Steve Blank

APRIL 27, 2009

—————- The next piece of the Secret History of Silicon Valley puzzle came together when Tom Byers , Tina Selig and Mark Leslie invited me to teach entrepreneurship in the Stanford Technology Ventures Program ( STVP ) in Stanford’s School of Engineering. My office is in the Terman Engineering Building.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 22, 2010

The United States is locked in a new arms race for that most precious resource -- the future entrepreneurs upon whom economic growth depends. For example, over 25% of the technology companies founded between 1995-2005 had a key immigrant founder. But the jobs will be created over there. But the jobs will be created over there.

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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. viewed science and technology as a strategic asset. Building China’s Science and Technology infrastructure.

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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. Telepathic, a new technology startup, is bringing A/B testing to the world of mass-market fiction and storytelling. We come across some interesting stories from people who are really making things happen.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

Over the past decade, he has launched multiple businesses, including three technology companies. It really exploded our perception and visibility in the United States. Filed under: Customer Development , SiriusXM Radio Show. If you can’t hear the clip, click here. Nayeem : I didn’t, no. Orders increased.

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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. The Stanford class introduced the first management tools for entrepreneurs built around the business model / customer development / agile development solution stack.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 4, 2012

This is a 3-day program for entrepreneurship faculty from around the world how to teach entrepreneurship via the Lean LaunchPad approach ( business model canvas + customer development ) and bring their entrepreneurship curriculums into the 21st century. The reality is that the United States is still a nation of small businesses.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 29, 2015

My dad was working over there, and we spent six years moving across Europe and then back across the United States. … We tried apps, we tried different technologies, we tried different formats, and nothing really worked. Filed under: Customer Development , SiriusXM Radio Show.

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Steve Blank

JULY 28, 2011

The combination of Venture Capital and technology entrepreneurship is one of the great business inventions of the last 50 years. It provides private funds for untested and unproven technology and entrepreneurs. They’ll explore the best way to deliver the product to customers, the resources required, as well as competing technologies.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

Tina is Professor of the Practice at Stanford University School of Engineering, and Executive Director of the Stanford Technology Ventures Program. They learned that as many as six million people in the United States are stricken with Parkinson’s disease, and other conditions that cause tremors.

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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. viewed science and technology as a strategic asset. Building China’s Science and Technology infrastructure.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 11, 2012

Mentors (average age ~50) are an experienced entrepreneur located near the academic institution and has experience in transiting technology out of academic labs. Unlike an incubator or university class, the goal of the NSF I-Corps is to teach researchers how to move their technology from an academic lab into the commercial world.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 7, 2012

While at the same time spreading the Lean LaunchPad entrepreneurship curriculum to campuses across the United States. The class is intensely and deliberately experiential to develop the mindset, reflexes, agility and resilience an entrepreneur needs to search for certainty in a chaotic world. Yet this isn’t an incubator.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 21, 2010

Filed under: Customer Development « Requiem For A Roommate 2 Responses steve , on October 21, 2010 at 7:05 am Said: what did Carl say at 1:12 ? Translation: They write checks for $100 Million dollars a year.) Here’s a 6 minute excerpt from the talk. the video skipped or something?

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

VCs tout themselves as frontier technology investors, but most are using the same infrastructure tools they have used for the past 20+ years: Excel and recent college grads searching Google. According to Knowledge.VC , under 5% of US VCs have a full-time team member focused on technology. . But we’re doing it slowly.

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Steve Blank

MAY 3, 2011

On the technology front, last week they tested whether their Carrotbot (their research platform they built to gather data for machine vision/machine learning) could tell the difference between a carrot and a weed in a farm field versus the lab. If you can’t see the slides above, click here. The next team was D.C.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 4, 2016

70,000 State Department employees (46,000 Foreign Service Nationals, 14,000 Foreign Service Employees and 11,000 in the Civil Service) carry out the President’s foreign policy and help build a freer, more prosperous, and secure world. The State Department has four main foreign policy goals: Protect the United States and Americans.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

Scott Summitt iteratively leveraging the emerging technologies of digital fabrication and 3d-scanning to change people's lives. 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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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. This doesn’t mean just more technology stuff, though we’ll get that.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 1, 2011

