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How To Find the Right Co-Founders?

Steve Blank

They seem to know the right mix of skills on their founding team is a hacker, hustler and designer. For example, if you’re building a mobile app, then the key activities are: app software development, user interface design and demand creation skills. Filed under: Customer Development. Customer Development'

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I-Corps @ NIH – Pivoting the Curriculum

Steve Blank

We’re changing the order in which we teach the business model canvas and customer development to better-fit therapeutics, diagnostics and medical devices. “Customer Development” to test the hypotheses outside the building and. Teams talk to 10-15 customers a week and make a minimum of 100 customer visits.

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The 47th (-46) International Business Model Competition

Steve Blank

(Or more accurately, startups are a temporary organization designed to search for a scalable and repeatable business model.) This startup search process is the business model / customer development / agile development solution stack. for startups created from university intellectual property to number one.

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Qualcomm’s Corporate Entrepreneurship Program – Lessons Learned (Part 2)

Steve Blank

2) We should have had buy-in about the value of disruptive new business models, design and open innovation thinking. I earnestly believe that large corporations should emulate Lean Startups (Business model design, Customer Development and Agile Engineering.)

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StartupRoar - Great Content for Startups

SoCal CTO

This site aggregates and filters content from thought leaders who talk about topics such as Marketing , Sales , Design , Revenue , Hiring , Social Media , Business Models , Metrics , PR , Venture Capital , Angel Investors , Bootstrapping , Incubators , Agile and many others.

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Eureka! A New Era for Scientists and Engineers

Steve Blank

The NSF Innovation-Corps program (I-Corps) is designed to help bridge the gap between the many scientists and engineers with innovative research and technologies, but little knowledge of the first steps to take in starting a company. And they’ll do this using the business model / customer development / agile development solution stack.

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Teaching Entrepreneurship – By Getting Out of the Building

Steve Blank

Customer Discovery. Regulation and Intellectual Property. None of the students were domain experts in their areas, and each team had to figure out how to contact potential customers and channel partners. Yet every team did figure out how to conduct extensive out of building Customer Discovery. (By