Steve Blank
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Silicon Valley, CA, United States
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Cram downs are a character test for VCs and founders –
For common shareholders (employees, advisers and previous investors), a cram-down round is a big middle finger, as it comes with reverse split. → Read More
Rising out of the crisis: Where to find new markets and customers
Whatever business model you had at the beginning of the year may now be obsolete. Here's a great tool for discovering new markets. → Read More
Rising out of the crisis: Where to find new markets and customers
Whatever business model you had at the beginning of the year may now be obsolete. Here's a great tool for discovering new markets. → Read More
Managing customer discovery when you can’t leave the house –
If your business model still looks like your original assumptions a month ago, you’ve been living under a rock. Every part of your business model — not just product and customer — will change now. → Read More
A coronavirus survival strategy for your startup
In the face of this pandemic, if you’re leading any startup or small business, you have to be asking yourself, “What’s Plan B? And what’s in my lifeboat?” → Read More
Why Entrepreneurs Start Companies Rather Than Join Them
If you asked me why I gravitated to startups rather than work in a large company I would have answered at various times: “I want to be my own boss.” “I love risk.” “I want flexible work hours.” “I want to work on tough problems that matter.” “I have a vision and want to see it through.” “I saw a better opportunity and grabbed it. …” It never crossed my mind that I gravitated to startups because… → Read More
How to Keep Your Job As Your Company Grows
If you’re an early employee at a startup, one day you will wake up to find that what you worked… → Read More
Entrepreneurship Education And Corporate Innovation: The Evolution
An entrepreneur inside of a company is somebody who knows how to get stuff across the finish line inside the bureaucracy. → Read More
What Is The Difference Between Innovators and Entrepreneurs?
You needed to be innovative, original to be an entrepreneur. The smartest technical innovator is the most successful entrepreneur. → Read More
Advice Is a Gift and You Should Treat it That Way
When someone offers to help, just say thank you. → Read More
Why entrepreneurs start companies rather than join them
If you asked me why I gravitated to startups rather than work in a large company I would have answered at various times: “I want to be my own boss.” “I love risk.” “I want flexible work hours.” “I … → Read More
Leadership is more than a memo
I just read Brotopia: Breaking Up the Boys’ Club of Silicon Valley. It was both eye-opening and cringe-worthy. The book explores the role of gender in the tech industry – at startups and venture ca… → Read More
When You're a Leader, Everything You Do Has an Impact
Your team members take cues from what you say and do -- but also subtle signals, like what you wear. → Read More
How Companies Strangle Innovation – And How You Can Get It Right
Advertisement Advertisement I just watched a very smart company try to manage innovation by hiring a global consulting firm to offload engineering from “distractions.” They accomplished their goal, but at a huge, unanticipated cost: the processes and committees they designed ended up strangling innovation. There’s a much better way. An existing company or government organization … → Read More
How Companies Strangle Innovation – And How You Can Get It Right
I just watched a very smart company try to manage innovation by hiring a global consulting firm to offload eng → Read More
Why Good People Leave Large Tech Companies
If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the people to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instea → Read More
Corporate innovators: How to get your slow organization moving faster
Innovation in theory and innovation in practice are radically different. Here are some simple tools to get your company’s innovation pipeline through the obstacles it will encounter. → Read More
Why Hiring New Employees Could Be Easy As Pie
Hiring new employees can be as easy as pie, as long as you divide the core competencies and evaluate on the basis of their execution. → Read More
Why Hiring New Employees Could Be Easy As Pie
Hiring new employees can be as easy as pie, as long as you divide the core competencies and evaluate on the basis of their execution. → Read More
Why I Never Lied On My Resume
Steve Blank writes on how he was given a chance to get a dream job, all he had to was lie on his resume, he chose not to & still got the job! → Read More