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By: Eric Brooke

Thanks Steve for sharing. I reflect on my own MBA which essentially taught me how to survive a big company, with big finances, manage and survive the politics/stakeholder management. It was incredibly...

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By: Jesse Rodgers (@jrodgers)

There are two examples in Canada (more in the states) of using the YC model of educating entrepreneurs and putting in on the campus: Waterloo’s VeloCity and Ryerson’s DMZ (Harvard has the i-lab,...

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By: Vince Talbert (@vwtalbert)

I am starting to believe that ideas are going to be open source… It seems as though ideas are a dime a dozen… and it is really hard to have an original idea anymore because information is flowing so...

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By: Got New Steve Blank Book Today :-) « Iain's Chips & Tech

[...] the positioning of Customer Development and traditional entrepreneurship. It’s titled “Search vs Execute” I really like this quote: we now know that a startup is a temporary organization designed...

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By: farrellink

This is a very useful model for understanding where business education can & should go to properly support entrepreneurship! I think this applies not only at the graduate level, but also in job...

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By: Mariel Geurden

Thank you for your explanation. You define a startup as a temporary organization designed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model. In the customer development process at the end of...

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By: Derek Harris

Thanks for another excellent article! I’m in my final semester in the Colorado State MBA program, and our capstone class is based on the BMG Canvas and the build-test-learn cycle. We are building our...

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By: Vin D'Amico

I largely agree and would like to clarify my thinking. Startups have to focus on markets and customers. They need to design products/services that the market wants and they need to define a business...

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By: olusesi

Its so good to know that someone out there understands the need to fill the gap between class theories nd the practical end that determines the success of start ups . While at d same time knowing that...

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By: Ruby on Rails development

Beautiful definition of Startup = Temp org in search of a sustainable, repeatable business model. But I wonder how would you figure out when a startup has that business model? Does search ever stop?

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By: A year of amazing people and many mistakes | HEART & INTUITION

[...] I def cannot take credit for this philosophy, its in one form or another all over the place.  One of my favorite places is actually in this awesome Steve Blank post called Search vs. Execute. [...]

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By: Barbara Tien

Outstanding post. Not only do you convey your core mantra about the fundamentals of entrepreneurship, but you’ve also described a terrifically important role for the Federal government in sparking new...

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By: Blinded by the Light — The Epiphany « The Berkeley Blog

[...] now know how to teach entrepreneurs how to think about business models and use customer development to turn hypotheses into facts. But [...]

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By: Can World Class Companies be built from Iceland? | Startup Iceland

[...] are specific stages in the development of a company. Steve Blank has a fantastic post explaining the transition from an Idea to a Startup to a Company.  I have written a lot about the inflection...

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By: Ville Simola

Great post Steve once again! Coming back to your though on “why accountants don’t run startups” I think Fruugo would be a great case study to feature! They raised 40M eur and ended up with 100k in...

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By: How to Build a Billion-Dollar Startup | Xconomy

[...] version of my Lean LaunchPad class at Columbia University. While the class teaches a process to search and validate a business model, it does not offer any hints on how to create a killer startup...

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By: How to Build a Billion Dollar Startup | Wordpress news and updates

[...] version of my Lean LaunchPad class at Columbia University. While the class teaches a process to search and validate a business model, it does not offer any hints on how to create a killer startup...

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By: ¿Por qué México? Parte I – ¿Por qué no hay más negocios de alto...

[...] la experiencia adecuada: construir un negocio es muy diferente a administrar uno existente (ver “Search vs. Execute“), y ejecutivos experimentados que tratan de aplicar los mismos principios de...

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By: Entrepreneurship for the 99 Percent | Xconomy

[...] LaunchPad approach (business model canvas + customer development) and bring their entrepreneurship curriculums into the 21st century. Over the past couple of years this Lean LaunchPad model has...

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By: Lesson Learned #2: Daily Intellectual Consumption and Inspiration |...

[...] careful with old-school businessperson or politician who are trying to take the captain post of our business. They dont understand startup and how to run them at this century. Ask them [...]

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