Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

Over the last three years our Lean LaunchPad / NSF Innovation Corps classes have been teaching hundreds of entrepreneurial teams a year how to build their startups by getting out of the building and testing their hypotheses behind their business model. Filed under: Customer Development , Lean LaunchPad , Teaching.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 26, 2014

We’ve pivoted our Lean LaunchPad / I-Corps curriculum. — Over the last three years the Lean LaunchPad class has started to replace the last century’s “how to write a business plan” classes as the foundation for entrepreneurial education. . The Lean LaunchPad is now being taught in over 100 universities. Lessons Learned.

Intellectual Property 290

Intellectual Property Lean IP Open Source 290

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

AUGUST 9, 2010

You repeat these mantras at Lean Startup Meetings but you're not doing it.? Repeat after me: You are not your customer." — Eric Ries , Lean Startup leader (repeating a conversation with a startup founder). Now: How many do you suppose are decent pieces of software that basically work? (My But you're still not listening.

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Software Review Part-Time VPE Cofounder Houston 312

YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

It is no surprise that Agile as a revolution of the software development and project management world is still picking up its pace. This has caused a need for Agile professionals within the IT sector who understand the principles and methodology behind this concepts of Scaled Agile, Scrum, Kanban, and Lean.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

You will need to invest more in training your own team, and increase your capital budget for new hardware and software. I’ll outsource software development, since I don’t understand it.” When you sign up remote workers, you’ll start to rely heavily on collaborative tools, Internet bandwidth, and new data security tools.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 22, 2014

Over the years Dino and I brainstormed about how Lean entrepreneurship would affect regional development. However, four critical advances over the past decade (cloud, accelerators, Lean, and Angels) not only changed the math for tech investing but made regional tech clusters possible. The result was too much money in too few deals.

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SoCal CTO

APRIL 2, 2013

What's Going to Go Wrong A lot of founders don't really understand Lean Startup principles. They look at the following high level definition of Lean: and they interpret that as write up an executive summary with your ideas and hand it to developers to build. Don't be fooled by a Common Misunderstanding in Agile Software Development.

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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. Are lean innovation and the Startup Way a failure in large companies?

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 2, 2014

This post is part of our series on the National Science Foundation I-Corps Lean LaunchPad class in Life Science and Health Care at UCSF. We kept track of all this data by instrumenting the teams with LaunchPad Central software.). Jason Crane - PhD UCSF Manager Scientific Software Development.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

Will Price , October 11, 2010 Georgians Should Vote No - Force of Good: a blog by Lance Weatherby , October 28, 2010 Free Software for Managing a Lean Startup - Platforms and Networks , January 17, 2010 Purpose Driven Life - Journey of a Serial Entrepreneur , July 26, 2010 Two Decade-Defining Acquisitions?

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

AUGUST 29, 2011

The following week she sent me this email (my emphasis): Ever since accidentally stumbling upon lean startup 1+ years ago, I’ve struggled to implement the principles correctly. He has an idea for a new software package for managing an expensive, time-consuming aspect of practice-management. This is wrong for a number of reasons.

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Hunter Walker

AUGUST 31, 2021

Early adopter verticals — such as software development and tech sales — is mostly in Gen 3. But I also wanted to suggest there’s a coming Gen 4 of SaaS leaning heavily into EQ instead of IQ because I truly believe the Future of Work involves understanding emotions not just data. And software that remembers humans are the endpoints.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 11, 2019

You will need to invest more in training your own team, and increase your capital budget for new hardware and software. I’ll outsource software development, since I don’t understand it.” When you sign up remote workers, you’ll start to rely heavily on collaborative tools, Internet bandwidth, and new data security tools.

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Entrepreneur Philippines Bandwidth Cofounder 303

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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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Software apps that once required a 10-person team can now be done with the Lean Development methodology by two people in a couple of months. In the early days (25 years ago), most new e-commerce sites cost a million dollars to set up. Now the price is closer to $100, if you are willing to do the work yourself.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 19, 2010

You don't have an "edge" just because you're passionate, hard-working, or "lean.". During a lull in her practice she got a serendipitous opportunity to shift gears completely and ended up leading software product development teams. But now she has the vision and ability to design her own software, capitalizing on modern trends (e.g.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 21, 2018

Today, I want to introduce a new approach to business planning: Lean Planning. Lean Planning replaces lengthy business plans with a 20-minute planning process that focuses on increasing your chances of success in business. Lean Planning is simpler and faster than writing a traditional business plan. Step 1: Create a Lean Plan.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 6, 2019

Software apps that once required a 10-person team can now be done with the Lean Development methodology by two people in a couple of months. In the early days (25 years ago), most new e-commerce sites cost a million dollars to set up. Now the price is closer to $100, if you are willing to do the work yourself.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 9, 2013

I strongly recommend a dramatic departure from this model, called “planned iteration” or Lean Startup methodology, where you assume you won’t get it right the first time, so you launch with a minimum viable product (MVP). One of his key points is that “launching teaches you what you should have been building,” and I agree.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

Software apps that once required a 10-person team can now be done with the Lean Development methodology by two people in a couple of months. In the early days (20 years ago), most new e-commerce sites cost a million dollars to set up. Now the price is closer to $100, if you are willing to do the work yourself.

