adapted to test for coronavirus.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

Startups should take this principle and translate it into user activation and retention: Include logos – startup was featured in TechCrunch, the Next Web, New York Times etc or main clients/partners include Google, Adobe, Nike etc. While it usually requires permission from the brand, logos instill a sense of security to users.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 10, 2023

I was having breakfast with Erin, an ex-student, just off a red-eye flight from New York. Erin had previously worked in New York for one of those companies and had a stellar reputation in the industry. As one would expect, with banks and hedge funds as customers, the majority were based in the New York metropolitan area.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

Joining me in SiriusXM’s studio in New York were. Steve : You mean in the community you’re in where the founder is an outlier, rather than at the core where you go to New York or you to go Silicon Valley and everybody’s a founder, including the waiters? Nayeem Hussain. Will : Absolutely.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 18, 2013

I read a ton of existing literature and came up with a formal methodology for search I called Customer Development. Berkeley asked me to teach a class in Customer Development at Haas business school. The next Lean LaunchPad Educators Class will be held in New York, September 25-27 th. In 2003 U.C.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Teams use the Lean Startup toolkit: the Business Model Canvas + Customer Development process + Agile Engineering. These three tools allow startups to focus on the parts of an early stage venture that matter the most: the product, product/market fit, customer acquisition, revenue and cost model, channels and partners.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 28, 2012

At the invitation of Murray Low at the Entrepreneurship Center in the Columbia Business School, we went to New York to find out. The Business Model Canvas + Customer Development works even in this short amount of time. However we were in NYC where customer density was high.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 7, 2009

From the king of customer development, Steve Blank: [.] I love Google. I think its one of the smartest companies out there. You don’t get grades for having resiliency, curiosity, agility, resourcefulness, pattern recognition and tenacity. You just get successful. Sometimes they just drop out and do their own thing.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 10, 2013

Summary: I’ve lived in Silicon Valley for 35 years, I’ve taught in entrepreneurial clusters in New York, Boston, Helsinki, Santiago Chile, St. Filed under: China , Customer Development , Technology , Venture Capital. China Customer Development Technology Venture Capital' Like the U.S.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

The Lean LaunchPad class teaches students how to build a Lean Startup using business model design, customer development and agile engineering. Teams have to get out of the building and talk to 10-15 customers a week.) However, going through the customer development process showed me the danger in that kind of thinking.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

In fact, I believe the movement is now mainstream—startups, VCs, accelerators, are no longer “new.”. There are co-working spaces in basically every city in the world—from Nepal to New York. in developing these new models. Most of these new businesses need to be created outside of the existing business units.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 3, 2012

Invented in 1854 by Daniel McCallum, superintendent of the New York and Erie railroad, the org chart became the organizing tool for how to think about strategy and structure. Most of these new businesses need to be created outside of the existing business units. We will propose some alternatives.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 20, 2014

When Customer Development and the Lean Startup were just a sketch on the napkin, Dino Vendetti, a VC at Bay Partners, was one of the first venture capitalists I shared my ideas with. Over the years we brainstormed about how Lean entrepreneurship would affect regional development. Founders Pad. Bend needed its own venture firm.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 30, 2014

Why Are They Referring New Customers Completely Unprompted? One on one interviews, surveys, and other customer development techniques can help to reveal this. Knowing exactly who is sending referrals is going to be a huge help for every other step of the process. Once you know who, you need to find out why.

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Programming Marketing Analytics Portfolio 107

Steve Blank

JUNE 2, 2011

A revolution has taken hold as customer development and agile engineering reinvent the Startup process. Silicon Valley, New York). The process they use to guide their search is customer development. They would: Blog their Customer Development progress as a narrative. Victor Hugo.

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Steve Blank

JULY 13, 2021

That is until 1947 when Myles Mace taught the first entrepreneurship course “Management of New Enterprises” at Harvard Business School. In 1953 Peter Drucker offered an Entrepreneurship and Innovation class at New York University, and in 1954 Stanford’s business school offered “Small Business Management” its first small business course.

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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. New York City. New York, New York. The Alchemist Series: Customer Development and Metrics. Female Founders. Startup Life.

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Cofounder Technical Review San Francisco Founder 47

Steve Blank

JUNE 18, 2013

I read a ton of existing literature and came up with a formal methodology for search I called Customer Development. Berkeley asked me to teach a class in Customer Development at Haas business school. The next Lean LaunchPad Educators Class will be held in New York, September 25-27 th. In 2003 U.C.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

Because then you’d miss out on: Whether it’s better experience to build a complete, tiny startup or to do more in-depth customer development for a meatier problem. Jason: It’s Adelaide and Amy, two women who have a co-working space in New York specifically for women entrepreneurs. Women In Good Company.

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Widget Cofounder Technical Review Software Review 204

Steve Blank

APRIL 29, 2013

Military Academy at West Point in New York, founded in 1802 to educate Army officers. The Coast Guard Academy opened in New London Connecticut in 1876. with the product built incrementally and iteratively, as students acquire more customer feedback. Filed under: Air Force , Customer Development , Lean LaunchPad.

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Steve Blank

JULY 6, 2010

Instead of ghost stories they were the first to hear the ideas of what would become Customer Development. When we were looking for funding for IMVU (the company where Eric Ries first implemented Customer and Agile Development and where the Lean Startup was born,) I thought of Shawn. Fast forward to today.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 17, 2011

When Eric was my student in one of the first Berkeley Customer Development classes, he suggested that I take my class notes, which until then had been printed at Cafepress.com, and offer it widely on Amazon. Filed under: Customer Development. Thousands of entrepreneurs are better for their efforts. Blame it On Eric.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

This was a modern city in a hurry to make a first impression – think of what Rome looked like in the time of the empire or New York in the 1920’s – now it’s Beijing announcing that China has arrived. Filed under: China , Customer Development , Technology , Venture Capital. Liquidity is via IPO’s not buy outs.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 1, 2011

Silicon Valley, New York). Rather than invent a new form of corporate governance, venture investors adopted the traditional board meeting structure from large corporations. Here’s how. Because We’ve Always Done It This Way. The combination of Venture Capital and technology startups is only about 50 years old.

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Silicon Valley Business Model Venture Capital Balance Sheet 300

Steve Blank

APRIL 10, 2013

Summary: I’ve lived in Silicon Valley for 35 years, I’ve taught in entrepreneurial clusters in New York, Boston, Helsinki, Santiago Chile, St. Filed under: China , Customer Development , Technology , Venture Capital. China Customer Development Technology Venture Capital' Like the U.S.

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