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Steve Blank Podcast

Steve Blank, eight-time entrepreneur and now a business school professor at Stanford, Columbia and Berkeley, shares his hard-won wisdom as he pioneers entrepreneurship as a management science, combini... Read more

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2019

Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2019

We just finished our 4th annual Hacking for Defense class at Stanford. At the end of each class we have each team give a... Read more

8 Jun 2019

9mins

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The Business Model Canvas Gets Even Better – Value Proposition Design

The Business Model Canvas Gets Even Better – Value Proposition Design

Product/Market fit now has its own book. Alexander Osterwalder wrote it. Buy it.

27 Oct 2014

5mins

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How to Raise Money – It’s a Journey Not An Event

How to Raise Money – It’s a Journey Not An Event

Every year I teach classrooms full of students who leave class understanding the basics of how to search for product/mar... Read more

7 Mar 2020

20mins

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The Apple Watch – Tipping Point Time for Healthcare

The Apple Watch – Tipping Point Time for Healthcare

I don’t own an Apple Watch. I do have a Fitbit. But the Apple Watch 4 announcement intrigued me in a way no other produc... Read more

28 Sep 2018

26mins

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Watching Larry Ellison become Larry Ellison — The DNA of a Winner

Watching Larry Ellison become Larry Ellison — The DNA of a Winner

In Oracle’s early days Kathryn Gould was the founding VP of Marketing, working there from 1982 to 1984. When I heard tha... Read more

1 Oct 2014

11mins

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The Virus Survival Strategy For Your Startup

The Virus Survival Strategy For Your Startup

This is the one blog post that I hope I’m completely wrong about.With the Covid-19 virus a worldwide pandemic, if you’re... Read more

4 Apr 2020

13mins

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What Do I Do Now? The Startup Lifecycle

What Do I Do Now? The Startup Lifecycle

Last week I got a call from Patrick an ex-student I hadn’t heard from for 8 years. He was now the CEO of a company and w... Read more

17 Feb 2015

9mins

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Why Some Startups Win

Why Some Startups Win

I was having a second coffee with an ex student, now the head of a marketing inside a rapidly growing startup. His comp... Read more

20 Mar 2017

13mins

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In a Crisis – An Opportunity For A More Meaningful Life

In a Crisis – An Opportunity For A More Meaningful Life

Sheltering in place during the Covid-19 pandemic, my coffees with current and ex-students (entrepreneurs, as well as emp... Read more

18 Apr 2020

7mins

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Is the Lean Startup Dead?

Is the Lean Startup Dead?

Reading the NY Times article “Jeffrey Katzenberg Raises $1 Billion for Short-Form Video Venture,” I realized it was time... Read more

7 Sep 2018

13mins

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2018 – wonder and awe

Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2018 – wonder and awe

We just finished our 3rd annual Hacking for Defense class at Stanford. Six teams presented their Lessons Learned present... Read more

8 Jun 2018

9mins

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Why Build, Measure, Learn – isn’t just throwing things against the wall to see if they work

Why Build, Measure, Learn – isn’t just throwing things against the wall to see if they work

I am always surprised when critics complain that the Lean Startup’s Build, Measure, Learn approach is nothing more than ... Read more

8 May 2015

12mins

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Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Marketing Communications

Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Marketing Communications

I was having coffee with the CEO of a new startup, listening to her puzzle through how to communicate to potential custo... Read more

7 Apr 2017

16mins

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Blank’s Rule – To predict the future 1/3 of you need to be crazy

Blank’s Rule – To predict the future 1/3 of you need to be crazy

When companies or agencies search for disruptive and innovative strategies they often assemble a panel of experts to adv... Read more

26 Dec 2015

9mins

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Working Hard is not the same as working smart

Working Hard is not the same as working smart

Measuring how hard your team is working by counting the number of hours they work or what time they get in and leave is ... Read more

23 Sep 2016

6mins

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Why GE’s Jeff Immelt Lost His Job – Disruption and Activist Investors

Why GE’s Jeff Immelt Lost His Job – Disruption and Activist Investors

Jeff Immelt ran GE for 16 years. He radically transformed the company from a classic conglomerate that did everything to... Read more

4 Nov 2017

11mins

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How To Think Like an Entrepreneur: the Inventure Cycle

How To Think Like an Entrepreneur: the Inventure Cycle

The Lean Startup is a process for turning ideas into commercial ventures. Its premise is that startups begin with a seri... Read more

12 Sep 2014

10mins

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The Product Development Model

The Product Development Model

I realized that traditional ways to think about startups – have an idea, raise some money, do product development, go th... Read more

22 Mar 2014

2mins

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How To Find the Right Co-Founders?

How To Find the Right Co-Founders?

How do you figure out what’s the right mix of skills for the co-founders of your startup? Surprisingly if you’ve filled ... Read more

18 Sep 2014

6mins

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Why Tim Cook is Steve Ballmer and Why He Still Has His Job at Apple

Why Tim Cook is Steve Ballmer and Why He Still Has His Job at Apple

What happens to a company when a visionary CEO is gone? Most often innovation dies and the company coasts for years on m... Read more

28 Oct 2016

16mins

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