The combination of venture capital and technology entrepreneurship is one of the great business inventions of the last 50 years. It provides private funds for untested and unproven technology and entrepreneurs. They'll explore the best way to deliver the product to customers, the resources required, as well as competing technologies.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Think, for example, about the way we talk about sales and customer development and the idea of ‘getting out of the building.’ Impatient investors and team members give little support to a founder trying to do Customer Development to verify or modify that idea. They often look on this as a waste of time.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 4, 2016

70,000 State Department employees (46,000 Foreign Service Nationals, 14,000 Foreign Service Employees and 11,000 in the Civil Service) carry out the President’s foreign policy and help build a freer, more prosperous, and secure world. The State Department has four main foreign policy goals: Protect the United States and Americans.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 29, 2016

Javier : … the entrepreneurial engine of the United States is bar none the most efficient wealth creation and job creation tool that has ever existed. … . I headed up the programs that focused on high-growth businesses in the United States. So essentially, the government invests in both (research), and (development).”

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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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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

I continue to collect great content that is the intersection of startups, products, online and technology. The United States is now a debtor nation to China and that the bill is about to come due. Competing To Win Deals - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , November 7, 2010 The venture capital business is highly competitive.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 11, 2008

Its an academic treatise that tries to answer a seemingly straightforward question: after World War II, why did Silicon Valley become the undisputed leader of the technology world, while Bostons Route 128 corridor did not. The lesson for planners and economic developers is to focus on long-term, not short-term developmental trajectories.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 24, 2009

By the time I came back to the United States, he was gone from the company. It’s been thirty years, but every once an awhile I still wonder what happened to the rest of their lives.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

With new online technology, lean resources (think food cart/truck versus restaurant), cloud everything, you can “test” an idea with low risk and not too much money. Here is what I believe might be three things to make you think, and perhaps do: Know the Major Customer Groups. Do you look at large customer segments?

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

They shared their experiences of how technology has enhanced – and threatens to undermine – diplomatic work. Hacking for Diplomacy takes the Lean Startup methodology and applies it to problems sourced from the State Department. We don’t have that mindset or that expertise,” he admitted to the class. “We Christos Makridis, a Ph.D

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

They shared their experiences of how technology has enhanced – and threatens to undermine – diplomatic work. Hacking for Diplomacy takes the Lean Startup methodology and applies it to problems sourced from the State Department. We don’t have that mindset or that expertise,” he admitted to the class. “We Christos Makridis, a Ph.D

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 4, 2010

For example, Ford was the first successfully mass produced car in the United States. Believing in First Mover Advantage implies you understand your business model, customers problems and the features needed to solve those problems. None of the market leaders in technology were the first movers. [1] That’s unlikely.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Stanford and MIT were building on the technology breakthroughs of World War II and graduating a generation of engineers into a consumer and cold war economy that seemed limitless. These technology startups had no risk capital – just customers/purchase orders from government/military/intelligence agencies.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 1, 2009

If you look around the United States it’s hard to avoid Sloan. Durant Versus Sloan – Part 1 « Steve Blank steveblank.com/2009/10/01/durant-versus-sloan-part-1 – view page – cached + Customer Development Manifesto: The Path of Warriors and Winners (part 5) + Can You Trust Any VC’s Under 40?

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Steve Blank

APRIL 15, 2016

When I running the company) I would do extra travel to enhance the personal relationship with our customers across the United States. Technology is a fantastic field if you’re a curious person because there’s always something new to learn. Magdalena : But you’re never qualified in technology.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 29, 2009

These IPOs meant that technology companies didn’t have to get acquired to raise money or get their founders and investors liquid. Davis (an ex- WWII OSS agent) then a VP at the Kern Land Company got involved with investing in technology companies through Fred Terman. into believing it was behind the Soviet Union in innovation.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 15, 2016

When I running the company) I would do extra travel to enhance the personal relationship with our customers across the United States. Technology is a fantastic field if you’re a curious person because there’s always something new to learn. Magdalena : But you’re never qualified in technology.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 26, 2012

63 scientists and engineers in 21 teams made ~ 2,000 customer calls in 10 weeks , turning laboratory ideas into formidable startups. 19 of the 21 teams are moving forward in commercializing their technology. If you like science, technology or entrepreneurship, this guy is the real deal. Concentric Technology.

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