Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2021

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. This was followed by an 8-minute slide presentation describing their customer discovery journey over the 10 weeks. Stay tuned.

Lean 399

Lean Security Asia SBIR 399

Steve Blank

JUNE 12, 2020

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. This was followed by an 8-minute slide presentation describing their customer discovery journey over the 10-weeks.

Oakland 308

Oakland Asia Lean Video 308

Steve Blank

JUNE 7, 2019

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. Followed by an 8-minute slide presentation follow their customer discovery journey over the 10-weeks. All the presentations are worth a watch. Team: Panacea.

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Oakland Lean SBIR Afghanistan 274

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

And so this very agile, iterative process of bringing new technologies and prototyping systems. But we haven’t necessarily trained our acquisition people, incented them to have a greater risk tolerance that’s required for this agile development of emerging technologies. But we’re America, we know how to do this.

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Technology China United States Government 313

Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2018

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. It was adopted by the National Science Foundation in 2012 to train Principal Investigators who wanted to get a federal grant for commercializing their science (an SBIR grant.)

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

Its impossible to resist the urge to plug Virgin America as much as possible. I'll add one more point: The SBIR program is based on a dated notion of small business research, and the multi-year process doesn't line up with the speed of many modern startups. Please leave a comment and lets discuss! Expo SF (May.

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DC Washington San Francisco SBIR 90