The Best of steve blank
9 most popular steve blank articles, as voted by our community.
Customer Development & Secret History, Teaching at Stanford and Columbia
steve blank on Ambidexterity
Lean Innovation Management
I’ve been working with large companies and the U.S. government to help them innovate faster– not just kind of fast, but 10x the number of initiatives in 1/5 the time. A 50x speedup kind of fa…
steve blank on Innovation
Steve Blank A Simple Map for Innovation at Scale
An edited version of this article previously appeared in the Boston Consulting Group’s strategy think tank website. I spent last week at a global Fortune 50 company offsite watching them grap…
Steve Blank The Three Pillars of World-class Corporate Innovation
My good friend Alexander Osterwalder, the inventor of the business model canvas (one of foundations of the Lean Methodology) has written a playbook (along with his associate partner Tendayi Viki,) …
steve blank on Lean Startup
Steve Blank Startup Tools
1. Startup Tools Click Here 2. Lean LaunchPad Videos Click Here 3. Founding/Running Startup Advice Click Here 4. Market Research Click Here 5. Life Science Click Here 6. China Market Click Here …
steve blank on Product Design
Steve Blank Is the Lean Startup Dead?
A version of this article first appeared in the Harvard Business Review Reading the NY Times article “Jeffrey Katzenberg Raises $1 Billion for Short-Form Video Venture,” I realized it was time for …
steve blank on Quantum Computing
Steve Blank The Quantum Technology Ecosystem
If you think you understand quantum mechanics, you don’t understand quantum mechanics Richard Feynman Tens of billions of public and private capital are being invested in Quantum technologies. Coun…
steve blank on Sales
Steve Blank Mapping the Unknown – The Ten Steps to Map Any Industry
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step Lǎozi 老子 I just had lunch with Shenwei, one of my ex-students who had just taken a job in a mid-sized consulting firm. After a bit of catch…
«I just got handed a project to help our firm enter a new industry – semiconductors. They want me to map out the space so we can figure out where we can add value»
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Steve Blank The Virus Survival Strategy For Your Startup
“Winter is coming.” 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 leading any startup or small business, you have to be a…
Steve Blank Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Social distancing to stop the spread of COVID-19 is affecting businesses of all types and sizes, including those in their early stages. For people managing start-ups, their first concerns will be for the safety of their families and employees, but they will have to consider the future of their companies over the coming months and years. Silicon Valley entrepreneur Steve Blank’s insights will be useful to anyone running a start-up in these complicated, unpredictable times.
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