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I-Corps @ NIH – Pivoting the Curriculum

Steve Blank

Agile Engineering” to have teams prototype, test, and iterate their idea while discovering if they have a profitable business model. Activities are the key things you need to do to make the rest of the business model (value proposition, distribution channel, revenue) work. I-Corps @ NIH Lecture Order Details.

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Lesson Learned in Medical Devices

Steve Blank

Part 6: Distribution channels in Life Sciences. They used agile engineering perfectly to continually test variants of their Minimum Viable Product (MVP’s) in front of customers often and early to get immediate feedback. In medical devices, understanding reimbursement, regulation and IP is critical. They learned a ton.

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The Lean LaunchPad – Teaching Entrepreneurship as a Management Science

Steve Blank

There are few courses which teach aspiring entrepreneurs the skills (business models, customer and agile development, design thinking, etc.) If you’ve read any of my previous posts, you know I believe that: 1) a product is just a part of a startup, but understanding customers, channel, pricing, etc. to optimize this search.

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Fear of Failure and Lack of Speed In a Large Corporation

Steve Blank

More agile competitors are starting to eat into our business. They’ve learned the best distribution channel to get the product from their company to the customer. The strategy and structure for 21st corporate innovation will come from emulating the speed, urgency, agility and low-cost, rapid experimentation of startups.

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Lessons Learned: CPI > CPC

Startup Lessons Learned

Those who have tried to build apps that exist just as glorified landing pages or marketing channels have generally failed. Other than that, you know their IP address, maybe their browser version or what country they are in. Thats sensible advice; most people who have made a business on Facebook rely on the viral driver of growth.

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How to Flip Your Startup in 5 Steps

ReadWriteStart

Flip startups are agile startups that aim to exit quickly. In addition, channels such as Applifier, Appsumo or the Humble Indie Bundle have made it easy to reach large groups of users. The development part is similar to a lean startup: you want to be agile. The development part is similar to a lean startup: you want to be agile.

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How To Create a Web App

www.readwriteweb.com

Posted by: Neil | October 4, 2007 2:24 AM I am not sure if I am misreading this - but are you suggesting that a top down, water fall process works better then an agile /iterative development approach? I think, if you can swing it, the first round of the core technology / IP should be developed by the founders.

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