Steve Blank Podcast

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Synopsis

Visor Labs engineers mobile customers

Episodes

  • Born Global or Die Local – Building a Regional Startup Playbook

    02/11/2014 Duration: 08min

    Entrepreneurship is everywhere, but everywhere isn’t a level playing field. What’s the playbook for your region or country to make it so? Scalable startups are on a trajectory for a billion dollar market cap. They grow into companies that define an industry and create jobs. Not all start ups want to go in that direction – some will opt instead to become a small business. There’s nothing wrong with a business that supports you and perhaps an extended family. But if you want to build a scalable startup you need to be asking how you can you get enough customers/users/payers to build a business that can grow revenues past several $100M/year.

  • The Business Model Canvas Gets Even Better – Value Proposition Design

    27/10/2014 Duration: 05min

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

  • Watching My Students Grow

    07/10/2014 Duration: 05min

    One of the great things about teaching is that while some students pass by like mist in the night others remain connected forever. I get to watch them grow into their careers and cheer them on. Its been three and a half years since I first designed and taught the Lean LaunchPad class and lots of water has gone under the bridge since then. I’ve taught hundreds of teams, the National Science Foundation Innovation Corps has taught close to 400 teams led by our nations top scientists, and the class is being taught around the world.

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

    01/10/2014 Duration: 11min

    In Oracle’s early days Kathryn Gould was the founding VP of Marketing, working there from 1982 to 1984. When I heard that Larry Ellison was stepping down as Oracle’s CEO I asked Kathryn to think about the skills she saw in a young Larry Ellison that might make today’s founders winners.

  • The Woodstock of K-12 Education

    25/09/2014 Duration: 07min

    Describing something as the “Woodstock of…” has taken to mean a one-of-a-kind historic gathering. It happened recently when a group of educators came to the ranch to learn how to teach Lean entrepreneurship to K-12 students.

  • How To Find the Right Co-Founders?

    18/09/2014 Duration: 06min

    How do you figure out what’s the right mix of skills for the co-founders of your startup? Surprisingly if you’ve filled out the business model canvas you already know who you need. I was having breakfast with Radhika, an ex-grad student of mine who wanted to share her Customer Discovery progress for her consumer hardware startup. She started by sketching her business model canvas on a napkin, but somehow the conversation quickly shifted to what was really on her mind.

  • Why Translational Medicine Will Never be The Same

    17/09/2014 Duration: 02min

    For the past three years the National Science Foundation Innovation Corps has been teaching our nations best scientists how to build a Lean Startup. Close to 400 teams in robotics, computer science, materials science, geoscience, etc. have learned how to use business models, get out of the building to test their hypotheses and minimum viable product.

  • How To Think Like an Entrepreneur: the Inventure Cycle

    12/09/2014 Duration: 10min

    The Lean Startup is a process for turning ideas into commercial ventures. Its premise is that startups begin with a series of untested hypotheses. They succeed by getting out of the building, testing those hypotheses and learning by iterating and refining minimal viable products in front of potential customers.

  • Why Founders Should Know How to Code

    05/09/2014 Duration: 09min

    “By knowing things that exist, you can know that which does not exist.” - Book of Five Rings...A startup is not just about the idea, it’s about testing and then implementing the idea.A founding team without these skills is likely dead on arrival.

  • Pioneering Women in Venture Capital: Kathryn Gould

    09/08/2014 Duration: 18min

    I met Kathryn Gould longer ago than either of us want to admit. Kathryn has been the founding VP of Marketing of Oracle, a successful recruiter, a world class Venture Capitalist, a co-founder of a Venture Capital firm, a great board member, one of my mentors and most importantly a wonderful friend. During her career she made a big point of not telling you: she was one of the first women Venture Capitalist’s in Silicon Valley (along with M.J. Elmore and Ann Winblad) – “I’m just a VC.”

  • Driving Corporate Innovation: Design Thinking vs. Customer Development

    05/08/2014 Duration: 10min

    Startups are not smaller versions of large companies, but interestingly we see that companies are not larger versions of startups.

  • Getting Lean in Education – By Getting Out of the Classroom

    30/07/2014 Duration: 07min

    This week the National Science Foundation goes Lean on education by providing $1.2 million to educators who want to bring their classroom innovations to a wider audience.

  • The Path of Our Lives

    10/07/2014 Duration: 10min

    I got a call that reminded me that most people live their life as if it’s predestined – but some live theirs fighting to change it.

  • How Investors Make Better Decisions: The Investment Readiness Level

    03/07/2014 Duration: 12min

    Investors sitting through Incubator or Accelerator demo days have three metrics to judge fledgling startups – 1) great looking product demos, 2) compelling PowerPoint slides, and 3) a world-class team. Other than “I’ll know it when I see it”, there’s no formal way for an investor to assess project maturity or quantify risks. Other than measuring engineering progress, there’s no standard language to communicate progress.

  • I-Corps @ NIH – Pivoting the Curriculum

    28/06/2014 Duration: 08min

    We’ve pivoted our Lean LaunchPad / I-Corps curriculum. We’re changing the order in which we teach the business model canvas and customer development to better-fit therapeutics, diagnostics and medical devices.

  • Why Lean May Save Your Life – The I-Corps @ NIH

    21/06/2014 Duration: 08min

    Today the National Institutes of Health announced they are offering my Lean LaunchPad class (I-Corps @ NIH ) to commercialize Life Science. There may come a day that one of these teams makes a drug, diagnostic or medical device that saves your life.

  • Hostages Strapped to the Tank: Coastal Commission Stories – Lesson 2

    19/06/2014 Duration: 11min

    For six and a half years I served as a public official on the California Coastal Commission.Commissoner Badge Since it’s been a year since I resigned, it’s time to tell a few stories about what I learned as a Coastal Commissioner. Each and every month I learned something new about human nature, deception and greed.

  • Farming for Developers: Coastal Commission Stories – Lesson 1

    12/06/2014 Duration: 09min

    Last week I got an email last week from a New York VC asking for advice about building a house in the California Coastal Zone. For six and a half years I served as a public official on the California Coastal Commission. The call reminded me that it’s been a year since I resigned, and it’s time to tell a few stories of what I learned as a Coastal Commissioner. Each and every month I learned that not everything was how it seemed.

  • Three Things I Learned on Commencement Day

    31/05/2014 Duration: 05min

    In the last five years I’ve been at Commencement Day at universities around the world – a few times to receive awards and three times as the commencement speaker. But attending both my daughters’ college graduations this year helped me to see how things look from the other side of the podium.

  • Innovating Municipal Government Culture

    29/04/2014 Duration: 07min

    D.R. Widder is the Vice President of Innovation and holds the Steve Blank Innovation Chair at Philadelphia University. He’s helping city government in Philadelphia become more innovative by applying Lean startup methods and Philadelphia University’s innovation curriculum. I asked him to share an update on his work on teaching lean techniques to local governments. Subscribe at http://j.mp/1iyL7tW.

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