Steve Blank

OCTOBER 30, 2012

A partnership of Startup Weekend , Startup America , TechStars and Udacity , Startup Weekend Next brings four weeks of amazing hands-on training learning to build your startup to cities around the world. More importantly, it makes no demands of you to stand and deliver your weekly customer development progress in front of your peers.

Startup 335

Startup Lean Incubator Business Model 335

Steve Blank

AUGUST 4, 2016

They’ll learn how to apply “lean startup” principles, (“mission model canvas,” “customer development,” and “agile engineering”) to discover and validate agency and user needs and to continually build iterative prototypes to test whether they understood the problem and solution. Real Problems.

Lean 165

Lean Government Agile Africa 165

Steve Blank

AUGUST 4, 2016

They’ll learn how to apply “lean startup” principles, (“mission model canvas,” “customer development,” and “agile engineering”) to discover and validate agency and user needs and to continually build iterative prototypes to test whether they understood the problem and solution. Real Problems.

Lean 120

Lean Government Agile Africa 120

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

I remind my students that I’m teaching them a methodology they can use the rest of their careers, not running an incubator. But they had minimal understanding of their target customer segment(s), and in the relentlessly direct nature of the class, we let them know it. What Do You Mean You Only Spoke to 1 Customer?

North America 120

North America Lean Customer Development Distribution 120

Steve Blank

JUNE 3, 2016

First was to teach students to develop the mindset, reflexes, agility and resilience an entrepreneur needs to make decisions at speed and with urgency in a chaotic and uncertain world. This is a first step to a more agile, responsive and resilient, approach to national security in the 21 st century. What Did We Learn From the Class?

Agile 120

Agile Security Audio Video 120

Steve Blank

JANUARY 4, 2011

I did a keynote on innovation hubs at the newly created DoFuture program , spoke at Santiago’s Startup Weekend on Customer and Agile Development, and at a Conference in Patagonia supported by the Ministry of Economy’s Innovation Division. Chile has decided that it wants to be an innovation hub in South America.

Silicon Valley 335

Silicon Valley Chile South America Venture Capital 335

Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2017

Today if college students want to give back to their country they think of Teach for America , the Peace Corps , or Americorps or perhaps the US Digital Service or the GSA’s 18F. Eight teams spoke to over 800 beneficiaries, requirements writers, program managers, warfighters, legal, security, customers, etc. Sign up here.

Silicon Valley 197

Silicon Valley Southern California Lean San Diego 197