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Hacking for Defense @ StanfordĀ 2021 Lessons Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

This was followed by an 8-minute slide presentation describing their customer discovery journey over the 10 weeks. While all the teams used the Mission Model Canvas , (videos here ), Customer Development and Agile Engineering to build Minimal Viable Products, each of their journeys was unique. It Started With An Idea.

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Hacking for Defense @ StanfordĀ 2020 Lesson Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

This was followed by an 8-minute slide presentation describing their customer discovery journey over the 10-weeks. All the teams used the Mission Model Canvas , (videos here ) Customer Development and Agile Engineering to build Minimal Viable Products, but all of their journeys were unique. It Started with an Idea.

Oakland 301
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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2019

Steve Blank

Followed by an 8-minute slide presentation follow their customer discovery journey over the 10-weeks. All the teams used the Mission Model Canvas , Customer Development and Agile Engineering to build Minimal Viable Products, but all of their journeys were unique. All the presentations are worth a watch. Team: Panacea.

Oakland 266
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Helping startups hit a home run, VC Style

David Teten

In response, Stefano Bernardi, (Customer Development at Betable and a former VC/500 Startups alum) wrote a thoughtful blog post on the future of Venture Capital. Some $246b of private equity was invested globally in 2011, vs. VC at around $20b a year. What are some other ways that VCs can help their startups?

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The Big Bang. The Lean LaunchPad explodes at University of Maryland

Steve Blank

We didnā€™t know it at the time, but with that investment we had paid for front-row VIP seats to witness the origins of Customer Development and the Lean Startup. Twenty years and 100,000ā€™s of copies of those books later, my life has fortuitously intersected with Steve Blank once again now that weā€™ve both become educators.

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A Path to the Minimum Viable Product

Steve Blank

Shawn immediately said the name I had given the four steps was confusing – I had called it market development – he suggested that I call it Customer Development – and the name stuck. Founders should understand what the customer hopes to accomplish , or what their job to be done is. Be patient.

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Where is the best place to find a rockstar developer to bring it to life?

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" => I have not bothered to put up a landing page, survey to test customer demand, or done any customer development whatsoever. "Where is the best place to find a rockstar developer to bring it to life?" Stephen Pitt-Francis • Jan 5, 2011 Why? Murray Robinson • Jan 5, 2011 Stephen.so