Steve Blank Quotes

A startup is a human institution designed to deliver a new product or service under conditions of extreme uncertainty.

Not only is it possible to do lean startup in federal government, but it's the most effective way to drive change in the federal government.

The reality is the Lean Startup method is not about cost, it is about speed. Lean startups waste less money, because they use a disciplined approach to testing new products and ideas.

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.

If you think you have a good idea, get into the marketplace as quickly as you can, using as little money as possible, and see what happens.

A Start Up is an institution designed to thrive in the soil of extreme uncertainty

I always knew I wanted to start my own line. Nights and weekends, I would work on my business plan.

I take a lean-startup approach: creating agile, interdisciplinary teams that get the minimum viable product to market as soon as possible. It's my job to be entrepreneur-in-residence, an internal change agent.

The Lean Startup has evolved into a movement that is having a significant impact on how companies are built, funded and scaled.

The most important thing in startups is getting a product to market, as imperfect as it may be, and then iterating on it and continually making it better. A first rev of a site that has a few typos may not be perfect, but it was the start of something that I deeply believed in.

I always knew I wanted to be an entrepreneur. I started my own software company in high school and went to college to study entrepreneurship.

So we went to Atari and said, 'Hey, we've got this amazing thing, even built with some of your parts, and what do you think about funding us? Or we'll give it to you. We just want to do it. Pay our salary, we'll come work for you.' And they said, 'No.' So then we went to Hewlett-Packard, and they said, 'Hey, we don't need you. You haven't got through college yet.'

As an investor, I'm always looking for the next great American company. Who will create tomorrow's Twitter, Facebook, or Google?

You've got to really enable the next generation of start-ups.

Not everybody wants to be Mark Zuckerberg, but everybody wants to create a little piece of the American dream, the Silicon Valley version. I don't think that's a bad thing.

Our main funders... a lot of them are entrepreneurs and technologists themselves as well and familiar with iterative development processes.

Graduating business school, I had $150,000 of debt. An investment firm offered me a steady job, but it didn't feel right. It was 2007 in Silicon Valley, and I dreamed of starting an Internet company.

If you immediately take a job somewhere, you've given up on the dream of being an entrepreneur and creating jobs for people and making new technologies and making new paths.

I'm an entrepreneur.

The Lean Startup process builds new ventures more efficiently. It has three parts: a business model canvas to frame hypotheses, customer development to get out of the building to test those hypotheses, and agile engineering to build minimum viable products.

The lean startup method is not about cost, it is about speed.

The goal of a startup is to figure out the right thing to build-the thing customers want and will pay for-as quickly as possible. In other words, the Lean Startup is a new way of looking at the development of innovative new products that emphasizes fast iteration and customer insight, a huge vision, and great ambition, all at the same time.

A startup is a temporary organization designed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model.

Unless you have tested the assumptions in your business model first, outside the building, your business plan is just creative writing.

True entrepreneurshi p comes only from risk-taking.