Steve Blank

JANUARY 17, 2023

Three types of organizations – Incubators, Accelerators and Venture Studios – have emerged to reduce the risk of early-stage startup failure by helping teams find product/market fit and raise initial capital. He had a track record of taking small teams and growing them into successful product lines.

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 30, 2025

Software for managing entities simplifies the governance process by providing functions such as tailored workflows, delegating tasks, and sending automated notifications. These resources aid in making board meetings more efficient and productive. This technology helps organizations concentrate on their main goals.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. Consider licensing your product or intellectual property, and “white labeling.”

Intellectual Property 341

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Steve Blank

APRIL 4, 2023

On the business side that turns the product from an incredibly powerful application into an even more incredibly powerful platform that other software developers can plug into and build upon. government seriously considered international control over the development of nuclear weapons. In the U.S. Post WWII in 1946 the U.S.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 6, 2019

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. Consider licensing your product or intellectual property, and “white labeling.”

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

An existing company or government organization is primarily organized for day-to-day execution of its current business processes or mission. In reality for innovation to contribute to a company or government agency, it needs to be designed a process from start to deployment. There’s a much better way. Three common mistakes.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 17, 2020

Cash is always hard to find, but in many cases it’s even harder to find access to needed distribution channels, government contract expertise, or the special skills required to deliver your solution. Finish the product before marketing begins. Marketing should start before product development.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 28, 2021

I recommend a trial run with an experiment or MVP (minimum viable product), at full price and cost, before the big bang launch, risking your investment money and a major time commitment. He seemed to ignore the fact that hungry people have no money, and governments rarely pay. Even non-profits need income to run a business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

According to an old Harvard Business Review article, many people in history, famous for their inventions, like Thomas Edison, were entrepreneurs who only later were remembered as inventors of the products they commercialized. Technology limited to a single product is seldom enough for a business. Lock in your sustainable advantage.

Technical Review 391

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Reading the NY Times article “ Jeffrey Katzenberg Raises $1 Billion for Short-Form Video Venture, ” I realized it was time for a new startup heuristic: the amount of customer discovery and product-market fit you need to find is inversely proportional to the amount and availability of risk capital. ” Fire, Ready, Aim.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Research has confirmed that culture is a primary driver for financial performance, customer experience, and team productivity. They look for the use of talent analytics, such as productivity per employee, as well as the practices and attitude toward employee satisfaction. Performance accountability processes.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 6, 2020

There is so much confusion and misinformation out there about the government sponsored “payroll protection plan” loans to companies that the heads of every small business CEO in the country must be spinning. There are certainly some people who are publicly saying that VC-backed businesses shouldn’t take government money. shouldn’t I?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 15, 2020

Research has confirmed that culture is a primary driver for financial performance, customer experience, and team productivity. They look for the use of talent analytics, such as productivity per employee, as well as the practices and attitude toward employee satisfaction. Performance accountability processes.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2021

– while simultaneously building a series of minimal viable products. Unlike traditional demo days or Shark Tanks which are, “Here’s how smart I am, and isn’t this a great product, please give me money,” a Lessons Learned presentation tells the story of a team’s 10-week journey and hard-won learning and discovery.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 26, 2022

With social media and smart phone apps, real product information spreads at astounding speeds. Moving forward, you should expect the market volatility to increase, driven not only by customers, but by new technology, changing government regulations, and a surge in new competitors. Continually watch for new opportunities.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Applicants were told that ERA was doing electronics work for government and industry. Unfortunately for the company they couldn’t tell anyone as their customer was the most secret government agency in the country – the National Security Agency. ERA was undercapitalized and always looking for other products to sell.

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Steve Blank

JULY 11, 2017

Before the rapid rise of Unicorns, (startups with a valuation over a billion dollars), when boards were still in control, they “encouraged” the hiring of “adult supervision” of the founders after they found product/market fit. These new CEOs would also act as a brake to temper the founder’s excesses. And they were right.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2022

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. Consider licensing your product or intellectual property, and “white labeling.”

