Steve Blank: Trending quotes (page 3)

“We used to pivot by firing people. Now we fire the hypotheses.”

Steve Blank

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.

People

“Money is the lifeblood of startups. You stay in business until you run out of it.”

Steve Blank

Source: The Four Steps to the Epiphany (2013), p. 297

Money , Business

“A startup is a temporary organization in search of a scalable, repeatable, profitable business model.”

Steve Blank

Source: The Startup Owner’s Manual (2012), p. xvii.

Search , Business

“When I was young, I learned a quote in Sunday school that has stayed with me throughout my life. It said, 'teach us to number our days that we gain a heart of wisdom.' * Most of us will wake up 28,762 days- and then one day - we won’t. That means you have about 21,000 days left - and about 14,000 of them for your career. So herein lies the urgency.”

Steve Blank

NYU Commencement Speech, Blank to Millennials: 'Make the Days of Your Life Matter'" https://www.inc.com/zoe-henry/steve-blank-2016-commencement-speech-steve-jobs.html,"Steve, May 23, 2016.

Life , Wisdom , School , Quotes

“Mentorship is a two-way street. While I was learning from them [brilliant mentors] - and their years of experience and expertise - what I was giving back was equally important. I brought fresh insights and new perspectives to their thinking.”

Steve Blank

" Speech at New York University's Tandon School of Engineering http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steve-blank/nyu-commencement-speech-2_b_10114910.html," at huffingtonpost.com, posted 05/24/2016.

Way , Thinking , Learning

“Entrepreneurship is an art, not a job.”

Steve Blank

Forbes "Entrepreneurship is an Art Not a Job" http://www.forbes.com/sites/steveblank/2013/03/29/entrepreneurship-is-an-art-not-a-job/#754e53231d5b. March 29, 2013.

Art

“Only because earlyvangelists are buying into your total vision will they spend money for an incomplete, buggy, barely functions first product.”

Steve Blank

Source: The Startup Owner’s Manual (2012), p. 77.

Money

“In a startup, founders define the product vision and then use customer discovery to find customers and a market for that vision.”

Steve Blank

Source: The Startup Owner’s Manual (2012), p. 25.

“Will you let darker angels win as you add fire to the flame, or will you seek out and spread real news?”

Steve Blank

Dalhousie University Commencement Speech (2017)

Angels

“Confusing testosterone with strategy is a bad idea.”

Steve Blank

Business Insider "You're Better Off Being A Fast Follower Than An Originator" http://www.businessinsider.com/youre-better-off-being-a-fast-follower-than-an-originator-2010-10, October 5, 2010.

Idea

“A founder's skill is knowing how to recognize new patterns and to pivot on a dime. At times the pattern is noise, and the vision turns out to be a hallucination.”

Steve Blank

" Vision vs. Hallucination https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/224301/", Entrepreneur.com, 30 Aug 2012.

Time

“Young entrepreneurs tend to be fearless and have no respect for the status quo, and that’s exactly what you need in an environment where the status quo is going to put you out of business.”

Steve Blank

Forbes "Lean And Meaningful: What Founders Still Need To Fix In The 21st Century" https://www.forbes.com/sites/emilyinverso/2016/02/10/lean-and-meaningful-what-founders-still-need-to-fix-in-the-21st-century/#1a89897a2389. February 29, 2016 issue.

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