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Innovation, Change and the Rest of Your Life

Steve Blank

For life sciences it was the Genentech IPO in 1980 that proved to investors that life science startups could make them a ton of money. Continuous innovation requires the imagination and courage to challenge the initial hypotheses of your current business model (channel, cost, customers, products, supply chain, etc.) The founders.

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Lessons Learned: Customer Development Engineering

Startup Lessons Learned

In addition to presenting the IMVU case, we tried for the first time to do an overview of a software engineering methodology that integrates practices from agile software development with Steves method of Customer Development. There were a lot of questions about outsourcing/offshoring and startups. Talk about waste.