Intellectual Property 261

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

But the Apple Watch 4 announcement intrigued me in a way no other product has since the original IPhone. This wasn’t just another product announcement from Apple. But as impressive as its technology is, the Apple’s smartwatch has been a product looking for a solution. I don’t own an Apple Watch. I do have a Fitbit. In the U.S.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

He seemed to ignore the fact that hungry people rarely have money, and governments are very unpredictable customers. Remember that people make a business, more often than a product. Learn how to budget your time and select productive relationships. Board members provide inexpensive expertise.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Systems age because of improvements in upgrades or new products. We’re all familiar with high-profile cyberattacks on major business and government organizations. Unplanned tech debt occurs because of an unplanned event, often caused by bad development practices, poor technique or poor communication of requirements.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Finding a customer for your product in the Department of Defense is hard: Who should you talk to? Looking for DoD customers How do you know if they have money to spend on your product? Think of the PEO Directory linked below as a “Who buys in the government?” government intends to communicate this information. phone book.

Programming 249

Programming Customer Portfolio Government 249

Steve Blank

MAY 19, 2021

Pete is now CEO of BMNT, a company that delivers innovation solutions and processes for governments. Army’s Rapid Equipping Force Pete Newell delivered innovation at speed and scale in the Department of Defense. Here are Pete’s 5 principles that will accelerate innovation.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Investor due diligence on a startup is not a mysterious black art, but is nothing more than a final integrity check on all aspects of your business model, team, product, customers, and plan. Taking on equity investors to fund your company is much like getting married – it is a long-term relationship that has to work at all levels.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 1, 2020

With social media and smart phone apps, real product information spreads at astounding speeds. Moving forward, you should expect the market volatility to increase, driven not only by customers, but by new technology, changing government regulations, and a surge in new competitors. Continually watch for new opportunities.

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Agile Technical Review Leadership Social Media 315

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 12, 2022

They have become a by-product of innovation rather than the cause of it: Conglomerates grew from industrialization, not innovation. Many countries have learned to make products cheaper and better. Government bail-outs do not promote innovation. Existing technologies have been “commoditized” globally.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

Cash is always hard to find, but in many cases it’s even harder to find access to needed distribution channels, government contract expertise, or the special skills required to deliver your solution. Finish the product before marketing begins. Marketing should start before product development.

Intellectual Property 312

Intellectual Property Startup Angel Investor Viral 312

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 6, 2019

As it is a minimum viable product, product managers of startups think the release date is more important than quality. Developers might be very smart with code but they can never see the product from the user- end’s perspective. Every reason for skipping test creates technical debt in the end product. Well, Not really.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

Products requiring changes to government regulations. For new car companies such as DeLorean and Fisker, designing and testing the product is only the beginning. On the Internet, I am wary of one more search engine provider, clones of existing social-media sites, and yet another new dating site.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 5, 2020

Speaking of help, the Federal Government has allotted upwards of $2 trillion to help those struggling in the US economy. Inc has prepared a useful list made up of loans and grants offered by the Federal and state governments and private corporations. This is also the perfect opportunity to add value to your products and services.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 30, 2019

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. Consider licensing your product or intellectual property, and “white labeling.”

Intellectual Property 219

Intellectual Property Technical Review Startup Incubator 219

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 11, 2020

Investor due diligence on a startup is not a mysterious black art, but is nothing more than a final integrity check on all aspects of your business model, team, product, customers, and plan. Taking on equity investors to fund your company is much like getting married – it is a long-term relationship that has to work at all levels.

Technical Review 310

Technical Review Due Diligence Term Sheet Offshore 310

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 21, 2019

Hearing views from Bill Gates on how the world deals with issues like climate change, Jack Dorsey talk about the role of social platforms and government and discussions with Kevin Systrom (Instagram), Todd McKinnon (Okta), etc were fascinating. I think this analogy can hold for boards.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 10, 2020

Make sure you integrate video production into your company’s marketing plan. If you manage to get your video production and marketing right, you can dramatically boost your conversion rate. You can’t expect someone who has no idea about your offer to immediately purchase your product or service. Helps In Building Trust.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 11, 2020

The second is a preference for product over strategy. Pretotyping is about what to do before the minimum viable product. Doing it well bakes into the system a preference for hypotheses rather than opinions; fast experiments rather than big plans; and testing ideas and strategies, not just products and technologies.

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Board Effect

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Without an agenda, confusion would reign An agenda is an essential tool of board governance. To be productive, every board meeting needs to have order. Contact us today for a demo and see how secure board management software streamlines operations, enhances governance practices and enables confident decision-making.

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The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Sustainability reporting is the process of comprehensive disclosure and communication about a company’s efforts to achieve environmental, social, and governance goals. How Does Sustainability Reporting Work? To simplify your work, you should pick and use an appropriate sustainability reporting software.

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