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Nokia as “He Who Must Not Be Named” and the Helsinki Spring

Steve Blank

I was invited to Finland as part of Stanford’s Engineering Technology Venture Program partnership with Aalto University. The young entrepreneurs I met are bringing impressive energy and intelligence to their goal of building one of Europe’s leading technology hubs in Helsinki.

Finland 332
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The Helsinki Spring

Steve Blank

I spent the month of September lecturing, and interacting with (literally) thousands of entrepreneurs in two emerging startup markets, Finland and Russia. —— I was invited to Finland as part of Stanford’s Engineering Technology Venture Program partnership with Aalto University.

Finland 329
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Blowing up the Business Plan at U.C. Berkeley Haas Business School

Steve Blank

It taught lean theory ( business model design , customer development and agile engineering) and practice. We use Customer Development and the Lean LaunchPad to train and accelerate teams U.C. Customer Development works outside Silicon Valley. Seeing Is Believing. Berkeley-wide. We’ve gone global as well.

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Born Global or Die Local – Building a Regional Startup Playbook

Steve Blank

China, Russia, Brazil, India, Indonesia all meet those criteria. One of the groups I spoke to was the Australian Sports Technology Network. They realized if they could develop and promote a well-coordinated sports technologies industry, they could capture their unfair share of the $300 billon sports consumer market.

Global 335
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The Helsinki Spring

ReadWriteStart

I spent the month of September lecturing, and interacting with (literally) thousands of entrepreneurs in two emerging startup markets, Finland and Russia. I was invited to Finland as part of Stanford's Engineering Technology Venture Program partnership with Aalto University.

Finland 158
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The Fatal Flaw of the Three Horizons Model and How To Fix It

Steve Blank

For example, Uber took existing technology (smartphone app, drivers) but built a unique business model ( gig economy disrupting taxis) and the Russians used existing social media tools to wage political warfare. Extremely difficult for large companies/government agencies as it is as much a culture/process problem as a technology problem.

China 304
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Why Internal Ventures are Different from External Startups

Steve Blank

Just as Germany’s domination of Western Europe in World War II was eventually undone by its decision to launch a second front by invading Russia, so too unlike a start up, corporate ventures cannot focus solely on winning in the external marketplace. Filed under: Big Companies versus Startups: Durant versus Sloan , Customer Development.

Startup 331