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Why Governments Don’t Get Startups
Not understanding and agreeing what “Entrepreneur” and “Startup” mean can sink an entire country’s entrepreneurial ecosystem. ——— I’m getting ready to go overseas to teach, and I’ve spent the last week...
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The Helsinki Spring
Originally posted on October 7, 2011 at steveblank.com By Steve Blank I spent the month of September lecturing, and interacting with (literally) thousands of entrepreneurs in two emerging startup...
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How the iPhone Got Tail Fins — Part 2 of 2
Originally posted on October 20, 2011 at steveblank.com By Steve Blank Read part 1 of this post for background. By the early 1920’s General Motors realized that Ford, which was now selling theModel T...
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How to Build a Billion Dollar Startup
Originally posted on April 19, 2012 at www.steveblank.com The quickest way to create a billion dollar company is to take basic human socialneeds and figure out how to mediate them on-line. (Look at the...
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Why Facebook is Killing Silicon Valley
Originally posted May 21, 2012, at www.steveblank.com We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will...
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The Endless Frontier: U.S. Science and National Industrial Policy (part 1)
The U.S. has spent the last 70 years making massive investments in basic and applied research. Government funding of research started in World War II driven by the needs of the military for weapon...
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U of Minnesota Commencement Speech
By Steve Blank Originally published May 15, 2013, at www.steveblank.com I am honored to be with you as we gather to celebrate your graduation. This school has a distinguished roster of graduates…...
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When Product Features Disappear – Amazon, Apple, Tesla and the Troubled...
Originally posted Nov. 21, 2013, at www.steveblank.com By Steve Blank One of the great innovations of the 21st century are products that are cloud-connected and update and improve automatically. For...
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How to be Smarter than Your Investors — Continuous Customer Discovery
Originally published at www.steveblank.com By Steve Blank Teams that build continuous customer discovery into their DNA will become smarter than their investors, and build more successful companies. —...
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How To Think Like an Entrepreneur: The Inventure Cycle
Originally posted at www.steveblank.com By Steve Blank The Lean Startup is a process for turning ideas into commercial ventures. Its premise is that startups begin with a series of untested hypotheses....
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