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. The United States is locked in a new arms race for that most precious resource -- the future entrepreneurs upon whom economic growth depends.

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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. Yet time and again when I ask the local entrepreneurs themselves what questions they have, most often the first question is, “How do I get a visa to 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. Filed under: China , Customer Development , Technology , Venture Capital. During World War II, the U.S. Like the U.S.

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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

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

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

It really exploded our perception and visibility in the United States. Filed under: Customer Development , SiriusXM Radio Show. We rolled the dice … Certainly, for us, it was worth it because we were on prime-time television for 10 minutes talking about our product. … Orders increased.

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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. Filed under: Customer Development , SiriusXM Radio Show. Here’s how he learned to embrace new experiences: When I was young my family moved to Europe. I was, at one point, in 10 schools in 10 years. ….

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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.

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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

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

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. Filed under: Customer Development , Teaching , Technology. Customer Development Teaching Technology'

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 21, 2010

The Kauffman Foundation is the leading private funder of economic research related to growth and innovation in the United States. Filed under: Customer Development. Tags: Customer Development. Translation: They write checks for $100 Million dollars a year.) Here’s a 6 minute excerpt from the talk.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 3, 2012

90 years ago companies faced new strategic pressures as physical distances in the United States limited the reach of day-to-day hands-on management. Most of these new businesses need to be created outside of the existing business units. In addition, firms found themselves now managing diverse product lines.

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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. Filed under: China , Customer Development , Technology , Venture Capital. During World War II, the U.S. Like the U.S.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 11, 2012

Few of the Principal Investigators or Entrepreneurial Leads had startup experience, and few of the mentors were familiar with Business Model design or Customer Development. 2) Get the teams out of the building to test their hypotheses with prospective customers. Filed under: Customer Development , Lean LaunchPad , Teaching.

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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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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. We taught them theory, methodology, and practice using Customer Development and business model design. If you can’t see the slides above, click here. The next team was D.C.

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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. It may be that all the doomsayers are right. But I don’t think so.

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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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YoungUpstarts

MAY 16, 2012

Your Service, a global service education and management consultancy firm with offices in the United States and Singapore. He is the founder of UP!

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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. There’s 28 million small businesses in the United States.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

HOF Capital has stitched together our workflow across Google Suite , Slack , Airtable , Asana , Streak , and some other tools (leveraging Zapier for basic 3rd party integration, in addition to custom development for certain other integrations).

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usersknow.blogspot.com

APRIL 30, 2010

An Agile Alternative: Embedded Design A Depressing Example of Non-Agile Design Why Your Customer Feedback is Useless Seven More Ways People Suck at Customer Developmen. ► February (1) 6 Ways You May Be Failing at Customer Development ► 2009 (9) ► December (1) Which Metrics Equal Happy Users?

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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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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. Until today.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

The idea is to enable up to 10,000 people per year to enter the United States if they are here to found a company that will employ US citizens. The idea is to enable up to 10,000 people per year to enter the United States if they are here to found a company that will employ US citizens.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 7, 2010

If youre registered to vote in the United States, and youd like your elected representatives to know that you support the Startup Visa, you can register your support in just two minutes at [link]. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

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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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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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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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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 11, 2008

The lesson for planners and economic developers is to focus on long-term, not short-term developmental trajectories. Silicon Valley was the fastest growing region in the United States during the late 1970s and early 1980s; but that growth came out of a place, not a technology. What is customer development?

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

The United States is now a debtor nation to China and that the bill is about to come due. Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers - SoCal CTO , November 1, 2010 I had a recent email dialog with the founder of a company looking for a CTO for their startup. Ralph Waldo Emerson. One out of ten of Americans are out of work.

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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

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? Millennials will number more than 80 million by 2025, in the United States; that’s three out of every four employees in the workplace. Do you even know who they are?

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 4, 2010

For example, Ford was the first successfully mass produced car in the United States. Filed under: Customer Development , Market Types , Marketing. Tags: Customer Development Market Types Marketing. The rules are different in the life-sciences arena.). Ford vs. GM, Overture vs. Google. Lieberman 2007.

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