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I-Corps @ NIH – Pivoting the Curriculum

Steve Blank

“Customer Development” to test the hypotheses outside the building and. Agile Engineering” to have teams prototype, test, and iterate their idea while discovering if they have a profitable business model. Teams talk to 10-15 customers a week and make a minimum of 100 customer visits.

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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. I am heavily indebted to earlier theorists, and highly recommend the books Lean Thinking and Lean Software Development. The lean startup is an application of Lean Thinking.

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