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  4. About Steve Blank

    Steven Gary Blank, usually known as just Steve Blank (b. 1953?), is a retired serial entrepreneur, founding and/or part of 8 startup companies in California’s Silicon Valley. Today he is best known as a teacher at multiple universities. He is also the author of the Customer Development model for early stage companies. This model attempts to view entrepreneurship as a practice that can be managed rather than just purely an art form to be experienced.

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    2. The Startup Owner's Manual: Using Failure Wisely

      Explore inc.com (May 17 2012) Marketing , Productivity

      The Startup Owner's Manual: Using Failure Wisely ...cently published book, The Startup Owner’s Manual, written by serial entrepreneurs-turned-educators Steve Blank and Bob Dorf. Come back each week for more how-tos from this 608-page guide. Existing companies alr... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Steve Blank   Bob Dorf

    3. The Problem with Startup Advice

      Explore - This is going to be BIG! (Apr 23 2012)

      The Problem with Startup Advice ... it. Unfortunately, people are out there taking Skillshare classes, reading VC bloggers, and buying Steve Blank's books and taking the advice contained within them as some kind of religion--mindlessly applying t... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Steve Blank   Charlie O'Donnell

    4. The Trouble With Non-tech Cofounders

      Explore TechCrunch Europe (Feb 23 2012) Marketing

      The Trouble With Non-tech Cofounders ... LeWeb, and I started building my network as well as reading blogs from Marc Andreessen, Eric Ries, Steve Blank and others. I quickly realised what I was getting into and what my shortcomings were. I wanted to m... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Harvard   Chris Dixon   Eric Ries

    5. Tips for Hiring Your First VP Sales at a Startup

      Explore SalesSchool by SalesCrunch (Feb 16 2012) Recruiting

      Tips for Hiring Your First VP Sales at a Startup ...mpany, or is it better to find that eager fresh face ready for a bit of adventure and trailblazing? Steve Blank, “father of customer development”, veteran of Silicon Valley and author of “Four Steps to the Epiph... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Oracle   IBM   California

    6. 47 tips to achieve a better work/life balance in 2011

      Explore Ready Set Startup (Feb 1 2012)

      47 tips to achieve a better work/life balance in 2011 ...to your 2011! Many of the tips on family and spouse relationships come from an excellent article by Steve Blank, Launching a startup and having a family life – it’s possible! It’s worth reading the whole post fr... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Steve Blank

    7. 7 Lessons On Startup Funding From a Research Scientist

      Explore On Startups by Dharmesh Shah (Jan 16 2012) Funding , Marketing

      ...omers as we can to get their input on what they need. This is just customer development 101, a la Steve Blank. For startups, customer data is the best data. 7. The first funding is the hardest. In science,... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Eric Ries   Steve Blank   Ty Danco

    8. Milestones to Startup Success

      Explore bitly (Jan 9 2012) Marketing

      ...es it. This can best be achieved by meeting with the prospects most likely to need your solution. Steve Blank published a great post on this today. Eric Ries offers more details on the minimum viable product c... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Eric Ries   Steve Blank   Vinod Khosla

    9. If You Don’t Have a Discrete Hypothesis You Are Incapable of Failing

      Explore bothsidesofthetable.com (Nov 27 2011)

      If You Don’t Have a Discrete Hypothesis You Are Incapable of Failing ...including his failures), how he came to focus on the Lean Startup movement (at the encouragement of Steve Blank who was an investor in the company he co-founded) and what he wants to do next. Importantly we also... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Mark Suster   Eric Ries   Steve Blank

    10. Joining The Board of Startup Weekend

      Explore Feld Thoughts (Sep 28 2011)

      Joining The Board of Startup Weekend ...art people on the board, which includes Carl Schramm, president and CEO of the Kauffman Foundation; Steve Blank, serial entrepreneur and author; entrepreneurship lecturer at U.C. Berkeley and Stanford University... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   David Cohen   Stanford University   Steve Blank

    11. Adopt the New Startup Model: Nail It Then Scale It

      Explore Startup Professionals Musings (Sep 19 2011) Marketing

      Adopt the New Startup Model: Nail It Then Scale It ...s time to look harder at the mantra of a new breed of gurus and successful entrepreneurs, including Steve Blank and Eric Ries, called “nail it then scale it” (NISI). You can review all the specifics of this a... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Eric Ries   Steve Blank   Marty Zwilling

    12. Business Model Analysis, Part 10: Getting Started

      Explore Platforms and Networks (Aug 1 2011)

      ...ration. For some terrific examples of Osterwalder’s canvas in action, see the presentations done by Steve Blank’s students in his Lean LaunchPad course at Stanford. Using the information radiator approach, membe... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Eric Ries   Steve Blank   Alex Osterwalder

    13. Business Model Analysis, Part 8: Crossing the Chasm

      Explore Platforms and Networks (Jul 29 2011) Marketing

      Business Model Analysis, Part 8: Crossing the Chasm ...cultivating early adopters. Consequently, seed-stage ventures can probably ignore the chasm risk as Steve Blank points out in Four Steps to the Epiphany. However, a “D-Day” strategy requires plenty of planning, ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Steve Blank   Geoffrey Moore

    14. Business Model Analysis, Part 1: Key Questions

      Explore Platforms and Networks (Jul 22 2011) Marketing

      Business model analysis is central to the lean startup approach developed by Eric Ries, Steve Blank, and others. When entrepreneurs “run lean,” they formulate hypotheses about major elements of their... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Harvard Business School   Eric Ries   Steve Blank

    15. Abolish Board Meeting Update Calls

      Explore Feld Thoughts (Jun 23 2011)

      Abolish Board Meeting Update Calls ...e surfaced via email. The best companies I’m involved in actually do this weekly and, if you follow Steve Blank’s “Boardroom as Bits” hypothesis, you can turn this into real time info where the board is incorpor... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Steve Blank

    16. Reinventing the Startup Board Meeting: Part 2

      Explore ReadWriteWeb (Jun 15 2011) Funding

      Reinventing the Startup Board Meeting: Part 2 ...get feedback and guidance for startups who cannot get advice in a formal board meeting. Sponsor Steve Blank is a retired serial entrepreneur, educator, thought leader and creator of the rigorous "Customer De... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Ann Miura-Ko   Stanford University   The University of Michigan

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