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A New Way to Teach Entrepreneurship – The Lean LaunchPad at Stanford: Class 1

Steve Blank

It was designed to bring together many of the new approaches to building a successful startup – customer development, agile development, business model generation and pivots. While we were going to teach theory and frameworks, these students were going to get a hands-on experience in how to start a new company.

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Lean Innovation Management – Making Corporate Innovation Work

Steve Blank

The first time a few brave corporate innovators tried to overlay the Lean tools and techniques that work in early-stage startups in an existing corporation, the result was chaos, confusion, frustration and ultimately, failure. Here the company is essentially incubating a startup. Fast forward to today. Lessons Learned.

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How companies strangle innovation – and how you can get it right

Steve Blank

It didn’t help that “innovation” was the new hot-button buzzword from senior leadership, and incubators were sprouting in every division of their company, it just made their job more unmanageable. The ideas that pass through the prioritization filter enter an I-Corps incubation process. Incubation.

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Don’t Jump Too Soon: How To Properly Pace Business Growth

YoungUpstarts

They constantly evaluate their systems, frameworks, and processes to determine whether they’re operating in the most effective manner for where they are now. Stay agile so you can respond intelligently to your company’s needs.

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It’s Time to Play Moneyball: The Investment Readiness Level

Steve Blank

Investors sitting through Incubator or Accelerator demo days have three metrics to judge fledgling startups – 1) great looking product demos, 2) compelling PowerPoint slides, and 3) a world-class team. We now have the tools, technology and data to take incubators and accelerators to the next level. We think we can do better.

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