Steve Blank

At the commencements I attended, graduates were classified by their academic rankings. Outstanding academic performance was noted in the programs and awarded with special honors.

Steve Blank

At the end of the day, VCs have to provide their limited partners with great returns, or they aren’t going to be able to raise another fund.

Steve Blank

At the intersection of food science and technology, food replacement startups are creating substitutes for the basic components of meals as well as replacements for complete meals.

Steve Blank

By the beginning of the 21st century, entrepreneurs, led by web and mobile startups, began to seek and develop their own management tools.

Steve Blank

Companies that get started and built in New York City tend to be applied technology.

Steve Blank

Creating a vertically oriented regional ecosystem is a pretty amazing accomplishment for any country or industry.

Steve Blank

Customer discovery is the process of translating a founder’s vision for the company into hypotheses about each component of the business model and creating a set of experiments to test each hypothesis.

Steve Blank

Decades before we were able to articulate the value of ‘getting out of the building’ and the Lean Startup, the value in having skunk works controlling their own distribution was starkly evident.

Steve Blank

Each industry in a region should develop a playbook that expands and details the strategy and tactics of how to build a scalable startup.

Steve Blank

Everyone on the founding team ought to invest the time in a coding bootcamp.

Steve Blank