Acquisition Customer Development Engineer Incubator 
Steve Blank
SEPTEMBER 5, 2013
While our teams have mentors, socialize a lot and give great demos, the goal of our class final presentations is “ Lessons Learned ” – about product/market fit, pricing, acquisition/activation costs, pricing, partners, etc. Filed under: Customer Development , Lean LaunchPad , Teaching.
Steve Blank
OCTOBER 10, 2011
I was invited to Finland as part of Stanford’s Engineering Technology Venture Program partnership with Aalto University. In 2010 it got worse with an Act in parliament about the Monitoring of Foreigners’ Corporate Acquisitions. Startup incubators, business angels and VCs are starting to emerge. Lessons Learned.
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Startup Lessons Learned
DECEMBER 1, 2014
Bill Gross founded Idealab in 1996, making it the longest-running technology incubator alive today. He was a very early employee of Facebook , and engineering director there through the moment it blew up. He was a very early employee of Facebook , and engineering director there through the moment it blew up.
Steve Blank
JANUARY 30, 2013
With hindsight we should have had “proof of concepts” tested in a corporate center (think ‘pop-up incubator’) where they would do extensive Customer Discovery. Eventually Qualcomm did create a corporate incubator to handle projects beyond the scope of traditional R&D, yet too early to hand-off to existing business unit).
Steve Blank
NOVEMBER 18, 2016
We just finished our Lean LaunchPad class at UC Berkeley’s engineering school where many of the teams embedded machine learning technology into their products. Most often the first acquisitions in a hype cycle are for the “shiny objects” – the technology, the team and the tools. If you can’t see the video click here.
Steve Blank
JUNE 3, 2016
That if we could get teams to rapidly discover the real problems in the field using Lean methods, and only then articulating the requirements to solve them, could defense acquisition programs operate at speed and urgency and deliver timely and needed solutions. Each of their slide presentation follow their customer discovery journey.
Steve Blank
NOVEMBER 18, 2016
We just finished our Lean LaunchPad class at UC Berkeley’s engineering school where many of the teams embedded machine learning technology into their products. Most often the first acquisitions in a hype cycle are for the “shiny objects” – the technology, the team and the tools. If you can’t see the video click here.
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