Steve Blank
DECEMBER 20, 2011
government has been running one of the most audacious experiments in entrepreneurship since World War II. They launched an incubator for the top scientists and engineers in the U.S. government agency that supports research in all the non-medical fields of science and engineering. The I-Corps Incubator Program.
Steve Blank
OCTOBER 30, 2012
The class teaches founders how to dramatically reduce their failure rate through the combination of business model design, customer development and agile development using the Startup Owners Manual. The Big Idea – Incubators – Accelerators – and Something New. Think of incubators as “shelter from the storm.”.
This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.
Steve Blank
OCTOBER 19, 2020
The SCO imagines new, often unexpected and game-changing uses of existing government and commercial systems.). Commercial technologies are being driven faster than any government can keep up with, though many governments are trying to steer it to their own advantage. The Pentagon needs to be fast and agile.
Steve Blank
MAY 29, 2019
The easy part is, “Let’s have an incubator.” With the nature of work changing, the core skills entrepreneurs need to know to become practitioners are actually core skills that everybody will need to know to get a job: creativity, agility, resilience, tenacity, curiosity. Innovators are not entrepreneurs.
Steve Blank
JULY 13, 2021
With Lean LaunchPad, we were going to toss teaching the business plan aside and try to teach students a completely new, hands-on approach to starting companies – one which combines customer development, agile development, business models and pivots. Lean-driven (hypothesis testing/business model/customer development/agile engineering).
Steve Blank
JUNE 26, 2015
government to help them innovate faster– not just kind of fast, but 10x the number of initiatives in 1/5 the time. To move innovation faster, we now have 21 st century tools — Business Model Canvas , Customer Development , Agile Engineering – all adding up to a Lean Startup. A 50x speedup kind of fast. Here’s how.
Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 15, 2008
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.
Expert insights. Personalized for you.
301 
Let's personalize your content