Steve Blank

JUNE 29, 2009

I packed up my life in Michigan and spent five days driving to California to start work. You’re Hired, You’re Fired. My first job in Silicon Valley: I was hired as a lab technician at ESL to support the training department. Driving across the U.S. is an adventure everyone ought to do.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

With Lean Impact , Ann Mei Chang takes us on her journey of trying to bring innovation and social good together. While Eric went on co-found another company and write The Lean Startup , I went on to Google. Thus, Lean Impac t was born. But, not surprisingly for a revolutionary product, we got as much wrong as we got right.

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View from Seed

JULY 21, 2022

EP: I went off to the University of Michigan for college and last year made my way back to Santa Monica after 4 years of working at Meta in Digital Marketing in Austin and San Francisco. EP: But our working partnership dates back to when we were both editors on our high school yearbook. IH: We even went to yearbook summer camp together!

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Steve Blank

MARCH 15, 2011

Our new Stanford Lean LaunchPad class was an experiment in a new model of teaching startup entrepreneurship. Fred Ford (MSME, Mar 2011) Senior Eng for Mechanical Systems on Military Satellites, BS Aerospace Eng (U of Michigan). Filed under: Business Model versus Business Plan , Customer Development , Lean LaunchPad , Teaching.

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Steve Blank

JULY 20, 2015

Errol Arkilic was the lead program director for the National Science Foundation I-Corps , which uses my Lean LaunchPad curriculum to teach scientists and engineers how to take their technology out of the lab and into the marketplace. The Lean LaunchPad class. But nothing else like [The Lean LaunchPad class] was being taught. .

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Board Effect

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Nonprofit Quarterly points to an example of mission creep at a Detroit, Michigan nonprofit that recognized mission creep was occurring and eventually turned things around successfully. Focus started to lean too heavily on housing which was only a part of their original mission. Focus: Hope was founded in 1967 by Father William T.

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Steve Blank

JULY 12, 2010

The Vietnam War had just ended and I was out of the Air Force back in college living in Ann Arbor Michigan. Civilian life was good, the government was paying my tuition and I got a college work/study job in the University of Michigan physics department. I leaned over the bridge to get a better look. Life Is Good.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 2, 2011

At Stanford our Lean Launchpad class ran an experiment that showed when “the boardroom is bits” can make a radical difference in the outcome of an early stage startup. The University of Michigan is a possible first test.) The result – an instant technology cluster – with equity at a fraction of Silicon Valley prices.

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Steve Blank

MAY 18, 2009

The Rust Belt – (Skip this Section if I’m Boring You) Out of the Air Force, my first job out of school was in Ann Arbor, Michigan, in the mid-1970’s installing broadband process control systems in automotive and manufacturing plants throughout the Midwest.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 25, 2011

Signs of the frenzy include an increase in Startup Buses from one to six this year, a busload of MBA students from Michigan who are out to networks with startups, and recent tech investor Ashton Kutcher making an appearance at the Foursquare party.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 28, 2009

After been stationed at three fighter bases in Thailand ( Ubon , Udorn and Korat ) and working on Electronic Warfare suites on F-4’s, A-7’s, F-105’s and AC-130’s, I got orders to report to a Strategic Air Command (SAC) B-52 bomber base in Alpena Michigan. Imagine how hot, humid and unbearable the weather was in Thailand. Reply Ben C. ,

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 1, 2009

William Durant died managing a bowling alley in Flint Michigan in 1947. It is interesting to note that some advocates of lean management and accounting (including Waddell and Bodek in *The Rebirth of American Industry*) have a strong dislike of Sloan/Brown management cost accounting. But the spirit of Billy Durant would rise again.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 15, 2011

At Stanford our Lean Launchpad class ran an experiment that showed when "the boardroom is bits" can make a radical difference in the outcome of an early stage startup. The University of Michigan is a possible first test.) The result – an instant technology cluster – with equity at a fraction of Silicon Valley prices.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

Harley Goes Lean to Build Hogs. Subscriber Content Read Preview. Pension Crisis Looms Despite Cuts. Subscriber Content Read Preview. Firms Miss Out on Jobs Push. Subscriber Content Read Preview. Most Popular. Commented. Family Protests CNN Use of Slain Envoys Journal. How to Stop Hospitals From Killing Us. Connecticut. District of Columbia.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 1, 2012

One of the most important things we do with The Lean Startup Conference is make a livestream of the plenary talks available for free to groups around the world, supporting entrepreneurship communities everywhere. The number of hosts has grown annually, and this year, we have 200+ groups joining us on Monday, December 3.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 17, 2009

Other universities doing classified ELINT and Electronic Warfare work attended including University of Michigan, Georgia Institute of Technology and Cornell. By early 1950’s Stanford started holding a two day meeting for contractors and the military. Over a hundred government contractors reviewed Stanford’s work on tubes and systems.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

You may have read my previous posts about the Lean LaunchPad class taught at Stanford , Berkeley, Columbia , Caltech and for the National Science Foundation. He called it the “Lean Startup.”. Then in the fall of 2011, the National Science Foundation read my blog posts on the Stanford version of the Lean LaunchPad class.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 15, 2020

And I do think part of it is unique because we're all sheltered in place and people have maybe a little more time to give and also want to be able to lean in to do something. I'm from the Detroit area, they're getting hit really hard and so I've donated directly to Southeast Michigan. So those are the two ways to donate.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 6, 2018

It was my pleasure to talk with Henry about what he and Heimans have learned about how power structures are changing, how people can get started making the shift from old to new power, how the principles of new power are related to the principles of lean startup, and the responsibilities that come with all the amazing energy being channeled.

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Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

I lived through the time when working in my first job in Ann Arbor Michigan we had to get out a map to find out that San Jose was not only in Puerto Rico but there was a city with that same name in California. I’m glad to have been part of the team inventing the Lean Startup methodology. And it’s that Information is everywhere.

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

So, when I was researching my book, I looked into what actually happened to the manufacturing workers in Michigan, Indiana and in the South. We have to lean into one of the core competencies our government has by putting economic power into people’s hands. Almost half of them left the workforce and never worked again.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2010

We have structural employment issues : The official unemployment rate in the US is hovering just below 10% but “true” unemployment is much higher when you account for those that have stopped looking or taken part-time employment and in key states like California and Michigan we’re downright hurting.

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Other tools, can provide more dimensions including children, political leanings, ethnicity etc… You can see how this might be a lot more interesting for a magazine or content sites, and perhaps a lot less to other types of businesses. I find this behavior to be a million times more useful than demographics or political leanings.

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