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Steve Blank China startups — the Gold Rush and fire extinguishers

I just spent a few weeks in Japan and China on a book tour for the Japanese and Chinese versions of the Startup Owners Manual.  In these series of 5 posts, I thought I’d share what I learned in China. All the usual caveats apply. I was only in China for a week so … More >

Steve Blank 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 Silicon Valley talk, he became fascinated by how serendipity created both weapon systems and entrepreneurship in World War II – and brought us federal … More >

Steve Blank When Hell froze over – in The Harvard Business Review

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 not only my secret weapon in thinking about new startup strategies, it also gave me a view of the management issues my customers were dealing with.

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Steve Blank 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. All the usual caveats apply. I was only in China for a week so … More >

Steve Blank The rise of Chinese 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 this series of 5 posts, I thought I’d share what I learned in China. All the usual caveats apply. I was only in China for a week so … More >

Steve Blank 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 and Chinese versions of the Startup Owners Manual.

In this series of 5 posts, I thought I’d share what I learned in China.  My post about Japan will follow. All the usual caveats apply. I was … More >

Steve Blank Crazy enough to change the world

“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to … More >

Steve Blank Entrepreneurs Experience — do it and learn it

In 2012, in partnership with Stanford University, U.C. Berkeley and NCIIA, Jerry Engel and I first offered the Lean LaunchPad Educators Class. The class was designed to teach educators (and the adjunct entrepreneurs that support them) the Lean LaunchPad approach (Business Model Design, Customer Development and Agile Engineering) for teaching entrepreneurship. In addition the class offers a suggested “Lean … More >

Steve Blank Qualcomm’s corporate entrepreneurship program — lessons learned (part 2)

I ran into Ricardo Dos Santos and his amazing Qualcomm Venture Fest a few years ago and was astonished with its breath and depth.  From that day on, when I got asked about which corporate innovation program had the best process for idea selection, I started my list with Qualcomm.

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