Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

AgileFall is an ironic term for program management where you try to be agile and lean, but you keep using waterfall development techniques. We’re helping them convert one of the critical product lines inside an existing division from a traditional waterfall project management process into Lean. All good Lean basics.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 23, 2023

Whatever the case, you’ll need to make some big sacrifices and strategic managerial decisions if you want this lean startup budget to work — and it’s definitely possible. One of the best ways to reduce your operating expenses is to reduce or eliminate office costs. Consider a hybrid workplace. Negotiate the lease.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 19, 2017

The lean start-up movement has been based on a single insight – which the purpose of a start-up is to discover a business model that works. In this article we explore the unique challenges of a lean start-up and how Outsourced Product Development (OPD) can be used to overcome them. The Lean Start-Up Environment.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

In his Harvard Business Review article summing up his tenure, Immelt recalls that the two things that influenced him most were Marc Andreessen’s 2011 Wall Street Journal article “ Why Software Is Eating the World, ” and Eric Ries’s book The Lean Startup. So is John Rice, the head of Global Operations along with CFO Jeffrey Bornstein.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 20, 2020

I’ve long been an advocate of using Lean Startup principles to advance non-profits and philanthropic organizations, whose work is so urgently needed at this moment in history. In this blog post, I want to share the story of a lean pop-up organization called HelpKitchen. SF New Deal and Frontline Foods were early leaders.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

These surfacing organizations are flexible, lean , and determined and will continue to shape the industry on a global scale moving forward. We will be looking at a few ways technology is helping healthcare startups streamline their operations and improve overall care quality. dollars in 2022. dollars in 2022.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

” She looked at bit puzzled, so I continued to explain… One of the virtues of using the Business Model Canvas as part of a Lean Startup is that it helps you frame each one of your nine critical hypotheses. Therefore the ideal medical device team might be a physician; engineer; operator; business development/financial analyst.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 22, 2012

The constraint between good ideas and growth operates in both directions. “Lean” is great in the early days but if you discover an attractive market opportunity you need to get “fat” really quickly or somebody else will. “Why do founders want to take the VCs’ money? Growth, again.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

In class six we discussed unmanned systems and autonomy and how the advent of these weapons will change operational concepts and the face of war. Our guest speaker was General John Raymond , Chief of Space Operations. He is the first Chief of Space Operations, U.S. What recommendations would you have for the U.S. Space Force.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 26, 2015

—– Lean Innovation Management. In the last five years “ Lean Startup ” methodologies have enabled entrepreneurs to efficiently build a startup by searching for product/market fit rather than blindly trying to execute. The result will be: a new, Lean version of the Three Horizons of Innovation. Here’s how.

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Steve Blank

MAY 19, 2021

To help a large Defense organization wrestle with how to increase the velocity of innovation in their ranks Steve Blank and I spent the better part of last week with our heads together reviewing everything we learned in the five years since we merged the concepts of problem curation and Lean while launching the innovation pipeline.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 12, 2020

And the trick is we use the same Lean LaunchPad / I-Corps curriculum — and kept the same class structure – experiential, hands-on, driven this time by a mission -model not a business model. Hacking for Defense has its origins in the Lean LaunchPad class I first taught at Stanford in 2011. Goals for the Hacking for Defense Class.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 4, 2013

LEAN STARTUP MOVEMENT. ” is Eric Ries who wrote the must own, “ The Lean Startup ” *. Fred’s third argument is that you need to be careful not to try and scale up your operations (sales staff, marketing, etc) until you feel clear you’ve achieved product / market fit. Business Model.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 30, 2013

It’s hard to get ideas outside of a company’s current business model get traction (given that the projects have to get buy-in from operating execs) – encouraging spin-offs is a tactic worth considering to keep the ideas flowing. We now have the tools to build successful corporate entrepreneurship programs.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 31, 2025

Manage operations leanly: The most common problem for startups is spending too much money. Schedule investor meetings close together in time (within one week) to create buzz and a fear of missing out (FOMO). Having growth makes fundraising significantly easier. Regularly review your monthly spending to identify areas for reduction.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

It seemed to make sense to have have all the parties represented at the committee, so lots of people attended – program managers who controlled the budget, the developers responsible for maintaining and enhancing the current product and building new ones, and representatives from the operating divisions who needed and would use these products.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 23, 2013

To get some perspective on this question, I recently talked with Steve Blank , a serial entrepreneur, co-author of The Start-Up Owner’s Manual, and father of the “lean start-up” movement. As someone who teaches entrepreneurship not only in universities but also to U.S.

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Steve Blank

JULY 30, 2014

I’ve been spending some time with large companies that are interested in using Lean methods. Two methods, Design Thinking and Customer Development (the core of the Lean Startup) provide the tactical day-to-day process of how to turn ideas into products. . Here’s why.

