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Why Real Learning is Outside the Building, Not Demo Day

Steve Blank

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. Here’s how that happened.

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See More than 120 Speakers and Mentors at The Lean Startup Conference

Startup Lessons Learned

He’ll talk about making a profit and making a difference in a conversation with New Media Ventures’ Christie George. Bill Gross founded Idealab in 1996, making it the longest-running technology incubator alive today. A comedian who founded NYC’s Comedy Cellar --an enduring business--Bill has written for TV sitcoms and media companies.

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Machine Learning Meets the Lean Startup

Steve Blank

Early proof-of-concept stories and media interest trigger significant publicity. Most often the first acquisitions in a hype cycle are for the “shiny objects” – the technology, the team and the tools. Get of the building and test those hypotheses using customer development.

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Machine Learning Meets the Lean Startup

Steve Blank

Early proof-of-concept stories and media interest trigger significant publicity. Most often the first acquisitions in a hype cycle are for the “shiny objects” – the technology, the team and the tools. Get of the building and test those hypotheses using customer development.

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2017 – Lessons Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

That if we could get teams to rapidly discover the real problems in the field using Lean methods, and only then articulate 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.

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Corporate Venture Capital: Obligatory or Oxymoron?

David Teten

We never seek any rights to give Amex preferential treatment at the time of a potential acquisition. There is a possibility that Amex may explore acquisitions within the Amex Ventures portfolio, but those discussions will be on market terms similar to those with other potential acquirers.”. Can the founders communicate well?

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Startup Tools

steveblank.com

Reply steveblank , on September 16, 2009 at 7:00 pm said: Greg, The Google Group “Lean Startup Circle&# at [link] is a wonderful repository of Customer Development/Lean Startup success and failure. It’s more reference material. Thus, these pages. I’ll add more as time goes on.