Intellectual Property 309

Intellectual Property Technical Review Venture Capital Startup 309

Steve Blank

JULY 7, 2015

My guests on Bay Area Ventures on Wharton Business Radio on Sirius XM Channel 111 were: Eric Ries , entrepreneur and author of the New York Times bestseller, The Lean Startup. Eric was the very first practitioner of my Customer Development methodology which became the core of the the Lean methodology. Origins of the Lean Startup.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

lean startups or even the advent of AJAX. My philosophy emanated from my days of programming and later designing corporate software in the early 1990′s. We were smart kids straight out of college and were designing the systems that we’d want to use.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 17, 2014

I strongly recommend a dramatic departure from this model, called “planned iteration” or Lean Startup methodology, where you assume you won’t get it right the first time, so you launch with a minimum viable product (MVP). One of his key points is that “launching teaches you what you should have been building,” and I agree.

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Agile Startup Social Network Software Developers 253

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.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 3, 2012

Long before there was the Lean Startup, Business Model Canvas or Customer Development there was a guy in Santa Barbara California who had already figured it out. consisted of product manager, hardware-engineering manager, software-engineering manager, applications analyst, and software designer.

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San Jose Technical Review Customer Development Software Review 261

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 18, 2014

You will need to invest more in training your own team, and increase your capital budget for new hardware and software. I’ll outsource software development, since I don’t understand it.” When you sign up remote workers, you’ll start to rely heavily on collaborative tools, Internet bandwidth, and new data security tools.

Entrepreneur 231

Entrepreneur Philippines Bandwidth Cofounder 231

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 14, 2014

Software apps that once required a 10-person team can now be done with the Lean Development methodology by two people in a couple of months. In the early days (20 years ago), most new e-commerce sites cost a million dollars to set up. Now the price is closer to $100, if you are willing to do the work yourself.

Entrepreneur 283

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Its purpose is to make sure that drugs, devices, diagnostics, and software products don’t harm thousands or even millions of people so the FDA wants a process to make sure they get it right. It’s close to de-facto adopting a Lean decision-making process and rapid clearances for things that minimally affect health. In the U.S.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

This is why investors really like SaaS software companies where you have recurring revenue and your largest customer accounts for < 5% of your revenue and your renewals rates are > 90%. Many software companies have > 80% gross margins which is why they are more valuable than say traditional retailers or consumer product companies.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

Pragmatic and Lean. Larry often philosophized that we couldn’t hire people with software experience because there were hardly any software companies, so we just had to get the smartest bastards we could, and they’d figure it out. What a gift! Not every startup gets to have this—but if you don’t, you’ve got a problem.

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Technical Review Venture Capital Software Review Database 335

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2022

Software apps that once required a 10-person team can now be done with the Lean Development methodology by two people in a couple of months. In the early days (20 years ago), most new e-commerce sites cost a million dollars to set up. Now the price is closer to $100, if you are willing to do the work yourself.

Intellectual Property 261

Intellectual Property Technical Review Incubator Bootstrapping 261

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

A canonical Lean Innovation process inside a company or government agency would look something like this: Curation. Technical debt describes what happens when software or hardware is built quickly to validate hypotheses and find early customers. As the head of the U.S. They need the support and oversight of the CEO. Lessons Learned.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2011

Bill had previously created a packaged software company called Knowledge Adventure the produced children’s educational software. When he tells his stories from the 1990′s your realize that he was probably the original “lean startup.&# He turned his accounting software into a product he could see.

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Product Tuvalu Dilution Incubator 350

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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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

In the last decade, SaaS (Software as a Service) has become a very popular model for new software product development. Requirement analysis is one of the earliest and most important stages of software development. Follow lean product development strategy (MVP strategy). Software design is a process.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Why It’s Critical to Choose a Modern Software Development Technology. Additionally, it becomes critical to choose a modern software development methodology suitable for crafting digital ventures. Providing an agency’s growing technology team with state-of-the-art tools for modern software development also becomes critical.

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Incubator Startup Software Developers Software Development 188

Up and Running

MAY 21, 2020

For a software-driven online business, the milestones might include an initial business plan, getting the right people on board, website specs, design, first website launch, marketing launch, and so forth. Do a lean business plan. Develop a lean business plan. Maybe this means that your idea just failed the test. Still there?

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