Tag: Innovation

Steve Blank’s Tools for Entrepreneurs

You might know Steve Blank as the author of “The Four Steps to the Epiphany” and “The Startup Owners’ Manual”, both recommended reading for anyone thinking about starting their own business. But few of you might know that he is actually less into making tons of money out of his every thought and very much into sharing all kinds of info.

He has, therefore, put together a dedicated part of his website precisely for that purpose. It is basically a repository of links to absolutely everything related to things that entrepreneurs might need along their journey that quite frankly makes me wonder 2 things:

1. Is he trying to compete with Google as a search engine for entrepreneurs? and

2. Why do I even bother trying to create my own repo?

Anyway, visit him here: https://steveblank.com/tools-and-blogs-for-entrepreneurs/ but come back for more great other obscure resources that he hasn’t found out about (yet!)

Cheers!

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Alex Conwan on Venture Design

Alex Conwan's Venture Design Process
  Venture Design Process, Copyright © 2016 Alex Cowan

If applying entrepreneurial theory to real life problems was a super power, Alex Conwan would definitely be a hero. He teaches at UVA Darden’s MBA and is the mastermind behind a free MOOC on Coursera but is not an academic in the traditional strict sense of the word.

What he is, is more akin to a kind of wizard that gathers ingredients from all over and mixes them in his magical cauldron of awesomeness to produce potions that help you create or grow your business.

He has come up with a framework called “Venture Design”, that combines all (my favourite) the best entrepreneurial theories out there (i.e. Lean Start-up, value proposition Design, etc.), with research methods from design thinking and ethnography and transforms them into an incredibly practical set of highly applicable processes, templates and tools that create a clear path for the confused entrepreneur to follow (or any kind of entrepreneur, really).

I’m rubbish at explaining it and super biased because I feel truly inspired by his work, but you can judge by yourselves here: http://www.alexandercowan.com/

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