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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.

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Lessons Learned: The lean startup

Startup Lessons Learned

But by taking advantage of open source, agile software, and iterative development, lean startups can operate with much less waste. So far, I have found "lean startup" works better with the entrepreneurs Ive talked to than "agile startup" or even "extreme startup.") Of course, many startups are capital efficient and generally frugal.

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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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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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Digital Technology MoshPit

Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

MoshPit has teams combine new technology with existing processes, products, IP, market insights, and services, in an exhaustive way. Less typical is asking how it might be combined (used) with sales, marketing, distribution, purchasing, or the customer service experience.

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Digital Elite Camp 2019 Recap: Takeaways from Every Speaker

ConversionXL

André Morys: Why “Agile Teams” Fail (And You Might Be the Only Savior). Siemens spends $10 billion on customer experience—not well spent (they actually spent it on “agile” organization, and if agile teams produce s**t, you get agile s**t). Agile teams usually focus on efficiency. You feel how they feel.

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

IP Location Tools. Agile project management tool that enables real time collaboration. free, distributed source code control management system. Agile project management. agile product management. agile product management and Scrum tool. Agile project management tool collaborative product life-cycle.