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Failure and Redemption
“What’s gone and what’s past help Should be past grief.” William Shakespeare - The Winter’s Tale We give abundant advice to founders about how to make startups succeed yet we offer few models about...
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The Lean LaunchPad goes to high school
While the Lean LaunchPad class has been adopted by Universities and the National Science Foundation, the question we get is, “Can students in K-12 handle an experiential entrepreneurship class?”...
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The Lean LaunchPad Goes to Middle School
While the Lean LaunchPad class has been adopted by Universities and the National Science Foundation, the question we get is, “Can students in K-12 handle an experiential entrepreneurship class?”...
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China-The Sleeper Awakens (Part 1 of 5)
I just spent a few weeks in Japan and China on a book tour for the Japanese andChinese versions of the Startup Owners Manual. In these series of 5 posts, I thought I’d share what I learned in China....
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China’s Torch Program — The Glow That Can Light the World (Part 2 of 5)
I just spent a few weeks in Japan and China on a book tour for the Japanese andChinese versions of the Startup Owners Manual. In these series of 5 posts, I thought I’d share what I learned in China....
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The Rise of China Venture Capital (Part 3 of 5)
I just spent a few weeks in Japan and China on a book tour for the Japanese andChinese versions of the Startup Owners Manual. In these series of 5 posts, I thought I’d share what I learned in China....
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Zhongguancun in Beijing – China’s Silicon Valley
I just spent a few weeks in Japan and China on a book tour for the Japanese andChinese versions of the Startup Owners Manual. In these series of 5 posts, I thought I’d share what I learned in China....
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When Hell Froze Over — in The Harvard Business Review
“I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member.” Groucho Marx In my 21 years as an entrepreneur, I would come up for air once a month to religiously read the Harvard Business Review. It was...
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Fly High
Todd Branchflower was one my Lean LaunchPad students entrepreneurial enough to convince the Air Force send him to Stanford to get his graduate engineering degree. After watching my Secret History of...
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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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Who’s Doing the Learning?
By Steve Blank In a startup instead of paying consultants to tell you what they learned you want to pay them to teach you how to learn. —- Roominate, one of my favorite Lean LaunchPad teams came out to...
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Fund Raising is a Means Not an End
By Steve Blank Not all that glitters is gold William Shakespeare For many entrepreneurs “raising money” has replaced “building a sustainable business” as their goal. That’s a big mistake. When you...
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The Lean LaunchPad Educators Course
By Steve Blank There is nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come Victor Hugo The Lean LaunchPad entrepreneurship curriculum has caught fire. This week 100 educators from around the world...
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Don’t Give Away Your Board Seats
By Steve Blank Published on www.steveblank.com, July 9, 2013 I had a group of ex-students out to the ranch who were puzzling over a dilemma – they’ve been working hard on their startup, were close to...
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An MVP is not a Cheaper Product. It’s About Smart Learning
A minimum viable product (MVP) is not always a smaller/cheaper version of your final product. Defining the goal for a MVP can save you tons of time, money and grief. Drones over the Heartland I ran...
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Building Great Founding Teams
By Steve Blank Originally posted July 29, 2013, at www.steveblank.com. That he which hath no stomach to this fight, let him depart…We few, we happy few, we band of brothers. William Shakespeare, Henry...
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How Kevin O’Connor and FindTheBest Got Lean
By Steve Blank Originally posted Aug. 5, 2013, at www.steveblank.com. When we started E.piphany there was an equally scrappy startup calledDoubleClick (later acquired by Google for $3.1 billon). Other...
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Reinventing Life Science Startups –Therapeutics and Diagnostics
Originally posted on August 19, 2013, on www.steveblank.com It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it...
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Reinventing Life Science Startups – Medical Devices and Digital Health
Originally published Aug. 20, 2013, at www.steveblank.com. What if we could increase productivity and stave the capital flight by helping Life Sciences startups build their companies more efficiently?...
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Reinventing Life Science Startups – Evidence-based Entrepreneurship
Originally published Aug. 21, 2013, at www.steveblank.com What if we could increase productivity and stave the capital flight by helping Life Sciences startups build their companies more efficiently?...
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