“The Silicon Valley culture is "I can win and you can win" - it isn't a sum-zero game.”
Interview with Steve Blank (2013)
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“There are no facts inside the building, so get the hell outside.”
Forbes "Try 'Walking The Path' To Solve Your Startup Problems" http://www.forbes.com/sites/theyec/2015/10/27/try-walking-the-path-to-solve-your-startup-problems/#6cb0ab3a5c64. October 27, 2015.
“Strategy Is not a to-do list.”
Entrepreneur "Strategy is Not a To-do List" https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/238513 October 16, 2014.
“Winners understand why customers buy.”
Source: The Startup Owner’s Manual (2012), p. 124.
“On Day One, a startup is a faith-based enterprise.”
Source: The Startup Owner’s Manual (2012), p. 8
Discussing the seven waves (the invention of speech, the written word, the printing press, newspapers, radio, television, and Internet)
Dalhousie University Commencement Speech (2017)
Philadelphia University Commencement speech NPR: "The Best Commencement Speeches, Ever" http://apps.npr.org/commencement/speech/steve-blank-philadelphia-university-2011/. May 14, 2011.
“To predict the future, 1/3 of your team needs to be crazy.”
VentureBeat "‘Blank’s Rule’: To predict the future, 1/3 of your team needs to be crazy" https://venturebeat.com/2015/12/19/blanks-rule-to-predict-the-future-13-of-your-team-needs-to-be-crazy/. December 19, 2015.
“In Silicon Valley, we have a special word for a failed entrepreneur – it’s called experienced.”
University of Minnesota commencement speech, FounderLY http://www.founderly.com/2013/05/university-of-minnesota-commencement-speech. May 06, 2013.
Interview with Harvard Business Review, https://hbr.org/ideacast/2017/08/when-startups-scrapped-the-business-plan.html.3 August 2017
“Customers don't ask to see your business plan.”
Not All Who Wander Are Lost, K&S Ranch, 2010, p. 40.
“Building your product is easy. The hard part is getting customers.”
Source: The Startup Owner’s Manual (2012), p. 147.
“Innovation comes from those who see things that other don’t.”
Philadelphia University Commencement speech NPR: "The Best Commencement Speeches, Ever" http://apps.npr.org/commencement/speech/steve-blank-philadelphia-university-2011/. May 14, 2011.
“Progress and stability are mutually exclusive.”
Tweet https://twitter.com/sgblank/status/792843860506320897 at twitter.com/sgblank, 30 Oct. 2016, 10:41 PM
“If you're afraid to fail in a startup, you're destined to do so.”
Source: The Startup Owner’s Manual (2012), p. 33.
Steve Blank in interview with Jake Cook, "Steve Blank: Lessons From 35 Years of Making Startups Fail Less" http://99u.com/articles/7256/steve-blank-lessons-from-35-years-of-making-startups-fail-less, U99 website, 2013.
Steve Blank, Not All Who Wander Are Lost, K&S Ranch, 2010, p. 54.
“The best startups discover a situation where customers have tried to build a solution themselves.”
Source: The Startup Owner’s Manual (2012), p. 86.
Source: The Four Steps to the Epiphany (2013), p. 83
Startup Grind "70,000 tests later, Steve Blank knows how your startup can fail" https://medium.com/startup-grind/70-000-tests-later-steve-blank-knows-how-your-startup-can-fail-81e316baecca#.niap677nt. June 15, 2016.