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Steve Blank Podcast

Summary: Steve Blank, eight-time entrepreneur and now a business school professor at Stanford, Columbia and Berkeley, shares his hard-won wisdom as he pioneers entrepreneurship as a management science, combining Customer Development, Business Model Design and Agile Development. The conclusion? Startups are simply not small versions of large companies! Startups are actually temporary organizations designed to search for a scalable and repeatable business model.

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 Innovating Municipal Government Culture | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:07:52

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.

 New Lessons Learned from Berkeley & Stanford Lean LaunchPad Classes | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:05:17

Our Stanford and Berkeley Lean LaunchPad classes are over for this year, and as usual we learned as much from teaching the teams as the teams did from us. Here are a few of the Lessons Learned from these two classes.

 Innovating Municipal Government Culture | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 07:53

Innovating Municipal Government Culture

 Corporate Acquisitions of Startups: Why Do They Fail? | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:10:20

For decades large companies have gone shopping in Silicon Valley for startups. Lately the pressure of continuous disruption has forced them to step up the pace. More often than not the results of these acquisitions are disappointing. What can companies learn from others’ failed efforts to integrate startups into large companies? The answer - there are two types of integration strategies, and they depend on where the startup is in its lifecycle.

 Corporate Acquisitions of Startups: Why Do They Fail? | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 10:21

Corporate Acquisitions of Startups: Why Do They Fail?

 New Lessons Learned from Berkeley & Stanford Lean LaunchPad Classes | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 05:18

New Lessons Learned from Berkeley & Stanford Lean LaunchPad Classes

 ESADE Business School Commencement Speech | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 18:16

ESADE Business School Commencement Speech

 If I Told You I’d Have to Kill You: The Story Behind “The Secret History of Silicon Valley” | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:09:57

About a month ago I had one of the strangest phones call of my life. “Steve my name is Donald xx, and I’m the head of external affairs of the CIA’s venture capital firm and we’d like you to keynote our conference.” CIA?

 SuperMac War Story 4: Repositioning SuperMac – “Market Type” at Work | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:06:55

With insight into our customers, the first part of our strategy was to understand what kind of positioning problem we had. Was SuperMac attempting to introduce radically new products and create a new market? No, not really.

 SuperMac War Story 3: Customer Insight Is Everyone’s Job | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:04:18

After my first month we knew a lot, we knew more about our customers than anyone in the company. In this one month we had learned more about desktop publishing on the Mac than any one of our competitors. Now the question was what to do with it. First I need to make sure what we really learned was information we could base a company strategy on.

 SuperMac War Story 2: Facts Exist Outside the Building, Opinions Reside Within | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:16:31

A week before I started I got inkling of really how deep I was in. While I was waiting in the lobby to pick up my offer letter, the head of marketing communications (who was to be one of my direct reports) came up to me as I held my just signed employment agreement. She said, “Oh I’m glad you’re coming, and I wanted to grab you before you started because we need to resolve the company’s biggest marketing problem.” I was impressed; this was something so important that she couldn’t wait for my first day. Was she going to propose a coherent communications strategy? An in-depth reseller survey? Or offer some real insights into our customers? No. “We need to decide immediately between which version of the new logo to use.” Ignoring my dropping jaw, she pointed out the key differences in the Pantone colors between what appeared to me o be the two indistinguishable alternatives.

 Why Internal Ventures are Different from External Startups | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:09:41

Henry Chesbrough is known as the father of Open Innovation and wrote the book that defined the practice. Henry is the Faculty Director of the Garwood Center for Corporate Innovation, at U.C. Berkeley in the Haas Business School. Henry and I teach a corporate innovation class together.

 Why Internal Ventures are Different from External Startups | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 09:41

Why Internal Ventures are Different from External Startups

 SuperMac War Story 1: Joining SuperMac | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:03:33

After leaving Ardent (a supercomputer company I’ll blog about later) in 1988, I consulted for Pixar when they were still in San Rafael and were a hardware company trying to make software and commercials. While I was consulting for them, I got a call from a recruiter for a company called SuperMac, which made add-on products for the Macintosh.

 There’s a Pattern Here | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:02:34

After my eighth and likely final startup, E.piphany, sitting in a ski cabin, it became clear that there is a better a way to manage startups. Joseph Campbell’s insight of the repeatable patterns in mythology is equally applicable to building a successful startup.

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