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 25, 2024

Startups greatly benefit from the openness since it helps with prioritization, finding bottlenecks, and keeping the operational flow stable. Utilize Lean Project Management As a strategic framework, lean project management is useful for startups in an environment where resources are limited.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Some are strategic peers, some are near peers in specific areas, some are threats as non-state disrupters operating with no rules. Together Pete, Joe Felter and I created Hacking for Defense , a nationwide program to teach university students how use Lean methodologies to solve defense and national security problems.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 15, 2019

These processes reduce risk to an overall organization, but each layer of process reduces the ability to be agile and lean and – most importantly – responsive to new opportunities and threats. And by product, I mean the creation of new hardware, services, software, tools, operations, tradecraft, etc.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 28, 2014

VCs and Angel investors like to see a startup that is running lean and mean, with no more than three or four of the conventional C-level or VP titles. A few other credible ones would include Chairman of the Board (COB), Chief Operating Officer (COO) and Chief Marketing Officer (CMO).

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Steve Blank

MAY 23, 2016

This unorthodox idea has become a movement …called The Lean Startup – and has led to entirely new ways to start companies, commercialize science, and think about innovation. Over the last decade I’ve watched the Lean Startup approach to entrepreneurship take off. How did this happen? The National Science Foundation adopted it.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Thus I was happily surprised when I found the classic book, “ The Tech Entrepreneur’s Survival Guide ,” by Bernd Schoner, PhD, and cofounder of ThingMagic, which leans heavily on the people side of the equation. The operations superstar. Yet every entrepreneur I meet wants to talk about the idea, and rarely mentions the team.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Industry-specific domain experience becomes critical when identifying operational pain points ripe for transformation. This outside work provides a valuable source of revenue able to be used to fund operations. This provides both valuable experience and an understanding of the operational issues within each sector.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

Thus I was happily surprised when I found the classic book, “ The Tech Entrepreneur’s Survival Guide ,” by Bernd Schoner, PhD, and cofounder of ThingMagic, which leans heavily on the people side of the equation. The operations superstar. Yet every entrepreneur I meet wants to talk about the idea, and rarely mentions the team.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

If you have a very low gross margin (10-30%) it can be very hard to build a large, scalable business because you need to make a lot of sales to cover your operating costs. In startup world low GM almost always equals death which is why many Internet retailers have failed or are failing (many operated at 35% gross margins).

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 5, 2023

compete more effectively through new operational concepts, organizations, and/or strategies. We were integrating a lecture class with a heavy reading list with the best practices of hypothesis testing from Lean Launchpad/Hacking for Defense/I-Corps. Class Organization. Jason Kim : “ This course doesn’t just discuss U.S.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 29, 2017

by Quan Heng Lim, Cyber-Operations Consultant at Horangi. The Lean Startup.”. Let’s take the typical conditions, looking at cybersecurity both within the product and the environment it is operating in. Quan Heng Lim is a Cyber Operations Consultant for Horangi. Fail Fast, Pivot.”. Agile Methodology.”. SecAppDev 2014).

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 13, 2022

It isn’t unusual to act as CEO while also tackling marketing tasks and coordinating operations. The answer depends on what your current operations look like. If you’re in startup mode and have limited working capital to cover your operating expenses , you may be bootstrapping your way through the early days.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 26, 2021

Here are a few cost-saving rules all manufacturers need to follow today: Adopt lean manufacturing. Lean Startup Feedback Loop from lean.st. These efficient drilling tools, bridge plugs and other assets can boost operational flexibility, optimize completion programs and lower total operating costs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 11, 2014

Thus I was happy to see a new book, “ The Tech Entrepreneur’s Survival Guide ,” by Bernd Schoner, PhD, and cofounder of ThingMagic, which leans heavily on the people side of the equation. The operations superstar. Yet every entrepreneur I meet wants to talk about the idea, and rarely mentions the team.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 5, 2017

I reminded her that all the Lean tools she learned in class–Customer Discovery, business model and value proposition canvases– contained her answer. In crafting your messages, remember that all messages operate in a context that may have an expiration date. How do I sort out what to do?”. Here’s how.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 31, 2018

Make sure to check on the zoning laws in your area, to make sure there are no restrictions against operating a business from a residence. Lean Marketing. The busier you are with day-to-day operations, the more important it is to have a marketing strategy that doesn’t eat up your time and money. Use Virtual Assistants.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

In 2012 I got together with Alexander Osterwalder , Henry Chesbrough and Andre Marquis to think about the Lean and the future of corporate innovation. In our case, we’re local in over 200 countries with operations in basically every city on the planet. to create exponential growth. Innovation sounds easy. It never is.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

These days, many agencies start as a lean operation. Inversely, if you’re using the agency model to fund another startup or product, you should probably keep things lean. This approach takes a lot of work, so it’s worth taking a lean approach when starting. Why—or why not—pivot your agency service offering?

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Follow lean product development strategy (MVP strategy). Lean product development strategy or MVP (Minimum Viable Product) refers to creating a product with core features and offering it to a specific audience to get feedback.

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